As a Stradivarius violin is sold in an online auction for a record £9.8m, what is it about the famous brand that brings musicians to their knees?

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) -- A violin worth an estimated $5 million has finally made it back into the hands of its rightful owners. Renowned violinist Roman Totenberg left his beloved Stradivarius ...

After 78 years, the famed ‘Lauterbach Stradivarius’ has perhaps been found in France after being stolen from a Polish museum in 1944.

Renowned violinist Roman Totenberg left his beloved Stradivarius in his office while greeting well-wishers after a concert in 1980. When he returned, it was gone.

Renowned violinist Roman Totenberg left his beloved Stradivarius in his office while greeting well-wishers after a concert in 1980. When he returned, it was gone.

The 1734 Stradivarius violin - called the Ames Stradivarius, after its owner George Ames - belonged to Roman Totenberg when it was stolen from his office at the Longy School of Music in Cambridge, ...

NPR correspondent Nina Totenberg has reclaimed the long lost Stradivarius violin that once belonged to her virtuoso father, the culmination of a decades-long mystery. The extraordinary story was ...

Stolen Stradivarius violin is recovered after 35 years Violin expert Phillip Injeian explains the identifying marks of the Ames Stradivarius violin during a news conference in New York, Thursday.

A Stradivarius violin at the restoration and research laboratory of the Musee de la Musique, Paris, in 2009. The Stradivarius violin gets its name from master craftsman Antonio Stradivari.

In the medieval Italian city that gave the world the famed Stradivarius violin, Bill Whitaker finds artisans still at work trying to replicate the precious sound of the million-dollar instrument ...

Tree Rings Shed Light on a Stradivarius Mystery Analyses of 17th-century stringed instruments suggest that a young Antonio Stradivari might have apprenticed with a particular craftsman.

The violin, known as the Ames Stradivarius, was made in Italy in 1734 by Antonio Stradivari and is one of roughly 550 Stradivarius instruments known to exist.