Musical Instruments

The Christie’s Fine Musical Instruments department boasts a long history of offering exceptional works from the stringed, fretted and wind family of instruments. As the market leader in offering Musical instruments at auction Christie’s consistently and thoughtfully produces highly researched sales and catalogs for our clients.

It is perhaps the auction records that speak most articulately to our success in the Musical Instruments field. Christie’s holds the world auction record for any musical instrument of $3,544,000 for the sale of The Hammer (May 2006) violin by Antonio Stradivari.

Other record prices for Stradivari instruments include $2,032,000 for The Lady Tennant violin (April 2005); £947,500 for the Kreutzer violin (April 1998); £902,000 for the Mendelssohn violin (November 1990); $1,326,000 for the Taft Ex-Heermann violin (May 2000); and $554,500 for a C.F. Martin and Company OM-45 Delux, 1930 (April 2009).

Upcoming Sales from this department

  • Apr 2010 28 2pm

    SALE 2298|
    New York, Rockefeller Center
    |Sale Information

    Musical Instruments

  • Apr 2010 28 10:30am & 2pm

    SALE 2857|
    Amsterdam
    |Sale Information

    "Twenty rooms: The private collection of the late Mrs Elias-Vaes

  • Apr 2010 29 10:30am & 2pm

    SALE 2857|
    Amsterdam
    |Sale Information

    "Twenty rooms: The private collection of the late Mrs Elias-Vaes

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