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Published: October 30, 2009
From the New York Times
With tears in his eyes the violinist Aaron Rosand left his soul behind in a London hotel suite last week.
That is how he described the sale of the instrument he had played for more than 50 years, the ex-Kochanski Guarneri del Ges? The buyer was a Russian billionaire whom Mr. Rosand declined to identify and who paid perhaps the highest price ever for a violin: about $10 million.
'I just felt as if I left part of my body behind,' Mr. Rosand said on Wednesday, overflowing with metaphors for what the instrument meant to him. 'It was my voice. It was my career.'
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