£1m price for Penny Violin
THIS Stradivari violin may be nicknamed The Penny, but the 300-year-old instrument is set to fetch £1million at auction in New York next month.
Musician Tamsin Waley-Cohen, demonstrated its beautiful tone in London yesterday – more than 40 years after it was bought by Barbara Penny, the first woman to enter the strings section of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
She died last year.