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At an auction you probably have to pay £130000 for a good condition instrument, but from a dealer you will have to pay double this. This is of course they feel like selling it to you, in my experience you will have to be known to them, either through a teacher, or any orchestra or ensemble you work with. If you go the dealer route, certainly in London take somebody with you who is known to them, you will then get to see the decent examples and not the rubbish they try to sell to the in-experienced, a skilled restorer can hide virtually anything especially to the naive and ill informed. You wouldn't buy two cars welded together but violins can really be frankensteins monster. Take care get educated.

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