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Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra concertmaster Frank Almond discusses and plays selections from Giuseppe Tartini's 'Devil's Trill' Sonata on Tartini's own violin — later to be known as the 1715 'Lipinski' Stradivarius, after Polish violinist Karol Lipinski. The violin was stolen from Almond in an armed robbery this week.

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