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The Strad Calendar 2026: Treasures of Canada

2025-09-19T08:28:00

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The Strad Calendar for 2026 shines the spotlight on twelve instruments owned by Canimex, one of Canada’s leading supporters of the arts. Christian Lloyd surveys the riches

One of Canada’s largest and most successful manufacturing companies, Canimex is also among the leading supporters of the arts in the country. The Strad Calendar 2026 showcases a dozen of the finest instruments acquired by the company’s owner Roger Dubois, in the past quarter-century, ranging from masterpieces by Stradivari and Guarneri ‘del Gesù’ to one of the largest stringed instruments ever made: the 140-inch octobass added to the collection in 2019…

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