What we all hope for...Man finds Strad in grandmother's flat: https://slippedisc.com/2020/09/man-finds-strad-in-dead-aunts-flat/ Of course, Lebrecht, @CarlStross's favorite critic, should realize that if it really is a Strad, how it sounds makes little difference.
MAN FINDS STRAD IN DEAD AUNT’S FLAT
By Norman Lebrecht
On September 9, 2020
RIA Novosti reports that a Moscow man, Yuri Kurnosov, clearing out his late aunt’s apartment in the Tula region, found a violin, which turned out to have been made in Antonio Stradivarius’s workshop