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The Violin of my dreams. If you wanna play a pianissimo that is almost inaudible and yet it carries through a hall that seats 3,000 people, there's your Strad.

Itzhak Perlman

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Itzhak Perlman
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: August 31
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