Josef Gingold knows more about the violin than any man alive. He’s the one who introduced the 13-year-old Itzhak Perlman to chamber music, he’s the teacher of Joshua Bell and he’s the guy ...

The Martinelli-Gingold — so named for its first known owner and its most famous, Indianapolis competition founder Josef Gingold — was born early in the maker's career, when he was 39.

A similar contretemps surrounded the sale of a 1683 Stradivarius violin formerly owned by the great Russian-born violinist Josef Gingold, prompting Gingold’s son to sue a major New York dealer ...