Barjansky Stradivarius cello

The instrument was crafted by legendary master luthier Antonio Stradivari and named after the Russian virtuoso Alexandre Barjansky.

Its last prominent owner was the cellist Julian Lloyd Webber, who bought the instrument at an auction for what was then a record price. Over the course of his career, Webber made over 30 award-winning recordings with the Barjansky cello.

Its restoration involved replacing the inner lining, which was over 300 years old, with a new lining produced by a numerically controlled milling machine.

To evaluate the results of the restoration work, the owners of the culturally and historically significant musical instrument called on the Fraunhofer Development Center X-ray Technology EZRT.

State-of-the-art 3D CT was used to precisely measure the body of the valuable cello to check that the restored lining was an exact fit.