What makes this instrument so valuable?
Violins made by the Stradivari family in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are worth millions of US dollars. Why are they so special?
In this week's 6 Minute English, Alice and Neil talk about quality of sound and some of the language used to describe it.
This week's question:
Alice asks Neil which language the word timbre comes from. Is it:
a) Russian
b) Italian
c) French
Listen out for the answer at the end of the programme.
Listen
Multi-million dollar violin
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Vocabulary
- multi-million
several million
- timbre
quality of a sound
- mellow
rich and sweet
- top of the range
best on offer
- reverberates
echoes back
- the billion dollar question
the question everyone wants to know the answer to
