# How the Library Got Its Strads: A Lecture by Phillip A. Kass

Phillip Kass is an expert writer and appraiser about fine classic stringed instruments and bows. In this lecture he gives the background and the history on how the Library of Congress acquired its Stradivari instruments.

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2021
- By: Library Of Congress. Music Division
- Genres: Education
- Archive: [Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/item/2024697811/)
- Licence or status: Rights statement at the Library of Congress (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Library of Congress
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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