Reading journel entry 3

300 year old chello This article is about Bernard Greenhouse and his 300 year old cello that he owns. After you have just meet Mr. greenhouse he died  at the age of 95 in a nursing  home. They say that his cello is actually one of the surviving Stradivarius. It said it original belonged to a countess from the year 1707.  They told after he died his family was going to bring it a violin dealer in Boston. After the auction they revealed that the cello sold for over seven million dollars. It gives a brief summary when Stradivarius made over 600 instruments, 20 prime cellos too. He gave a timeline of cello and who own through the 3oo years it was played in Europe.One last things it tells  how it gets into the hands of the musician Bernard Greenhouse , and where  he obtain it from. When I was reading this article , I found some parts of this story to be very interesting. I think it was amazing that the pervious owner lived in Cape Cod. I knew that Stradivarius was a genius making volins, but  I never knew that he made some cellos in his life. Another part in the article I thought was amazing was who owned the cello and how long they had it for.  The style of writing that this article, was written as if  the person was learning about this information for the first time.