A nearly 300-year-old musical instrument     1    (know) as a violin could soon sell for more than $10 million. The instrument     2    (make) by Italian violin maker Giuseppe Guarneri in 1736.

The violin is owned by Regis Pasquier,    3    bought the violin more than 20 years ago. He gave a concert the following day without even     4    (practise) on the instrument. Perrine, from a French auction house, noted, “For him, this instrument was perfect.”

Pasquier has since played the instrument in     5    (place) like Camegie Hall in New York and the Opera’ Garnier in Paris. Perrine said it could     6    (probable) sell for up to $10 million.

At that price, the violin would not even be the costliest in the world. In 2012,    7     unnamed buyer paid $16 million for a violin that was once owned by 19th -century violinist Henri Vieuxtemps. That violin is     8     loan to American violinist Anne Akiko Meyers for the rest of her life.

The most     9    (value) violin is believed to be the Messiah Stradivarius. The violin is estimated     10    (be) worth $20 million. It can be seen at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England.