The Otto Booth; Cho-Ming Sin Stradivarius[1] of 1716 is an antique violin fabricated by Italian luthier Antonio Stradivari (1644–1737) of Cremona.
The original label of the instrument was "Antonius Stradivarius Cremonensis faciebat Anno 1716".
In 1930, Booth was sold at an auction by the American Art Association, New York to Rudolph Wurlitzer Company and played by the renowned Ukrainian-born violinist Mischa Mischakoff from 1931 to 1961.
[2][4] For a time, the instrument was owned and played by violinist Iona Brown, who after a 1998 Tokyo performance of The Lark Ascending, returned the instrument to its case declaring: "It was received so rapturously by the audience that I went back to my dressing room, put my violin in its case and said: 'I'm not going to do it anymore.'
[3] After Iona Brown, the German violinist Julia Fischer played the instrument from 2000 to the summer of 2004, until she purchased a 1742-made (1750-reworked) Guadagnini.