It was notably owned and played by Ernest de Munck and Emanuel Feuermann.
"[2] It is currently owned by the Nippon Music Foundation, who has loaned the instrument to a number of prominent cellists.
It owes its nicknames to two notable owners and players of the instrument, cellists Ernest de Munck (acquired in 1869[3]) and Emanuel Feuermann (acquired in 1934[3]), the latter being considered one of the greatest cellists of the 20th century.
[1] After Feuermann's death in 1942, the instrument was acquired by American collector Russell B. Kingman, and then sold to cellist Aldo Parisot in 1956.
[citation needed] On 24 September 2019, it was loaned to Camille Thomas for a period of one year.