“Georg Winterling,” Victoria says reverently. “Made in 1905 and purchased by a German man who emigrated to the United States in 1950. He brought the instrument with him, but he was the only one in his family who played, so after he died, it went into the attic, where it sat for the next sixty-five years. Until his family sold the house and had an estate sale and did not think to evaluate the worth of their grandfather’s very old, very dusty violin.”
