The trade in string instruments is as much an art as it is commercial transaction. When Gerald Segelman died in 1992 at the age of 93, he left one of the world’s great collections of rare stringed instruments, worth between $15 million to $34 million. Eight years later, Segelman’s estate claims in a lawsuit that a handful of the world’s top violin dealers colluded to plunder the collection, robbing the estate of millions that had been willed to charity. – Minneapolis Star-Tribune