Does This 300-Year-Old Ruggieri Violin Look So Good Because It Was Buried With Its Owner?

Violinist Chun-Yee owns the instrument, and it is pristine. After a performance in Israel, an audience member asked her about her Ruggieri. “My father often wondered about your violin,” she says he told her. “The reason he was wondering is he had heard that it had been buried with one of its owners.”