I am often asked if they will continue to appreciate from their present high levels at the same rate as they have in the past. Well, a $1 million violin is not 100 times better than a $10,000 violin. In fact, performing before an audience of some 200 people at the Musical Instrument Museum in Phoenix in 2015, Rachel Barton-Pine compared several modern violins, with several 300-year-old Cremona violins. The organizers asked the audience to vote on which one they liked most without knowing which violin she was playing. A violin made in 2013 by Arizona luthier Joel Shewchuk placed ahead of the Cremona masters. A Shewchuk violin, worth a small fraction of the multi-million dollar Cremona violins, is all I own now in retirement.