Instrument of Mass Deduction
Jamie Walton earns about $50,000 per year as a respected thirty-three-year-old concert cellist. His fine 300-year-old Guarneri instrument, however, cost $1.7 million. Portfolio magazine reports on the dozen or so major stakeholders in this rare and beautiful instrument, whom Walton enlisted when donations from friends and family turned out not to be enough. The co-owners range from an anonymous investor who read about Walton in a magazine to a writer enthralled by a live performance. [via Opera Chic]




