Little did I know that one of the world’s greatest collection of violins was right here in the Seattle Eastside. Well, it used to be greater; it’s been recently edited down to fifteen “crème de la crème” violins, violas and cellos. David Fulton sold Fox Software to Microsoft in the early 1990s and the stock boom gave him the means to acquire seven instruments made by Antonio Stradivari, two by Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesù, and six others from Italian masters, plus the seven that he’s recently sold. Fulton is a violinist (his mother hoped he’d be celebrated professional) and he loans his prized instruments out to deserving musicians.