Small town museum hopes violin is Stradivarius | KPIC CBS 4 - News, Weather and Sports - Roseburg, OR - Roseburg, Oregon | Local & Regional News: CANYONVILLE, Ore. (AP) - For decades, a worn violin lay forgotten inside a worn case in an attic at the Pioneer-Indian Museum.
The latches on the black case were stuck. Museum volunteers were unable to free them, so the case, which had been in the museum's hands since shortly after its founding in 1969, remained shut.
Recently, Carl Metzler, a video producer for Creative Images in Roseburg, came across the case while working on a project and wanted to peer inside.
He freed the latches and slowly opened the soft cover while joking with museum volunteer Bob Matthews that the case might contain a Stradivarius.
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