An eight-year-old South Korean prodigy played a violin on Wednesday that was once played by Mozart. 
 
Violinist Ko So-hyun played the 279-year-old instrument during the Busan metropolitan government’s reception for the delegation from the Austrian province of Salzburg.
 
Half the size of a normal violin, the instrument was made in 1735. Mozart’s sister kept the violin until 1820 which is now owned by Mozarteum, a Salzburg-located research institute of the Austrian musician.