Einsten Plays Violin Published September 18, 2017 at 858 × 700 in You Don’t Have To Be Einstein To Play An Instrument, Although He Did This heavily retouched photograph shows German-Swiss-American mathematical physicist Albert Einstein (1879 – 1955) as he plays a violin in the music room of the S.S. Belgenland en route to California, 1931. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)