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November 2010 rare-string instrument intelligence

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Lost luggage: musician forgets million-dollar violin on train

fiddlestyles.com

The article reports that a German musician forgot a 1748 Italian fiddle worth $1.4 million on a train after returning from a music tour in Asia; a railway official recovered the instrument and returned it, and the musician, after reunion, experienced anxiety. The piece also mentions past incidents involving valuable violins and notes the musician performed in Asia with his quartet following the incident.

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