A
Stradivarius violin – possibly worth several million dollars – has been
returned to a Swiss lost and found office after a hapless musician mistakenly
left it on a train.
The
frantic owner had lent the priceless musical instrument to a friend who
accidentally left the violin on the train after disembarking in Bern,
Switzerland. Train station staff conducted a massive search for the instrument,
which turned up nothing. Reviews of surveillance video showed an unidentified passenger
carrying the violin at a different train station.
The
violin has since been returned to the grateful owner, who will definitely think
twice before lending the instrument to less responsible people in the future.
Only 600 violins made by the Italian master craftsman Antonio Stradivari are
known to exist in the world. One such violin sold for almost $15 million at an
auction last year to raise money for victims of the horrific Japanese
earthquake and tsunami. In 2008, a Stradivarius worth approximately $4 million
that was left by a musician in a New York taxi was returned by the cabbie.
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