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Titanic violin set to fetch record price
Yahoo/AFP ^
Posted on 10/19/2013 7:31:13 AM PDT by nuconvert
The violin played by the bandmaster of the Titanic as it sank beneath the waves is expected to fetch a world record fee for memorabilia from the doomed liner when it goes on sale on Saturday.
The instrument belonging to Wallace Hartley was found strapped to his body after he drowned with his seven bandmates and some 1,500 others on board the supposedly unsinkable ship in 1912.
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TOPICS: History; Music/Entertainment; Society
KEYWORDS: 1912; bandmaster; titanic; titanicviolin; violin; wallacehartley
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posted on
10/19/2013 7:31:13 AM PDT
by
nuconvert
To: nuconvert
This is a fascinating piece of history, but I think they should have respected it as a piece of someone’s grave site.
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posted on
10/19/2013 7:36:22 AM PDT
by
Patriot95
To: Patriot95
From the article, it seems his body was found and the violin went to his fiance at the time and was subsequently found in the attic of a home in England in 2006. Didn’t say whether the home belonged to a relative of his family or fiance
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posted on
10/19/2013 7:41:32 AM PDT
by
nuconvert
( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
To: Patriot95
“Robinson never married and after her death in 1939, her sister donated the violin to her local Salvation Army band, where it passed to a music teacher and then the unnamed owner in whose house it was discovered in Lancashire, northwest England.”
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posted on
10/19/2013 7:43:15 AM PDT
by
nuconvert
( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
To: Patriot95
Was He Still Strapped to It ?
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posted on
10/19/2013 7:44:54 AM PDT
by
Big Red Badger
( - William Diamonds Drum - can You Hear it G man?)
To: nuconvert
How would they determine it’s validity? It’s easy to say it was on the Titanic but can they prove it?
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posted on
10/19/2013 7:50:21 AM PDT
by
OrangeHoof
(Howdy to all you government agents spying on me.)
To: OrangeHoof
I assume the people who retrieved his body from the water and saw the violin strapped to him would be the proof.
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posted on
10/19/2013 7:54:43 AM PDT
by
nuconvert
( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
To: OrangeHoof
Maybe it smells like seaweed and only plays “My Heart Will Go On.”
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posted on
10/19/2013 8:04:43 AM PDT
by
married21
( As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
To: nuconvert
The violin sold for £900,000 BPS, or about $1,460,000 USD.
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posted on
10/19/2013 8:17:09 AM PDT
by
NautiNurse
(Obama sends U.S. Marines to pick up his dog & basketballs. Benghazi? Nope.)
To: Big Red Badger
Was He Still Strapped to It ?Apparently, yes.
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posted on
10/19/2013 8:18:19 AM PDT
by
NautiNurse
(Obama sends U.S. Marines to pick up his dog & basketballs. Benghazi? Nope.)
To: NautiNurse
Adjusted for inflation, it sold for approx $97,000 in 1913 dollars.
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posted on
10/19/2013 8:32:35 AM PDT
by
b359
(The goat is old and gnarly....)
To: OrangeHoof
I saw it a couple of months ago. It has an engraved metal dedication plate on it to Wallace Hartley from his fiance.
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posted on
10/19/2013 8:45:27 AM PDT
by
Campion
("Social justice" begins in the womb)
To: married21
I think it plays “Closer My God To Thee.”
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posted on
10/19/2013 8:53:18 AM PDT
by
4yearlurker
(Hey Barry...close this!)
To: NautiNurse
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posted on
10/19/2013 9:17:29 AM PDT
by
nuconvert
( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
To: nuconvert
It may have acted like a floatation device and kept him at the surface.
To: nuconvert
When the iceberg killed the man,
they had to break up the band.
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posted on
10/19/2013 9:47:36 AM PDT
by
MUDDOG
To: Parley Baer
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posted on
10/19/2013 10:17:48 AM PDT
by
nuconvert
( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
To: b359
Adjusted for inflation, it sold for approx $97,000 in 1913 dollars. 
"In Philadelphia, it's worth 50 bucks."
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posted on
10/19/2013 10:19:58 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: nuconvert
I thought it was being played at the Whitehut.
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posted on
10/19/2013 2:14:15 PM PDT
by
DeWalt
(Times are more like they used to be than they are today.)
To: nuconvert; Big Red Badger
I stand corrected. That’s what I get for trying to be a smart @$$ and not reading the whole article.
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