[AndrewB]

“He and the other musicians went down with the ship while performing “Nearer, My God, To Thee.”

But they found the violin in its case strapped to his drowned corpse. Ipso Facto the above legend is untrue.

[Calvin Locke]

I would posit that as the bandmaster, he whipped out his baton, rather than digging the violin out of the valise he had strapped to himself.

More of a curiosity to me is how 25% of the comments can be pulled from such a small thread about a fairly benign subject.

Unless I'm out of the au courant culture loop again.

[luvbach1]

Ipso Facto the above legend is untrue.

How about: He went down with the ship but his body floated free? It didn't say he went all the way down.