Titanic Violin
Wow.
A battery of forensics tests has determined that a violin found in a British man’s attic is the instrument that was used by the bandmaster of the Titanic to play, according to lore, “Nearer My God to Thee” during the ship’s last moments.
[...]Bandmaster Wallace Hartley, 34, from Colne, Lancashire, died in the 1912 Titanic disaster and his brave and elegant playing amid the desperation of the doomed ship has become one of the central stories of the catastrophe.
How the violin survived the wreck is not known for certain. The auction house Henry Aldrige and Son of Wiltshire, England, which has researched the instrument’s history, noted that several newspapers from May 1912 reported that Hartley was found with the instrument in a leather case strapped to his body
In 2006, the son of an amateur musician discovered the violin in a leather case with the initials “W. H. H.” while looking through his mother’s things in the attic. His mother had been given the violin by her former violin instructor.
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