Violin That Was Played On The ‘Titanic’ As It Sank Sells For $1.5M

A violin that was being played as the Titanic went down was sold for £900,000 ($1.46 million) at auction on Saturday, a record price for memorabilia from the doomed ocean liner.

Band leader Wallace Hartley played the instrument, trying to calm passengers as the ship slipped into the frozen waters of the North Atlantic in April 1912 after colliding with an iceberg during its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York.

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