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Cabbie Returns $4 Million Lost Violin
If you found $4 million, would you give it back to the person who lost it? Something like that happened last week. Philippe Quint, a concert violinist accidentally left his instrument in a taxicab at Newark Airport. It wasn't just any violin; it was worth $4 million!
The violin was worth so much because it was a Stradivarius. The Stradivari family began selling instruments in the 1680s when Antonio Stradivari perfected the craft of violin making. Even today, nobody can make a violin as good as those antiques. Scientists and artists still aren't sure why a Stradivarius violin sounds so much better than any other. Some people think that the wood was from trees that got different sunlight because of weather changes, or that the varnish on the wood was special.
Philippe Quint said he knew as soon as the cab pulled away that he'd left his violin in the trunk. He spent the morning on the phone, calling the police and anyone else he could think of to get it back. The next day he heard from the driver, Mr. Mohamed Khalil. Mohamed was eager to return the antique violin. Philippe was so grateful to get it back that he played a private concert for Mohamed and his fellow cab drivers at Newark Airport. The cabbies agreed Quint's Stradivarius sounded like a million bucks!
I'm Isaac and that's what happened in the arts this week.
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