An absent-minded musician left his 18th century violin in the back of a New York taxi but was soon reunited with the instrument thanks to satellite technology, newspapers reported.
South Korean-born virtuoso Hahn-Bin forgot the US$600,000 violin, made by Giovanni Francesco Pressenda, in a yellow cab on his way back to Manhattan from a concert, the New York Post and other dailies said.
It was only after the exhausted fiddler had taken a shower in his Chinatown apartment that the realization hit him like a bolt from the blue.
The city’s taxi authorities, however, had no trouble tracking down the taxi — all yellow cabs are fitted with GPS trackers and the vehicle was found to be at cabbie Dalbir Singh’s home in New Jersey.
“Losing an instrument is a greatest fear, even more than making a mistake on stage,” Hahn-Bin was quoted as saying.(AFP)
報導指出，一位健忘的音樂家把他十八世紀的小提琴忘在紐約一輛計程車後座，所幸不久後就失而復得，而這都歸功於衛星科技。
《紐約郵報》等報紙報導，韓裔小提琴家韓彬（音譯）結束演出、返回曼哈頓的路上，將一把價值六十萬美元、由吉歐瓦尼．法蘭賽斯科．派森達大師親手打造的名琴遺留在計程車上。
這位累壞了的小提琴家回到唐人街的家中沖完澡後，才發現這個晴天霹靂的事實。
所幸，找到這輛計程車對紐約市計程車協會來說不是件難事──所有的小黃都裝有全球衛星定位追蹤器，而這輛計程車顯示的位置，就在司機位於紐澤西達比辛格的住處。
報導中引述韓彬的話說：「最怕的是弄丟樂器，那比在舞台上出錯還更令人擔心。」（法新社╱翻譯：袁星塵）
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