A German musician needed medical treatment after forgetting his violin worth around a million euros (US$1.4 million, NT$43 million) on a train, police said last week.
The 55-year-old left the instrument, made in Italy in 1748, on a regional train in Munich after arriving back at the sou-thern city’s airport from a trip to Asia.
“He got off the train but he forgot to take the violin with him. Police launched a search and found it still on the train, still on the seat where he left it,” a spokesman told AFP.
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“He needed treatment from a doctor but it was nothing dramatic. He was just a bit nervous because he thought he had lost it.”
This isn’t the first time a musician has misplaced a valuable instrument on public transport.
Last year Korean violinist Hanh-bin left an 18th-century violin valued at US$600,000 in a New York taxi. He was eventually reunited with the instrument after city taxi officials used the cab’s GPS device to locate it.
And in 2001, musician Lynn Harrell got out of a New York taxi but neglected to take his 328-year-old Stradivarius cello with him.
The cab driver tried to return the US$4 million instrument but Harrell’s doorman wouldn’t accept it.
Musician and instrument were finally reunited at a Taxi and Limousine Commission office in Long Island City.
(AFP WITH STAFF WRITER)
德國警方上週表示,有位樂手在火車上遺忘價值約一百萬歐元(約一百四十萬美元,新台幣四千三百四十萬元)的小提琴後尋求醫療協助。
這位五十五歲的樂手自亞洲旅行回到國內南部城市的機場後,將這把一七四八年於義大利製造的琴留在一班國內線的火車廂內。
一位發言人告訴法新社,「他下車時忘了拿走小提琴。警方動員人馬尋找,發現提琴還在火車上,就在原本放的地方。」
「他尋求醫生幫忙,但並無大礙。他以為遺失了琴,所以有點焦慮。」
這並非首次有樂手將價值連城的樂器遺忘在公共交通工具上的例子。
去年有位韓國小提琴樂手寒賓(暫譯),將一把價值六十萬美元的十八世紀小提琴忘在紐約計程車上。他最後在計程車有關單位的協助下,以該台車上的全球衛星定位系統找到車子位置,並取回小提琴。
大提琴家琳恩‧哈瑞爾於二零零一年也在紐約下計程車時,忘記拿他那把年紀有三百二十八歲的史特拉底發里大提琴。
司機試圖歸還這把價值四百萬美元的樂器,但哈瑞爾住處管理員卻不肯接受。
樂手與樂器終於在長島市的計程車與轎車委員會某辦公室重逢。(法新社/翻譯:吳岱璟)
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