I mean how the heck do you walk off leaving a Strad in the back of a taxi???
"A Grammy-nominated violinist who left his $US4 million ($NZ5 million), 285-year-old Stradivarius violin in a taxi is giving a free concert at an airport taxi stand for the driver who returned it.
Philippe Quint, 34, left his 1723 Ex-Keisewetter violin in Mohammed Khalil's taxi when returning from Newark Liberty Airport last week, and Khalil later returned it to Quint, the musician's publicist said.
Quint was to repay Khalil and his fellow taxi drivers with a 30-minute recital on Tuesday at the taxi holding area at Newark Liberty, one of three airports serving the New York City metropolitan area.
After his airport concert, Quint will next perform on the Stradivarius in New York at Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall on September 23. He is providing tickets for that concert to Khalil and his family, the publicist said."
This guy shouldnt own a Stradivarius
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Still, it's nice to know there are still good, decent people out there who will try to return lost item to their owners.
Of course, the market for Strads is rather small. I don't think you could flog something like this on ebay.
Of course, the market for Strads is rather small. I don't think you could flog something like this on ebay.
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What a lucky guy. I was just reading a few days ago that Melbourne bluesman C.W. Stoneking left his guitar and banjo in a New York taxi recently and wasn't so lucky. The instruments would be lucky to be worth a few grand, let alone a few million.
That said, I guess a Stradivarius would probably be a bit more difficult to cash in at the local pawn shop than a battered Dobro and banjo.
I had a taxi driver once in Texas who got a bit lost getting us to our hotel. He ended up tracking us down late that night at a different hotel (we ended up not staying at our booked hotel) to give us all of about $5 or 10 that he felt he'd overcharged us for the once or twice he'd had to stop to look at a map.
That said, I guess a Stradivarius would probably be a bit more difficult to cash in at the local pawn shop than a battered Dobro and banjo.
I had a taxi driver once in Texas who got a bit lost getting us to our hotel. He ended up tracking us down late that night at a different hotel (we ended up not staying at our booked hotel) to give us all of about $5 or 10 that he felt he'd overcharged us for the once or twice he'd had to stop to look at a map.
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