VIOLIN   THAT  PLAYED  ITS  LAST  NOTE  ON   THE  TITANIC    RETURNS  HOME  AFTER  MORE   THEN  100   YEARS 

                    The  violin  played on the Titanic as it sank on that fateful night in 1912 has been returned to the home it came from.

                         The world famous instrument ,which was played by bandmaster Wallace Hartley ,was returned to his home in Dewsbury.Hartley ,who was a second-class passenger on board,went down with the ship and sadly died in the sinking.He led the eight member band and started to play the violin to keep the passengers calm as the crew loaded the lifeboats.Many of the survivors claimed that Hartley bravely played till the very end.

       Sadly none of the band members survived ,but the instrument was discovered in 2006 and will be sold in an auction alongside a leather luggage  case initialled W.H.H.  : Wallace  placed the violin in the case before going into the cold North Atlantic on the morning of April 15,1912!

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