Auctioneer Andrew Aldridge with violin case that Wallace Hartley strapped to his body as the Titanic sank in 1912 - CORIN MESSER/BNPS A leather case that protected the violin played by the bandmaster ...

The French violinist Renaud Capuçon regularly pours his soul into his 286-year-old instrument. It’s one of only about 250 Guarneri violins that still exist. For his January Carnegie Hall debut, the ...

Renaud Capuçon’s violin is older than the United States. The instrument, which was made in 1737, was crafted by a rival of Stradivarius, the Italian master Bartolomeo Giuseppe Guarneri. The trademark ...

A charity has launched an appeal for donations to help a homeless musician replace his violin case. Matt Wood, 48, has been playing the violin since he was 11 years old and was a familiar face in ...

We all know the story. On 15 April 1912, the passenger ship RMS Titanic, operated by White Star Line, hit an iceberg on its maiden voyage from England to New York and sunk, killing around 1,500 of ...

The violin and the case were later returned to Maria Robinson, his fiancée, in Colne, Lancs. After she died in 1939, the items were donated to the Bridlington Salvation Army band. One of its members ...