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The violin that was played to calm passengers on the Titanic as it sank was sold for £900,000 in just 10 minutes at auction in Wiltshire.
The guitar was played by band leader Wallace Hartley, who died along with 1,517 others as the ship went down.
According to BBC,Auctioneer Alan Aldridge said the violin is the "rarest and most iconic" piece of Titanic memorabilia, it had a guide price of £300,000.
It had taken seven years for the Devizes auction house, Henry Aldridge & Son, to authenticate the instrument.
Some people still doubt whether the violin is the genuine article, however, and believe it could not have survived being submerged in the sea.
But it is claimed the violin survived in a leather case strapped to Mr Harley's body who was found wearing his cork and linen life jacket. A diary entry by his fiancee, Maria Robinson, said it was saved from the water and returned to her.
Following her death in 1939, the violin was given to her local Salvation Army citadel and was later passed on to the current anonymous owner's mother in the early 1940s.
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