A valuable violin that was played to console the panicked passengers aboard the Titanic as it sank was auctioned for record 900, 000 pounds on Saturday.
The instrument is thought to have belonged to bandmaster Wallace Hartley, who was among the disaster's more than 1,500 victims, Fox news reported.
Peter Boyd-Smith, a Titanic memorabilia collector at the auction, hosted by Henry Aldridge and Son in the western England town of Devizes, said that it's a world record for the Titanic artifact, which is now unplayable.
The instrument, with Hartley's name on it, was supposedly found at sea with the musician's body more than a week after the ship sank.
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