New York: An absent-minded musician left his 18th century violin in the back of a New York taxi but was soon reunited with the instrument thanks to satellite technology, newspapers reported Tuesday.
South Korean-born virtuoso Hahn-Bin forgot the 600,000-dollar violin, made by Giovanni Francesco Pressenda, in a yellow cab on his way back to Manhattan from a concert Monday, the New York Post and other dailies said.
It was only after the exhausted fiddler had taken a shower in his Chinatown apartment that he realized what had happened.
The city's taxi authorities, however, had no trouble tracking down the taxi: all yellow cabs are fitted with GPS trackers and the vehicle was found to be at cabbie Dalbir Singh's home in New Jersey.
"Losing an instrument is a greatest fear, even more than making a mistake on stage," Hahn-Bin was quoted as saying.
Bureau Report
First Published: Wednesday, August 19, 2009, 10:53