As the Titanic began to sink down to the ocean floor and all the crew and passengers scrambled to find a way to abandon ship, the band played on.
Now, 101-years later, the violin, believed to have belong to the band master, Wallace Hartley, will be auctioned off.
It is expected that the violin (after being fully authenticated) will fetch hundreds of thousands of pounds on April 20 when it is auctioned by Titanic experts Henry Aldridge and Son based in Devizes, Wiltshire, according to Daily Mail
The newspaper added that, A plan of the Titanic used in the inquiry into the doomed ship sold for a record £220,000 ($340,129.28) in 2011, but it is believed the instrument will exceed this price.
The story goes, he put the violin in a waterproof bag and strapped it to his chest as the Titanic sunk. It was later removed safe and sound from his dead body, reported zap2it.com.
The seller of the violin, Maria Robinson claims that Hartley's bereaved fiancé, retrieved the violin after his death. The instrument had been a gift from her, stated Daily Mail.
It is still hard to believe that not only did Hartley continue to play as the ship was taking on water, but that his ensemble followed.
All eight members of the band (including Hartley) that gallantly played as passengers lined up for evacuation to the lifeboats perished in the disaster but the bodies of the band leader and two other musicians were pulled from the water by a search crew from the CS Mackay-Bennett and taken to Nova Scotia, Canada, reported Daily Mail.
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