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AND HE AND HIS BAND PLAYED ON.....Till The Bitter End-----Violine authenticated as the violin played by the bandleader as the Titanic sank.

One of the most memorable scenes from the 1997 Leonardo DiCaprio-Kate Winslet blockbuster "Titanic" was when 'the band played on' as the ship sank into the frigid waters.

Survivors of the Titanic tragedy spoke of the band, led by Wallace Hartley, playing on deck of the shop while passengers scrambled into lifeboats as the ship sank.


The violin that Hartley played as the tragedy unfolded has been found and authenticated said British auction house Henry Aldridge & Son on Friday.

According to auctioneers, the Titanic violin was brought to them in 2006 and they have spent the last seven years and thousands of dollars proving that it is, in fact, the very same violin owned by Hartley and played as the Titanic sank into the cold waters of the Atlantic.