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| Music student reunited with $170,000 rare violin | |
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| A music student has been reunited with a $170,000 (£108,000) violin she left on a bus in the city of Philadelphia. | |
| Muchen Hsieh said she only realised after leaving the bus that she had left the 176-year-old, Naples-made instrument in an overhead compartment. | |
| The 18-year-old boarded the Megabus coach in Boston with the violin on Tuesday, police said. The bus company found it in a holding area. | |
| A cultural foundation in her native Taiwan had loaned her the instrument. | A cultural foundation in her native Taiwan had loaned her the instrument. |
| "She contacted us about a half hour after she got off, but by then [the bus] had moved on," Megabus US director Bryony Chamberlain told MSNBC. | |
| "We couldn't trace down the luggage immediately. It was found by our cleaners yesterday. I'm very relieved. We're very lucky." | |
| Philadelphia police said earlier they believed someone could have picked up the item with realising its value, and that it could be dropped off with city police, no questions asked. | |
| "I'm a violin major, so I really hope that the person that took it can give it back to me so I can continue my studies because right now I can't do anything," Ms Hsieh told a local television station. | "I'm a violin major, so I really hope that the person that took it can give it back to me so I can continue my studies because right now I can't do anything," Ms Hsieh told a local television station. |