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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Catherine Shoard

Violin used in Titanic movie sells for £54,000

‘Oh it’s you!’ … Jonathan Evans-Jones as band leader Wallace Hartley.
‘Oh it’s you!’ … Jonathan Evans-Jones as band leader Wallace Hartley. Photograph: CBS Photo Archive/CBS/Getty Images

A violin which featured in James Cameron’s 1997 blockbuster Titanic has sold for £54,000 at an auction in Wiltshire of memorabilia relating to the 1912 shipwreck.

The violin was played by the musician and actor Jonathan Evans-Jones, who played band leader Wallace Hartley in the film. It is seen several times in the film, including during the scene in which the band play the hymn Nearer My God to Thee in an attempt to calm passengers as the ship sinks.

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