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Gone : a girl, a violin, a life unstrung
At seven years old Min Kym was a prodigy, the youngest ever student at the famed Purcell School of Music. At eleven she won her first international prize. And at twenty-one, she found \"the one,\" the violin that would transform her life: a rare 1696 Stradivarius. Her career soared. She recorded the Brahms concerto and a world tour was planned.
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G2: Shortcuts: Music: How can poor musicians afford to buy violins?
The leader of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Laurence Jackson, counts himself fortunate. As a student, he borrowed a violin from his college. After he graduated, in 1989, he was able to borrow more than pounds 30,000 from The Loan Fund for Musical Instruments. \"I don't know how young musicians do it,\" he says. \"Even if they are loaned an instrument the insurance can cost thousands of pounds.\" [Simon Morris] - who has heard of musicians remortgaging their houses to pay for instruments - agrees: \"Some people make more money from owning the violin than playing it. That's what funds their retirement in the end.\"
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Violinist on 'cloud nine' at Stradivarius find: Acclaimed musician elated as prized 1696 violin stolen three years ago is recovered
The discovery of a 1696 Stradivarius worth pounds 1.2m, and two bows with a combined value of pounds 67,000, has left the musician Min-Jin Kym \"on cloud nine\" with an \"incredible feeling of elation\". Now, however, experts are satisfied that the real thing and the two bows - a pounds 62,000 Peccatte bow and a pounds 5,000 bow made by the School of Bazin - have been recovered from a property in the Midlands. The instrument and bows are said to be intact with some \"very minor\" damage. Captions: Min-Jin Kym, 35, had played the 1696 Stradivarius - worth pounds 1.2m - since she was a teenager, and called its theft a crushing blow; Min-Jin Kym said she had an 'incredible feeling of elation' on hearing the Stradivarius had been recovered Photograph: EPA
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Police recover stolen Pounds 1.2m violin
The acclaimed musician Min-Jin Kym said she was \"elated\" after police tracked down her 1.2m Stradivarius violin following a three-year search.
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Detectives fear stolen Pounds 1.2m violin has left the UK as three appear in court
The violin, made in 1696, is one of only about 400 in the world. It was stolen with a Peccatte bow, valued at Pounds 62,000, and another bow made by the School of Bazin valued at more than Pounds 5,000. Detective Inspector Andy Rose, of the BTP, said: \"The chief focus of our investigation remains to get these very precious items returned. Although they are extremely valuable, I want to stress that their sell-on value, in monetary terms, is practically nil because they are unique. John Maughan, 26, of no fixed abode, and two brothers, aged 16 and 14, from Tottenham, who cannot be named for legal reasons, were charged with theft at West London magistrates' court. Maughan was remanded in custody and the teenagers were released on bail.
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What is the most valuable thing you've borrowed and then lost?
\"I lost my best friend's Dolce & Gabbana sunglasses on the beach, on holiday. She wasn't happy, but she forgave me eventually.\" \"I borrowed my mum's 18-carat gold watch on holiday and lost it in the sand. Awful, because it was a 21st birthday present.\" \"I borrowed a friend's car and crashed it into a bridge when I wasn't concentrating. It cost me 3,000 to repair.\"
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Theft of Pounds 1.2 million Stradivarius is like losing a limb for young virtuoso
[Min-Jin Kym], 32, is too distraught to discuss the theft but in a statement released through British Transport Police she almost echoes [Julian Lloyd Webber]'s words. \"I am naturally devastated at the theft of the violin,\" she says. \"As a musician, you do develop a special relationship with your instrument.\" She praises police attempts to find the violin, and thanks friends and family for helping her through \"a thoroughly dreadful experience\". Philip Scott, head of musical instruments at Bonhams auctioneers, adds: \"She will be limbless, in a way, unable to express herself musically.\" Classical music writer and critic Norman Lebrecht says that while it would be \"heartbreaking\" for a musician to lose his or her own instrument, there would be \"a terrible weight of responsibility\" in having a borrowed Strad stolen. \"But if they aren't played, they rot,\" he adds, \"which is why the investment institutions that own them lend them out.\" She made her international debut with the Berlin Symphony Orchestra at 13, and her London debut in 1995. After studying at the Royal College of Music she went on to study with her mentor, Ruggiero Ricci, in Salzburg. He described her as \"the most talented violinist I have ever worked with\" and the Evening Standard's classical music critic Barry Millington considers her \"a whizz-kid\" and \"a very promising young virtuoso\".
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EUR 1.4m Stradivarius stolen as violin star bought a sandwich Eire Region
The South Korean-born violinist had stopped for a sandwich and a coffee with a friend at Pret A Manger outside Euston station before travelling to Manchester to visit family and friends. She placed her violin on the ground for a short time before it vanished. Pret worker Hafid Salah said: 'She and her friend were on computers and iPhones and not looking at their bags.
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Bite to eat costs violinist her Pounds 1m Stradivarius
Detective inspector Andy Rose of British Transport Police said: \"It's possible the instrument will be offered for sale within the antique or musical trade and we ask anyone who has any knowledge of the violin's whereabouts to come forward.\" Born in South Korea, Ms [Min-Jin Kym] became the youngest ever recipient of a foundation scholarship at the Royal College of Music.
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Three arrested for stealing rare, 300-year-old Stradivarius violin
South Korean violinist Min-Jin Kym was eating inside the sandwich shop outside Euston station on Nov. 29 when she noticed that her black violin case - which contained the 300-year-old Stradivarius as well as two expensive bows - was missing, police said.
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