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And the band played on...

The historic violin that was famously played as the Titanic sank has been sold at auction in Devizes for £1.1 million.

The wooden instrument has been proven to be the one used by Wallace Hartley as his band famously played on to help keep the passengers calm during the disaster.

Its existence and survival only emerged in 2006 when the son of an amateur violinist who was gifted it by her music teacher in the early 1940s contacted an auctioneers.