Tim Hornibrook: Teen virtuoso gives stolen Stradivarius a new life

The Stradivarius stolen from the late violinist Roman Totenberg and miraculously found more than three decades later has a new life - under the chin of a budding 18-year-old virtuoso.

On Tuesday in New York, his three daughters presented the multimillion-dollar instrument on long-term loan to Juilliard student Nathan Meltzer.

Juilliard student Nathan Meltzer, recipient of the "Ames, Totenberg" Stradivari of 1734, plays the instrument in New York on Tuesday.

Jill Totenberg says she and her sisters, Nina and Amy, "can now go to listen to our father" - as if the Polish-born American violinist were playing again.

"And once again, the beautiful, brilliant and throaty voice of that long-stilled violin will thrill audiences in concert halls around the world," says Nina Totenberg, who with her sisters joined Meltzer at Rare Violins in New York, a world-class dealer that restored Totenberg's violin after years of neglect.

The 18th century instrument was snatched in 1980 from Totenberg's dressing room after a concert in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It was recovered in 2015, after his death, among a former student's belongings. The man's ex-wife discovered it and tried to sell it, not knowing it had been stolen until an expert contacted the FBI.

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