Samuel Zygmuntowicz started making violins when he was 13-years-old. Now in his 60s, Zygmuntowicz has worked with many of the finest (and most demanding) violinists in the world—including Isaac Stern, Cho-Liang Lin, Joshua Bell—crafting violins and cellos out of his Brooklyn work shop. Zygmuntowicz, who has been the subject of the book "The Violin Maker," is the focus of Dustin Cohen's first episode of his "Made In Brooklyn" series. Watch him discuss how professional musicians are like the world's top athletes in the video below.
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Video: Meet Brooklyn's Very Own Violin Maker
$500K Violin Lost and Found in Cab
Things not to leave behind in a taxi: $500,000, 184-year-old violins on loan. The NY Post reports on one musical prodigy, Hahn-Bin, who did just that yesterday after a trip from Lincoln Center to Chinatown. He called 311, who "put him in touch with NYPD Detective Ming Lee and Taxi and Limousine Commission officials Azam Kifaieh and Sam Shady. Hahn-Bin then waited—for 15 tense hours—as the NYPD and TLC scoured GPS records to figure out which cab driver dropped him off" (though CityRoom reports it only took one hour to actually track down the instrument). The driver was contacted while off-duty at his home in New Jersey, and told them he had indeed found the instrument, which Hahn-Bin has since been reunited with. TLC Commissioner Matthew Daus declared musicians to be the most forgetful fares, saying, "There are enough instruments left in taxis to start a small orchestra." Official protocol for cabbies who find an item in their cab is to take it to the nearest police precinct "without delay."
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