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According to his memoirs, it was " shown to me in an unplayable condition, without bridge, strings or fingerboard .... No case was available -- it was such a large instrument 17 1 / 8 inches -- so my wife came to the rescue by wrapping it in her waterproof coat, and that is how it was taken across the English Channel.
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According to the archaeologists, the door was reused in a structure in Roman Egypt.
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