A VIOLIN played on the deck of the Titanic as it sank has been discovered in a Bridlington loft.
Bandmaster Wallace Hartley played Nearer, My God, To Thee with his orchestra before they died in the 1912 disaster.
Historians thought the violin had been lost for ever at the bottom of the Atlantic.
However, the instrument - with Hartley's name engraved on it - was found in a musician's loft.
Scientists spent seven years testing the violin to prove its authenticity.
It is believed Hartley put the violin in his initialled leather bag and strapped it to his body.
Hartley, 34, died with 1,500 passengers and crew, while the violin was returned to his fiancé Maria Robinson.
It was given to Bridlington Salvation Army band, when she died in 1939.
The artefact is expected to be sold for a six-figure sum.
