Violin
May 6 2008, AP

New Jersey cabbies are tapping their feet as the exquisite tones of a Grammy-nominated violinist fill the air at Newark Liberty International Airport.About 200 cabbies have filled a parking lot next to a highway where trucks thunder past for Tuesday’s...

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Philippe Quint plays a Guarneri violin in the taxi holding area at Newark Liberty International Airport in Newark, N.J., Tuesday, May 6 , 2008. Quint left his own violin, a 1723 Stradivari valued at $4 million, in a taxi and the instrument was being...