A cello belonging to Baroque specialist Kevin Bourdat was stolen from the Paris-Le Mans train yesterday afternoon.
Bourdat was on the 15:06 train from Paris Montparnasse and has posted that the instrument was taken somewhere between Rambouillet and Le Mans.
The instrument build by Parisian luthier Charles Coquet in 2012.
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