This from today's Guardian:

A valuable Stradivarius cello narrowly escaped conversion into a handsome CD rack after being found in a Los Angeles skip, it was reported yesterday. The cello, which belongs to the Los Angeles Philharmonic, is said to be worth nearly $2m.

The cello is one of only 60 by the 17th century luthier Antonio Stradivari still in existence. The LA Times says it was found by a nurse, Melanie Stevens, three days after a musician from the Philarmonic left it on his front step after coming home tired one Saturday night. She gave it to her boyfriend, a carpenter, who offered to turn it into a CD rack.

Almost as priceless as the cello is the home video security footage which shows it being stolen. Police said the grainy video showed a young man on a bicycle struggling to make off with the instrument, crashing into some dustbins on his way.

Peter Stumpf, the cellist from whose porch the Stradivarius was taken, spoke to the press yesterday to express his relief that it had been found. "It's been an enormous weight on me for the last three weeks," he said. "It's difficult to express how that has felt."

How about some unaccompanied Bach?