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Stolen: One violin. If found, please return to David Porter, c/o Utah Symphony.

Porter, a Utah Symphony violinist and one of the founders of the MOTUS After Dark concert series, was expecting his first childhood violin — a 1961 Roth 3/4-sized model — to be delivered to his home on Friday. It never arrived, after the delivery service reported someone on Porter's stoop signed for it and took off with it.

"It was stolen, and I am heartbroken," Porter wrote on Facebook Sunday.

The violin was bought by Porter's parents, when Porter was 11 and studying at the Purcell School in London. It was the first violin his parents had bought just for him, and he was intending to give it to his daughter, Divna.

The violin is in a vintage case, honey-brown or orange in color, with a Roth label.

Porter is asking his fellow violinists in Utah to keep an eye out for his violin, and to pass the word around the string-playing community.

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UPDATE: The violin was returned Wednesday, Porter announced on a video on his Facebook page.

Porter said police recovered the violin, and arrested a woman who allegedly tried to hock the instrument at a pawn shop.

Porter celebrated the violin's return by playing some Mendelssohn on it.