Heidi Slyker told the New York Times she left the Brannen Brothers flute -- valued at $10,000 -- she had performed with since she was a little girl inside a taxi cab on the night of her first rehearsal with the New England Philharmonic after a chair had recently opened in 2012. "I immediately knew," Slyker said of the car pulling away with her instrument in the back seat at the time. Slyker said she called the cab company but employees said they couldn't locate the driver and hadn't received reports of any lost musical instruments. She eventually filed a police report and was featured in a