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Dave Nadeau has been reunited with his baby.

The Ottawa musician, who accidentally left his $2,500 Gibson Les Paul in a Blue Line taxi last week, has recovered the guitar after more than a weeklong search.

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Nadeau, who plays in the rock band The Wicked Mercy, had forgotten the instrument in the cab’s trunk after hitching a ride home from work at Irene’s Pub with two others in the early hours of May 19. He feared that if the taxi company hadn’t been able to track it down after a week, he wouldn’t be seeing it again at all.

But on Wednesday evening, he got the call that the company had finally tracked down the guitar.

Blue Line gave him a complimentary ride so that he could pick up his one-and-only guitar that he dubbed his “holy grail.”

“I am elated,” he said. “Probably the best I’ve felt all week, that’s for damn sure.”

In a statement, Coventry Connections said the happy ending came as a result of a “detailed and diligent” search of 1,187 taxis and 34 drivers across five of its taxi fleets in the capital region.