Each year 1 million string instruments are stolen, and only 2 percent are ever recovered. Now there’s a plan to track them. ISIS (Instrument Security Identification Systems) embeds atiny electronic tag into instruments. The company “will send out an alert if a musical instrument has been reported stolen. Part of this business will involve implanting RFID tags in stringed instruments – from violins to cellos and from cheap student instruments to million-dollar antiques that are still being played. The implanted RFID tags will make the tricky business of identifying instruments foolproof.”