Posted on 02/14/2008 4:30:36 PM PST by RDTF
LONDON (AP) -- Can his fractured fiddle - a million dollar Guadagnini - be fixed? It's too early to tell.
David Garrett, a former model who has been called the David Beckham of the classical scene, said he tripped while carrying his 18th century violin as he was leaving London's Barbican Hall after a performance, smashing it to bits.
"I had it over my shoulder in its case and I fell down a concrete flight of stairs backward," Garrett said Thursday. "When I opened the case, much of my G.B. Guadagnini had been crushed."
Garrett said he bought the 1772 violin for $1 million in 2003, and he is now hoping to get it repaired in New York, where he is based.
"I hope and pray that it can be fixed, but if it can't, I hope my insurance policy will let me buy another great violin," the 26-year-old musician said. He told The Associated Press that other published accounts saying the violin was a Stradivarius were incorrect. Guadagnini is believed by some to have been a student of Antonio Stradivari.
The accident occurred Dec. 27 but only came to light this week when he returned to London for another concert at the Barbican and told British reporters what had happened.
For his Valentine's Day concert there, he is playing a Stradivarius that's been loaned to him.
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much of my G.B. Guadagnini had been crushed.”... Boy, I bet that hurt. I only bent my G.D Whackeroo and it took me a LOOOONG time to get over that!
Damn,
Why are all the gorgeous ones gay?!?!
Wow.... and here I was getting pissed off the other day about dropping my cell phone!
Yeah, but that old stuff (obviously) won’t hold up to abuse.
Some CA, some carbon fiber, and we’ll give him a violin that can double as a skateboard, and smell good, too! (hide glue smells, to me, like dead animals).
wow - he’s good , um I mean talented
I agree, something smells fishy here.
“What dumb ass loaned him another one?”
That’s funny! LOL!
Roses are red.
Violins are yellow.
If it weren't for horse hooves
We wouldn't have jello.
The smile just did me in.....
Hee hee hee
Only $1 million in damage?
He’s no Steve Wynn...
“Fiddle? Shewt-fahr, I bet that boy ain’t nevva played “Turkey In The Straw” in his whole life”
No but he might’ve recently played The Devil Went Down to Georgia.
why the heck haven’t I heard of him before now? crap
is that him? I have developed a deeper interest in classical music....does he need all those clothes...
Clumsy but very cute!
They always loan the great violinists fine instruments. Very few buy them.
yep - watch the You Tube links, he’s good
We can rebuild it. Make it stronger. Faster. Better.
LOL
>>>>But fortunately the walls of the outside stairwells are made of a very rough aggregate so that you can scrape significant parts of your skin from your body as you fall.
“just to keep it interesting”
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