{"id":771,"date":"2008-02-12T22:56:59","date_gmt":"2008-02-13T06:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2008\/02\/12\/oh-crap\/"},"modified":"2013-02-07T18:41:52","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T02:41:52","slug":"oh-crap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2008\/02\/12\/oh-crap\/","title":{"rendered":"oh, crap!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nPhoto credit: Theremina<\/a><\/p>\n

It’s every string player’s nightmare – tripping, falling, and destroying your instrument. Now imagine that you own a rare Guadagnini priceless Stradivarius<\/strike> violin. Yeah, you get the picture!<\/p>\n

I wince, but also appreciate the wicked glee with which this story is written:<\/p>\n

As a former child prodigy blessed with chiselled [sic] good looks, they called him the David Beckham of the classical violin. Now he is more likely to be known as the lad with the broken Strad.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t \t\t <\/newsbody>David Garrett, 26, one of the nation’s foremost young concert performers, had an accident that every world-class musician must dread: at the end of a concert at the Barbican he tripped and landed on his violin.<\/p>\n

The instrument is a 290-year-old Stradivarius, so rare that it would be almost impossible to estimate its value. Certainly there are people who would have gladly paid hundreds of thousands of pounds for it, before its glamorous owner did a turn as Mr Bean.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read the whole story here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Photo credit: Theremina It’s every string player’s nightmare – tripping, falling, and destroying your instrument. Now imagine that you own a rare Guadagnini priceless Stradivarius violin. 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