A damn shame

A damn shame there isn't more to your post....

FIDDLESTICKS!

Crushing news. Crushing.

what? a $1,000,000 violin doesn't come with a case?

That should boost the value of the remaining violins.

Violin / Violence.......When will it end?



"I had it over my shoulder in its case and I fell down a concrete flight of stairs backward,"

good catch JR - I missed it.

Insurance fraud?

Not a terribly sturdy case, evidently.

Violin cases are meant to protect from dings, not major trauma like falling down a flight of stairs. They'd have to be twice as big and lined with inches of foam to protect a violin from something like that.

who the hell carries a million dollar violin over their shoulder like its a gym bag?

it's only fair that the prick should get looks, money and talent, but have the clumsiness to be able to fall backwards down steps. I hope, for the love of all that is fair and good on this earth, that he has a really tiny pee pee.

I've heard that the difference between a violin and a fiddle is that a violin is carried in a case and a fiddle is carried in a sack.

Clodfobble;432631 wrote:

They'd have to be twice as big and lined with inches of foam to protect a violin from something like that.

In hindsight, that might not be such a bad idea, for a priceless, irreplaceable instrument.

Although I guess if he had hindsight he wouldn't have fallen over backwards.

If I had broken a million-dollar violin that can't be replaced.... I'd probably be using the remaining strings to strangle myself to death.

lumberjim;432640 wrote:

it's only fair that the prick should get looks, money and talent, but have the clumsiness to be able to fall backwards down steps. I hope, for the love of all that is fair and good on this earth, that he has a really tiny pee pee.

Even if he does, hot women will line up around the block.

I don't think I'd loan him a Stradivarius after he busted his Guadagnini due to carelessness.

What idiot walks around with a million dollar ANYTHING over their shoulder?

the kind of idiot that is trying to commit insurance fraud after damaging his instrument in a way that his insurance won't cover.

dar512;435193 wrote:

I don't think I'd loan him a Stradivarius after he busted his Guadagnini due to carelessness.

Thats exactly what I thought, too

Another damn shame, with pictures.

This happened last year. Movers lost control of this $88K piano as they took it off the truck.

I'm not sure if I feel sorry for the guy. I just wish I had a Stradivarius to not lend him.

@glatt: that last photo reminded me of this.

It's hard to believe they'd be turning a piano like that on it's side to be honest with you. That would really fuck up the allignment of the keys if it went over a few bumps in the road.

Of course it'd need tuning after arrival, but still, I wouldn't be transporting a piano like that.

Flint;435236 wrote:

@glatt: that last photo reminded me of this.

They've got a compression lift at the back of the truck if you closely at the pics.

Flint;435236 wrote:

@glatt: that last photo reminded me of this.

Man, those guys suck at doing the YMCA dance.

Shawnee123;435249 wrote:

Man, those guys suck at doing the YMCA dance.

They should take lessons from these guys:

SCF!

SCF?

SCF (or scf) is a three letter acronym that can mean:

Scientific Computing Facilities
Secure Computing Facility
Service Control Function - an application of service logic to control functional entities in providing Intelligent Network services.
Self-consistent field or Hartree-Fock method in quantum chemistry
Service canadien de la faune
Service canadien des forêts
South Central Farm
Standard Chromatography File (in nucleic acid sequencing)
Standard cubic foot
Stress Concentration Factor
Supercritical fluid
Survey of Consumer Finances
Svenska Cykelförbundet
A file extension which indicates a ScoreMaker multimedia show, a Symphony spelling checker configuration or a Windows Explorer Shell Command File
Sectional center facility (SCF)

Swallow
C___
First

I'm even more confused now...

Flint;435236 wrote:

@glatt: that last photo reminded me of this.

Ha, funny, Liverpool frustration.

Flint wrote:

I'm even more confused now...

Swallow Coffee First, as in, you should have warned people to swallow their coffee before viewing your link, as anyone who didn't is likely to have just spewed it all over their monitor.