Musician trips, smashes $1 million violin
February 14, 2008
FROM ASSOCIATED PRESS
LONDON — 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.’’
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