2 years ago the violinist Min-Jin Kym had her Strad violin stolen while she
was sitting in a cafe on Euston Station in London. She had it on the floor
beside her. Apparently whoever stole it initially tried to sell it to
someone in a nearby pub for £10 but he said he didn't want it as his
daughter already had a recorder.
It did turn up eventually relatively unharmed.
Moral of that tale - never leave go of your instrument in a public place.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alain Veylit" <al...@signtracks.com>
To: "Valéry Sauvage" <sauvag...@orange.fr>; "'Lute net'"
<lute@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Sent: Saturday, December 21, 2013 6:02 PM
Subject: [LUTE] Re: LUTE for sale
Thanks Val,
Everybody feels better now. Instruments sometimes get lost... I think Yoyo
Ma left his cello in a taxi in New York once, and there was at least one
reported case of a misplaced Stradivarius violin in the past 20 years.
Alain
On 12/21/2013 09:50 AM, Valéry Sauvage wrote:
This lute was made in 1991 by John Rollins. It was bought used by a
Parisian
school of music for lute courses. As there were no courses any more and
the
lute was not played they sold it to make money (for a very low price
indeed). The add, still visible is no longer valid anyway, the instrument
being sold.
Val
-----Message d'origine-----
De : lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu [mailto:lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu] De la
part
de Alain Veylit
Envoyé : samedi 21 décembre 2013 17:40
À : Lute net
Objet : [LUTE] Re: LUTE for sale
I am just relaying a message from the French list (who got it from the
British list...): a lute is for sale at a suspiciously low price there:
http://www.leboncoin.fr/instruments_de_musique/564241838.htm?ca=21_s.
They are wondering if it may have been stolen or lost. In any case (pun
intended), it is a beautiful instrument and hopefully this is a legit
sale.
Alain
PS: It is very hard to tell, but there may be some Japanese or Korean on
the
"Fragile" sticker on the lute case
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