Travel tip: Always drink plenty of coffee before boarding a bus with a $172,000 violin
By adamg - 12/23/11 - 10:17 am
UPDATE: It's a Festivus miracle! The bus company found the violin. H/t Lauren.
WBZ reports a groggy New England Conservatory student from Taiwan left a rare violin on a Megabus from Boston to Philadelphia earlier this week.
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How about that Berklee student?
The one who lost a violin valued at over one million dollars a few years ago. Now that SUCKS! For some reason, I think having a rare, expensive violin, might make me pay more attention to it.
And
Just get a damn rental car.
One problem
Given her country of origin, she probably does not have a driver's license.
And stuff left in rental cars gets disappeared, too.
Cuffs
It's been a long time since I played the violin, but I recall some cases having a strap with a velcro cuff that you could secure around your wrist to prevent this exact thing.
I sympathize because I had a friend leave a valuable instrument in a cab and lose it, but man, I cannot imagine bringing anything that expensive on a freaking Megabus.
Was it Yo-Yo Ma?
;-)
Yo-Yo buys a seat
On the plane for his cello.
I'd always heard that about
I'd always heard that about B.B. King, and his guitar, named "Lucille", as well.
All cellists do that
You have to. It doesn't fit in the overhead compartment.
Oddly, the airlines have a list of items that can be carryons even though they're oversized. "Violin" is on the list, but "viola" is not. My viola case does fit in the bin, as do most, but I have to tell them it's a violin. Weird.
Yo-Yo Ma did leave his cello in a cab:
http://www.nytimes.com/1999/10/17/nyregion/in-concert-searchers-retrieve-yo-yo-ma-s-lost-stradivarius.html
No! Maybe knowing that it's
No! Maybe knowing that it's happened to at least two other people (one massively famous) will make the poor girl feel a little better.
They got it
They got it back!
usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/12/23/9659604-music-to-her-ears-lost-violin-worth-172k-found
Aw, it's a
Aw, it's a non-denominational-winter-holiday-of-your-choosing miracle!
Anyone remember...
That UCLA student who left a Stradivarius on the roof of his car? Which then resurfaced a few years later or something?
How are people so absent-minded with stuff like that? I freak out if I can't find my gloves for five minutes.
I can see it both ways
I'm also pretty freakin' anal and don't generally lose things.
However, as a musician, I can also tell you that we quickly lose the thinking that a non-musician would have of "omg omg omg I'm carrying around something fragile that's worth $10,000 and up." It's heavily insured (unless you're an idiot), and we get so used to carrying it on all sorts of transportation, using it with/around children, leaving it out of our sight during breaks, and usually nothing happens to it.