Bezzy Oppo Posted July 30, 2013 Share Posted July 30, 2013 Just seen on the 10 o'clock news Min-Jin Kym has been reunited with her Strad violin stolen three years ago. I look forward to Inspector Knacker ringing me directly in the same manner to say they've found my lawnmower that some toe rag lifted from our shed some five years since... hmmm..... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herr Dienstleiter Posted July 30, 2013 Share Posted July 30, 2013 Was your mower also worth gazillions of pennies? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted July 30, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 30, 2013 Well not exactly reunited according to some reports. It seems the insurers paid out on the original theft so she now has to buy the Strad back from them - if she can find sufficient cash to do so. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bezzy Oppo Posted July 30, 2013 Author Share Posted July 30, 2013 Was your mower also worth gazillions of pennies? Not sure if that's a criterion of whether a theft is investigated by a police force funded by the UK taxpayer. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
alfsboy Posted July 30, 2013 Share Posted July 30, 2013 Have you tried watching the proms ?. I gathers its a favorite place for stolen lawnmowers and other shedded items to show up . Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Claude_Dreyfus Posted July 30, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 30, 2013 Have you tried watching the proms ?. I gathers its a favorite place for stolen lawnmowers and other shedded items to show up . Not sure about lawn mowers, but Malcolm Arnold composed the Grand Grand Festival Overture for orchestra, three vacuum cleaners and a floor polisher! Here it is at the Last Night of the Proms in 2009... In terms of the violinist, it may not necessarily be her violin anyway. There are very few Strads in the world - only about 600 - and as we all know they are insanely expensive. Some of the top, top soloists may be able to afford them, but most that are used by soloists are owned by banks or rich collectors and loaned (often very long-term loans) to the musicians to use. Better they get used than sit in a vault gathering dust...sadly not all owners have this enlightened approach! They are also very tricky things to dispose of once pinched. To all intents and purposes, each violin is unique, with a limited market. Your average tea-leaf would not know what to do with it once they got hold of it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
trisonic Posted July 31, 2013 Share Posted July 31, 2013 Don't get between a Lawn Mower and an Englishman. It's like a "HOG" and an American.... Best, Pete. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Posted July 31, 2013 Share Posted July 31, 2013 Don't get between a Lawn Mower and an Englishman. It like a "HOG" and an American.... Exactly - Suffolk Punches at dawn Oooh - Naaaasty! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xerces Fobe2 Posted July 31, 2013 Share Posted July 31, 2013 Well not exactly reunited according to some reports. It seems the insurers paid out on the original theft so she now has to buy the Strad back from them - if she can find sufficient cash to do so. That' s because it's a fiddle! XF Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
alfsboy Posted July 31, 2013 Share Posted July 31, 2013 The lawnmower is an Englishmans Strad . Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Metr0Land Posted July 31, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 31, 2013 This wasn't one of those insurance fiddles was it? Hat and coat on despite the heat........ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastwestdivide Posted July 31, 2013 Share Posted July 31, 2013 I found a Stradivarius and a Van Gogh in the attic last week, so I took them for valuation. Unfortunately, Van Gogh made lousy violins, and Stradivarius couldn't paint to save his life. Joke © Tommy Cooper around 1970 He tells it much better: from about 6:10 into this clip www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=MxmA9BgUO7s&t=377 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bernard Lamb Posted July 31, 2013 Share Posted July 31, 2013 That' s because it's a fiddle! XF You need to take care with such remarks. Violinists and Fiddlers are very different animals. Without going into too deep a description and not wishing to dig too big a hole for myself. Violinists tend to play classical music while Fiddlers are more into folk. Neither side like to be thought of as belonging to or being associated with the other. It's rather akin to gauge wars in 4mm scale. Totally OT. A violin maker once asked me if I could save the shells from my walnut tree as he used the juice to stain the wood. I found out two things. I. 500ml of juice needs a heck of a lot of shells. 2. The juice is almost as permanent as tattoo ink if it gets on your hands. Bernard Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
alfsboy Posted July 31, 2013 Share Posted July 31, 2013 There was program recently on TV about them ,Strads not lawnmowers .very interesting and it seems they were revered and collected from day one .I prefer Strats to Strads and even have a fake one to prove it . Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsetan Posted July 31, 2013 Share Posted July 31, 2013 ...very tricky things to dispose of once pinched. To all intents and purposes, each violin is unique, with a limited market. Your average tea-leaf would not know what to do with it once they got hold of it. I seem to recall that the tea-leaves (pikeys, apparently) responsible did actually look up on the Internet to see what they had nicked, and it was from that point onward that they began to realise their mistake..... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xerces Fobe2 Posted July 31, 2013 Share Posted July 31, 2013 You need to take care with such remarks. Violinists and Fiddlers are very different animals. Without going into too deep a description and not wishing to dig too big a hole for myself. Violinists tend to play classical music while Fiddlers are more into folk. Neither side like to be thought of as belonging to or being associated with the other. It's rather akin to gauge wars in 4mm scale. Totally OT. A violin maker once asked me if I could save the shells from my walnut tree as he used the juice to stain the wood. I found out two things. I. 500ml of juice needs a heck of a lot of shells. 2. The juice is almost as permanent as tattoo ink if it gets on your hands. Bernard Hi Bernard Many years ago Iused to play a violin but not very well! Heres is a violin being played like a fiddle! Lindsay Stirling a very talented young lady! XF Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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