One less Strad in the world ...: You'd have to sedate me if this happened to me!
Virtuoso's trip destroys priceless Stradivarius
By Andy McSmith
Wednesday, 13 February 2008
As a former child prodigy blessed with chiselled good looks, they called him the David Beckham of the classical violin. Now he is more likely to be known as the lad with the broken Strad.
David Garrett, 26, one of the nation's foremost young concert performers, had an accident that every world-class musician must dread: at the end of a concert at the Barbican he tripped and landed on his violin.
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