Doublestop Magazine

Putting the pieces back together

Following up on our mention the other day of David Garrett’s accident, we found a BBC article on the process of repairing a damaged violin. The article reveals new details about the damage to Garrett’s violin:

The broken violin will take at least eight months to repair. “There are two major cracks on the top on the table where the f-holes are. And two went straight through the soundpost, which is always the bad spot to hit,” Garrett says.

“There are three major cracks from the top to the bottom, as well as a couple of cracks on the side, which don’t really affect the sound that much, but they look very ugly.”

One odd note: the original reports of the accident claimed the damaged instrument was a Stradivarius. The BBC article refers to it as “a 1772 violin made by Giovanni Guadagnini, who called himself an ‘alumnus of Stradivarius’.”