I had an unsettling episode day before yesterday. I was playing my fiddle standing by the table saw in the shop, and a wasp landed on my arm. I reacted reflexively, basically flinging the fiddle on the table, and I saw it hit in slow motion, and the fingerboard shifted and the strings went slack, it seemed the neck was breaking. My favorite fiddle. Scary.
But it was only a popped fingerboard. No dings even. I’m getting ready to glue it back today. Don’t know what happened to the damned wasp.
Edited by - Brian Wood on 07/07/2024 12:59:52
Yep. Scary for sure! Glad she's OK.
I was playing with a bluegrass band years ago when the Mississippi afternoon sun moved onto my fiddle and things started to move around. I guess I did some tuning without straightening the bridge and when I stepped up to kick off a song, the bridge fell and shot off the stage. Sounded like a gunshot over the PA and scared all of us half to death.
I fell back on stage due to a poorly constructed portable stage. As I was falling from my orchestra chair, I reflexibly thrust my fiddle away from me (and the floor!). Thrust it away like the torch on Lady Liberty! Had I not, my fiddle would have been a pile of toothpicks! Without those hair trigger reflexes, I'd be pretty unhappy!
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