IBK Posted June 29, 2009 Report Share Posted June 29, 2009 Chess, Anyone? http://cgi.ebay.com/ESTATE-RARE-AMAZING-IN...%3A1%7C294%3A50 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zefir68 Posted June 29, 2009 Report Share Posted June 29, 2009 Chess, Anyone?http://cgi.ebay.com/ESTATE-RARE-AMAZING-IN...%3A1%7C294%3A50 This one does NOT come from the "estate of a professional Philadelphia orchestra musician"? Stock has finally run out? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Campanella Posted June 29, 2009 Report Share Posted June 29, 2009 Nice f holes and purfling Seems to be a Bobby Fischer prison fiddle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pebbles Posted June 29, 2009 Report Share Posted June 29, 2009 Can you imagine the comments if you turned up with that violin to play in a professional orchestra Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D.Fenestrate Posted June 29, 2009 Report Share Posted June 29, 2009 Begorra!! That back makes me eyes hurt! Can you imagine the comments if you turned up with that violin to play in a professional orchestra Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janito Posted June 29, 2009 Report Share Posted June 29, 2009 The nut and fingerboard have been glued too low down the neck. Wait...is that a touch of craquelure near the left C bout of the back? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bean_fidhleir Posted July 3, 2009 Report Share Posted July 3, 2009 That must have taken ages to make. How sad, in a way, to have wasted all that obvious woodworking skill. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuts Posted July 4, 2009 Report Share Posted July 4, 2009 Chess, Anyone?http://cgi.ebay.com/ESTATE-RARE-AMAZING-IN...%3A1%7C294%3A50 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuts Posted July 4, 2009 Report Share Posted July 4, 2009 Yow, that's ugly... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Richwine Posted July 4, 2009 Report Share Posted July 4, 2009 That must have taken ages to make. How sad, in a way, to have wasted all that obvious woodworking skill. Looks like jailhouse art to me. Lots of time, and not much to do. There are woodshops in a lot of prisons. One of my former employees ran the one at Leavenworth. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taft Posted July 10, 2009 Report Share Posted July 10, 2009 If Prince played the violin... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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