tenesee flooding

[saintjohnbarleycorn]

THey say they lost a lot of instruments in the flooding of nashville. It seems strange to me that the instruments (valuable) would have been evacuated. THey would rank directly after people and animals in my house. The electronic stuff can be replaced but the martins and who knows what else were lost. Was is so sudden and there was no warning they couldn't get a truck loaded? JUst curious if you have heard something and if there were viloins also among them.

[cjstuff]

Today's NY Times has a detailed article about this very topic: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/08/arts/mus...ountry.html?hpw

It seems that a lot of musicians keep their "working" instruments at a particular facility that offers rehearsal space and secure storage. Unfortunately, that facility is/was located near the river and is badly flooded, wiping out a huge portfolio of instruments. In addition, it sounds like some of the music stores located on honkytonk row (another low area) may also have experienced flooding.

My guess would be that "personal" instruments kept at a musician's residence probably made it out of the flood zone without a problem. However, many, many other instruments were not as fortunate. I hope that some can be saved, though I don't know enough about guitar and mandolin construction to know how you can dry out a water-logged instrument without some serious warping.

[Rokovak]

Well, look at this way; when several '50s era Fenders, Gibsons and pre-war Martins are destroyed, what does that do to the value of all remaining examples? :)