Titanic Violin

[Shiftkitty]

Just thought I'd post this for any Titanic folks out there.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/10/19/violin-that-played-as-titanic-sank-to-go-on-sale/

I have PL sensations (as opposed to memories) of a sinking ship, but I doubt it was Titanic. Things associated with shipwrecks fascinate me, and I've always imagined the sound a ship makes as timbers and/or bulkheads creak and bend to be more like dying moans. Ships don't sink, they die. I don't have any visual memories, but when I see images of ships like Titanic or Edmund Fitzgerald or even USS Arizona, a strange melancholy comes over me. Older shipwrecks, where all that's left are the wooden skeletons, evoke the same feeling.

 

[argonne1918]

I think you know that every so often remains of wooden hulls are dug up when digging for new high rise buildings in downtown San Francisco. During the Gold Rush sailing ships came in and as soon as they docked the crews took off for the gold mines. Unable to find crews to take them out again the ships were set on fire to make room in the harbor. Much of today's downtown San Francisco was built on landfill in the old waterfront area.

 

[Shiftkitty]

Yes. I've read that when they dig for new BART tunnels, they often find themselves boring right into the hulls of ships that still have furniture and other things on board. The procedure is to call museums and other interested parties to come and get what they want and then just plow on through. Of course, all that landfill is why the city foundations turns so liquid when an earthquake hits.

 

[firebird]

Thanks Shiftkitty. I think Titanic past livers know all the goss on Titanic. LOL There is still argument over the veracity of that violin though, but the buyer who paid $1.6M obviously has no doubts. I wonder who bought it ... James Cameron, Clive Palmer ... ?

 

[Shiftkitty]

I think they said it's been through 6 or 7 years of testing. I don't know what that testing would involve, but my unprofessional assessment gives it the thumbs up.


I'd like to find a violin/fiddle expert who can help me with a family heirloom.


Y'know, I just now thought. What if Charlie Daniels bought it? Hee hee! I can just see this fine instrument with such a history busting out "The Devil Went Down To Georgia"!