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Comment by Mark Day on June 17, 2011 at 13:16: "Unfortunately a long steep concrete stairway ,unlatched case and grand gestures of waving with case in hand make a bad combination. "

What were the first words out of his mouth at this point? I'm guessing the first was "Oh...."

It reminds me of a story I heard on Car Talk about a guy who's last words were: "Hey guys, watch this!"

Comment by mel on June 17, 2011 at 3:32: Nothing dramatic. Very simply put: un-named person took it to a soiree. At the end of a rather long evening said person was leaving and was saying good byes and proceded to leave . Unfortunately a long steep concrete stairway ,unlatched case and grand gestures of waving with case in hand make a bad combination. No Pete Townsendisms , no spousal discourse, no Shellyisms, although in my work I have come across all of those.

On the captions : I think Andrew said it best " Pounds ? Newtons ? Is there a difference?"

Comment by Scot Tremblay on June 14, 2011 at 16:16: "Maybe it was a fight with the wife."

That reminds me of a guy I went to music school with. His wife belted him with his concert guitar because he spent more time with it than he did with her (in this case I think I understand his choice). He came away with a concussion, a few stitches and the guitar needed a new top.

"Hell hath no furry...."

I'd forgotten all about him until you posted you comment, Caius. Hmmm, I wonder if they are still happily married???

Comment by Caius on June 14, 2011 at 7:14: Maybe it was a fight with the wife:

"You said this will be the last instrument you will buy...!!! I hate to clean the dust from all your instruments!!!!!!!!!"

Comment by Andrew Hartig on June 14, 2011 at 3:07: Ok, Mel - we're over a year out from when you first posted this. Are you ever going to tell us what happened?

Comment by Andrew Hartig on February 8, 2010 at 23:35: "Pounds? Newtons? What's the difference...?"

Comment by Scot Tremblay on February 4, 2010 at 23:51: I did that once to a modern guitar that didn't turn out the way I was planning...it was very therapeudic and soothing to my "god" complex..."I made you I will destroy you!"

I actually don't recommend it as a constructive therapy...a cool pint might be more in line with a healthy outcome.

Comment by Fábio Vianna Peres on February 4, 2010 at 17:12: I was only thinking about Pete's habit of destroying guitars during his concerts...

Comment by Alexander Batov on February 4, 2010 at 16:01: Judging by what he had to say about his musical background it's doubtful he'd ever heard such words as vihuela or baroque guitar. Nevertheless he seemed to be quite keen on adopting Purcell's harmonic ideas to his compositions (if that can only count as "early music revival"?):

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00nf3kr

or was it just a trick in trying to put more shine on what, since his fame days, has rusted and faded.

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