Greenwich Early Music Festival

MY VIOLIN BROKE JUST BEFORE THE CONCERT!!!!!!
we were setting up at Blackheath Hall Recital room, warming up with a run through of La Gamba with all my instruments on a table which decided to collapse and recorders, crumhorn and fiddle flew off the stage! 40 minutes before we were due to start the concert. the fingerboard came right off my fiddle. a few expletives later and I was in a taxi to greenwich to see if i could borrow a violin, luckily as it was part of the festival there was a huge exhibition of musicial instruments and I saw Rachel a recorder player who manages part of the early music shop who told me to take my pick... so.... I swapped my injured fiddle for a rather more expensive baroque one, and had 5 minutes to tune it and get ready for the concert, I hadn't even played a scale and the venue wouldn't wait a couple of minutes for us to prepare. I always see these things as a test, but why did it have to happen there and then??? I was really looking forward to performing and all the intonation was different and I normally play on metal strings, but we did it! I think the stress made one of Adrians strings break in the penultimate piece too, but nothing can phase us now!!

Better get down to the violin repairers then. The wierd thing is that it stayed in tune and the bridge didn't budge!

.....and.....relax :)