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His name is David Garrett. He’s known as the “David Beckham of classical violin”. He’s 26 years old, a former child musical prodigy, and sports immense good looks and an equal amount of musical talent. He’s got style, grace, and a million dollar Guadagnini violin (NOT a Stradivarius as some early reports erroneously stated) from the year 1772.

Ooops - CORRECTION! He had a million dollar Guadagnini violin, and he had grace, until December 27, 2007 when, after a London performance, he tripped while carrying the instrument (in its case) on his back. Not too graceful…

See, what happened was, he fell down a flight of concrete stairs, backward, landing on the violin case… landing on his prized million dollar violin. The thing was crushed, smashed to bits.

Look David - there’s a right way to fall down the stairs while carrying a rare million dollar violin on your back, and a wrong way. You clearly did it the wrong way. The correct way would have been to go down on your belly, sliding all the way to the bottom. This way, your back is facing up. The violin then rides on you like a kid on a snow sled racing down a hill. Sure, you might get pretty beat up in the process, but your violin would have been safe.

Check out this funny video clip to see how you should have fallen down the stairs. Now you know David! Be ready next time, okay?

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