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Oct. 23rd, 2012 04:24 pmYesterday Spidermonkey cycled off to Long Road College with his beloved violin in his pannier. I don't know why he put it in the pannier because he normally wears it on his back. I think there was a problem with the straps. Anyway, when he got as far as King's Parade, he noticed that the pannier was gone and so was the violin!
Cue several hours of Spider, Musique and Wooly all variously backtracking, searching, asking, phoning, wailing and gnashing teeth. Until I phoned Cambridge Strings, the shop it came from. Someone called Rob had already contacted them about a violin he'd seen fall off a bike, that had one of their labels in the case. It took a while to make contact, but Rob is a truly wonderful person who didn't even want a reward (though he got some champagne). He just wanted to give the violin back to its owner. Incredibly, the violin is absolutely fine.
We have no idea exactly what went wrong. The panniers are normally brilliant. They're not really big enough to hold a violin safely, but that doesn't explain it as the violin didn't fall out. We are going to get Spider a new case with better straps and be very, very, very careful.
Thank you Rob! You are a wonderful person!
In other news, Squirrel is either rehearsing or performing Little Shop of Horrors until 10pm every night this week, so don't expect to see much of the monkey family before the weekend.
Cue several hours of Spider, Musique and Wooly all variously backtracking, searching, asking, phoning, wailing and gnashing teeth. Until I phoned Cambridge Strings, the shop it came from. Someone called Rob had already contacted them about a violin he'd seen fall off a bike, that had one of their labels in the case. It took a while to make contact, but Rob is a truly wonderful person who didn't even want a reward (though he got some champagne). He just wanted to give the violin back to its owner. Incredibly, the violin is absolutely fine.
We have no idea exactly what went wrong. The panniers are normally brilliant. They're not really big enough to hold a violin safely, but that doesn't explain it as the violin didn't fall out. We are going to get Spider a new case with better straps and be very, very, very careful.
Thank you Rob! You are a wonderful person!
In other news, Squirrel is either rehearsing or performing Little Shop of Horrors until 10pm every night this week, so don't expect to see much of the monkey family before the weekend.
