01-29-2014, 06:38 PM
$tevie wrote:
Did you notice the comments under the article? Several of them accused the violinist of faking the robbery in order to sell the violin (which was an indefinite loan from a benefactor). People love conspiracies.
This was NOT a garden-variety mugging. We're talking about a robber who knows what a Strad is, what this one is worth, when the concertmaster would be playing and where, and how to get to him after the concert. The cops are not leafing through their usual mug books on this one. It's an insider, if not an inside, job. I don't think the victim arranged for it, though, because if he had, he would never have been able to play the Strad in public, because people would recognize it, and that's the point, isn't it? To perform with the Stradivarius.