http://www.caltoncases.ab.ca/frame_violin.htm

A good case is worth every penny when you have an expensive instrument. I wonder what he was using? I suppose when I get my million dollar fiddle (ha!), I'll spring for one of these.

A talented young woman who worked for me at Acadia NP had a 19th century Hardanger fiddle given to her by a great uncle (or something) when she visited her family connections in Norway after decades of little or no contact. She used the prized fiddle, along with a variety of other props, as part of her evening program at one of our campgrounds. One night after her program, she set the black fiddle case on the ground while loading all her other stuff in her car, lost track of it in the dark, and backed over it.

When she, in tears, brought the case to me the next morning, she still hadn't summoned the nerve to open the case and assess the damage. The least movement of the case made a sound like a box of fiddlesticks! I couldn't look either, but advised taking it to a fiddle maker in Bangor. When I later asked her if it was reparable, all I got was the saddest of looks.

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