Have a nice time of the day! Take a break from debt closure, allergies and vacation planning and turn your attention to the old but amusing theory about the British liner Titan Titanic and its musicians. Yes, about the very ones who played until the very last. Namely, on their instruments.
The story began quite corny: another group of researchers descended to the legend for the next future exhibits. This time the instruments of the ship's musicians caught my eye. At the time of loading on board, inspecting the finds, transporting them and exposing them to museums, no one knew what stories would happen to them … I will tell you only about 3 instruments: violin, cello and double bass. Let's start with him.
Story # 1. Berlin, Germany
National History Museum.
A contrabass from a ship was brought here during the exhibition Music Through History. He decorated the halls of the museum, standing next to the guitar OM-45 and the Alt Gasparo Bertolotti.
However, either at the time of the exhibition the alarm system and the security system took a day off, or they simply ran out of batteries, but during the week-long exhibition there were 19 attempts at theft and 6 of them were successful, and 1 instrument has not been found so far, even after 13 years old!
One way or another, after this incident, the double bass was exhibited only a couple of times and is now kept out of public access. There are rumors that through all these thefts the intruders inside the museum wanted to bring out the double bass, but we are not Igor Link who are we to judge other people?
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Story number 2. Vienna, Austria
Museum of Art History.
In this famous museum, the cello from the sunken Titanic was supposed to spend a month as an exhibit at the Culture of the Epochs exhibition, but this did not take place due to … the rights of the heir. Almost on the very first day of the exhibition, the living heir of the musician who owned the cello showed up and sued the creators of the exhibition for a fabulous sum, because of which it was removed. Then the heir wanted to attach a part of the profits received from, attention, "illegal use of a family heirloom" to the lawsuit.
Do not think that only the impostor is weird. The Austrian court first accepted the application of the offended heir, then refused, then accepted it again, but with amendments, because of which the losses were reimbursed to one or the other side. In the end, everything was won by the insanity of the heir, who appropriated the cello and a huge pile of money, because of which the creators of the exhibition went bankrupt (!)
As it turned out later, he was a wanted criminal who simply smashed the cello on the ground, embezzled the money and, in addition, killed two people who were trying to take this money away.
Story number 3. Brest, France
Brest Maritime Museum.
Here the violin appeared in the framework of the exhibition “Marine Finds”, and … it would be better if it had not been exhibited here. The violin was scratched during transportation, but they managed to save it. Then an attempt was made to steal the violin, but was unsuccessful. And then … A terrible thing happened:
On one of the days of the exhibition, 5 armed people entered there, barricaded all the exits and began to organize terror. They mocked tourists, fired into the air, destroyed precious exhibits, but kept only one. The very violin. While the preparatory operation to eliminate the invaders was underway, the "people with guns" explained their choice in "saving life" to this exhibit:
Outcome:
We had 3 instruments: double bass, cello and violin. The double bass was either stolen or sold on the black market to the customer; the cello was completely destroyed by a false heir who profited from bureaucratic illiteracy;
and the violin brought the invaders' raiding pilots armed with firearms. Is this a joke of fate? No, because there are cases among the same instruments with which everything is very good. A curse? Unlikely. Then the results would be visible even when loading on the ship.
But what is obvious is food for thought and a good theory.
