An orchestra violin is stolen in Paris at the Gare Montparnasse
NewsThe Orchestre des Champs-Élysées has posted this appeal:
Nous déclarons le vol d’un violon ce matin à la Gare Montparnasse TGV 8432 (8h20 9h52 de Poitiers).
We declare the flight of a violin this morning at Gare Montparnasse TGV 8432 (8h20 9h52 de Poitiers).
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Mainline Paris railway stations are notorious hubs for organised crime and oppotunist theft.
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Ha, they even have flying violins in train stations !!
Whoever google translated that sentence is nit familiar with the verb “voler.”
I wonder if the violin “flew” from the owner’s (or carrier’s) hands? OR WAS LEFT SOMEWHERE, the usual story?
Please don’t blame the victim.
I ain’t blaming the violin. But in the vast majority of these “theft” stories, the theft has occurred when the owner/caretaker has forgotten the instrument, or otherwise been careless.
Not a school of victimology I subscribe to.
At the moment I am blaming nobody: I merely ask if the violin was stolen from the owner, or whether the thief — for it is doubtless with someone with no right to it — was found. I was having trouble picturing someone grabbing it from the hands of another in the middle of a train station.
Let the self-righteous finger-wagging begin. . . .
In French, vol can translate as either steal or fly, depending on the context. In this case, the translation of that sentence should be,
“We are declaring the theft of a violin in the Montparnasse TGV train station.”
Yes, but only in Paris.
Perhaps someone mistook it for a viola.
And there’s Rimsky-Korsakov’s piece “Theft of the Bumblebee”.
What is an ‘orchestra violin’ as opposed to any other kind?
One that isn’t c.300 years old.
An “orchestra violin” – not to be used for solo work? Must make it less valuable.