Accidents will happen

[Nicko]

The singer/guitarist in my band leant his PRS against the back of the car while trying to get his stuff out of the garage.  It turned out the car was too close to the garage door so he got in and, you guessed it, reversed over the guitar,.  It snapped the glued in neck in half.

As it turned out his insurance paid him a nice chunk of money, and the lead guitarist who is a bit of a luthier managed to repair the guitar. Its posssible to see a small crack in the neck but you wouldn't otherwise know.  Theres still a tyre mark on teh PRS soft case. The singer is now the proud owner of the repaired PRS and a rather nice Telecaster that he bought with the insurance money.

[Count Bassy]

Not so much an accident - although I didn't actually mean to do it.

Playing a melodeon at an informal Barn dance event* I had had a few drinks and was playing the drummist's high hat with the bass end of the melodeon (just the ocassional crash). It was all going so well until I skewered my bellows on the hi-hat pin and the the whole bellows ripped off the frame.

* it was actually a sponsored dance marathon which involved doing the same dance** continuously for about 5 hours.

 

** Sir Roger De Coverly - very popular in Shropshire back in those days.

[Count Bassy]

On 04/05/2018 at 05:17, ChunkyMunky said:

The fretless genius that is Steve Bailey managed to run over his bass in a parking lot after a gig after forgetting it. 

Not me, but I knew someone on a Morris dancing who left a rather nice concertina under a car to keep the rain off ...

You can guess the rest.

[PawelG]

My uncle has an acoustic Gibson from the 40’s (L-40 or something similar) and once while being drunk... well, he stepped on it as it was laying on the floor. Smashed the body into pieces.

Thankfully, local luthier managed to fix it and it still sounds awesome.