Stefan Tsakiou was performing with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra when its €32,000 wooden vault collapsed.

When the concert was broadcast live, the camera captured the moment when Voirin cut her stretched hair.

Although those around him seemed shocked at the unexpected event, he seemed to calmly simply drop the broken bow, grab another one, and continue his performance.

“At first I didn’t quite understand what happened, because this is something that has never happened to me beforehe speaks himself.

The bow was made by François Nicolas Voiran in Paris in the 19th century, and the 38-year-old violinist, who traveled from New York for a violin concert in Dorset, had it as a valuable companion in thousands of concerts for twenty years. .

When asked what it was like to play with a different bow, the violinist replied that “it’s like suddenly putting on someone else’s shoes to run. They’re still shoes, but they don’t fit you the way you’re used to. you feel weird“.

While to the untrained eye this bow might seem like the rest, Tsakiu insists that “he has different feelings.”