A lifetime of irreplaceable work was destroyed
A musician who had a 30-year violin collection destroyed in the Belfast Cathedral Buildings fire says it is "scary" to think of the value of what was lost in the blaze.
"I started my workshop with a minimum of two and that was 30 years ago. I just kept revisiting everything I earned into what I had and maybe 10 years ago, I thought about selling nice instruments to people who wanted to upgrade. "One of the keyholders heard from a friend during the night and he tried to contact me. Someone from the building phoned me on Monday morning and said there was some bad news and I asked him what was wrong and he said 'no not me, us'. He said that the building was on fire and I asked how bad is it and he told me it was gone."Where I was, it is not like I might be able to get in and salvage anything.
"When I start reassessing the real value of replacing the instruments because I bought them at auction so to actually replace what I had in terms of instruments is probably double that. It's scary never mind all the other things that were there - wood, tools, bows.
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