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Here's an article about a muscian that had her violin seized at German customs and they won't return it!
"If you practice with your hands you must practice all day. Practice with your mind and you can accomplish the same amount in minutes." Nathan Milstein
She's got to be livid about the situation and angry too. 
That has to be a contender for the dumbest action by a government agency so far in 2012. I hope the owner has a further option to sue. (as in big $$$$).
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Yes, I read about that. I was thinking that it was all made up. Couldn't possibly be true. Unbelievable really. Germany is not like that, they have soooo much culture and soloists with great instruments play there all the time. I for one have never needed to show any documents for my violin in Germany or anywhere else in Europe.
This is really going to do some damage to the reputation of the German government.
"The richest person is not the one who has the most,
but the one who needs the least."
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does your violin have its papers? oh, i see...it appears we have a fiddlespy here! seize him!!!!! too funny
we have ways to make you danse? yes? (maybe thats a bit cold war russian and not east german?)
"Please play some wrong notes, so that we know that you are human" - said to Jascha Heifetz.
BaaHaa, PF! At least blaming Russia is still working =) Continue, my friend, we've got used to. 
Loosen bootlace? - bad russians!!!
Disturbing story, btw! Not that i'll get a violin that could be taken that way, but....
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Actually someone could easily want that Kohr K550 
Keep an eye on it at all times. 
"The richest person is not the one who has the most,
but the one who needs the least."
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Thats right FM!
Who's to say she's not labeling a very expenisve violin with a "cheap" Kohr" label to circumvent customs... LOL
I can see Naska locked up in a dingy German jail at an out of the way airport waiting for fiddlerman to fax them some paperwork.
"If you practice with your hands you must practice all day. Practice with your mind and you can accomplish the same amount in minutes." Nathan Milstein
Fiddlerman said
Actually someone could easily want that Kohr K550
Keep an eye on it at all times.
Yep! I've already felt it. On lessons, when my teacher takes that K550 to show me how to play something... she plays and... plays.. and plays... And i say: ""c'mooooon, Liliya As'hatovna, i'll forget everything You've just showed me".. and she says: "No big deal, i'll show it again =)"
cdennyb said
...I can see Naska locked up in a dingy German jail at an out of the way airport waiting for fiddlerman to fax them some paperwork.
I hope that was the worst thing, You can see about me, CDennyB! 
Fiddlerman said
Yes, I read about that. I was thinking that it was all made up. Couldn't possibly be true. Unbelievable really. Germany is not like that, they have soooo much culture and soloists with great instruments play there all the time. I for one have never needed to show any documents for my violin in Germany or anywhere else in Europe.
This is really going to do some damage to the reputation of the German government.
I heard from a violinist that it was true and it had just been returned to her recently.
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Mad_Wed said
Fiddlerman said
Actually someone could easily want that Kohr K550
Keep an eye on it at all times.Yep! I've already felt it. On lessons, when my teacher takes that K550 to show me how to play something... she plays and... plays.. and plays... And i say: ""c'mooooon, Liliya As'hatovna, i'll forget everything You've just showed me".. and she says: "No big deal, i'll show it again =)"
Jeez, most people just want to take mine away and throw it!
“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” ~Benjamin Franklin
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