"To add insult to injury, Boak says the guitar was insured for its purchase price, which doesn’t reflect its value as an irreplaceable museum artifact. Boak also says that Martin requested that the pieces be returned for a possible restoration, not for inclusion in the Martin Museum as stated in SSNInsider.com. “Upon inspection of the pieces, we realized that the guitar was beyond fixing,” Boak said. “It’s destroyed.”
Granted the guitar should not have been destroyed, but
Gibson Martin screwed the pooch on this. Who in their right mind would loan a valuable antique guitar to a MOVIE crew without having it properly insured?
(Edited to avoid vile accusation of highly esteemed guitar manufacturer, a paragon of product development and fair pricing. My apologies.)
