Not quite the same, but a friend of mine was sitting in her living room one afternoon when she heard a gawdawful sound upstairs. It sounded like someone stomped on an apple crate while dropping a piano from a considerable height.

She dashed upstairs to find that her very nice Goya classic guitar, which she'd had left lying on the bed, had spontaneously exploded! She'd had the guitar for some forty years and it accompanied her singing for years of performing in coffee houses, hundreds of concerts and other performances, and on several television shows.

What with the bent sides and all, guitars are assembled under tension and held in place by forms until the glue dries. Apparently, for some reason, the glue had simply let go! It was a warm summer afternoon, but not unusually so, and the sun had not been shining on the guitar.

Not a common thing. There are old guitars, vintage or antiques hundreds of years old and usually in museums, that are still intact and show no signs of self-disassembly.

My friend took the guitar to Sound Guitar Repair and the woman luthier there rebuilt it as good as new—or better.

Once I learned she was there, I've had Cat (Catherine) Fox work on a couple of guitars for me. She repaired a couple of cracks in the back of a classic guitar and adjusted the action on one of my travel guitars.

Our local miracle worker:   Cat Fox.

Don Firth