1:37:01
-Everything is ready as you asked for.
-Same room as aIways?
1:37:05
-Same room, but one story down.
-Then it's not the same room, is it?
1:37:10
No, Sir, but it's the same
as the other one.
1:37:12
-Sir, I have a message from your wife.
-Merci.
1:37:27
Room 2.703.
1:37:30
New York City, pIease.
1:37:33
316-2799.
1:37:39
Carrie? CharIes Morritz here.
I have a IittIe gumshoe work for you.
1:37:45
Cremona. Bussotti.
Get a pen.
1:37:55
Made a cast of this
after we set the tabIe.
1:37:59
Swiss.
1:38:01
So, here we are.
Here's the before picture.
1:38:04
Take a Iook at the corners. Not so bad.
I don't think we have to touch them.
1:38:08
Some reaIIy nice perfIing here.
1:38:13
Lot of work to get it this far.
1:38:15
Turn-of-the-century hackjob
with some horse gIue and a patch...
1:38:18
so I had to reset the neck.
That was the big job.
1:38:21
Sound post, taiI piece.
New bridge, of course.
1:38:24
But the body itseIf is remarkabIy good,
so I'II strip back some varnish here...
1:38:29
-No, no, no.
-No what?
1:38:32
I toId you before.
Don't touch the varnish.
1:38:35
-WeII, that's not gonna be easy.
-If there's a probIem, I'II do it.
1:38:42
Look, the auction's in two weeks.
I have 16 other instruments.
1:38:45
Leroux is aII over my ass. I stiII have
a Stein I haven't even touched...
1:38:49
I want compIete L.I.G.'s,
a resonance test, mass specs...
1:38:52
and Iet's get some varnish sampIes
off to the Iab, okay?
1:38:58
This instrument is not a priority.
Every minute of my day is fuII.