Did you hear that scream?

[just strum]

That was me as I leaned over to put the Strat in the stand. As I released it and was leaning back in the chair the stand was off balance and the guitar crashed into the fan sitting on the floor. Fortunately the fan blade has a plastic mesh covering and it took the impact of the guitar falling.

Scared the hell out of me.

[Algonquin]

Is that what that noise was... :

[Spudman***]

Noob.

[just strum]

Noob.

A number of definitions for that word.

[marnold***]

Fan pwnage. Reminds me of when I took my Model 7 to the luthier for a fret dressing and a new nut. I don't even recall how I managed to do this. Basically, I unzipped the gig bag with the guitar "standing" on the strap button. No sooner was is unzipped that KERRANG! it landed strings-first on the floor. Thankfully they had a nice rug down on their otherwise nice wooden floors. If it had fallen back-first, it probably would have snapped the pointy headstock clean off.

[Katastrophe]

My daughter sent my ESP custom shop model flying into an end table once. If you listen closely and put your ear to the wall, you can still hear my high pitched wailing.

Also, I sent a friend's Gibby Les Paul (gorgeous guitar) crashing to our kitchen floor while trying to show it to my mom. I was 15, and almost didn't see 16 for that one.

[wingsdad]

Yeah, Strummy, I might have...my ears got really itchy about the time you reported your flirtation with disaster.

I was 16, playing a Bar Mitzvah gig with my Gibson ES-330 (a/k/a Casino as an Epiphone back then). Time for a break. No stage in the hall. Set guitar on stand. Walk away to head for the punch & cookies...and girls surrounding it, natch...maybe 20 feet away.

Sipping blithely as I play suave rock star with the lovelies, I catch a glimpse of one young 12 year old stud guest who'd imbibed a tad too much Manischewitz on the sly stumbling toward the back of our set. Seems like an eternity as I break into a trot toward the scene, and I watch horrified as the goofball trips, falls into the guitar stand from behind. Sends my 330 falling face down. Classic Gibson result: headstock snaps off just above the nut.

I don't think I screamed, exactly. I don't remember that part. Must've been in shock.

[duhvoodooman***]

....Seems like an eternity as I break into a trot toward the scene, and I watch horrified as the goofball trips, falls into the guitar stand from behind. Sends my 330 falling face down. Classic Gibson result: headstock snaps off just above the nut.

I don't think I screamed, exactly. I don't remember that part. Must've been in shock.

Repairable break, I hope?? I'd have killed the drunk little *******.

[M29]

Man you guys are making me sweat and shiver with all this talk...

[wingsdad]

Repairable break, I hope?? I'd have killed the drunk little *******.

Yep. Sent it to Gibson in Kalamazoo, when it was still Gibson. (Heritage today). About a month later she came back with a new neck. $90.

As for the ' drunk little ******* ', I recall he was 'escorted' outside by our bass player and didn't return. The bass player did, I borrowed a Tele from a friend of the keyboard player whol lived nearby, and we finished the gig. I bought the Tele.

[sumitomo]

Strum that's no good.Is the fan ok? Sumi