Mouse chewed violin: in "good condition" for mice?
My 4 year old granddaughter wants a violin this Xmas. So I had a browse on e-Bay for 1/16th size violins. I was shocked to see a mouse nest violin being advertised by the children's charity Barnardo's as being in "good condition". I archived the link. https://archive.is/EKERF# and the mouse damage can be seen in the picture below from that advert. It is being sold (supposedly) by the children's charity Barnardo's. Am I right in believing mice do this in order to nest inside violins? If so, maybe they are marketing the violin as a hole. Ahem! Sorry - Freudian slip typo. I meant ...as a whole...in "good condition" for a mouse? They do say the violin shows "signs of use" - so that hypothesis is not disconfirmed if they are marketing it at mice rather than humans. Follow up on what the experts say about this: https://maestronet.com/forum/index.php?/topic/347172-mouse-chewed-f-hole-violin-on-e-bay-as-in-good-condition/ . When a seria