h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Okay, we won't be able to do the feedback from an electric guitar thing, but at the very least, by now it would be standard for the Vienna Chamber Orchestra to smash a few cellos at the end of a recital.

Do you really think that would be nice? I mean, there'd be no stradivaris left whatsoever due to fact that guys like Paganini would have smashed them all after some particularly satiesfying violin solo. On the other hand Nigel Kennedy would have to learn how to play the violin seriously instead of boasting his incredibly expensive violin. And nobody would make such a fuss about him, simply because he'd be just like everybody else in the business. Maybe he would then start a hype playing the violin really avantgarde-like, dismissing all this old fashioned violin-smashing, waering short hair, dressing like a politician ... interesting thought.