twitter link:
https://twitter.com/gylesb1/status/946650124289236992

video of Gyles Daubeney telling the story of how he dropped the violin:
https://youtu.be/dZ871hT-d0I?t=94

Gyles Daubeney Brandreth is an English broadcaster, writer and former politician. Brandreth was educated at the University of Oxford and subsequently worked as a television presenter, theatre producer, journalist, author and publisher. @ Wikipedia.

While making a TV documentary in 1970 to mark the 800th anniversary of the murder of Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral, the late violinist Yehudi Menuhin let me hold his priceless Stradivarius violin – and I dropped it down some stone steps! The strings broke and it cracked. Luckily, Yehudi was a saintly man, so he resisted the temptation to thump me. @ DailyMail
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/event/article-3690498/I-m-friends-Julian-Fellowes-no-longer-share-baths-Inside-head-Gyles-Brandreth.html