This is the bizarre tale of how a Scottish composer recovered some locks of Beethoven’s hair from a garment that survived the holocaust, and then used the hair as the basis for a new work of music. Brilliant? Creepy? Both.
Some crazy ghouls have figured out a macabre marketing concept that they hope rich people with more money than brains will snap up, taking 10 strands of Ludwig van Beethoven’s hair and somehow turning them into a trio of half-carat fake diamonds. They extracted the carbon from the composer’s hair, exposed it to temperatures approximating the depths of hell, and then stomped it down with a million pounds of pressure for a couple of weeks. After cutting and polishing their concoction, they had three blue “diamonds” sized at .56 carats. They hope one of these baubles will sell for $1 million on eBay. The sidebar to the story is the bizarre way they got old Ludwig van’s hair.
