Stolen instruments:
Alto Sax – Yamaha Custom – YAS875 EX – Japón – C58754
Bass Clarinet – Yamaha – 221 – 022002
English Horn – Loreè – Royal – París – UU96
Oboe – Loreé – París -JT60
Contact: lis_rigoni@hotmail [dot] com
On July 29, 2012, my oboe (Fox Model 450, Serial Number 20094) got stolen from the back of a car in Saratoga Springs, New York where I had traveled to perform with a friend and his band. I’ve owned the oboe for 10 years and this past spring even had it completely overhauled for a factory refurbish. Essentially, it was a brand new oboe, yet one that I had a decade of experience and musical personality with.
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Any information about its whereabouts may be shared with the Saratoga Springs Police Department at 518-584-1800, or any other local law enforcement agency.
Oh boy, would I love to just get back on with my life as usual. Seeing that back would make my… day, year, well… life, and give me confidence about humanity.
Until then, without knowing if it will ever return, whether my eyes will ever see it again, those same eyes shed tears still believing that they are watering the seeds of hope that may one day become the flower that is the universal goodness of people.
If my oboe is returned to me, I will let you know that the garden of my soul is lush again.
Until then….
I miss you, Fox 450, serial number 20094.
Reminders:
Never leave an instrument in a car unattended.
Insure your instrument for replacement value.
(Moving this to the top of the blog, in case someone missed it.)
Please keet your eyes open for this oboe:
I’m writing this comment to try to get the word out that my 1968 Cabart was stolen from my home on Christmas. I don’t want the criminal(s) to profit from the crime, so I’d like to just make sure anyone that might be trying to buy an Oboe doesn’t purchase one that is stolen. The serial number is 9J-30, and it has a small crack in the upper piece under the keys near the joint to the lower piece. Thank you for your help! -Myra in San Antonio, TX
If you have any information on this email Myra at mpila [at] att [dot] net … thanks!
Myra … SO sorry this happened to you.
[Posted earlier but now placed at the top of blog entries because a "dimpled" photo has been added!]
This was in a paper on September 29, so perhaps it’s even been located by now … but I never thought about an aerodynamic oboe … mostly because I rarely think!
He said: “There are only three other oboes like it in the world. It may sound strange but my instrument is customised to the way I play, so while I will play, I’ll have to borrow one and have only a week to adjust to it.”
The oboe, constructed by specialist craftsman Yanko Petrov, who runs Sound Alchemy in Thornton Heath, has a distinctive specially-designed bell.
It was in a light brown wooden box with a silver reed box engraved with the name “Dom” inside.
Mr Kelly, 37, said: “The bell is very distinctive. The inside is dimpled like a golf ball to make it more aerodynamic and improve the air flow.”
Keep your eyes open for this:
STOLEN OBOE!!!!
POR FAVOR DIFUNDIR !!!!!!!!!!!
Ayer 16 de julio por la noche en Salta, Argentina, le robaron a MARCELO MERCADO , el oboe Green Line (número de serie G11755).
Cualquier información, por favor contactarse con mercadomarcelo [at] hotmail [dot] com
Muchas Gracias !!
From a friend of mine, Beth Zare:
Dear Patty,
Don’t know if blogging about this here will help an oboist in Seattle:
For my musician friends, please read:
For my musician friends, a friend had her house burgled this weekend, and oboes and an english horn were stolen. Please keep you ear open. Details are: Loree Oboe CS 69, Loree Oboe PI 88, Rigoutat Riec English horn (don’t know the serial number yet–it wa…s my daughter’s). It’s possible someone in your or your acquaintances’ circle will be approached with this stuff. They also got reed tools, tuner, and the Renton Community Concert Band folder along with the South Cove Quintet folder.
If I get any more information I’ll be sure and update this!
Dallas police are calling for the public’s help identifying a pair of thieves with classical music taste.
Ok, so they might not dig classical music, but evidently they see the benefits of some instruments that create classical music.
Police issued a surveillance video of the boys at work at the Brook Mays Music Co. location along John Carpenter Freeway. The heist, according to police, occurred at 5 a.m., June 7.
The video shows one guy smashing the bottom half of a glass door — smart fellow because it would have been way more difficult had he smashed the top half — and both guys scurrying in and out with their ill-gotten gains.
The video below shows the theft and then shows them attempting to pawn the instruments. Geesh!
Just received:
Apparently a local Oboe Student has these missing from a stolen car in Berkeley, Please keep an eye out and pass on to the Local Music Stores as well:
Loree Oboe with serial LB58 (borrow from her teacher)
Old mandolin in black hard case
IBM think pad computer
iTouch engraved
…Red ’93 Nissan Sentra
Keep your eyes open, and help a bassoonist whose instrument was stolen. Here’s the info I received:
STOLEN BASSOON ALERT: yesterday, the bassoon belonging to SF Symphony bassoonist, Steven Dibner, was stolen from his car, in his own driveway. The instrument was made by Benson Bell in Canada, and bears the serial number 34. The finish is cherry red, and it has the short bass joint with the long, seamless top joint, characteristic of all Bell bassoons.
I happened upon this blog entry and read about a lost — and I’m assuming now stolen — oboe. Keep your eyes open, oboe world. See if someone can locate this somewhere! Unfortunately we don’t have a lot of information. Here’s the conversation I had with the blogger (she’s in Canada):
oboeinsight.com said…
I just read this blog entry; if you like I can post the information at my oboe blog and people can look out for it. I’d need brand, serial number and anything else you have. SO sorry to read about this!
DECEMBER 8, 2010 2:29 PMBecca said…
Really?! That would be great!!! It is a buffet crampon. I am not too sure about the serial number.. I THINK it’s BC4051.
Thank you so much!
DECEMBER 8, 2010 10:23 PMBecca said…
also.. it was lost saturday evening Dec. 4th in lethbridge.
DECEMBER 8, 2010 10:24 PM
Gentle reminder: record the serial numbers of all of your instruments!
If you happen to see a Buffet Crampon oboe on eBay or at a pawn shop … ask for verification of ownership I guess … not sure if the serial number is helpful since she’s not positive about that. (If I get verification that she IS certain of it I’ll update this!)
And share this info, please.
Update I think the number above may be the model number rather than the serial number. I’ve asked the oboist and will post the serial number if she can provide it.
This just reported to me:
ATTENTION: 4 instruments were stolen from the 5th Ave Theatre. A Brannen-Cooper10K gold flute, a Burkart-Phelan piccolo, a Buffet Crampon R-13clarinet, and a Yanagisawa 991 alto sax. If anyone sees an instrument like any of those listed above on Craigslist, E-Bay, or in a pawn shop…or Music Store, please contact Dane Anderson @ 5th Ave Theater or the Seattle police immediately. Thanks!
Oboe Stolen
Lorée Royal Nr. NZ 13
Location: Station Barcelona Sants – Spain
Date: April 30 2010Dear colleagues and friends,
Yesterday, April 30th 2010 at 14:20, my precious oboe and old friend, Lorée Royal NZ 13, was stolen inside train station Barcelona Sants. Please help me find back my instrument by sending this email to all your musical friends, here and abroad and if possible print this email and post it at your conservatory, shop, website, orchestra and music school. You would be doing me an enormous favor. If any of you are offered this oboe by a seller, please contact me urgently. Thank you very much.
Sincerely,
Christopher Bouwman – solo oboe Valencia Opera (Orquesta de la Comunitat Valenciana)
2nd prize winner Gillet Oboe competition 2009
Email: CBuilder [at] hotmail [dot] com
Telephone: 0034 671444326
A $3,500 musical instrument was stolen by a burglar last weekend, according to police. A Gainesboro Grade resident told Cookeville Police Officer Ron Franklin that her oboe and some compact discs were stolen out of her car, possibly on Friday night. The Buffet oboe is all-wood and has silver keys. The thief also stole a box that contained three spare reeds for the instrument, the officer’s report says. Also stolen were 35 compact discs which the owner had burnt off the computer, the officer said.
How dare the thief steal the reeds too!
The headline read “Musical burglar takes oboe from car” … and I’m just wondering how the heck they knew the burglar was musical. Stealing an oboe and some reeds doesn’t make someone musical. Really.
I read it here.
Claire Garza’s viola stands for good and beauty. She used it to soothe patients in nursing homes and hospitals and to teach music to children.
Someone stole the viola Friday from her Swiss Avenue apartment in Old East Dallas. But maybe the burglar would have reconsidered if he had known how Garza employed the viola.
Garza, 27, said she thinks the thief came in through a locked apartment window. A violin and a DVD player also were stolen, she said.
But the viola, estimated to be worth $30,000, became the focal point.
Garza’s high school viola teacher had sold it to her, and she had used it to play more than 100 concerts in nursing homes and hospitals all over Dallas.
“It was a very special thing to have an instrument that used to belong to my teacher,” she said. “It was heartbreaking for me to have to tell him it got stolen.”
Garza plays for Texas Winds Musical Outreach, a group of professional musicians that tries to help people in the community. She also plays in the Richardson Symphony Orchestra and teaches young musicians through the Dallas Symphony Orchestra’s Young Strings program, which provides free lessons and instruments to underprivileged first- through fifth-graders.
Garza graduated with bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the Cleveland Institute of Music and soon helped start a series of educational programs for at-risk children called the Charles Barr Concerts for Head Start. The series is named for her boyfriend, who was killed in a bicycle accident a few years ago.
Garza came to Texas after Barr’s mother, Catherine, offered her a job with Texas Winds.
Garza said the missing viola is precious to her. She just wants the thief to take care of it and return it.
“It was like my voice, and it’s gone now,” she said. “It’s such an unfortunate thing, because it was used to do such good, such uplifting things. It’s just wrong.”
Found here.
Local 6 just sent out a note about stolen instruments and more. No, not oboes. Not anything I play. But it’s still worth putting this out there. Everything was stolen from the trunk of the owner’s car.
IBANEZ ACOUSTIC/ELECTRIC GUITAR- EW20. A gorgeous, spalted maple
cutaway. S/N 1202SQO70331.A CASE WITH 16 HARMONICAS- Including 6 Chromatics (the big ones with button/slider) mostly Hohner.
ARIA SOLID BODY ELECTRIC GUITAR – A beautiful deep-red finish with
gold hardware; hard-shell case.NIKON D5000 DIGITAL SLR CAMERA- with AF-S Nikkor VR lens. S/N
16481229.ROLAND AC90 ACOUSTIC CHORUS GUITAR AMP- Black, in padded case. S/N ZW23316 .
SHURE WIRELESS MIC SYSTEM- with transmitter, receiver and microphone
SHURE WIRELESS INSTRUMENT SYSTEM- with transmitter, receiver,
instrument cable (1/4inch)BOSS DIGITAL CHROMATIC TUNER
KORG DIGITAL CHROMATIC TUNER
THREE SHURE SM58 MICROPHONES
1 SHURE SM57 MICROPHONE
VOX CRY-BABY WAH-WAH PEDAL
TWO ZOOM MULTI-EFFECTS PEDAL
REWARDS OFFERED -relative to item(s) recovered
I’m not listing his number on my website, but of course you can contact me if you hear anything about these. NONE of the items are covered by the owner’s insurance because they are used for professional purposes.
Which reminds me …
If you play professionally you need to have your instruments insured properly. Homeowner’s insurance will not cover them. If you have them insured by someone who does cover professionals be sure you understand how you are covered. (Some companies won’t cover them if they are stolen from a music locker, college office or room, or dorm. Some won’t cover them if they are stolen from you car but were not in the trunk.) If you don’t play professionally, you still need to make sure your homeowner’s insurance covers your instruments … and they probably won’t if you haven’t contacted them about owning them.
And yes, I insure my reed making equipment as well. You should too!
