18 February 2006

Major theft of top-quality instruments

Oliver Waitze's New Acoustic Gallery in Solingen, Germany (near Wuppertal, Dusseldorf, and Cologne) was burgled on the night of Thursday 16 February, with the loss of eighty per cent of the stock of top-quality stringed instruments. All the stolen instruments are identified on the Acoustic Gallery website. Please keep your eyes and ears open for anything relating to this theft, and get any information to Oliver by e-mail or telephone +49-(0)212/2474007.

The stolen instruments are as follows:

steel-string guitars
Albert & Müller S 4 parlour custom Vogelaugenahorn
Avalon L10 C mahogany Zeder
Beneteau concert standard Ziricote
Blueridge BR140
Blueridge BR183
Blueridge BR180
Bourgeois vintage dreadnought custom Madagascar RW
Bourgeois JOMC de luxe Madagascar RW
Crafter GAE 30/N
Django Dell Arte Anouman 14 F
Dell Arte jumbo cutaway (maple)
DiMauro gypsy guitar (used)
Django Dupont Nomade
Django Dupont MD100
Django Dupont MD50B
Eastman AR880CE/LA John Pisano
Furch G23CR
Oskar Graf parlour – Ahorn, Fichte
Oskar Graf C-model custom Ziricote
Oskar Graf cutaway Ziricote
Jazz Launhardt FS2 jazz guitar
Lowden O34 Custom (used)
Martin D16GT (used)
Martin OO 17 (used)
Migliorini & Pozzi Parlour
Santa Cruz vintage artist, custom
Shanti /Michael Hornick SF 4 Koa (used)
Stanford OM10 Palisander
Stanford D20 Palisander
Webber round body, soft cutaway, custom stained red
Webber dreadnought Koa custom
Webber OM cutaway, soft cutaway, cocobolo custom
Webber OO, mahogany
Webber OM, Cocobolo

classical guitars
Burguet 2
Burguet 1A
Burguet 3M
Juan M. Carmona Pierre Bensusan signature model (used)
Oskar Graf cutaway (used; 1997)
Hernandez Flamenco professional
Carrillo Gabriela
Bernabe M10 Zeder
Bernabe M5 Fichte
Hans Raab Schrammelguitar (1899; 13-string)

banjos
Karsten Schnoor open-back
Prucha Elban
Prucha Elban (used)
Prucha open-back premium
Schwerk custom (used)

mandolins
Hense 5S
Hense 5S Presentation
Prucha F (used; #16/4/97)
Prucha A blonde custom NR.50

mandolas
Flatbush (used)
Striebel
Bruce Weber Big Sky (used)

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