From: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org (believers-digest) To: believers-digest@smoe.org Subject: believers-digest V8 #73 Reply-To: believers@smoe.org Sender: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk believers-digest Wednesday, May 12 2004 Volume 08 : Number 073 In Today's believer's digest: ----------------- Stolen instrument note from Chuck Brodsky... ["Paul Brown" Subject: Stolen instrument note from Chuck Brodsky... Hi Folks - Sorry to disturb you, but I'd like to just ask you to all please keep an eye out for a few instruments that were just stolen from my house. You never know where they might turn up. Thanks for reading the descriptions below. More cheerful news will soon follow. All the best - Chuck Brodsky Larry Pogreba resonator guitar Very dark green, with a hubcap from an early '60's Rambler covering the resonator cone. The hubcap is cut in the shape of a butterfly. A pick-up is installed under the cone, with a quarter inch jack at the bottom end. There are "crude" beads where the metal back and sides were welded together, and on the back all of the balpine hammer marks are visible from when the back was first shaped. A photograph of a similar enough Pogreba to mine can be viewed at http://www.kummersvintage.com/images/nashhub..JPG This is NOT the one stolen from me...there will be slight differences between mine and the one in the photo...but it's very close in looks. A photo of the actual instrument that was stolen can be e- mailed on request. Steve Wise Long Neck Dulcimer This is an instrument that is played like a guitar, NOT like a lap dulcimer. It has a thin, teardrop-shaped body (with a cut-away on either side at the neck), about the size of a mandola, f holes, a pick-up, small rectangular black plastic battery cover on the side. The neck is long and is fretted like a dulcimer, but with the strings in reverse order from a lap dulcimer. It has a low string, a middle string, and then the high string being doubled. This instrument was stolen in its white "Calton" fiberglass case with a plush red interior. The outside of the case has a name plate with "Chuck Brodsky" engraved in it along with the serial # 8086. There is an odd piece of plush red padding built into the inside of the case's top to compensate for the dulcimer's raised bridge. A photo of this very instrument can be viewed at http://slwise.home.texas.net/longndl.htm Ovation "Elite" acoustic guitar serial # 1868 Thin body, black, rounded back, many small sound holes. A repaired 7 inch crack in the guitar's top will be apparent on inspection. The guitar strap was multi-colored. There might be some corrosion around the battery terminal & controls for the pick-up. A photo of a similar guitar to mine can be viewed at http://www.ovationguitars.com/?fa=detail&mid=61 However, my guitar does not have the different colored wood trim at the top of the headstock. Madiera acoustic guitar The label inside says "Made by Guild". This guitar has maple back and sides, and "Madiera" inlayed on the headstock. It's a well-worn instrument, my first guitar. There are at least 2 small screw holes in the top of the guitar from where an old pick-up used to be mounted. The area near the pick gaurd has been worn down through the finish, as are areas around the edge of the sound hole. There were cracks around the bindings on the back & sides, with one small spot where the guitar had been dropped and the wood was crushed in a little. There was a thin braided dark leather strap tied to the bottom end and to just before the nut at the headstock. Tiny blood spatterings from long ago dot the inside wood of the back of the guitar when you look through the sound hole. A photo of this guitar can be e-mailed on request. Banjolin (brand name unknown) Possibly has an inscription somewhere "Made in Philadelphia." Belonged to my great uncle. This instrument has a banjo head (not sure if it was plastic or skin) attached to the neck of a mandolin (4 sets of doubled strings). The wooden tone ring is a pattern of various colored woods, either inlaid or interlocked (not sure). It probably dates back to the 1930's or 1940's. Some of the metal hardware around the head might possibly be recent replacement parts (not certain). There is a thin shim adjusting the angle of the neck at the point where it attaches to the banjo head. This instrument was stolen without its original case. www.chuckbrodsky.com Asheville, NC *********************************************************** Paul Brown RFSAW, Inc. 900 Alpha Drive, Suite #400 Richardson, Texas 75081 469-916-5969 (ph) 469-916-5951 (fx) pbrown@rfsaw.com *********************************************************** HELP! owner-believers@smoe.org Send mail to believers@smoe.org Susan's CD's are available on your desktop at World Cafe CDs http://worldcafecds.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 21:21:07 -0400 From: WoodellDC@aol.com Subject: Three-and-a-half stars for ICBN From the Sunday Philadelphia Inquirer...Deb: Susan Werner I Can't Be New (Koch ***1/2) Susan Werner, who came on the recording scene as a Philadelphia-based folk singer in 1993, veers in a jazz-cabaret direction here and exhibits some serious songwriting ability. Her lyrics can be pithy and eloquent, and her melodies reinvent Tin Pan Alley. If you've had a breakup and just feel jaundiced, this may be the antidote. Many songs revolve around missed and tragic love. Werner is often full of uncertainty, singing "love is a cruel drug when it's cut with doubt," or lusting for a missing man who's "a tall drink of water on a long, hot day." The tunes make for funny and cutting vignettes. In a song about a budding affair, she jauntily suggests, "Let's regret this in advance... let's feel sorry at the start." She makes it all a finger-snapping time. - -- Karl Stark HELP! owner-believers@smoe.org Send mail to believers@smoe.org Susan's CD's are available on your desktop at World Cafe CDs http://worldcafecds.com ------------------------------ End of believers-digest V8 #73 ****************************** ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------- -------------------------- This has been a posting from the Susan Werner believers-digest To unsubscribe send mail to Majordomo@smoe.org with "unsubscribe believers-digest" in the body of the message