From: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org (shindell-list-digest) To: shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: shindell-list-digest V6 #102 Reply-To: shindell-list@smoe.org Sender: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk shindell-list-digest Tuesday, May 11 2004 Volume 06 : Number 102 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [RS] Chuck Brodsky's instruments stolen [Deb Woodell Subject: [RS] Chuck Brodsky's instruments stolen Here's an email forwarded from another group....I'm spreading the word...Deb Subj: [Folk-alliance] Chuck Brodsky's stolen instruments - descriptions Date: 5/9/2004 11:09:33 AM Eastern Daylight Time From: CBrodsky@aol.com To: folk-alliance@folk.org I just got home from a trip overseas to discover that a bunch of instruments were stolen from my house near Asheville, North Carolina, sometime between April 11th and May 6th. If anybody knows of any other listserves, discussion groups, hotlines, or websites where I can list the following descriptions, please et me know. Please help spread the word. Here's what was taken: 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 ow 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 differentcolored 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. Thanks for taking time to read this - Chuck Brodsky Thanks for all of the kind e-mails, everybody, and for all the crosspostings to other lists on my behalf. One thing I forgot to mention is that the Ovation "Elite" (serial # 1868) was "high strung." www.chuckbrodsky.com Asheville, NC ===== This I have learned: Because we can, we must try to change the world -- fully, wisely, restlessly. -- Rudy Nemser == Life is such a changing art. -- Dar Williams == __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! HotJobs http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/careermakeover ------------------------------ End of shindell-list-digest V6 #102 ***********************************