[Dixielandjazz] Fw: [TPIN] Glenn Fischthal's horn's stolen

[Bill Gunter]

Hello all,

Bob Roman's post recalled an incident that happened to me many years ago. It 
is possible to get the item(s) back - but not very likely.

Anyway, I was driving Bob Ringwald home from a a gig we had just played. Bob 
didn't have a drivers license because he couldn't read the eyechart!

We stopped at a pub where a friend was playing piano to have a beer and say 
"hello."

When we returned to the car we found it had been broken into and Bob's banjo 
had been stolen. We reported it stolen but nothing much happened until one 
day about a week later one of my students, knowing I played guitar, asked me 
if I would be interested in buying a banjo.  I happened to be teaching 
English at the time in a high school about a mile from the pub where the 
banjo was stolen.

I really wasn't interested and was about to say "No thanks" when something 
told me that perhaps I ought to take a look at it. Bob's banjo was very 
distinctive with some intricate carvings on the neck down near the body of 
the banjo. So I said "Yeah, I would . . . bring it around and let me see 
it."

The next day the kid brought Bob's banjo to me and asked for 25 dollars!

I was flabbergasted!  Here this little jerk stole an expensive banjo from my 
car and then tries to sell it back to me for 25 bucks!

We went to the principals office and notified the authorities who sorted 
things out fairly fast. When the cops when to the kids house they found a 
lot of stolen items (tv sets, car radios, etc.).

Small world!

Respectfully submitted,

Bill Gunter
jazzboard@hotmail.com

ps - Bob tells me that the banjo was subsequently stolen from him again when 
he moved to Los Angeles. He never saw it again. But Kurt Abell (banjo player 
in the Cell Block 7) recently bought a banjo on e-Bay (I think) that looks 
very much like Bob's old banjo.  You never know . . .

-bg






>From: "Bob Romans" <cellblk7@attbi.com>
>To: "DJML" <dixielandjazz@ml.islandnet.com>
>Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Fw: [TPIN] Glenn Fischthal's horn's stolen
>Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 22:08:51 -0600
>
>To all of my listmates on the DJML...
>Terrible to have happen...
>Bob Romans
>Cell Block 7
>Jazz Band
>1617 Lakeshore Dr.,
>Lodi, California, 95242
>Phone.....209-368-3255
>Cell...209-747-1148
>Fax...209-368-3255
>WebPages..click below
>www.cellblockseven2002.net
> >=iii=<0
>
>
>From: Eric Bolvin <EBjazz@ix.netcom.com>
>To: TPIN <tpin@tpin.dana.edu>
>Subject: [TPIN] Glenn Fischthal's horn's stolen
>Date: Thursday, November 21, 2002 11:58 PM
>
>Hey everyone,
>
>Sorry if you're receiving this notice more than once.
>
>San Francisco Symphony's principal trumpeter Glenn Fischthal had 4 trumpets
>stolen from his car this week! Please keep an eye out for them, and look in
>your local pawn shops or on EBay... details are below...
>
>
>Hope you're doing well. I'm sending this to you b/c I know you all have 
>huge
>dist lists of our brass-playing colleagues and I hope you'll do me the 
>favor
>of forwarding it out to your lists...
>
>Glenn Fischthal had several horns stolen from his car Wednesday night while
>he had parked it on the street and gone back into Davies Hall for 
>something.
>They
>were in one black leather Reunion Blues triple bag and one single (same),
>and include:
>
>A Conn Vintage Prototype C
>A Yamaha Zeno Prototype C
>A Schilke P54 Picc, serial # 17049
>A Schilke E flat, serial #8209
>
>If you run across any of these items or info about them, please contact the
>SFPD.
>
>Thanks
>
>
>
>
>Eric Bolvin
>Trumpet, Arranger, Composer, Educator
>SF Bay Area
>Hear our new CD at
>http://www.bolvinmusic.com
>http://www.mp3.com/EricBolvin
>408.236.2009
>
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