STOLEN Lehart

Irish Flute
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Not mine luckily (for me), but a friend’s one.

It’s a 5 keyed lehart (no long F), it has a repaired crack on the barrell, and the metal tube coming out from the barrell was bent and repaired, but you can see where it was bent. On the crown there’s a small gold pin.
It was stolen together with a french musette bagpipe, some spare parts of an uilleann pipe, the case, and some other minor objects…
Keep an eye around (ebay and all)

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If you give more detail about WHERE, WHEN, and HOW it was stolen, we can post this in our Lost/Stolen Instruments forum.

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Oh, sure. It was stolen from the owner’s car, in Genova (Italy) on 19 march evening…

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has the flute been located yet?

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Sorry to hear about this. Having just had an instrument stolen, I know what your friend is going through.
Arbo

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I had one of my keyless flutes stolen a couple of years ago when I was traveling. It was in a laptop bag, along with my laptop – which means the laptop was fenced for next to nothing and the flute probably ended up in a garbage receptacle or is propping some window open as I type this.

Laptop bags which look like laptop bags is just asking for trouble (same with camera bags). Just ask Sylvain Barou.

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has the flute been located yet?

Nope.

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please don’t laugh at this (to bodhran haters) but some years ago someone broke into my van (smashed a side window) and nicked my kangaroo skin bodhran. It was in my special bodhran case which looked, alas!, too much like a case for drum kit cymbals. those of you who are drumming non literate should be advised that cymbals are very costly items- a good haul for a thief.

funnily enough the idiot thief took the stolen item to the nearest percussion shop to flog it.
the shop owner agreed a commision basis sale for it and then rang me to ask why I had so quickly sold the bodhran case which, he, himself had only delivered to me a few weeks before! (over some months he had organised it to be custom built for bodhran). what a coincidence! i told him the true story and i think the theif was nabbed by the police.

I still have that bodhran and that case.