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Hexham instruments theft- guitars/viola/mandolin
« on: June 10, 2018, 10:29:41 PM »

Nigel Fosters workshop in Hexham was raided by the
thieves today.  Please be on the lookout for suspicious offers of new handmade instruments.  See link for full details

http://www.nkforsterguitars.com/blog/guitars-stolen/
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Re: Hexham instruments theft- guitars/viola/mandolin
« Reply #1 on: June 11, 2018, 03:26:41 AM »

I'm very sorry to hear that. I've never met Nigel, but we have exchanged a few emails because of a common love for the fabulous Howe-Orme "cylinder-top" guitars (one of which is on the list of those stolen from him) and the Vega "cylinder-body" ones that were made in Boston between the 1890s and 1930s. (I hope it's not the same gorgeous one that's in his YouTube video Vintage Howe Orme guitar played by Seth Tinsley. :()

I'll keep my eyes open and ears pinned to the ground because you never know where, or when, such things might surface - I once recovered an instrument that was stolen 25 years previously, and on the other side of the world...

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Re: Hexham instruments theft- guitars/viola/mandolin
« Reply #2 on: June 11, 2018, 07:45:13 AM »

Yes, sorry to hear that, as someone who lives in Hexham. Seth (in that video) was one of my first A level music students. I'll make sure the local music shop Core Music knows, and also I'll alert Stefan Sobell who also lives here - and also the Violin shop to be watchful.
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