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Greetings OLFERS!
Tim Olsen from the Guild of American Luthiers has send me this list of instruments that have been stolen all from the same store. seems as though they cleaned the out! --SICK!

Below is the original email sent to me and forward to us here at the OLF.
I will attached the spread sheet of instruments below.

To our MI dealer friends and musicians,

My good friend Pierpaolo has alerted us that his store has been robbed and asked that we forward this information to you.

103 instruments have been stolen from Pierpaolo Adda’s Guitar shop
www.guitaranch.com, Verona Italy.

Attached you will find the list
with detail and description.

If you should come across any of these instruments, please let Pierpaolo know about it, immediately.

Please forward this e-mail to other music
stores and musicians.

pierpaolo_guitar_ranch@yahoo.it

Thank you very much.

Best Regards,

Wayne Wesley Johnson

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Lance@LuthiersForum.com

Holly Moly. They had to have a simi to hall them away

Man, that's quite a haul...some nice old instruments in there too.

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"I want to know what kind of pickups Vince Gill uses in his Tele, because if I had those, as good of a player as I am, I'm sure I could make it sound like that.
Only badly."

I just sent my condolences to Italy. As a victim of guitar theft, I know how they must feel. Thanks for spreading the word.

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"Building guitars looks hard, but it's actually much harder than it looks." Tom Buck

That is totally appalling!!!

That is a pretty stacked list too...

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I'd like to be able to prove, just for once, that money wouldn't make me happy...

Strewth! Someone knew where to find good instuments, I'd haul a truck across Europe just for the '52 Tele and the National, there must be half a million in instruments there. I'll print the list out and circulate them to all the local shops though I guess they'll probably end up in the US or Japan, or there are now big collectors, with lots of money in Russia.

Colin

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I don't believe in anything, I simply make use of a set of reasonable working hypotheses.

What a shame! There's a lot of wonderful guitars on that list.

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Anderson Guitars
Clearwater,Fl. 33755

Just outrageous!

Well, the thiefs certainly had good taste in guitars. I'm forwarding the list to the music stores and my friends up here.

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Rian Gitar og Mandolin

Incredibly shameful conduct there. This is almost like one of those heists where an art museum gets robbed. It is impossible to replace almost all of those instruments.

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Joe Breault
Merrimack, NH
Perpetual novice