Klarinet Archive - Posting 000222.txt from 2004/05

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Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 08:22:19 -0400

Very Sad about Chuck Brodsky.

Mike
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> shindell-list-digest Tuesday, May 11 2004 Volume 06 : Number
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> Today's Subjects:
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> [RS] Chuck Brodsky's instruments stolen [Deb Woodell
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> Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 16:47:52 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Deb Woodell <dcwoodell@-----.com>
> 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@-----.com
> To: folk-alliance@-----.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
>
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fully, wisely, restlessly. -- Rudy Nemser
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