Author: Jack Kissinger
Date: 2007-08-28 02:15
Here's a true story regarding the NYPD. A clarinetist who has posted here in the past had his apartment burglarized some years ago while he was on tour. Among the instruments stolen was a Selmer Model 33 Bass Clarinet. The victim filed a police report and also reported the theft and serial number here (or on the Klarinet list, I forget which). Sometime later (could have been a year, but not much longer, as I recall), the bass clarinet turned up on eBay for sale by someone in New York who obviously didn't know much about it (starting bid around $500, no reserve). I recognized the instrument from its serial and e-mailed the original owner. Shortly thereafter the instrument was withdrawn from the auction. Later, the owner told me that the guy who was trying to sell the instrument had purchased it legitimately ... at a police evidence auction! NYPD never notified him that his instrument had been recovered. I never did find out what became of the instrument, though. "There are 8 million stories in the naked city. This has been one of them."
Best regards,
jnk
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