Author: Brenda Siewert
Date: 2007-08-28 14:30
I'm not an attorney and this scenario certainly has all shades of legality involved, but it seems to me that the potential for getting such an instrument back is pretty slim. Even if it was discovered in someone's possession it would be hard to get it back if that person had purchased it in good faith from someone--even the thief. I know laws vary in the different states, so that would be another thing. And, as mentioned in one narrative above, the instrument might not be the same as it was before it was stolen. What thief takes the kind of care of an instrument that an owner who had spent cold hard cash for it would? Who knows what kind of temperature changes and neglect it has seen.
I bought an instrument back from a buyer a few months ago and it was a very different instrument than when I had owned it the first time. It had been 5 years since I had owned it, but it was not the way I remembered it. Of course, we tend to remember things more fondly than they deserve. Like people. Everyone loves Uncle Joe after he's dead.
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