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Author: Chris P
Date: 2025-03-21 22:23
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65,000 euros worth of stolen Amsterdam clarinets found at border control
During a border check, German police found fifteen stolen clarinets worth around 65,000 euros. The musical instruments were stolen from an Amsterdam showroom earlier this week. A 42-year-old Serbian has been arrested as a suspect.
The police came across the find just across the German border near Roermond. The suspect who crossed the border on the A52 turned out to be known to the German police due to previous thefts. In addition, he had a driving ban at the time of the arrest.
In his car, authorities found the fifteen clarinets along with burglary tools and a balaclava. The suspect has been handed over to Dutch authorities and is being held in custody for the time being.
Bloody hell! Imagine the state they're going to be in after being bundled up like that!
Several years back several UK woodwind specialists had saxes nicked - there was a photo around the side of sax.co.uk's showroom where many of them were just dumped on the ground and CCTV footage of them grabbing armfuls of saxes off the racks and chucking them out through the hole they tore through the side of the building. Howarth, Dawkes and others were among others hit too.
Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.
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Author: Ed
Date: 2025-03-22 02:28
I was wondering where I left those!
:-)
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Author: crazyclari
Date: 2025-03-24 10:36
I was playing on stage when theives hit our bus. Things like R13s they dumped in a paddock nearby and took things like walkmans instead😬
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Author: ElizabethMH
Date: 2025-03-25 10:48
Sounds like the plot of a Wallace and Gromit movie. Seriously though, if you were going to go through the trouble of a heist, why would you pick clarinets?
Elizabeth
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Author: mqaa
Date: 2025-03-25 12:47
Somebody 'ordered' a specific model but the thief did not know how to identify it so he took them all to be sure he had the correct one? Maybe...
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Author: HANGARDUDE
Date: 2025-03-25 21:32
I'm somehow reminded of this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rk1MYMPDx3s
Josh
Post Edited (2025-03-26 03:51)
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Author: HANGARDUDE
Date: 2025-03-26 03:58
PS My previous Selmer Présénce Bb clarinet was lost in 2022 in southwest London- would've been wild if it appeared amongst this bundle!
Josh
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Author: Fuzzy
Date: 2025-03-26 23:52
Haha!
Article III, section 5:
At no time shall the creel limit be exceed or kept specimens be packed more tightly than one per 1.5 cubic foot of storage space.
Fuzzy
;^)>>>
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Author: Reese Oller
Date: 2025-04-07 07:03
"Clarinet god--"
I'm pretty sure it's obvious that the clarinet was stolen.
Reese Oller
Clarinet student (performance major at Millikin University)
I can play bass clarinet, Eb clarinet, BBb contra, alto saxophone, bassoon at a decent level, and flute in a pinch.
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Author: ClarinetGod
Date: 2025-04-07 15:54
He should have given it to someone who knows how to take care of it properly
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Author: HANGARDUDE
Date: 2025-04-15 05:08
Reese: I lost the instrument on a train during a harrowing housemove(in which I was carrying a lot of stuff)- I realized it within a minute and went after it on the next train minutes later. Had it not been stolen it would've ended up at the terminal station's lost and found storage. But since it never showed up in the 6 months after it's presumed to be stolen out of sight. But I digress- unless our arrested friend above happens to have that very instrument in his "stockpile"!
PS I've since bought a 2nd hand pair of Présénce Bb/A for good price and I like them better than the Bb I lost, so it worked out in the end- only that I was forced to go on hiatus on Bb/A for 2 years and focused on bass clarinet & tenor sax for my music career!
Josh
Post Edited (2025-04-17 18:37)
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Author: OmniClarinet314
Date: 2025-04-15 19:00
Woohoo. Accusing someone on here of stealing your clarinet that YOU lost. I'd kill to have had such a great clarinet when I was in high school. Middle schoolers get RC Prestiges nowadays. It's ridiculous.
Post Edited (2025-04-15 19:02)
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