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Stolen Guitar Turns Up On A Dealer Website
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It looks like Ms. Cindy vamoosed!
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…and now, did Russell get back his guitat?
Richard Russell
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I am still alive and well. I am posting information about my guitar on other websites. NO I never got it back. I would like it
returned no questions asked. I will be very appreciative to anyone who returns it to me.
Thanks.
returned no questions asked. I will be very appreciative to anyone who returns it to me.
Thanks.
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Have you laid eyes on it?
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NOT recently but guess what? I posted photos on the Facebook Zemaitis page and the original engraver
Danny OBrien? saw them and told everyone including me that the engraving as shown was definitely
not his work. So... I am going to guess Ed Roman stole my guitar and produced a fake copy or parts and/or somehow sold
it to some poor dope who probably paid a fortune for it. So now there is some guy, maybe the guy at Rebel Guitar, who still has a guitar that possibly is a fake that Ed Roman made. It is crazy. You know I just want my guitar back. I don't care if Ed Roman tool pieces of my guitar and sold them or
whoever did what at his shop cause Ed is dead. I don't know what happened to my guitar I just want her back.
I wonder if anyone here has any ideas as to what I can do.
Danny OBrien? saw them and told everyone including me that the engraving as shown was definitely
not his work. So... I am going to guess Ed Roman stole my guitar and produced a fake copy or parts and/or somehow sold
it to some poor dope who probably paid a fortune for it. So now there is some guy, maybe the guy at Rebel Guitar, who still has a guitar that possibly is a fake that Ed Roman made. It is crazy. You know I just want my guitar back. I don't care if Ed Roman tool pieces of my guitar and sold them or
whoever did what at his shop cause Ed is dead. I don't know what happened to my guitar I just want her back.
I wonder if anyone here has any ideas as to what I can do.
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Btw I remember the guy from Rebel saying that the headstock had been broken. So... if you are out there with my guitar
please contact me. No questions asked.
please contact me. No questions asked.
rockabilly69
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Can you please post new pictures of the engraving on the top as I'm always looking at Zemaitis guitars (I own 5 of them). I check all the Zemaitis forums.
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Between 1992 and 1993 I attended a school year in the United States (I am Italian), as part of a program that promoted study periods abroad. I was staying with a family in a remote town in upstate New York, near the Canadian border. I went to Madrid-Waddington High School.
I had made friends with a group of guys who played in a band, and one afternoon I joined them in the garage of the drummer's parents, and started playing with them.
At first I played with a borrowed guitar, then, in the spring of '93, I went to a store in Potsdam, NY (I don't remember the name exactly, something like North Music & Video, or something similar), and bought a wonderful Fender Stratocaster in Lake Placid Blue with rosewood fingerboard. I had every intention of taking it home to Italy, also as a souvenir of that period of my life.
One evening in June 1993, after playing in a local bar (I think near Massena), we stopped outside the town, near the woods, lit a bonfire and drank a few beers. I had left my guitar in a band member's car. Long story short, when we got back to the cars (which were parked nearby), we found my friend's car unlocked, and my guitar was gone.
A few days ago, 30 years later, while I was in a local shop (in Italy) to buy a music stand, I noticed a guitar for sale as used, and it immediately reminded me of that old Fender that had been stolen from me 30 years earlier . Obviously there are thousands of Stratocasters just like that, but when I picked it up and saw the sticker on the neck plate with the name of that shop in Potsdam, I was amazed... I bought it without even trying it.
I don't know how she managed to get to Italy, most likely in that group of kids there was someone who, like me, found herself in that school for the study abroad program, who, after having stolen her from me, brought her back to Italy. It's probably changed hands several times.
Several years have passed, but thinking back to that evening in 1993, I remember that at a certain point some guys stopped by to ask something, I don't know who they were and I don't remember what they talked about, then they left shortly after. Most likely one of these was the perpetrator of the theft.
I had made friends with a group of guys who played in a band, and one afternoon I joined them in the garage of the drummer's parents, and started playing with them.
At first I played with a borrowed guitar, then, in the spring of '93, I went to a store in Potsdam, NY (I don't remember the name exactly, something like North Music & Video, or something similar), and bought a wonderful Fender Stratocaster in Lake Placid Blue with rosewood fingerboard. I had every intention of taking it home to Italy, also as a souvenir of that period of my life.
One evening in June 1993, after playing in a local bar (I think near Massena), we stopped outside the town, near the woods, lit a bonfire and drank a few beers. I had left my guitar in a band member's car. Long story short, when we got back to the cars (which were parked nearby), we found my friend's car unlocked, and my guitar was gone.
A few days ago, 30 years later, while I was in a local shop (in Italy) to buy a music stand, I noticed a guitar for sale as used, and it immediately reminded me of that old Fender that had been stolen from me 30 years earlier . Obviously there are thousands of Stratocasters just like that, but when I picked it up and saw the sticker on the neck plate with the name of that shop in Potsdam, I was amazed... I bought it without even trying it.
I don't know how she managed to get to Italy, most likely in that group of kids there was someone who, like me, found herself in that school for the study abroad program, who, after having stolen her from me, brought her back to Italy. It's probably changed hands several times.
Several years have passed, but thinking back to that evening in 1993, I remember that at a certain point some guys stopped by to ask something, I don't know who they were and I don't remember what they talked about, then they left shortly after. Most likely one of these was the perpetrator of the theft.
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Sure but they are already posted on facebook and here in previous posts.
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Please post new pics, I find it very hard to find all the old links and pictures. I would like to see the engraving on the top and it would be good to see the guitar from as many angles as possible. As I said I look for new Zemaitis guitars ALL the time! If you want my help please post as many pics as you can in one central location as a reference.
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