Hello List,
The first trumpet player in my quintet had his vehicle stolen a number of
years ago, with all of his trumpets and accessories. When two of the
trumpets recently appeared on Ebay, he was ultimately unable to recover the
instruments because the original police reports of several years ago did not
include the serial numbers!!
He tried to buy one of them back (ostensibly using the insurance payment
from many years ago) but the seller was annoyed by his initial efforts to
recover them by sending the local police in (The seller was in a different
city from the crime one county away) and refused to deal. (The starting
price was too high, so my friend would not force the sale by bidding high
enough)
Another thought: once you are paid off by insurance you are no longer the
victim, the insurance company is.
Replacing trumpets is relatively easy (please no flaming) compared to the
pain of replacing first trumpet parts to the hundreds of brass quintet
arrangements.
In brief: make sure that you have serial numbers and that you include them
on police reports. And consider scanning your irreplaceable music.
Respectfully,
Steve Burian
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