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Posted: **Mon Dec 12, 2011 11:35 pm**

UPDATE- Thanks to Buchanan Music in Mesa AZ, the tuba has been recovered.

Stolen Tuba

My name is Charles Kerrigan, and my tuba was stolen in Mesa, AZ on the evening of December 11th 2011. I am including all of the identifying information, as well as the police report number.

Make: Gronitz (from Hamburg Germany)
Model: PCK (I do not believe that is on the instrument)
Mouthpiece: there was a Laskey model 30H mouthpiece with the tuba
Case: The tuba was in a black leather Cronkhite gig bag

Other identifying characteristics:
This tuba is a lacquered brass instrument. I have had some work done to the leadpipe (tube the mouthpiece fits into), and now the lacquer in that area is missing. (Leadpipe is now "off the bell.") Also the area of the tuba where my arm rests while I play the valves has a spot of lacquer missing.

If this tuba shows up in your store, or you have any information that may help,

Please contact the Mesa Police

I also work at Milano Music and can be reached there at 480-827-1111

Please help me recover my stolen Tuba!

Thank You

Chuck Kerrigan

Posted: **Tue Dec 13, 2011 12:58 pm**

I'd call any and every pawn shop within a 200 mile radius.

Posted: **Tue Dec 13, 2011 1:28 pm**

When I was in high school one of the tuba players in my section told me his deadbeat uncle took his school Sousaphone (from his Junior High School) and beat it flat with a sledge hammer and sold it for scrap. I hate to say it but with the price of scrap brass and copper as high as it is you may want to alert the local scrap yards as well. I hope I'm wrong.

Norm

Posted: **Tue Dec 13, 2011 2:36 pm**

bloke wrote: What a demonstrative and personalized-to-this-forum example of the decline of western society and art !

Well you must remember some people see that as art: http://www.ebay.com/itm/260874928217?ss ... _570wt_825" target="_blank

Posted: **Tue Dec 13, 2011 2:55 pm**

How can you tell its a King with that picture?

Posted: **Tue Dec 13, 2011 3:19 pm**

Dutchtown Sousa wrote:How can you tell its a King with that picture?

Kings tend to be a little flat!

Posted: **Tue Dec 13, 2011 3:26 pm**

Its mine a BBb blessing made by amati no valves, many holes , the bell was from a king cleveland EEb sousa
trust me it was worthless or I would not have crushed it .

Posted: **Tue Dec 13, 2011 3:28 pm**

Did you ever sell it?

Posted: **Tue Dec 13, 2011 5:11 pm**

Still have it

Posted: **Wed Dec 14, 2011 11:12 pm**

The Gronitz has been recovered! It was brought into Buchanan Music in Mesa AZ today, and they immediately called the cops.

Posted: **Thu Dec 15, 2011 3:07 pm**

Another 'stupid criminal'!. I can't believe the idiots who try to sell a tuba in the same neighborhood where they stole it!

Posted: **Fri Dec 16, 2011 4:20 am**

TubaTinker wrote:...stupid criminal...

Isn't that a pleonasm?

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