Greenhoe-Bach Bass Trombone Stolen US AIR BAD
Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2005 1:12 pm
I'm posting this for a friend of mine:
My Greenhoe-Bach bass trombone was stolen sometime on Sunday, March 20 after I checked it with US Airways baggage services at Washington, DC's Reagan National Airport (DCA). My flight was leaving DC and departing for Chicago's O'Hare airport after the conclusion of the Eastern Trombone Workshop. The airline has been uncooperative and unable to tell if it was stolen in DC or in Chicago.
The horn is a Bach 50 with a yellow brass bell (it has a small stand ding in the top part of the flare) and a custom Greenhoe slide (a standard weight Bach slide with a nickel-silver Greenhoe crook). The valves are double, independent Greenhoe valves with the lexan valve caps. The horn was in an Edwards hardshell case and was padded with old tshirts on the inside to prevent damage.
The valve section had a Greenhoe Brace, made unusual buy the fact that I had covered it with plastic tubing for comfort. The leadpipe is also unusual in that, while it is a standard Bach removeable leadpipe with the screw-clamp collar, I removed the screw, as it was bothering my hand. In the case was also my Doug Elliott custom mouthpiece - a 114 M, M8, with a silver plated rim.
Anybody who has any information on my horn is asked to contact me directly (the police and airlines have proven to be no help.) via email - andy@prestarfinancial.com, or by phone at 773-484-6701. I'm offering a $250 reward for its safe return - I know it's not much, but it's all a bass trombonist (who's just had his horn stolen) can afford!
Contact Info: Name: Andy Rozsa
Email: andy@prestarfinancial.com
Phone: 773-484-6701
From what I've heard... it sounds like the horn was stolen and the airlines are totally not helping. The airline inquestion is US AIR. From what I understand, Andy was only able to claim so much money for the value of the horn. Since the horn was very expensive for a Bass Trombone, the value he's hoping to recieve from the airline is significantly less than the horn is worth. He's persuing options through his renters insurance, but this is still one of the saddest situations I have ever heard of in dealing with the airlines. What's the worst, is when he got to chicago and realized he had no Btb, he wsa told the baggage information for it had been deleted in the airlines computer, meaning it's someone that works for the airline that probably stole it. What else can we do to keep this from happening. Legally, it seems wrong that the airline is going to get out of paying the full value of the horn. By the way, to make matters worse, Andy's only had this horn for a month or so. I haven't even had a chance to hear him play it with dubuque...
Man....
Jim Langenberg
My Greenhoe-Bach bass trombone was stolen sometime on Sunday, March 20 after I checked it with US Airways baggage services at Washington, DC's Reagan National Airport (DCA). My flight was leaving DC and departing for Chicago's O'Hare airport after the conclusion of the Eastern Trombone Workshop. The airline has been uncooperative and unable to tell if it was stolen in DC or in Chicago.
The horn is a Bach 50 with a yellow brass bell (it has a small stand ding in the top part of the flare) and a custom Greenhoe slide (a standard weight Bach slide with a nickel-silver Greenhoe crook). The valves are double, independent Greenhoe valves with the lexan valve caps. The horn was in an Edwards hardshell case and was padded with old tshirts on the inside to prevent damage.
The valve section had a Greenhoe Brace, made unusual buy the fact that I had covered it with plastic tubing for comfort. The leadpipe is also unusual in that, while it is a standard Bach removeable leadpipe with the screw-clamp collar, I removed the screw, as it was bothering my hand. In the case was also my Doug Elliott custom mouthpiece - a 114 M, M8, with a silver plated rim.
Anybody who has any information on my horn is asked to contact me directly (the police and airlines have proven to be no help.) via email - andy@prestarfinancial.com, or by phone at 773-484-6701. I'm offering a $250 reward for its safe return - I know it's not much, but it's all a bass trombonist (who's just had his horn stolen) can afford!
Contact Info: Name: Andy Rozsa
Email: andy@prestarfinancial.com
Phone: 773-484-6701
From what I've heard... it sounds like the horn was stolen and the airlines are totally not helping. The airline inquestion is US AIR. From what I understand, Andy was only able to claim so much money for the value of the horn. Since the horn was very expensive for a Bass Trombone, the value he's hoping to recieve from the airline is significantly less than the horn is worth. He's persuing options through his renters insurance, but this is still one of the saddest situations I have ever heard of in dealing with the airlines. What's the worst, is when he got to chicago and realized he had no Btb, he wsa told the baggage information for it had been deleted in the airlines computer, meaning it's someone that works for the airline that probably stole it. What else can we do to keep this from happening. Legally, it seems wrong that the airline is going to get out of paying the full value of the horn. By the way, to make matters worse, Andy's only had this horn for a month or so. I haven't even had a chance to hear him play it with dubuque...
Man....
Jim Langenberg
