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okay, not tuba related, but I figure the more exposure this can get the better. Please respond to Matt Baldoni with any info you may have.

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From: "Matt Baldoni" <matt@mattbaldoni.com>
To: <Undisclosed-Recipient:;>
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 23:41:18 -0800
Subject: Frank Gambale's guitar collection stolen, please respond

Guitarists,
Frank Gambale has been robbed while on the road and lost many guitars,
please use all your sources to help this man and report to me or him
immediately with any information,
Matt

Here's a list below...if in any of
your travels see one of these...some of them are
unique and will be
impossible to go unnoticed.

1. Mid 80's Gibson Les Paul Standard, flame top.
2. 2000 Les Paul Catalina ( turquoise colour )
3. 2000 Les Paul Catalina ( blood Red colour )
4. New Gibson SG Supreme (Blue colour )
5. 1968 Gibson L4-CN ( Natural honey coloured top like
a 175
model )
6. early 80's Gibson Les Paul 40th Anniversary( Black
Beauty with
white P-90 pickups
7. Yamaha custom made double neck guitar with two 6
string
necks ( one of a kind ) matte olive green colour
8. Double neck Charvel/Jackson. Very rare. Sparlkly
Green colour.
9. Mid 80's Takamine Cutaway Classical guitar.
10. New Yamaha AES-FG model ( black )
11. Late 80's Yellow Ibanez FGM-100
12. Mid 80's Gibson Chet Atkins steel string guitar.
13. Black Kramer Strat style guitar with lots of
stickers on it.
14. Maton Cut-away acoustic (Australian made with dark
exotic
woods )

Please tell everyone you know and keep an eye out for
me.

Thanks,
Frank G

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"The less there is between me, my strings, and the people, the better
I like it."
- Jeff Beck www.mattbaldoni.com

cc_tuba_guy wrote:Wow! That's a helluva collection. What area were they stolen from?

what you see is what I know. Frank is a friend of a friend of a friend.

-ck

What a terrible thing to happen to a musician. And all of those fantastic axes as well. I hope he gets back every one in perfect condition and the punks who committed the crime are caught and convicted.

He should keep checking ebay. That seems to be where a lot of stolen musical isntruments end up these days.

Ten years ago when I was working on getting a job as an orchestral player, I had as many recordings of common tuba audition pieces as I could find. The collection averaged about six recordings for every work and was over 300 CDs. I kept them in a special duffle bag so I could bring them back and forth from my apartment to my rehearsal studio at UCLA.

One day somebody broke into the apartment and stole the whole bag, with all the CDs. I wonder what he thought when he opened it up and found 5 recordings of Rite of Spring and 10 recordings of Symphony Fantastique.

I looked for a few months in used record stores in town but didn't find anything. I have replaced much of the collection, but only have one or two now of each work. This world is full of wicked theives and criminals who will someday know the truth. I just hope that day comes sooner than later.