All stolen articles
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NewsMetropolitan police release CCTV images of suspected £150k violin thief
David López Ibáñez’s 1740 Carcassi violin and bows were stolen from a pub in Canonbury, London on the evening of Tuesday 18 February 2025
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NewsLA police recover a stolen 331-year-old Grancino violin, worth $650k
The violin was reported stolen from a University of Southern California graduate music student on 2 April and recovered just over one week later
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NewsNew York double bass dealership Kolstein Music sued by five different owners
Valuable instruments and bows taken on consignment by Kolstein Music of New York have ‘simply disappeared’
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NewsStolen: 1900 violin by Eugenio Praga
The instrument was taken from a train carriage in northern Italy on Thursday 5 March
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NewsMissing: 1890 Enrico Marchetti cello stolen in Seattle
Sarah Rommel’s instrument was last seen in a blue and black carbon fibre case on 4 May
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NewsMissing: violin worth €30,000 stolen at Amsterdam Central Train Station
The instrument was stolen from a stationary train due to depart for Germany
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NewsMissing: violin bow stolen in Miami Airport
The item, worth $10,000, went missing on 6 July 2023
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NewsNicolò Gagliano violin recovered in Berlin
The priceless instrument, missing for three years, was discovered by police conducting a different investigation
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NewsRoyal Liverpool Philharmonic cellist appeals for return of stolen cello
Cellist Gethyn Jones’s Colin Irving 1977 instrument was taken from his car
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NewsBows worth $55,000 stolen from car in Midtown Manhattan
Lamy and Voirin cello bows were on trial from Salchow & Sons
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NewsCello stolen on Paris-Le Mans train
The instrument, built by Parisian luthier Charles Coquet in 2012, was taken yesterday afternoon
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NewsNicolò Gagliano violin stolen in Berlin
A violin by Nicolò Gagliano made in Naples in 1769 was stolen without its case in Berlin on 11 March
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NewsLong missing ‘Ames, Totenberg’ Stradivarius now on long-term loan to Nathan Meltzer
Young US violinist chosen as beneficiary of newly founded New York based instrument loan organisation Rare Violins In Consortium
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NewsCello stolen from LA Opera orchestra principal
John Walz’s 2010 Mario Miralles cello was taken from his San Diego hotel room yesterday
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VideoGagliano violin sold to pawn shop for $50 in Boston
A 1759 violin by Ferdinando Gagliano, worth an estimated $250,000, was old to a Boston pawn shop for $50. It had been stolen from during a recent break-in in the city. This video from Boston 25 News.
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NewsCar stolen along with two violins, viola and seven bows in Los Angeles
Philip Vaiman appeals for dealers and luthiers to keep a look-out for valuable instruments and bows, including a Sartory
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NewsOphélie Gaillard reunited with stolen Goffriller cello
Thieves make anonymous call and return instrument after seeing social media posts and realising its true value
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NewsFrancesco Goffriller cello stolen at knifepoint in France
Ophélie Gaillard was robbed of the on-loan cello, her own Persoit bow – and her mobile phone
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NewsObituary: viola and violin soloist Luigi Alberto Bianchi, 1945-2018
Menuhin protégé who in later years swapped fluidly between violin and viola, and whose career was punctuated by the thefts of two famous instruments
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NewsViolin, viola and several bows stolen from Parisian flat
Giuseppe Rocca violin insured for €500,000 stolen from Julien Chauvin, violinist director of period instrument group Le Concert de la Loge
