“[We want] to gain properly the guitars and promote them to americans that truly are attempting to play them”: $80,000 charge of vintage guitars were stolen from Guitar House of Tulsa. Now the proprietor – and Joe Bonamassa – are attention-grabbing to your merit

Over $80,000 charge of vintage guitars were stolen from a Tulsa, Oklahoma guitar store, and now the proprietor, Drew Winn, is attention-grabbing for merit in retrieving the lacking instruments.

The shop in quiz, Guitar House of Tulsa, used to be raided around 10: 50 p.m. on Saturday evening (January 6) and thieves made off with a haul of 15 vintage and high-discontinuance instruments, in conjunction with several purposeful Gibson acoustic guitars and an array of uncommon electrical guitars.

Winn has since taken to social media to portion the elephantine checklist and serial numbers of the lacking guitars, amongst them a 1954 Gibson J-200, 1969 J-160E, a 1996 left-handed Gibson Les Paul Goldtop, 2012 PRS Non-public Stock McCarty, and a 1979 Hamer Long-established Flame Prime Sunburst. 

You may possibly additionally gape the elephantine checklist below, but suffice to deliver many of the stolen guitars are very distinctive – for instance, the lefty Goldtop reissue and Gibson Les Paul Custom-made in an peculiar orange (historical ‘Kumquat’ Yellow) attain. 

Guitars stolen from Guitar House of Tulsa, Oklahoma

• 2022 Gibson Dave Mustaine #DMV30
• 2012 Paul Reed Smith Non-public Stock Gray Semi Hole #3584
• Paul Reed Smith McCarty Non-public Stock #3712
• Collings OM-2H #27853
• Bourgeois AT D Dreadnaught Sunburst #6899
• EVH ’78 Eruption White with Dusky Stripes #0210
• Gibson Les Paul Custom-made “Kumquat” Yellow [aged to orange-ish] #CS2000014
• 1996 Gibson Les Paul Goldtop R6 P-90’s Reissue [left-handed] #66396
• 1979 Hamer Long-established Flame Prime Sunburst [Explorer Shape] #0284
• 1987 Goodall KGC 299 #
• 1961 Rickenbacker 365 Capri Fireglo #AC296
• 1977 Gibson J-200 Pure #06142729
• 2008 Gibson Hummingbird [left-handed] #00588030
• 1969 Gibson J-160E #89234
• 1954 Gibson J-200 Sunburst #A23297

“I received a call from the dread firm to deliver that they were dispatching officers for the explanation that the dread used to be going,” outlined Winn to local news region, KOTV. 

“By the time I arrived it used to be too late. I was hoping that the guys were maybe aloof in the vicinity so lets like a chat [laughs] and I may possibly gain my stuff lend a hand…”

Whereas Winn describes the relate as “disheartening”, he says he’s hoping that with the good thing about the guitar taking part in neighborhood, he can gain properly about a of his lost stock. 

Joe Bonamassa is considered one of Winn’s customers and has moreover shared the checklist, encouraging his followers to learn and, in the technique, describing Drew as “regarded as one of many nicest most factual guys on the scene.”

We’d fabricate the equivalent charm, and lend a hand you to take hang of a stare out for the instruments on the checklist when shopping online resale platforms and, while you’re primarily based mostly in Oklahoma, the bodily retail outlets in the location.

“Pointless to deliver it’s a crappy ingredient to like came about,” Winn tells KOTV, “However every person truly cares… [Ultimately we want] to gain properly the guitars and promote them to americans which may possibly be attempting to play them – and now no longer need them and promote them!” 

Guitar thefts are unfortunately very general, but it absolutely feels in some ways adore they’re getting extra egregious, specifically as rising prices (every in the cost of residing and high-discontinuance guitar market) fabricate the probability extra tempting to would-be thieves. 

Lately, over in Nashville, there used to be one other specifically brazen – if lower price – theft in the create of a $3K Gretsch that used to be swapped out for a ‘dumpster’ acoustic in remarkable daylight. 

For extra recordsdata and updates, test out Guitar House of Tulsa on Instagram.