Music studios for tons robbed of guitars and microphones

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NOS Nieuws•vandaag, 23:10

There have been a remarkable number of burglaries in music studios lately. The police said this in the program Opsporing Requested.

Several studio owners and musicians, including Kensington guitarist Casper Starreveld, have been robbed of valuable guitars and microphones in recent weeks. The police don’t have one yet perpetrators in the picture, but thinks they broke in with insider knowledge.

At a studio in Hogeloon, the burglars entered the recording room through the window. At least eighty microphones were stolen there, with a combined value of 300,000 euros. “The stolen instruments will probably be put back on the market, we call on hobbyists and music studios to be extra alert online,” the police said.

Karma

Four guitars were stolen from Starreveld last month during a burglary in a studio in Benschop. “Three of them are very dear to me,” said Starreveld on tonight’s broadcast.

These are a unique red Gibson ES-335, a sunburst Fender Stratocaster and a black Gibson Les Paul. Starreveld calls it a great shame: “The guitars form the character of the band. You can have two exactly the same type of guitars, and have a band with one and not the other.”.

He therefore called on the viewers of Opsporing Requested to look out for the guitars and the equipment of the music studios: “I do believe in karma, that thief will probably step on a sharp piece of Lego.”

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