“[We want] to recover the guitars and sell them to people who actually want to play them”: $80,000 worth of vintage guitars have been stolen from Guitar House of Tulsa. Now the owner – and Joe Bonamassa – are appealing for your help

Over $80,000 worth of classic guitars have actually been taken from a Tulsa, Oklahoma guitar shop, and now the owner, Drew Winn, is appealing for assistance in obtaining the missing out on instruments.

The shop in concern, Guitar House of Tulsa, was robbed around 10:50 p.m. on Saturday night (January 6) and burglars stole a haul of 15 vintage and high-end instruments, consisting of numerous important Gibson acoustic guitars and a selection of uncommon electrical guitars

Winn has actually given that required to social networks to share the complete list and identification numbers of the missing out on guitars, amongst them a 1954 Gibson J-200, 1969 J-160E, a 1996 left-handed Gibson Les Paul Goldtop, 2012 PRS Private Stock McCarty, and a 1979 Hamer Standard Flame Top Sunburst.

You can see the complete list listed below, however are adequate to state much of the taken guitars are extremely unique– for example, the lefty Goldtop reissue and Gibson Les Paul Custom in an uncommon orange (aged ‘Kumquat’ Yellow) surface.

Guitars taken from Guitar House of Tulsa, Oklahoma

• 2022 Gibson Dave Mustaine #DMV 30
• 2012 Paul Reed Smith Private Stock Gray Semi Hollow # 3584
• Paul Reed Smith McCarty Private Stock # 3712
• Collings OM-2H # 27853
• Bourgeois AT D Dreadnaught Sunburst # 6899
• EVH ’78 Eruption White with Black Stripes # 0210
• Gibson Les Paul Custom “Kumquat” Yellow [aged to orange-ish] #CS 2000014
• 1996 Gibson Les Paul Goldtop R6 P-90’s Reissue [left-handed] # 66396
• 1979 Hamer Standard Flame Top Sunburst [Explorer Shape] # 0284
• 1987 Goodall KGC 299 #
• 1961 Rickenbacker 365 Capri Fireglo #AC 296
• 1977 Gibson J-200 Natural # 06142729
• 2008 Gibson Hummingbird [left-handed] # 00588030
• 1969 Gibson J-160E # 89234
• 1954 Gibson J-200 Sunburst #A 23297

“I got a call from the alarm business to state that they were dispatching officers since the alarm was going,” described Winn to regional news station, KOTV

“By the time I arrived it was far too late. I was hoping that the guys were perhaps still in the area so we might have a chat [laughs] and I might get my things back …”

While Winn explains the circumstance as “frustrating”, he states he’s hoping that with the assistance of the guitar playing neighborhood, he can recuperate a few of his lost stock.

Joe Bonamassa is among Winn’s clients and has actually likewise shared the list, motivating his fans to assist and, while doing so, explaining Drew as “among the best most truthful guys on the scene.”

We ‘d make the very same appeal, and motivate you to keep a watch out for the instruments on the list when searching online resale platforms and, if you’re based in Oklahoma, the physical shops in the location.

“Of course it’s a bad thing to have actually occurred,” Winn informs KOTV, “But everyone truly cares … [Ultimately we want] to recuperate the guitars and offer them to individuals who wish to play them– and not take them and offer them!”

Guitar thefts are sadly really typical, however it feels in some methods like they’re getting more outright, especially as increasing costs (both in the expense of living and high-end guitar market) make the possibility more appealing to potential burglars.

Just recently, over in Nashville, there was another especially brazen– if lower worth– theft in the type of a $3K Gretsch that was switched out for a ‘dumpster’ acoustic in broad daytime

For additional information and updates, take a look at Guitar House of Tulsa on Instagram

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