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Lost and Stolen Guitars – Resources List

A. Registers of Lost and Stolen Guitars:

Guitars – all makes and models

Stolen Guitar Registry http://www.stolenguitarregistry.com/

Screaming Stone  http://www.screamingstone.com/

Facebook Stolen Guitar Alerts (run by us in dbTwang)  http://www.facebook.com/stolenguitaralerts

Mugwumps Online Stolen Instrument List http://www.mugwumps.com/Stolen.html

Strings Reunited  http://www.stringsreunited.com/stolen.shtml

Vintage Sound Stolen Guitars  http://www.vintagesound.com/stolenguitars.html

General Registers with musical instruments included

General Stolen Index with Musical Instruments Section  http://www.stolen911.com/index/listings/category162.htm

US Police Force asset tracking and property recovery services  http://juststolen.net/

Gearsecure is a company dedicated to prevention of loss to theft and accident for musicians, music businesses and music retailers  http://www.gearsecure.net

Stolen Musical Instrument listing run by a UK retailer. http://www.musicalinstrumentsales.co.uk/stoleninstruments.html

An innovative tool designed to easily register assets in order to facilitate their recovery if they are lost or stolen.  www.juststolen.net

Musical Instruments but Make/Genre Specific

Unofficial Martin Guitar Lost or Stolen Guitar Registry  http://theunofficialmartinguitarforum.yuku.com/forums/12/t/The-Lost-or-Stolen-Guitar-Registry.html

Northern California Bluegrass Society’s national infomation page for stolen and missing musical instruments http://pub42.bravenet.com/forum/static/show.php?usernum=3546460141

Stolen Alembics  http://www.alembic.com/info/stolen.html

Stolen Larrivee’s Stolen Larrivee Forum Thread

Connecticut Bluegrass Music Association Stolen Instruments Register  http://www.ctbluegrass.org/stolen.html

Les Paul Stolen Gear:  http://www.lespaulforum.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=50

Rickenbacker Registry: http://rickresource.com/register/index.php?search=true&stolen=1

B. Guitar and Instrument Registers & Recovery

dbtwang Guardian – Protect your guitar from theft by recording up to 80 fields of information and 25 high res photos.  http://www.dbtwang.com/guardian

AxVault.com – onine guitar database  http://www.axvault.com

[There was another guitar register - www.axreg.com but the site is down - anyone know any more on that?]

RFID tags  and Registery for Musical Instruments  http://www.snagg.com/

The UK National Property Register  http://www.immobilise.com/

MusicTag – UK Musical Instrument Register  http://www.musictag.co.uk/

C. Other Tags

YouGetItBack – a tag you put on externally so people can find owner of lost property. Not sure about it for guitars but could be used on a case  www.yougetitback.com

D. Other Resource Listings

Acousticmusic.org  http://www.acousticmusic.org/Links-Stolen-Instrument-Registries-sp-70.html