The items were last seen at Toddington Services M1 Northbound on April 1
A fiddle, a five-string electric violin, and four bows belonging to fiddler Tony Hodkin were stolen from the back of his van on 1 April around 4pm at the Toddington Northbound Services M1, UK.
The fiddle is unlabelled but features faint pencil handwriting inside noting ‘Cambridge 1989’. Hodkins describes it as having ‘a low grubby bridge, poor varnish repair and a distinctive wear mark to the left of the fingerboard’. It is strung with Dominant strings.
The fiddle was inside an oblong GEWA Pure case, covered with numerous band stickers. Also inside the case were four bows: two Dörfler bows and two Glasser bows, one of the latter being made of pink fibreglass.
Hodkin’s Gewa Novita five-string electric violin was also stolen, and was last seen in a ’black zip-up Cremona case’.
Anyone with any information is encouraged to contact Hodkins at tonyhodkin@gmail.com
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