Musician sings sad tune over stolen bouzouki
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D’Arcy Stearns is looking for help in recovering his prized Irish bouzouki — an eight-stringed musical instrument, like a large, flat-bottomed mandolin.
It was stolen a week ago.
Stearns’ instrument was handmade three years ago by a craftsman in Ireland, where he first heard the instrument and fell in love with its sound.
“When I first heard it played I was mesmerized,” said Stearns, 24, a culinary arts student at Red River College. “It’s not tuned like a typical stringed instrument, a guitar, it’s more like a fiddle … but different, and a different picking technique is used.”
Stearns said the bouzouki was stolen from his room in a house he shares with several other young people in West Broadway on Sept. 26.
He’s reported the theft to police and checked area pawn shops, but with no luck.
Stearns said the bouzouki is a difficult instrument to learn to play, adding that he doubts that it would be of much use or value to anyone other than someone who knows how to play it.
As a struggling college student, Stearns said he needs his bouzouki back. He performs with two traditional Irish music bands in clubs around the city to help cover his education costs.
Stearns said he’s willing to offer a no-questions-asked reward for the instrument if it’s returned in good condition.
Anyone with information on it is asked to contact him at his e-mail account: d_arcystearns@hotmail.com.
aldo.santin@freepress.mb.ca