My Terada Acoustic Guitar of 40 years was sadly left on a train arriving into Hamburg Nov 30 2023. It was somehow lifted by unknown parties & offered at a nearby Flea Market for 50 Euro!

Puppeteer Alex Barti happened along and took up the offer. He had it as a project while performing his shows at Hanza Theater opposite the train station it was lost at. He did a make over on it, fixed a bump in the neck, lowered the action, made an individually cut bridge & introduced strings 014  to 059 whilst tuning it a semi-tone down! Sounds like closer to a harp now !!

 2 months later looking through the large amount of music & scraps left in the he pieced together that the guitar must have a lot to do with me - looked me up on Face Book, scrolled back to December and discovered it's story !

My "Uncle" Egon lives a few stations away, was able to meet up and regain possession ! They also got on very well and went out to dinner a couple of times before Alex headed back to homein lower Denmark! Friends are sorted to bring the guitar back to Oz by the start of Aug via dear Iris Curran while accompanying Enda Kenny on his 2024 Euro Tour!

And so it arrived in Mt Beauty early October - But as touring goes we needed a final go-between, dearest Sharyn Bilston who's household accepted it at Wodonga with me barely a week away!

On Oct 3rd 2024 we had the final reunification followed by celebration at The Folk Alliance Awards a near month later!!