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When H. Christopher Shibutani '85 found several thousand dollars worth of flutes and piccolos stolen from his Adams House room in September, he wasn't content to let the Harvard and Cambridge police do the detective work for him. Slubutani, the first flutist for the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, posted notices and called area pawn shops and music schools...
Within days his efforts paid off when a pawnbroker in Central Square became suspicious of a customer who tried to sell him a handmade flute for $30. It turned out to be Shibutani's, and when the thief tried to flee, he dropped most of the other equipment...
...Shibutani explained that he carries two higher quality flutes because "It's just handy, if something's wrong with one, to have another." In addition, he explained, silver instruments are a good investment because they grow in value even when silver prices are down...
Because the Haynes and Powell companies, which manufactured the flutes, are located in Boston, the remaining flute will take only a few months to replace, Shibutani said. Otherwise, the wait for an instrument of similar quality could be as long as four or five years...
Adams House superintendent Edward Dahlstedt said that aside from the theft of Shibutani's instruments, "It's been remarkable--there haven't been any [thefts]" from the renovation-torn House...