Guitar stolen from woman’s car once belonged to her mother
A Red Deer woman is hoping to recover a guitar that was stolen from her car on Monday — a Morris acoustic guitar that belonged to her mother, who died nine years ago.
Jordan Baptie went to Washington for a family reunion and parked her car outside a friend’s house in the southwest community of Elboya while she was away. On Monday morning around 9 a.m., her friend called to inform her the car had been broken into.
“(The guitar) has so much sentimental value to me,” said Baptie. “It was the first guitar I learned to play on.”
The 23-year-old’s mother used to play in a band that toured across Canada and the guitar was the first she bought for herself.
“Playing music is even how my parents met,” said Baptie. “My mom was on tour and went into a Cochrane bar where my dad was, and the rest is history.”
Baptie said she recently decided to learn to play because her mother’s guitar had been sitting, unplayed, for so many years. She played guitar at her father’s wedding on Aug. 4.
An electric Yamaha keyboard was also stolen from the car, which Baptie’s father bought for her several years ago when she was performing throughout southern Alberta.
The guitar was in a hard black case with old sheet music inside, and the keyboard was in a soft black case with a pedal and music stand.
Baptie is asking people to keep an eye out on buy-and-sell sites, and to contact her at jordandenaeb@ gmail.com with any information.