Lost saxophones near Custard Factory, Digbeth
Description
I was leaving a late rehearsal near the Custard Factory in Digbeth around 9:15 pm on Friday, and somewhere along Digbeth High Street I must have dropped my two saxophones. They're more than instruments to me; they're the sound of gigs with my mates and the years I've spent playing around Birmingham. The cases are labeled with my initials and a little sticker of a cartoon rabbit, a reminder of a bus ride home from the city orchestra last winter. I retraced from the Custard Factory through the Jewellery Quarter toward Birmingham New Street, but they vanished into the evening, and I'm hoping someone picked them up and kept them safe.
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