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Bassoons reported stolen from Middletown High School

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By Denise Wilson, Staff Writer 7:48 PM Monday, October 31, 2011

MIDDLETOWN - Middletown City School officials are trying to determine what happened to four musical instruments — bassoons — that were stolen from the district’s high school band room on North Breiel Boulevard Friday.

The district’s school resource officer, Phillip Salm, is investigating the theft of the instruments — valued at between $3,000 to $5,000 each — that were reported missing by school’s Band Director Davis Leisten, said Middletown Police Lieutenant Walter Scott Reeve.

“It sounds like he (Salm) may know who took the instruments and they’re in the process of trying to get one of them back now,” Leisten said.

Reeve said he believes Salm is investigating one student who may be responsible for the theft. It is unclear whether the instruments are insured by the district, he said.

A bassoon is a woodwind instrument in the double reed family that typically plays music written in the bass and tenor registers, and occasionally higher, according to Wikipedia.

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