Peter Harrold

Japanese/English/3rd Culture Kid. TV Journalist working for Tokyo Broadcasting System

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EDINBURGH FESTIVAL

Sneak thief steals music instruments and laptops

A Japanese musician has been forced to cancel performances at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe after her instruments were stolen from the venue.

Sachie Mikawa, 48, said the trumpet and vintage melodica that went missing from the Rotunda Theatre where she was performing a musical comedy held great sentimental value, particularly as the trumpet was inherited from her father.

She said it was his only thing to survive the tsunami which hit parts of Japan in 2011 and was her last connection to her dad, who died last year.

The theatre said the items were stolen on Monday along with six laptops and an iPad among other items of tech. Police Scotland confirm they received a report of the incident.

A melodica is a handheld instrument played by blowing air into a reed, which is attached to a keyboard.

Mikawa, who now lives in London with her partner, said the stolen trumpet was one of the only items to survive when her family lost everything in the Tōhoku earthquake in 2011.

The natural disaster caused a devastating tsunami and had a magnitude of 9.0 which produced waves up to 132 feet (40m) high.

"My dad gifted me the trumpet when I was sixteen. It was the only thing I had left connected to him and the only thing that survived. In the tsunami we lost everything, my childhood memories, toys and photos were gone. I carried all around the world to play at festivals," she said.

Mikawa said she was "heartbroken" to lose her trumpet, which was in a case covered in stickers

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