Lost
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Lost: Sheet Music near Academy of Music, Northampton
near the Academy of Music on Main Street
Lost
listing
Posted
2 days
ago
Description
Hi, I'm Nora Blake. I was practicing for a recital and had a stack of sheet music tucked in a worn black folder. After a Thursday rehearsal at the Northampton campus, I left the folder on a chair near the piano in the Academy of Music lobby on Main Street, then stepped outside for a quick coffee. At 5:45 p.m. the folder was gone. The pages include tempo marks and my annotations, and losing them felt like misplacing a part of my musical identity. I'm a musician studying here in Western Massachusetts, and I’d be grateful to be reunited with the music.
Approximate last-seen location
near the Academy of Music on Main Street
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