I hope your instruments are returned to you. My friends think I'm a bit excessive when I haul my instruments along when we go to eat after a dance, but I know I can't replace my Goose Acres autoharp & an equivalent instrument is now about twice what I paid for that. Your story encourages me to not let up on being very careful with what I can't afford to loose.
best luck & wishing for thieves who don't have a clue about how the music community watch out for their own.