Klarinet Archive - Posting 000441.txt from 2003/11

From: "DWH" <dhatfield@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] Music Museum
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 17:42:35 -0500

A good point, considering that all the big-name US instrument makers settled
long ago in the midwest, making Elkhart, IN especially a well-known name.
The HN White Co. I mentioned in my previous email wandered around Ohio
before migrating to Indiana, along with Conn, Selmer/Bundy/Ludwig, Buescher,
Martin, etc., etc. Much like (perhaps for different reasons) the French
clarinet makers focused in a like area at some point in time?

Don Hatfield

> What has not been offered is the possibility that the artist,
> insrument maker, or museum founders may have had their *origins* in the
> Midwest, not born into "back east" and not "escaped" to a less populous
> area like Mr. & Mrs. Douglas in "Green Acres" -- outside of stress
> relief, the "Seinfeld myopia" sees settlement outside a "big five" city
> (or just outside New York) as a "culturally incomprehensible," much less
> that anything of "cultural value" could *ever* have its *origins* in
> that kind of place!

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