Re: [Harp-L] Where to buy harps?

["Mike and Beverly Rogers" <mbrogers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for passing on the news, even though it's sad news for our community.
Bullfrog
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bobbie Giordano" <bobg@xxxxxxx>
To: <Harp-L@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, July 23, 2005 4:35 PM
Subject: Re: [Harp-L] Where to buy harps?


> Bullfrog wrote:
> >Also check fandrfarrell.com  Very good discount, about forty percent.
>
> BTW, of interest to many, I'm sure... Richard Farrell is going out of
> business.  His longtime good friend, Blackie Schackner, announded it
> the other day on SlideMeister.  Below is the text of that message.
>
> Also, for whatever it might mean, I note that the FandRFarrell.com
> website is not coming up at all right now.
>
> Bobbie
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> From: "Blackie Schackner" <blackies@...>
> Date: Thu Jul 21, 2005  8:17 pm
> Subject: Farrell is quitting.
> THIS IS AN OPEN LETTER TO ALL hARMONICA LOVERS EVERYWHERE, TO
> ANNOUNCE THAT RICHARD FARRELL HAS GIVEN UP THE HARMONICA BUSINESS!
> (F&R. Farrell)
> He has been an enormous iinfluence on both the harmonica business
> and the music business, and we all will miss him, and his great
> discount pricing. He pioneered many of the important changes in the
> harmonica game, and literally invented many of the repair tools and
> the " Fixit " equipment many of us use.
> He is now 85, and I guess he's just tired.... I know the feeling.
> I'm gonna be 88 Sept 1st, so I sympathize. I've been a consultant
> to him, so I do know the extent of his contribution(s) to the
> fraternity!
> Unortunately, the business that we knew and loved seems to have
> gone the way of the Chromatic (as opposed to the diatonic) And many
> of the pioneers are dying off...
> Anyway, to Richard:
> HAVE A WONDERFUL LIFE!
> With Love,
> Blackie Schackner
>
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