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

[Bobbie Giordano <bobg@xxxxxxx>]

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