[Harp-L] Re: Civil war and harmonicas (was history of positions)

[David Coulson <ndavid.coulson@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Alan Bates is a harmonica collector who donated a huge collection of  
vintage harmonicas (second in size only to that in the  
Harmonikamuseum in Trossingen, Germany) to the National Music Museum  
at the University of South Dakota. The quote about the quantity of  
harmonicas imported in the early 1860s and the Civil War came from  
this page, http://www.usd.edu/smm/Batespage.htm ,  presumably vetted  
by the musical instrument historians at the University. It sounds  
like someone had better set them straight!

David


On Feb 23, 2007, at 3:16 PM, harp-l-request@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Who IS Alan Bates?