[Harp-L] Borrah Minnevitch thesis, urban legend or fact?

[David Payne <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

OK, Hohner supposedly distributed like 5 million copies of the Borrah Minnevitch harmonica thesis for Borrah's master's thesis. I've never been able to uncover evidence it actually exists. Is it urban legend? I don't know.
Now, Borrah went to lengths for PR,  so I'm skeptical that he even went to college, but whatever, what I'm wondering about is the thesis. I've got a Borrah Minnevitch book that was part of his Harp school that actually makes the claim for the thesis.BUT, he faked his own kidnapping for heaven's sakes, he disappeared for a while and said he was kidnapped by Corsican pirates. 
I talked to Sissy Jones of Hohner USA about this yesterday and she said she had no idea what I was talking about and mentioned the hype of the Rascals... and Sissy has a good head for this stuff. 
If this thesis exists, and five million of them were distributed by Hohner, somebody on Harp L surely can produce one and put this question to rest. 
BTW, I did some searching and confirmed that it was Borrah Minnevitch playing on the Tom Turkey and his harmonica whatevers cartoon from Warner Bros. that was posted on HarpL recently.

Dave
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