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...ROBERT HOHNER Studio City, Calif...
Died. Ernst Hohner, 79, third-generation head of Germany's House of Hohner, producer of 95% of the world's harmonicas, who took over the firm in 1923, added a line of electronic instruments and a music-printing plant, and developed the company town of Trossingen into a tourist favorite known as the "Singing Village"; of heart disease; in Trossingen, Germany...
...high note. Fixed to the $13,000-plus contract Linz signed for 1965 was a $200 check, with a warming little message from General Manager Ralph Houk that the dough is to be used for harmonica lessons. That wasn't all. Linz is negotiating a second contract with Hohner Harmonicas to plug mouth organs coast-to-coast, which he can do on any of 50 harmonicas given him on the banquet circuit this winter, including a 2-ft.-long job presented by the Maryland Professional Baseball Players Association "for his baseball and cultural achievements...
F.Y.I. carries no paid advertisements, but the response to its Public Notices column would floor even the most over-confident advertising man. There you can find your choice of a "brand-new bathtub for $45"; a "120 Bass M. Hohner accordion with a double octave bar"; "two pairs of 9 short nylons for 9½ mediums"; "four well-bred grey-striped kittens"; a part-time maid, or a fervent plea for a hard-to-get copy of Tubbs Analytics...
From his cell in Alcatraz Prison Al Capone sent for a Hohner two-tone pitch pipe to keep himself...