Word: hohner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...