From: Snaru~ol.com Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1999 05:30:18 EST Subject: Art's "Hall of Fame"
Hi harp-L,
yesterday, 7th March, Art opened his "Hall of Fame", a harmonica museum in Malden, Holland. I was there and met many of my Dutch harp friends, even harp-L's own Jerome Blane. We had big fun.
It was for the first time I saw Art after his recovery of a very serious illness. As the harp community is informed, it has been only fractions of....that Art had "crossed the jordan".
I was very happy to see that Art was again that active guy I knew before, though the doctors didn't permit his intended trip to St.Louis. Nevertheless, Art enjoys life like a new-born child, just to inform all who know him.
Art's "Hall of Fame" is a part of a museum which shows all stages of the accordion developing, with Henk Kuik, both the museum's "director", a skilled accordion player and a very nice guy.
Art shows an amazing collection of diatonics, chromatics, chords and basses of all those known and unknown harp greats he published on harp-L. Even my Toni II and a CB 16 has found a place for "R.I.P.".
To have a look on Art's "Hall of Fame" is worth more than harp-L's usual 2 cts for harp friends visiting Holland by any occasion.
