Eckroth Music in Bismark, ND
A warm place to be!
The end of the 1100 mile trek was in Bill Eckroth's driveway about a mile from
the Seven Seas. What a warm and inviting place. Hospitality is NOT in short supply
at the Eckroth
household. His wife, Mary Ann, hand made all of the home-style gourmet food offerings and fed about
8 or 10 of us who were visiting. Mr. Eckroth's clean, modern music stores span much of I-94 across 3
states. 2 are in Minnesota, 2 in North Dakota and the 2 in Montana. I have personally been
in 3 of his stores recently and was at Art Pasco's shop in Bozeman in 1962, a store
Mr. Eckroth later came
to own. Small world.
John SInz of the Billings, Montana shop did a clinic on 'the latest' in rotor
bearings.
Here is Richard Sherman of the Fargo shop This is John Sinz
with, Dan and Sara
and Thaddeus Wight of
the Bismarck shop. Charney two years ago in
Billings.
I apologize for not getting more pictures, but we were
all very busy working.
I had come to Bismarck, this time, at the invitation of my friend Richard Sherman to give the Eckroth crew
of about 12, more specialized instruction on
the 3 dent machines they have and to acquaint them with some of the newer tools. We also got into
the newer, more efficient ways to repair trombone slides and piston valves. I also showed them some other,
"new issue" tools as well.
John Sinz, once again, gave a great clinic as I had
seen him do previously in Billings. It was nice to see Dan and Sara
Charney again, they are also on the Eckroth crew over in Billings. Milt
Hansen and Thad Wight represented Bismarck.
Also in attendance, were Lucas Pemberton and Jeff Anderson of the White Bear Lake store in Minnesota. Lucas
also teaches part time over at the Red Wing facility with John Huth, Gene
Beckwith and Ken Cance .
Finally, I would like to thank Bill and Jeff Eckroth for their hospitality and
consummate professionalism in the music industry and for their "in house"
programs to continue to improve the skills of their entire staff.
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