Re: Re: Re: Is this a well known signature in the US


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Posted by Bill on September 13, 2001 at 14:15:07:

In Reply to: Re: Re: Is this a well known signature in the US posted by Klaus on September 13, 2001 at 11:44:33:

Klaus,

I suspect the instrument in this case was made for export. My mother's family is Czech and they did not refer to the country as CZECHOSLOVAKIA but rather as CZESKA-SLAVINSKA. I suspect the "country of origin law" of the U.S, caused that spelling. By the way, while I now live in (near) Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A., I taught in British Columbia, Canada, and dealt with PAMUS (Pacific Music), a Vancouver music store and wholesaler. The Czech Consul offered me the distributorship for Amati-Cerveny for western Canada if I could buy a fairly modest amount of stock to start (10 model 68 tubas and two euphoniums) for about $4,000, total. The Czechs were desperate for cash, US and Canadian dollars, especially.
US law, at the time, prevented me from doing this easily.

Your march, btw, is in our band folders and we are working toward reading it one week or another, soon.


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