I mentioned in a post back in 2015 that music scholar Lloyd Farrar had been connected with the J. W. Pepper company in the early 1990s and had begun the process of clarifying the history of the first Sousaphone (click here to see that post). He wasn't able to get to the bottom of the story, but he definitely got the ball rolling.
After reading about him in the archives at Pepper, and hearing about him from the folks there, I was able to track him down and connect with him over many phone conversations over the past number of years. He has taken great interest in my work, and has been cheering me on in it - both as it relates to Sousaphone history, and even more so in discovering the story of Herman Conrad.
Well, I was finally able to meet Lloyd in person the other day, as he was at the AMIS conference that was being hosted about an hour from my home. His passion for music history is as strong as ever!
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