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kleinbl00  ·  2059 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: April 3, 2019

I did an internship in a tiny town in WA state one summer and would occasionally hear pealing from the warehouse next door. Wander over one day and they're legit-no-shit carillon makers. I asked what the odds were of ending up next to a carillon shop and they said "well, there are only a couple on the planet..."

Fast forward fifteen years and we're selling my wife's oboe to an instrument broker in a different tiny town in WA state. The broker and I keep looking at each other and finally I say "I think I know you from somewhere" and he says "not unless you're in the carillon business."

The New Zealand bells in the article? They were making 'em while I was there, I think. The timing is right and I didn't get the sense that they moved a lot of product. Hell of a thing to hear without context.