Hal Leanard co-founder Roger Busdicker loved playing his clarinet; so much so, in fact that he was buried in it.
Busdicker died Tuesday at age 88. His ashes were interred in Winona’s Woodlawn Cemetery inside the ebony instrument and its case.
His brother, Gordon Busdicker, a retired attorney from the Twin Cities, thought the clarinet was an appropriate gesture for a man who played it in the municipal band.
Busdicker “played a great clarinet” back in the 1930s and 1940s, when he toured with the Hal Leonard Orchestra, said his former student, employee and friend Dick Harrington. Busdicker went on to co-found the Hal Leonard Publishing Corp., the world’s largest sheet music publisher.
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