Today, there are but a handful of harmonica companies. That was certainly anything but the case back in the day, where there were scores and scores of companies making harmonicas. Elk River Harmonicas would like to shine a brief spotlight each week on some of those makers.
The information comes from either something that's in my head and I've long ago forgotten where I learned it, the U.S. Patent Office, the German Patent Office, or from Martin Haeffner and Lars Lindenmueller's "Harmonica Makers of Germany and Austria," which is the definitive work on the subject.
