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Article: Honoring a career of note; For more than 30 years, Ed Davenport has kept trumpets trumpeting and flutes fluting. For his instrumental role in fostering a love of music in schools and in his community, his retirement will, fittingly, be celebrated with a concert.(NORTH)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- June 15, 2005
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Byline: Eric Hanson; Staff Writer
By his own estimate, Ed Davenport has given away perhaps 60 instruments to needy music students as the owner of instrument repair shops in Roseville, Brooklyn Center and other areas of the Twin Cities.
But none of them was like the bass he parted with in 1999: Crafted by Italian instrument maker Andreas Guarnerius, circa 1685, and once played by the legendary Russian conductor Serge Koussevitzky.
The bass had belonged to Davenport's father, Ken, who founded the orchestra program in the Anoka-Hennepin school district and played with the Minnesota Orchestra when it was known as the Minneapolis Symphony.
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