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A lifelong musician, 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.
