Published: November 19, 2009 09:43 am      

57 guitars restrung for food

CLINTON — Local music store, Tegeler Music, spent five hours on Saturday restringing guitars and collecting food for local area food banks. Music store owner Don Tegeler and his brother, Ron, installed new D’Addario strings non-stop for a little more than five hours on a total of 57 guitars in exchange for collecting non-perishable food items. When more than 213 pounds of food was collected for Pantries United, it will distribute the food to three local organizations, the Benevolent Society, the Salvation Army and Community Action.

The Restring For Food drive was originally organized by a group known as Independent Music Store Owners, a national coalition of independent music store owners with a current membership of almost 400 stores. Tegeler Music, along with many other iMSO members, took part in this first annual food drive event with the hopes of collecting as much food as possible to help out each stores local food banks just prior to the holiday season.

When asked to comment on the success of the event Tegeler responded, “I was very happy to see the community of Clinton support this event the way it did. Originally I had planned to do the restrings myself but I was very thankful Ron was willing to volunteer his time to help restring guitars. I would have never been able to handle the amount of guitars brought in by myself so I would like to extend a big thank you to Ron for helping out. It was so busy in fact that we even had our special guest Santa Claus restringing guitars. I have proof of this on our Web site, www.tegelermusic.com. I would also like to thank D’Addario String Company for donating close to $750 retail value worth of strings. What great support from a great company. We definitely plan on making this an annual event.”