57 Guitars Re-strung For Food

Clinton — Local music store, Tegeler Music, spent 5 hours on Saturday Nov. 14th re-stringing 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 5 hours on a total of 57 guitars in exchange for collecting non-perishable food items. When it was over a total of 213 lbs. of food was collected for Pantries United who 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 iMSO (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 Mr. 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 website www.tegelermusic.com. I would also like to thank D’Addario String Company for donating close to $750.00 retail value worth of strings. What great support from a great company. We definitely plan on making this an annual event.”