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<p><span style="font-size: 120%;">This small American city was the band instrument capital of the world, but it has been hit hard by outsourcing to Asia. The new Blessing is flying solo as the only maker producing all its instruments in Elkhart. We are moving upward with strong values and a solid commitment to the Elkhart community.</span></p>
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<p><span class="full-image-block ssNonEditable"><img src="http://www.blessingbrass.com/storage/theBigStoryHead.gif?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1274815796972" alt="" /></span><br /><span style="font-size: 110%;">Welcome to the brand new E.K. Blessing website!&nbsp; Blessing has been manufacturing brass instruments since 1906, but you&rsquo;ve never seen anything like this from us!&nbsp; We invite you to explore our new site &ndash; not only are there pages and pages of information about our instruments, but we have artist information, videos of our factory and production facilities, articles by our instrument makers and artists and much more! &nbsp;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 110%;">If you own a Blessing instrument, we invite you to <a href="http://www.blessingbrass.com/owners/">register with us</a>&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 110%;">so we can keep you up to date on what&rsquo;s happening at our company!</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 110%;"> There are a lot of new and exciting things coming your way from Blessing so come back often, or find us on</span><span style="font-size: 110%;"> <a href="http://www.facebook.com/blessingbrass">Facebook</a> or <a href="http://www.twitter.com/blessing_brass">Twitter</a>.</span></p>


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