Volume 30 Number 3 A Quarterly Publication of Quinlan & Fabish Music Company Spring 2017

Michiana Edition

Super-Secret Garage Sale breaks

all records!

Unseasonably pleasant weather set the tone for a record-breaking day for our Six Annual Garage Sale in February.

I guess since a couple hundred people showed up...armed with the “secret door code”, we just cannot keep a good se-cret!!

Precisely at 10AM, scores of bargain hunters entered our warehouse in Burr Ridge, IL to explore and find their favor-ite treasures!

Congratulations to all our

“All you Can Carry Music for $399” Sale Contestants…

including our top carriers…

Miguel Rosario - Valparaiso HS $4996.24

Shan Kazmi - Zion Benton HS

$4524.09

Chuck Torbett - Parker JHS $4524.09

Kelly O’Neill/Stevan Rexroat Oswego East HS - $3159.17

Christina Baumann - New Buffalo

Schools MI - $3156.30

Eric Rauch - Washington MS Lyons, IL - $2775.60

“I Like My QF Rep

because…” Facebook

Bobblehead Contest

See Page Two

Alex Brinkman - Gompers JHS

Joliet - $2653.20

Ben Salgado - Bremen HS - $2484.00

Felix Ponce - Back of the Yards HS Chicago - $2315.70

Breana Green - Northwood MS Ft.

Wayne - $2311.20

And our All You Can Carry Drum Head Champion

Ray Cannon - Indian Trail JHS Addison, IL

See Dramatic Video of Miguel’s Cham-pionship carry by visiting our website or

Facebook page

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in for maintenance? Windy City Flutes has a repair shop on site and our lead technician, Michelle Spindler, has Straubinger and Mu-ramatsu certifications. We offer COA’s, over-hauls, and free esti-mates for any work

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Michigan Location: 5719 St. Joseph Avenue Stevensville, MI 49127

269-429-6232 Fax: 269-429-6250

Valparaiso, IN Location: 2601 Cumberland Drive

Valparaiso, IN 46383 219-462-5086

Fax: 219-462-0060

Mishawaka, IN Location: 130 West Edison Road Mishawaka, IN 46545

574-293-6332 Fax: 574-254-0387

Fort Wayne, IN Location: 3678 Wells Street

Fort Wayne, IN 46808 260-482-9669

Fax: 260-482-7698

Lafayette, IN Location: 1301 Sagamore Parkway North

Lafayette, IN 47904 765-543-0515

Southwest Suburban Location: 6827 High Grove Blvd.

Burr Ridge, Illinois 60527 630-654-4111

Fax: 630-522-0331

Northwest Suburban Location: 59 W. Seegers Rd.

Arlington Heights, Illinois 60005 847-253-5592

Fax: 847-253-1761

Fox Valley Location: 291 Montgomery Road

Montgomery, Illinois 60538 630-906-6595

Fax: 630-897-5256

Michigan Location: 5719 St. Joseph Avenue Stevensville, MI 49127

269-429-6232 Fax: 269-429-6250

For the last five years, April has marked the time for our annual “bobble-head contest”. Directors can recog-nize their QF rep by completing the following sentence on our Facebook page:

“I Like My QF Rep because…” The winners receive a custom made bobble head doll of their QF rep AND themselves! The contest has been fun, heart-warming, sincere, and highly entertaining. We have seen poems, stories, and videos of the wonderful relationships directors have with their QF school representatives. We hope you will take a moment to recognize your QF rep in April. We know they appreciate all you do for us. Pictured are last year’s winners QF rep-Steve Rehlander & Elaina Sutton

from Winamac Jr/Sr High School immor-talized in the QF Bobblehead Hall of Fame.

“It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year”

By George Quinlan, Jr.

Spring is my favorite time of the year. Each Saturday, I get to visit several sites hosting band & orchestra festivals in our area. We get to hear “first-hand” the beautiful music made by your students with instruments we often provided. Without the work you do, our ware-house would be filled with mere “hunks of brass and wood”. You and the stu-dents supply the hard work and the Magic! We also get to see more frequent visi-tors this time of year. The legendary Doc Severinsen was in the area and

signed some posters com-memorating the event in Novem-ber of 2015. If you visit our Burr Ridge loca-tion, be sure to check it out! The good doctor

will celebrate his 90th birthday this year!

Phil Brown, Brass Product Manager for Conn-Selmer recently hosted John Nonaka and a group his company, Nonaka Boeki Co, Ltd. Of Yokohama, Japan for a tour of the Bach plant in Elkhart, a concert of the CSO, and a tour to QF-Burr Ridge! Thank you to Doug Adams-Hickory Creek MS in Frankfort for co-presenting “Recruiting by the Numbers (and other secrets to recruiting more low brass)” in January at the Illinois Music Educators Conference. We proudly co-sponsored “Bridging the Gap between Middle School and High School: Tips for En-suring a Seamless Instrumental Music Education” at IMEA-FW in January with Marcia Neel.

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Stork Report…Michael & Melissa Pe-tek have a new baby boy. Desmond James was born 1/6/17. Michael is the director at Huntington North High School. Kristine Miller and her wife, Amy had

a baby boy! Kinsler Cole Miller was born on Novem-ber 8, 2016. He's already attended many concerts.

On The Road Again…The Homestead HS Band will be traveling to Williams-burg, VA and Washington DC over spring break. The 280 member band will visit Colonial Williamsburg and Busch Gardens Williamsburg theme park. They will also visit Arlington National Ceme-tery, the Pentagon, and hear a concert by the "Pershing's Own" United States Ar-my Band. Their trip will also include the Kennedy Center, US Capitol Building, and the Smithsonian Museums. The band is under the direction of Steve Barber & Brad Wadkins. The Crown Point HS Wind Ensemble, under the direction of Johann Sletto, trav-eled to Ft. Wayne to participate in the IPFW University Wind Festival. The Northridge MS Jazz Band led by Bryce Cone had a great per formance at the Ball State Jazz Festival in March. The Kouts HS Band, led by Frank Gast, will be traveling to Orlando over spring break to participate in the Magic Music Days. While at Disney, the band will be performing at the Magic Kingdom and Disney Springs.

Concord Jazz 1 directed Steve Peterson and Penn HS Advanced Jazz directed by Aaron Griesser performed at the 32nd annual Jazz in the Meadows at Rolling Meadows HS in February. Several more bands from the region headed to Orlando recently including:

Bridget Fine, James Wasmundt, and the River Forest HS March-ing Band, Katelyn Leon-ard - Wheeler HS, Justin

Thompson - Washington & Morgan Twp, Joshua Doe & Keith Hiscott-Niles HS. Planning ahead...Watervliet HS band will be traveling to New York City next April, led by Jennifer Hollandsworth. Buchanan HS will visit sunny Florida next fall under the direction of Mark Hollandsworth. Lakeshore HS band is planning a trip to Hawaii next De-cember to perform for the 76th Anniver-sary of the attack on Pearl Harbor. Director Lori Von Koenig will take the band with help from Lakeshore MS directors Phil & Cindy Huff. Do you have room for more? AWARDS & RECOGNITION…Kaleb Chamberlin won the 2017 Mishawaka Education Foundation “M-Factor” award this February for the second consecutive year! He thorough-ly entertained the audience by perform-ing all of the parts from “One Man – One Day More” from Les Miserables. Kaleb is a percussionist and band direc-tor at Mishawaka HS. Congratulations to North Side MS Band Director Sandy Carnall, recenlty named as Teacher of the Year at North Side MS. Janell Riner, the band director at

Tippecanoe Valley Schools, was selected by her middle school principal as the "World Class Teacher" for the spring quarter and she will be honored at the

March school board meeting. Congrat-ulations Janell! New Faces, New Places...Kristen Hills has joined the instrumental staff at Warsaw HS. Kristen is a graduate of Anderson University. Elkhart Memorial HS graduate Sean Diller has returned to the area to

Send news about your school music program for our next issue to info@qandf.com

teach orchestra at Goshen MS. Sean for-merly taught in the Chicago Public Schools. We would like to congratulate Tom Barker on his upcoming retirement from the Lafayette Jefferson Band De-partment in May. Congratulations Tom for your 40 years of service and enjoy your well-deserved retirement. Matthew Thena from IU-PU Fort Wayne, is completing his student teach-ing with Tony Strebig at Woodside MS in Fort Wayne. Best of luck to Matthew with his future music education career. Congratulations to Craige Phipps, Darren Day and the Knox HS Winter Drum line for their Second Place finish at the IPA Winter Drum Line Class PSB State Finals. Way to go! Now that’s some awesome Music Edu-cation!!...Sarah Sponseller at Hamilton Community Schools took 5 kids to con-cert band contest last week. Not Solo and ensemble, but concert band...two clarinets, two trumpets and a baritone. Sarah rearranged some parts to make the instrumentation sound a bit fuller, and they received a GOLD with distinction! Congratulations! The Career Academy Jazz Band directed by Alice Brown rocked the house at the Tanglewood Trace Assisted Living Facil-ity in Mishawaka on March 2nd. The residence enjoyed a 30-minute perfor-mance while jazz students received expe-rience playing a full gig! Matt Merten & Sam Sanchez took the Notre Dame Link band from the Kroc Center to provide a demonstration for the band students of David Iwaniec, the band director at Navarre Intermediate Center. The ND Link program has a mentoring program that benefits many of the sur-rounding schools with after school pro-grams. The Prairie Heights HS choir, under the direction of Kayli Savage participated in the Steuben County Choral Festival and received a standing ovation for their per-formance. Zach Myers, Mitch Freeman and the Adams Bands performed at the Center for the Homeless in December. The Jazz, Concert, and Pep Bands all enter-

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tained the residents for the holiday season. The Oregon Davis Pep

Band under the direction of Amanda Lester per formed a double header at Ancilla College basketball games in Feb-ruary. Congratulations to Bart Roberts and Alex Benoit at Dickinson Fine Ar ts Acade-my for winning gold at ISSMA Organi-zational in LaPorte. The Twin Cities Concert Band in resi-dence at IUSB is looking for community

adult musicians, espe-cially band directors to join us this summer. The band meets year round in the Arts and Education building on

the IUSB campus for two hours on Wednesday evenings. Their summer season starts soon to prepare for the an-nual Potowatomi Park band shell concert on June 25. The band is co-directed by Mishawaka HS band director, Dennis Gamble and IUSB professor , Dr Ken Douglas. Contact Dennis Gamble gambled@mishawaka.k12.in.us

The West Lafayette Wind Ensemble, under the direction of Don Pettit & Clay-ton Henady, had the honor of perform-ing at the 2017 IMEA convention on January 13th in Ft. Wayne, Indiana. Con-gratulations to Don, Clayton and the wind ensemble on an outstanding perfor-mance. Congrats to Joel Good and the Rossville Bands on their upcoming building pro-ject. They will be receiving a new band room along with other updates. The Southwest Michigan MS Honors Band will be at the Howard Performing Arts Center at Andrews University once again this year on Monday, April 24, 2017. The event is organized by Alan Mitchell (Andrews University) and coordinator Sarah Bopp, director of bands at South Haven Baseline MS. Benton Central HS Bands, under the di-rection of Michael Richardson, broke ground on their new band wing. The new wing should be ready for the 2nd semester of the 2017-2018 school year.

Michael also presented “Rural Music Education: Big Results in Small Com-munities”, at the 2017 IMEA Conven-tion in Ft. Wayne, Indiana. Congratulations to the Harrison Jazz Band, under the direction of Steve Cot-ton, on their selection as an ISSMA Jazz State Finalist.

The Jackson (MI) Northwest High School Concert Band and Symphonic Band, led by Bryan Mangiavellano both received 1st Division ratings from all judges at the MSBOA District Con-cert Band Festival Jackson HS Bands participated at the MSBOA District 8 Concert Band Festi-val. The Cadet Band, the Wind Ensem-ble, and the Symphonic Band all re-ceived 1st Division ratings from all judges. The District 8 festival was host-ed by Jackson High School and bands are under the direction of Joel Shaner & Nathan Heim. Congratulations for receiving gold rat-

ings at ISSMA Jazz. Bryan Ames Plymouth HS with distinction, Lisa Wallyn-Lincoln JHS; Eric Criss-

Northwood HS, Dawn Forsythe-Jefferson Intermediate, Michael Petek-Huntington North HS, Dan Fortlander -John Glenn, Tony Strebig-Woodside MS (also had Best Soloist award), Zach Myers & Mitch Freeman-Adams HS, Everette Hornbarger-Carroll MS, Dennis Gamble & Kaleb Chamberlin-Mishawaka HS, Kristine Miller-Maple Creek MS, Joey Shepherd-Whitko HS and MS, Gary Kurtis & Larry Vanore-Clay HS, David Seel-Triton HS, Clay Kennerk-Columbia City HS, Ed King-Northside HS “The Wildsiders”, Sandy Carnall-North Side MS, Kevin Klee-Snider HS, Kyle Weirich Elkhart Central HS, Rebecca Yoder-Elkhart Memorial HS, Sean Patrick-Goshen HS, Bob Myers-Leo HS (with Distinc-tion), David Elliot-Elkhart Central HS, Murray Weaver-Discovery MS, Tom Cox Goshen HS, Josh Kaufman-Goshen HS, Rob Wilson-Northrop HS, Jake Robaska directing the West Side MS and Elkhart Memorial Jazz bands, Matt Sutton-Bremen HS with distinction and off to Ball State Jazz Festival earning Gold.

The Grace College Community Wind Ensemble of Winona Lake presented "A Symphonic Journey" concert on March 24th under the direction of Martin Beck-er. This was Mar tin's last concer t as conductor. He is retiring from the posi-tion and his plans include being a per-former in the trumpet section. Good luck to Martin & Judy! Warsaw HS hosted the Indiana Percus-sion Association winter percussion invi-tational. Twenty-five schools participated in the event hosted by Tyler Claycomb & Kristen Hills. Aaron Griesser and Penn HS Jazz pre-sented An Evening of Jazz on February 10th. Performers included the Discovery MS Jazz Band, Penn HS Advanced and Intermediate Jazz Bands and Steve Peter-son and the Concord HS Jazz 1 Band. Guest artist was saxophonist Dr. Mat-thew Pivec. The Penn HS Band was named as one of only two bands nationally to receive the prestigious Earl Irons Program of Dis-tinction Award from the Phi Beta Mu International Band Masters Fraternity. The award is recognizes band programs that excel in the areas of Concert Band, Marching Band and Jazz Ensemble. Di-rector of Bands Glenn Northern accepted the award at the 2016 Midwest Clinic. Congratulations! Dekalb HS-Terry Fisher and Car roll HS-Doug Hassell have qualified for the Jazz Band State Finals Maple Creek MS students of Kristine Miller, had 15 solos receive gold, 2 solos receive silver and 13 ensembles receive gold at ISSMA Solo and Ensem-ble. Two students went on to state and received Gold. Northrop HS & Rob Wilson hosted the Barry Ashton Jazz Festival on Saturday, March 11 with guest artist Butch Miles. MSBOA District 6 will hold their Middle School Solo & Ensemble Festival on Saturday, April 22 hosted by Dr. Jona-than Korzun at Southwestern Michi-gan College in Dowagiac. The coordina-tor for the event is Mark Hollandsworth, director of bands at Buchanan Communi-ty Schools.

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Dan Hough is our percussion specialist in Ft Wayne. A former percussionist and drum major with The Cavaliers Drum & Bugle Corps, he often consults with various high school bands and conducts Drum Major workshops. Dan specializes helping directors make wise choices for the percussion needs...and golf!

Spring is thankfully upon us! With that, it means many different things for educa-tors, depending on your location and school system. Solo and Ensemble is finished, ISSMA Jazz is complete, unless you're one of the eight state final-ists. (Congrats by the way) ISSMA Mid-dle School has wrapped up, and HS is deep into the throws of preparing for it! The Pageantry category is just now heat-ing up… Drums, Colorguard, and for some now Winds. To say the least, eve-ryone is still pretty Busy! Within the Percussion World, beginners especially, now is a great time to encour-age private lessons. Whether it's a first year beginner, or an 8th grader ready to start exploring drum set, finding a reputa-ble and dependable private teacher is key. You may have a high school stu-dent looking to expand their skills, pre-paring for the “next level” of education. So especially before school is out, and they're left to fend for themselves during the summer, help them out in finding someone. (It may even be Y ou!)

All instrumentalist can benefit greatly from private lessons, but speaking from experience, the benefits of private per-cussion lessons are tremendous. Keep-ing your key students, as well as your struggling students engaged, is one of the most important factors in retaining a healthy and produc-tive percussion sec-tion. Some other developmental possibilities

to consider would be supplemental method books. Row Loff's Snare Drummer’s Toolbox, and Mallet Player’s Toolbox are some of the more recent books to hit the music browsers. The old classics are still in vogue as well. The clas-sic Stick Control to this day, is a dependable go to book. Any of these can be added to the exist-ing method book you

may be using.

Most schools are using the standard Bell Kit. Today there are more options than ever to expand upon that idea. The Musser Xylo Kit is a 2.5 octave Pa-douk Wood bar Xylophone. Com-plete with rolling carry case, and

gum rubber drum pad. These are availa-ble on our standard rental/purchase plan, and will be viable for many years as an at home practice tool REMEMBER……. Just because your equipment’s drum heads are not broken, does NOT mean they don’t need to be replaced! Heads can have a pretty long shelf life, but there is a limit. Once the mylar loses it’s elasticity, tuning is pretty much a waste of time. If you have wise-ly invested in quality equipment, be sure to maximize it’s potential for quality sound. A new snare head, or new timpa-ni heads, can make a HUGE difference in sound quality, as well as ease of tuning. Especially this time of year, with High School ISSMA just around the corner!

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Michiana Edition

Steve Reed (former director ) with Burke Lokey (cur rent director ) cele-

brating the hugely successful perfor-mance by Michigan’s Saint Joseph High School Orchestra students. Maestro Lok-

ey and the musicians of this orchestra gave one of the more “musical” perfor-

mances I have ever heard at a confer-ence. Congratulations to all on attaining

such a high level of musicianship. This listener was elated.

Final bows for Saint Joseph High School Orchestra following their performance at

ASTA Pittsburgh 2017.

Lloyd Palmiter, our String Specialist, brings extensive knowledge to our company stemming from his twenty years experience teaching orchestra and cello, serving as clinician and consultant for musical instrument and educational organizations, and countless hours of working with students and parents to assist in selecting the best instrument for their needs. He visits all store locations regularly and is available by appointment to individually help you and your students find just the right instru-ment. You’ll see Lloyd at conferences of ILMEA, IMEA, MENC, ASTA, Violin Society of America, and at the International Exhibition of violinmakers in Cremona, Italy, where he will be scouting to bring you the best quality instruments available from all over the world! Travels to the countries of origin and hand selecting the instruments and bows to be included in our showrooms make our instruments among

the best available today. We maintain a vigilant effort to assure our customers that Quinlan and Fabish Strings are always known for their value and quality.

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Experiencing the energy from the perfor-mances and clinic sessions at the Pitts-burgh ASTA conference reminded me of the vibrancy of your work. The confer-ence is successful on many fronts includ-ing the number of young musicians who perform there. Students who attain the level of distinction allowing that they be included in the conference brings a more mature and well mannered student to the conference. It was a pleasure to be among such fine young musicians to represent our future. I know that not everyone can go, so, I have a few pic-tures of the conference to share.

The view of the ASTA Pittsburgh regis-tration booth. Notice the yellow bridges in the background. The Three Sisters are three parallel, nearly identical self-anchored suspension bridges that cross the Allegheny River in downtown Pitts-burgh.

Vendors for everything “string” related displayed in the Exhibit Hall giving attendees an up close and personal op-portunity to mingle and see the new products and ideas presented in recent publications. It was great to see so many conference attendees visit the exhibit hall through-out the conference. Exhibitors fund a big part of any conference and visiting the exhibits helps all attendees and all ASTA members by encouraging ven-dor support.

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Kevin Krieger per -formed with the Jackson HS Jazz Ensemble as a guest tenor sax soloist at

Michigan Music Conference in Grand Rapids. Kevin is the head director at Parkside MS and Jackson HS Jazz En-semble is directed by Joel Shaner. Anne Tshcetter and the Penn HS Or-chestra presented string sensation Barrage in concert March 7th at Penn HS. Northside HS Wildsiders led by Ed King placed first at the Ball State Jazz Festival

Trevor Stirratt received the award for Best Lead Trumpet, Garrett Spoelhof received the award for Outstanding Piano Player and Colin Dorion was

named Outstanding Drummer. Bethany Christian Music Directors Stacey Farran & Sherry Good presented their annual Music on the Lawn which featured the Band, Orchestra and Choir. The event also included dinner and helped raise money to provide music scholarships for senior students. Pierre Moran Orchestra Director Kyle Miller conducted the Beginning Or-chestra at the Linda Luebke Strings Festi-val in Terre Haute, IN. It was founded after the passing of beloved music educa-tion professor, Linda Luebke. Elkhart Christian Academy Fine Arts di-rector Bret Deardorff was guest conductor for the annual ACSI event at Bethel Col-lege.

Concord Percussion Specialist Ben Runkel and Concord Percussion pre-sented the 7th annual Groove! on March 10th . This year’s performance was ti-tled Comedy and Pops. Dylan Ladd, former choral student teacher at River Forest Jr/Sr HS and Valparaiso University Graduate, will be performing at River Forest HS with his Motown Group, Project Two. The Riv-er Forest Jazz Band, under the direction of Bridget Fine & James Wasmundt, will be accompanying the group. The following directors attended a VIP day hosted by Conn-Selmer: Riqia Owens-Barak Obama Learning Acade-my, Brian Goodman-Jesse White Learning Academy, Greg Blakeman -Wanatah and LaCrosse Schools, Chris Haddad-Pierce MS, Kelly Rehlander -Hobart MS, Wayne Coil-Valparaiso schools, and Chris Darwell from Calu-met City. While at Conn-Selmer, the group enjoyed a few professional de-velopment sessions and tours of both the brass and woodwind plants. The MSBOA District 6 Band & Or-chestra Festival was held at Lake Mich-igan College on March 7-10,, 2017. The event was hosted by John Owens, LMC Faculty and coordinated by the Vice President of Band & Orchestra Activities, Christina Baumann. Christi-na is the director of bands for New Buffalo Schools. Special thanks to Jennifer Hollandsworth, MSBOA District 6 President. The 32nd Annual Bi-County Honor Band was held at Attica Jr/Sr HS with guest conductor, Robb Thiel. Students from Attica HS-Matt Berg, Covington

HS-Nick Calcamuggio, Fountain Cen-tral HS-Elizabeth VanHook, & Seeger Memorial HS-Matt Moody par ticipat-ed. The Blossomtime Festival Grand Floral Parade will be on Saturday May 6th cel-ebrating its 111th year! The Parade be-gins in St. Joseph, MI and continues its way through the city, across the Bicen-tennial Bridge and into Benton Harbor. The Grand Floral Parade features over 120 units including bands, floats, clowns, costumed characters, antique cars and tractors, unicycle teams, eques-trian units and the famed Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Motorcycle Drill Team celebrating their 55th consecu-tive appearance leading the parade in 2017. New Prairie HS & Patrick Teykl have teamed up with Purdue Partners for Edu-cation. There will be a Friday pep band performance at a basketball game, clin-ics and a joint concert at the end of the year.

Bach Fest 2017 will be held in Elkhart, on Saturday June 24th. The day will

feature a tour of the world-renowed Bach plant, an opportunity to meet the product development team, test new instruments, and interact with Bach artists. Cost is $25 for the day and

includes a Bach T-shirt, commemorative Bach mouthpiece paperweight, lunch and more. For more information, visit https://www.etouches.com/bachfest

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Save the Date!

Maury Rhodes Classic Golf Outing

Thursday - July 13

Swan Lake Golf Club-Plymouth, Indiana Benefitting the Rhodes Band Library at VanderCook College of Music

Contact your QF rep for details

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