Kalamazoo and Lansing

I drove to Lansing, Michigan last week to visit Elderly Instruments, the music store.  On the way I stopped in Kalamazoo and visited the old Gibson factory at 225 Parsons St., vacated in the early 80s when the company moved to Nashville.  The Heritage Guitar Company uses part of the space now to build excellent Gibson-style electric guitars.

Elderly, in a former schoolhouse, has hundreds of guitars, and an adequate mandolin selection: