Harrison “Harry” Franklin Reser (1896-1965) – Reser was born in Piqua on January 17, 1896, the son of William and Alberta Wright Reser and attended local schools. He was playing the guitar at the age of five and by sixteen had mastered the violin, cello, piano, trumpet, saxophone and banjo. He play with a number of local dance bands and in 1916 married Grace E. Thorp in Newport, Kentucky. They moved to Buffalo, New York in 1920 and then New York City in 1921. He became one of the finest banjo players of the era and certainly one of the most recorded. In the 1920’s through the 1930’s, he recorded over 800 records, 43 of them being solo recordings. His first record was produced in 1922. He was probably best known as the director and lead musician of NBC Radio’s Cliquot Club Eskimos. His half hour show was broadcast from 1925 through 1935. Reser and his wife and daughter Betty Jane (born c. 1920) are listed in Dade County, Florida in 1845. He wrote ten instrumental instructional books and stayed active after World War II playing in Broadway musical orchestras. He passed away in 1965 while warming up in the orchestra pit of the Broadway hit musical Fiddler on the Roof.