National, music I: two of the steel guitar hall's first nine plaques read "Born: Mishawaka"

International Steel Guitar Hall of Fame, St. Louis — inductees no. 4 (1979) and no. 9 (1981)

Herb Remington, inductee no. 4, 1979: The International Steel Guitar Hall of Fame keeps its plaques' texts on the record, and the fourth plaque in the hall reads, in its own words, "Born: June 9, 1926, Mishawaka, Indiana." Remington — Bob Wills's steel player in the Texas Playboys' great years, and afterwards the maker of Remington steels — was formed in part across the river, at South Bend's Hawaiian Conservatory of Music, the Indiana Music Makers school where the region's steel players were taught; the formation is shared with the sister city and printed plainly, the birth is Mishawaka's alone. His person stands in the People record; the enshrinement is this section's.

Buddy Emmons, inductee no. 9, 1981: Five plaques later the words repeat: "Born: January 27, 1937, Mishawaka, Indiana" — the hall's plaque for Buddy Emmons, whom the same plaque tradition calls, for a quarter century, "the world's foremost steel guitarist." Emmons too studied at the Hawaiian Conservatory in South Bend as a boy. The plaque gives his death as July 21, 2015; one lesser carrier gives July 29, and the hall's own text governs here. One distinction this section prints exactly, because the record insists on it: the Country Music Hall of Fame honoured Emmons with its 2013 tribute exhibition, "The Big E" — an honour, warmly given, that is not an induction. He is not a Country Music Hall of Fame inductee in the record, and Mishawaka's claim on him runs through the steel guitar hall's plaque, where it stands at full birth strength.

Sources:

1. International Steel Guitar Hall of Fame — the hall's own plaque texts (the hall's record at b0b.com/isghof): Remington, inductee no. 4, 1979; Emmons, inductee no. 9, 1981, with the birth and death lines as the plaques give them.
2. The People record, Notable People — the two men's Mishawaka formation, the Hawaiian Conservatory of Music in South Bend, and their careers at pointer size.
3. Country Music Hall of Fame — the 2013 "The Big E" tribute to Emmons, printed as the honour it was and not an induction.