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He mostly retired from orchestral work in 1924 to run a music store. He continued performing on occasions, and appeared on the radio. In the 1930s he primarily made his living running electrical appliance stores. In the early '30s he mainly sold radios and by the late '30s was running a store that
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Kandel married his wife
Pauline (née Wool or Voll) in Philadelphia in 1907. She continued to live in Philadelphia after Harry's death and passed away herself in 1952. Their children were Reba (born 1911), Samuel (born 1913), and Doris (born 1921), all born in Philadelphia.
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refrigerators. Years later Kandel's wife's obituary remembered him not as a musician but as a "pioneer electrical appliance dealer". He also used his businesses to lend support to Jewish radio; for a time in the 1930s he collaborated with the
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as early as 1904, although he also apparently lived and worked in New York City at other times. He became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1912. At some point in the 1910s he became bandleader at the
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Recording Company to help develop its klezmer music catalog. He became one of the well-known names in the genre alongside his contemporaries
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trade. He studied clarinet at the Odessa
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Klezmer : Music and
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