The photo on the right was taken in Tacoma, Washington ca. 1925. It is Cory’s Great Grand-Family on his father’s side and their family band. Cory’s great grandmother (second from left) in her earlier days (i.e. the turn of the century) taught piano from home to home by way of horseback. Nearly a century later in 2012, Cory carries on this family tradition offering remote worldwide piano lessons in students’ own living rooms with help of a modern invention, the internet. 

The Hall family collectively had the talent to be able to play a variety of instruments. Cory’s great aunt Audrey (far left) would become a professional violinist, and as the eldest child she took piano lessons which she then taught to her younger siblings, Lewis (second from right, Cory’s grandfather) who played drums and Cory’s great uncle Kenny (far right), who would become a professional trumpet player and big band arranger.

But the fascinating story of musical legacy continues. Cory’s great uncle Kenny (a real renaissance man who also worked as a private investigator among other professions) would eventually establish a group of music stores in the Tacoma, WA area where he taught trumpet and sold instruments. Two generations later in 2011, Cory follows in Kenny’s footsteps by establishing BachScholar®, which offers piano lessons and publishes and sells piano sheet music. When Kenny reached retirement age (in the 1970s) he sold his music stores due to no heirs. (Kenny also had the luck of looking just like Bob Hope and would always get autograph requests!)

Although Cory looks nothing like Bob Hope, he is at the date of this writing (2025) approaching retirement age and also, like his great uncle Kenny, has no heirs to carry on and grow BachScholar® to its full potential. What could this prognosticate for the future of BachScholar®? Riddle me this, riddle me that…….Batman. (Only serious inquiries please.)