Building the instrument is hard enough. Turning a profit is a killer. But Jim Phelan is bent on reviving one of the great names in classical music.
Jim Phelan, who owns the Laubin oboe company, has a neat white mustache and sparkly hazel eyes that make him look like a mid-management Santa. Recently surveying his small, busy workshop 60 miles north of New York City, he called it his “island of mi... [1960 chars]