After 60 years, it’s the coda for brass instrument production at the Conn-Selmer factory in Eastlake. About 150 employees learned in January the plant would shutter by the end of June. In the 1940s and ‘50s, the company made instruments for greats like Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey, J.J. Johnson, Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker” according to former employee and tour guide, Pete Cumming. He worked at the Eastlake facility for 23 years until being laid off during the pandemic.