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Elderly Instruments is a musical instrument retailer in Lansing, Michigan, with a national reputation as a seller, repair shop, and locus for folk music.

lo·cus
n.   pl. lo·ci (-sī’, -kē, -kī’)

  1. A locality; a place.
  2. A center or focus of great activity or intense concentration: “the cunning exploitation of loci of power; the insulation from normal American society” (Clifton Fadiman).
  3. Mathematics The set or configuration of all points whose coordinates satisfy a single equation or one or more algebraic conditions.
  4. The position that a given gene occupies on a chromosome.

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May 21, 2008 at 12:44 am

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