John Orville Hall was born on February 2nd, 1964 in Columbus, Ohio. He lives on a lake in Marcellus, Michigan. He is an owner/member of Bushman Music Works LLC which he founded on January 3rd, 1996. The company sells its own Bushman brand of harmonicas and ukuleles to music stores and consumers around the world, and it is the US distributor for Kongsheng Harmonicas. Since the company came out with its Bushman Delta Frost harmonica in August 2003 it has stuck to a strict policy of only using phosphor bronze for its harmonica reeds.