Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
His grandson Jay continues to build accordions under the brand "Bon Cajun." [1] [2] In 2003, he estimated he built approximately 85 accordions and repaired 200 – 250 accordions each year. [1] He says each accordion was hand-crafted and took between 160 and 175 hours to make, and he made about 1200 in total. [3]
It is the parent company of the retail brands American Signature Furniture and Value City Furniture, and the manufacturer brand American Signature. American Signature Furniture [ 1 ] and Value City Furniture [ 2 ] sell residential furniture manufactured by American Signature, Inc., as well as more than 30 additional manufacturers from 125 ...
Sidney Brown (October 28, 1906 – August 6, 1981) [1] [2] was a Cajun accordion builder and accordion player. In the 1950s, he recorded with his band, Sidney Brown and the Traveler Playboys. He would eventually be recognized as the first person to build Cajun accordions after World War II in Louisiana. [3]
Schottenstein Stores Corp., based in Columbus, Ohio, is a holding company for various ventures of the Schottenstein family. Jay Schottenstein and his sons Joey Schottenstein, Jonathan Schottenstein, and Jeffrey Schottenstein are the primary holders in the company.
The Hohner Electravox is an electronic accordion made in the late 1960s and early 1970s, which has one channel (combined left hand and right hand) or two channel (separate left hand and right hand channels, which enables independent volume changes), 92 bass/chord buttons, keyboard percussion effect for the bass buttons and keyboard, a vibrato ...
In 1966, music store owner Howard Holman used his contacts at the Martin Band Instrument Company, owned by Wurlitzer at that time, to convince Wurlitzer to distribute a line of electric guitars manufactured by Holman's start-up company in Kansas. Wurlitzer became the sole distributor of guitars made by the Holman-Woodell Company of Neodesha ...
Wagner Manufacturing plant in Sidney, Ohio (1913) At first producing only cast-iron products, the company added nickel-plated ware in 1892. [1] In 1894 Wagner was one of the first to make aluminum cookware. [3] The company acquired their competitor Sidney Hollow Ware from Phillip Smith in 1897.
After earning a degree in chemical engineering, [5] in 1966 he went into business full-time as an accordion maker and player, based at his Savoy Music Center in Eunice. His wife is the singer and guitarist Ann Savoy , whom he met in 1975 and married in 1977. [ 5 ]