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Vito is a brand name for Leblanc USA, now part of Conn-Selmer USA. The Vito name was used for student through professional (Yanagisawa baritone saxophone) instruments. Leblanc USA was formed in 1946 by Vito Pascucci, and the French woodwind manufacturer, G. Leblanc Cie of France. To meet high demand, Leblanc USA started to manufacture clarinets ...
Leblanc, Inc. was a musical instruments manufacturing company based in Kenosha, Wisconsin. The company was a woodwind instrument manufacturer known mainly for its clarinets. In 2004 the firm was sold to Conn-Selmer, a division of Steinway Musical Instruments. As a result, Leblanc ceased to exist as an independent operation, becoming a brand.
Vito Pascucci (October 22, 1922 – August 18, 2003) was an American businessman, the CEO and co-founder (with Leon Leblanc) of G. Leblanc Corp, an American musical instrument firm based in Kenosha, Wisconsin. The firm started out as the American branch of the French G. Leblanc company.
Vito later joined the Mick Fleetwood Blues Band in 2008 and recorded a live album, Blue Again!, which was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Blues Album in 2010. Vito split from the Mick Fleetwood Blues Band in 2017, [ 11 ] although he did perform with Fleetwood in 2020 for a performance honoring the music of Peter Green , a founding member ...
Frank Holton's wife Florence was a music teacher. [5] They had no children. [6] Frank Holton, though not an instrument maker himself, expanded his company to manufacture instruments [7] which was his occupation until retiring at age 80. Frank Holton died after a protracted illness on April 16, 1942, at the age of 84.
KHS Musical Instruments Co., Ltd was founded in Taiwan in 1930 as an educational products company, and gained success in the 1950s as a producer of musical instruments.In 2020, KHS is a full-scale musical instrument manufacturer of a complete line of wind instruments, percussion, fretted instrument, and stand products.
C. G. Conn Ltd., Conn Instruments or commonly just Conn, is a former American manufacturer of musical instruments incorporated in 1915. It bought the production facilities owned by Charles Gerard Conn , a major figure in early manufacture of brasswinds and saxophones in the USA.
DeVito was also an original member of the Hot Band offshoot The Cherry Bombs, a band formed to support Rodney Crowell and Rosanne Cash on tour in the early 1980s.Besides DeVito, the band included Vince Gill (guitar), Tony Brown (keyboards), Larrie Londin (drums), and Emory Gordy Jr. (bass).