Lo Duca website

LO DUCAfrom " Michael Wright, Guitar Stories Volume One"

"The LoDuca Bros. musical distribution company was formed in 1941 by brothers Tom and Guy LoDuca. Capitalizing on money made through their accordion-based vaudevillian act, lessons, and accordion repair, the LoDucas began importing and selling Italian accordions. Throughout the 1940s and 1950s, the LoDucas built up a musical distributorship with accordions and sheet music. By the late 1950s, they were handling Magnatone amplifiers and guitars. In 1961, the LoDucas teamed up with Italy-based Oliviero Pigini & Company to import guitars. Pigini, one of the LoDuca´s accordion manufacturers, had formed the Eko company in anticipation of the boom in the guitar market."

Il negozio di Lo Duca a Milwaukee è stato anche il set per due serie televisive di grande successo ambientate in questa città: Mork & Mindy e Happy Days. Il padre di Mindy nella serie aveva un negozio di strumenti musicali: era quello dei Lo Duca.