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Lo Duca website


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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.





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