His father was a foreman in an optical instruments factory.
Mr. Simonetti started pursuing a contract with the instrument's maker, the St . PetersburgMusical Wind Instruments Factory, in 1994 after admiring one of its tubas during a performance of the Moscow Symphony in Raleigh, N.C.
Anatoly did not return to the family following the Second World War, instead choosing to settle alone in Kiev; Sofia therefore raised her son on her own, working at the Fraser Cutting Instruments Factory to support Eduard and herself.
I run a musical instrument factory in eastern Pennsylvania.
She was the devoted wife of the late Fred Gretsch, president of the Fred Gretsch Mfg Co. in Brooklyn, the world's largest musical instrument factory.
Children's guitars with bodies resembling cats and cartoon characters are losing their charm for Yuesen Musical Instrument Factory in Huainan, China.
Qiang Tu, 38, who joined the Philharmonic in 1995, was taught the cello by his father, who asked a friend in an instrument factory in China to build small cellos for his children.
On Sunday afternoon, five young Hasidic men stood in freezing wind outside the Gretsch Building, a 10-story, 200,000-square-foot former musical instrument factory that is being converted to luxury condominiums selling for about $550 per square foot.
As a child in Dandong, China (near the North Korean border), Ms. Zhang, whose father, Yubin, worked in an instrument factory and later owned his own music shop, never dreamed of becoming a conductor.
Among them were Suveg Singh Khattra, an eighty-four-year-old farmer who came to the U.S. to live with his son, and Paramjit Kaur, who worked more than sixty-five hours a week at a Wisconsin medical-instrument factory; she was the mother of two college-age sons.
In addition to Ms. Taylor, he hopes to feature luminaries like Cali Rivera, the owner of an esteemed salsa instrument factory called JCR Percussion, and Lorenzo DuFau, a World War II veteran who served on the only Navy warship with an African-American crew.
