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Chicago Musical Instrument Co
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- 1900 Maurice Henry Berlin (Berlinberg) (1895-1984) emigrates to Detroit from Russia
- 1910 Maurice working as stock boy in store in Chicago
- 1920 Maurice establishes Chicago Musical Instrument Co. and is naturalized this year
- 1921 CMIC at #602 W. North Ave, Chicago
- 1930 Maurice Berlin, wholesale musical merchant, home at #7360 Suley Ave, Chicago
- 1931 CMIC at #311 S. Wabash Ave., Chicago
- 1940 Maurice now living in Glenco, musical instrument exec.
- 1942 CMIC at #30 E. Adams St.
- 1944 CMIC buys Gibson guitars After WWII CMIC buys Olds & Son and hires F.A. Reynolds to oversee
- 1957 CMIC buys Epiphone guitars
- 1964 CMIC buys the Reynolds Co.
- 1969 CMIC merges with ECL to form Norlin Corp. with Norton Stevens and Maurice’s son Arnold Berlin (1924-?)
- 1979 Norlin sells Reynolds & Olds
- 1984 Maurice dies
- 1986 Norlin sells Gibson to a private company
Early brass instruments sold by CMIC are the American Student and Harmony models made by B&F in Czechoslovakia.
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