Maker/Dealer
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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