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LIBERTY MUSICAL INSTRUMENT CO: Chicago, IL company founded in 1926 from the
joining of two Boston firms--NOKES & NICOLAI, and JOSEPH PACHECO with the
Liberty Rawhide Company-a major Chicago supplier of banjo and drum heads
from 1920. Contemporary articles state that Liberty had purchased the
"stock and good will" of the other two companies, and moved the stock in
trade and equipment to new quarters in Chicago; each man was to have
responsibility for his own end of the business, while John W. Placko,
president of Liberty, was to supervise the manufacture of the drum and
banjos heads. Within a year the new company had failed and was sold at
auction, in August, 1927; since the factory and most of the machinery were
new, there was great competition for the assets, which were finally
purchased by Slingerland.

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