Late in 1960, the family sold the company to attorney Harold M. His brother Donald Getzen briefly assumed the leadership of the company in 1960 and acquired control of the Hoosier Band Instrument Company. Robert Getzen left the company to found Allied Music. These bugles became popular with Drum and Bugle Corps. Robert Getzen, T.J.'s son, assumed the position of plant superintendent, and Getzen started to produce piston bugles. In 1947, Getzen started producing trumpets and cornets as well. In 1946, Getzen produced its first trombones. Initially opened as a repair shop, the company expanded after World War II to instrument manufacture. Conn company and worked as a plant superintendent for the Frank Holton Company. Getzen had trained in instrument repair with the C.G. In 1939, Anthony James (T.J.) Getzen founded the Getzen Company, in Elkhorn, Wisconsin.
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