The People

Perez joined C. G. Conn in 1967 and became company president in 1974, after Latter. He was actually married to Leland Greenleaf's daughter Carroll, so the company didn't completely leave the Greenleaf family. He also was president of Steinway and helped a restoration of a White House piano, not to mention also running CBS Musical Instruments at one point. He also plays piano and viola. Perez currently is the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Manufacturing, in the U. S. Department of Commerce International Trade Administration.Daniel J. Henkin Henkin was an advertising manager at Elkhart until 1970, when he left Conn to run Gemeinhardt Flutes. In 1980, he purchased C. G. Conn and moved offices back to Elkhart, in an attempt to restore the company's reputation. He also hired Doc Severinsen as Vice President of Product Development, which introduced four new Severinsen Series trumpets, and a new line of Conn Director student brasses, not to mention acquisition of W. T. Armstrong Co. and King Musical Instruments. Due to health and stress issues, however, he sold Conn to Swedish conglomerate Skäne Gripen in 1985, who formed a holding company, United Musical Instruments, to run Conn and its subsidiaries. Skäne Gripen already had a music division, which had been run by Bernhard Muskantor until Skäne Gripen purchased it. Muskantor pushed the company to buy Conn in 1985.Bernhard MuskantorMuskantor and a group of investors bought United Musical Instruments in 1990. He sold it to Steinway (who already owned Selmer) in 2000, and the two companies were merged to form Conn-Selmer in 2002. This was the goal of Thomas Burzycki, who had helped run UMI, then left for Selmer. Burzycki retired after the merger, as he had reached his goal.