Since 1946, Durdel’s Music has had the reputation of selling quality instruments and providing excellent customer service. they set up EVERY instrument when it comes in to make sure that it meets their standards of quality and playability. Many local musicians trust only Durdel’s for the set-up and care of their guitars. Their staff of instructors have always excelled in teaching how to play the instruments they sell. Even before Cliff and Ruth purchased the store from the Blauseys’ in 1946, Ruth had been teaching lap steel guitar for about six years at the “Stars of Tomorrow Studios” with Wilson and Paulina Blausey.

At that time, students were enrolled by going door to door. They gave group lessons of 6-10 people for lap steel classes. There was also a radio show where ‘Uncle Abe’ helped to recruit students. Late in the forties, they brought in their first two non-steel teachers, Vicki Pasorik & Carl Russell, both taught steel and Spanish guitar. The fifties brought out the first solid body Fender electrics, and Durdel’s was there to lead the way as the first Northwestern Ohio and Southeast Michigan dealer for Fender electric guitars. Many developments were taking shape during these years, and the companies were eager to hear what the dealers had to suggest. The new decade brought the addition of the Central Ave store. For the first year, the building was shared with a bakery (in the long section of the store), and a hairdresser, Marcella Chor, in the rear of the store, (facing Haughton).

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