Posted: Wed., Sep. 3, 2003, 9:52pm PT

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Vito Pascucci

Founder, Chairman of G LeBlanc Corp.

Vito Pascucci, founder and chairman of musical instrument manufacturer G. Leblanc Corp., died Aug. 18 in Kenosha, Wis. He was 80.

Pascucci learned to play trumpet as a student in Kenosha's public schools and, while serving in the Army during World War II, was assigned to care for and maintain the musical instruments for the Glenn Miller Army Air Corps Band.

While serving in France, Pascucci befriended instrument maker Lon Leblanc, head of an instrument-making company dating to 1750. He learned manufacturing techniques from Leblanc and after the war started a branch of the company in Kenosha. It grew into a nine-brand corporation with 450 employees in the United States and Europe.

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