Article: Strait ahead: surrounded by big-box chains, strait music moves to a big, bright new facility in Austin. (Retailer Profile).

Robert Strait is one plucky Texan. Sharing the Austin market with three of the industry's heavy-hitter retailers, he recently completed major work on a new home for his business, and moves forward with quiet confidence toward the Strait Music Company's 40th anniversary.

Back in the early '60s, Daniel Strait, Robert's father, worked at a Baldwin dealership in Houston. But when an Austin Baldwin franchise became available in 1963, he packed up, relocated, and launched his own business, Strait Music Company. He began by selling just pianos and organs, but when Thomas Organ acquired Vox, he took on combo gear. And over the years he added other product lines, ...

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