The story of J. D'Addario & Co. Inc. stretches back in time to the late 1600s and to the town of Salle in the Italian province of Pescara. There, generations of the D'Addario family worked as "cordon," the skilled makers of strings for assorted musical instruments. It also is a story in which printing has played an important supporting role. Brothers-in-law Rocco and Charles D'Addario immigrated to Queens, NY, in 1905, in the wake of an earthquake that crippled their hometown. In 1918, Charles began manufacturing instrument strings in a garage behind the family's home in the Queens Astoria neighborhood. By 1936, his son John adapted DuPont's first nylon monofilament for use in the manufacture of treble harp strings. It was among the first in a series of technological innovations that would become a D'Addario company hallmark.
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