Trade Regrets: Ziggy Kanstul

Founder of Kanstul Music Instrument Co., Ziggy Kanstul, passed away on October 31.

Cutting his teeth at the FE Olds Company beginning back in the early ’50s, Kanstul became an expert on all aspects of brass instrument manufacture and took – and expanded upon – that knowledge to the company that would bear his name when Kanstul Music Instrument Co. was founded in 1981. The expansive Kanstul line drew upon not only Ziggy’s expertise, but also the input of those he successfully recruited for guidance: Doc Severinson, Bryon Autry, and Mudge Miller, among others.

To view a clip from Ziggy Kanstul’s 2005 NAMM Oral History interview, click here: https://www.namm.org/library/oral-history/ziggy-kanstul