Over time, the instrument division at the headquarters tested and calibrated thousands of devices, and even began to design and build their own instruments.
Their cards were very popular with PC OEMs, but their costs were too high and their musical instrument division was fading in revenue.
Musser joined the J.C. Deagan company in 1930 as manager of the mallet instrument division.
The slimmed-down group, with Scottish interests concentrated at Kelso, saw profits surge in its instrument division, but the medical, defence and environmental sides all fell back.
Ihip (wind instrument division)
Kwerdas (stringed instrument division)
The avionics and instrument division is called Milwaukee Avionics & Instruments.
Analysts said that if Beckman was valued alongside comparable diagnostic instrument makers, Beckman, its diagnostic instrument division, could be worth $1 billion.
In 1965 Katz sold Kay to Seeburg Corporation, and he became the head of Seeburg's musical instrument division.
In 1978, Hach moved its instrument division and its corporate headquarters to Loveland, Colorado.