Armstrong
business partner
mathematician
Biography
Armstrong was Lucien Wulsin's partner in building the Baldwin piano business. Where Wulsin supplied ideas and business foresight, Armstrong is described as the mathematician of the pair, working out the details of their plans to never-failing exactness. The text credits the two men as an excellent team whose complementary talents drove the company's early growth, with commercial soundness prioritized first and artistic development pursued once a trained workforce was in place.
Highlights
- Described as 'the mathematician and man of figures' in the Baldwin partnership
- Worked out the exacting operational details of Wulsin's expansion plans
Source
Alfred Dolge, Pianos and Their Makers, Vol. I (1911), p. 347.
Public domain.