Over 80 years later, West Chester residents rely on Taylor’s Music just as strongly as when it opened in 1929 during the stock market crash.
Painting: John Hannafin
From our March “Family Owned & Operated” issue.
If you’re looking for an illustration of the power of music, imagine starting a tiny music store in the year of the stock market crash and having that store expand and grow int a fixture of the community some 80 years later. Taylor’s Music is that place.
Music teacher Gene Buglio bought it from original owner John I. Taylor in the mid-fifties, and then his own son, Tom, came on board in the mid-seventies, moving and reconditioning pianos.When a second location opened in Devon, Tom managed it for 10 years, eventually moving into an ownership position. In 1987, Gene’s daughter Julie married Len Doyle, who brought his expertise in the guitar to the table, and he eventually bought the store.
Taylor’s is a full service music store, with everything from instruments to sheet music, to software, aptly illustrating the adage that the family that plays together stays together.
