Pearl Musical Instruments Company Ltd

Walt Johnston is best known throughout the industry for his role in introducing the Pearl Drum Company to the United States. After a gig selling band instruments, Walt was hired by CMI to bring the Pearl kits to the American market. His success was based on several elements, not the least of which is Walt’s dedication to his customers. In 1998, he and his wife formed Worldmax USA, a company that provides drum hardware to a number of American companies.
 

Robert Morrison was fully involved with marching band and percussion in school and into college, where he studied music education. His involvement with school bands and music education landed him the job at Pearl Drums to help build the marching and concert band division, which he began to do in 1987. That experience led to his involvement with Karl Bruhn and the National Collation of Music Education. Robert served on the board of MENC and Karl Bruhn, who at the time was the Director of Market Development for NAMM. When Karl retired he suggested Robert take his place. As the head of Market Development Robert was involved with many government relation programs and music research studies.