A brief history of PaGu Batons:

In the summer of 2007, we adopted a golden retriever puppy who loved to wake me up at 4:30am. With a little time on my hands before leaving for school, I started to play around with a lathe that my father had given me years earlier, but never had the time or need to use it. Being a conductor, the only thing that came to mind was to make a baton handle for myself. From that point friends and colleagues encouraged me to continue making these crude batons for them. A year later the musicians of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra commissioned me to make an anniversary gift baton and case for their music director Joann Falletta for the celebration of her 10th season with the orchestra. It was at this point that I feverishly worked to refine my skills as a woodworker to produce the most beautiful product possible. At this point, I called the batons the PaGu 430 Brand which is a take off of my first initial of my first name, first three initials of my last name and the time of the morning I was making my batons.

Since then, I have become the official baton maker for Maestro Falletta and several other conductors of universities, Broadway Shows, schools and community groups. The PaGu 430 Brand has evolved to PaGu Batons as I have cataloged dozens of baton styles each with its own model number. To date, over 700 batons and cases with the PaGu Batons logo have been sold through stores and at conferences on the East Coast. The future is looking even better as I am booked as the official baton maker for conferences and symposiums a year in advance.

In July of ’09 we plan to launch our official website pagubatons.com which will feature a wide variety of PaGu Batons products and services.