Joseph Tushinsky was an inventor, musician, optics innovator, writer and chairman of the board of Superscope Corp. and the Marantz Co. He played a major role in developing the high-fidelity industry by becoming the American import-distributor of Sony audio tape recorders in the late 1950s. Tushinsky wrote several screenplays that were made into motion pictures in the 1940s and in 1943, went to Hollywood where, with his brother Irving, developed a wide-screen movie projection process known as Superscope, which was introduced in 1953 and helped to usher in the era of wide-screen motion pictures. While marketing the Superscope process in Japan in 1957, Tushinsky met with Sony co-founder Akio Morita and negotiated to obtain exclusive rights to sell Sony’s audio recorders in the U.S. Under a revised agreement, Sony America began marketing audiorecorders in 1974. In 1964 Superscope purchased the Marantz Co., and the merged company under the Marantz name became a major marketer of high-fidelity stereo components. A collector of player pianos and their paper music rolls, in the 1970s Tushinsky developed an electronic version that was controlled by instructions recorded on a tape cassette. It was called the Piano Order Reproducing System. He retired as chairman of Marantz in 1987, when he sold the company to Cobra/Dynascan.