1996; On a dusty rest stop in South Dakota, MF Founder Tor Clausen discovered the music within a picnic table when he drummed the table with his fist. Upon returning home, he set up shop in his sisters unheated garage to begin building prototypes of sketches he had drawn on the road trip. In one hot saturday, a few months later, Tor sold all of his prototypes at a gallery fair in Bellevue Washington. He gathered his savings and borrowed money to hire an attorney to write a utility patent protecting the novel idea of Musical Furnishings.

In the subsequent years, Tor has outgrown his sisters garage, blown 1972 dodge transmission in Idaho delivering product, and tuned more xylophone keys than you can shake a stick at. The furniture is getting better too. New designs are being introduced and direct customer feedback has refined the all the musical offerings. The designs, patents and production are solidly in place.