A Brief History of Harminy

     In 1984, while a freshman at Pittsfield High School,  Joe Mindlin was a music student and thought it would be fun to DJ the Music Department banquet since he loved music and playing records. After the banquet and throughout his high school years, he would continue to do parties, schlepping cassettes and LPs to numerous places throughout Berkshire County, never thinking that someday he'd be a mobile DJ for over 30 years.  Over the decades, the company changed its name twice, from Digital Sound Productions in the late 80's, then to Gold Platter Productions in the 90's when Joe collaborated with Joe Scapin, a late friend and co-worker of his at WUPE Radio.  In the early 2000's, Joe collaborated with another friend, Thomas Harrison, to create Harminy Entertainment.  People may ask "why is the word Harminy misspelled?"  Well, it's a simple answer!  Tom came up with the idea of using the first 3 letters of his last name (Harrison) and the first 3 letters of Joe's last  name (Mindlin) and add a Y at the end, thus became HARMINY (brilliant, eh?).  Tom Harrison hung up his full-time DJing in the early 2010's due to health reasons.  Larry Kratka joined Harminy in 2012 and was with the company until 2023.  Looking back at where it all started, the back breaking days of schlepping heavy equipment, records, tapes and CDs....Joe still says it was all worth it because he enjoys entertaining people!