Josiah Eustace Dodd

He was educated at St Stephen's Church School in Richmond, and apprenticed to the organ builder George Fincham[3] of Bridge Road, Mitcham.

Fincham & Hobday began laying off workers and taking any kind of work, even unprofitably, in order to retain their skilled staff.

The upper floor was devoted to refurbishment of pianos, which shortly became a growth industry as a result of Federal import duties being applied to musical instruments.

[11] Around 1935 the Gunn brothers, Bill Binding and Joseph Starling, frustrated by Dodd's autocratic ways and reluctance to adopt the latest technology, left the company and founded Gunstar Organ Works with premises at Plympton.

With the advent of World War II, and many workers joining the 2nd AIF, the two companies amalgamated as J. E. Dodd & Sons Gunstar Organ Works.

On 10 April 1879 Dodd married Jessie Lovat Fraser of Inverness, Scotland at the Baptist Church, Richmond, Victoria.