In addition to fencing, Schmitter was an accomplished tuba and string bass player and a member of the American Federation of Musicians.
A founding member of the Travelling Musician's Union, Local 1000 of the American Federation of Musicians.
The Sinatra and Haymes records were made during the 1942–1944 musicians' strike, an American Federation of Musicians strike against the recording companies.
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Bugs counts all the money coming, noting to the audience: "I sure hope Petrillo doesn't hear about this" (a then-topical gag referencing the president of the American Federation of Musicians, which was on strike in 1948 when the short was copyrighted).
He attended Franklin Avenue Grammar School in East Hollywood and then Thomas Starr King Junior High and eventually Los Angeles High School in which he joined the American Federation of Musicians.
Winfree currently works at a large aircraft plant in Texas and is a member of UAW Local 848 in Grand Prairie, Texas and also the Dallas/Fort Worth Professional Musicians Association / American Federation of Musicians Local 72-147.