Ted "Teddy" Popovich, a Serbian immigrant who led the nationally renowned Popovich Brothers tamburica orchestra and harmonized at the inauguration of President Eisenhower in 1952, died Tuesday. He was 93.

Mr. Popovich was well-known in Serbian folk-music circles and lived the last year of his life in Pittsburgh with his wife, Mildred.

Mr. Popovich made multiple tours across the United States, mainly to American-Serb and American-Croatian communities. His band consisted of his lead vocals and his four brothers' instrument playing.

The tamburica is the most popular stringed instrument in Serbian and Croatian folk music and can be compared to the mandolin of Italy.

Mr. Popovich grew up in the coal fields of Colorado and later moved with his parents, four brothers and five sisters to a growing Serbian community in Chicago.

For many of the Serbian families of Chicago's Serbian Southside enclave, music was the only enduring legacy of their homelands. In 1977, a film was released featuring the brothers' band and its ties to Chicago's Serbian community.

After years of playing, the orchestra grew in fame and peaked in the early 1950s and went on to play at the 1975 Smithsonian Folk Festival in Washington D.C.

Mr. Popovich is survived by his wife and two daughters, Natalie Peinovich and Danella Winovich. He was buried yesterday in Illinois.