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Scan 105
Ayars, Contributions to the Art of Music in America by the Music Industries of Boston (1937) — the Squier, Farley, Rettberg, Rockwell and Elias Howe matter, 1937
20 lines. Read by computer on 27 September 2026. Printed page 83. See the scan on archive.org.
1It cost $1.00 per year, "one month, one dime" and was sold by newsdealers in the United States and Canada. It contained vocal music such as I Stood on the Bridge at Midnight, and pianoforte music and advertising, but no articles. Judging by press comments in the magazine it had a wide distribution.
3Vol. I No. 1, September 1, 1887—February and March 1899. Gatcomb's Banjo and Guitar Gazette. In November 1887 (Vol. 1 No. 2) The Banjo Herald edited and owned by W. C. Bryant of Brockton was consolidated with it and owned by Mr. Gatcomb. By September 1894 (Vol. VIII No. 1) called Gatcomb's Musical Gazette.
5This was an interesting and inspiring 9 1/4 x 12 eight page magazine intended for banjo, mandolin and guitar players, published by L. B. Gatcomb & Co., originally a bimonthly, single copies 10c, fifty cents a year. Edited from September 1887 to July-August 1889 by B. E. Shattuck, then by L. H. Galencia, guitarist and business manager of the Boston Ideal Banjo, Mandolin and Guitar Club. It contained about three pages of music. Under the head "Banjo Pickings" were interesting items concerning prominent teachers and players of the day.
7By 1894 it was monthly with a $1. per year subscription price. It was then edited by E. C. Burbank and contained 6 pages of music. The September 1894 issue stated among other items that "Walter Jacobs, as guitar soloist, and well known performer on mandolin, guitar and banjo is with the Thurston Concert Co. of Boston for the coming season."
9In 1899 the Gazette in a new yellow cover had again become 50c a year, foreign subscription 62c.
111894-February 1924. Cadenza.
13Published by the firm of Partee in the interest of mandolin, guitar and banjo playing. It was taken over in 1908 by Walter Jacobs, Inc. and published by this firm until 1924. It contained articles of interest to individual players and fretted instrument organizations, and musical numbers, the majority of which were original, but some were arrangements of standard works. Price 10c a copy early, but 15c at discontinuance.
15February 1901-1904. The Musical World, consolidated in February 1904 with The Musician.
17Philip Hale, Editor in Chief, Henry T. Finck, Louis C. Elson and others were the editors.10 This was published monthly for the Musical World Publishing Company by the J. B. Millet Company except
1910 "Philip Hale and Louis C. Elson were the musical critics of this era most noted for fair but severe comments." Statement of William B. Goodwin, organ builder.
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