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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
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1concert business, however. Its policies have been continued and developed for eighty odd years by Willard Atherton Vose and its present president, George Atherton Vose, son and grandson respectively of the founder, along the lines started by him.
3During these years more than 102,[address hidden], upright and grand Vose pianofortes have been sold to churches, educational institutions, professional musicians, and music lovers in all parts of the country, and a few have been exported. Both upright and grand player pianofortes and Welte-Mignon electric reproducing pianofortes have also been made.
5At the present time three-quarter grands and very small uprights are their most popular models.
7Vose pianofortes are used and endorsed by such educational institutions as Chicago Musical College; Horner Institute of Fine Arts, Kansas City; University of Wyoming; University School of Music, Lincoln, Nebraska. A square Vose pianoforte has long been in use in the late Ex-President Coolidge's home at Plymouth, Vermont.
9HENRY F. MILLER PIANO COMPANY
11This company was established by Henry F. Miller (1825-1884), who was a noted improvisateur. He first intended to become a pianist and organist, then worked in his father's jewelry store, and later studied pianoforte making with the firm of Brown & Allen. Then he worked five years with the Emerson Piano Company. He started his own business in 1862, being associated with N. M. Lowe and J. H. Gibson. After a comparatively short time, he became sole proprietor. After his death his five sons continued the business.21
13During three generations of manufacture at Wakefield, Massachusetts, some 55,000 instruments were made, some uprights, but mostly grands. Little mechanical change has been made in the last twenty-five years from the master instrument which had proven satisfactory. Player pianofortes, called "Playerfortes," were made for about twenty years and quite a business was done in these from 1920-1928. Pianofortes were also made with the Welte-Mignon reproducing mechanism for about twelve years until four years ago.
15In 1931 the factory was moved to New York City to cut overhead costs and to obtain the advantages of large purchases by manu-
1721 From Pauer, Ernst. The Pianist's Dictionary p. 148.
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