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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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1and musical quality could be incorporated into the Ivers pianoforte, a new standard would be set. So, in 1880, the Ivers & Pond Piano Company was founded. In 1897 Mr. Ivers resigned as President, relinquished his interest and retired. Mr. Pond succeeded him in office until his death in 1908. The present heads of the company are his sons, Clarence H. Pond, President, and Shepard Pond, Treasurer. This is one of the two 24 greater Boston firms whose traditions are still carried on by the family of the founder. Its office is at [address hidden], and its factory in Cambridgeport, Massachusetts.
3This company makes a first quality pianoforte for home and school use. In place of artist exploitation it has done consistent national advertising for fifty years. From the start, it made squares, now obsolete, uprights and grands. In 1903 it added to its line grand pianofortes with player and the Welte-Mignon reproducing mechanisms. The company has made and sold between 79,000 and 80,000 instruments, distributed all over the United States, and a few outside. Because of their reasonable price and durability as well as quality "over 600 leading musical and educational institutions have endorsed this instrument by buying it for their own use, a record we believe unequalled in the annals of American piano building." 25 At one time it received from the New England Conservatory the large order of one hundred pianofortes.
5This was the first company to import into the United States in 1904 the electric driven reproducing instruments of M. Welte and Sons of Freiburg, Germany, and also the first recordings. The earliest style was an upright without keys which looked like a sideboard or ice chest.
7This company has many patents for refinements of the mechanism of its instruments.
9MASON & HAMLIN COMPANY
11Since this company was organized in 1854 for the manufacture of reed organs, its earliest history is sketched in the section on Reed Organs. The manufacture of pianofortes was begun in 1880, and the first were brought out in 1882. These were uprights. Then followed baby parlor and finally concert grands.
1324 The other such firm is Vose & Sons Piano Company.
1425 From Ivers & Pond Policy—Past and Present 1880-1926.
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