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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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1This company has also developed the finest sustaining tone pedal used in a pianoforte.26
3The seventieth anniversary of the founding of the company was celebrated in 1925 by a gathering of the company's employees in Jordan Hall. The program consisted of music by Harold Bauer and the Mason & Hamlin Employees' Orchestra, and an address by the President, Henry L. Mason. A silver bowl was presented by the company to Harold Bauer, who had played their pianoforte ever since he came to the United States, twenty-five years before.
5A roster of prominent artists who have used this pianoforte is significant. William H. Sherwood played the first concert grand of Mason & Hamlin used with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, in 1895. Rachmaninoff played it in 1909 in the United States. Harold Bauer has used it in Europe and Australia, as well as in the United States from 1900-1925. Other users have been Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Ben Moisewitsch in Europe, Alexander Brailowsky, Maurice Ravel, Frank Sheridan, George Copeland, Martinus Sieveking. Dame Melba was accompanied by one on a transcontinental tour of fifty concerts in the United States. She also bought two small grands and took them to her home in Australia.
7The English pianists, Herbert Fryer and Katherine Goodson, were introduced to the United States and their tours were managed by the company.
9POOLE PIANO COMPANY
11This company was founded in 1893 by William H. Poole, who had made pianoforte parts earlier. It was incorporated in 1917.
13It has made to date approximately 25,000 upright, grand, and some player pianofortes sold only at wholesale all over the United States. While the Poole pianoforte is less expensively built than some makes, it is rated as a good instrument.
15Shepard Pond, the treasurer of this company, has a controlling interest in it. The Poole Piano Company now occupies space in a part of the Ivers & Pond Piano Company factory in Cambridgeport.
1726 Statement of Henry L. Mason.
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