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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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1endowed a prize in the Yale University School of Music in 1906 besides three scholarships.
3During extended travels in Europe he collected, as a hobby, a variety of stringed and keyed musical instruments, obtaining a specimen of every style from early 18th century to modern pianofortes. When he exhibited these instruments in the International Exhibition for Music in Vienna in 1892, it was found that they surpassed similar collections in European Museums. They were loaned to the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893 and to the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo in 1901. They were used by Mr. Steinert on his lecture tours in the United States, which included lectures at Yale, Harvard, Columbia and other universities.
5Upon his death 28 many instruments were donated to Yale University, where they are on display in Woolsey Hall. "The remainder of the collection was stored in a Boston warehouse cellar and was brought to light again in 1934. These instruments are now in process of restoration, among them the pianoforte on which Beethoven scored the 'Eroica', and the famous Astor pipe organ-piano, reputedly the only one of its kind in the world." 29
728 Statement of Jerome F. Murphy, Jr., but see Grove's Dictionary, American Supplement p. 373 for another date.
829 Statement of Jerome F. Murphy, Jr.
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