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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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1line, he accepted an invitation to reside with him. Here he learned to make metal pipes. He was for a number of weeks with Mr. John Mycall at Newburyport, repairing and tuning his Organ.
3"Residing in Boston he became acquainted with Mr. Mallet of Charlestown, Organist [of the] Catholic Church there at that time, who taking an interest in him, took him inside the Organ and showed him the mysteries of the interior. Mr. Goodrich then tuned a number of Pianofortes and also tuned Mr. Mallet's Organ. In 1804 he formed a connection with a Mr. Benjamin Crehore of Milton in the Manufacture of Pianos, but this subsisted only a few months.
5"In November 1804 Mr. Goodrich and his brother opened a little shop near the Junction of Cambridge and [address hidden] and there constructed a small chamber Organ. About this time Bishop Chevereux wanted an Organ for the Catholic Church [in] Boston. Mr. Goodrich's friend 'Mallet' being a Catholic and an Organist, was consulted, and proposed Mr. Goodrich as the builder. The Bishop and Mr. Goodrich met and it was decided that he should build it. This was his first 'Church Organ.' It was begun early in 1805 and was finished and put up in 1806. In 1822 he supplied the same church with a larger Organ, taking the other one in part payment. In 1806 Mr. Goodrich repaired and tuned the English built Organ in [address hidden]. Church. This was the first time that he ever entered a 'Church Organ' other than his own for the purpose of making repairs. It was presumed that at this time the old fashioned single bellows was taken out and a new one of the double kind substituted. [The first organ went to Sommersworth, Vermont, in 1834.]
7"This year also Mr. Goodrich built an Organ for Dr. Gannett's Church at Cambridgeport, which was finished and put up in January 1807. This Organ was divided into two parts, half on each side of the Pulpit window. This Organ in 1828 was received in part payment for a new one built by him and was afterwards destroyed. It was a poor instrument. In 1807 he built an Organ for Mr. Saml. Cabot Jun. and another for a church in Walpole, N. H. He also repaired the English Organ in 'King's Chapel' and put up an English Organ in an Episcopal Church, Portsmouth, N. H.
9"In 1806 Mr. Goodrich accidentally got acquainted with Mr. Thomas Appleton, . . . of Boston. From 1807 Mr. Appleton
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