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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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1allowed the free escape of the sound and thus effected a considerable economy of space.
3The first organ of this kind was made for the then new Church of St. Thomas, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, and the second for the Chapel of the Theological Seminary of the Jesuit Fathers at Woodstock, Maryland. The article writer stated that the latter instrument, though small, was without the weakness and disagreeable characteristics almost always encountered in instruments of moderate power, and possessed great sweetness and delicacy (the Dulce stop being peculiarly beautiful) with a dignity, solidity and individuality of tone not always found in much larger instruments. In this organ the writer considered that the golden mean between the grand organ and the small rather undecided chapel organ, to which hearers of that period were accustomed, had been happily reached.
5At this same time a large, magnificent organ for those days was being constructed for St. Peter's Church, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
7In the period about 1870 this company probably did the finest work in America.11 By 1875? they had made nearly sixty organs.
9C. H. Preston came into the firm later and the name was changed to Hutchings, Plaisted & Company about 1873 when it was located at North [address hidden] corner of Cambridge. Mr. Preston's death caused the company great financial embarrassment for a time about 1881? when the firm became Hutchings & Plaisted Mfg. Co. located at [address hidden] In 1882 it was Hutchings & Plaisted and back at the previous address. In 1883 it was again Hutchings, Plaisted & Co. Mr. Plaisted also died and George S. Hutchings (1856-1913) became sole owner of the business in 1884. About 1890 the George S. Hutchings Company moved to [address hidden] In 1901 this business was succeeded by The Hutchings-Votey Organ Company 1901-08. This remained at the same address until it moved about 1905 to Pacific, corner [address hidden], Cambridge, Massachusetts.
11The merger with the Votey Company meant the merging of the interests of the Hilbourne L. Roosevelt firm also. The business of Hilbourne L. Roosevelt, a noted pipe organ builder of many innovations, a novel voicer and an inventor of early electric action, which he patented in 1868 and used in 1870, had been carried on
1311 Statement of William B. Goodwin, Lowell, Massachusetts, organ builder.
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