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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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1church built at least forty years ago are two of the earliest in which this blower fan was used.18 It is now well nigh universally employed both in the United States and abroad.
3The Skinner replica of the Willis 16' low C Trombone register was first made in this factory after Mr. Skinner's return from a visit to England.19
5Perhaps the best new tonal features of the Hutchings factory were those acquired from Carlton C. Michell, who exhibited the round, draught-beard, (Schülze?) developing, quick-speaking and extra pungent, almost orchestral string tones, (almost reed tone) and improved harmonic flutes.20
7In appreciation of Mr. Hutchings' efforts, particularly for his building of the organ in Woolsey Hall, Yale University gave him an honorary M.A., probably the first such degree ever bestowed for organ building prowess.
9JAMES COLE 21 (ALSO COLE, & WOODBERRY BROS.; COLE & WOODBERRY; COLE ORGAN CO.)
11This company was established in 1886 as Cole, & Woodberry Bros. at [address hidden], Boston. Mr. Cole, an accomplished voicer, and the Woodberry brothers, Jesse and James, had been fellow workers at Hook & Hastings, where the latter had built the special line of small organs. By 1890 Jesse Woodberry had left to form Woodberry & Harris so this firm became Cole & Woodberry. From 1899 Mr. Cole was in business by himself until 1904 as James Cole (after Mr. Woodberry's death?) and then under the firm name of Cole Organ Co. until the World War made continuance of the business difficult. After that time he acted as a sort of consultant, and repaired, rebuilt, voiced and tuned pipe organs until his death, April 8, 1934.
13This company built some five hundred church and residence organs located all over the United States.
15Among noteworthy organs built by the James Cole company are the following:
17SAINT MARTIN'S IN THE FIELDS, Providence, Rhode Island.
1919 Barnes, William H. The Contemporary American Organ p. 72.
2020 Statement of William B. Goodwin, organ builder.
2121 This write-up was not verified by Mr. Cole because the revision and checkups were not undertaken until 1935, after his death.
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