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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
12 lines. Read by computer on 27 September 2026. Printed page 181. See the scan on archive.org.
1Beginning with January 1, 1936 Mr. Skinner has gone into business with his son at Organ (formerly Serlo) Hall, Methuen, Massachusetts.
3FRAZEE ORGAN COMPANY
5The founder of the company, Leslie H. Frazee, was born in 1870 in New Brunswick, Canada, where as a lad of fourteen he began working for the Peters Organ Company of Saint John. While there he helped to manufacture the first electric action organ in Canada. In 1894 he entered the employ of the Boston firm of Jesse Woodberry, when he was starting to build his first electric action organ. When Mr. Woodberry retired from business in 1910 Leslie H. Frazee, E. E. Smallman, Mr. Woodberry's foreman, and Henry D. Kimball of the Hutchings Organ Company formed a company under the name of Kimball, Smallman & Frazee located in 1913 at [address hidden] Thus this company is a successor to the Jesse Woodberry Company.
7Upon Mr. Smallman's retirement in 1915 the firm name was changed to the Kimball-Frazee Organ Company, located in 1917 at [address hidden] and in 1919 at [address hidden] At the time of Mr. Kimball's death in 1920 Mr. Frazee's son, H. Norman Frazee, joined the business and the firm name was changed to Frazee Organ Company. Since 1924 Harry Upson Camp, an organist and organ architect, has been Sales Manager. Upon the death in December 1934 of Leslie H. Frazee the management of the company was taken over by H. Norman Frazee. The company's present factory, located at [address hidden], Everett, Massachusetts, was acquired and thoroughly equipped in 1925.
9This company has built church, school and college, concert and residence organs, about 300 altogether in all parts of the United States, the majority being located in New England. In these extra large scales are used because the company believes that the best tone can be produced only by utilizing large pipe scales and moderate wind pressure.
11This firm has been a leader in developing small two manual, inexpensive organs, costing earlier from $4000 to $8500 but, since the depression has reduced the price of materials they now cost only between $2000 and $6000. The company's low overhead enables them to make these organs with an interesting combination of stops.
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