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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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1Museum of Fine Arts. The stringed instruments, some two hundred violins, violas, violoncellos, harps, were turned over to them for restoration. It took nine months' work by Mr. Gould and his four sons to accomplish this.
3This firm also does appraising for banks, United States Appraisers Stores and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Not long ago it appraised the stringed instruments of the Searles Estate.
5Mr. Gould in his forty odd years of work in Boston has made a study of old New England violin makers. In the course of this he has collected early New England fiddles, hundreds of labels of ancient makers, pictures of famous old violins, business cards of the members of his profession, and has prepared a history of New England's violin makers from this material.
7Through Erik Gould, who is a collector of violins, Boston is now the home of the violin which belonged to Robert Burns, the Scotch bard. He bought it from a Mrs. Hill of Enfield, England, whose husband was a direct descendant of the poet. The name of the maker, "A. Hardie, Maxwelton, 1758," is stamped on the inside of the instrument. The top piece is Scotch fir and the strings are attached to boxwood instead of the customary rose or ebony pegs. The tailpiece is fastened to the body of the instrument by means of two catgut strings looped through holes in this part.8
9HENRY F. SCHULTZ9
11Mr. Schultz was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1867 of German parentage. He was apprenticed in 1886 for three years to Clark Powers of Boston, and then worked for Charles Story for two years. He also worked in Chicago and finished learning his trade of violin and double bass making with John A. Gould for whom he worked several years. He was chief maker and repairer for Elias Howe Company for some years until he became a partner in Robinson (Robert)10 & Schultz in 1902. Later he was in charge of the violin making and repairing department first of the Musicians' Supply Company and then of the Oliver Ditson Company. In 1898 he started his own business in Scollay Square, remaining there until the building burned in 1910. Then he worked at his Randolph
138 Boston Traveler, January 31, 1931 p. 16—"Bostonian Treasures Violin of Bobbie Burns."
149 Listed in Bachmann, Alberto. Encyclopedia of the Violin p. 54.
1510 See Robert Robinson Appendix IV Section A. p. 262.
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