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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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1shop and in 1922 took a place at [address hidden] where he is today.
3Mr. Schultz has made for himself many violins, violas, violoncellos and double basses, being almost the only maker of the last-named in Massachusetts. He uses spruce and maple wood for the body and ebony for pegs, fingerboard and tail, following Stradivarius and Guarnerius as patterns. Some of his instruments are now used by the New York Philharmonic Orchestra players.
5He also imports and sells high-grade new instruments, occasionally some older ones, bows and all kinds of trimmings.
7As an appraiser, Mr. Schultz has been called to testify in Boston courts, especially the custom house court in duty cases.
9Repairing is one of the most important parts of the business. He has had double basses sent to him from New York for restoration as there are few American workers skilled in this. He has also done the feat of repairing badly broken violins, one of which had been smashed into 96 pieces and another into 427 pieces.11
11EDMUND F. BRYANT12
13Mr. Bryant was born at Woodstock, New Hampshire. He made his first violin as a boy and played it at husking bees thereabouts. When he was thirteen years old, he went to Lowell, Massachusetts, to study violin with Oscar Greiner, the concert master of the Germania Orchestra. Later, he studied with Julius Eichberg and Bernhardt Listemann at the old Boston Conservatory of Music of which he is a graduate.
15At the age of seventeen, he played in a Lowell theatre orchestra and then went on the road with different companies, such as "Birds of a Feather" and the Swedish "Alle Archestram Drama." After that he settled in Boston as a teacher and player of violin and also had a class in Lowell, Massachusetts.
17The art of violin making he learned through working with Ira J. White, the best maker in Boston at that time. His start in business for himself at [address hidden] began with the sale for his friend, Mr. Hathorn, of the latter's collection of sixty old violins. The firm was E. F. & O. H. (his nephew) Bryant around 1905.
1911 Statement of Henry F. Schultz.
2012 Listed in Poidras, Henri. Critical and Documentary Dictionary of Violin Makers Old and Modern p. 181 as a contemporary maker.
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