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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
23 lines. Read by computer on 23 September 2026. Printed page 210. See the scan on archive.org.
1Felix Winternitz, Boston and New York
2Allen Langley, New York and Philadelphia
3Valedimar Berlin, Philadelphia
4Frederick Fradkin, New York
5Morris Hewett, Head of Cleveland Institute of Music
6Sylvan Noack, Concert Master, Los Angeles Symphony Orchestra
7New England Conservatory teachers
8Leo F. Reisman, formerly Hotel Brunswick, Boston
10P. BALTZERSON 16
12Peter Baltzerson was born in Tjotta, Norway, came to Boston when thirty years old and was a building trade worker until the World War. He made his first fiddle about thirty-nine years ago and continued fiddle making as a hobby. He worked for O. H. Bryant and started in business for himself in 1920 at [address hidden] after visiting many European shops. He was located around 1930 at [address hidden], but at present is at [address hidden]
14He uses the Stradivarius, J. B. Guadagnini, Nicolas Amati and Joseph Guarnerius as patterns for his instruments. In all he has made 198 violins, 6 violas and 2 violoncellos. About ten members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra including the concert master use his violins.
16He also makes bows, repairs, and sells old makes of instruments.
18C. F. STANLEY
20The Stanley family's interest in violins dates back to the time when Carlton F. Stanley's great grandfather in Dixfield, Maine, gave his grandson Isaac a violoncello and a violin. The latter taught himself to play on them. His brother F. O. Stanley, made a three-quarter size violin when ten years old, and learned to play somewhat on it. When he was sixteen years old he made two full size instruments. He used State of Maine pine for the front, obtaining the idea for this from Longfellow's Tales of a Wayside Inn, not knowing that the pine referred to there was Swiss pine, the European name for spruce. Ever since then he has made and experimented with violins as a hobby, selling some in the 1870's, when he was a high school teacher.
2216 Listed in Poidras, Henri. Critical and Documentary Dictionary of Violin Makers, Old and Modern, p. 178 as a contemporary maker.
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