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Scan 237
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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1In 1924 F. O. Stanley and his nephew, Carlton F. Stanley, who had worked with him, fitted up a shop at [address hidden], Newton, Massachusetts. There the latter has made just under four hundred violins, all patterned after one of Stradivarius' best instruments which is in a museum at Florence, Italy, and two violins for one customer patterned after Guadagnini. Recently they added the making of violas also.
3Their idea is to make as good an instrument as can be made for the money to sell at a reasonable price. For the fronts they use both American and European spruce and European maple for the rest of the body. Their customers are mostly violin teachers and advanced students located in many different parts of the United States. They made two specially fine violins for Henry Ford who became interested because some players at the Wayside Inn used Stanley instruments.
5F. LINCOLN JOHNSON
7Frederick Lincoln Johnson has worked for various Boston violin firms for a number of years. He has been a maker of violins for some thirty years. In that time he has made around 100 violins at his home now at [address hidden], Boston, and has also bought and sold violins.
9He has never had a shop as he was engaged in other work daytimes for many years.
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