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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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1Luisa Tetrazzini wrote, "Gentlemen,—Your flute is an inspiration to my voice, and I wish to congratulate you for the production of such a beautiful toned instrument."
3THE HAYNES-SCHWELM CO.
5This company was started in Boston in 1913 with Wm. S. Haynes, Jr. as manager. It is now located at [address hidden], Roslindale.
7They build custom made German silver, sterling silver and gold flutes to order, American models with covered keys, French models with open keys, alto sterling silver flutes with covered keys, and wooden and sterling silver piccolos. Their serial numbers for flutes and piccolos are now in the sixty-four hundreds. They also carry accessories and make repairs.
9This firm finds that about three-quarters of its piccolo player customers still prefer the wooden instrument, because it is so difficult to duplicate the same body of tone in an instrument of so small a bore with a thin metal wall in place of a thick wooden wall.
11This firm also supervises the making and distribution of a professional wood and metal clarinet, made in Providence, Rhode Island. The metal clarinet is made from spring-hard nickel-silver, as this gives more resonance. These instruments have two walls with the thermos air chamber between and the tone holes are soldered on to the tube, as experiments have shown this to be the best way to retain the hardness and resonant tone.2 Lead, silver, and gold are used for solder. In the case of the last, hard running solder is used first and then soft running. About 8,000 clarinets have been made in the eight years that the Haynes-Schwelm Company has been interested in their production.
13Instruments made by this concern are used by teachers of flute playing and artists like John Fisher, Wm. E. Hullinger and Charles K. North, who was with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Boston Band, Boston Opera Company, and was flute soloist with Dame Melba.
15VERNE Q. POWELL FLUTES, INC.
17Verne Q. Powell was a jeweller at Fort Scott, Kansas, and a flute player on the side. His first flute, made of old scrap silver,
192 Statements of William S. Haynes, Jr.
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