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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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11890—Dunlow Court, Roxbury
2DANIEL MORRIS
3He was trained as an apprentice of C. C. Briggs & Co. and made mainly a popular priced instrument from between 1885-1890 to between 1890-1900.
51885—[address hidden], Roxbury
61890—[address hidden]
71900—George, Gerard & [address hidden], Roxbury
8NEW ENGLAND PIANO CO.
9T. F. Scanlon was president of this company which started between 1880-1885. They made overstrung squares first, on the lines of the Emerson scale, and then uprights. They were a large concern around 1890, making one of the lowest priced instruments. Between 1900-1910 they went out of business.
11This company and McLaughlin of the insolvent Smith American Organ & Piano Co., took over that company between 1900-1910. This latter company had begun to make pianofortes in 1884. In 1889 they exhibited their "Regal Piano" made on novel principles designed by H. W. Smith, which attracted much notice. It consisted of a method of tone qualification and piano case decoration, for the vibratory body of the piano was insulated from the case proper by the covering of the instrument all over with soft velvety material.24 The New England Piano Co. essayed a reed organ, but without much success.
131890—[address hidden]
14B. N. PHILLIPS
15Mr. Phillips advertised25 that he had been fourteen years with Woodward & Brown and J. W. Brackett. He made upright pianofortes and attached pedals for organ practice to any make, and apparently was in business only a few years.
171880—[address hidden]
18ROGERS UPRIGHT PIANO CO.
19About 1880. Sole manufacturers of the B. F. Baker Upright Piano. Elliot Patent—O. A. Gamage, general agent.26
2118 Presumably Timothy rather than Lemuel.
2219 Dolge, Alfred. Pianos and Their Makers p. 279.
2320 See Boston Directory 1900, Advertising Department p. 2378.
2421 Information supplied by Henry I. Tinkham, formerly of Chickering & Sons.
2522 Advertisement in The Apollo, Vol. 1 No. 4 & 5, February & March 1883, inside of back cover.
2623 Information supplied by William E. Merrill, Secretary, New England Music Trades Association.
2724 See Spillane, Daniel. History of the American Pianoforte p. 306.
2825 Boston Directory 1890, Advertising Department p. 1929.
2926 Boston City Directory 1880, Advertising Department p. 1376.
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