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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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1Mr. Woodward and others in the concern patented many improvements "from 1843 to 1890 all of which possessed some utility and value."27 They made good full iron plate overstrung squares, but their uprights were unsuccessful.
3"Mr. Woodward's most distinguishing personal characteristic was his love of music. He was one of the oldest members of the Handel & Haydn Society and devoted himself to its art interests."27 He died in Brookline in 1883. Sometime between 1885-1890 this firm was out of business though Mr. Spillane speaks of it as a going concern in his book published in 1890. The Woodward & Brown Piano Co. appears in the business directory around 1895 but was gone before 1900.
527 Spillane, Daniel. History of the American Pianoforte P. 169.
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