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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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1APPENDIX II. Other Boston Reed Organ Firms – Period 1850-1910
3Addresses from Boston Business Directories
5Names of Firms and Information About the Firms
71868—[address hidden]
81872—[address hidden]
9BOSTON ORGAN CO.
101868, became the New England Organ Co. in 1872, till between 1880-90.
11Made cheap organs.
13[address hidden]
141872—[address hidden] out by 1878
15BRUCE (J. M.) & CHARD (G.); then GRANVILLE CHARD
161869-78. Manufacturers of the Mozart Organs & Melodeons for parlors, halls and churches.
181879—[address hidden]
19DAVID CHARD
201879. Cabinet organs.
221868—[address hidden]
231880—[address hidden]
24WM. H. GERRISH
251868 to between 1880-90.
26Earlier a Mason & Hamlin salesman. Small serious maker of good reed organs and organist of one of the largest Masonic lodges of Boston. For publications see P. 26.
281875—[address hidden]
29C. B. HUNT & CO.
301875 to between 1889-90.
31Manufacturers of Bay State reed organs. Firm C. B. Hunt and P. Kraus.
331880—[address hidden]
34W. H. JOHNSON & CO.
35Around 1880. Orguinettes.
37Office [address hidden]; Factory Worcester, Mass.
38MASON & RISCH
39The "Vocalion" (Invented by Hamilton of Scotland).
40A pressure free-reed, reeds much larger, broader, and heavier at tip and thin at butt. Good imitation of pipetone, cost prohibitory.
421879—[address hidden]
43MASSACHUSETTS ORGAN CO.
441879 to between 1880-90.
46NEW ENGLAND ORGAN CO.
47See Boston Organ Co.
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