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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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11878—101-103 and [address hidden], East Cambridge
2About 1878. Had worked with Erben, N. Y. Well known, had good tone, but did rather poor work. Advertised "Giant Pipe Organs," a Special Class of Pipe Organs possessing great Power of Tone, at very low prices.3 His prices gave him a good business mostly in New England.
4Millis, Mass., formerly East Medway. [address hidden] & [address hidden] 1830-1904
5HOLBROOK (GEO. H., later E[dwin] L. 2-4
6George H. Holbrook made church bells and organs and may possibly have worked for Thomas Appleton. He built organs for many churches in the Connecticut River valley. One of his largest was in the Baptist Church at South Hadley, Massachusetts. His organ in the First Congregational Church at Ipswich, Massachusetts, had, in 1923, 19 stops, push buttons for the couplers, and tracker action. The Great Organ had a pneumatic coupler to the Swell. He did fine work mechanically, but his tones were not especially colorful. George H. Holbrook took into partnership later J. Holbrook Ware who retired in 1850 and sold his interest to Edwin L. Holbrook who was an organist and made the organs himself.
8ROBERT HOPE JONES 2
9He worked in partnership with the Austins when they were in business in South Boston. He was English, the builder of the great organ in Worcester Cathedral, and had made many inventions, including—the 32 ft. Diaphone among other stops, a new electric action, and the first independent console. He went to New York state when the Austin Company moved and died in 1914.
111890 Waltham, Mass.
12EMORY W. LANE
13After 1890 for about 15 years. Worked in the office of Hook & Hastings, then went in business for himself. Built a few organs, but mostly repaired and rebuilt.
151871—[address hidden]
161875—[address hidden]
171877—[address hidden]
181888—Music Hall Bldg.
191900—Tremont Temple (Off.) Factory in Reading
20GEORGE H. RYDER 1
211871—between 1900-10. Catalogue of 1892 lists 168 organs built or rebuilt. This firm at one time was Geo. H. & T(homas) P(hilander) Ryder and Narramore. Did excellent work. Made 1, 2 & 3 manual good mechanical action church organs, but largely 2 manual organs. His largest, a 3 manual, was in Michigan. He built many Masonic organs. His No. 7 was for St. John's, Lowell, Mass. Others were People's Temple, Boston, Christ Church Episcopal, Plymouth, Mass. and his last a specially fine tubular-pneumatic action one in Exeter, N.H. Ryder was followed in Reading by C. Y. Chadwick, who removed to Springfield, Mass. Then J. D. Brennan formerly with Ryder took the shop.
231 Information supplied by James Cole and William B. Goodwin, organ builders.
242 Information supplied by William B. Goodwin.
253 Boston Directory 1878, Advertising Department p. 1382.
264 Information supplied by A. C. Foster.
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