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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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11932-34—[address hidden]
3RICHARD H. TURNER
4February 1932 into 1934.
5Mr. Turner is a violinist who came from Maine to Boston in 1920 and worked as expert violin repairer for the Musicians' Supply Company and Elias Howe before starting in business for himself in 1932.
7He had made violins since he was a boy using Amati, Stradivarius and Guarnerius models for patterns, and three or four violas. He is also a violin player and gained his knowledge of the acoustics of the violin from his teachers. Because he never could find a bow which was satisfactory to himself for playing, he began experimenting with them in 1907 with the result that bow making was a specialty of his. He has also made a study of kinds of bridges suitable for different styles of violins.
9He is now located elsewhere in a different kind of business.
111860—[address hidden]
121880—[address hidden]
14JAMES H. WHITE
15Between 1850-1860, by 1880 became James H. & J. Henry White. J. Henry alone 1890-1914.
16James H. White was a violin and woodwind repairer, maker of violin strings and prompter of the Germania Orchestra.
17His son, J. Henry, born in Boston in 1842, acquired a high reputation for his repairing of musical instruments.20
191900—[address hidden] Room 32
21MAURICE WHITE
22Between 1895-1900 to between 1905-10.
23A German maker of good violins. His name was originally Weiss. He made the instruments for E. Berliner's experiments.18
25Lynn, Mass.
261916—[address hidden] Boston (Musicians' Supply Co.)
28JOSEPH A. YOUNG 21
29Was an American maker, repairer and expert with fifteen years' experience (1916) in the trade. He worked for Elias Howe Co., had a shop for himself in Lynn for a while, and died while in the employ of the Musicians' Supply Co. He made violins and 'cellos.
3115 Listed in Poidras, Henri. Critical and Documentary Dictionary of Violin Makers Old and Modern P. 202 as a contemporary bow maker.
3218 This shop has been given up and the writer has been unable to learn whether he is continuing in business elsewhere.
3317 The Violinist's Guide. American Violin Makers P. 38.
3418 Statement of A. J. Oettinger, Musicians' Supply Company.
3519 Boston Directory 1891, Advertising Department P. 2024.
3620 Howe, William H. The Violinist's Guide. Early American Violin Makers P. 18.
3721 The Violinist's Guide. American Violin Makers P. 42.
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