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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
40 lines. Read by computer on 27 September 2026, twice; the two readings disagreed in places. Printed page 269. See the scan on archive.org.
1B. F. RICHARDSON; RICHARDSON & LEHNERT
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13B. F. RICHARDSON. This business started as Allen & Richardson. Allen apparently withdrew in 1853 and B. F. Richardson's name does not appear again till 1855 when he manufactured all kinds of brass instruments. In 1861 the firm was Richardson & Bayley who advertised, "Improved Cornets and all kinds of musical instruments of the most approved styles with all the modern improvements, made to order and warranted." In 1862 Mr. Richardson was alone as an importer, dealer and manufacturer. In 1863 he advertised himself, not bashfully, as "Originator and Sole Manufacturer of the Celebrated 'Bayley Cornet,' Pronounced by all our best Musicians to be 'The Richest Toned Instrument in the World.'"35 This cornet had a short life.
15In 1866 the firm became Richardson & Lehnert. After Mr. Lehnert's death B. F. Richardson was listed from 1880 to 1895 as a music stand manufacturer.
17STANDARD BAND INSTRUMENT CO.
18Started in 1884 by Thompson & Odell. Taken over by The Vega Co. around 1905. It was listed last in the 1908 directory.
20THOMPSON & ODELL
21For their brass instrument manufacturing see Standard Band Instrument Co. above.
23L. E. WHIPPLE
241881 and 1882.
25L. E. Whipple's Musicians' Specialties were acme rosin; a brilliant lustre polish; slide trombone oil, compound lubricator for slides and joints of brass and wood instruments; jet black copying ink.
27WHIPPLE MUSIC CO.
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31Successor to L. E. Whipple, dealer and publisher and to Quinby Bros. manufacturers of brass band instruments. They continued L. E. Whipple's Musicians' Specialties and advertised themselves as manufacturers and importers of band instruments, who carried violins, banjos, German accordions, harmonicas, Swiss music boxes, snare drums, violin strings and cases for sale. They featured in The Apollo their new cornet, "Whipple's Diamond Cornet" in B-flat and A. For their publishing activities see P. 23.
3329 Information supplied by Thomas M. Carter, leader of Carter's Band.
3430 Boston Directory 1870, Advertising Department p. 1043.
3531 See P. 270.
3632 Boston Directory 1876, Advertising Department p. 1275.
3733 Boston Directory 1880, Advertising Department p. 1261.
3834 Boston Directory 1861, Advertising Department p. 62.
3935 Boston Directory 1863, Advertising Department p. 29.
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