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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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1IV. E. Drum Makers—Period 1850-1936
31893-1900—[address hidden]
5A (LBERT) L. BERRY
6About 1893 to 1900-05.
8A drummer, played in the First Regiment of Militia in which George Burt Stone was first a drummer and then Drum Major. Made drums and drum shells. Bought the parts and assembled them more than making them entirely.
101893—Abattoir Grounds, Brighton
111894—[address hidden]
121895-96—not listed
131897-1902—[address hidden]
15BLAIR & BALDWIN
161893-94 and 1897 W. J. Blair, became Blair & Baldwin in 1898. Purchased about 1905 by F. E. Dodge.
18William J. Blair was a drummer in the Civil War and a maker of good drums. Baldwin was a fine workman also. He resigned to manufacture bicycle wood rims and wheels. Later he worked for John C. Haynes & Co. where he was known as "Grandsire Baldwin."38 When Mr. Baldwin resigned about 1905, F. E. Dodge bought out Mr. Blair who worked first for Mr. Dodge and then for Nokes & Nicolai until his death.
201907—[address hidden]
22HARRY A. BOWER
23Listed around 1907.
25Drummer, teacher and drum manufacturer. Played tympani in the Tremont Theatre Orchestra in his early days, and in the Boston Symphony Orchestra. He toured on the vaudeville stage with Mrs. Bower, a pianist. Both are now in Hollywood, Cal., teaching. His manufacturing, done in Massachusetts Chambers, was largely assembling.39
271905-11—[address hidden]
29F. E. DODGE
301905-1911 when he was bought out by Nokes & Nicolai.
32Made drums. Bought the patents of Harry A. Bower for snare strainers, drum holders and a tympani device.39
3438 Boston Directory 1870, Advertising Department p. 1043.
3537 Boston Directory 1871, Advertising Department p. 1017.
3638 Information from A. J. Oettinger.
3739 Information supplied by E. J. Nokes of Nokes & Nicolai.
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