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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 (Continued)
2Names of Firms and Information About the Firms
4Addresses from Boston Business Directories
6Factory
71914—[address hidden]
81920—[address hidden]
10ELIAS HOWE 40
11Civil War period and 1914-24.
12Manufactured drums and accessories.
13Made and supplied drums to the Union Army, especially Massachusetts regiments. See P. 227.
14Later manufactured drum traps, triangles, metal fittings like violin mutes, bending irons, etc. Their specialty was drum and music stands. The latter had a patented top and patented closing device.
16Around 1900-36—[address hidden]. Charlestown, Mass.
17WM. McINTOSH 41
18Around 1900 to 1936.
19Drummer, drum maker, radio expert and now mostly a dealer in radios and equipment.
211912—[address hidden]
221920—[address hidden]
231928—[address hidden] 5th floor
25NOKES & NICOLAI 41
26Started with purchase of F. E. Dodge's business 1912. Purchased F. E. Cole banjo business about 1919. Merged with Liberty Rawhide Mfg. Co. of Chicago.
27This previously had made only drum heads, but started making drums and banjos.
28Mr. Nokes resigned after about a year and later the Slingerland Co. bought out their equipment.
30E. J. Nokes came from Canada where he had been a drummer from the time he was twelve and one-half years old. He was in the Tremont Theatre Orchestra under Mr. E. Catlin for eighteen years. He is now Repair and Drum Corps Expert for C. G. Conn, Ltd. in their Boston Branch at [address hidden], Boston. Edward F. Nicolai also is a professional drummer, from Lawrence, Mass. The firm of Nokes & Nicolai shipped to England, France and Germany as well as throughout the United States.
32[address hidden]
33THOMPSON & ODELL
34See Standard Band Instrument Co. P. 269.
35Manufactured drums in their [address hidden] factory.
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