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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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1CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE ART OF MUSIC
3GEORGE G. HOOK'S FIRST ORGAN in Pipe Organs a brochure of Hook and Hastings Company.
4Other organs by E. & G. G. Hook or Hook and Hastings.
5Cincinnati Music Hall Organ in Henry C. Lahee's article "Organs and Organ Building" etc. p. 493.
6Holy Cross Cathedral [Roman Catholic] Organ, Boston, ibid. p. 496.
7"Mother Church," First Church of Christ Scientist, Boston, in Pipe Organs a brochure of Hook and Hastings Company.
9GEO. S. HUTCHINGS' factory setting-up room, Boston, in Henry C. Lahee's article "Organs and Organ Building" etc. p. 494.
11MASON & HAMLIN, a church organ and one of their workrooms, ibid. p. 499.
13Bells
15BY PAUL REVERE OR PAUL REVERE & SON
16A few good accessible illustrations of this maker's bells.
18A reproduction of this firm's business card may be seen in the Hancock-Clarke House of the Lexington Historical Society, Lexington, Mass., catalog no. 417.
20*BELL NO. 1 inscribed "The First Church Bell Cast in Boston, 1792 by P. Revere." Weight 911 lbs.
21In St. James Episcopal Church, [address hidden], Cambridge, Mass. Apply to Sexton to see it.
22The 500 pound bell used by the Second Church of Boston from 1650 was rescued when the North Meeting House was torn down for firewood by order of Gen. Howe in 1775 and put up in the New Brick Church, of which Paul Revere was a member, in 1780 after the two congregations had joined forces. It became injured in 1792 and was recast by Paul Revere who nearly doubled its weight, at a cost of £74, 7 shillings and 18 pence. An elaborate stone meeting house replaced the New Brick in 1845. This was sold in 1849, including the bell, to the First Methodist Church. When [address hidden] was widened in 1871 the Methodists had to move and went to [address hidden]. Church, which had no belfry. The bell was put in storage at [address hidden], Boston, until it was sold April 1, 1901 to St. James Episcopal Church where it was set up in the rear of the church and is still used.
24*BELL NO. 25 inscribed "Revere, Boston, 1798." Weight 224 lbs.
25In the Dedham Historical Society, [address hidden], Dedham, Mass. Open daily 2-5 p.m.
26This Town of Dedham bell hung in the cupola on the old wooden courthouse until 1827 and was rung just before court sessions. It was deposited in 1894 by the County Commissioners with the Dedham Historical Society. It has a clear musical tone.
28BELL NO. 154 inscribed "Paul Revere & Son, Boston, 1815." Weight of bell 907 lbs. and of tongue 22 lbs.
29In the Lucius Beebe Memorial Library, Wakefield, Mass.
30Cast Sept. 18, 1815 for the Town of Reading when Wakefield was South Reading. An old bell bought in 1714 and broken was credited for $83.36 toward
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