Bow & Bridge Violin and bow makers, as the old books printed them

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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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1BIBLIOGRAPHY
3General
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7The Music Trades, pp. 313-45.
9Belknap, Henry Wyckoff. Artists and Craftsmen of Essex County, Massachusetts. Salem, The Essex Institute, 1927. viii,127 pp.
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18The History of Music in Boston, Vol. 4, pp. 415-65.
20Fisher, William Arms. Notes on Music in Old Boston. Boston, Oliver Ditson Company, 1918. xvi,100 pp. illus. & portraits
22Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Waldo Selden Pratt and Charles N. Boyd, Editors, New York, The Macmillan Company, 1935, 3d edition—American Supplement. 438 pp.
24Hipkins, A. J., F. S. A. Musical Instruments Historic, Rare and Unique. London, A. and C. Black, Ltd. 1921. 123 pp. illus.
26Historical Musical Exhibition Under the Auspices of Chickering & Sons Horticultural Hall, Boston, January 11th to 26th 1902—Catalogue of. 78 pp. illus.
28Hood, George. A History of Music in New England, with Biographical Sketches of Reformers and Psalmists. Boston, Wilkins, Carter & Co. 1846. 252 pp.
30Howard, John Tasker. Our American Music. New York, Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1930 and 1931. xxiii and 713 pp. illus. & portraits
32A Hundred Years of Music in America. W. S. B. Mathews, Associate Editor. Chicago, G. L. Howe, 1889
33Chapter XV, Musical Instruments and the Music Trade, pp. 325-58. portraits.
35Lahee, Henry C. Annals of Music in America. Boston, Marshall Jones Company, 1922. vii and 298 pp.
37Williams, Cornelia Bartow, compiler. Ancestry of Lawrence Williams. Chicago, privately printed, 1915. Thomas Johnston pp. 177-9. illus.

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