MERGER WITH VOCALINE COMPANY. Bruce Clark, Senior Design Engineer at Mason & Hamlin, has been with the company since 1984. Johnson, Curtiss S. "From Ivory Combs to Carnegie Hall and Today:The History of the Pratt Read Corporation. " James Garrick, Hillsborough, California, 1986. 261-282, specifically pp. Gift of Paul and Janet Goble, Lincoln, Nebraska, 1997. If you get the answering machine, please leave a detailed message stating the reason for your call. Alan Laufman, Harrisville, New Hampshire; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Reproduco pipe organ-player piano by Operators Piano Company, Chicago, ca. After the skeleton was strung, the finished rim was attached to it, and then the action and the other finished case parts were added. Interest of the client, undiminished by any liens, fractional. Citizens have formed the Deep River Elephant Tusk Force to publicize the ivory history here, both its good and bad sides. Single manual, FF-f3 (5 octaves).
By 1976, the Pratt Read Corporation was organized into five operating divisions. The Cornwall & Patterson Company produced piano hardware parts, screwdriver blades, and other small hand tools. He can be reached at. Our Prevention Policy for COVID-19. Howard Schott, Victoria and Albert Museum: Catalogue of Musical Instruments, Vol. While there was a 90% drop in sales of pianos overall, grand-piano sales dropped quite a bit less — many of those who, before the Depression, could afford to buy a grand were still able to.
Items in the Price Guide are obtained exclusively from licensors and partners solely for our members' research needs. One pedal (now missing): dampers. Before the arrival of Mason & Hamlin, Chickering, and Knabe, the Rochester factory made inexpensive uprights and grands for the American Piano Co. ; by the time the three new brands arrived, the Brambach method would have been well understood and fully implemented. Xv, 34, 49, and 69; Vol. Original compass FF to g3 (5+ octaves).
Beryl Kenyon de Pascual, "Some Aspects of the Square Piano in Spain, " in Geschichte und Bauweise des Tafelklaviers (23. The first model, style A, had the pneumatics face forward with linkage to lever underneath the player stack. This subsidiary, operated as the Sounder Sports Division, was sold in May 1979. Although Aeolian kept Rochester as a separate division, make no mistake — the company was run by the Memphis office, which considered the extra effort required to make a fine instrument to be unnecessary nonsense. He wrote a book called Ivory: Scourge of Africa. I, Keyboard Instruments (London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1985), p. 109. I travel up a road that winds from a landing on the Connecticut River into town, with Marta Daniels at the wheel. Gift of Mark E. Muchow, Parker, Colorado, in honor of his brother, Todd Muchow, 1987. Benjamin Vogel, "Orphicas--Genuine, Less Genuine and Fakes, " The Galpin Society Journal, Vol. André P. Larson, "Grand Piano, Manuel Antunes, Portugal, 1767, " South Dakota Musician, Vol. In 1903, Aeolian combined with the Weber Piano Company to become the Aeolian, Weber Piano & Pianola Company. John Koster, "List Gets Shorter as Rare Swedish Clavichord is Found!, " America's Shrine to Music Museum Newsletter, Vol. He had learned the ivory cutting trade while working in his older brother's Saybrook area ivory cutting shop, known as Joseph A. Comstock & Company.
There was no engineering department. The company soon acquired two additional keyboard and action manufacturers: the Sylvester Tower Company of Cambridge, Mass., was purchased, dissolved, and all its equipment was moved to Deep River in 1924; and Strauch Bros. Company of New York was purchased in 1926. Today, when a bank fails, the FDIC bails out its customers. Supporting these factories were a common parts plant, veneer shop, finish shop, and plate foundry. R. Dean Anderson, "Extant Harpsichords Built or Rebuilt in France During the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: an Overview and Annotated List, Part 1, " Early Keyboard Journal 19 (2001), pp.
Pianists liked the feel of ivory, and it wasn't until the 1950s that cheaper plastic keys completely replaced those made of ivory. Pratt, Read & Company, along with Comstock, Cheney & Company, supplied the majority of keyboards and actions to the various piano manufacturers, including Baldwin, Chickering, Wurlitzer, Everett, and Sohmer. Cover, Piano Technicians Journal, Vol. Upright piano by Decker Brothers, New York, ca. The company, now called Pratt-Read Tools and based in Illinois, manufactures screwdrivers, the same product that was Samuel's first business venture in 1834. Gift of Jerry L. and Libbie Bowder, Gorham, Maine, 1997. "Instrumental Innovations, " Wall Street Journal (December 7, 2007), p. W4. Read, another ivory pioneer, partnered with Williams and carried on the business after Williams's death in late 1818. Unfortunately, under Perez, Aeolian experienced severe cash-flow problems. Purchase funds gift of Carole and Bruce Stavens, Sioux City, Iowa, 1992. Baby Grand: 4'11" to 5'6".
Perez's primary lender was Citicorp; in April 1985, when he was unable to meet his financial obligations to their satisfaction, Citicorp called in its loan, took over Aeolian, and closed the factories. It took us three tries to achieve a working rim press, and three tries to come up with a plate pattern that would reliably produce an acceptable plate. 1150, " FoMRHI Quarterly, No. Playing Piano for Pleasure is a practical guide to learning and playing the piano for fun! John Koster, "A Netherlandish Harpsichord of 1658 Re-examined, " Galpin Society Journal, Vol. Download app for iOS or Android. Today, nearly all upright pianos are made this way. Three hand stops: dampers (bass), buff, dampers (treble). 2 (April 1979), p. 2. What few outside the piano industry appreciate is that when Mason & Hamlin moved into the Rochester plant, the basic way the pianos were assembled changed completely — and for the worse.
Apparent identity of the item appraised. AAA-c5 (7+ octaves). Gregory Crowell, "Two Eighteenth-Century Swedish Clavichords in American Collections, " in Thomas Donahue, ed., Essays in Honor of Christopher Hogwood: The Maestro's Direction (Lanham, Maryland: The Scarecrow Press, 2011), pp. Harpsichord, Naples(? Gift of Mrs. Merritt A. Williamson, Nashville, Tennessee, in memory of her husband, 1987.
On the front of the [b] action frame (after the keyslip is removed), or stamped on [c] one or both of the cheek blocks, viewed to the right and left of the piano's keyboard. Wolfgang Ruf, Emmetten, Switzerland. The Hartford firm of Ford, Buck and Sheldon designed the new plant, which stands just around the corner from the keyboard factory [on Bridge Street]. Gift of Dr. Thomas Eyres, Vermillion, 1972.
This guide provides references to serial numbers, dates of manufacture, factory locations, a brief history of many manufacturers and other pertinent information. Dulciana 8', g to a3. It's no accident that most of the piano makers that survived the Depression had respected lines of grands. Unpublished history in the Ernst D. Moore Collection, Archives Center Collection #321. The Aeolian Company was founded by William B. Tremaine in 1887, to manufacture reed organs and, later, automatic-playing musical instruments. 1-26, specifically 17 (detail of the keyboard). Grand piano by Anton Martin Thÿm, Vienna, ca. It operated three subdivisions: the Ivoryton Division (keyboards, wooden and plastic moldings, and unfinished furniture); the Action Division (piano actions); and the Lund Division, formerly Keyboards, Inc., (electronic organ components). Ultimately, something is worth only as much as someone will pay for it. By 1953, it was owned by the South Jersey Soaring Society at Millville Airport, New Jersey. Primary Web Site: [Web Link]. National Historic Landmark Link: Not listed. Noticing that some old Steinways played a lot better than others, we were able to correlate this with key leverage.
In some of today's high-production factories, the action can even be regulated outside the piano. ) Interests or any other form of encumbrance or alienation.
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