At 07:40 AM 4/27/1998 -0800, you wrote: >I snagged this one off my website. If anyone has any info on this, ......... > >Lar > > >>From: Grant Bunting <gbunting@christchurch.parkroyal.co.nz> >>Reply-To: gbunting@christchurch.parkroyal.co.nz >>Organization: Parkroyal Christchurch > >>Subject: Player Piano - Gouley > >>My father has recently purchased a Gouley (Toronto, Canada) Player >>Piano. If possible can you point me in the right direction to find out >>more about Gouley and the pianos they made. >> >>We believe, but are only guessing, the the piano we have may have been >>bought to New Zealand in the 1930's/1940's. > > Larry Fisher RPT > specialist in players, retrofits, and other complicated stuff > phone 360-256-2999 or email larryf@pacifier.com > http://www.pacifier.com/~larryf/ (revised 10/96) > Beau Dahnker pianos work best under water > ( Robert S. )Gourlay, (Francis W.)Winter and (Thomas)Leeming 188 Yonge Street Toronto. were a well know retail store which sold pianos and organs from 1890 to 1923 They started building their own pianos around 1904 and they had 225 employees by 1915. They built about 16,000 pianos and went bankrupt about 1923. They were bought out by Sherlock Manning who then sold pianos under this name until 1961. >From "Downright Upright" a history of the Canadian Piano Industry by Wayne Kelly Available from Amazon.com about $20.00 Lots of pictures and info.160 pages . Nelson E. Denton R. A. Denton and Son Pipe Organ Builders Hamilton Ontario Canada http://www.freeyellow.com/members/radentonson
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