M&H

[J Patrick Draine]

>Paul Monachino can tell you everything you ever wanted to know about Mason &
>Hamlin's history.  They were made in Boston until about 1930, then at some
>point made in Rochester NY while part of Aeolian.

Circa 1979-1981 American Aeolian went through a couple of 
bankruptcies. Production of Mason & Hamlin resumed at the "new" 
Sohmer factory (which had housed the Pratt-Read Company for many 
years) in Ivoryton, CT. Then Sohmer et al had further financial 
difficulties --

>  Production started in the
>Boston area again in 1990, in Haverhill MA (about 30 miles northeast of
>Boston) in what was once a shoe factory.
>