History note: "Prominent" U.S. piano makers listed in W. L. Hubbard(c1908)

[ranjacob@umich.edu]

Finding somewhat different information, even from (secondary)sources that 
are, on the whole, probably not produced to a good
standard of reliability or consistency -- and the Hubbard
volume here is probably not -- can still be interesting from
one angle or another of music history, and can add to the
"storehouse of small clues or direction-pointers" that a
dedicated researcher can make use of.  (Personally I am not
such a researcher, but I come across a fair number of old books;
periodical issues aren't as easy to find.)

Pierce/Michel is that kind of practical guide that is indispensable
and frustrating at the same time.  The problems facing any such
compilation become more understandable, the more one gets into the
field.

I was glad to find in web searches last year that there have come
to be archives for "original-source" documents of piano making
such as that at the University of Maryland.

The improvements to search capabilities in Pianotech, CAUT, and
so forth, meanwhile, are a wonderful resource, and they help make
it easier to learn the interests of different people.

Thanks for your response.

--On Friday, August 22, 2003 9:40 PM -0700 Thomas Cole <tcole@cruzio.com> 
wrote:

> Interesting how the information is different in several instances from
> Pierce/Michel.
>
> Tom Cole
>
> ranjacob@umich.edu wrote:
>
> > Every so often I come across more than two or three pages devoted
> > to a survey of U.S. piano makers and manufacturing history in an old
> > book of a more general nature, such as a reference book or
> > encyclopedia volume on music.
>
>
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