I found this reference on the following website: http://www.operas.com.ar/Music-Encyclopedia/49664/Loud.htm Anglo-American family of piano makers. Thomas Loud (i) (b c1762; d New York, 2 Jan 1833) was active in London at the turn of the century; the signature ‘Loud 1796’ appears on a Longman and Broderip square piano and in 1809 the Post Office Annual Directory listed him as a piano maker living at 22 Devonshire Street, Queen Square, London. I believe the name is "Yaniewicz Loud & Co". I found this in regards to a Felix Yaniewicz of London: http://www.archive.org/stream/transactionshis40chesgoog/transactionshis40chesgoog_djvu.txt have found a clue in a brief advertisement by Felix Yaniewicz on 1st June 1801 : ''Sir Michael Cromie & Co., Bankers in Lord Street. Mr. Yaniewicz ^ proposes to open as a music warehouse the premises lately occupied by them." Now we find Mr. Yaniewicz's number in Lord Street was 25, and as Bates' Hotel at the corner of Whitechapel was No. 31, we can place the approximate locality of the bank to be where now the Lord Street Arcade is. So that's a start! Ryan On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 1:22 PM, Stephen Grattan < lostchordclinic at ameritech.net> wrote: > Hi list, > > A question came to the "expert" forum about this piano. We are trying to > answer her questions but no one has been able to determine what the decal > reads. I would appreciate any help you might be able to give. Thanks! > > *Steve Grattan* > *Associate* > -- Ryan Sowers, RPT Puget Sound Chapter Olympia, WA www.pianova.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20110207/3b8a428e/attachment.htm>
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