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Title: Industrial history of the United States, from the earliest settlements to the present time: being a complete survey of American industries, embracing agriculture and horticulture; including the cultivation of cotton, tobacco, wheat; the raising of horses, neat-cattle, etc.; all the important manufactures, shipping and fisheries, railroads, mines and mining, and oil; also a history of the coal-miners and the Molly Maguires; banks, insurance, and commerce; trade-unions, strikes, and eight-hour movement; together with a description of Canadian industries
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Bolles, Albert Sidney, 1846-1939
Subjects: Industries Industries
Publisher: Norwich, Conn. : The Henry Bill pub. Company
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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lled to adopt this ex-cellent arrangement of the strings. They were the first to manufacture im-proved grand pianos in this country. Their first essay in this direction wasbrought out in 1859, and appeared in concert at the New-York Academy ofMusic. In i860 Lindeman &Sons of New York pat-ented a cycloid pianowhich received universalcommendation; andDecker & Brothers, J. P.Hale, Harris Brothers,and Albert Weber, ofNew York, Knabe &Company of other Baltimore, inventors. William P. Emerson, andHallet, Davis, & Com-pany, of Boston, andothers, in turn, broughtout special styles andpatents. All thesemakers have had a great sale of their instruments. Steinway & Sons tookthe lead in 1869. The annual production of pianos in the United States is now about fortythousand: in Europe it is only about twenty-five thousand. In 1867, atParis, the first prizes were given to Steinway and Chickering. The UnitedStates now outstrips the Old World both in the extent of production and the
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538 INDUSTRIAL HISTORY quality of her pianos; and she has the three largest factories in the world.She can well sustain the neglect of Haweis in Music and Morals withequanimity, in view of these facts. Within the last two years, one of the New-York factories (that of JosephP. Hale) has begun to do business on a scale which promises to put its salesJoseph P. ahead of that of the houses of both Chickering and Steinway.Hale. y(T Hale, a Massachusetts man by birth, began piano-making in New York in i860, after having first accumulated a fortune in the crockeryand real-estate trades in Worcester, Mass. His purpose was to cheapen theselling-cost of the piano. He wanted the people, as contrasted with theupper ten thousand, to have a piano which would be both good, and cheapenough for them to afford. He entered upon the manufacture on a largescale, and by 1872 had a factory in New-York City capable of building sixtypianos a week. He has recently undertaken to increase the capacity of hisfacto

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