The York Band Instrument Company was a musical instrument manufacturer in Grand Rapids, Michigan. James Warren York was a former army musician and played...
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The Martin Band Instrument Company was a musical instrument manufacturer in Elkhart, Indiana. The firm produced band instruments, including trumpets,...
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The Seidel Band Instrument Company was a short-lived manufacturer of musical instruments located in Elkhart, Indiana. The company was founded by William...
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Dayton Ohio 25 September 1864; d. New York NY 10 October 1936), who was the president of Buescher Band Instrument Company, and Carl Dimond Greenleaf (b. Wauseon...
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answered by the Cloos Company of Brooklyn, New York, and their Crosby Model fife. These fifes were one piece, cylindrical bore instruments with six irregularly...
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C. G. Conn (redirect from Conn Instruments)
G.Conn's Private Office Buescher Band Instrument Company Martin Band Instrument Company York Band Instrument Company Mr. B Natural Noyes, p. 123 Reed...
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The koto (箏 or 琴) is a Japanese plucked half-tube zither instrument, and the national instrument of Japan. It is derived from the Chinese zheng and se,...
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Conn-Selmer (redirect from Selmer Instruments)
The Selmer Company and United Musical Instruments. Conn-Selmer is the largest manufacturer and importer of band and orchestral instruments in the United...
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two of the former General Instrument companies from the 1997 split. General Instrument produced receivers for old C and Ku band satellites. They also produced...
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The Vega Company was a musical instrument manufacturer that started operations in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1881. The company began under Swedish-born...
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King Musical Instruments (originally founded as the H. N. White Company) is a former musical instrument manufacturing company located in Cleveland, Ohio...
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for sale and the rental of company-designed PA systems. Leo became intrigued by design flaws in contemporary musical instrument amplifiers and began building...
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The Boston Musical Instrument Company was an American manufacturer of brass band instruments in the late 19th and early 20th centuries located in Boston...
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Carl Fischer Music (category Sheet music publishing companies)
in New York City until it was sold in 1959. In 1940, the company acquired the York Band Instrument Company for $300,000. Production at the York facility...
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The Harmony Company is a former guitar manufacturing company that is currently a brand owned by Singapore-based BandLab Technologies. Harmony was, in its...
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Wurlitzer (redirect from Rudolph Wurlitzer Company)
musical instruments to the U.S. military. In 1880, the company began manufacturing pianos and eventually relocated to North Tonawanda, New York. It quickly...
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York", "J.W. York and Sons", "J.W. York Band Instrument Co", "J.W. York Instrument Co.") before finally settling on "York Band Instrument Company"....
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the Guitar Hero series, the main Rock Band games has players use game controllers modeled after musical instruments and microphones to perform the lead...
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"Soittotorvi", Musical Instruments: A Comprehensive Dictionary, corrected edition, the Norton Library N758 (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1975): 71...
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List of euphonium, baritone horn and tenor horn manufacturers (category Brass instrument manufacturing companies)
present. Most of these companies produce or produced tenor brass as part of an overall band instrument catalogue. Adams Musical Instruments, a Dutch manufacturer...
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Berlin in April, 1920 as Martin Band Instrument Company of Chicago, the company changed its name to Chicago Musical Instrument Co. three years later. In 1944...
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7523°W / 32.9110; -96.7523 Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) is an American multinational semiconductor company headquartered in Dallas, Texas. It...
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Washtub bass (redirect from Dumdum (musical instrument))
sometimes used in a jug band, often accompanied by a washboard as a percussion instrument. Jug bands, first known as "spasm bands", were popular especially...
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A one-man band is a musician who plays a number of instruments simultaneously using their hands, feet, limbs, and various mechanical or electronic contraptions...
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Sousaphone (category Marching band instruments)
standing or marching, as well as to carry the sound of the instrument above the heads of the band. Like the tuba, sound is produced by moving air past the...
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Company, simply known as Zildjian (/ˈzɪldʒən, -dʒiən/), is a musical instrument manufacturer specializing in cymbals and other percussion instruments...
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Bandleader (redirect from Band leader)
with their own band, either as singers or as instrumentalists, playing an instrument such as electric guitar, piano, or other instruments. The bandleader...
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the cornet. In the 1910s and 1920s, the E. A. Couturier company built brass band instruments utilizing a patent for a continuous conical bore without...
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Holton (Leblanc) (redirect from Holton Instrument Company)
established his own company in 1898. Frank Holton's wife Florence was a music teacher. They had no children. Frank Holton, though not an instrument maker himself...
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Steelpan (redirect from Steel band)
with other musicians, as a steelband or steel orchestra) is a musical instrument originating in Trinidad and Tobago. Steelpan musicians are called pannists...
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