Mason & Risch Serial Numbers

[Aaron Bousel]

On Jan. 9 you wrote:
>
>Were the Mason & Risch pianos not actually Mason & Hamlin (mostly)?  I seem
>to remember being told that years ago.  Certainly most of the M&R pianos I
>'ve every seen were M&H with the plate signatures ground to protect the
>innocent.

As far as I know, M&R had nothing to do with M&H.  Just a coincidence of names.

Regards,

Aaron Bousel
Ormstown, QC  Canada
abousel@rocler.qc.ca