> Hello -- I wonder if you can help me. To illustrate a book I am >writing, I am trying to find an old ad for hardman pianos -- around the >end of the 19th century. do you have any idea where I might locate them? >What company now owns hardman? thanks for your help. Lynn Sherr Lynn, Last listing of manufacture in Pierce Piano Atlas, 10th Edition, says 1982. Along with the other suggestions given, you might contact: Music Trades 80 West Street PO Box 432 Englewood, NJ 07631 201-871-1965 www.musictrades.com pjmajeski@aol.com This group has been advertising instruments for the music industry since 1897 and just might have an archive with the earliest piano advertisements. Good luck, Keith McGavern Registered Piano Technician Oklahoma Chapter 731 Piano Technicians Guild USA
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