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The American Piano Industry: Episodes in the History of a Great Enterprise By William E. Hettrick. Hillsdale, NY: Pendragon Press, 2020.

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The American Piano Industry: Episodes in the History of a Great Enterprise By William E. Hettrick. Hillsdale, NY: Pendragon Press, 2020.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 October 2022

E. Douglas Bomberger
E. Douglas Bomberger*
Affiliation:
Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, PA, USA
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Journal of the Society for American Music , Volume 16 , Issue 4 , November 2022 , pp. 451 - 453
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Society for American Music

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References

1 Spillane, Daniel, History of the American Pianoforte, its Technical Development, and the Trade (New York, 1890; repr., New York: Da Capo, 1969)Google Scholar; Dolge, Alfred, Pianos and their Makers, 2 vols. (Covina, CA: Covina Publishing, 1911–13)Google Scholar.

2 Loesser, Arthur, Men, Women and Pianos: A Social History (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1954)Google Scholar; Good, Edwin M., Giraffes, Black Dragons, and Other Pianos: A Technological History from Cristofori to the Modern Concert Grand (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1982)Google Scholar.

3 Parakilas, James with Bomberger, E. Douglas et al. , Piano Roles: Three Hundred Years of Life with the Piano (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1999)Google Scholar.