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RADFORD J. |
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Pianoforte-maker and/or pianoforte dealer ca.
1906
'Piano- u. Orgel-Handlung' (x1906) |
69, Devonshire Road (x1906), Bexhill |
RAINFORD & Co |
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'Pianoforte-makers' ca. 1911-21 |
89a, Queen Street (**1911)(x1921), Morley |
RAINFORD John |
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Pianoforte-maker and/or pianoforte dealer ca.
1906
'Musikal.-, Piano- u.
Musikinstr.-Händler' (x1906) |
8, Park Street (x1906), Lytham |
RAINER Josepf F. & KLOSS Theodore |
PUB
Rainer & Kloss, piano-forte manufacturers, warerooms,
Whitby, C.W., 1861 (babel.hathitrust.org)
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'Pianoforte-manudacturers' ca. 1861 |
Whitby, Yorkshire |
RALPH H. |
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Pianoforte-maker and/or pianoforte dealer ca.
1890 [since
1856 (xx1890)] 'Organist,
Musikal.-, Piano- u. Instr.-Händler' (xx1890) |
Edward Street (xx1890), West Bromwich |
RALPH T. |
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Pianoforte-maker and/or pianoforte dealer ca.
1906
'Piano-Handlung' (x1906) |
213, Lighfield Road, Aston (x1906),
Birmingham |
RAMDAM A. |
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Pianoforte-maker and/or pianoforte dealer ca.
1906 |
103, New Bond Street, W. (*1906), London |
RAMSAY Thomas |
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'Musical Instrument Maker' ca. 1818 |
17, New Street (*1818), London |
RAMSDEN Archibald |






Advertising sign
See
Graceguide (gracesguide.co.uk)




YORKSHIRE - "6 RAMSDEN,
ARCHIBALD, 12, Park Row, Leeds.
a ROSEWOOD IRON CONCERT GRAND PIANO.
b UPRIGHT GRAND PIANO. 77 octaves, trichord overstrung, iron frame, duplex
system, American model. By H. P. SCHIEDMAYER, Stuttgart.
c SELF-ACTING PIANO. By LACAPE. (Can also be used as an ordinary piano.)
d VIOLIN PIANO. By BAUDET.
e DAWES' PATENT MELODY, and DAWES & RAMSDEN'S PATENT PEDAL-SUBSTITUTE ORGAN.
f AMERICAN ORGAN. By GEORGE Woods, Boston."
Official catalogue, Yorkshire exhibition of arts and
manufactures, 1875, p. 30 |
'Pianoforte-maker' ca. 1864-1915
[since 1864]
RAMSDEN
Archibald
(xx1890)
'Importer of pianos' (**1891)(*1915)
RAMSDEN
A[rchibald Ltd.]
[since 1891] (**1895)(x1906)(*1907)(*1914)(*1915),
Importer
RAMSDEN
& Co (??)
---
London
'Piano-Handlung' (xx1890)(x1906) in London
Representative of SCHIEDMAYER,
Pianofortefabrik, Stuttgart and KNAUSS, Koblenz (x1906) in London
Bishop-Auckland & Blyth & Gateshead-on-Tyne
'Musikal.-, Piano- u. Musikinstr.-Handlung'
(x1906) in
Bishop-Auckland & Blyth &
Gateshead-on-Tyne
Consett
'Musikal.-, Piano- u. amerikan.
Orgel-Handlung' (x1906) in
Consett
Darlington & Newark-on-Trent
'Musikal.-, Piano-,
Harmonium- Orgel-Handlung' (x1906) in Darlington &
Newark-on-Trent
'SCHIEDMAYER u. KNAUSS Pianos' (x1906) in
Newark-on-Trent
Doncaster
'Piano-, Orgel- u. Instrumenten-Handlung'
(x1906) in Doncaster
Hull
'Musikal.- u. Piano-Handlung' (x1906) in
Hull
Jarrow-on-Tyne
'Musikal.-, Piano-, Harmonium- u.
Orgel-Handlung' (x1906) in Jarrow-on-Tyne
Leeds
'Musikal.-, Piano- u. Harmonium-Handlung' (xx1890)
'Piano-, Harmonium- u. Musikinstr.-Handlung' (x1906)
Middlesbrough & York
'Musikal.-, Piano- u. Harmonium-Handlung'
(x1906) in
Middlesbrough & York
Scarborough
'Musikal.- u. Musikinstr.-Handlung' (x1906)
in Scarborough
West Hartlepool
'Musikal.-, Piano- u. Instrumenten-Handlung
(x1906) in West Hartlepool

Exhibitors
list Yorkshire, 1875
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MAIN FIRM : 9, Argyll Street, Oxford Street, W.
(**1884), 103, New Bond Street, W. (xx1890)(**1891)(**1895)(x1906)(*1907)(*1910)(*1914)(*1915), London

BRANCH : 12, Park Row (**1875)(*1893)(*1895)(*1897)(*1906)(*1909)(*1910), Leeds

BRANCH : 28, Newgate Street (x1906), Bishop-Auckland

BRANCH : Market Place (x1906), Blyth

BRANCH : Front Street (x1906), Consett

BRANCH : 74, Northgate (x1906), Darlington

BRANCH : 39, High Street (x1906),
Doncaster

BRANCH : 96-100, West Street (x1906),
Gateshead-on-Tyne

BRANCH : 19, Silver Street (x1906), Hull

BRANCH : Ellison Street (x1906), Jarrow-on-Tyne

BRANCH : 12, Park Row (xx1890)(x1906), Leeds

BRANCH : 38, Linthorpe Road (x1906), Middlesbrough

BRANCH : Pedder Street (x1906), Morecambe

BRANCH : Bridge Street (x1906), Newark-on-Trent

BRANCH :
Huskiss Row (x1906), Scarborough

BRANCH : Lynn Street (x1906), West Hartlepool

BRANCH : 38, Coney Street (x1906), York
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RAMSDEN & Co |
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'Pianoforte-maker' ca. 1906
'Pianobauer u. -Reparateure' (x1906) |
64, City Road (x1906), Manchester |
RAMSDEN Volney |
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Pianoforte-maker and/or pianoforte dealer
ca. 1890 [since
1872 (x1890)]
'Piano-, Harmonium, amerik. Orgeln u.
Musikinstr.-Handlung' (xx1890) |
50, Bradshawgate (xx1890), Bolton |
RAMSEY John |
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'Pianoforte-maker' ca. ? |
London |
RAMSEY William F. |
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'Pianoforte-mafacturer' and Bookseller, publisher & stationer, ca.
1852 |
11, Brompton Row, Brompton Road (**1852), London |
RANSFORD A. H. |
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Pianoforte-maker and/or pianoforte dealer
ca. 1890-1906 [since
1837 (xx1890)(x1906)]
'Musikal.- u. Piano-Handlung'
(xx1890)(x1906) |
Royal Library, [Hill Road]
(xx1890)(x1906), Clevedon |
RAULINS Thomas C. |
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Pianoforte-maker and/or pianoforte dealer
ca. 1890-1906 [since
1837 (x1906)]
'Musikal.-, Piano- u.
[Musik]instr.-Handlung' (x1890)(x1906) |
21, Broad Street
(x1890),
9-10, Broad Street (x1906), Ludlow |
RAYMOND C. S. |
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Pianoforte-maker and/or pianoforte dealer
ca. 1890
'Piano-, Orgel- u.
Harmonium-Handlung' (xx1890) |
12, Church Street (xx1890),
Croydon |
RAYMOND |
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BRAND
Pianos made by
GILES

|
London |
RAYNER Samuel |
 |
'Pianoforte-maker' ca. 1890-1915
RAYNER[S]
& ALLEN (xx1890)(*1910)
'Pianohandlung'
(xx1890)
RAYNERS
Samuel
(*1895)(**1895)(*1897)(*1899)(*1903)(*1906)(x1906)(*1909)
'Piano-Fabrik' or 'Piano-Manufacturer' -
and - 'Piano-Handlung'
(x1906)
RAYNERS
Samuel
(*1914)(*1915)
|
5, Crawford Mews, Baker Street,
York Street, Bryanston Square, W.
(xx1890)(*1895)(**1895)(*1897)(*1899)(*1903)(*1906)(x1906)(*1909)(*1910),
11, Thornton Place, Marylebone, W.
(*1914)(*1915),
London
|
RAWSON W. |
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Pianoforte-maker and/or pianoforte dealer ca. 1 906
'Piano- u. Orgel-Handlung'
(x1906)
|
Albert Street (x1906), Hebden Bridge |
READ FRANKLIN & Co |
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Pianoforte-maker and/or pianoforte dealer
ca. 1906
[since 1865]
READ, FRANKLIN & Co
(x1906),
'Piano-Handlung'
READ FRANKLIN & HEYWOOD LTD
(19??)
|
43, Stanley Street (x1906), Bury |
READING Brothers |
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'Pianoforte-maker' ca. 1906
Owners : P. & W. READING (x1906)
'Piano-Fabrik' or 'Piano-Manufacturer'
(x1906) in London
'Piano- und Harmonium_Handlung und
Reparatur-Werkstatt, Piano-Fabrik in London' (x1906) in Tunbridge-Wells
|
19a, Brook Road, Junction Road, N.
(x1906), London

BRANCH : 18, Albion Road (x1906)Tunbridge Wells
|
READING Henry Moses |
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'Pianoforte-maker' ca. 1882-91 [since
1873
(xx1890)]
'Pianohandlung'
(xx1890) |
249, Kingsland Road, N.E.
(xx1890)(**1891), London |
READING Norman |
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Pianoforte-maker and/or pianoforte dealer
ca. 1906
'Piano-Handlung' (x1906)
|
22, Castle Street, E., Oxford
Street, W. (x1906), London
|
READING & SHELFORD |
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'Pianoforte-makers' ca. 1882 |
1, Orchard Buildings, Acton Street,
Kingsland, E. (**1882), London |
READMAN J. J. |
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Pianoforte-maker and/or pianoforte dealer
ca. 1906
'Musikal.- u. Piano-Händler und
-Stimmer' (x1906)
|
135, Hainton Street (x1906),
Great-Grimsby |
READWIN H. T. |
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Pianoforte-maker and/or pianoforte dealer
ca. 1906
'Piano-Handlung' - Auch Orgelbauer' (x1906)
|
58, Burgoyne Road, Harringay,
N. (x1906), London
|
REAVLEY |
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Pianoforte-maker and/or pianoforte dealer
ca. 1906-21
REAVLEY
Frank
(x1906)(*1916)(*1917)(*1918)(*1919)
'Piano-Handlung' (x1906)
REAVLEY & Son
(*1921) |
32, Wilton Road, N.E. (x1906), 73, Narford Road, Northwold Road, Upper Clapton, N.E.
(*1916)(*1917)(*1918)(*1919)(*1921),
London |
REDFEARN J. D. |
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'Pianoforte-maker'
ca. 1868 |
11, Albert Terrace, Notting Hill Gate
(***1868), Notting Hill, London |
REDMAN William F. |
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Pianoforte-maker and/or pianoforte dealer
ca. 1916-19 |
27, Plumstead, Plumstead, S.E.
(*1916)(*1917)(*1918)(*1919), London |
REDMAN William George |
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Pianoforte-maker and/or pianoforte dealer
ca. 1901-17 |
106, Wellington Street, Woolwich, S.E.
(**1901)(**1904)(*1916)(*1917), London |
REDDIE J. H. |
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Pianoforte-maker and/or pianoforte dealer
ca. 1890 [since 1828
(xx1890)]
REDDIE
J. H. & Sons (xx1890), Musiklehrer, Musikal.- u.
Piano-Handlung' |
89, High Street
(xx1890), Kings-Lynn |
REDDY A. W. L. |

Patent of 1882 : "Sep.
9, 1882. - A. W. L. REDDIE. Improvements in keyboard instruments. (¹) To
facilitate regulation of keys without removal. (²) To avoid shrinking of
wood. (³) To facilitate the making and mounting of keys."
The History of the Pianoforte: With an Account of
the Theory of Sound and ..., Edgar Brinsmead, 1889, p. 233
|
'Pianoforte-maker' ca. 1882 |
London ? |
REDPATH |
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'Pianoforte-harpsichordmaker' ca. 1787;
(¹) See
DAVIDSON & REDPATH |
London |
REDSHAW W. H. |
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Pianoforte-maker and/or pianoforte dealer
ca. 1906 [since 1851
(x1906)] 'Kunst- u.
Piano-Handlung' (x1906) |
North Street (x1906), Bourne |
REED H. E. & Co |
 |
'Pianoforte-makers'
ca. 1916-19
REED
A. T.
(*1918)(*1919) |
Leeds Place, Tollington Park, Holloway, N.
(*1916)(*1917)(*1918)(*1919), London |
REED James W. & Sons |

Patent of 1860 :
" 1964. James Reed,
of Limehouse, in the County of Middlesex, Pianoforte Maker, for an
invention for Improvements in pianofortes."
Chronological and Descriptive Index of Patents
Applied for and Patents, 1861, p. 130
|
'Pianoforte-makers' ca. 1861 |
Limehouse, Middlesex (*1861), London |
REED John William |
 |
'Pianoforte-maker' ca. 1882-1906
[since
1868 (x1906)]
REED
J. W. & Sons (x1906),
'Piano-Fabrik' or 'Piano-Manufacturer' |
27, Clarence Street (**1882),
Hanover Yard, Islington, N. (**1882)(**1891)(**1895),
17, Colebrook Row, N. (**1891)(**1895),
32, Hanover Street, Islington Green, N. (x1906), London
|
REEVE Edward Augustus |
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'Pianoforte-maker'
ca. 1882 |
15, Waterloo Road, S.E. (**1882), London |
REEVE William & Co |
 |
'Pianoforte-maker'
ca. 1890-1910 [since 1881
(xx1890)(x1906)]
Owner : A. F. NOKES (x1906)
'Piano-Fabrik' or 'Piano-Manufacturer'
(xx1890)(x1906)
|
7[,8] & 8 ½, Charlotte Street, Old Street, E.C.
(xx1890)(**1891)(*1895)(**1895)(*1897)(*1899)(*1903)(*1906)(*1909)(*1910), London
|
REEVES Edwin A. |
 |
'Pianoforte-maker' ca.
1884 |
15, Waterloo Road, S.W.
(**1884),
London |
REEVES W. |
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Pianoforte-maker and/or pianoforte dealer ca.
1906-10 |
83, Charing Cross Road, W. (*1906)(*1907)(*1910),
London |
REEVES W. W. |
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Pianoforte-maker and/or pianoforte dealer
ca. 1906 [since 1878
(x1906)]
'Piano-Handlung' (x1906)
|
213a, Rye Lane, Peckham
(x1906), London
|
REGALE John |
 |
'Pianoforte-maker' ca. ? |
London |
REGENT |
 |

BRAND
Pianos made
after
1920 by
LESWEIN
 |
London |
REGESTER Benjamin E. |
 |
Pianoforte-maker and/or piano dealer ca. 1904-19
REGESTER
B[enjamin] E. (**1904)(x1906)
'Piano-Handlung' (x1906)
REGESTER
Benjamin E. & Sons (*1916)(*1917)(*1918)(*1919)
|
79, Devonshire Road, Seven Sisters Road, Holloway, N. (**1904)(x1906)(*1916)(*1917)(*1918)(*1919),
44, Elthorne Road, Upper Holloway, N.
(*1916)(*1917)(*1918)(*1919), London |
REGESTER & FELLOWES |
 |
'Pianoforte-makers' ca. 1904-06
REGESTER & FELLOWES
(**1904)(x1906)
'Piano-Fabrik' or 'Piano-Manufacturer' (x1906)
|
44, Elthorne Road, Upper [Holloway] Horsney Rise, N.
(**1904)(x1906), London |
REID Adam |
 |
'Pianoforte-maker' ca. 18 41
|
54, Poland Street, Oxford Street (**1841),
London |
REID Brothers |
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Pianoforte-makers and/or pianoforte dealers ca.
1906-10 |
17, Castle Street, West (*1906)(*1907),
69, Wells Street, W. (*1910),
London |
REID John |
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'Pianoforte-maker' ca. 18 52
|
55, Baker Street, Portman Square (**1841),
London |
REID R. |
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Pianoforte-maker and/or pianoforte dealer ca. 1903-10
|
2, Dean Street, Portland Square (*1903)(*1906)(*1909)(*1910),
Bristol |
REIFURT & Co |
 |
Pianoforte-maker and/or pianoforte dealer ca. 1906 -15
'Piano-Handlung' (x1906)
Representative for APOLLO
Pianofabrik H. WOLFFRAM, Dresden, F. GEISLER, Zetz, KOCH & KORSELT,
Reichenberg etc. (x1906)
|
24, City Road, Finsbury Square, E.C.
(x1906), 30, City Road, E.C. (*1914)(*1915), London |
REINTJES |
1866 -
"NOTICE is hereby given, that the Partnership
heretofore subsisting between us the undersigned, Charles Henry Reintjes and
Henry Reintjes, of the town of Nottingham, Pianoforte Manufacturers and
Music Sellers, carrying-on business under the style or firm of C. H.
Reintjes and Co., has been this day dissolved by mutual consent. The
business will henceforth be carried on by the said Charles Henry Reintjes,
by whom all debts owing to and by the said partnership will hereafter be
received and paid. — Dated this 19th day of November, 1866. C.H. Reintjes. -
Henry Reintjes."
The London Gazette, 30/11/1866, p. 6714
(thegazette.co.uk)
|
'Pianofore-Manufacturers' and
'Pianoforte and Music Warehouse' ca. 1 864-66
REINTJES
C. H & CO, REINTJES Charles Henry
and REINTJES Henry (*1864)(*1866)
1880 -
"PIANOFORTE and MUSIC BUSINESS to be
DISPOSED OF (through ill-health). Mansfield, Notts. In present owner's
hands twelve years. Apply, Reintjes, Chapel Bar, Nottingham."
The Musical Times, 1880, p. 212

SEE ALSO ...
... a
REINTJES Henry in Paris, France
|
38, Milton Street (*1864)(***1866), Chapel
Bar (***1880), Nottingham |
REISLAN |
 |
'Pianoforte-maker' ca. ? |
London |
REITER K. C. |
 |
Pianoforte-maker and/or pianoforte dealer ca.
1906
'Orgelbauer, Piano- u.
Musikinstr.-Händler' (x1906) |
23, Charlotte Street (x1906), Hull |
RELF Brothers & REED |
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'Pianoforte-makers' ca. 19 14
|
54, Queen Street, Camden Town, N.W. (*1914),
London |
REMBRIDGE W. H. |
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Pianoforte-maker and/or pianoforte dealer
ca. 1906 [since
1878 (xx1890) or since
1877 (x1906)]
'Piano- u. Instr.-Handlung' (xx1890)
'Musikal.-, Piano- u. Musikinstr.-Handlung' (x1906)
|
178, Cowley Road (xx1890), 5, St. Clement's Street (x1906), Oxford |
RENDELL James |
 |
'Pianoforte-maker' ca. 18 41-42
|
29, London Street, Fitzroy Square (**1841),
27, London Street, Fitzroy
Square (x1842),
London |
RENN HOUNAM |
 |

BRAND
Pianos made by
TEMPLE PIANOFORTE Co
 |
London |
RENN |
 |

BRAND
Pianos made by
TEMPLE PIANOFORTE Co ca. 1960
 |
Bletchley, London |
RENN H. J. |

|

BRAND
CARLTON

|
London |
REWES James William |
 |
Pianoforte-maker and/or pianoforte dealer ca.
1890 [since
1866 (xx1890)] 'Piano- und
Instr.-Handlung' (xx1890) |
Market Place (xx1890), Bawtry |
REYK P. L.
| REYH John Lorenz
| REYK |


Grand
pianoforte ca. 1806-12, Private Collection, Farmville, N.C., U.S.

|
'Music Instrument Maker' ca. 1808
Bankrupt in 1808,
The Literary Panorama, Volume 6, 1808, p.
504 - and -
The Tradesman, Volume 3, 1809, p. 174
SCHOENE
& REYK from 1806, (²)(*1809), partner and successor to
S. P. SCHOENE
|
45, Paddington Street,
St. Mary-le-Bone
(1806)(²)(*1808)(**1808),,
31, Titchfield Street, Marylebone (18??), London |
REYNOLDS & Co |
 |
Pianoforte-maker and/or pianoforte dealer ca.
1906-10 |
13, Berners Street, W. (*1906)(*1907)(*1910),
London |
RHODE Mrs. |
 |
'Pianoforte-maker' ca. 18 68
|
27, Queen's Road, Bayswater (***1868),
London |
RHODES Abraham |
 |
'Pianoforte-maker' ca. 1852
|
12, Queen's Road, Bayswater (**1852),
London |
RHODES James |

"Established 1848 - Pianoforte &
Harmonium Rooms -10-11, Darley Street, Bradford. J. RHODES begs to inform
the Public that he has one of the Largest Stocks of Piano-Fortes and
Harmoniums out of London, varying in price from Fifty Shillings to One
Hundred Guineas, and several new Patents, including
ERARD'S COTTAGE - 55 Guineas. BROADWOOD'S MICROCHORDON - 55, COLLARD &
COLLARD'S PIANINO - 45, BROCKBANK'S FULL COTTAGES, with Tension Bars - 45 ,
And several other New Patented Instruments.
*** These Instruments will amply repay a Call for Inspection. [...]"
Lunds' Bradford Directory; comprising the names,
occupation, places of ..., 1856, p. 54
|
Pianoforte-maker and/or pianoforte dealer
since 1848 |
10-11, Darley Street (*1856)(*1875), Bradford |
RHODES John |
 |
'Pianoforte-makers' ca. 18 41-42
|
3, King Street, Westminster (**1841)(x1842),
London |
RHODES John & Co |
 |
'Pianoforte-makers' ca. 1841-52
|
50, Seymour Street, Euston Square (**1841)(x1842)(**1852),
London |
RHODES Thomas & Sons |
 |
Pianoforte-maker and/or pianoforte dealer
ca. 1890-1906 [since
1866 (xx1890)(x1906)]
'Piano- u. Harmonium-Handlung'
(xx1890)
Owners : William, James & Cornelius
RHODES (x1906)
'Piano-, Orgel- u. Harmonium- u.
Musikinstr.-Handlung' (x1906)
|
18, Silver Street
(xx1890)(x1906), Halifax |
RHODES W. C. |
 |
Pianoforte-maker and/or pianoforte dealer ca. ??
|
Newcastle |
RICCI Charles |
 |
'Pianoforte-maker' of automatic pianofortes ca. 19 14-15
|
21, Merlin's Place, Wilmington Square, W.C.
(*1914)(*1915), London |
RICH Charles G. |
 |
Pianoforte-maker and/or pianoforte dealer ca. 1907-10 |
70, Stamford Hill, N. (*1907)(*1909)(*1910), London |
RICH C. J. |
 |
Pianoforte-maker and/or pianoforte dealer ca. 1890
'Pianohandlung' (xx1890) |
255, Amhurst Road, Stoke Newington, N. (xx1890), London |
RICH G. G. |

Patent of 1865 : "Oct.
10, 1865. - G. G. RICH. Improved damper action."
The History of the Pianoforte: With an Account of
the Theory of Sound and ..., Edgar Brinsmead, 1889, p. 218
|
'Pianoforte-maker' ca.
1865-93 |
3, Walsingham Road, Up. Clapton, E. (**1874)(*1893), London |
RICHARDS Ch. |
 |
Pianoforte-maker and/or pianoforte dealer
ca. 1906
[since 1889
(x1906)]
'Elektrotechniker, Piano-, Piano-
u. Instrumenten-Handlung'
(x1906)
|
57, Anneslay Road (x1906), Hucknall Torkard |
RICHARDS Charles |
 |
'Pianoforte-maker' ca. 1884-1910
[since 1858
(xx1890)]
'Pianofabrik'
(xx1890) |
23, Charlotte Terrace, [Caledonian
Road], [Barmsbury],
[Copenhagen Street], N.
(**1884)(xx1890)(**1891)(*1893)(*1895)(**1895)(*1897)(*1899)(*1903)(*1906)(*1909)(*1910),
London
|
RICHARDS F. |
 |
Pianoforte-maker and/or pianoforte dealer
ca. 1906
'Piano-Handlung' (x1906)
|
3, Victoria Parade, Balham
Hill, S.W. (x1906),
London
|
RICHARDS J. |
 |
Pianoforte-maker and/or pianoforte dealer ca. 1890
'Pianohandlung' (xx1890) |
2, Union Terrace, Uxbridge Road, W.(xx1890), London |
RICHARDS J. |
 |
'Pianoforte-maker'
ca. 1866
|
12, Regent Street (**1866),
Brighton |
RICHARDS J. |
 |
Pianoforte-maker and/or pianoforte dealer
ca. 1906
'Piano-, Orgel- u. Möbel-Handlung'
(x1906)
|
48, Laurence Hill (x1906), Bristol |
RICHARDS Thomas |
 |
'Pianoforte-maker' ca. 1849-50 |
Sand Pits (*1849)(***1850), Birmingham |
RICHARDSON A. |
 |
Pianoforte-maker and/or pianoforte dealer ca. 190 6
[since 1813
(x1906)]
Successor to BOUCHER & Co (x1906)
'Musikal.-, Piano- u.
Musikinstr.-Handlung' (x1906) in Chester
'Piano- u. Instrumenten-Handlung'
(x1906) in Wrexham
|
MAIN FIRM : 43, Bridge Street Row (x1906), Chester

BRANCH : Central Arcade (x1906), Wrexham |
RICHARDSON Georg Henry |
 |
Pianoforte-maker and/or pianoforte dealer
ca. 1890-1906
[since 1868
(xx1890)(x1906)]
RICHARDSON
George Henry (xx1890), '
RICHARDSON Herbert
(x1906)
'Musikal.- u. Piano-Handlung'
(xx1890)(x1906)
|
Eldon Street (xx1890),
42, Eldon Street (x1906), Barnsley |
RICHARSON John G. |
 |
'Pianoforte-maker' ca. 1874 |
h. 29, Main (*1874), Woburn |
RICHER F. V. |
 |
Pianoforte-maker and/or pianoforte dealer
ca. 1890
'Lehrer u. Pianohändler' (xx1890)
|
23, King Street
(xx1890), Richmond (Surrey) |
RICHMOND James |
 |
'Pianoforte-maker'
ca. 1875 |
34-36, Islington E. (*1875), Liverpool |
RICHMOND PIANO & ORGAN & Co |
 |
Pianoforte-maker and/or pianoforte dealer
ca. 1906
'Piano-Handlung'
(x1906)
|
17, Cambridge Parade (x1906), Twickenham |
RIDER G. |
 |
'Pianoforte-maker' ca.
1893 |
36, EARLS Court GDNS., S.W.(*1893), London |
RIDER & HUTCHENCE |

YORKSHIRE - "8 RIDER &
HUTCHENCE, Leeds.
PATENT PEDAL HARMONIUM ATTACHED TO PIANOFORTE."
Official catalogue, Yorkshire exhibition of arts and
manufactures, 1875, p. 30
|
'Harmonium-makers' ca.
1875

Exhibitors
list Yorkshire, 1875 |
Leeds |
RIDGWAY Alfred |
 |
Pianoforte-maker and/or pianoforte dealer ca. 1890-1906
[since 1885
(xx1890)(x1906)]
'Musikal.- und Musikinstr.-Handlung' (xx1890)
'Musikal.- und Piano-Handlung' (x1906) |
3, Union Street
(xx1890)(x1906), Gravesend |
RIDGWAY J. |
 |
Pianoforte-maker and/or pianoforte dealer
ca. 1890-1906
'Piano- u. Harmonium-Handlung'
(xx1890)(x1906) |
1, Broad Street
(xx1890)(x1906), Hanley |
RIDGWAY Joseph |
 |
Pianoforte-maker and/or pianoforte dealer
ca. 1890 [since
1850 (xx1890)]
'Pianohandlung'
(xx1890) |
1, Above
Bar Place
(xx1890), Southampton |
RIDGWAY W. F. |
 |
Pianoforte-maker and/or pianoforte dealer
ca. 1890 [since
1850 (xx1890)]
'Pianohandlung'
(xx1890) |
13, King Street
(xx1890), Leicester |
RILEY & Co |
 |
Pianoforte-maker and/or pianoforte dealer
ca. 1906
[since 1854
(x1906)]
Successor of Jos. WOOD (x1906)
Owners : Eli & George RILEY
'Musikal.- & Musikinstr.-Handlung'
(x1906)
|
10, Queen Street (x1906), Barnsley |
RILEY E. |
 |
Pianoforte-maker and/or pianoforte dealer
ca. 1921 |
21, Henry Street (*1921),
Keighley |
RILEY E. |
 |
Pianoforte-maker and/or pianoforte dealer ca. 1906
'Piano-Handlung' (x1906) |
113, Cross Lane, Salford (x1906), Manchester |
RILEY Edward |

Patent of 1801 :
"Edward Riley, of the lordship of Myton, in the county of the town of
Kingston-upon-Hull, organbuilder, and piano-forte maker; for moveable
keys for piano-fortes, organs, and other instruments. Dated November 28."
The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History,
Politics, and Literature for ..., 1813, p. 458 - or - Movable
key-board for transposing music simply by shifting the keyboard and
action."
The History of the Pianoforte, Edgard Brinsmead,
1879, p. 199 (archive.org) |
'Organ builder and Pianoforte-maker' ca.
1801
|
Myton, in the county of the town of
Kingston-upon-Hull (*1813),
London |
RILEY Ellis |
 |
Pianoforte-maker and/or pianoforte dealer
ca. 1906
[since 1884
(x1906)] 'Piano-Hdlg.'
(x1906) |
4, Lord Street (x1906),
Reighley |
RILEY Henry |


|
Pianoforte-maker and/or pianoforte dealer
ca. 1906-21
[since 1904
(x1906)]
'Piano- u. Musikinstr.-Handlung'
(x1906)
RILEY
H. & Sons (*1921) |
23-25, Constitution Hill (x1906)(*1921), Birmingham |
RILEY Joseph |



|
'Pianoforte-maker'
ca. 1862-90 [since 1851
(xx1890)] 'Piano-, Harmonium- u.
Instr.-Handlung' (xx1890)
Succeeded by RILEY W. Joseph ? (here below) |
21, Howard Street (xx1862), 20c, Constitution Hill (**1867), 25, Constitution
Hill (x1887)(xx1890),
Birmingham |
RILEY M. E. |
 |
Pianoforte-maker and/or pianoforte dealer ca.
1890-1906
[since 1870
(x1906)]
RILEY
M. E. (xx1890), 'Lehrer, Musikal.-, Piano-, Orgel- u.
Instr.-Händler'
RILEY M. E. & A. D.
(x1906),
'Musikal.-, Piano-, Harmonium- u.
Musikinstr.-Handlung'
|
Church Street (xx1890), Ingfield Place (x1906), Ossett |
RILEY W. Joseph |
 |
Pianoforte-maker and/or pianoforte dealer
ca. 1906
[since 1892
(x1906)]
RILEY W. Joseph
(x1906), 'Piano-,
Harmonium- und Musikinstrumenten-Handlung' in Birmingham
RILEY W. Joseph
(x1906),
'Instrumenten-Handlung' in
Walsall |
33, Martineau Street (x1906), Birmingham

67, George Street (x1906), Walsall |
RILEY W. S. & Son |
 |
Pianoforte-maker and/or pianoforte dealer ca. 1906 'Piano-
und Musikinstr.-Handlung' (x1906) |
Castle Street (x1906), Rugby |
RILEY W. S. |
 |
Pianoforte-maker and/or pianoforte dealer
ca. 1906
RILEY W. S. & Son
(x1906), 'Piano- und Musikinstr.-Handlung' |
109, Hill Street (x1906), Crewe |
RILEY W. S. |
 |
Pianoforte-maker and/or pianoforte dealer
ca. 1890-1906
[since 1886
(x1906)]
RILEY W. S.
(xx1890), 'Piano- u. Instr.-Handlung'
RILEY W. S. & Son
(x1906), 'Piano- und Musikinstrumenten-Handlung' |
100, Corporation Street (xx1890)(x1906), Birmingham |
RILEY W. S. & Son |
 |
Pianoforte-maker and/or pianoforte dealer
ca. 1906; (x1906)
'Piano- und Musikinstr.-Handlung'
(x1906) |
Kidderminster (Worcester) |
RINTOUL John |




Patent of 1874 : "May
20, 1874. - E. ILIFF and J. RINTOUL. Simple action."
The History of the Pianoforte: With an Account of
the Theory of Sound and ..., Edgar Brinsmead, 1889, p. 224
|
'Pianoforte-maker' ca. 1884-1915 [since 1858
(xx1890)(x1906)]
ILIFF
E. & RINTOUL
John
(1874)
RINTOUL
John
(**1884)(xx1890)(**1891)
'Pianofabrik'
(xx1890)
RINTOUL John & Sons
(**1895)(x1906)
'Piano-Fabrik' or 'Piano-Manufacturer'
(x1906)
RINTOUL John & Son
(*1906)(*1909)(*1910)
RINTOUL
Brothers & Co (*1914)(*1915)
|
10a, Patsbull Road, Kentish Town Road,
N.W. (**1884), 2, Patshull Road, N.W.
(**1891)(**1895),
2-12, Patshull Road, Kentish Town
Road, N.W.
(xx1890)(*1895)(*1897)(*1899)(*1903)(x1906), 2,
Patshull Road, N.W.
(*1906)(*1909)(*1910),
[8], Berkley Road, N.W. (*1914)(*1915), London |
RIPPON Charles C. E. & Son |
 |
Pianoforte-maker and/or pianoforte dealer
ca. 1890-1906 [since
1861 (xx1890)(x1906)]
'Musikal.-, Piano- u.
Musikinstr.-Handlung' (xx1890)(x1906)
|
62, High Street
(xx1890)(x1906), Chelmsford |
RISHFORTH |
 |
'Musical Instrument Maker' ca. 1 793;
(*1793)
|
London |
RISSONE & Co |
 |
'Pianoforte-maker' ca. 1890-1910
'Pianofabrik' - 'Drehpianos'
(xx1890) |
30, Warner Street, E.C.
(xx1890)(*1895)(*1897)(*1899)(*1903)(*1906)(*1909)(*1910), London |
RITZMAR |


|
'Pianoforte-maker' ca. 1900 |
London |
RIVENHALL Brothers |
 |
Pianoforte-maker and/or pianoforte dealer ca. 1890
'Musikal.- u. Piano-Handlung' (xx1890) |
Surbiton Road
(xx1890), Kingston-on-Thames |
RIX Edward David |
 |
Pianoforte-maker and/or pianoforte dealer ca. 1906
'Pianoforte dealer' (xx1906) |
4, Warwick Road (xx1906), Stratford, London |
ROBB D. |
 |
Pianoforte-maker and/or pianoforte dealer
ca. 1890-1906
[since 1866
(xx1890)(x1906)]
'Musikal.- u.
Piano-Handlung' (xx1890)(x1906)
|
14, Castle Street
(xx1890)(x1906), Dover |
ROBERTS A. |
 |
'Musical Instrument Maker'
ca. 1822 |
26, Angel Street, St. Martin's le
Grand (**1822), London |
ROBERTS Brothers |
 |
'Pianoforte-maker' ca. 1878
|
105, Wrentham Street, South (y1878), Birmingham |
ROBERTS Brothers


Image of a pianoforte
in an advertisement,
Corporation general and trades directory of Birmingham
... and Wolverhampton, 1861, p. 61
|

" PIANOFORTE
& MUSIC WAREHOUSE. ROBERTS BROTHERS, VICTORIA BUILDINGS, EDMUND STREET,
Three doors from Easy Row. PIANOFORTES TUNED AND REPAIRED. COPY OF
TESTIMONIAL. - Great Pultney Street, London, August 28th, 1860. - We have
mach pleasure in stating that Меssrs. George and Alfred Roberts, who have
established themselves at Birmingham, and carrying on business as "Roberts
Brothers," were both brought up at our manufactory, and are thoroughly
competent to Repair and Tune Pianofortes. We hare also the satisfaction of
being able to strongly recommend Messrs. Roberts, on account of their good
conduct during the time they were in our employ, and they have our best
wishes for their success.
JOHN BROADWOOD & SONS."
Corporation general and trades directory of Birmingham
... and Wolverhampton, 1861, p. 61
|
'Pianoforte-makers' ca. 1861-1909 [since
1860
(xx1890)]
ROBERTS Brothers or George and Alfred
ROBERTS, probably dealers of the Broadwood pianos in Birmingham.
'Pianoforte makers' (y1878)
'Pianobauer' (xx1890)


Patent of 1875 : "Feb.
20, 1875. - G. and A. ROBERTS. Escapement action."
The History of the Pianoforte: With an Account of
the Theory of Sound and ..., Edgar Brinsmead, 1889, p. 225
|
40, Edmund Street (xx1861)(xx1862), 67, Bull Street
(**1867), 39, Bristol Road (y1878), 154, Bristol Street (xx1890)(*1893)(*1895)(*1897)(*1903)(*1906)(*1909), Birmingham |
ROBERTS George |
 |
'Pianoforte-maker' ca. 1861
|
56, Nelson Street, South (x1861), Birmingham |
ROBERTS Henry |
 |
Pianoforte-maker and/or pianoforte dealer
ca. 1884-1906
[since 1858
(xx1890)(x1906)]
'Piano-Handlung' (xx1890)(x1906)
|
264, High Street (**1884), 1, Exchange
Arcade
(xx1890),
41, Beaumont
Villas (x1906), Lincoln |
ROBERTS H. F. |
 |
'Pianoforte-maker' ca. 1906
'Piano-Fabrik, Musikal.-, Piano- u.
Musikinstr.-Handlung' (x1906)
|
10, High Street (x1906), Windsor |
ROBERTS John |

Patent of 1863 :
"Roberts. Naylor. 18th September 1863. - 2291. John Roberts, of the
City of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster Organ Builder, and Robert
Naylor, of the same place, Gentleman, for an invention for Improvements
in increasing, diminishing or otherwise regulating the power and tone of
organs, harmoniums, pianofortes or other instruments with similar keys
or key boards. Letters Patent sealed."
Chronological index of patents applied for and
patents, 1864, p. 153
|
'Organ Builder' ca. 1863 |
Manchester, Lancaster |
ROBERTS Llewellyn |
 |
'Pianoforte-maker' ca. 1882
|
6a, King Street, Cheapside, E.C. (**1882),
London |
ROBERTS, PYLE & GOSS |
 |
Pianoforte-maker and/or pianoforte dealer
ca. 1906
'Piano-Handlung' (x1906)
|
The Grange, Parkhill Road,
Hampstead
(x1906), London
|
ROBERTS R. M. |
 |
Pianoforte-maker and/or pianoforte dealer ca. 1906
'Piano- u.
Orgel-Handlung' (x1906) |
Exchange Buildings
(x1906), Oswestry |
ROBERTS S. |
 |
Pianoforte-maker and/or pianoforte dealer ca. 1890
'Musikal.- u. Pianohandlung' (xx1890) |
School Street (xx1890), Checkheaton |
ROBERTSHAW Jérem. |
 |
Pianoforte-maker and/or pianoforte dealer ca. 1890-1910
'Musikal.- u. Pianohandlung' (xx1890) |
Market Street (xx1890), 7, Commercial Street Thornton (*1893), 63, Market Street, Thornton
(*1895)(*1897)(*1903)(*1906)(*1909)(*1910), Bradford
|
ROBERTSON Clinton Joseph |

Patent of 1851 :
"Joseph Clinton Robertson, of the
firm of J. C. Robertson and Co., of 106, Fleet street, London, patent
agents, for improvements in musical instruments. (Being a
communication.) April 24, six months."
Iron: An Illustrated Weekly Journal for Iron and
Steel ..., Volume 54, 1851, p. 340
Patent of 1858 :
"Nov. 17, 1858. - J. ROBERTSON. Thicker soundingboard, with the
surface grooved out «longitudinally in parallel lines.»"
The History of the Pianoforte: With an Account of
the Theory of Sound and ..., Edgar Brinsmead, 1889, p. 213 |
'Patent-agent' ca. 1851-58 |
106, Fleet street (*1851),
London |
ROBERTSON & Co |
 |
'Pianoforte-makers' ca. 1906-15 [since
1899]
'Piano-Handlung' (x1906) |
301, Hornsey Road (x1906), 44-46, Queensland Road, N. (*1914)(*1915), London |
ROBERTSON H. |
 |
'Pianoforte-maker' ca.
1906 'Piano-Fabrik' or
'Piano-Manufacturer' (x1906) |
Wedmore Street, Holloway (x1906), London |
ROBERTSON R. Barbour |
 |
'Pianoforte-maker' ca. 1900 |
78, Ashville Road, Park Road South (xx1900),
Birkenhead
|
ROBERTSON William |
 |
'Pianoforte-maker' ca. 1825 |
3, Frederick's Place, Hampstead Road (x1825), London |
ROBINS Charles Cornelius |
 |
Pianoforte-maker and/or pianoforte dealer ca. 1904-19 |
137, Dawes Road, Fulham, S.W.
(**1904), 134, Dawes Road, Fulham, S.W.
(*1916)(*1917)(*1918)(*1919), London
|
ROBINSON |
 |
Pianoforte-maker' and pianoforte dealer ca. 1906;
(x1906)
'Musikal.- u. Piano-Handlung' (x1906)
|
Blaenavon |
ROBINSON A. |
 |
Pianoforte-maker and/or pianoforte dealer ca.
1890
'Musiklehrer u. Pianohändler' (xx1890) |
713, Rochdale Road
(xx1890), Mossley |
ROBINSON Charles Lewis |
 |
'Pianoforte-maker' ca. 1882 |
56, Warren Street, Fitzroy Square, W.
(**1882), London |
ROBINSON C. |
 |
Pianoforte-maker and/or pianoforte dealer ca.
1890-1906
'Piano- u. Musikinstr.-Handlung' (xx1890)(x1906) |
713, Rochdale Road
(xx1890)(x1906), Manchester |
ROBINSON Georg |
 |
Pianoforte-maker and/or pianoforte dealer ca. 1890
[since 1853
(xx1890)]
'Organist, Piano- u. Musikinstr.-Handlung' (xx1890) |
Market Place (xx1890),
Gainsborough |
ROBINSON J. J. |

Patent of 1876 : " Oct.
14, 1876. - J. ROBINSON. Combined piano and harmonium."
The History of the Pianoforte: With an Account of
the Theory of Sound and ..., Edgar Brinsmead, 1889, p. 226
Patent of 1883 : "June
29, 1883. - J. J. ROBINSON. Increased simplicity in construction with
increased efficiency in operation."
The History of the Pianoforte: With an Account of
the Theory of Sound and ..., Edgar Brinsmead, 1889, p. 234 |
Pianoforte-maker and/or pianoforte dealer ca. 1876-83 |
London ? |
ROBINSON N. & T. |
 |
Pianoforte-maker and/or pianoforte dealer ca. 1906
'Piano- u. Geigen-Handlung' (x1906)
|
82, Scotland Road (x1906), Nelson |
ROBINSON Joseph |
 |
Pianoforte-maker and/or pianoforte dealer ca. 1890-1906 [since
1849
(xx1890)(x1906)]
'Pianohandlung'
(xx1890)
'Musikal.-, Piano- u.
Musikinstr.-Handlung' (x1906)
|
15, Corn Hill (xx1890)(x1906), Dorchester |
ROBINSON Richard |
 |
'Pianoforte-maker' ca. 1874 |
8, Graham Terrace, Ridley Road, Dalston, E.
(**1874), London |
ROBINSON W. |
 |
Pianoforte-maker and/or pianoforte dealer ca. 1890
'Pianohändler und Stimmer' (xx1890)
|
Lark Hill (xx1890),
Blackburn |
ROBINSON William |

Patent of 1880 :
"Aug. 4, 1880. - W. ROBINSON. Improving tone by increased size of
sounding-board."
The History of the Pianoforte: With an Account of
the Theory of Sound and ..., Edgar Brinsmead, 1889, p. 229
|
'Pianoforte-maker' ca. 1880-95 |
10a, Bonny Street, Camden road, N.W.
(**1895), London |
ROBOTHAM Geo. F. |
 |
Pianoforte-maker and/or pianoforte dealer ca. 1890-1906
'Musikal.- u. Piano-Handlung'
(xx1890)(x1906) |
78, Northgate Street (xx1890)(x1906), Chester |
ROBSON Joseph
(? - 1876)(⁴) |

"The Apollonicon, A Grand Musical Instrument, under immediate patronage of
his Majesty, invented and constructed by FLIGHT and ROBSON also respectfully
beg to submit to the Notice of the Nobility, Gentry, and Musical Amateurs,
their Improved Organs for the performance of Quadrilles and other brilliant
species of Musical Compositions, with Organs of every description
constructed for Churches, Music Rooms, &c., at their Warerooms, 101, ST.
MARTIN'S LANE."
The Harmonicon, 06/1831, p. 15
|
Organ
builder and
'Pianoforte-maker' since 1805
 FLIGHT
& ROBSON
(1805-1832), ROBSON worked with
Benjamin FLIGHT
Followed by ROBSON T. J. F., son of
Joseph ROBSON untill 1876 (⁴)
Taken over by GRAY & DAVISON (⁴)
|
9, Old Lisle St. Leicester Square (1805),
101, Martin's Lane (**1823)(*1831), London |
ROBSON W. |
 |
Pianoforte-maker and/or pianoforte dealer ca. 1893-1910 |
15, Bertram Road, Manningham (*1893)(*1895)(*1897)(*1903)(*1906)(*1909)(*1910), Bradford |
ROCK William


|


Square
pianoforte of 1782, Castello Sforzesco, Museo degli Strumenti Musicali,
Milan, Italy

|
'Harpsichord & Pianoforte-maker' ca.
1780-90 |
London |
ROCKLEY Joseph Vincent |


" Rockley's
Musical Service Limited; registered office, 150 The Grove, Stratford E 15;
branches, 4 The Arcade, Liverpool st. EC 2; 13 Woodgrange rd. Forest Gate E
7; 109 Balham High rd SW 12; 7 Clapham Junction Station approach. Battersea
SW 11 & 1 Wellington st. Woolwich SE 18."
Kelly's Directory of Stationers, Printers, Booksellers, Publishers and ...,
1921, p. 644
|
Pianoforte-maker and/or pianoforte dealer ca. 1906-21
'Musikal.- u. Piano-Handlung' (x1906) |
150, The Grove E.,
Stratford (x1921),
4, The
Arcade, Liverpool st. E.C. (x1921), 13, Woodgrange Road, Forest Gate E.
(x1921), 109, Balham High Road S.W. (x1921), 7, Clapham Junction Station
approach. Battersea S.W. (x1921), 11 & 1, Wellington Street, Woolwich S.E.
(x1921), London

The Broadway (x1906), Ilford
|
RODWELL Robert Henry |

1844 -
"ROBERT HENRY RODWELL, at present, and for nine months
past, residing at No. 4, Providence-place, Kentish-town, in the county of
Middlesex, and formerly of No. 1, Priory-street, Camden New-town, both in
the parish of St. Pancras, and county of Middlesex, Piano-Forte Maker and
Music Seller, and being a Trader, but owing debts amounting in the whole to
less than three hundred pounds, do hereby give notice, that I intend to
present a Petition to the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street, London,
praying to be examined touching my debts, estate. and effects, and to be
protected from all process, upon making a full disclosure and surrender of
such estate and effects, for payment of my just and lawful debts; and I
hereby further give notice, that the time, when the matter of the said
Petition shall be heard, is to be advertized in the London Gazette and in
the Globe Newspaper, one month at the least after the date hereof: As
witness my hand, this 1st day of January, in the year of Our Lord, 1s". R.
H. RODWELL."
The London Gazette, 1844, p. 24
|
'Pianoforte-maker' ca. 1838-70
1838 -
"Robert Henry Rodwell, formerly of No. 51, Long-acre, then of No. 23,
Drummond-crescent, Euston-square, then of No. 1, Monte Video-place,
Kentish-town, Middlesex, Journeyman Piano-Forte-Maker, afterwards in
business as a Piano-Forte-Maker, residing at No. 1, Monte Video-place
aforesaid, having a Workshop in New-yard, Great Queenstreet,
Lincoln’s-inn-fields, afterwards having a Workshop in the Camden-cottages,
Back-road, Kentish-town, then residing and carrying on business at No. 1,
Pleasant-row, Lower-road, Islington, then of No. 14, Aldenham-street, St.
Pancras-road, having a Workshop at No. 41, Eaglestreet, Red Lion-square, and
late of No. 14, Aldenhamstreet aforesaid, having a Workshop at No. 17,
Whittleburystreet, Euston-square, all in Middlesex, Piano-Forte Maker."
The London Gazette, 16/10/1838, p. 2211
1870 -
"Bankrupts. Gazette, Jan. 4. [...] RODWELL, ROBERT HENRY, pianoforte
manufacturer, Southgate-rd, and Rheidol-mews, Islington. Pet. Dec. 31. 0. A.
Parkyns. Sol. Watson, Basinghall-st. Sur. Jan. 28."
The Law Times, 15/01/1870, p. 223 |
17, Whittleburystreet, Euston-square,
Middlesex (**1838), 7, Frederick Place Hampstead Road (*1843),
Southgate-rd, and Rheidol-mews, Islington (xx1870), London |
RODEN F. |
 |
Pianoforte-maker and/or pianoforte dealer ca. 1890
'Piano- u. Instr.-Handlung' (xx1890)
|
64, Darlington Street (xx1890), Wolverhampton |
ROES Conrad |
 |
'Pianoforte-maker' ca. 1852 |
15, Beaumont Street, Portland Place
(**1852), London |
ROGERS David |

Patent of 1871 : " A.D.
1871, April 27. — No. 1106. ROGERS, David, 105, Hampstead Road, N.W.,
pianoforte maker, MONINGTON, James, of 32a, William St., N.W., pianoforte
maker, WESTON, John, of 32a, William Street, N.W., pianoforte maker.
Improvements in bracings for pianoforte backs. What we claim as new and
original is the manner in which the wood and metal is combined to form the
bracings for the pianoforte, which support the frame upon which the strings
are stretched; the manner in which the combination is effected is by taking
a bracing as at present used, only shorter than the full length required,
and making up the full or proper length with metal, which ia made to receive
the end of the bracing, and screwed to it, and which we claim to form a
perfect compensating bracing, the temperature acting contrarywise on metal
and wood, heat contracting wood and expanding metal, cold contracting metal
and expanding wood, which preserves the pitch of the instrument completely."
Chronological and Descriptive Index of Patents Applied
for and Patents, 1871, p. 251
|
'Pianoforte-maker and Tuner' since 1850
ROGERS
David & WESTON John
(**1871)
- see also
MONINGTON & WESTON
 
"Rogers,
D., Pianoforte Maker, Tuner, and Selecter, St James's-place,
Hampstead-road."
The British Colonies: Their History, Extent, Condition
and ..., Volume 4, 1850, p. 7 - and -
The British Colonies : their history, extent,
condition and resources, 1851, p. 9 (archive.org)
|
St. James’s Place,
Hampstead Road (*1850)(y1851)(y1854)(y1857),
105, Hampstead Road (**1871),
London |
ROGERS George |



BRAND
STEINBERG Gerh.

|
'Pianoforte-maker' ca. 1870-1915 [since 1843
(xx1890)(x1906] [According M. Pizzi established in 1835]
ROGERS
George & Co (**1870)
ROGERS
G[eorge] & Sons
(**1882)(**1884)(**1885)(xx1890)(**1891)(*1893)(*1895)(**1895)(*1897)(*1899)(*1903)(*1906)(x1906)(*1909)(*1910)(*1914)(*1915)
'Pianofabrik' & 'Pianohandlung'
(xx1890)
'VINCENT MUSIC COMPAGNY' (x1906)
'Piano-Fabrik' or 'Piano-Manufacturer'
(x1906)
They made 22000 pianos in
1900. In 1980 : 52500 pianos (¹)


LONDON
-
"ROGERS,
GEORGE, & SONS. — Pianos."
The Musical Standard: A Newspaper for Musicians,
Professional and Amateur, 22/08/1885, p. 121
LONDON -
"At
3,603, Messrs. G. ROGERS & Sons, 2, High-street, Camden Town, exhibit a
pianoforte case, in which the wood is very skilfully arranged to show the
beauty of the figure. Here is also a panel, consisting of 300 pieces,
showing some fine effects of the grain, made by Mr. C. Chorley, Highbury New
Park."
The Furniture Gazette, 01/07/1885, p. 310

Exhibitors list London, 1885
|
2, High Street, Camden Town, N.W. (**1870)(**1882)(**1884)(**1891),
[3], Glouchester Street, Bayham Street, Camden Town, N.W. (**1882)(**1884), 20, Circus Road,
St. John's Wood, N.W.
(**1884)(**1891),
Factory : 2, High Street, Camden Town, N.W. (**1885)(xx1890), 249, Finchley Road, N.W. (**1891), 60, Berners Street, Oxford Street, W.
(xx1890)(**1891)(*1893)(*1895)(**1895)(*1897)(*1899)(*1903)(*1906)(x1906)(*1909),
32-44, Archer Street, Camden Town, N.W.
(**1895)(x1906)(*1914),
124, Archer Street, W. (*1910), 60, Archer Street, W.
(*1910), 60, Berners Street, Oxford Street, W. (x1906)(*1914)(*1915), 281, Finchley Road, N.W. (*1914)(*1915),
London
|
ROGERS H. |

"Rogers, H., Pianoforte Manufacturer,
63, Warren-street, Fitzroy-square."
The British Colonies: Their History, Extent, Condition
and ..., Volume 4, 1850, p. 7 - and -
The British Colonies : their history, extent,
condition and resources, 1851, p. 9 (archive.org)
|
'Pianoforte-maker' ca. 1850-57 [since 1850]
|
63, Warren Street, Fitzroy Square (*1850)(y1851)(y1854)(y1857), London |
ROGERS H. |
 |
Pianoforte-maker and/or pianoforte dealer
ca. 1890-1906
'Piano- u. [Musik]instr.-Handlung'
(xx1890)(x1906) |
3-4, Maritime Street (xx1890)(x1906), Sunderland |
ROGERS John & Son |

"ROGERS, J. & SON, Patent
Pianoforte Makers, with Metallic Plate, and all the Modern Improvements
for extreme climates — Merchants and Shippers suplied — 27,
Southampton-mews, and 67, George-street, Euston-square."
The British Colonies: Their History, Extent,
Condition and ..., Volume 4, 1850, p. 7
- and -
The British Colonies : their history, extent,
condition and resources, 1851, p. 9 (archive.org)
|
'Patent Pianoforte-makers' since 1850-57
|
27, Southampton Mews, Euston Square (*1850)(**1852)(y1854)(y1857), 67, George
Street, Euston Square
(*1850)(y1854)(y1857), London |
ROGERS John |
 |
'Pianoforte-maker' ca. 1895
|
26, Seymour Street, Euston Square (*1895), London |
ROGERS John Tucker |
 |
'Pianoforte-maker' ca. 1874
|
8, West Street, Mare Street, Hackney, E. (**1874), London |
ROGERS Joseph |
 |
Pianoforte-maker and/or pianoforte dealer
ca. 1914-15
|
68, Jamaica Road, S.E. (*1914)(*1915), London |
ROGERS & PRIESTLY


Image of an upright pianoforte,
Birmingham and Birmingham men, 1877 (Project
Gutenberg License) |

"FROM COLLARD AND COLLARD. ROGERS AND PRIESTLY,
COLMORE HOUSE, COLMORE ROW, Opposite Temple Row West and St. Philip's
Church, BIRMINGHAM, PIANOFORTE MANUFACTURERS. FOR SALE OR HIRE, OR ON THE
ONE, TWO, OR THREE YEARS SYSTEM. PIANOFORTES, AMERICAN ORGANS, and
HARMONIUMS by all the Best Makers."
Birmingham and Birmingham men, 1877 (Project
Gutenberg License)
|
'Pianoforte-makers' ca. 1877-1909 [since 1877
or since 1862
(xx1890)]
Worked before by
COLLARD & COLLARD, London
'Pianoforte makers' (y1878)
'Musikal.-, Piano- und Instr.-Handlung' (xx1890)
|
Colmore House, Colmore Row (*1877),
71-73, Colmore Row (y1878)(xx1890)(*1906)(*1909), Birmingham |
ROGERS R. H. |

Patent of 1875 : " March
16, 1875. - R. H. ROGERS. Simple action."
The History of the Pianoforte: With an Account of
the Theory of Sound and ..., Edgar Brinsmead, 1889, p. 225
|
Pianoforte-maker and/or pianoforte dealer and/or inventor ca. 1875 |
London ? |
ROGERS R. M. |
 |
Pianoforte-maker and/or pianoforte dealer ca. 1906
'Piano- u. Orgel-Hdlg.' (x1906) |
39, High Street (x1906), Doncaster |
ROGERS & Son |
 |
Pianoforte-maker and/or pianoforte dealer ca. 1906
[since 1863
(x1906)]
'Musikal.-, Piano-, Orgel- u.
Instrumenten-Handlung' (x1906) |
25, St. Thomas Street (x1906), Weymouth |
ROGERS William |
 |
'Pianoforte-maker' ca. 1882-90
'Pianofabrik'
(xx1890) |
35, Drummond Street, Euston Square, N.W.
(**1882)(**1884), 26, Seymour Street,
Euston Square, N.W.
(**1882)(**1884)(xx1890),
London |
ROGERS W. H. |
 |
Pianoforte-maker and/or pianoforte dealer ca. 1906
'Piano-Händler u. -Stimmer' (x1906) |
185, London Road (x1906), Kingston-on-Thames
(Surrey) |
ROGERS W. H. & Co |
 |
Pianoforte-maker and/or pianoforte dealer ca. 1890-1909
[since 1876
(xx1890)(x1906)]
'Piano-Handlung'
(xx1890)(x1906)
Representative for CHAPELL Pianos (x1906)
|
124, Goldhawk Road, Shepperd's Bush, W.
(xx1890)(x1906)(*1907)(*1909), London |
ROLFE & Co |
 |
'Pianoforte-maker' ca. 1884-90
'Pianofabrik' (xx1890) |
6, Low[er] Seymour Street, Portman Square, W.
(**1884)(xx1890), London |
ROLFE F. O. |
 |
Pianoforte-maker and/or pianoforte dealer ca. 1906
'Piano-Händler, -Reparateur u. -Stimmer'
(x1906) |
75, King Street (x1906), Great Yarmouth |
ROLFE F. W. Mrs. |
 |
Pianoforte-maker and/or pianoforte dealer ca.
1890-1906
[since 1879
(xx1890)(x1906)]
'Musiklehrerin u. Instr.-Handlung'
(xx1890)
'Musikal.- u.
Piano-Handlung' (x1906) |
74, King Street (xx1890), 126, Alderson Road (x1906), Great Yarmouth |
ROLFE William |





William ROLFE & SONS
Square
pianoforte ca. 1790,
his nameplate, Birmingham Conservatoire's
Historical Instrument Collection, Birmingham, England, U.K.
Square Pianoforte n° 5929 ca. 1812, The Mobbs Keyboard Collection, Golden Bay,
New Zealand

CULLIFORD, ROLFE & BARROW
Square
pianoforte n° 2117 ca. 1795-97, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., U.S.
Square
pianoforte n° 3409 ca. 1795-97, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., U.S.
Square
pianoforte n° 3807 ca. 1797, Collection Sigal, Marlowe, Newton Center, M.A., U.S.

William ROLFE
Square
pianoforte ca. 1793, Pooya Radbon Collection, Germany
Organized
Square pianoforte ca. 1801, organ portion added by John Sellers,
The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation,
Williamsburg, Virginia, U.S.


Patent of 1797 : "William Rolfe and Samuel Davis, of Cheapside,
Musical-Instrument-makers, for improvements in harpsichords and
piano-fortes. Dated January 31, 1797."
Dodsley's Annual Register, Edmund Burke, 1807,
p. 406 - or - "Vellum,
parchment, pasteboard, etc., varnished or oiled for sounding-boards,
instead of wood."
The History of the Pianoforte: With an Account of
the Theory of Sound & Also of the Music and Musical Instruments of the
Ancients, Edgar Brinsmead, 1879, p. 197
(archive.org)


LONDON -
"472 Rolfe, William, & Sons, 61 Cheapside - Manufacturers. Specimen of a
two-unison common cottage pianoforte, combining the advantages of the
ordinary repetition, and check or double actions. Pianoforte, in which
stability, economy, and excellence are the objects aimes at."
Official description and illustrated catalogue of
the Great exhibition, 1851, p. 464
LONDON - "472
Rolfe, W., & Sohn, Fabrikanten, 61 Cheapside. – Diverse
Patent-Pianofortes."
Amtlicher Catalog der Ausstellung der
Industrie-Erzeugnisse aller Völker, 1851, p. 66
|
'Pianoforte-maker' since 1785 to 1888
CULLIFORD & ROLFE &
BARROW
(1795-97)(²)
He was the successor of
CULLIFORD Thomas, since 1800 (²)
ROLFE William & DAVIS
Samuel
(1797)(*1807), see also
DAVIS Samuel
ROLFE
William & Sons (ca. 1814)
ROLFE
William (*1818)
ROLFE
William & Co
(*1817)(**1822)(x1825)
ROLFE
William & Sons
(**1841)(x1842)(**1843)(**1851)(**1852)(*1858)(**1882)(**1884)


1862 -
"The importance of the jurisdiction conferred upon justices of the peace by
tho above act, and the number of cases which are likely to be brought under
their consideration, make it desirable to direct attention to the view taken
of the act by one of the metropolitan magistrates. Two summonses wero lately
taken out before Mr. Tyrwhitt by Mr. Thomas Rolfe, under the 0th section of
tho act, by which it is enacted, in terms, that any person who, after the
31st December, 18G3, shall have sold an article having a false trademark,
shall be bound, upon the application of the person whose trade-mark ah all
bo counterfeited, to give full information in
writing of the person from whom he shall have obtained the article, and of
the time when he obtained the same; with power to the justices to summon the
person refusing to give the required information, and to inflict a penalty
not exceeding 5?. for such offence. The first summons was against Mr. Kelly,
an auctioneer, for having unlawfully refused, after demand made, to state
how he became possessed of three piano-fortes which he had sold, bearing the
trade-mark of the complainant, Thomas Rolfe. The facts elicited upon the
examination in chief and cross-examination were as follows : — Previously to
the year 1854, the complainant carried on business in Regent-street, in
partnership with his father and brothers, as piano-forte manufacturers. In
that year they dissolved partnership, and the complainant continued to carry
on business on his own account in Regent-street under the style or firm of
"Rolfe, Regent-street," or "Rolfe & Co., Regent-street." This trade-mark, it
was alleged, was used by complainant to distinguish his piano-fortes from
those manufactured by his father and brothers, who carried on business under
the style or firm of "Rolfe & Co.,
Cheapside." In 1858, the complainant became bankrupt, and he had not carried
on business in Regent-street from that date. Since 1858 he had made and sold
pianos at Manchester for about three years with his trade-mark "Rolfe & Co.,
Regentstreet," upon thein, the necessary capital being supplied by third
parties. It did not appear whether he was still carrying on business as a
piano-forte manufacturer. The complainant had been in the habit of placing
his trade-mark upon pianos not made by him, and which he let out to hire;
and he had, at least in one instance, placed the name of
Hewitt, as the manufacturer, on a piano which
he had purchased, Hewitt not being the
manufacturer thereof. It was proved by the production of the complainant's
trademark tablets, that the pianos sold by the defendant bore his trade-mark
upon them, and that they were not manufactured by him or by his authority.
It appeared also, that upon the complainant's bankruptcy the assignees
handed him back his trade-mark tablets, but beyond that no act was done to
revest the trade-mark in the complainant. [...][...]"
Justice of the Peace, Volume 28, 1864, p.
114-115

Exhibitors list
London, 1851 |
Cheapside (1797), 28, London Wall, Moorfields (*1818),
Warehouse :
112, Cheapside, St. Paul's (*1817)(*1818)(**1822)(x1825)(**1841), Manufactory : 31-32, London Wall (**1841)(x1842)(**1852), 7,
Frederick Place Hampstead Road (*1843),
132, Regent Street (*1858), 61, Cheapside
(x1842)(**1851)(**1852)(*1858), 56,
Drayton Park, Holloway, N. (**1882)(**1884), London |
ROLFE W. K. |
 |
Pianoforte-maker and/or pianoforte dealer ca. 1906 ;
(x1906)
'Piano- u. Musikwarenhaus' (x1906)
|
Bognor |
ROLFE W. K. |
 |
Pianoforte-maker and/or pianoforte dealer ca. 1906 ;
(x1906)
'Piano- u. Musikinstr.-Handlung' (x1906)
|
Littlehampton |
ROLFE W. K. & Co |
 |
Pianoforte-maker and/or pianoforte dealer ca.
1890-1906
[since 1846
(xx1890)(x1906)]
'Musikal.- u. Piano-Handlung'
(xx1890)(x1906)
|
52, Chapel Road (xx1890)(x1906), Worthing |
ROLFE Thomas Hall |

Patent of 1828 : "T. H. Rolfe, Cheapside ; for improvements upon the
self-acting piano-forte."
The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History,
Politics ..., 1830, p. 551 - and -
Newton's London Journal of Arts and Sciences, 1834,
p. 215-217
Patent of 1829 : "Aug. 11, 1829. — Thomas Rolfe.
Improved self-acting pianoforte."
The History of the Pianoforte, Edgar Brinsmead, 1879,
p. 204 (archive.org) - or - " Patent
Self-acting and Keyed Upright Grand Piano Fortes. By Rolfe & Sons, 112,
Cheapside. Two of these beautiful specimens of mechanical skill applied
to the most fascinating of the sciences (and including the most recent
improvements) are exhibited in the gallery, where the visitors are
constantly regaled by their powerful melody.
The improvements introduced by Messrs. Rolfe & Sons being of
considerable extent, they have divided them into three distinct
sections; their self-acting piano fortes are therefore constructed with
the first section of their patent only, or the first and second sections
combined, or with the three sections united.
The first section consists of a new apparatus for effecting the
transitions of forte and piano, by which means the difficulty of
producing those desirable changes is removed, by transfering the
mechanical action from the weakest and. most uncertain part of the
arrangement — viz. the cylinder to the more powerful and certain action
of the. engine, by which transfer, the liability to derangement in
instruments intended for exportation is avoided. To this branch of their
patent, Messrs. Rolfe and Sons have annexed a hand-movement, or
register, by which the existing arrangement of, or distribution of the
forte and piano, may at any time be changed, or attend to suit
particular views; or may at any moment be removed from the government of
the self-acting apparatus which produces the effect, and be operated
upon by the hand; and again be restored to the control of the machine,
at pleasure. The second section consists of a new barrel movement for
changing the tunes, which is effected by the introduction of an inclined
plane, which forms an abutment for the axis of the cylinder. This plane
is divided into eight portions, and is moved by a radial lever acting
upon a pinion, which by its rotation one revolution moves upon a second
dial an index to the extent of oneeighth of its circumference, moving
the inclined plane to a proportionate extent. By this simple
arrangement, the motions are rendered very steady and accurate, and
eight distinct airs may thus be performed."
The Register of Arts, and Journal of Patent
Inventions, Volume 5, 1831, p. 23-24
Patent of 1857 : "1000. Thomas Rolfe, of Regent Street, London,
Pianoforte Manufacturer, for an invention for Improvements in
pianofortes. Letters Patent sealed."
Chronological index of patents applied for and
patents granted of ..., 1858, p. 62
- or -
"April 9,
1857. – T. ROLFE. Vulcanized or plain india-rubber, in place of wire,
for a «check.»"
The History of the Pianoforte: With an Account of
the Theory of Sound and ..., Edgar Brinsmead, 1889, p. 212
|
'Pianoforte-maker' ? ca. 1828-58
ROLFE
T. H. (*1830)
ROLFE
& Sons (**1843)
1855 -
"Partnerships dissolved. Oct. 19 [...] Rolfe,
N., J. and T., pianoforte manufacturers, Cheapside and Regent-street, Oct.
3.."
The Law Times, 27/10/1855, p. 72


"ROLFE and SONS' NEW PATENT
SELF-ACTING and KEYED UPRIGHT GRAND PIANO FORTES. —R. and SONS beg to
direct the attention of the Nobility, Gentry, Merchants, and Shippers to
these splendid Instruments, which, a* Self-acting Pianos, are articles
of the highest luxury; and, as Finger Instruments, of general utility.
The self-performing action possesses Rolfe and Sons' new patent
crescendo and diminuendo movement and revolving apparatus, with
dialplates for changing the tunes, and has recently been greatly
improved by the enlargement of the spring-barrel of the engine, which
now is made sufficiently rapacious for the reception of three powerful
springs (each 16 feet in length by 2 Inches in breadth), and
theapplication of a long brass roller, with pinion gearing on the wheel
at the bass end of the cylinder, and may be employed, with the highest
effect, In the execution of quadrilles, airs, or the more brilliant
fantasia of the concert-room. The finger department presents to
performers a first-rate Grand Piano Forte, with Patent Check Action, on
which they may strive to rival the efforts of the mechanical powers. Hay
be heard and tried at the Patentees, ROLFE and SONS (Removed from 112,
on the opposite side of the way.) 61, Cheapside (six doors East of Bow
Church), where they hare are the opportunity of exhibiting a Splendid
Stock of Grand Cabinet Piano Fortes with Patent Check Action, Cabinet
Piano Fortes, Cottage, Semi-Cottage, Patent Grand Square, and Square
Piano Fortes; the whole constructed with especial regard to quality and
durability, by which features R- and Sons hare uniformly laboured to
distinguish their manufacture for the past fifty years."
The Indian Mail, 06/12/1843, p. 255 |
112,
Cheapside (*1830)(**1831), 61,
Cheapside (**1843)(**1855), Regent Street (**1855)(**1858), London |
ROLLS William |
 |
'Pianoforte-maker' ca. 1884-1906
'Piano-Handlung' (x1906) |
26, St. David Street, Falmouth Road, S.E. (**1884),
Haendel House, 50, Wansey Street, Walworth Road, S.E. (x1906), London |
ROLT Eugène |

Patent of 1853 : "EUGENE ROLT, of Saint John's Wood, in the County of
Middlesex, Composer of Music, for an invention for - Certain
improvements in pianofortes."
The Gazette, 27/05/1853, p. 1486
(thegazette.co.uk) |
'Composer of music' ca. 1853 |
Saint John's Wood, Middlesex (**1853), London |
ROOKE Charles |
 |
Pianoforte-maker and/or pianoforte dealer
ca. 1882-90
ROOKE
& ROOKE (**1884)(xx1890)
'Pianohandlung'
(xx1890)
|
7, Newcommen Street, Borough, S.E. (**1882),
41, Bermondsy New Road, S.E. (**1884)(xx1890), London |
ROOKE Richard |
 |
Pianoforte-maker and/or pianoforte dealer
ca. 1890 [since
1828
(xx1890)] 'Pianohandlung' (xx1890) |
5, Johnstone Row (xx1890), Weymouth |
ROPER Charles |
 |
Pianoforte-maker and/or pianoforte dealer
ca. 1890 'Musikal.- u. Pianohandlung' (xx1890) |
96, Terminus Road (xx1890), Eastbourne |
ROSAMOND John |
 |
Pianoforte-maker and/or pianoforte dealer
ca. 1890 [since 1883
(xx1890)]
'Pianohandlung'
(xx1890)
|
16, Mare Street,
Cambridge Heath, E.
(xx1890), London |
ROSE E. |
 |
Pianoforte-maker and/or pianoforte dealer
ca. 1890-1906
'Pianohandlung'
(xx1890)
'Piano- und
Orgel-Handlung' (x1906) |
348, High Street
(xx1890)(x1906), Lincoln |
ROSE Robert |
 |
Pianoforte-maker and/or pianoforte dealer ca. 1890-1906
ROSE
Robert
(xx1890), 'Musikal.-, Piano- u. Instr.-Handlung'
ROSE R. & Co
(x1906), 'Musikal.-, Piano- u.
Musikinstr.-Handlung'
|
1 23,
High Street, St. Peter's (xx1890)(x1906), Bedford
|
ROSE William |
 |
Pianoforte-maker and/or pianoforte dealer ca. 1895 |
11, Princess Street, Walworth Road, S.E.
(**1895), 11, Beresford Street, Camberwell, S.E. (**1895), London
|
ROSENBLATT |
 |
'Pianoforte-maker' ca. ?? |
London ? |
ROSS William Henry |

LONDON
-
"ROSS,
WILLIAM HENRY. — Pianoforte."
The Musical Standard: A Newspaper for Musicians,
Professional and Amateur, 22/08/1885, p. 121
|
'Pianoforte-maker' ca. 1882-95 [since
1860
(xx1890)]
'Pianohandlung' (xx1890)

Exhibitors
List London, 1885 |
29, Norfolk Terrace, Bayswater, Westborn Grove, W.
(**1882)(xx1890)(**1891), 185, Westbourne Grove, W. (**1895), London |
ROSSE |
 |
Pianoforte-maker and/or pianoforte dealer ca. 1920 |
London
|
ROSSI & SPINELLI |
 |
'Pianoforte-makers' ca. 1906 [since
1880
(x1906)]
'Piano-Fabrik' or 'Piano-Manufacturer' -
'Drehklaviere' (x1906) |
49, Warner Street, Clerkenwell (x1906), London |
ROUND Isajah |
 |
Pianoforte-maker and/or pianoforte dealer ca. 1906 [since
1868
(x1906)] 'Piano- u.
Musikinstr.-Handlung' (x1906) |
31, Market Street (x1906), Kingswinford
|
ROUSE M. |
 |
Pianoforte-maker and/or pianoforte dealer
ca. 1906
'Piano-Handlung' (x1906)
|
46, Borough Road, S.E.
(x1906), London
|
ROUSE R. W. |
 |
Pianoforte-maker and/or pianoforte dealer
ca. 1890 [since 1843
(xx1890)]
'Orgelbauer u. Piano-Reparateur' (x1906)
|
Woodstock Road,
Summertown
(xx1890), Oxford
|
ROUSSELOT & Co |

" Reduced
Prices. Economy being at all times commendable, Messrs. ROUSSELOT and Co.
have established a new system for Hiring Pianofortes, including the Tuning,
once a month, which presents a great saving. N.B.-Pianofortes for sale,
exchanged, and repaired. Cheap Tuning by Subscription at 12s. per annum,
once a month, &c. ROUSSELOT and Co., 66, Conduit-street, Regent-street."
The Musical World, 06/12/1851, p. 782 - and
-
The Indian News and Chronicle of Eastern Affaires,
1851, p. 576
|
Pianoforte-makers and/or pianoforte dealers
ca. 1851 |
66, Conduit Street, Regent Street (yy1851),
London |
ROUTH G. R. |
 |
'Pianoforte-maker' ca. 1842 |
High Street, Knightsbridge (x1842), London |
ROWED Charles |
 |
'Pianoforte-maker' ca. 1841-43 |
7, Frederick Place, Hampstead Road
(**1841)(x1842)(*1843), London |
ROWED John |
 |
'Pianoforte-maker' ca. 1852 |
40, William Street, Hampstead Road (**1852), London |
ROWED R. |

"Rowed,
R., Pianoforte Manufacturer, 1 ½, William-street, Hampstead-road."
The British Colonies : their history, extent,
condition and resources, 1851, p. 9 (archive.org)
|
'Pianoforte-maker' ca. 1850-57
|
40, William Street, Hampstead Road (*1850), 1 ½, William Street, Hamstead
Road (y1851)(y1854)(y1857), London |
ROWINSKI William |
 |
Pianoforte-maker and/or pianoforte dealer and importer ca. 1895-1906
'Piano-Handlung' (x1906)
Representative for GÜNTHER, Kirchheim u./Teck, KREUTZBACH, Leipzig,
HÖRUGEL, Leipzig etc. (x1906)
|
17, Percy Street, Tootenham Court Road, W.
(**1895), 9, Fitzroy Street, Tottenham Court Road, W. (x1906), London |
ROWLAND G. |
 |
Pianoforte-maker and/or pianoforte dealer
ca. 1906
'Piano-Handlung' (x1906)
Representative for SPENCER Pianos (x1906)
|
81, Angel Lane, Stratford
(x1906), London
|
ROWLAND J. J. W. & Co |

|
Pianoforte-maker and/or pianoforte dealer ca.
1906-10
ROWLAND
Warner ? |
42, Barclay Street, St. Pancras, N.W.
(*1906)(*1907)(*1910), London |
ROYAN Alexander D. Ltd. |
 |
Pianoforte-maker and/or pianoforte dealer ca. 1901-18
ROYAN
Alexander (**1901)
ROYAN
Alexander D. Ltd.
(**1904)(*1916)(*1917)(*1918)
|
18, Queen's Road, Battersea, S.W.
(**1901)(**1904)(*1916)(*1917)(*1918), London |
ROYAN & Co |
 |
Pianoforte-maker and/or pianoforte dealer
ca. 1906
'Piano-Handlung' (x1906)
|
284, Holloway Road, N.
(x1906), London
|
ROYLANCE C. & S. |

" C.
& S. ROYLANCE, MUSICAL INSTRUMENT DEALERS, MUSIC PUBLISHERS, AND
ENTERTAINMENT AGENTS, 184, TOTTENHAM COURT ROAD, W.
This popular and somewhat unique institution was organized in the year 1865
by its present talented and enterprising proprietors for the threefold
purpose of imparting musical instruction, supplying music and musical
instruments of every known kind, and providing evening or other musical and
variety entertainments of a refined character for private parties, either on
a small or a large scale, and in each of these departments the firm have
scored a signal success, and stand to-day in a practically unrivalled
position. Messrs. Roylance’s premises are located but a few doors distant
from Messrs. Shoolbred’s, and are provided with every facility for both
teachers and pupils, for the display and sale of instruments of every kind,
and for the transaction of entertainment engagements. Lessons are given by
competent teachers on the pianoforte, harmonium, violin, violoncello, double
bass, mandoline, dulcimer, clarionet, banjo, zither, guitar, cornet, flute
and piccolo, flageolet, English concertina, Anglo concertina, organ
accordion, musette, harp, and in singing, at the moderate terms of one
guinea for six lessons; and comfortable, well-appointed rooms, with use of
piano or any other instrument, may be hired by ladies and gentlemen for
practice or for receiving lessons in music, drawing, languages, &c., from
their own professors, at from sixpence per hour.
|
Pianoforte-makers and/or pianoforte dealers and music-publishers ca. 1890-93
[ since 1865
(xx1890)]
'Pianohandlung' (xx1890)


(continuation)
In the sale department the firm hold every
variety and every class and grade of musical instrument known and used in
this country, from the cheapest to the most expensive kinds, and they
publish a full price-list of these, which may be obtained on application. In
the entertainment agency section of their business they undertake to engage
for evening parties, or other festive functions, well-known musicians and
entertainers, at fixed prices, from the supply of a pianist, ventriloquist,
or juggler, to a full orchestral band. Lastly, special mention must be made
of Messrs. Roylance’s system of tuition for the pianoforte, harmonium, or
American organ, which has been highly eulogised by the press, as well as by
musicians of note, as a highly useful stepping-stone to the musical, arena.
Roylance’s Numerical System is indeed a wonderful invention, since by its
aid persons of any age, without any previous knowledge of music, can be
easily taught to play at once, and after but a short practice to “vamp” to
songs, and play a number of sacred and secular melodies. The business
connections of the firm are of a very widespread, influential, and steadily
growing character, and the proprietors spare no effort to make the present
and future reputation of their house fully consistent with all its past
traditions of credit and renown."
Ilustrated London and its representatives of Commerce,
1893 (messybeast.com)
|
184, Tottenham Court Road W.
(xx1890)(xx1893), London |
ROYLE Thomas |
 |
Pianoforte-maker and/or pianoforte dealer ca.
1906 [since
1876 (x1906)]
'Musikal.-, Piano-, Orgel- u.
Musikinstr.-Handlung' (x1906) |
37, Market Street (x1906), Hindley |
ROZ T. J. V. |

Patent of 1864 : "Aug.
4, 1864. — T. J. V. Roz. Transposing keyboard."
The History of the Pianoforte: With an Account of
the Theory of Sound and ..., Edgar Brinsmead, 1889, p. 218
|
Pianoforte-maker and/or
pianoforte dealer
and/or inventor ca. 1864
|
London ? |
RUDALL, CARTE & Co |
 |
Pianoforte-maker and/or pianoforte dealer ca.
1906-10 |
23, Berners Street, W.
(*1906)(*1907)(*1910), London |
RUDD & Co |



LONDON
-
"RUDD,
A. - A Grand Piano, by Clementi, of peculiar construction, having an extra
harmonic pedal and a double length of vibrating string to each note."
The Musical Standard: A Newspaper for Musicians,
Professional and Amateur, 22/08/1885, p. 121
LONDON -
"Messrs.
RUDD & Co., Dean-street, Soho, exhibit a remarkable restoration of a
grand pianoforte-case, made by Clementi, about 1800. Some of the inlaid
brass work upon it is finely executed, but the lacquered ornaments are a
little out of keeping."
The Furniture Gazette, 01/07/1885, p. 310

SEE ALSO ...
RUDD in Paris, France
|
'Pianoforte-maker' ca. 1867-1910 [since 1837
(x1906)]
RUDD Albert & Co
(1860)(**1882)(*1893)
RUDD
[A.] & Co
(**1884)(xx1890)(**1895)(*1899)(x1906) in London
'Piano-Fabrik' or 'Piano-Manufacturer' - and
- 'Piano-Handlung'
(xx1890)(x1906) in London
RUDD S.
(x1906), 'Piano-Handlung' in Sutton

Exhibitors
list London, 1885 |
50, boulevard de Buttes Saint Chaumont (arr.12),
Paris, France

74, Dean Street, Soho, W. (1867)(**1870)(**1882)(**1884)(**1885)(xx1890)(**1891)(*1893)(*1895)(**1895)(*1897)(*1899)(*1903)(*1906)(x1906)(*1909)(*1910), London

74, High Street (x1906), Sutton |
RUDD J. W. |
 |
'Pianoforte-maker' ca. 1895-1910
RUDD J.
(*1909)(*1910) |
32, Hanover Street, Islington Green, N.
(*1895)(*1897)(*1899)(*1903)(*1906)(*1909)(*1910),
London |
RUDD John |
 |
'Pianoforte-maker' ca. 1842 |
12, Queen Charlotte Row, New Road
(x1842), London |
RUDD John |
 |
'Pianoforte-maker' ca. 1841-43 |
4, Circus Street, New Road Marylebone
(**1841)(x1842)(*1843), London |
RUDD Margaret |
 |
Pianoforte-maker and/or pianoforte dealer
ca. 1890-1906
'Musikal.-, Piano- u. Musikinstr.-Handlung' (xx1890)
'Musikal.-, Piano- u. Musikinstr.- und
Musikwerke-Handlung' (x1906)
|
46, Highgate
(xx1890)(x1906), Kendal |
RUDD Sidney |
 |
'Pianoforte-maker' ca. 1901 |
74, High Street, Sutton
(*1901), London |
RUFSELL Charles |
 |
Pianoforte-maker and/or pianoforte dealer
ca. 18?? |
?? |
RUMMENS Henry J. |

Patent of 1881 : "Sept. 27,
1881. - H. J. RUMMENS. Improved means of applying organ-pedals to
pianofortes. "
The History of the Pianoforte: With an Account of
the Theory of Sound and ..., Edgar Brinsmead, 1889, p. 231
|
'Pianoforte-maker' ca. 1881 |
47, Church Road (18??), Brixton |
RUMSEY F. V. |
 |
Pianoforte-maker and/or pianoforte dealer
ca. 1890 'Musikal.- u. Piano-Handlung'
(xx1890) |
7, Parchemant Street (xx1890), Winchester |
RUMSEY John |
 |
Pianoforte-maker and/or pianoforte dealer
ca. 1890 [since 1853
(xx1890)] 'Musikal.- u. Piano-Handlung'
(xx1890) |
High Street (xx1890), Shepton-Mallet |
RUSHTON James |

Patent of 1883 : "Oct.
5, 1883. - JAMES RUSHTON. Attachment of organ pedals to pianoforte."
The History of the Pianoforte: With an Account of
the Theory of Sound and ..., Edgar Brinsmead, 1889, p. 235
Patent of 1883 : "Jan.
1, 1884. - J. RUSHTON. Pedals to pianofortes."
The History of the Pianoforte: With an Account of
the Theory of Sound and ..., Edgar Brinsmead, 1889, p. 235 |
Pianoforte-maker and/or pianoforte dealer ca. 1883-84 |
London ? |
RUSHTON T. H. & Son |
 |
'Pianoforte-maker' ca. 1906
'Piano-Fabrik und
Musikinstr.-Handlung' (x1906)
|
308, Cleethorpe Road (x1906),
Great-Grimsby |
RUSHWORTH |






|
Pianoforte-makers and/or pianoforte dealers ca. 1880-1910 [since
1840 (xx1890)or
since
1828
(x1906)]
RUSHWORTH
E[dwin] (xx1890)(**1880)(xx1890)(xx1900)
'Piano-, Harmonium- u. Instr.-Handlung' (xx1890)
'Pianoforte manufacturer' - Organ & musical instrument
warehouse' (xx1900)
RUSHWORTH
& DREAPER
(x1906)(*1910), see also
DREAPER
'Musikal.-, Piano-, Orgel-, Harmonium u. Musikinstr.-Handlung' (x1906) |
11, Islington
Street E. (**1880), 18, Islington Street E. (**1880), Factory ? : 63,
Falkland Road, Egremont (xx1900), 31, Basnett Street W. (xx1900), 21, Basnett Street
(x1906),
Show room : 13, [William Brown Street, Mill Lane] Islington
Street (xx1890)(xx1900)(x1906)(*1910),
Liverpool

Birkenhead

Chester |
RUSHWORTH Elizabeth |
 |
Pianoforte-maker and/or pianoforte dealer
ca. 1880 |
37, Kensington E. (**1880), Liverpool |
RUSHWORTH W. & Sons |

|
'Organ builders' ca. 1906-10
[since 1840
(x1906)]
RUSHWORTH W. & Sons
(*1875)(*1906)(*1909)
'Orgelbauer' (x1906)
|
13,
Islington E. (*1875), 22, Mill Lane
(*1906)(x1906)(*1909),
Liverpool |
RUSSEL James |


Square
pianoforte of 1810, Musée Historique d'Argenteuil, Carillo, Quebec,
Canada

|
'Pianoforte-maker' ca. 1810-20 |
Tottenham Court Road (P1810-20), London |
RUSSELL |
 |
'Pianoforte-maker' ca. 1900 |
Belvedere |
RUSSELL Charles |
 |
Pianoforte-maker and/or pianoforte dealer
ca. 1861-67 |
25, Bennett's Hill (xx1861)(**1867), Birmingham |
RUSSELL George
| RUSSEL |






 Upright
pianoforte ca. 1880-1910, Powerhouse Museum, Museum of Applied
Arts and Sciences, Sydney, Australia


LONDON - "3436 Russell, G. 35,
Brook-st. Euston-rd. —Patent improved semi-cottage piano."
International exhibition, 1862 : Official catalogue of
the industrial department, 1862, p. 54
LONDON
-
"RUSSELL,
G., & CO. - Pianos in Marquellerie cases."
The Musical Standard: A Newspaper for Musicians,
Professional and Amateur, 22/08/1885, p. 121
LONDON -
"At
3,602, Messrs. G. RUSSELL & Co., 2, Stanhope-street, show some good inlaid
work with coloured woods in the panels of one pianoforte-case. In some of
the other cases on view, the careful choice and disposition of walnut-woods
are noteworthy."
The Furniture Gazette, 01/07/1885, p. 310 |
'Pianoforte-maker' ca. 1852-1915 [since 1842
(xx1890)(x1906)]
RUSSEL
George
(**1852)(*1862)
RUSSEL
[George] & Co (**1882)(**1884)(**1885)(xx1885)(**1891)(*1893)(*1895)(**1895)(*1897)(*1899)(*1903)(*1906)(x1906)(*1909)(*1914)(*1915)
'Piano-Fabrik' or 'Piano-Manufacturer' - Spez.: Transponier-Pianos'
(xx1890)(x1906)
End : ca. 1929

" MR.
GEORGE RUSSELL, MANUFACTURER OF PATENT TRANSPOSING PIANOFORTES, 2, STANHOPE
STREET, EUSTON ROAD, N.W. - SINCE this busy and flourishing firm was
originally established in the year 1842 they have always been well known in
the trade as makers of high-class instruments. Their pianos are all made
with iron frames, fitted with patent check repeating actions, ivory keys
with all the latest improvements, while none but the best materials and most
finished workmanship are employed in their manufacture. Their special model
is styled the “Academy” piano, and has been very highly appreciated by
musicians, both amateur and professional. The transposing patent is a
complete triumph, and its action is as simple as the result is effectual,
while even with violent usage it is difficult to put it out of order, and no
precaution of any kind is necessary in its manipulation. A lever is placed
under the keyboard, a slight movement of which, either to the right or left,
raises or lowers the pitch of any music as desired, a small dial in front
denoting the key into which the transposition is made. The range is through
five tones, thus practically giving the choice of six keys. The immense
advantage of this ingenious invention will be palpable to every vocalist,
and will also be recognised as of paramount importance by the large and
increasing number of instrumentalists, both amateur and professional. It has
been freely exhibited during the last five years or so, and has everywhere
earned the most unqualified and enthusiastic, admiration of musicians and
experts. The lever mechanism can at a small cost be added at any time to
most of Messrs. George Russell & Co.’s pianos. The works at 2, Stanhope
Street are very roomy and spacious, and are five storeys in height, having
conveniently arranged offices, a fine show-room, and an extensive range of
very completely equipped workshops. Their instruments are known all over the
civilised world, and few firms can boast of so long and honourable record."
Ilustrated London and its representatives of Commerce,
1893 (messybeast.com)

Exhibitors
List London, 1862 | Exhibitors list London, 1885 |
35,
Brook Street, New Road (**1852), 35,
Brook Street, Euston Road (*1862), 2, Stnhope street (**1885), Euston Road (*1893), 2, Stanhope Street, Euston Road,
N.W. (**1882)(**1884)(xx1890)(**1891)(xx1893)(*1895)(**1895)(*1897)(*1899)(*1903)(*1906)(x1906)(*1909)(*1914),
7, Eden Street, Hampstead Road,
N.W.
(*1914)(*1915),
London |
RUSSELL Henry |

Patent of 1852 : "Russell. 17th november 1852 - 773. Henry Russell,
of the City of Norwich, Pianoforte Maker, for an invention for —
Improvements in pianofortes. Letters Patent sealed."
Chronological index of patents applied for and
patents granted of ..., 1860, p. 47 - or - "Nov. 17, 1852. -
H. RUSSELL. Flattened wire, in place of round pianoforte strings."
The history of the pianoforte, 1870, p.
78
|
'Pianoforte-maker' ca. 1852-65 |
Princess Street (**1865),
Norwich |
RUSSELL Hugh |
 |
'Organ builder' ca. 1812 |
28, Theobald's Road (*1812),
London |
RUSSELL J. |
 |
'Pianoforte-maker' ca. 1895-1909 |
43, Sears dale Villus, Kennington, W.
(*1895)(*1899)(*1903)(*1906)(*1909), London |
RUSSELL James & Co |
 |
Pianoforte-maker and/or pianoforte dealer
ca. 1906 [since
1812 (x1906)]
Representative : A. RICHARDSON
(x1906)
'Musikal.-, Piano- u. Musikinstr.-Handlung' (x1906)
|
120, High Street (x1906), Oxford |
RUSSELL Richard |
 |
'Pianoforte-maker' ca. 1841-43 |
44, Broad Street, Golden Square (**1841)(x1842)(*1843),
London |
RUSSELL & RUSSELL |
 |
'Pianoforte-makers' ca. 1916-19
RUSSELL
& RUSSELL Ltd.
(*1916)(*1917)(*1918)(*1919)
|
258, Clapham Road, S.W.
(*1916)(*1917)(*1918)(*1919),
London |
RUSSELL W. H. |
 |
Pianoforte-maker and/or pianoforte dealer
ca. 1890-1906
'Musiklehrer, Musikal.- u. Piano-Händler'
(xx1890)(x1906) |
82, Lower Conduit Street (xx1890), 7, London Road (x1906), Leicester |
RUSSELLET Co |
 |
'Pianoforte-makers' ca. 1910 |
2, Stanhope Street, Euston Road (*1910),
London |
RÜST Robert Anderson |

LONDON - "3437 Rüst & Co. 34, Gt.
Marlborough-st. W.—Pianoforte, with tubular sounding-board, and
newly-constructed case."
International exhibition, 1862 : Official catalogue of
the industrial department, 1862, p. 54
LONDON - "Messrs. RÜST and Co. (3437)
exhibit an upright, with a sound-board strengthened by wooden tubular ribs,
and with improvements in the form of the case and the music-desk. They are
awarded a Medal."
Reports by the Juries on the subjects in the
thirty-six classes into which ..., 1862, p. 148 DUBLIN -
"309 Rust & Co. 8 Argyll st. Regent st.
London, W. — Royal patent tubular pianoforte, with telescopic desk front and
extending ends; another with desk front only."
The illustrated record and descriptive catalogue of
the Dublin international exhibition, 1865, p. 241


Patent of 1852 :
"ROBERT ANDERSON RÜST, of 320 Regent Street, in the County of
Middlesex, Pianoforte Manufacturer, for an invention for - "Improvements
in pianofortes."
The London journal of arts and sciences (and
repertory of patent inventions ..., 1852, p. 379
Patent of 1853 : "1615.
Robert Anderson Rust, of Regent-street, in the county of Middlesex,
Pianoforte-manufacturer, for An improvement in pianofortes. — Dated July
6, 1853. Sealed November 14, 1853."
The Repertory of Patent Inventions: And Other
Discoveries and Improvements ..., 1853, p. 476
- or - "July 6, 1853. - R. Rüst. Sound-holes in the sounding-board, with
metal tubes passing through hollow bars inserted."
The history of the pianoforte, 1870, p. 78
Patent of 1861 : "ROBERT ANDERSON
RUST, of 34, Great Marlborough Street, Westminster, in the County of
Middlesex, Pianoforte Manufacturer, for an invention for Improvements in the
construction of the cases of pianofortes. - Dated 3rd December, 1861."
The Commissioners of Patents' Journal, 1861,
p. 1485
- or -
"Dec. 3, 1861. - R. A. Rüst. Sloping front and
sliding extended desk."
The History of the Pianoforte: With an Account of
the Theory of Sound and ..., Edgar Brinsmead, 1889,
p. 215


1854 -
"Insolvent Debitors [...]
Robert Anderson Rust, formerly of No. 320, Regent-street, having a warehouse
in Cavendish Mews, New Cavendish-street, Marylebone, afterwards lodging at
4, Wilton-place, Saint John's Wood, and late lodging at 122 ½ Great
Portland-street, Mary-le-bone, having a place of business at No. 309,
Regent-street aforesaid, all in Middlesex, all the time trading and carrying
on the business of a Pianoforte Manufacturer and Publisher of Music under
the style of Rust & Co."
The Gazette, 1854, p. 1637
|
'Pianoforte-maker' and publisher ca. 1850-65
Successor of
ZEITTER & Co
RÜST
& STAHL (**1850)(yy1851)(**1852) until 1852 :
"Partnerships dissolved [...] Rust R.
A. and Stahl C. C. music and pianoforte sellers, Regent-st. portland-place,
oct.26."
The Law Times, Volume 20, n° 501, 06/10/1852,
p. 84
RÜST & Co
(*1862)(*1865)(*1872)


"Pianofortes. — Without in the least disparaging the instruments or other
makers, we may call attention to the pianofortes manufactured by Messrs.
Rüst and Stahl as uniting many good qualities. These gentlemen give their
undivided attention to one class of instruments only, viz., the upright
piano (piccolo and cottage), the moderate price of which is an additional
recommendation. The instruments we have seen — piccolos of nearly seven
octaves (C to A), and seven octaves full, cottages — appear to be made of
the best seasoned materials; and to combine all the modern improvements; and
the experience of Mr. Rust as a professor, and that of Mr. Stahl as a maker,
seem to have been successfully united in producing good pianofortes at a
reasonable charge. Because an instrument is cheap, it does not necessarily
follow that it Is bad, and Messrs. Rust and Stahl are willing to test this
principle by their offer to exchange, free of expense, any instrument, if
not found perfect in every respect. In these days of "Free Trade," small
profits and quick returns are apparently their object."
The Musical World, 22/11/1851, p. 737

" MESSRS. RUST &
STAHL, in calling the attention of Professors and the Trade to their unique
instruments, beg to intimate that they have taken the spacious and
convenient manufacory of Zeitter and Co., New Cavendish-street, where the
hate made arrangements for the manufacturing of the upright piano only,
via., the Piccolo and Cottage; hence they are enabled to give their
undivided attention to thU now almost universal class of instruments, which,
combined with terms to meet the present exigencies of the timet, small
profits and quick, returns, will pUce their pianofortes beyond the
possibility of competition. To this they need only add that their
instruments combine all the modern improvements, and aro made of the best
seasoned materials, are warranted, and may be exchanged free of expense if
not found to be In every respect perfect. Drawings and lists of prices
forwarded post free. Rust and Stahl, 320, Regent-street. Manufactory, New
Cavendish-street (late Zeitter and Co.)"
The Musical World, 27/12/1851, p. 817

Exhibitors list
London, 1862
|
Exhibitors list
Dublin, 1865 |
Exhibitors list
London, 1872 |
320, Regent Street, Middlesex
(**1850)(yy1851)(*1852)(**1852)(*1853), Cavendish Mews, New Cavendish Street, Marylebone, Middlesex
(18??), 4, Wilton Place, Saint John's Wood, Middlesex (18??), 122 ½Great
Portland Street, Mary-le-bone, Middlesex (18??), 309, Regent-street,
Middlesex (*1854),
34,
Great Marlborough Street W. (**1861)(*1862),
8, Argyll Street Regent Street (*1865), London |
RUTTER & McCARTHY |
 |
Pianoforte-makers and/or pianoforte dealers and publishers ca. 1822 |
120, New Bond Street
(**1822), London |
RUTTERFORD John |
 |
'Pianoforte-maker' ca. 1842 |
55, Grosvenor Place, Pimlico (x1842),
London |
RYALLS & JONES |

 |
Pianoforte-maker and/or pianoforte dealer
ca. 1900-12 [since 1849
(x1906)(x1912) or
since 1852
(xx1890)(x1906)]
'Musikal.- u. Pianohandlung' (xx1890)
'Pianoforte and music dealers' (xx1900)
Owner : H. J. RYALLS (x1906)
'Musikal.-, Piano-, Orgel- u.
Musikinstr.-Handlung' (x1906) in Rock Ferry & St.
Helens
'Musikal.-, Piano-, Orgel- u.
Musikinstr.-Handlung' (x1906)(x1912) in Birkenhead
'Musikal.-, Piano- u. Musikinstr.-Handlung'
(x1906) in Hoylake
|
MAIN FIRM : 40-50, Argyle
Street (xx1890), 32, Unitarian Church, Grange Road, Crance Road W.
(xx1900), 68, Argyle Street (x1906), Birkenhead

BRANCH : Market Street (x1906), Hoylake

BRANCH : Rock
Ferry

BRANCH :
St. Helens

BRANCH :
434a, Howson Street, New Chester Road
(xx1900), Tranmere
|
RYAN James |
 |
Pianoforte-maker and/or pianoforte dealer ca.
1890-1906
[since 1874
(x1906)]
'Musiklehrer und Pianohändler' (xx1890)
'Musikal.-,
Piano- u. Musikinstr.-Handlung' (x1906) |
195, Maperton Road (xx1890), 621, Leeds Road (x1906), Bradford |
RYAN Th. & Co |
 |
Pianoforte-maker and/or pianoforte dealer ca.
1890-1906
[since 1877
(xx1890)(x1906)]
'Musikal.- u. Piano-Handlung' (xx1890)(x1906) |
20, Bank Street (xx17890), 16, Devonshire Street (x1906), Carlisle |
RYLEY Edward |

Patent of 1801 : "Edward Ryley, of
the lordship of Myton, in the county of the town of Kingston-upon-Hull,
Organ-builder and Piano forte-maker; for moveable keys for piano-fortes,
organs, and other instruments. Dated November 28, 1801."
The Repertory of Arts and Manufactures, Volume 16,
1802, p. 144
|
'Organ-builder and Pianoforte-maker' ca. 1801 |
Kingston-upon Hull (*1802), Myton |
RYLEY Samuel |
 |
'Pianoforte-maker' ca. 1823-28 |
27, Waterhouse Lane (*1823), New John Street
(*1823), 1, Robinson's Row (**1828), Hull, Yorkshire |
|
(*1793): 'The
Cabinet-Maker And Upholsterer's Drawing-Book: In Three Parts', Volume 1,
1793
(*1802):
The Repertory of Arts and Manufactures, Volume 16,
1802, p. 144
(*1807): ' Dodsley's
Annual Register', Edmund Burke, 1807, p. 406
(*1808): 'Post
Office Annual Directory', 1808, p. 239
(Specialcollections.le.ac.uk)
(**1808): 'The
European Magazine, and London Review', Volume 53, 1808, p. 493
(*1812): 'The
Post-Office Annual Directory for London', 1812
(*1813): 'The
Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for
...', 1813, p. 458
(*1817): 'The
Post office London directory', 1817, p. (Rolfe) 281
(babel.hathitrust.org)
(**1818): 'The
Poll Book, for Electing Two Representatives in Parliament for the City and
Liberty of Westminster', 1818
(**1822): 'History,
Directory & Gazetteer, of the County of York', 1822, p. 34+63
(*1823): 'History,
directory & gazetteer, of the county of York; with select ...', 1823,
p. 303+337
(**1823): 'Kent's
Original London Directory', 1823, p. 122
(x1825): 'Pigot
& Co.'s new commercial directory of Scotland for 1825', p. 907-908
(digital.nls.uk)
(**1828): 'Pigot
and co.'s national commercial directory for 1828-9', p. 979
(*1830): 'The
Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics ...', 1830,
p. 551
(*1831): 'The
Harmonicon', 06/1831, p. 15
(**1831): 'The
Register of Arts, and Journal of Patent Inventions', Volume 5, 1831,
p. 23-24
(**1838): 'The
London Gazette', 16/10/1838, p. 2211
(**1841): 'Post
Office London Directory', 1841, p. 807
(specialcollections.le.ac.uk)
(x1842): 'Robson's
London Directory', 1842, p. 1598 -1599 (archive.org)
(*1843): 'The
Post Office London Directory', 1843
(**1843): 'The
Indian Mail', 06/12/1843, p. 255
(*1849): 'Birmingham:
History and general directory of the borough of Birmingham, with ...',
1849
(*1850): 'The
British Colonies: Their History, Extent, Condition and ...', Volume 4, 1850,
p. 7
(**1850): 'The
Musical World', 24/05/1850, p. 540
(***1850): 'History,
gazetteer, and directory, of Warwickshire', 1850
(*1851): 'Iron:
An Illustrated Weekly Journal for Iron and Steel ...', Volume 54, 1851,
p. 340
(**1851): 'Official
description and illustrated catalogue of the Great exhibition 1851',
p. 464
(y1851):
The British Colonies : their history, extent,
condition and resources', 1851, p. 9-10 (archive.org)
(yy1851): 'The
Musical World', 27/12/1851, p. 817+782
(*1852): 'The
London journal of arts and sciences (and repertory of patent inventions
...', 1852, p. 379
(**1852): 'Post
Office London Directory', 1852
(specialcollections.le.ac.uk)
(*1853): 'The
Repertory of Patent Inventions: And Other Discoveries and Improvements ...',
1853, p. 476
(**1853): 'The
Gazette', 27/05/1853, p. 1486 (thegazette.co.uk)
(y1854): 'The
British colonies : their history, extent, condition and resources', 1854,
p. 13 (archive.org)
(**1855): 'The
Law Times', 27/10/1855, p. 72
(*1856): 'Lunds'
Bradford Directory; comprising the names, occupation, places of ...', 1856,
p. 54
(y1857): 'The
British colonies : their history, extent, condition and resources', 1857,
p. 10 (archive.org)
(*1858): 'Annuaire-almanach
du commerce, de l'industrie, de la magistrature et de l'administration : ou
almanach des 500.000 adresses de Paris, des départements et des pays
étrangers : Firmin Didot et Bottin réunis', 1858, p. 2249
(**1858): 'Chronological
index of patents applied for and patents granted of ...', 1858,
p. 62
(*1861): 'Chronological
and Descriptive Index of Patents Applied for and Patents', 1861,
p. 130
(**1861): 'The
Commissioners of Patents' Journal', 1861, p. 1485
(x1861): 'Corporation
general and trades directory of Birmingham ... and Wolverhampton', 1861,
p. 280
(xx1861): 'Corporation
general and trades directory of Birmingham ... and Wolverhampton', 1861,
p. 500
(*1862): 'International
exhibition, 1862 : Official catalogue of the industrial department', 1862,
p. 54
(xx1862): 'Business
Directory of Birmingham', 1862, p. 157
(specialcollections.le.ac.uk)
(*1864): 'Nottinghamshire.
History, directory and gazetteer of the county', 1864, p. 257
(**1865): 'The
Post Office Directory of Norfolk & Suffolk',
1865, p. 342/562
(*1866): 'The
London Gazette', 30/11/1866, p. 6714 (thegazette.co.uk)
(**1866): 'Folthorp's
Page's Court guide and general directory for Brighton, 1866, p.
345
(***1866): 'The
Musical Times', 01/04/1866, p. 257
(**1867): 'Post
Office Directory of Birmingham', 1867, p. 371
(***1868): 'Allen's
West London Street Directory, 1868, by Samuel Allen
(gutenberg.jump&read)
(**1870): 'The
'Handbook' to the manufacturers & exporters of Great Britain', 1870,
p. 367
(xx1870): 'The
Law Times', 15/01/1870, p. 223
(**1871): 'Chronological
and Descriptive Index of Patents Applied for and Patents', 1871,
p. 251
(*1872): 'Journal
of the Society of Arts', Volume 20, 1872, p. 889
(*1874): 'The
Woburn Directory', 1874
(**1874): 'Post
Office Directory of Middlesex', 1874, p. 501
(*1875): 'The Commercial
directory of Liverpool, and shipping guide', 1875,
Aberdeen p. 434,
Dewsbury p. 656,
London p. 608,
Coventry p. 582,
Bradford p. 567,
Liverpool p. 274
(**1875): 'Official
catalogue, Yorkshire exhibition of arts and manufactures, 1875,
p. 30
(*1877): 'Birmingham
and Birmingham men', 1877, p. (Project
Gutenberg License)
(y1878): 'The
Post office [afterw.] Kellys directory of Birmingham with its suburbs ...',
1878, p. 526
(**1880): 'The
Commercial directory of Liverpool, and shipping guide', 1880,
Aberdeen p. 808,
Armagh p. 844,
Belfast p. 837,
Halifax p. 975,
Huddersfield p. 982,
Liverpool p. 333-334,
London p. 473,
Manchester p. 436
(***1880): 'The
Musical Times', 1880, p. 212
(**1882): 'Post
Office London Directory', 1882, p. 412-413
(specialcollections.le.ac.uk)
(**1884):
'Business
Directory of London', 1884, p. 618-619
(specialcollections.le.ac.uk)
(**1885): 'The
Furniture Gazette', 01/07/1885, p. 309-311
(xx1885): 'The
Musical Standard: A Newspaper for Musicians, Professional and Amateur',
22/08/1885, p. 121
(x1887): 'The
Dart and Midland Figaro', 1887, p. 684
(xx1890): 'Weltadressbuch der gesammten Musikinstrumenten-Industrie',
1890,
Barnsley p. 152,
Bawtry p. 153,
Bedford p. 153,
Birkenhead p. 154,
Birmingham p. 154-155,
Blackburn p. 155,
Bolton p. 156,
Bradford p. 156-157,
Carlisle p. 160,
Chelmsford p. 160,
Chester p. 161,
Checkheaton p. 161,
Clevedon p. 161,
Croydon p. 162,
Dorchester p. 164,
Dover p. 164,
Eastbourne p. 165,
Gainsborough p. 167,
Gravesend p. 168,
Great-Yarmouth p. 168,
Halifax p. 169,
Hanley p. 169,
Kendal p. 172,
Kings-Lynn p. 172,
Kingston-on-Thames p. 173,
Leeds p. 173-174,
Leicester p. 174,
Lincoln p. 175,
Liverpool p. 175,
London PF p. 176-177 &
London PD p. 178-182,
Ludlow p. 190,
Manchester p. 191-192,
Mossley p. 193,
Ossett p. 196,
Oxford p. 196,
Richmond p. 198,
Shepton-Mallet p. 201,
Southampton p. 201,
Sunderland p. 204,
West Bromwich p. 206,
Weymouth p. 207,
Winchester p. 207,
Wolverhampton p. 208 ,
Worthing p. 208
(digital.slub-dresden.de)
(**1891): 'Post
Office London Trades Directory', 1891, p. 480-481
(specialcollections.le.ac.uk)
(*1893): 'Annuaire
des artistes et de l'enseignement dramatique et musical', 1893,
p. 656-664 (Gallica)
(xx1893): 'Ilustrated London and its representatives of Commerce',
1893 (messybeast.com)
(*1895): 'Annuaire
des artistes et de l'enseignement dramatique et musical', 1895,
p. 717-724 (Gallica)
(**1895): 'Post
Office London Directory, 1895, p. 2038-2039
(specialcollections.le.ac.uk)
(*1897): 'Annuaire
des artistes et de l'enseignement dramatique et musical', 1897,
p. 834-841 (Gallica)
(*1899): 'Annuaire
des artistes et de l'enseignement dramatique et musical', 1897,
p. 1010-1017 (Gallica)
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(xx1900): 'Gore's
Directory of Liverpool & Birkenhead', 1900, p.
203+231+286+374+404 (specialcollections.le.ac.uk)
(**1901): 'Kelly's
London Suburban Directory', 1901, p. 1050-1051
(specialcollections.le.ac.uk)
(*1903): 'Annuaire des artistes et de
l'enseignement dramatique et musical', 1903, p. 1103-1110 (Gallica)
(**1904) : 'Post
Office London County Suburbs Directory', 1904, p. 1129-1130
(specialcollections.le.ac.uk)
(*1906): 'Annuaire
des artistes et de l'enseignement dramatique', 1906, p. 1091-1100
(Gallica)
(x1906): 'Weltadressbuch
der gesammten Musikinstrumenten-Industrie', 1906,
Barnsley p. 376,
Bedford p. 377,
Bexhill p. 378,
Birkenhead p. 379,
Birmingham p. 379-380,
Bishop-Auckland p. 381,
Blaenavon p. 381,
Blyth p. 382,
Bognor p. 382,
Bourne p. 383,
Bradford p. 383,
Bristol p. 385-386,
Bury p. 387,
Carlisle p. 388,
Chelmsford p. 389,
Chester p. 389-390,
Clevedon p. 391,
Consett p. 392,
Crewe p. 392,
Darlington p. 393,
Doncaster p. 395,
Dorchester p. 395,
Dover p. 395,
Gateshead p. 401,
Gravesand p. 403,
Great-Grimsby p. 403,
Great Yarmouth p. 404,
Halifax p. 404-405,
Hanley p. 405,
Hebden Bridge p. 406,
Hindley p. 407,
Hoylake p. 408,
Hucknall Torkard p. 408,
Hull p. 409,
Ilford p. 409,
Jarrow-on-Tyne p. 410,
Kendal p. 411,
Kidderminster p. 411,
Kingston p. 412,
Kingswinford p. 412,
Leeds p. 413-414,
Leicester p. 414,
Lincoln p. 415,
Littlehampton p. 415,
Liverpool p. 415-416,
London PF p. 417-420 &
London PD p. 423-434,
Ludlow p. 462,
Lytham p. 463,
Manchester p. 464-466,
Middlesbrough p. 467,
Morecambze p. 467,
Nelson p. 468,
Newark-on-Trent p. 468,
Ossett p. 473,
Oswestry p. 473,
Oxford p. 473,
Reighley p. 477,
Rock Ferry p. 478,
Rugby p. 479,
St. Helens p. 480,
Scarborough p. 481,
Sunderland p. 488,
Sutton p. 488,
Tunbridge-Wells p. 490-491,
Twickenham p. 491,
Walsall p. 492,
West Hartlepool p. 494,
Weymouth p. 494,
Windsor p. 496,
Worthing p. 497,
Wrexham p. 497,
York p. 498 (digital.sim.spk-berlin.de)
(xx1906): 'Kelly's
Directory of Essex', 1906, p. 65 (the.hitchcock.zone)
(*1909): 'Annuaire
des artistes et de l'enseignement dramatique et musical', 1909,
p. 1105-1113 (Gallica)
(*1910): 'Annuaire
des artistes et de l'enseignement dramatique et musical', 1910,
p. 1144-1153 (Gallica)
(**1911): 'Musical
Opinion and Music Trade Review', 1911, p. 524
(*1914): 'Post
Office London Directory', 1914, p. 1837-1838
(specialcollections.le.ac.uk)
(*1915): 'Post
Office London Directory', 1915, p. 1796-1797
(specialcollections.le.ac.uk)
(*1916): 'Post
Office London County Suburbs Directory', 1916, p. 606
(*1917): 'Post
Office London County Suburbs Directory', 1917, p. 592-593
(specialcollections.le.ac.uk)
(*1918): 'Post
Office London County Suburbs Directory', 1918, p. 571-572
(specialcollections.le.ac.uk)
(*1919): 'Post
Office London County Suburbs Directory', 1919, p. 555
(specialcollections.le.ac.uk)
(*1921): 'The Music Trade Directory', Volume
32, 1921
(x1921): 'Kelly's Directory of Stationers,
Printers, Booksellers, Publishers and ...', 1921,
Morley p. 444,
Liverpool Music-sellers p. 954-966;
Rockley p. 644
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Mario Pizzi, 1983
(²): 'Makers of
the Piano 1700-1820' and 'Makers of the Piano 1820-1860', Martha Novak
Clinkscale, 1993
(³): 'The
Music Trade in Georgian England', Michael Kassler, p. 333
(⁴): 'Barrel
Organ: The Story of the Mechanical Organ and Its Repair', Arthur
W. J. G. Ord-Hume, 1978, p. 477 |


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