Description: HOW TO BUY A PIANOFORTE HARMONIUM OR AMERICAN ORGAN, with Useful & Valuable Information. WILLIAM LEA, Music Warehouse, 50 & 52 Church Street, LIVERPOOL. Published by William Lea, Liverpool c. 1888, 52 pages, apromimately 50 illustrations. Reprinted by Old Chapel Lane Books, Burgh le Marsh, Lincolnshire 2010. William Lea whose shop the booklet features, tells us in the text that he started in business in his front room at 56 Melville Place, Liverpool in 1871 with one harmonium, which he sold for four and a half guineas, ( £4 six shillings). He was obviously a clever business man and by the mid 1880s claimed to have sold 22,000 pianos. The catalogue has engravings of the outside and inside of his vast wharehouse with hundreds of instruments lined up. There are details with engravings and prices of the instruments listed. Pianos include Bord, Monington & Weston, Haake, Lange,Hollings & Spanberg, Sachberg, Neumeyer, Brinsmead, etc... Three styles of pipe organs. Harmoniums by Caesarini, Gilbert Bauer, Christophe & Etienne, Trayser, etc... American organs by Hillier, Peloubet, Mason & Hamlin, Bell, etc... The copy I have reprinted it from was one of my best junks shop finds and must be very rare so I hope it will interest fellow musical instrument enthusiasts. Robert Pacey Christmas 2010
Price: 10 GBP
Location: Skegness, Lincolnshire
End Time: 2023-12-02T19:52:17.000Z
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