Title: The piano in America, 1890-1940 /
Authors: Roell, Craig H.
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press,
Year: 1989
Subjects: Piano Marketing.; Consumers United States; Music Social aspects United States; Piano History; Music trade United States; Music United States History and criticism; Music United States History and criticism
Contents: The place of music in the Victorian frame of mind -- The origins of a music democracy -- Halcyon years of the American piano industry -- Strategies of piano merchandising -- Industrial bankruptcy in a musical age -- Depression, reform, and recovery -- The piano--Symbol of a past age.