The subtitle of Stephen Walsh’s “The Beloved Vision: A History of Nineteenth Century Music” is not strictly accurate. Mr. Walsh begins his chronicle some time in the 1750s, with the ...

Clickety-click. Music historians have recreated a curious 19th century piano piece believed to be one of the earliest known compositions for an electric instrument.

19th Century Surgical Instruments. Dr. Foster and others of his time had access to a growing and magnificent armamentarium of surgical instruments and innovations driven by medical necessity and ...

S. BRAINARD'S SONS was Cleveland's leading 19th-century musical-instrument dealer and music publisher.SILAS BRAINARD founded the company in 1836 and opened a piano store in the American House hotel on ...

Kawakami, who shunned publicity despite his business success, took over his father’s 19th century musical instrument company, Nippon Gakki Co., in 1950. At the time, ...