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Hutchings, Plaisted & Co. View Extant Instruments View Instruments

Distinction:

Boston, Massachusetts 1872–1884.
Classification: Builder

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September 19, 2015:

See: Geo. S. Hutchings.

We received the most recent update for this note from Database Manager on October 14, 2019.
October 30, 2004:

From the OHS PC Database, derived from A Guide to North American Organbuilders, by David H. Fox (Richmond, Va.: Organ Historical Society, 1991). —

Succeeded J. H. Wilcox & Co.*; partnership of George S. Hutchings and M. H. Plaisted in Boston, Massachusetts, 1872-1884; succeeded by George S. Hutchings & Co.

*George Hutchings, Mark Plaisted, and G.V. Nordstrom left E & G.G. Hook in 1869 and joined with organist John H. Wilcox to form J. H. Wilcox & Co.

Staff: (Gustavus V. Nordstrom?); {see also listing under Hutchings Organ Co.}.

Source:

  • Orpha Ochse, The History of the Organ in the United States (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1975), 233.
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We received the most recent update for this note from Database Manager on October 14, 2019.

Database Specs:

  • 69 Organs
  • 10 Divisions
  • 4 Consoles

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