Peter H Adams wrote:As a new member of this board, please let me introduce myself. My name is Peter H. Adams. I have been researching Lyon & Healy for about a decade. I am looking for digitized copies of catalogs and periodicals issued by Lyon & Healy. Presently, I am most interested in catalogs and periodicals the firm issued before 1923. In exchange, I will happily email copies of material I have digitized. Currently, my hard drive contains about 64 gigabytes of data, most related to brass wind instruments. In my research, I have found strong evidence that L&H manufactured some brass wind instruments as early as the late 1880s.
If you go to Hornucopia's website, you will find some of my research. When my own website was up and running, I had posted the most extensive bibliography of musical instrument trade catalogs.
My background includes studying musical instrument history at the University of South Dakota's National Music Museum, two junior fellowships at the Library of Congress, Music Division, graduate course work in library science, and author of three books about historic musical instruments.
Welcome! You will find an audience here who will be interested in what you know. And discuss it with you. Post lots of pictures of horns. We like that. No beer of food pictures, though. They make many of us thirsty and hungry. It makes the inside of the tuba kind of skanky if we play them right after eating a big submarine sandwich washed down with five pints of beer. Can't have that.
