Talk:John Broadwood & Sons

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A fact from John Broadwood & Sons appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 13 May 2009 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that still-extant English piano manufacturer Broadwood and Sons once made instruments favoured by Haydn, Beethoven and Chopin?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2009/May.

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Foundation year

The Derek Adlam and Cyril Ehrlich article in Grove does not really state that the firm was founded in 1795. It says that "James Shudi Broadwood (1772–1851), John Broadwood’s eldest son, entered the business in 1785 and was made a full partner in 1795. The name of the firm then became John Broadwood & Son." There appears to be no qualitative difference between that and the later changes in name and inclusions of new partners, and the history of the firm is clearly continuous backwards in time.

Alison Latham, "Broadwood", in The Oxford Companion to Music, which is also available through Oxford Music Online, bluntly states that this is an "English firm of piano makers founded in London in 1728 [my emphasis] by Burkat Shudi, whose daughter married John Broadwood (1732–1812)..." --Hegvald (talk) 09:20, 8 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Changed accordingly. Alexrexpvt (talk) 12:28, 8 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

"then find a better place for it"

I do not think that "then find a better place for it" is reason for keeping a picture (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Broadwood_and_Sons&action=historysubmit&diff=349034340&oldid=349024808). Fanoftheworld (talk) 00:59, 11 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It Needs More and Better

Such a famous and great name in pianos and this is all it gets? A little stub with next to no information? Did you know that a lot of famous composers owned these pianos? Well it's true. Now, I don't have the time to do all the surgery and research this article needs but I'd love to see this subject given the treatment it deserves. Gingermint (talk) 04:26, 4 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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