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American Musical Instrument Society
Introduction
The American Musical Instrument Society promotes better understanding of all aspects of the history, design, construction, restoration, and usage of musical instruments in all cultures and from all periods.
AMIS Website: https://www.amis.org/
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The New-York Book of Prices
for
Manufacturing
Piano-fortes
by The Society of Journeymen Piano-forte Makers;
New York, 1835
Foreword by Henry Z. Steinway
Introduction by Laurence Libin
Published by
the American Musical Instrument Society
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“The social principle of man, reasonably exercised for any laudable object, must be for his individual and social advantage. . . . The journeymen Piano-forte Makers, of the City of New-York, believed it necessary and expedient to form themselves into a Society, for the better regulating and equalizing their prices. The Society have, after much labour and expense, completed their Book of Prices, which will, they trust, be found as correct as the nature of the work would admit of, it being the first publication of the kind ever printed in the United States.”
-- From the Preface to the Book of Prices
