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The clarinet pictured above is a Conn HP E Albert, and was one of the first ever made. For more information about serial numbers check the bottom of the page dedicated to the specific instruments. Information to be added Be sure to see the PURPLE PAGE for extra links, and a video of double-walled metal clarinets being played.
Area servedWorldwideProducts,OwnerWebsiteHolton is a brand owned by ' division. The original business was a used instrument shop owned by Frank Holton, a player, in, started in 1898; the firm built brass instruments for ten years in Chicago, then in, Wisconsin from 1918 until 2008, when production of Holton-branded instruments moved to, Ohio. The business remained independent until it was acquired by in 1964. Leblanc was acquired by Conn-Selmer in 2004 and its properties became subsidiaries of Conn-Selmer. Contents.Frank Holton Frank E.
Holton was born March 10, 1858 in, Michigan to farmers Otis (b. 1827) and Hanna A. 1829) Holton. He grew up with three sisters: Emma E. Holton, Alice Holton and Leona Holton.
By the time he was 34, Frank Holton was an accomplished trombone player and principal trombone of the Band, a role that would later be filled. In 1885 he had partnered with in York & Holton, before he established his own company in 1898.Frank Holton's wife Florence was a music teacher, they had no children. Frank Holton, though not an instrument maker himself, expanded his company to manufacture instruments which was his occupation until retiring at age 80. Frank Holton died after a protracted illness on April 16, 1942 at the age of 84. The Frank Holton Company Chicago Frank Holton's first business venture on his own was a small rented shop with a desk, two counters and two chairs that he had to paint himself at Clark and Madison streets in Chicago, in 1898, where he sold used instruments and his own formula slide oil for. Dictionary of Wisconsin History. Retrieved 16 September 2013.
United States Census of 1860 (Heath Township, Allegan, Michigan). United States Census of 1870 (Allegan Village, Michigan).
^. Retrieved 25 July 2011. Cite web requires website=. United States Census of 1910 (track M5, city of Chicago, Illinois). ^ 'Frank Holton' (obituary),that may be what was listed in the obituary, but there was a daughter, Leta, who passed away in her early years., 17 April 1942. ^ The Guide, A Trip through the Holton Factory, The Frank Holton Company, Elkhorn, Wisconsin, 1920. ^ 'Band Instrument Factory to open in Elkhorn Monday', The Janesville Gazette, 18 April 1918.
Hales, Pete. Retrieved 26 July 2019. ^ Overton, Mark. Retrieved 26 July 2019. Retrieved 26 July 2019. Elkhorn, 12 June 1919.
Holton serial number charts lump brasswinds and saxophones together, so the terminal date of saxophone production remains vague. (see discussion: ).
Conn-Selmer, inc. Conn-Selmer, inc. Retrieved 20 July 2017.
Retrieved 25 July 2011. Cite web requires website= External links., website of the history and instruments of the Frank Holton & Co. Is a daily newspaper published in. It is the largest of the eight Booth newspapers, it is sold for $2.00 on Sunday. Provides weather content to the Grand Rapids Press; the Morning Press was founded by William J.
Sproat and appeared on Monday, September 1, 1890. Sproat was its proprietor until November 5, 1891, when control passed to the Press Publishing company. Soon after, the controlling interest in the company was purchased by George G. Booth, who in 1892 bought the rival Grand Rapids Eagle and merged it with the Press.
January 1, 1893, the Press went into the evening daily field; this newspaper at first was published at 63. For a number of years it occupied a building on the at the southeast end of the Pearl Street bridge. In 1906 it moved to a new home at Sheldon Avenue; the paper was published downtown at the corner of Monroe and Michigan until 2004 when the printing facility was moved to the northern of Walker.The editorial and newsroom offices remain downtown.
They hire aspiring journalists through an internship program. Since October 2009, the Press' printing facility has been the printing facility for the; the are printed at this facility, as is, since January 2012, the. Home delivery for the Press and Gazette were cut back to Tuesdays and Sundays in 2012; the print edition of each day's Press continues to be available in newsstands. Etten, William J.
A Citizens' History of Grand Rapids, Michigan The Press's articles at. A musical instrument is an instrument created or adapted to make musical sounds. In principle, any object that produces sound can be considered a musical instrument—it is through purpose that the object becomes a musical instrument; the history of musical instruments dates to the beginnings of human culture. Early musical instruments may have been used for ritual, such as a to signal success on the hunt, or a drum in a religious ceremony. Cultures developed composition and performance of melodies for entertainment. Musical instruments evolved in step with changing applications; the date and origin of the first device considered.
The oldest object that some scholars refer to as a musical instrument, a simple, dates back as far as 67,000 years; some consensus dates early flutes to about 37,000 years ago. However, most historians believe that determining a specific time of musical instrument invention is impossible due to the subjectivity of the definition and the relative instability of materials used to make them.Many early musical instruments were made from, bone and other non-durable materials. Musical instruments developed independently in many populated regions of the world. However, contact among civilizations caused rapid spread and adaptation of most instruments in places far from their origin. By the, instruments from were in, Europeans played instruments from. Development in the Americas occurred at a slower pace, but cultures of North and shared musical instruments.
By 1400, musical instrument development was dominated by the. Is a discipline in its own right, many systems of classification have been used over the years. Instruments can be classified by their material composition, their size, etc. However, the most common academic method, uses the means by which they produce sound; the academic study of musical instruments is called. A musical instrument makes sounds.Once humans moved from making sounds with their bodies—for example, by clapping—to using objects to create music from sounds, musical instruments were born.
Primitive instruments were designed to emulate natural sounds, their purpose was ritual rather than entertainment; the concept of melody and the artistic pursuit of musical composition were unknown to early players of musical instruments. A player sounding a flute to signal the start of a hunt does so without thought of the modern notion of 'making music'. Musical instruments are constructed in a broad array of styles and shapes, using many different materials. Early musical instruments were made from 'found objects' such a shells and plant parts; as instruments evolved, so did the selection and quality of materials.
Every material in nature has been used by at least one culture to make musical instruments. One plays a musical instrument by interacting with it in some way—for example, by plucking the strings on a string instrument. Researchers have discovered archaeological evidence of musical instruments in many parts of the world.Some finds are 67,000 years old, however their status as musical instruments is in dispute.
Consensus solidifies about artifacts dated back to around 37,000 years old and later. Only artifacts made from durable materials or using durable methods tend to survive; as such, the specimens found. In July 1995, Slovenian Ivan Turk discovered a bone carving in the northwest region of; the carving, named the, features four holes that Canadian Bob Fink determined could have been used to play four notes of a scale. Researchers estimate the flute's age at between 43,400 and 67,000 years, making it the and the only musical instrument associated with the culture. However, some archaeologists and dispute the flute's status as a musical instrument. German archaeologists have found bone and swan bone flutes dating back to 30,000 to 37,000 years old in the; the flutes were made in the age, are more accepted as being the oldest known musical instruments.Archaeological evidence of musical instruments was discovered in excavations at the in the city of Ur.
These instruments, one of the first ensembles of instruments yet discovered, include nine, two harps, a silver double flute. A set of reed-sounded silver pipes discovered in Ur was the predecessor of modern; the cylindrical pipes feature three side-holes. These excavations, carried out by in the 1920s, uncovered non-degradable fragments of instruments and the voids left by the degraded segments that, have been used to reconstruct them; the graves these instruments were buried in have been carbon dated to between 2600 and 2500 BC, providing evidence that these instruments were used in by this time. Archaeologists in the site of central province of have found flutes made of bones that date back 7,000 to 9,000 years, representing some of the 'earliest complete, tightly-dated, multinote musical instruments' found.Scholars agree that there are no reliable methods of determining the exact chronology of musical instruments across cultures.
Comparing and organizing instruments based on their complexity is misleading, since advancements in musical instruments have sometimes reduced complexity. For example, construction of early slit involved f. Is a city in,. The city is located 15 miles east of, 110 miles east of, 150 miles north of. Elkhart has the larger population of the two principal cities of the Elkhart-Goshen Metropolitan Statistical Area, which in turn is part of the South Bend-Elkhart-Mishawaka, in a region known as; the population was 50,949 at the 2010 census.
Despite the shared name, it is not the county seat of Elkhart County; when the was organized in 1787, the area now known as Elkhart was inhabited by the and Indian tribes. In 1829, the Village of Pulaski was established, consisting of a, a few houses on the north side of the. Two years Dr.
Beardsley moved westward from and purchased one square mile of land from Pierre Moran in order to establish a rival town named Elkhart. In 1839, the Pulaski Post Office was changed to Elkhart.Elkhart County was founded by immigrants from. These were old stock 'Yankee' immigrants, to say they were descended from the who settled New England in the 1600s; the completion of the caused a surge in New England immigration to what was the Northwest Territory. The end of the led to an additional surge of immigration, once again coming exclusively from the six New England states as a result of combined with land shortages in that region; some of these settlers were from upstate New York and had parents who had moved to that region from New England shortly after the. And New England transplants from upstate New York were the vast majority of Elkhart County's inhabitants during the first several decades of its history; these settlers were members of the though due to the many of them had converted to and some had become before coming to what is now Elkhart County.The Congregational Church subsequently has gone through many divisions and some factions, including those in Elkhart County are now known as the and the. As a result of this heritage the vast majority of inhabitants in Elkhart County, much like New England were overwhelmingly in favor of the movement during the decades leading up to the. Correspondingly, many inhabitants of Elkhart County fought in the during the Civil War.
In the late 1880s and early 1890s Irish and German migrants began moving into Elkhart County, most of these immigrants did not move directly from and, but rather from other areas in the where they had been living the state of Ohio. By the late 19th century and early 20th century, musical instrument factories, Miles Medical Company, numerous mills set up shop and became the base of the economy. In 1934, the first recreational vehicle factory opened in Elkhart.
Similar companies followed suit for the remainder of the decade, the economy continued to grow until the of materials in.After the war, growth picked back up and, by 1949, Elkhart was dubbed the 'RV Capital of the World.' In 1851, the Michigan Southern & Railroad Company built the first rail line through the city, by 1852 the first passenger train passed through town. This, in turn, caused major population growth. Today, has the biggest railroad presence in town, although Elkhart has two other railroads: Shortline-Elkhart and Western and Regional-Grand Elk. Has two trains that stop in, and, both of which stop at the Elkhart station. Runs 6-8 trains through town on Southern's trackage.
In 1867, Elkhart Hydraulic Company built the first dam across the St. Joseph River and by 1870, it powered the city. Today, the dam still produces electric power and is operated by, a of American Electric Power. In 1889, the second electric system in the world began operation on the city's streets.It has since been decommissioned.
The, Albert R. Beardsley House, Emmanuel C. Bickel House, Green Block and Helen Koerting House, Mark L. And Harriet E., Morehous Residential, State Street-Division Street Historic District, are listed on the. Although a name of German or origin, the etymology of the city's name is disputed. One source argues.
Another source claims that the origin of the city's name was the Chief Elkhart, cousin of the famous, the father of, the namesake of neighboring Mishawaka. Other sources state. Elkhart is located at 41°40′59″N 85°58′8″W. According to the 2010 census, Elkhart has a total area of 24.417 square miles, of which 23.45 square miles is land and 0.967 square miles (or.