Edgar Brinsmead

Biography

Edgar Brinsmead is cited as the author of a book published in 1870 in which he claimed an annual English piano output of about 35,000 instruments, a figure used by the text to mark London's zenith as a piano manufacturing center around 1860. The Brinsmead name is later listed among the revered London piano firms, alongside Broadwood, Collard and Hopkinson, still active with 126 factories in London at the time of writing. Edgar Brinsmead wrote "History of the Pianoforte" (London, 1889), a book Dolge criticizes for dwelling too much upon the achievements of the firm of Brinsmead & Sons, judging it of lesser importance than A. J. Hipkins' later history of the pianoforte.

Highlights

• Published a book in 1870 claiming an output of about 35,000 pianos per year for England
• Wrote "History of the Pianoforte" (London, 1889), criticized by Dolge for dwelling too much on the firm of Brinsmead & Sons

Source

Alfred Dolge, Pianos and Their Makers, Vol. I (1911), pp. 173, 425.

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