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Vol. 86 July 18, 2026 No. 19

John Brown

piano maker partner
  • Woodward & Company
  • Woodward & Brown

Biography

John Brown was a fellow workman of Isaac Woodward and a member of the family of Edwin Brown, of Brown & Hallet. In 1845 he formed a business partnership with Woodward, whose firm had begun in 1843 as Woodward & Company, and the two continued together in what became the well-known house of Woodward & Brown.

Highlights

  • A fellow workman of Isaac Woodward and a member of the family of Edwin Brown of Brown & Hallet
  • Formed a business partnership with Isaac Woodward in 1845, forming what became Woodward & Brown

Source

Daniel Spillane, History of the American Pianoforte (1890), p. 168.

Public domain.

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