Mallet

Biography

Mr. Mallet kept a musical repository on Devonshire Street, Boston, advertised in the Columbia Sentinel in 1805 as offering a handsome assortment of pianofortes, both English and American. Spillane cites the confident use of the word 'American' in Mallet's advertisement as evidence there were by then several makers of the instrument active in Boston. Mallet also sold the pianos made by Francis Shaw around this period. Mallet was, together with a business associate named Shaw, a competitor whose success Spillane blames for accidentally contributing to the failure of Crehore's independent piano-making venture in the Boston area. Beyond this competitive role, no further biographical detail is given in the text.

Highlights

• Kept a musical repository on Devonshire Street, Boston, advertised in 1805 as selling both English and American pianofortes.
• Sold Francis Shaw's pianos around 1805.
• Competitor whose success, along with Shaw's, contributed to the failure of Crehore's independent piano business.

Source

Daniel Spillane, History of the American Pianoforte (1890), pp. 53, 55.

Public domain.