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Vol. 86 July 18, 2026 No. 19

Philip Rogers

piano manufacturer partner
  • Rogers & Borst

Biography

Philip Rogers was co-founder, with Charles Borst, of the New York piano-manufacturing firm of Rogers & Borst, known in the wholesale trade for several years as makers of reliable instruments prior to 1877, when the partnership dissolved. The text identifies Borst as the practical, hands-on partner, implying Rogers held the complementary business role, though no further biographical detail is given for Rogers himself.

Highlights

  • Co-founder of Rogers & Borst, wholesale piano manufacturers active until 1877

Source

Daniel Spillane, History of the American Pianoforte (1890), p. 286.

Public domain.

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