Philip Rogers
piano manufacturer
partner
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.