Collard & Collard
Collard & Collard was a well-known English manufacturer of pianos and grand pianos based in London .
The company's name was derived from two brothers who both had the first names Frederick and William, in both order: Frederick William Collard and William Frederick Collard.
Longman & Broderip
In 1767 Longman & Broderip was founded, a music dealer and maker of musical instruments at 26 Cheapside, London. The piano maker Geib and Guilford built instruments Longman & Broderip then sold. The oldest instrument known to Longman & Broderip is a five-octave square piano from 1770 on display in a museum in Boston . Longman's partners changed occasionally; Longman & Lukey 1771 and Longman, Lukey & Comp are also known. 1774.
Clementi
In 1778 the company became Longman & Clementi when the composer and piano teacher Muzio Clementi joined the company.
The Collard brothers
One of Clementi's later partners was the cabinet maker Frederick Collard, who was in demand as an instrument maker and, in particular, as a specialist in soundboards. He became responsible for piano production while Clementi took care of sales. Clementi was a very conservative man who resisted innovations in piano construction.
Frederick William Collard , the son of William and Thamosin Collard, was baptized in Wiveliscombe, Somerset , on June 21, 1772. He moved to London at the age of 14 and got a job with Longman, Lukey & Broderip.
William Frederick Collard , the younger brother and partner, was baptized in Wiveliscombe on August 25, 1776. In addition to a talent as a piano maker and inventor, he also had a penchant for poetry and literature.
In 1799 Longman & Co. ran into economic difficulties, and a new company with John Longman , Muzio Clementi , Frederick Augustus Hyde, Frederick. W. Collard, Josiah Banger and David Davis took over the business. On June 28, 1800, Longman and Hyde retired; the company became Muzio Clementi & Co.
After some time, the younger brother William F. Collard was added as a partner. On June 24, 1817, Banger ended his partnership. On June 24, 1831, the partnership between FW Collard, WF Collard and Clementi ended. The Collard brothers continued the business alone until June 24, 1842 when WF Collard retired and FW Collard, now the sole owner, his two nephews Frederick William Collard jun. and Charles Lukey Collard partnered.
After 1832, the pianos that had long borne Clementi's name were renamed Collard & Collard . Many patents were developed, most of which included improvements in the game mechanics and the framework. The company soon gave up music publishing and concentrated on making pianos, with the exception that they also made horns and drums for the East India Company until 1858 , when the government of India passed to Queen Victoria of England.
At that time, Collard was bringing out an innovation advertised in Chambers's Journal , a "country house piano" that was selling in significant numbers. At the Great Exhibition in London (" Great Exhibition " 1851) Collard exhibited a grand piano, which was awarded a medal by the jury. However, Collard refrained from advertising the medal in order not to create feelings of envy.
The company suffered losses in major fires twice. On March 20, 1807, the factory on Tottenham Court Road burned to the ground, and on December 10, 1851, the newly built factory on Oval Road, Camden Town, was completely destroyed.
William Frederick Collard , the younger brother, retired from piano making in 1842 and died in Folkestone on October 11, 1866.
Frederick William Collard , the elder brother, died at 26 Cheapside on January 31, 1860, at the age of 88; he had lived at the same address since arriving in London in 1786.
Another story
Collard & Collard also made pianos for John Squire on Sutterton Street and Caledonian Road in London.
A Goad Fire Insurance card from the end of the 19th century shows Collard & Collard's famous circular factory in Camden Town, on Oval Road and Gloucester, with workbenches in front of 22 tall windows and one in the middle of the circular building Elevator connected the floors, a design that brought maximum light into the factory with the minimum cost of bricks.
Collard & Collard was drawn into the general decline of English piano manufacturing from 1900, when more and more German piano manufacturers began to successfully market their products on the British island.
In 1960 Chappell's took over Collard, but in 1963 a fire destroyed all of Collard and Clementi's records.
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- ↑ http://www.locallocalhistory.co.uk/industrial-history/piano/page1.htm Life report of a piano maker at Collard & Collard