![]() Production and sale of instruments were documented through their various stages, and even in the era of mass production which followed World War II each instrument was given a serial number. ![]() Unlike the Boosey & Hawkes Museum Collection, established within Boosey & Co in or before 1905 by their works manager, the acoustician and inventor David James Blaikley, the archive is the incomplete remnant of the highly organised documentation systems of the firms mentioned above. The archive consists of the stock books, instrument catalogues, workbooks, financial ledgers, and related records of intrument maker Boosey and Hawkes and its predessors and subsidiaries including Besson & Co., Distin & Co., Hawkes & Son, and Rudall Carte.
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