Maine Memory Network

Music in Maine - Longfellow Family Music

"This is a different piano than the 1843 Chickering piano, installed in the historic house in 2024. Anne Longfellow Pierce moved back to her childhood…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Islanders At Play

"That was equal to fifty-two pianos on the island. Family members would not only learn how to play the piano but many people could also play a guitar…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Expansion

"Another first is the piano that General Crosby is said to have brought to Hampden around 1800; the first piano in the Penobscot Valley."

Surry by the Bay - Surry Opera Company

"… of a chorus from Aida, accompanied by two or more pianos, while an appreciative audience looked on. Begun in 1984 as an attempt to bring attention…"

Music in Maine - Music stores

"Piano and guitar teacher Mary Curran Leighton (1885-1972) and her spouse, Clifford Leighton, ran a music store in Portland where they sold…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Expansion

"Another first is the piano that General Crosby is said to have brought to Hampden around 1800, the first piano in the Penobscot Valley."

Bath's Historic Downtown - Entertainment- Alameda and Opera House

"It also filled the orchestra pit and covered the piano. The manager of the time at one point put a sign on the door giving the message that the…"

Music in Maine - Music Makers

"Emma played piano, their daughter Pearl the pump organ, and Pearl’s husband Nathan Noble, accompanied Dunham on bass fiddle."

Great Cranberry Island Historical Society

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - More on the Old Ell

"… in its design a special place for the family piano Mame's mother bought for her in Bar Harbor in 1915 to encourage her early musical talent."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Prominent Women

"… children, but Dorothy gave many local children piano lessons. Hervey would allow the kids to help him bring in the flag that belonged to the…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 1 of 4

"… showing silent films accompanied by a local piano player. The town did not sell liquor but did have a beauty shop, greenhouse, garage, creamery…"

Surry by the Bay - Phebe Fowler: A Woman of Property

"Phebe played the piano and left behind her music books, including the hymnals, in a wooden box later found in her attic."

Music in Maine - Country Music

"A teacher in our elementary school, who played piano and taught some music in school, found out that I could sing and encouraged me."

Music in Maine - Sacred Music

"… instruments are smaller and less expensive than pianos, with a loud organ sound. Parishioners carried this fold-up melodeon to West Cumberland…"

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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