Mason & Hamlin Restored Grand Piano Model A Serial #26716 circa 1915-1919, Boston

Founded in 1854, Mason & Hamlin is one of America’s oldest and most respected piano manufacturers. Of the hundreds of American piano companies that flourished in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Mason & Hamlin is one of only a handful that survive today.
The Mason & Hamlin Piano Company was one of the original Boston piano manufacturers and a pioneer of the full-perimeter plate design. The Mason & Hamlin family ancestry dates back to the arrival of the Mayflower on Plymouth Rock in the 1600’s. Henry Mason’s father, Lowell Mason, became the first music teacher in American public schools and is known as the Father of American church music, and the Father of American public school music education. Lowell Mason was the co-founder of the Boston Academy of Music and later became the superintendent of the Boston school system.
For over a century, Mason & Hamlin has been known for the superior quality and sound of its hand-crafted pianos. Based in Boston and renowned originally as reed organ manufacturers, Henry Mason and Emmons Hamlin began building pianos.  Today, Mason & Hamlin manufacturers continue the hand-crafted tradition and standard of excellence in producing pianos that pianists love for their large palette of rich sonorities, responsiveness, and depth of sound. Mason & Hamlin limits its production of new grand pianos so that each instrument receives the individual attention to detail that it needs to be consistently accurate and superior.
The Crown Retention System is unique to Mason & Hamlin and lends stability to the piano. The system consists of the tension resonator (designed and patented for Mason & Hamlin by Richard W. Gertz in 1900), heavy case ribs, thick, hard rock maple rims, and eastern white spruce soundboard. As commonly observed on Mason & Hamlin pianos built in the late 19th and early 20th century, the Crown Retention System has preserved the crown of the soundboard, and the original power and tone, throughout the life of the piano.
The oversized soundboards used in Mason & Hamlin pianos are meticulously grain-matched using the highest quality spruce available: eastern white spruce. The soundboard ribs are pre-crowned to the soundboard for a precise fit. Mason & Hamlin piano soundboards have a speaking area that is larger than other equally-sized pianos.
Today, Mason & Hamlin is headquartered in Haverhill, Massachusetts, not far from its original location in Boston, the birthplace of American piano design and manufacturing.

INSTITUTIONS AND PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS THAT USE MASON & HAMLIN…
University of Alaska (Fairbanks AK)
Stillman College (Tuscaloosa AL)
Unitarian Universalist Congregation (Paradise Valley AZ)
Mayo Clinic (Scottsdale AZ)
Scottsdale Christian Academy (Scottsdale AZ)
University of California Berkeley (Berkeley CA)
Zellerbach Hall (Berkeley CA)
Ansel Adams’ Home (Carmel CA)
Diablo Valley College (Concord CA)
Sage & Sound Recording (Hollywood CA)
Hutchins Street Square (Lodi CA)
Brian Culbertson Studio (Los Angeles CA)
Nethercut Collection (Los Angeles CA)
CA State University Sacramento (Sacramento CA)
KOVR 13 TV (Sacramento CA)
CA State University San Diego (San Diego CA)
University of the Pacific (Stockton CA)
Danbury Music Center (Danbury CT)
Yale University (New Haven CT)
Blair House (Washington DC)
Smithsonian Institution (Washington DC)
Church of Latter Day Saints (Boca Raton FL)
Florida State University (Tallahassee FL)
Avondale Baptist Church (Jacksonville FL)
All Saints Lutheran (Port Orange FL)
2nd Ponce DeLeon Baptist (Atlanta GA)
All Saints Lutheran (Atlanta GA)
Andrew College (Cuthbert GA)
Briarlake Baptist Church (Decatur GA)
1st Methodist Church (Lawrenceville GA)
Silver Hill Baptist Church (Lilburn GA)
Christ the King Lutheran (Norcross GA)
Roswell 1st Baptist Church (Roswell GA)
New Hope Baptist Church (Senoia GA)
1st Baptist Church of Tocca (Tocca GA)
Reinhardt College (Waleska GA)
Raue Center for the Arts (Crystal Lake IL)
Joliet Jr. College (Joliet IL)
Elkhart Central HS (Elkhart IN)
Indiana University (Bloomington IN)
Kansas State University (Manhattan KS)
Wichita State University (Wichita KS)
Jose Mateo Ballet Theater (Cambridge MA)
Museum of Fine Arts (Boston MA)
Harvard University (Cambridge MA)
The Piano Museum (Hopkinton MA)
University of Lowell (Lowell MA)
1794 Meeting House (New Salem MA)
AA Scottish Rite (Baltimore MD)
First Unitarian Church of Baltimore (Baltimore MD)
Baked Beans Recording (Harrison ME)
Hope College (Holland MI)
Hormel Mansion (Austin MN)
Tripolis Lutheran Church (Kandiyohi MN)
Mayo Clinic (Minneapolis MN)
Mounds View Fine Arts Center (Mounds View MN)
Prior Lake Fine Arts Center (Prior Lake MN)
First Baptist Church (St. Louis MO)
Third Baptist Church (St. Louis MO)
Saint Stephen’s Episcopal Church (Durham NC)
North Carolina State University (Raleigh NC)
Nebraska-Wesleyan University (Lincoln NE)
Westminster Presbyterian (Lincoln NE)
The MacDowell Colony (Peterborough NH)
Holy Spirit High School (Absecon NJ)
Absegami High School (Mays Landing NJ)
Princeton University Graduate School (Princeton NJ)
Meadowmount Music School (Essex NY)
Saratoga Performing Arts (Saratoga Springs NY)
Grace Christian Academy (Merrick NY)
The Doghouse NYC (Brooklyn NY)
Marble Church (New York NY)
Lincoln Center (New York NY)
Watchtower B & T S (Brooklyn NY)
University of Findlay (Findlay OH)
St. Anne Chapel (Lake Oswego OR)
Marylhurst University (Marylhurst OR)
PDX-Portland Airport (Portland OR)
Cedar Crest College (Allentown PA)
Dr. Edwards Memorial Congregation (Edwardsville PA)
Settlement Music School (Philadelphia PA)
Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh PA)
1st United Methodist Church (West Pittston PA)
1st Presbyterian Church (Wilkes-Barre PA)
Kings College Chapel (Wilkes-Barre PA)
YMCA (Wilkes-Barre PA)
WJAR Radio & Television East (Greenwich RI)
Marble House (Newport RI)
Trinity Lutheran Church (Vermillion SD)
1st Congregational Church (Charleston SC)
Bob Jones University (Greenville SC)
1st Presbyterian Church (Greenville SC)
First Baptist Church (Abilene TX)
1st Unitarian Universalist Church of Austin (Austin TX)
Fred Bernstein (Dallas TX)
North Texas State (Denton TX)
TX Christian University (Ft. Worth TX)
University Christian Church (Ft. Worth TX)
Granbury Opera House (Granbury TX)
LeTourneau University (Longview TX)
The Muenster Museum (Muenster TX)
Brigham Young University (Provo UT)
Westminster College (Salt Lake City UT)
College of William & Mary (Williamsburg VA)
Waterford Old School (Leesburg VA)
Middlebury College (Middlebury VT)
Saint Michael’s College (Colchester VT)
Applebutter Inn (Woodstock VT)
Central WA University (Ellensburg WA)
University of Puget Sound (Tacoma WA)
St. Norbert College (De Pere WI)
Waukesha County Conservatory of Music (Hartland WI)
St. Catherine’s Catholic Church (Oconomowoc WI)
Todd Pautz Interiors (Oconomowoc WI)
Venturedyne LTD (Pewaukee WI)
Masonic Temple (Dumbarton Scotland)