![]() In 1876 Boosey & Co opened a new factory at Frederick Mews, Stanhope Place, and Marble Arch to replace the former Distin & Co factory at Great Newport Street, Cranbourn Street, and Covent Garden. In 1874 new headquarters and saleroom premises in Regent Street were opened and sales of instruments were concentrated at the new address. Boosey & Sons also co operated with bandmaster Carl Boosé in the area of instrument sales.Īlready dealers in band and orchestral wind and percussion instruments with a worldwide market, Boosey & Co purchased from Henry Distin in 1868 the sizeable firm of Distin & Co, whose production included a wide range of brasswinds. Production of wind instruments began in 1851, and production of flutes began in 1856, the result of collaboration between Boosey & Sons and the flute player and inventor Robert Sydney Pratten. Thomas Boosey established a bookshop in London in 1792. ![]() The company of Boosey & Hawkes has its roots in a number of firms, all producing high quality instruments, whose records have survived to a greater or lesser extent and now constitute the Boosey & Hawkes Archive. ![]()
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