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Pigott, Samuel J.

Dates Active in Dublin: 

1830–1866

Business Type: 
General music shop
Address(es): 

Harmonic Institution, 13 Westmoreland Street, 1830–36
Harmonic Institution, 112 Grafton Street, 1836–66

Details: 

Succeeded the business of Pigott & Sherwin in 1830. After the partnership was dissolved, Pigott continued at the same address and Sherwin moved to 32 Grafton Street.

Succeeded by Pigott and Company in 1866.

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  • Lacote guitars, 27 January 1836 (Lawrence, citing The Dublin Evening Mail)
  • Lacote and Panormo guitars, 28 April 1840 (Lawrence, citing The Dublin Evening Post
  • 'Concert grand, patent improved, and oblique grand pianofortes', 1865 (Dublin International Exhibition of 1865)
    • See Also: 

    Bunting, Walshe, Pigott & Sherwin
    McCullough Pigott
    Pigott & Sherwin
    Pigott and Company
    Sherwin, John Frederick

    Source(s): 

    Dublin Directories

    The Illustrated Record and Descriptive Catalogue of the Dublin International Exhibition of 1865, ed. by Parkinson and Simmonds (London: E & FN Spon, 1866), p. 241

    Fleischmann, Aloys, Music in Ireland: a Symposium (Cork: Cork University Press, 1952), pp. 176, 361

    Hogan, Ita Margaret, Anglo-Irish Music 1780–1830 (Cork: Cork University Press, 1966), p. 103

    Humphries, Charles and William C. Smith, Music Publishing in the British Isles, from the Beginning until the Middle of the Nineteenth Century; a Dictionary of Engravers, Printers, Publishers, and Music Sellers (London: Oxford University Press, 1970), p. 258

    Lawrence, Thomas, ‘The History of the Guitar in Ireland 1760-1866’, 2 vols (unpublished doctoral thesis, University College Dublin, 1999), I, pp. 189-90

    Boydell, Brian, ‘Pigott & Sherwin', Dublin Music Trade Card Index <http://dublinmusictrade.ie/card-index>

    Boydell, Brian, ‘Sherwin. J.F.’, Dublin Music Trade Card Index <http://dublinmusictrade.ie/card-index>