“The love of music is a strong factor in welding the affections of your children to all that is good, pure and noble … [and] a Boston Piano should be looked upon as a necessity, as valuable to the welfare of your sons and daughters as any part of their education,” declared a turn-of-the-century ad for the Boston Piano Company, a nationally known firm that had been lured to relocate from its namesake hometown to Wooster in the summer of 1892.
This particular upright model was constructed of curly maple in 1909 in their works at the corner of South Buckeye and South streets, in a building that had once been home to the U.S. Whip Company. For many years, it graced the home of Harvey Reddett, a successful builder near Fredericksburg. It was donated to the Wayne County Historical Society by Mrs. Samuel Reddett, and can now be seen in the schoolhouse on the historical society’s campus.
