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Maximilian Shinburn
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‘Count’ Max Shinburn, King of the Bank Burglars

March 28, 2019March 28, 2019 Carl Johnson

We’ve written before about some of the prisoners of the Albany County Penitentiary, a rather legendary lockup. But the old city jail, on Maiden Lane just behind City Hall, “hosted” […]

Mrs Jones Was Astonished
Albany

An Albany Bride In the Soup

March 25, 2019March 25, 2019 Carl Johnson

We present this particular story in the spirit of Ripley’s “Believe It or Not,” at least in this sense: This appeared in the Albany Morning Express on July 22, 1895, […]

Grubb Kosegarten Brothers, Piano-Forte Actions
Albany

The Last of the Albany Piano Pieces!

March 12, 2019March 12, 2019 Carl Johnson

We wanted to finish up our survey of Albany piano makers. We covered John and Horace Meacham, Francis P. Burns, Marshall and Wendell, McCammon, and of course Boardman and Gray. […]

McCammon Piano Fortes How They Are Made illustration
Albany

Piano Wars — The Strange Story of McCammon Pianos

February 18, 2019April 29, 2020 Carl Johnson

Did ya think we were done with the Albany piano makers? Not quite. For one thing, there were quite a lot more – various offshoots and apprentices going off on […]

Albany

Boardman and Gray, Albany’s Premiere Piano Builder

February 13, 2019February 17, 2019 Carl Johnson

We’ve already talked about a number of Albany piano makers (Marshall and Wendell, Francis P. Burns, John and Horace Meacham), and there are a number of others hardly worth mentioning. […]

Marshall and Wendell Pianos 1886 ad
Albany

Marshall and Wendell Pianos

January 29, 2019January 29, 2019 Carl Johnson

When we talk about long-standing Albany piano makers, the name of Boardman and Gray comes up the most frequently. But there was another piano maker that lasted for about a […]

F.P. Burns Piano 1848 Bennington Museum
Albany

Francis P. Burns, Albany Piano Maker

January 8, 2019January 13, 2019 Carl Johnson

As we have mentioned, Albany had a very, very rich history of piano manufacture. There are many little rabbit holes to go down, but a lot of the names are […]

Meacham Piano, dated 1835
Albany

Meacham Pianos of Albany

December 31, 2018December 30, 2018 Carl Johnson

Someone recently responded to an old article we wrote about all the pianos that were once manufactured in Albany. While the Boardman & Gray pianos are probably the best known […]

Albany

The Townsend Furnace – And Much Else

October 10, 2018October 15, 2018 Carl Johnson

Albany was once one heck of a foundry town. It’s well known that Albany and Troy were both prodigious producers of stoves of all types, and the old heating and […]

The Last Albany Ashman
Albany

The Last Ashman

October 1, 2018September 30, 2018 Carl Johnson

For many, many years, the biggest problem in waste disposal for cities wasn’t what we think of as garbage — there was hardly such a thing as packaging, what there […]

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