2004-10-30/2019-04-29 - From the OHS PC Database, derived from A Guide to North American Organbuilders, by David H. Fox (Richmond, Va.: Organ Historical Society, 1991). - Formed by merger of George Read & Co. and Pratt Brothers & Co. in Deep River, Connecticut, 1863; organ keys and parts; merged with Comstock, Cheney & Co., 1937; acquired Sohmer & Co. Piano Co., 1982; keyboard and action divisions sold to the Baldwin firm, 1986. Staff: Robert Rankin; Charles H. Wood. Source: David L. Junchen, Encyclopedia of the American Theatre Organ, vol. 2 (Pasadena: Showcase Publications, 1989), 833.
2015-10-11/2019-02-11 - From Organ Database Builders editor Stephen Hall, March 29, 2018. - Pratt, Read & Company, long associated with the Connecticut River Valley, closed as a piano parts manufacturer in the late 1980s. Harwood Comstock, a great-great-grandson of Samuel M. Comstock, carried on the corporate name as president of the Pratt-Read Corporation. The company, now called Pratt-Read Tools and based in Illinois, manufactures screwdrivers, the same product that was Samuel-s first business venture in 1834. Source: CTHumanities "Connecticut History.Org" website, accessed September 13, 2015, http://connecticuthistory.org/ivory-cutting-the-rise-and-decline-of-a-connecticut-industry/#sthash.6t9smkGB.dpuf.
2015-11-06/2020-04-09 - For further information, see: Comstock, Cheney & Co.
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