Morton Bros & Co , London

[Bill Kibby]

What sort of pics are you looking for? Morton Brothers seem to have been around from about 1900 until the second world war. Their frame were made by Clark, as you say.

[Bill Kibby]

Paul Rickard writes:
hi everyone , obviuosly the first post i put up ,
seems to have atracted attention but no answers ,and yet the moderator of this site says that ,there are plenty of morton bros & Co around but no body seems to be able to sugest anything , re - are there other piano forums on the web that some one knows about ? because if there are plenty of morton bros & Co pianos around then it stands to reason somebody somewhere would know ,and also somebody some where will have one !!! , .

my e,mail is cwcom_1999@yahoo.co.uk
i would welcome any usefull comments on the matter
and could who ever it was that edited my last post's subject, leave it as it is please this time ,i think it is rude that someone should change , and thats how it is written on the piano itself !!!.

Thankyou
Regards

[I am placing your new posting in the same stream as the old one, I apologise if it annoys you, but like any publisher, we do reserve the right to edit entries, and try to achieve some over-all uniformity of production. I also do not recall saying there are plenty around now, many are of an age where they are being destroyed by central heating and scrapped.]

[Bill Kibby]

MORTON BROS. & Co., London
Jimmy wrote "Please could you give me any information regarding a piano I have just inherited. The name of the piano is: Morton Bros. & Co. London number 1680."

Julie emailed: "I am trying to find some information about my mother's piano, without success so far. It is an upright, (probably) mahogany, with 88 keys. On the inside of the keyboard cover is written in gold: "Morton Bros & Co., London". We would like to know if this is the name of the maker of the piano, or the seller, and from approximately when it dates. I have been unable to find anything on this name in searches. I hope you can help! Thank you."

The name Morton does not appear in any of our general lists of London piano firms so far, up to 1899.

Circa 1900? Morton Bros. piano #5,240, scrapped in 1976. We have the iromn frame.
1911 Kelly’s Directory; Pianoforte Makers & Warehouses include Morton Bros. & Co., 19 Highbury place, London N.
1911 Not lised as bone fide makers by Alfred Dolge “Pianos and their makers”.
1914 Music Trade Directory lists Morton Bros. & Co., 19 Highbury place, Highbury station, London N. Pianos, organs, Perfecta player, Pathe records. And Huddersfield, Edinburgh... [Or so it says, Morton is not listed in either of those places.]
Circa 1925 Morton Bros & Co piano #36,433, perhaps made by Windover?
1928 Musique Adresses Universel lists Morton Bros. & Co., 19 Highbury place, Highbury station, London N5. Pianos, organs, gramophones, music. Described as “Piano manufacturers,” but

Circa 1927? Mortons piano #46,681 was made by Windover, and follows their sequence of serial numbers.
1938 Music Trade Directory lists Morton Bros. & Co., 19 Highbury place, Highbury station, London N5. Pianos, organs, Perfecta player.

Morton Brothers are not thought to have survived the war.

1951 Not listed in the Directory of the British Music Industries.

[pufong]

Like Julie, I have a similar piano of the same name and spec., but could not locate any site with Morton Bros & Co. Mine is in tune and good working order.