Samuel Green (organ builder)
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Samuel Green was an organ-builder.
Green learnt his art under the elder Byfield, Bridge, and Jordan, and afterwards entered into several years' partnership with the younger Byfield. Green built a large number of organs for the cathedrals, and for churches in London and the country, instruments which were famed for their beauty of tone. Green died in something like poverty at Isleworth, Middlesex, 14 September 1796, leaving his business to his widow.
Green learnt his art under the elder Byfield, Bridge, and Jordan, and afterwards entered into several years' partnership with the younger Byfield. Green built a large number of organs for the cathedrals, and for churches in London and the country, instruments which were famed for their beauty of tone. Green died in something like poverty at Isleworth, Middlesex, 14 September 1796, leaving his business to his widow.
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- David Wickens, Samuel Green (continued from previous issue), BIOS Reporter X: 1, (January 1986)