Robinson, Bussell & Robinson

Dates Active in Dublin: 

1836–1843

Business Type: 
General music shop
Music publisher
Musical instrument maker: trumpet
Address(es): 

7 Westmoreland Street
39 or 59 Fleet Street, c. 1840–43 [second premises]

Details: 

Succeeded the business of Isaac Willis.

Mark [could refer to Robinson & Bussell or Robinson, Bussell & Robinson]: '(unicorn head) / Robinson & CO / 7 WESTMORELAND ST / DUBLIN' (Waterhouse, MIMO).

Succeeded in business by Robinson & Bussell.

[Details differ according to sources: the Dublin Directories give the address of 39 Fleet Street but the advertisements in the Evening Packet and Saunders's News-Letter give the address as 59 Fleet Street. Humphries & Smith gives the 29 Fleet Street address from c. 1842 to 1843 but the Saunder's News-Letter gives the 59 Fleet Street address in 1840. Note: the Dublin Directories also give the office of the Warder newspaper at 39 Fleet Street during this period.]

Select Product/Work List: 

Produced

  • F Flute, Nominal pitch: E♭: University of Edinburgh [formerly in the Brackenburg collection]. Inventory number 1015 (Waterhouse). Stamp: 'ROBINSON & CO / 7 WESTMORELAND ST / DUBLIN', with unicorn head (MIMO) [could be Robinson & Bussell or Robinson, Bussell & Robinson instrument]
  • Clarinet: London. Inventory number 35 [could be Robinson & Bussell or Robinson, Bussell & Robinson instrument]
  • Trombone: Ireland [could be Robinson & Bussell or Robinson, Bussell & Robinson instrument]
  • Serpent: Toronto. Inventory number 51a [could be Robinson & Bussell or Robinson, Bussell & Robinson instrument]
  • Slide trumpet: Dublin, 1840 (Waterhouse)

    • Published

  • Wade, Joseph, Shula Agra, an Irish Ballad sung by Mrs Waylett, at the New Thatre Royal Dublin. The Words, Symphonies and Accompaniments (Antiqbook)
    • See Also: 

    Robinson & Bussell
    Willis, Isaac & Co.

    Source(s): 

    Dublin Directories

    Humphries, Charles and William C. Smith, Music Publishing in the British Isles, from the Beginning until the Middle of the Nineteenth Century; a Dictionary of Engravers, Printers, Publishers, and Music Sellers (London: Oxford University Press, 1970), p. 278

    Waterhouse, William, The New Langwill Index: a Dictionary of Musical Wind-Instrument Makers and Inventors (London: Tony Bingham, 1993), p. 331

    Antiqbook http://www.antiqbook.co.uk [accessed 28 January 2009]

    Ferris, Catherine, ‘The Use of Newspapers as a Source for Musicological Research: a Case Study of Dublin Musical Life 1840–44’ (unpublished doctoral thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth, 2011), p. 302

    Boydell, Barra and Catherine Ferris, ‘Robinson & Bussell’, in The Encyclopaedia of Music in Ireland, ed. by Harry White and Barra Boydell (Dublin: UCD Press, 2013)

    Flute in Musical Instrument Museums Online < http://www.mimo-international.com/MIMO/doc/IFD/OAI_IMAGE_PROJECTS_LIB_ED_AC_UK_10683_16384/f-flute-nominal-pitch-e> [accessed 6 January 2017]

    Boydell, Brian, ‘Robinson, Bussell & Robinson’, Dublin Music Trade Card Index <http://dublinmusictrade.ie/card-index>

    Boydell, Brian, ‘Willis, Isaac & Co.’, Dublin Music Trade Card Index <http://dublinmusictrade.ie/card-index>

    Last Update: 16-03-2017