Ellard, Andrew

Dates Active in Dublin: 

1818–1838 [1847?]

Business Type: 
Music publisher
Music seller
Musical instrument maker: bugle horn
Musical instrument maker: flageolet
Musical instrument maker: flute
Musical instrument maker: horn
Musical instrument maker: organ
Musical instrument maker: serpaphine
Musical instrument maker: serpent
Address(es): 

27 Lower Sackville Street, 1818–22
47 Lower Sackville Street, 1822–38

Details: 

Succeeded the business of J.B. Logier.

Egan described himself, c. 1825, as a flageolet, and double and triple flute maker' (Teahan).

In 1830/31, his address is described on printed music as 'Ellard's Military Music Saloon'.

Listed in the Dublin Directories as a 'manufacturer of portable organs' (1834), a 'music seller and maker of military instruments' (1835) and as an 'inventor and manufacturer of the Serpaphine, or Portable Finger Organ' (1836).

Dublin agent for Philips, Mayhew and Co., London (Humphries & Smith).

Mark: ELLARD / 47 SACKVILLE ST. / DUBLIN / (unicorn head) (Waterhouse).

[Date and addresses differ according to sources: Boydell gives the dates and addresses as above. Teahan gives 47 Sackville Street c. 1825. Hogan gives 27 Lower Sackville Street from c. 1819 to 1822 and 47 Lower Sackville Street from c. 1822 to 1838. Waterhouse gives the dates and addresses as above, but states that Ellard retired in 1847.]

Select Product/Work List: 

Produced

  • Double flageolet: National Museum of Ireland. Inventory number 1900:123 (Boydell, 'Flageolet')
  • Double flageolet: Royal Ontario Museum (Waterhouse)
  • Triple flageolet with separate (double) windcap: National Museum of Ireland. Inventory number 226:1944 (Boydell, 'Flageolet')
  • Flute: National Museum of Ireland (Waterhouse)
  • Serpent: Carlisle (Waterhouse)
  • Horn: Glasgow [formerly in the Glen collection] (Waterhouse)
  • Seven-keyed bugle: Basel [formerly in the Bernoulli collection]. Inventory number 1980.2496. Mark: 'MADE BY / ELLARD / 47 Sackville St / DUBLIN' (Lasocki)
  • Keyed bugle: [formerly in the R. Morley-Pegge collection]. Mark: 'Royal Patent Kent Bugle Made by A. Ellard, Dublin, No. 584, Halliday Inventor' (Lasocki)
    • See Also: 

    Logier, John Bernard

    Source(s): 

    Gogan, L.S., 'Musical Instrument Collections in the National Museum of Ireland', in Music in Ireland: a Symposium, ed. by Aloys Fleischmann (Cork: Cork University Press, 1952), pp. 299–307 (p. 306)

    Teahan, John, 'A List of Irish Instrument Makers', The Galpin Society Journal, 16 (May 1963), 28–32 (p. 29)

    Hogan, Ita Margaret, Anglo-Irish Music 1780–1830 (Cork: Cork University Press, 1966), p. 102

    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. 140

    Boydell, Barra, 'The Flageolet in Ireland: Aspects of the Repertoire, the Instrument and its Makers', in Musicology in Ireland, ed. by Gerard Gillen and Harry White, Irish Musical Studies, I (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 1990), pp. 151–168 (p. 164)

    Waterhouse, William, The New Langwill Index: a Dictionary of Musical Wind-Instrument Makers and Inventors (London: Tony Bingham, 1993), p. 106

    Lasocki, David, 'New Light on the Early History of the Keyed Bugle. Part II: More on England and Ireland; the United States', Historic Brass Society Journal, 22 (2010), 19–54 (p. 20)

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

    Boydell, Brian, ‘Logier, Johann Bernhard’, Dublin Music Trade Card Index <http://dublinmusictrade.ie/card-index>

    Last Update: 16-05-2018