Gunn, M. (& Sons)

Dates Active in Dublin: 

1821–1873

Business Type: 
Music publisher
Music seller
Musical instrument maker: piano
Musical instrument seller: unspecified
Tuner: piano
Address(es): 

7 Cumberland Street, 1834
52 Fleet Street, 1846
16 Clare Street, 1847–?
61 Grafton Street, 1865–73

Details: 

Michael Gunn is listed in the Dublin Directories in 1834 as a tuner, from 1846–47 as an 'instrument maker'. He died in 1861 (Bumpus).

An advertisement in the Irish Times in April 1873 details the winding up of the business: 'M. Gunn and Sons Beg to inform the Public that a change having taken place in their Partnership Arrangements in consequence of the retirement of Mrs. Gunn, Senr. It becomes necessary to dispose of their Stock of Musical Instruments'.

[Dates differ according to sources: McHale states that the business traded to c. 1870 but the Irish Times advertisement confirms the date as 1873.]

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  • 'Cottage pianoforte; harmonium; boudoir grand pianoforte', 1865 (Dublin International Exhibition of 1865)
  • 'Grand and semi-grand pianos [...] by Collard and Collard [and] J. Kirmman and Son, Grand pianos [...] by Erard, Semi grand pianos [...] by Cadby and others, Cottage pianos by Collard and Collard [...] John Broadwood and Sons [...] Joseph Kirkman and Sons [...] S. and P. Erard [... ] Charles Cadby [...] J. and J. Hopkinson [...] R. Allison and Sons, T. D'Almaine and Co., Goddard and Goddard; Square pianos [...] by Collard and Collard and John Broadwood and and [sic] Sons; Harmoniums [...] by ALexandre Pere et Fils [... and] Christophe [...]; American organs [...] by Mason and Hamlin; Harps [...] by S. and P. Erard', 1873 (Irish Times)

    • Tuned

  • Organ: St Patrick's Cathedral, 1821 (Bumpus)
    • Source(s): 

    The Illustrated Record and Descriptive Catalogue of the Dublin International Exhibition of 1865, ed. by Parkinson and Simmonds (London: E & FN Spon, 1866), p. 239

    Irish Times, 12 April 1873, p. 4

    Bumpus, John S., 'Irish Church Composers and the Irish Cathedrals: Part II', Proceedings of the Musical Association, 26 (1899–1900), 115–59 (p. 143)

    McHale, Maria, 'Music', in The Irish Book in English 1800–1891, ed. by James H. Murphy, The Oxford History of the Irish Book, IV (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011), pp. 595–601 (p. 601)

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

    Last Update: 26-09-2013