Pace, Matthew & Sons

Dates Active in Dublin: 

1814–1815

Business Type: 
Musical instrument maker: bugle horn
Musical instrument maker: woodwind instruments
Address(es): 

23 Henry Street
26 Henry Street

Details: 

Succeeded the solo business of Matthew Pace.

Mark: 'Royal Patent Kent Bugle (number) Made by Math|w Pace & Sons 23 Henry Street, Dublin, Halliday Inventor' (Waterhouse).

After 1815, the family moved to London and continued in the musical instrument business for three generations until c. 1913 (Bacon).

[Addresses differ according to sources: the Dublin Directories and Teahan give 26 Henry Street. The mark on the Royal Patent Kent Bugle gives the partnership at 23 Henry Street. Note: although the Ulster Museum instrument has the date '1778' stamped from on it, this appears to have been added later: it is in small capitals, quite unlike the flowing scripts of the engraved name on the bell and compares with a similarly dated bugle by J.B. Logier who was not in Dublin before 1809. ]

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Produced

  • Bugle horn: Ulster Museum. Mark: 'Made by Mat|w Pace & Sons 23 Henry St Dublin' (on the bell). Stamp: 'Belfast Volunteer Company 1778' [added later]
    • See Also: 

    Logier, John Bernard
    Pace, Matthew

    Source(s): 

    Dublin Directories

    Teahan, John, 'A List of Irish Instrument Makers', The Galpin Society Journal, 16 (May 1963), 28–32 (p. 30)

    Waterhouse, William, The New Langwill Index: a Dictionary of Musical Wind-Instrument Makers and Inventors (London: Tony Bingham, 1993), p. 289

    Bacon, Louise, 'The Pace Family of Musical Instrument Makers, 1788-1901', The Galpin Society Journal, 57 (May 2004), 117–26 (pp. 117–23)

    Lasocki, David, 'New Light on the Early History of the Keyed Bugle from Newspaper Advertisements. Part 1: The Astor Advertisement and Collins v. .Green', Historic Brass Society Journal, 21 (2009), 11-50 (pp. 11–12)

    Last Update: 10-05-2018