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Meisel was a dealer and used the ‘Beaumont‘ trade name for brass instruments. He was a dealer for Thibouville-Lamy. Their main business was stringed instruments.

Meisel store at St. Mark’s Place in the 1930s

• 1859 Meisel born in Klingenthal, Saxony on July 23rd
• 1875 emigrates to NYC in November (one Census says 1878)
• 1878 establishes music business (according to later ads)
• 1884 first directory listing at #339 E. 10th St.
• 1887 marries Anna Caroline Stengel
• 1888 musical instrument importer, #343 E. 10th St.
• 1901 moves to #4 St. Marks Place
• 1911 wife Anna dies in January; member of Moravian Church with the Zoebisch family
• 1920 ad for C. Meisel, Inc says they are wholesale dealers, importers, manufacturers, & repairers of stringed instruments; established in 1878; no mention of brass
• 1921 Charles Meisel dies on July 31 from blood poisoning
• 1922 listed as American Rosin & Oil Co., #4 St. Marks Pl. (probably merchandise for stringed instruments)
• 1932 published the Meisel method for accordeon
• 1942 listed as selling harmonicas, #4 St. Mark’s Place
• 1952 last year that C. Meisel, Inc. owns #4 St. Mark’s Place

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