Healy was interested in developing a harp better suited to the rigours of the American climate than the available European models. Lyon patented his cottage upright in 1878 and it was sold under the Lyon and Healy name. Lyon & Healy evidently began manufacturing these instruments around 1876 in its factories in Chicago and nearby cities.
Other instruments the company is known to have made include reed organs and pianos. The company won recognition for another first in 1889–building the first American- made harp. Healy, who moved from Boston to start a sheet music shop for music publisher Oliver Ditson.
The Chicago-based company, founded in 1864 by George W. It was the first to sell Thomas Edison`s wax-cylinder records, Edison`s and Columbia Co’s Morning Glory Horn phonograph models and the first to promote Victor`s famous Victor Talking Machine Company dog listening to “His Master`s Voice.
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