Albert Deane Grover (February 18, 1865 Boston, Massachusetts – October 23, 1927 Manhattan, New York) was an American banjoist,

composer A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. Etymology and Defi ...

, teacher, and prolific inventor of musical parts and accessories for stringed instruments. He was a founding member of the

Boston Ideal Banjo, Mandolin and Guitar Club The Boston Ideal Banjo, Mandolin and Guitar Club was an American musical quintet composed of virtuoso artists of the banjo, mandolin, and guitar. Founded in 1887, it was reputed to be the first ensemble of fretted instrument artists on the East Co ...

. Grover held over 50

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s for musical instrument parts, and founded the musical accessories company A. D. Grover & Son. His father, Stephen Grover (1820–1885), was a

Boston Boston (), officially the City of Boston, is the state capital and most populous city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as well as the cultural and financial center of the New England region of the United States. It is the 24th- mo ...

piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keyboa ...

maker. In 1952,

Grover Musical Products, Inc. Grover Musical Products, Inc., is an Ohio based American company that designs, imports, and distributes stringed instrument tuners (machine heads) for guitars, bass guitars, banjos, mandolins, dulcimers, ukuleles, and other instruments. Grover als ...

, of

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, succeeded A.D. Grover & Son.

Selected compositions

* ''Magog Quickstep,'' composed by Grover, Boston:

Thompson & Odell Thompson & Odell (ca.1874 – ca.1905) of Boston, Massachusetts, published music and repaired and manufactured musical instruments. Musicians Charles W. Thompson and Ira H. Odell ran the business. They kept a shop on Tremont Street and later o ...

(1887) * ''Marguerite Waltz,'' composed by Grover, Boston:

(1889)

Other publications

* ''Grover's Progressive Method for the Banjo,'' Boston: Thompson & Odell Company (1892)

References

External links

* The Maverick schottische / by A. D. Grover

{{DEFAULTSORT:Grover, A. D. 1865 births 1927 deaths American banjoists American male composers Musicians from Boston

Selected compositions

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