Stone and Sons Glockenspiel #605 circa 1920 - Chrome

In addition to manufacturing a full line of drums and accessories, Boston's George B. Stone & Son also produced keyboard percussion instruments up until at least the mid 1920s by which time they were also cataloging Deagan instruments as their top of the line offerings. 

As you can see from the pictures, there are two different glockenspiels, although they were both made by Stone and Son. The case with the label of Walberg and Auge (a local music store that put its tag on the case of the Stone instrument) is in good shape, but the chrome on the bells is mostly gone, peeling off, and there are two notes missing - the high G# and top C (see picture). The case on the other Stone is beat up but the bells are in good shape, there are some screws missing. Between the two, you can rebuild a nice instrument, or I've just used the Walberg for gigging. I never found the time to work on making one lovely instrument! :) The sound on these Glocks is beautiful, good quality medal from the old days! Sweet! And very portable!

Keyboard percussion instruments built by Stone included xylophones and orchestra bells which were intended for use mainly by theater drummers and gigging musicians who needed their instruments to be compact and portable. The instrument seen here fits that description well and matches closely with the "Stone Dance Xylophone" as pictured in Catalog I published in 1919.