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J.P. Modaudo

Chicago, IL

USA

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  1880 Giuseppe (Joseph) Modaudo is born in Catania, Italy
  
  


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  1900 Modaudo emigrates to the US (passport); this is
  alternately given as 1906 in the 1920 Census
  


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  1905 Giuseppe Modaudo is said to be in NYC
  


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  1908 son Alberto is born in Chicago in August
  


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  1909 J.S. Modaudo & Co., #75 Blue Island Ave., Chicago, selling
  cornets & French horns
  1909 son Alberto is baptized in Chicago; parents are listed as
  Giuseppe & Cristina
  


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  c.1910 French horn is labeled ‘J. S. Modaudo, Maker, Chicago ’
  
  


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  1911 J.S. Modaudo & Co., band instruments, #705 Blue Island
  Ave., Chicago (Directory of Music Industries)
  1911 daughter Norma is born in Chicago
  


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  1915 petition for naturalization by Joseph Modaudo, #170
  Hanover St., Boston, instrument maker, wife Christina,
  born September 1, 1880 in Catania, Italy
  


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  1916 Joseph S. Modaudo & Co., musical instrument
  manufacturer, #170 Hanover, Boston (city directory)
  1916 daughter Pearl is born in Chicago in May
  


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  1917 Joseph Modaudo, #920 Ashland Blvd., Chicago, selfemployed
  brass worker at #1540 S. Taylor St., Chicago,
  wife Cristina (WWI draft application)
  


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  1918 Modaudo & Co., #1540 W. Taylor St., Chicago (Billboard)
  


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  1920 Joseph Modado, #920 S. Ashland St., Chicago, music store
  owner from Italy (from US Census in January)
  1920 Joseph Modaudo, violin maker, #357 W. 58th St., NY (The
  Violinist, American violin makers list)
  


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  1920 Joseph Modando, emigrated to US in spring of 1900,
  naturalized in Boston in 1915, living at #1008 S.
  Marshfield Ave., Chicago, musical instrument maker,
  witnessed by Henry Wolowicz, a clerk for Lyon & Healy
  who had known Joseph for five years (passport, spelling
  variation as typed); he has lived in Boston & Chicago
  


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  1921 Italian Music Co., #811 Blue Island St., Chicago,
  ‘everything Italian’ we import new and old Italian violins,
  strings and music for band, orchestra and piano..’ under
  the direction of J.S. Modaudo (The Violinist, Feb. p.171)
  1921 daughter Gildo is born in May in Chicago
  


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  1923 not listed in the Chicago city directory
  


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  1928 Joseph Modando, #887 W. 9th St., NY (emigration)
  


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  1940 Joseph Modaudo, #150 Pearl St., NY, single, music store
  owner repairing instruments, same home in 1935 (census)
  1940 son Albert Mondo (according to descendants, he changed
  his name to ‘Mondo’ and his father was violin maker
  Giuseppe Modaudo), law office clerk in Chicago
  


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  1949 Giuseppe Modaudo returns to Catania, Italy; he produced
  over 500 instruments in his lifetime (Henley’s Dictionary
  of Violin Makers)
  


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  1961 Giuseppe Modaudo, Italian violin maker & repairer since
  1900, Catania, Italy (advertisement)
  


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  1972 Giuseppe Modaudo dies this year (no document)
  


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  1991 son Albert dies in Lagrange, Florida; he never was
  involved in instrument making
  

There are several different variations for spelling his last name
and I have tried to leave them here as found. The correct
spelling is ‘Modaudo ’ as shown in the ad below. He seems
to have switched from brass to strings around 1920
perhaps because he could make more money selling them.
There are far more examples of labeled stringed
instruments than the one French horn found and they
seem to be of good quality.

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