Name: J. Hastings
Comment: Downstairs at Taphouse's were the record departments and many, many happy hours were spent there listening to records in the booths, having to make a big, big decision on what to spent your hard-saved 32/6 on. Very, very happy days!
Taphouse established a music shop at 10 Broad Street on 4 April 1857, and the following advertisement appeared in Jackson’s Oxford Journal on 16 May 1857:
PIANOFORTE AND MUSIC WAREHOUSE / NO. 10, BROAD STREET, OXFORD.
C. TAPHOUSE
BEGS respectfully to announce that he has a well-assorted Stock of NEW and SECOND-HAND PIANOFORTES, HARMONIUMS, English and German CONCERTINAS, FLUTINAS, VIOLINS, &c., for Sale or Hire, on the most reasonable terms. Several Second-hand PIANOFORTES, by Broadwood, Collard and Collard, Owen Stodart, Tomkison, and others, for Sale, cheap. — All new Instruments warranted; old ones taken in exchange.
Repairing and Tuning in all the above named Instruments, by experienced hands.
Country orders promptly attended to.
