1969
Kenneth opens the doors
Concord, NH. Yamaha's first New England dealership north of Boston. Three pianos in stock, one telephone line, one tuning hammer.
Our Story
A family business, the long way around.
Darrell's Music Hall opened in 1969 on a side street in Concord, NH. Kenneth Hennessy, a piano tuner with no retail experience and a station wagon full of stories, hung a hand-painted sign and started selling Yamaha uprights one at a time. He was the only Yamaha dealer north of Boston.
Fifty-seven years later, Kenneth's grandson Darrell runs the showroom on Main Street in Nashua. The hand-painted sign is gone. The Yamaha franchise is still here. So is the trade-in policy, the tuning crew, and the principle Kenneth printed on the back of his first business card: "A piano is a member of the family. Treat it like one."
