In 1906 Painchaud announced his retirement from the band, saying that his “heart and soul were still with the group.” When he died in 1909, Pierre Painchaud had been a driving force in Biddeford's music scene for nearly 40 years. According to his obituary in The Biddeford Daily Journal, Pierre Painchaud was “a natural and brilliantly successful bandmaster [who] gave practically his whole life to music.”
