Music Trade Review

1O
THE
MUSIC TEADE
JOUENAL.
PUBLICATION.—The thirty-seventh number of the Bibliographie Musicale
Francaise, containing lists of new music, has been published in Paris by the
No. IV.
Chambre Syndicate du Commerce de Musique.
DON'T YOU FORGET IT.—In the course of a dispute between a western
GEORGE JAEDINE & SON.
music dealer and a woman about a piano he had sold her, she remarked :
" I'm a lady, and by thunder, don't you forget it! "
A HISTORY OF THIS HOUSE.
HYMNAL.—We have received from Messrs. A. S. Barnes &, Co., N. Y.,
r~pHE senior member of this firm was born in England in the year 1800.
X It was the intention of his father to have him engage in mercantile specimen pages of The Evangelical Hymnal. The Hymnal is beautifully
business, but his tastes led him in another direction, and this became so printed, and deserves the careful attention of church committees.
J. P. HALE.—A piano manufacturer said to us the other day, " J. P. Hale
apparent that he was at an early age instructed in the art of organ building
in the establishment of Messrs. Flight & Robson, at that time the most cele- is the Piano Pope—the only man who believes in his own infallibility."
brated organ builders in Europe. The success which the firm of Jardine Hale is a hard nut for the trade to crack, a perfect hale stone we might say.
has met with may be no doubt attributable in a measure to the thorough
DOMINION ORGAN CO.—The Dominion Organ Co., of Bowmanville, Onta-
traimng which the senior member then received, and has since transmitted rio, Canada,
have, as we have already announced, appointed Messrs. Forsyth
to his son, not forgetting the fact that long experience, combined with a large Brothers, of London
and Manchester, the sole agents in the United Kingdom
share of inventive ability, have also had no small part in contributing thereto, for the sale of the Dominion
Organs.
which have resulted in placing the present firm of Jardine & Son in the
MUSICAL
AND
DRAMATIC
JOURNALS
IN U. S.—A short time ago there were
foremost rank of organ builders.
Mr. Edward Jardine, the junior member of the firm, was, as regards 479 musical and dramatic journals published in the United States. Others
organ building and playing, to the "manner born," and is well fitted in have recently been added. (Too many cooks spoil the broth.—DR. BLIDGE.)
every way to wear the mantle which in the natural course of events must London Musical Standard. Dr. Blidge is right.
fall on his shoulders.
CEOPS IN THE NORTHWEST.—In Wisconsin the wheat crop is reported as
The present firm of Jardine & Son was organized in 1860, and in the two generally below last year's in quality and quantity, 15,000,000 bushels being
decades which have elapsed since that time, their progress has been steadily one of the estimates of the total crop. The reports from Iowa are more fa-
upward, and the construction of many of the largest and finest organs in vorable. From Minnesota reports of a great crop come in from all parts,
this country have been the joint work of the senior and junior members of especially from Northern Minnesota. The reports from Dakota are almost
this firm ; the senior, although now 80 years of age, still may be found at his similar to those from Minnesota.
desk planning and working with his brain, if no longer with his hands.
NAME BOARDS.—A new gold lettering or stamping machine for name
Many of the most valuable and practical improvements in organ building
are the results of the industry and inventive ability of the members of this tablets of pianos and harmoniums has just been invented by Mr. Mackay, of
firm ; among others the equal temperament system of tuning, which was Bristol. It is suitable for lettering from ordinary letter-press type, in either
first used by the elder Mr. Jardine in this country, and also the mathemat- gold or silver, and without the use of glaire, on leather or card. The work
ical scale of pipes of Prof. Topfer, and the simplification process of the Abbe done by the new machine is, it is stated, as clear as letter-press work in
Vogler. They were the first to make projecting or over-hanging keys, now black ink, the gold leaf used in the process lending a brilliancy and charm
universally adopted, with diagonal draw-stops, also arranged in steps ; radi- to the work printed on card-board, paper, vellum, &c, impossible to be
ating and curved pedals, and reversed bellows' ribs, which is a remedy for achieved by the use of bronze powder.
variableness of wind caused by unsteady blowing.
POPULATION—Returns received at the Census Office, Washington, indi-
They were the first to introduce in this country the vox celeste or an- cate that the population of the United States will be a little over 49,000,000.
gelica, the clariana, flute harmonique, flute a pavilion, viol de gamba, and Some of the back counties, particularly in the West, are panning out hand-,
the vox humana in its most perfect form, free from the usual nasal quality. somely. In New England and the South, where it was calculated the in-
Messrs. Jardine & Son constructed the magnificent organ of the Fifth Avenue crease would be comparatively slight, the returns show larger gains than
Catholic Cathedral, in this city, and many others in New York, Pittsburg, were anticipated. This is particularly the case in New England cities.
Mobile, and last, though not least, the fine organ at Ogdensburg, in this New York has over 5,000,000; Pennsylvania, 4,250,000; Ohio about
State.
3,250,000. The race between Ohio and Illinois for third place is very close.
Full descriptions of some of Jardine & Son's work will be given at Illinois has greatly the advantage in having a larger territorial extent, and
another time.
can ultimately hold more people. It is probable, however, from the returns
received, that Ohio will hold third place, although the official count will
be necessary to determine.
THE STRIKE OF THE CASE-MAKERS.
VENEER CUTTER.—An horizontal-working veneer-cutting machine has
r'T'HE latest developments in the strike of the case-makers seem to show
A. weakness on the part of the strikers ; they probably begin to realize the recently been patented in England on behalf of a German inventor. The
fact that the man against whom they are striking is perfectly independent machine is said to be capable of the manufacture of veneers of greater thick-
and untouched by any action in their power. Behr has only been making a ness than hitherto could be produced on this form of veneer-cutting machine.
few cases for Hale, and if the supply were cut off from that source it would In this machine the cutting-knife has a double action, that is to say, it re-
scarcely affect his business, and as far as Diehlman is concerned, Hale does ceives, besides the horizontal forward and backward motion, a reciprocating
not care whether Diehlman makes cases for him or not, his principal object side motion. Instead of one support only, to which hitherto the knife has
being to get rent for the factory which Diehlman occupies, and if its collec- been fastened, the machine has two supports, viz.: a main support with for-
tion is facilitated by giving Diehlman cases to make, Hale is willing to col- ward and backward motion, and an immediate support with reciprocating
lect his rent in that way, although the cases can be made cheaper in Leomin- side motion. The knife is fastened to the intermediate support, and the
ster, even after paying freight, than they can be made in New York, and there latter glides in guides on the main support in sideway direction to the for-
is no trouble among the workmen down there, the strikers to the contrary ward and backward motion of the knife. This side motion is imparted to
notwithstanding. It is only in the manufacture of cases for square pianos the intermediate support by racks and spur wheels and conical gear, which
that Hale's facilities are at all inadequate, and that is only a temporary evil, receives motion from the main support when the machine is at work. The
for the trade is running more on uprights than on squares. In spite of the inventor is Herr W. F. Zipperling, of Hamburg.
strike, we understand that Mr. Hale shipped ninety-two pianos week before
last, and has been turning out sixty per week for some time past. These
MUTUAL TRADE PROTECTION.
workman will learn that the trade union has not an inexhaustible fund on which
SOME time ago a suggestion was made in our columns that the wholesale trade should
to draw (every additional strike making the load which they have to carry combine to protect themselves against debtors. A dealer who is financially unsound
a heavier one), and they may also learn that interested parties who prom- rarely confers his favors upon one house. Before he fails he usually gives rather extensive
ise them" plenty of work if they will strike against the interests of a competi- orders to every firm who will accommodate him, and when the crash comes all those who
tor, and then offer them four months' notes in payment, are but broken reeds have not pressed for their money find themselves scheduled. Time after time when the
to lean on in time of need. When will the average workman learn that what- list is drawn up, the creditors feel if they had but known the wholesale way in which in-
ever tends in the way of strikes or otherwise to increase the cost of produc- struments were being ordered they would not have given such credit. The remedy,
ing pianos, thereby rendering it easier for other cities to compete with however, was pronounced impracticable. Manufacturers jealously guard the secrets of
New York for the piano trade, makes it worse for the workmen employed in their business, and feel that to disclose it to their rivals would injure themselves. As to
any comparison of books, the thing would be absurd. So manufacturers remain as they
their production.
ORGAN BUILDERS AND ORGAN BUILDING.
TRADE NOTES.
LUMBER.—It is thought that the price of lumber will be lower next fall
and winter.
COENETS.—Is Distin making Courtois cornets ; or is Courtois making
Distin cornets ?
WESSEL, NICKEL & GBOSS.—Messrs. Wessel, Nickel & Gross, the action-
makers of this city, are as busy as usual, in spite of the general dull trade.
RUFUS BLAKE-—Alderman Rufus Blake, of the Sterling Organ Co.,
Derby, Conn., Avas in town July 27th, and visited Coney Island with his
wife.
WM. SCHAEFEB.—Mr. Win. Schaefer says that only about one in each
one thousand of his pianos come back on his hands on account of defect in
construction.
LA CZABINE.—MM. Choudens, of Paris, have published M. Villate's four-
act opera, " La Czarine," recently produced with great success at the Hague
Royal Opera House.
BECKER'S FINGER EXERCISING MACHINE.—The headquarters of Becker's
Finger Exercising Machine are at Gildemeester & Co's store, No. 14 East
14th street, this city.
were, content to take such risks as incaution or ill luck affords.
The suggestion has, however, been made in the United States, and the following
circular, printed in the Music TRADE JOURNAL, has been issued to the leading manu-
facturers :—
" ' The great source of loss to manufacturers and large dealers in musical instruments
is from a class of dealers wholly irresponsible, who pay promptly a few bills, and securing
one or two instruments on credit, leave them unpaid and try a new house, pursuing the
same course.' Mr. Shaw's suggestion is that the manufacturers and dealers shall look
over their suspended account lists and make an accurate list of unpaid claims, the name
of the debtor, and his post-office address, and furnish these facts to one person, from
whom, on inquiry, it can readily be ascertained whether one who desires to deal belongs
to the class regarded as undesirable or not. The letter continues:—' In this manner
dealers can protect themselves from loss by irresponsible parties. There are Hardware
Associations and Furniture Associations of the kind. It is as practicable to have a Music
Dealers' Association. The answering of such questions can be placed at a moderate cost,
and the saving of-the loss of one instrument to each manufacturer and dealer will more
than compensate them for all its cost, while their loss now must be many each year.' "
We fear the same arguments against the proposition will weigh in America as in
England, and that the movement will come to nothing.
Indeed, the only way in which the idea could be carried out would, it has been sug-
gested, be to appoint some responsible person entirely unconnected with the trade, who
might act in the capacity of a trade inquiry agent. If manufacturers sent daily the list of
wholesale orders they received, he would be in a position to know the amount of credit a
dealer should have. The strictest secrecy would have to be preserved, so that one mem-
ber of the trade should not know the other's business, and iH cases where inquiry was
necessary, the inquiry agent must give no reasons for deciding whether credit should or
should not be given. Such a scheme, though plausible in theory, is, however, visionary •
in practice. It could probably never be got to work properly, and matters must remain
as they are.—London and Provincial Music Trades Review.