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THE MUSICAL CRITIC AND TRADE REVIEW.
FACTS OF INTEREST TO THE MUSIC TRADE.
O one at all interested in music or musical matters, especially dealers and
manufacturers, should fail when in New Haven, Conn., to inspect the
factory of The B. Shoninger Organ Company ; they have been in business
since 1850, and have been continually making additions to their manufactur-
ing capacity and perfecting their processes of manufacture, until they now
rank among the largest and best manufacturers of organs in this country.
We have inspected personally all the departments of their large factory, and
have been muoh impressed by the perfect order and system which prevails
in all its parts, and the swiftness and ease with which the employes perform
their work, showing that they have been long accustomed to their work, and
are experts in it. The skill of the workmen and the use of the best materials,
combined with the facilities which this firm possesses for purchasing all their
goods for cash, insure the production of an excellent instrument at the lowest
price consistent with its quality. These facts become so evident to anyone
who inspects this factory that we have heard rival manufacturers mention the
same things during conversation on the subject; and no better evidence is
needed from the dealers than the great sale which the B. Shoninger Organ
Co's organ is having throughout the country. The various improvements
which this house has made in their organs have contributed very much to
their popularity, especially their Eureka Cymbella Organ, which contains a
chime of bells the effect of which is charming, and we understand is a
feature belonging exclusively to the organs manufactured by this firm. The
method by which these bells are tuned is very interesting, and requires
great skill on the part of the workman ; and if space did not forbid we
should like to describe this as well as the many other new and interesting
things to be seen in this factory. In addition to their organ business, which
has attained the enormous amount of 7,500 organs per year, or about (25) for
every working day, Messrs. B. Shoninger & Co. have been paying much
attention of late to the manufacture of upright pianofortes ; and the use of
the same skill in manufacturing as that shown in their organ manufacture
has produced an exceedingly fine upright piano, for which the sales are
large and continually increasing, and the quality of which will compare
favorably with anything now before the public.
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REMARKS ABOUT W. L. ALLEN.
T T N D E R the heading " Mr. De Fontaine Again," the Dramatic News of
y_) this city prints the following pointed words :
"The Chicago World, which, like all the other little weakly organs
which crop up in that city, seems to make the Dramatic News the special ob-
ject of its attention, said in a late issue that Mr. De Fontaine, of the Herald,
was the special object of love to all that knew him, and that he was a bright,
genial old man, or something to that effect.
'' Of the Chicago World we have only this to say, that it is the stupidest
paper of its class in America. There was something readable in the black-
guard wit of Jumpy Jervis, once proprietor of the Amusement World of that
city, and even to the defunct and disreputable Free Lance Jim Chisholm's
brandy-sodden brain gave an occasional intermittent spark of brightness.
The present Chicago World is a seething mass of imbecility, unredeemed by
even a sentence of good English, or a nicker of brightness. It is ' run,' so
we are informed, by one W. L. Allen, who used to have some sort of a
swindling dramatic agency in this city, and whose only characteristic was an
inability to pay his bills. But let that pass.
" What bond there may be between W. L. Allen and Mr. Felix De
Fontaine we do not know. It is probably an undisguised admiration of
Allen's for De Fontaine's peculiarity of living at the rate of $100, on a salary
of $30 a week."
KIND WORDS
/"^HARLES AVERY WELLES, editor and publisher of the MUSICAL CRITIC
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AND TRADE REVIEW, New York, visited Cleveland and Chicago last
month, on business connected with his valuable journal. We are pleased to
learn that the TBADE REVIEW is meeting with the success it deserves, and re-
commend it to the trade as worthy their attention.—Brainards' Son's Musical
World.
MB. CHABLES AVERY WELLES, of New York, made a flying visit to this
city. He came partly in the interests of his paper, which is slowly but
surely making its way in the West.—Chicago correspondent of Brainards''
Son's Musical World.
A SEMI-OCCASIONAL contemporary, which has recently changed its title to
the more preposterous one of Music CBITIC, etc., in a recent issue gives a
specimen brick of its pretentious driveling in this respect anent a perform-
ance of the " Chimes of Normandy" at the Gaiety theatre, Boston, which
demonstrates conclusively that the music man did not know what he was
talking about. Firstly, the character of the Sheriff was taken by Mr. Frank
A. Daniels (a member of the Jollities Combination), and not by Mr. James
A. Sturges. Secondly, Jean Renisclieaux was sung by Mr. Geo. S.
Weeks, and not by Mr. J. C. Bartlett, who, not being in the cast and in no
manner connected with the company, must laugh at the " criticism " awarded
him, that " he sang with a pomp that would have sufficed for a rear-
admiral," etc. Mr. Bartlett is regarded as one of the finest tenors in New
England, is a member of the Jollities, and was " not there." Is it not time,
after this latest exhibition of asininity, for the pseudo editor to dismount
from his high horse and polish up his spectacles?—The Art Jabberer.
Want of space has compelled us to omit the above from our two last
issues.—ED. MUSICAL CBITIC AND TBADE REVIEW.
CHICAGO, November 1, 1880.
Charles Avery Welles, Esq.:
DEAK SIR :—My attention has recently been called to your article
"Trade in the West," in the MUSICAL CRITIC AND TRADE REVIEW. I have
read it and wish simply to thank you for your good words for myself and for
us all. I wish your enterprise all success.
Yours very truly,
Geo. F. ROOT.
PHILADELPHIA, October 4, 1880.
Charles Avery Welles, Esq.:
DEAR SIR :—Enclosed you will find $2, for which you will please send
me the MUSICAL CRITIC AND TRADE REVIEW for one year.
I think that your
November 20th, 1880.
paper is of sufficient interest to induce almost anyone that takes even a little
interest in a paper of the kind to have his name put down as a subscriber.
I would have subscribed before this, but had been out of town. Whatever I
can do for your journal I will be pleased to do.
Yours truly,
CHARLES F. ALBERT.
ANOTHER FIRE IN 226L STREET.
HE music trade, it seems to us, is having more than its share of misfor-
tune from fires, lately. It was only in our last issue that we had occa-
sion to mention the fire at E. Gabler's factory, in 22d street, and now we have
to record another in the same street.
On the morning of Nov. 9th, a fire was discovered in the five story brick
building extending from No. 313 to No. 323 East 22d street. The building
has a frontage of 150 feet, and a depth of 75 feet, and was crammed with in-
flammable material. The firemen succeeded in their efforts, and the fire waa
out by 9 o'clock.
The members of the music trade in the building were Messrs. Morse and
Emerson, the string makers, and Frazier & Smith, hammer-head coverers.
The loss of the last named firm was comparatively light, and we believe fully
covered by insurance. Messrs. Morse & Emerson, on the contrary, were
carrying a considerable stock of raw material and manufactured goods, on
which there was insufficient insurance, and their loss amounts to between
$6,000 and $8,000.
Messrs. Morse & Emerson are young, enterprising and industrious, and
had established an excellent reputation for first class goods wherever they
were known. We are assured that they have the sympathy of the entire
trade, and that they have had offers of something more substantial than
sympathy, should circumstances require it.
We are glad to be able to state that they expect to be at work again in
about two weeks, a* their large and costly string winding machines, which
are constructed entirely of metal, were not badly crippled by the fire; and
they have now at the dock, ready to be transported to their factory, a new
machine which will considerably increase their ability to fill their orders.
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McTAMMANY VERSUS NEEDHAM.
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N connection with the decision in this case, which we published in our
last issue, the following letter from a celebrated patent lawyer to the
president of the Mechanical Orguinette Co., in relation to the case, may be
found interesting :
NEW YORK, November 3, 1880.
Moses Harris, Esq. :
DEAR SIB :—The feature in issue in the interference McTammany vs.
Needham was one that is not used by either party, namely, " The combina-
tion of an endless music-sheet, and a hinged feed-roller." The term feed
holder, for the purposes of this issue, means a feed-roller which actually
feeds the paper along, or one which merely holds the paper in contact with
another feed-roller, by which it is fed along.
Such a feed-roller, in combination with a music-sheet or card, having its
ends disconnected, is shown in English patents granted in 1847 and 1871;
hence you can use such a hinged feed-roller in connection with your music-
sheets.
The point involved in the interference was an utterly immaterial one a&
limited by the tribunal who passed on the case with reference to these
English patents.
Respectfully,
EDWIN H. BROWN,
Per F. E. B.
THE KALOPHONE.—A new musical instrument has been invented by a
Russian peasant. The foreign papers say it is composed of a framework
sustaining a number of wheels, with rims so grooved and notched as to make
a humming noise when rapidly revolved. Each wheel sounds a different
note, and as the required rate of revolution cannot be immediately attained
or discontinued, many remarkable effects may be produced, which, with the
peculiar timbre of the instrument, renders the invention a decided addition
to the musical world. It is known in Moscow as the kalophone, and i&
shortly to be exhibited in Paris and London.
THE GAZETTE.
George H. Ryder, organs, Boston, Mass.; chattel mortgage, $400.
George Towle, piano key manufacturers, Northboro', Mass. Sold out.
J. D. Raven, piano manufacturer, New-York City ; judgment, $213.
James Kent, Manchester, Iowa, musical instruments ; chattel mortgage, $100.
National Musical Instrument Manufacturing Co., New York City. Receiver
appointed.
William M. Daniels, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, music. Judgment, $144.
NEW MUSIC FOR THE ORGUINETTE.
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Hallelujah ! 'tis done
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Jesus, lover of my soul
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We'll work till Jesus comes
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God bless the Prince of Wales
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Spanish National Hymn
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Lardy Dan
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Champagne Charlie
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Irish Washerwoman
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Hancock and English Union March.9^
Dueppler March
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Rule Britannia
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Kutschke Polka
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Roulette Galop
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Old Zip Coon
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Marseillaise Hymn
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Bric-a-brae Polka
Sultan's Polka
Orpheus Galop
Come ye disconsolate
Twickenham Ferry
My pretty red rose
The bloom is on the rye
Walking down Broadway
Pat Malloy
What a Friend
Back to our Mountains
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Legend of Madame Angot
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Racquet Galop
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Gen. Garfleld's March
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Gen. Hancock's March
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