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February 20th, i88r.
THE MUSICAL CRITIC AND TRADE REVIEW.
NEW PUBLICATIONS.
NEW MUSICAL INVENTIONS
PREPARED EXPRESSLY FOR THE MUSICAL CRITIC AND TRADE REVIEW.
G. D. RUSSELL, Boston, Mass,
G. L. GILBERT. " Slumber Shore." Song for Contralto or Baritone. 35 No. 237,114. PIANO ACTION. Raphael E. Letton, Quincy, HI., February
cents. A charming little song which can be made very effective when treated
1, 1881.
by an artist. Amateurs will please keep hands off.
This invention is an ingenious attempt to dispense with much of the
AUGUSTE MIGNON. "Departed Love." Song. 40 cents. The character machinery used in the ordinary piano action, such as displacing jack,
of the song is very sombre and suitable to the words. Its musical value hammer knuckle, elastic tape and back check, the inventor substituting for
these a lifting stem at the rear end of the key which is surmounted by a
is undeniable, and that is about all we can say in favor of it.
TITO MATTBI. "Rita." Song. 50 cents. One of the happy thoughts horizontal arm into the upper surface of which is morticed and pivoted an
of this prolific writer. No particular depth of ideas, but effective and oscillating arm, the upper end of said arm being inserted in a slot in the
hammer butt, having at its base an elastic web or stay.
taking.
When a certain key is struck, elevating the horizontal arm and the
AUGUSTE MIGNOK. "Recompense." Song. 40 cents. A composition
oscillating arm, the axis of the oscillating arm is forced against the hammer
•which lacks originality, but is otherwise very neatly expressed.
butt, and the hammer driven against the key.
AUGUST MIGNON. " Echoes d'une Casemate." Etudes Melodiques. $2.00.
At a given point thej horizontal arm is blocked in its upward
This somewhat oddly named collection comprises eight different pieces: motion by a regulating button, and the hammer now having free play by
No. 1. "L'Ambition." No. 2. " L'Inconsistance." No. 3. " L'Inquietude." means of the slot in the butt, the momentum causes it to strike the strings,
No. 4. "LeDesir." No. 5. " L'Ennui." No. 6. " L a J o i e . " No. 7. " L a and it returns to its original position unincumbered.
Tristesse." No. 8. "La Tranquilite." The collection i* very valuable and
The main feature in this invention for which a claim is made, is the
proves that Mr. Mignon is an excellent musician. The descriptive element lastic stay which covers the aperture in the base of the slot in the hammer
is not always fully developed, but it is very hard to give the right expres- butt, by means of which the axis is enabled to return to its original position
sion to the musical illustration of the different titles mentioned.
in the slot after the hammer has delivered its blow.
S. S. STEWART, Philadelphia, Pa.
No. 237,378. OEGAN BELLOWS. Carl Fogelberg and George W. Graves, of
S. S. STEWART. " The Minstrel Banjoist." 50 cents. This little book
Cambridge, Mass., February 8th, 1881.
contains the rudiments of music and a course of instruction for the banjo,
This invention purports to be an improvement in organ bellows, espe-
together with a collection of jigs, reels, schottisches, etc.
cially for organs having pipes or force reeds combined with exhaust reeds.
WILLIAM REEVES, London, Eng.
The improvement claimed consists in the arrangement of the combined
JOHN BROADHOUSE. " The Student's Helmhollz." Musical acoustics, or exhaust and force bellows, provided with force feeders and exhaust feeders,
the phenomena of sound, as connected with music, are treated in a which are all combined and attached to a single stationary centre board.
The exhaust feeders and force feeders connected together by means of
thorough manner, and embellished by more than one hundred illustrations.
links, form the principal feature in the improvement which seems to
consist rather in a clever arrangement of previously existing improvements
than any specially new device.
KIND WORDS.
SLOPPING OVER BADLY.
For eighteen months past the impecunious editor of a local semi-occa-
sional nondescript has whined for a bone, in the shape of an advertisement,
from the house of Weber, which, being conducted upon sound business
principles, could not afford to patronize what was commercially worthless.
A score times or more during that period did this sprig endeavor by threat,
flattery and blackmailing innuendo to whip Weber in, but without success.
Perceiving his efforts to be fruitless, this exponent of cess-pool journalism
made a final effort in his last issue by the most loathsome perpetration a man
oould be guilty of—the resurrection of a dead father to be used as a foil
against a worthy son; moreover, using the name of a well-known house in
connection therewith, in order to convey the impression that the onslaught
was made in their behalf, with a view to obtain their advertising patronage.
Let it be said to the honor of this latter establishment, they have denounced
the proceeding in terms that do credit to their intelligence and integrity as
business men. The editor in question received whatever knowledge he pos-
sesses of newspaper management in the office of that nest of blackmailers
which met its Nemesis a year ago.—The Art Jabberer, N. Y.
EXPORTS AND IMPORTS.
PORT OF NEW YORK.
Week ending Feb. 8th, 1881.
Exports.
150
$ 650 Bristol, 2 organs, . . . .
Liverpool, 10 organs,
344
1,000 Glasgow, 5 organs, . . .
Hamburg, 6 pianos, .
150
London, 1 piano,
350 Argentine R e p u b l i c , 1 organ,
London, 47 organs,
4,250
86,944
Total
Hayti, 1 organ, . .
50
Imports.
$6,983
Musical merchandise, 55,
Week ending F e b . 15, 1881.
Exports.
Liverpool, 39 organs,
Bremen, 43 organs, .
Bristol, 2 organs,
Mexico, 3 pianos, . . . . $1,590
J a p a n , 1 organ
65
H a m b u r g , 6 cases piano ma'ls,
800
1,057
do
16 organs,
1,200
L o n d o n , 21 organs,
Value.
$1,770
2,750
250
AN "EMINENT" (BOSTON?) MANUFACTURES PUTS HIS FOOT IN IT.
Total,
$9,482
We make the following extract from the letter of a prominent manu-
Imports.
facturer, upon the blackguard attack upon another manufacturer in a local
mongrel sheet, which attempts, in a sickly way, to play the role of a black- Musical instruments, 78 cases
$8,806
mailer upon members of the trade, whose respect for their good name will
PORT OF BOSTON.
not admit of their patronizing its stupidly foul columns:
Week ending Feb. 4.
" An editor will make his paper reflect his own ideal of the men it is
Value.
Exports.
intended to reach. If the pianoforte makers and the trade are, as he
$4,050
declares, a set of ignorant men of low tastes, who are only interested in the England, organs,
50
the smutty stories, the assanine opinions and anonymous assassination of
do.
piano,
commercial reputations through purported correspondents, then his sheet
Total,
fulfils their wishes, for it is certainly a sewer for the naked deformities and
$4,100
filth which is one regretable phase of human life, that appears in the piano
Imports.
and organ trade in no greater ratio than in any other industry. The editor
$1,523
of this deformed and almost obsolete journalism, has frequently said that Musical instruments,
Week ending Feb. 11, 1881.
' he prints a paper to suit the taste of his readers, and that piano and organ
men are a set of unscrupulous, jealous malcontents, always pitching into
Exports.
each other and ready to laugh at the mud thrown by one house at another,
$1,050
England,
organs,
so long as they are not hit.' For one we protest against this classification,
regarding the piano and organ men, both manufacturers and dealers, as
GAZETTE.
among the most intelligent, industrious, enterprising body of merchants we
have men of integrity, and earnest men in life to establish reputations Joshua Briggs, Peterboro, Mass., piano stool manufacturers. Chattel
Mortgage, $14,000.
which Ave hardly find equalled in any other branch of business. That there are
extremes and exceptions must be admitted; but such is life. The exceptions Mrs. F. W. Tietz, Albany, N. Y., pianos, etc. Judgment, $726.
prove the rule. It is, in our opinion, the duty of a representative trade paper
like the Art Jabbei-er to call attention to this incipient form of blackmailing Albert Porter, Newark, N. Y., musical instruments. Reality Mortgage, $402.
and stamp it out as vigorously as it has done others in the past."— R. Rockenback, New Albany, Indiana, agent, pianos and music, has made a
The Art Jaberer, N. Y.
voluntary assignment to creditors. Liabilities about $3,000. He did
business under the name of The Ohio Falls Music Company.
FROM SYRACUSE.
James Lewis, of Lewis & Park, Springfield, Mass., pianos, has applied for
We have received a copy of THE MUSICAL CRITIC AND TRADE REVIEW,
relief in insolvency. It is thought his embarrassment was brought
with which is incorporated THE MUSIC TRADE JOURNAL, the organ of th<
about by losses sustained from time to time from signing acceptances
musicians and the music trade of America. It is published at 853 Broadway
and accommodation paper.
New York, and contains interesting musical criticisms and advertisements o:
leading musical instruments. Huckman & Herrick, No. 7 Larned block, an
THE "BUCKINGHAM" PIANO.
agents for the same in Syracuse. It is published on the 5th and 20th o
UR attention has been called to the remarkable New Scale Upright
each month.—Daily Courier, Syracuse.
Piano lately introduced by E. D. Buckingham, of Utica, N. Y. Mr.
We fear that the Art Jabberer is rapidly descending to the level of W. L. Buckingham is one of the oldest! music dealers in the State, and in 1856 was
Allen's Chicago Dead Beat. We expect to see soon in the Art Jabberer a exclusively engaged in the manufacture of pianos in Oneida Co. Many of his
very ugly picture of a prize pig, having under it the words: " This is Miss pianos are still in Central New York and the Western States, and they com-
Nancy Welles, the blackmailing beast who edits the MUSICAL CRITIC AND pare favorably with the first pianos manufactured at that time. The quality
of tone, evenness of scale, combined with power and brilliancy, proves full
TRADE REVIEW.
Mr. N. Stetson, of Steinway & Sons, has gone South to remain a coupl well the knowledge of acoustics possessed by the maker of the new upright
and square pianos, which bid fair to gain a reputation in the musical world.
of months for his health.
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