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Music Trade Review

Issue: 1881 Vol. 4 N. 8

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May 20th 1881.
THE MUSICAL CRITIC AND TRADE REVIEW.
-A.ISTID E X P O R T
VOL. IV.
127
TRADE.
No. 8.
NEW YORK, MAY 20TH, 1881.
which attempts to prevent men outside of its ranks from learning a business,
or resists the introduction of labor saving machinery into factories, where its
HE following program has been circulated in Boston :
j members are employed, can be permanently successful in a free country ;
Grand concert by eminent artists, assisted by the Miller Grand. Herr nor can such an organization succeed when it departs from its legitimate ob-
Richard Wagner will conduct the Miller Grand.
ject, which should be resistance to organized effort on the part of the manu-
The Miller Grand has been re-vaccinated and will be accompanied by facturers to unjustly reduce wages, to dictate to the manufacturers what
T. P. Ryder, the only person at present who has perfect control over it.
methods they shall employ in conducting their business. If the organiza-
The' piano used at this concert is from the celebrated house of J. P. tion thinks it has brains enough to carry on the piano business, why, instead
Hale, of New York.
of taxing its members to uphold ill-advised strikes, does it not devote itself
to the accumulation of sufficient funds and undertake the manufacture of
PROGRAM.
pianos on its own account ? It would probably come to understand after a
PART I.
short experience in that direction, that something more is required to carry
1. Miller Grand Quintette
0. D. BLAKE. on a manufacturing business than a full purse, combined with main strength
DB. FRANZ LISZT at the Piano.
and stupidity.
2. " Mazeppa,"
C. A. WHITE.
aside, the trade union has demonstrated its incapacity to under-
1
Two horse act by MR. and MRS. SHERWOOD, assisted by the Miller Grand. stand Jesting
the situation, and we do not see that any great harm will result to the
3. Violin solo on a fine tooth comb
BEETHOVEW. workmen from its dissolution. In ordinary cases where there is a combina-
HERB JOACHIM.
tion among the manufacturers, the workmen need a combination also for
By request of Mr. Joachim, the Hale Piano will be use in this number. self-protection, but at present there is no combination among the manufac-
4. " The Maiden's Prayer,"
BLIND TOM. turers, nor is there likely to be one in the future, as far as we can see.
ERNEST PBRABO.
Whether the result of this last strike be a break up of the union or not, we
This number will be omitted, as for some unexplained reason, Mr. think the piano trade has seen its last strike, for this year, at any rate.
Perabo declines to appear.
Intermission of one hour. To allow the Miller Grand to be taken to
the factory for repairs.
A PROPOSED BOSTON CONCERT.
T
TRADE
PART rr.
5. Song, " Have you Heard the Wobblings of the Miller Grand."
ADEIilNA PATTI.
Chorus by the entire Miller family.
6. Soap Grease Polka
Dedicated to H. F. Miller, Jr.
SAINT-SAENS.
HERR VON BULOW, assisted by the Miller Grand.
7. Grand Trio
BACH.
Orchestration by Berlioz, for two Organetts and Brass Drum. For the left
hand alone,
HERB CABLYLE PETERSILEA.
One minute will be allowed Mr. Miller to tell ALL he knows about pianos.
8. Finale. Grand Tableaux.
The curtain rises. The entire Miller Family are seen in the distance,
surrounded by Bengal lights, blue fire, rockets, etc., etc., and posed upon a
pedestal composed entirely of Piano materials, each member of the Family
holding in his hands an elephant's tusk of large dimensions, each tusk sup-
posed to be worth $1,000,000.
r
GABLER'S VICTORY OVER THE TRADE UNION.
I ''HE strike of the piano makers emnlovprl in TYiv v ruio >
PBISiliii
bers of the trade union durmg the earlier part of thf s 5 e
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We understand that this charge against M r G a b l e d f c n a i -
in fact, the arrests for disorderly conduct on the ™rt!S'th ?°'"""Ration,
been made by the police without any specMIrequesUrornMr C«hT' "!,"«
» part of their usual duty in supposing ^ Z o r d e r t v condtf' S tnt 6
particular case, wherein a charee was mado ft™ « , / ? u ° 1 • a0tory
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charge was not made by 7 Mr. GrtlerZnSelf tat h
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whom the strikers were threatening
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up^esent^
f
Ln or at any rate leadjo a d J ^ ' t o t t g i S t e ? * ^ ^ , t 0 ' f , ^ aTtt
head of the trade union h,.ve shown very little capacity to Tnde?stand Jhe
proper aims of a legitimate organization of this kind, nor h a v X ? r method
been of a nature to be ultimately successful. No organizationothSsort
CHAT.
Among the objects at the approaching Milan Exhibition will be a collec-
tion of models, moulds, and other objects formerly belonging to Stradi-
varius.
The twenty-third annual report of the Chamber of Commerce has beeu
issued by Mr. Geo. Wilson, the Secretary of the Chamber. In the annual
review of the condition of business the report says among other things:
" Of the total foreign trade, imports and exports (with foreign exports,
•$19,487,331, added), amounting to $1,613,770,633, for the year ending June
30, 1880, against $1,202,708,609, New York received $944,229,124, against
$665,342,293 the previous year, or 58^ per cent. The total New York trade,
imports and exports of merchandise and precious metals, amounted in 1880
to the sum of $964,579,875 against $795,235,732 in 1879, an increase of $169,-
344,143. The year 1880 will be ever memorable as that in which the foreign
trade of the commercial metropolis of the country reached the sum of nearly
one thousand millions of dollars.
" In the last report the extent of the balance of trade, or the excess of
the aggregate value of exports over imports for the two calendar years 1878
and 1879, was shown to be
$556,757,105
Add to this the balance for 1880, viz.:
Exports of merchandise
$889,680,149
Less imports merchandise
696,805,867—192,874,282
Balance of trade in favor of the United States for the three
years ending December 31, 1880
:
$749,631,387
When we compare the condition of the country after the collapse of
1873, stripped of its coin and distrustful of even its own destinies, with its
present almost plethoric prosperity, the change in less than a decade defies
comprehension. Yet this immense movement seems to be but the harbinger
of an advance yet more rapid and startling. Already the present season
there is a certainty that a half million of people will land upon our shores,
bringing to us their energies, their skill and their hopes. How long this
flood will continue, where or when it will be stayed, no eye can forsee. On
this vast continent there is room for all, and the basin of the Mississippi
alone has the capacity to hold and supply the entire population of Europe
better than it has been fed hitherto."
Francis W. Robertson bought a piano last January at the warerooms of
Albert Weber, at Fifth avenue and Sixteenth street, for $350, agreeing to
make two payments at sixty and ninety days. He gave as a reference Cudney
& Co., dealers in chandeliers and lamps, at No. 765 Broadway. The piano
was delivered at No. 107 Magnolia street, Brooklyn. Robertson did not pay
and it was found at No. 107 Magnolia street that the piano had been re-
moved. Mr. Weber engaged Detective Fuller to search for Robertson.
On the afternoon of the 10th instant, Robertson was found in Chatham
square by a detective and a man connected with a chair company. Robert-
son promised to pay the bill if he could only get up town. At Thirteenth
street and University place he went into a saloon and in the absence of the
detective ran into the street. His creditor followed and caught him at
Twelfth street and Fifth avenue. By appealing to the crowd for protection
on the ground that he was being kidnapped Robertson managed to get away.
He ran to Sixth avenue and Thirteenth street, where he was caught again,
this time by Detective Fuller. The crowd which gathered filled the street
and stopped the horse-cars. Robertson resisted, and the crowd sympathized
with him. A big Irishman, however, who had been told that Robertson was
a swindler, offered to assist Fuller and stood by him until Officer Carpenter
arrived. When Robertson was taken to the Jefferson Market Police Court
yesterday, representatives of the firms he had swindled made complaints
against him. He was remanded. It is expected that other arrests will be
made.
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MUSICAL
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REVIEW.
128 Music Trade Review THE
Mrs. Ursula Schneider, 56 years of age, while insane, committed suicide that in spite of this large space, there is very little room to spare.
on the afternoon of the 13 inst., by jumping out of a third story window of firm is having great success with the mechanical musical instruments of the-
her residence, No. 106 East Third street. Her husband is at present an in- American Automatic Organ Co., for which they are the general agents. The-
mate of the lunatic asylum on Ward's Island. He was a prosperous piano- manufacture of perforated paper sheets for automatic musical instruments,
key manufacturer ten years ago, and had a factory in Spring street.
of nearly all kinds, is becoming an important feature of their business.
In consequence of the embarrassed condition of the affairs of Messrs.
It appears from Dun, Barlow & Co's. circular lately issued, that the failures
for the first three months of this year were nearly double what they were Thomas Bros., of Catskill, N. Y., the agencies which they have heretofore
for the corresponding period last year. The local trade is oppressed with held for the Standard Organ and the Chickering Piano have been withdrawn
enormous rents which, in the cases of new firms starting in retail business, from them. The agency of the Standard Organ for their section has been
eat up their capital before their business has become large enough to stand transferred to Messrs. Vinton Bros., of this city.
such a tax. Summer is almost here and the people who have much money
The agency of the Steinway & Son's Piano in Cleveland, Ohio, was
to spend are leaving the city. It will be a hard struggle for the smail
tradesmen to pay their rents from June to October and there will probably be ;ransferred last week from Mr. J. T. Wamelink to Messrs. S. Brainard's
Sons.
another crop of failures.
S. Brainard's Sons, the enterprising music publishers of Cleve-
A meeting of the World's Fair executive committee, which was appointed and, Messrs.
Ohio,
have been blessed with such an increase of business, that
for May 11th, did not take place, although that was the regular day. Mr. although their
store was large, it did not offer them sufficient accomo-
W. A. Cole of the committee, said the committee had no information for the dations. They old
have,
therefore, recently occupied a new building, having a
public, and declined to answer the question whether any overtures had been front of thirty feet and
a depth of eighty feet. It has four stories and a.
received from the persons in Boston who desire to have the World's Fair held basement.
there.
The New England manufacturers' and mechanics' Boston exhibition will
Mr. T. Leeds Waters, of 14 East Fourteenth street, this city, is paying
on the 15th of next August. Manufacturers throughout the country
special attention to his retail trade, which is large and rapidly increasing. open
invited to send their goods. There will be no charges for space or
We saw at his establishment, recently, one of the reed organs which he had are
lately put on the market, it has a powerful rich tone and the case is massive power.
Messrs. Sanders & Stayman, of Baltimore, have recently taken the agency
and beautiful. I t is an instrument which would be a handsome ornament
for Decker Bros, piano, in connection with the Weber and the Fischer pianos,
in the parlor of any family.
Theodore Meinhold, of Klingenthal, Bavaria, has patented an harmonica. and the Estey organ.
Great is the rivalry between Sylvester Tower, of Cambridgeport, Mass. r
No. of Patent 240,835. Application filed Feb. 14, 1881.
The competition between D. F. Beatty and Marchal & Smith in the and Wessell, Nichol, and Gross, of this city, in the matter of piano actions.
The types blundered in our last issue, and made us state that Mr. John-
number of organ stops which they advertise their organs to contain is
something fearful. Marchal & Smith advertised an organ with 24 stops, and son, of the New Haven Organ Co., had been securing orders out West for a.
Beatty at once goes them three better and advertises one with 27. We rival organ house in Boston. The mistake, however, was so palpable, even
expect to see Marchal & Smith go at least 5 better than this in their next to the most careless reader, that we suppose it is hardly necessary to apolo-
advertisement, and as stops are cheap there is no telling when the two com- gize for it. The New Haven Organ Co. is pushing. ahead lately with great
vigor.
petitors will stop stopping.
Mr. F. Winslow Bailey, of the Bay State Organ Co., Boston, Mass., waa
Mr. Wm. McCammon, the eminent piano manufacturer of Albany, was
in town during festival week. He had no complaints to make concerning in town about a week ago. He was about to start for the North-West, and
said that he expected a large trade in that section up to the 1st of July.
business, but said it was hard for him to get workmen in Albany.
Purchasers of " Standard Organs" regret that there is one great de-
The general public, if one may judge from the number of advertise-
ments lately appearing in the daily papers, have an exalted idea of the ficiency in those instruments. They should be furnished with the photog-
profits to be realized in the piano business. We notice in a recent issue of raph of Mr. Jarvis Peloubet, so that people might become acquainted with
the features of the man who is distinguished in the trade for his immense
the JV, Y. Herald an advertisement, which reads as follows :
business sagacity, and the sweetness of his temper under trying circum-
PARTNER WANTED WITH $6,000 IN A FIRST
stances.
class piano business ; will pay 100 per cent, and
bear strictest investigation.
EXPORTS AND IMPORTS.
This advertiser is either a fraud, or an ignoramus, as is proven by
POKT OP NEW YOKK.
his statement that $6,000 invested in a piano business will pay 100 per cent.
Week ending, May 10th, 1881.
There was a time when the profits realized in the piano business in this
country were very large in proportion to the capital employed ; but the
Exports.
same can be said of nearly every other business. At present there is severe Hamburg, 3 pianos,
Havre, 1 piano,
competition in piano making and selling which reduces profits to a mini- Bremen, 29 organs,
1,655
mum, and anyone embarking in the business with as small a sum as $6,000, Liverpool, 37 organs,
2,072
Total,
would probably find at the end of a year that the 100 per cent was on the Liverpool, 7 pianos,
2,100
wrong side of the profit and loss account.
Imports.
A great novelty in musical instruments, the Rock Harmonicon, has
been exhibited and performed upon by Mr. Daniel Till and two sons with Musical, etc., 63,
Week ending May 18.
much success at the Crystal Palace, London, during the past month. The
Exports.
instrument is formed of stones found on Skiddaw, Scotland, and has a com-
pass of five octaves. The stones vary from six inches to four feet in length, Liverpool, 1 organette, .
$4,750
. $150 London, 19 organs,
and are placed upon bands of straw. The musical sound obtained is partic- Hamburg, 8 organs, . •
1,840
574 Glasgow, 8 organs,
ulary rich and melodious, some of the larger stones indeed emitting a Hamburg, 1 piano,
120
350 Brit. N. America, 1 piano,
. .
volume of sound equal to that of a deep-toned bell. The most effective Hamburg, 4 cases pianos,
. 93
665 Brit. W. Indies, 1 organ,
piece in the repertoire is undoubtedly Handel's "Harmonious Blacksmith," Hull, 7 organs,
450
320 Hayti, 1 piano
with variations.
China, 1 organ,
250 U. S. Colombia, mus'l instru'ts, 190
6L
Messrs. Horace Waters & Co., of this city, have lately much improved Mexico, 1 organ
Total,
380
$n,27a
their place of business by changing the location of their office from the center Mexico, 1 piano,
1,080
to the rear of the store, thereby makiDg a better show room for pianos and Stittin, 2 pianos
organs. We understand that business is so good with this firm that it will
Imports.
not be necessary for the senior partner to devote as much attention to camp Musical Instruments, etc., 193 packages,
$22,229-
meetings this summer as he has done in former years.
POKT OF BOSTON.
It may be considered by parties who purchase pipe organs the proper
Week ending May 6, 1881.
thing to get a written estimate from one manufacturer, for the purpose of
Exports.
exhibiting it to another with the object of thereby reducing the latter's price;
but it seems to us very much like a breach of confidence which no business England, organs, . . .
$350
2,721 Nova Scotia, etc., piano,
man who valued his reputation would be guilty of. Nevertheless, we know England, organettes, . . . 1,650
of several such cases ot late in this city and Boston.
Total,
14,871
Scotland, organs,
150
The energy which Weak-Minded Tom's Art Jabberer displays in procur-
Imports.
ing information regarding the ancient history of the music trade in this city, England, musical instruments,
is remarkable. We find in its last weakly number, that of May 14th, the
Week ending May 15, 1881.
following statement: " T h e McTammany Orguinette is now ready for
Exports.
introduction by dealers. The inventor having succeeded in making all
arrangements for turning them out extensively. Stratton & Co., of New England, organs, . . . .
$3,303 Nova Scotia, etc., organs,
York, have taken the general agency, and find these mechanical musical England, organettes, . . . 1,650
instruments give satisfaction in all respects." This will no doubt be news Nova Scotia, etc., pianos, .
Total, . . . $5,73a
585
to Mr. McTammany who was selling these instruments quite extensively in
Imports.
January last, and as Messrs. Stratton & Co. ceased to be agents for the sale
of the McTammany instrument some time in March, it will be specially in- England, miscellaneous musical instruments,
$173-
teresting to them to learn that they have taken the general agency for these
POET OF BALTIMORE.
instruments and find that they give satisfaction in all respects. We expect
Imports of Musical Instruments April 14 to 30 inclusive.
to see in some future number of the A. J. that Steinway & Sons have started
the manufacture of pianos, or that J. Estey & Co. contemplate going into the Direct Entry,
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organ business.
Transportation,
306
Messrs. J. F. Stratton & Co. are becoming settled in their new store, at
Total,
$1,211
No. 49 Maiden Lane, which they moved into last month. The new store is
From May 2 to 14 inclusiv .
very commodious, comprising three floors and basement ; each floor being
139 feet long by 25 feet wide. Yet such is the magnitude of their business, Direct Entry,
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