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Issue: 1882 Vol. 5 N. 13

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February
5th, 1882.
THE MUSICAL CRITIC AND TRADE REVIEW.
VOL. Y.
NEW YOKK, FEBRUAEY 5TH, 1882.
The man who does not advertise has it
done tor him finally under the head oi
•'failures in business."
DIEECTOE7
OF THE
MUSICAL PROFESSION
AND
THE
MUSIC TRADES.
NEW YORK CITY.
VOCALISTS.
TIA-ISS LETITIA LOUISE FhlTCH, Soprano.
1V1.
Address, MUSICAL CBITIC AND TRADE REVIEW,
8< 4 Broadway, New York.
INSTRUMENTALISTS.
T OUIS BLUMENBERG, Solo Violoncello.
J_i
Address, MUSICAL Currifl AND TRADE REVIEW,
864 Broadway, New York.
MANAGERS.
T^OND & BACHERT, Concert and Lecture managers.
JT
Everett House.
New York.
IMPORTERS, ETC.
"TTTTLLIAM TONK & BRO., Manufacturers, Importers and
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Jobbers of Musical Merchandise.
47 Maiden Lane.
INSTRUCTION.
"fc/TUS. G. J. ALLEN, Pupil ot Madame Rudersdorf. Especially
JNLL authorize I by her to teach her celebrated method, is pre-
pared to resume lessons at her residence, 121E. Twenty third St.
TTOGT
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CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC,
No. 19 East 14 th Street,
New York City.
CHICAGO.
VOCAL TEACHERS.
TITR- C. H. BRITTAN, Teacher of the NaturalMethod of Vocal-
XVJ. ization. A method based upon the laws of nature in regard
to the proper use of the voice.
136 state St.
CAMBRIDGE PORT, MASS.
MANUFACTURERS
A P- KELLEY,
A>
Pianoforte ard Organ Actions,
PHILADELPHIA.
MANUFACTURERS.
A LBRKCHT & CO., manufacturers of Grand, Square and Up-
£ L right Pianos.
610 Arch Street.
fi
GAUTSCHI & CO., Musical Boxes. Factories at Ste.-Croix
\*t» and Geneva, Switzerland.
1020 Chestnut St.
XTTESER BROS.,
/"i EO. GEMUNPER.
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Manufacturers of Square and Upright Pianofortes,
553, 555 and 557 West 30th Street, New York. \JT Violins, Violas and Violoncellos made and repaired.
Highest premiums received at World Expositions.
XpMERSON PIANO CO., manufacturers of Grand, Square and
J l l Upright Pianos,
595 Washington Street.
"TTOSK & SONS, Manufacturers of Square and Upright Piano-
V fortes.
535 Washington Street.
A McPHAIL & CO., Square and Dpright Pianos. Two first
A.,
prize Silver and a Gold Medal 18sl.
630 Washington St.
PIANO AND ORGAN LEATHERS.
XTTHITE BROS. & SONS, Manufacturers and Dealers in Piano
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and Organ Leathers.
151 Summer St.
NEW HAVEN, CONN.
MANUFACTURERS.
TTOGGSON & PETTIS,
XI
Organ Stop Knobs and Stems,
14T to 163 Union Street.
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WORCESTER, MASS.
MANUFACTURERS.
/-* W. INGALLS & CO., Organ Reed Boards, Parker Tremolos
\JT' aad Octave Couplers,
25 Hermon Street.
T\
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G. KBTTELL.
Piano Punehings,
6 Linooln Square.
AGENTS AND DEALERS.
C1 R- LELAND & CO., Chickering. Knabe, Hallett, Davis &
O . Co., and Fischer Pianos; Peloubet & Co. ani Smith
American Organs, Sheet Music and Band Instruments.
PUBLICATIONS
NOTICE TO MUSIC PUBLISHERS.
We should be pleased to have music pub-
lishers all over the world send us their
publications tor review, and also lor cata-
loguing. Publishers will oblige us by giv-
ing careful attention to this notice.
par Theodore Moelling. Dedicated to Mrs. D. T. V.
Crandall. Price 75 cents.
"Sad Memories." Fantaisia for, the piano. By
Theodore Moelling. Price 50 cents.
C. D. EUSSELL, 126 TREMONT ST., BOSTON.
H. S. Perkins's compositions. "Ye Dinna Under-
stand." For mezzo soprano. Price 40 cents.
"Shall I Wear a White Rom." Words by H. S.
Clark. Music by E. B. Farmer. Price 40 cents.
Canti d Italia. "Florin del* Prato" (Flower of
the Field). Song for mezzo soprano. English
version by Gertrude Hall. Music by A. Rotoli.
Price 50 cents.
"Afterwards." Song for mezzo soprano. Words
by Gertrude Hall. Music by F. Paola Tosti.
"Magic Bells." For Piano. By William Cooper.
Price 50 cents.
DEALERS.
/"1HAS. BLASIUS & SONS.
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Stein way & Sons, Sohnier & Co., Behr Bros, ft Co. Pianos,
1119 Chestnut St.
A G. CLEMMER. Hallet, Davis & Co., Caienberg * Vaupel,
X^t
and Vose & Sons' Pianos, and George Woods and Star Par-
lor Organs.
8. W. Cor. 13th and Chestnut Sts.
T-VUTTON & SOX8. Chickering, Decker & Son, Hardman, and
xJ James and Holmstrom Pianos and Standard Organs.
1115 Chestnut St.
NOVELLO, EWER & Co., 1 W. BKRNERS ST., AND 80
TTTILLIAM G. FISCHER,
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Sole agent for Decker Bros.' and HainesBro«.' Pianos, and
AND 81 E. QUEEN ST., LONDON.
Mason & Hamlin and E. P. Carpenter Organs, 1210 Chestnut St.
"The Office of the Holy Communion" Set to music
PUBLISHERS.
in the key of G, by the Rev. Donald J. Mackey, B.A.
Cantab. Price 6d.
T EE & WALKER,
J_i
Musical Publishers and Sheet Music.
T H E CHICAGO MUSIC CO.
1113 Chestnut St.
BALTIMORE, MD.
MANUFAC1URER8.
DEALERS.
TTERMAN KOECHLING,
Xl
Pianoforte Legs,
QANDERS & STAYMAN, Weber, Decker Bros., and J. & C.
No. 105 Rivington Street.
O Fischer Pianos, and Estey Organs.
15 North Charles St.
•Q
M. WALTER-?, Piano Exrhange. Manufacturer Narvesen
XV>. Piauo. Pianos and Organs sold on Inutallments. 57 & 59
University Place, cor. Twelfth St.,
ASTORIA, L. I., N. Y.
MANUFACTURERS.
A UTOMATIC MUSICAL PAPER CO. Music Paper for Mechan-
J\. ical Musical Instruments.
227 to 233 Cambridge Street.
No. 13.
113 Broadway.
fi EO. W. SEAVERNS.
L E E & WALKER, 1113 CHBSTNUT ST.,{PHILADELPHIA.
VJT
Square, Grand and Upright Piano Actions,
"Nights of Music." Waltz Song. Words by
113 Broadway.
Thomas Moore. Music by Theodore Moelling.
TTTOOD BROS.,
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Pianoforte and Organ Actions, Ebony Sharps, Piano Leg Price 50 cents.
Pins, and Hardwood Dowels.
State St.
"Grand Valse de Concert." Compose pour piano
Wm. G. Vogt, (of the Berlin Conservatory) Director.
BOSTON, MASS.
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"Who Will Buy My Roses Red." Waltz Song
Poetry by Harry B. Smith.
Music by George
Schleiffarth. Price, for soprano and contralto, 60
cents.
"Through the Heather." Scotch song. By James
Gill. Price 35 cents.
"Elgin Bells." For the piano. By H. F. Hatch.
Price 40 cents.
THE PIANO SWINDLE.
TN the Essex Market Police Court on Saturday,
L January 28, Mrs. Mary Weiss, of No. 113
Brunswick street,* Jersey City, was arraigned be-
E S T A B L I S H E D 1850.
fore Justice Otterbourg on a charge of swindling
T. Leeds Waters, the piano manufacturer, by ob-
taining a piano from his establishment and giving
a bogus note for partial payment.
Mr. Waters' affidavit recites substantially that
New Haven, Conn.,
on the 23d of September last the prisoner came
Manu'acturer? of
his place of business and purchased a piano.
FIRST-CLASS ORGANS & UPRIGHT PIANOFORTES. into
She presented him Avith a promissory note for $165,
Gurke, and indorsed by her
A foreign exchange mentions receiving a written made by Hermann
A. Weiss.
copy of Progress, an embossed magazine for the husband,
Weiss said that Gurke's note was good, as
blind, with a sample of the embossed printing Mrs.
was erecting several buildings in East Sixteenth
used. The magazine was started in April last, he
street, and was a responsible man. Upon these
and has appeared monthly since then. It is pub- representations,
piano was delivered. Since
lished by the British and Foreign Blind Associ- then Mr. Waters the
that Gurke was a swind-
ation for Promoting the Education and Employ- ler, and had been learned
arrested for his fraudulent prac-
ment of the Blind, London, and is edited by Dr. tices.
T. E. Armitage, of that association. It is in the He obtained a warrent from Justice Otterbourg
Braille type, which is a character consisting of for Mrs. Weiss' arrest, believing her to be an ac-
raised points, now used very largely by the blind
of Gurke. In court the woman protested
in most civilized countries. The paper on which complice
that she had been forcibly kidnapped from Jersey
the magazine is printed is embossed on both sides and
dragged through the streets of Jersey City by
from stereotype plates prepared by the blind six men
against her will. The officers assured the
themselves, which method of printing has been Court that
woman agreed to come to New York
for some time adopted in all the works, musical as in order to the
avoid trouble.
well as literary, published by the association.— The woman's
husband explained that the note
Ex.
she presented was given to him by Gurke as part
Elmer Bush, of Mariners' Harbor, while return- of a commission due him for services he had ren-
ing home early Tuesday morning was stopped by dered Gurke in obtaining some real estate in East
a man who caught him by the throat. Bush car- Sixteenth street. The woman was held for exam-
ried a large accordeon, and with it he struck the ination in $2,000.
highwayman full in the face, knocking him down.
Bush walked on, and the highwayman got up and Malcolm Love & Co. are manufacturers of organs
ran.
at Waterloo, N. Y.
B. SHONINGER ORGAN CO.,
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THE MUSICAL CRITIC AND TRADE REVIEW.
February 5 th, 1882.
ad been grossly libelled by THE MUSICAL CRITIC
and then sending threatening
ommunications to our printers and to the Ameri-
OUT OF HIS OWN MOUTH HATH HE jan News Company.
We do not believe he derived much comfort
CONDEMNED HIMSELF.
rom our issue of January 20, which he thought he
JOHN C. F B
D SQUEALS AND CONFESSES THAT had suppressed, for he immediately withdrew from
the field of battle and sought "the seclusion which
THE Music TRADES WILL NOT DEAL
WITH H I M .
he sutler's tent grants," in the rear, and threw
he brunt of the fight on his man King.
King kept up the fight for about three days,
BRAVO, MUSIC TRADES!!!
skirmishing into our printers, and threatening
them with prosecution, and boasting in warerooms
They will not Wear Fr
d's Collar- that he would immediately proceed against us for TTAMMACHER & CO., of 209 Bowery, New
Will He stop Confessing: other Peo-
ibel on his own personal account. After about L J_ York, are preparing and will soon issue a
catalogue of piano hardware and material. It
ple's Misdeeds, and Con-
three days, however, he too retired, and in favor will consist of nearly 100 pages of descriptions and
fess His Own?
of—his wife.
rice lists, and contain over 200 cuts.
He claimed that he did not care for himself, but A very active competition is going on between
H E WEAKLY WAILS FOR AID FKOM H I S "BROTH- that he would not have his wife's name dragged he firms who sell rubber piano covers and those
ER" JOURNALISTS, AND ASKS THE " P U B -
into the mud. He said, we understand, that we selling cloth covers. We have heard something
LIC " TO SUPPORT H I M .
had libeled his wife, and that she would prosecute from various houses on the subject, but will, at the
earliest opportunity, make it an object of investi-
us for that crime.
gation.
Merciful Powers! Has it come to this, that
A LIBEL CASE THREATENED.
manufacturers cannot be too careful in
•hese two great hulking fellows should hide the Piano
selection of their plates. Great trouble ensues
behind a woman's petticoats ?
where a plate cracks. Expenses in repairing the
The Office Boy of Fr—d's Paper Threatens
We have the greatest respect and admiration nstrument are large, and the reputation of the
to Prosecute the Office Boy* of the
Musical Critic and Trade
for Madame Julia Rive-King, both as a woman pianos is injured.
Review.
and as an artist, and we are not at all likely to A committee of merchants has been organized in
Berlin for the purpose of arranging for an Inter-
speak of her except in the kindest manner.
Exposition of Musical Instruments, which
The Great King on the War-Path-Shielding Him-
But King may not wish to be alluded to at all national
will take place in Berlin in 1883.
self Behind Petticoats - A Fair of Reckless,
in this controversy. If so, he should have con-
Lewis Schormeyer is a dealer in pianos, organs,
Rollicking
Swashbucklers—The
sidered the point well before he allied himself and
musical publications and merchandise at Santa
Musical Critic and Trade
with a man like John C. Fr
d.
Fe, N.M .
Review Speaks Its
John C. Fr
d does not wish to be alluded to Wm. Rohlfing, of the firm of Wm. Rohlfing &
Mind Again.
either, if we may judge from his actions; but is it Co., Milwaukee, Wis., spent several weeks lately in
our fault that he has come back to a trade that he the East. Rohlfing HE MUSICAL CRITIC AND TRADE REVIEW still has outraged, and that he has put his head di- Sons, Knabe & Co., Behring & Hazleton pianos,
and Geo. Woods & Co. and Smith American or-
lives.
rectly under the axe?
ns. The firm is enterprising, and has built up
This will be welcome news to its many devoted What is the press for?
a large trade in the Northwest.
readers, who may have feared from the direful What is THE musicAL CRITIC AND TRADE RE-
John W. Trainer, of Fort Wayne, Ind., has pat-
threats of John C. Fr
d and his satellite, King, VIEW for, if not to to protect musicians and the ented
an organ bellows. Application filed Octo-
that they were about to sweep our paper off the music trades against just the sort of man that ber 25, 1881. Number of patent, 252,338.
face of the earth.
John C. Fr
d has shown himself to be?
Paul Gmehlin, of New York city, has patented
These be doughty men, my friends—when they
an upright piano action-frame. Application filed
VICTORY NO. 2.
have a weak-kneed manufacturer, or a defenceless Our second victory over this man was won August 16, 1881. Number of patent, 252,370.
musician to deal with—but, when they are called when in the third issue of his paper he was Eldridge J. Smith, of Washington, D. C, has
upon to stand up amid the roar of battle and meet obliged to admit that he could not look to the mu- patented an opera chair. Application filed June
a fully equipped foe, they much prefer the com- sic trades for support. Of course, he Btated the 5, 1880. Number of patent, 252,533.
parative quiet of the sutler's camp, a fe\r miles to case differently, and endeavored to make it appear William H. Ivers, of Dedham, Mass., assignor
to the Ivers and Pond Piano Company, of Massa-
the rear of the field of action.
that he would have nothing to do with the music chusetts, has patented a music rack for musical
VICTORY NO. 1.
instruments. Application filed October 29, 1881.
trades.
Our first victory was gained when we struck the He would go to the public alone, forsooth, and Number of patent, 252,587.
first blow.
the whole country would rise up and support him
BEHB BEOS. & 00. *
It was entirely unexpected by us. We had That was one of the most humorous bits of writ
HE following complimentary letter was re-
thought that there was enough bravado in these ing he ever indulged in. And after he aud his
cently received by Messrs. Behr Bros. men to make, at least, an apology for a fight, be- emissaries had been canvassing the music trade;
Co., manufacturers of upright pianos:
fore throwing up the sponge.
for advertising for several weeks.
BUFFALO, January 18, 1882.
But no. Hardly had THE MUSICAL CRITIC AND We trust we shall not be misunderstood in this Messrs. Behr Bros. <& Co.:
TRADB REVIEW opened its batteries when they matter. We do not wage war upon this man be
GENTLEMEN—We have carefully examined, and
squeaked piteously, and began to cry out for some cause we fear that his paper will be a formidabl take pleasure in expressing our unqualified ap-
proval of the cylinder-top upright pianos manu-
body to come and pull us off.
rival to THE MUSICAL CRITIC AND TRADE REVIEW factured by you.
It was a humiliating spectacle to see two over His appearance with a musical paper, and his The tone and mechanism are both excellent, and
grown men frightened out of their wits by one manner of conducting it, only strengthen our posi- these qualities, combined with the patent im-
provements introduced, make the cylinder-top
small man, when previously their lives had been tion.
upright pianos not only elegant, but very desirable
passed in blustering and bullying.
Nor do we wage war upon him from persona instruments.
Very truly yours,
As was stated in our last issue, January 20, jus motives. It is simply a question of principle
DENTON & COTTIER.
as we were going to press we had word from oui We look upon his return as a piece of unprece
printers, the Union Square Printing Company dented audacity, and we believe it would be mon
SOHMEP. & CO.
that they had received a letter from John C strous if it should go forth to the world that th
p
enterprising firm has secured the factory
Fr
d, threatening them, us, our wholesal music trades had given aid and encouragement to JL formerly occupied by Messrs. Needham &
agents, the American News Company; the United a man who had once maligned and defrauded Sons, Twenty-third street, between Third and Lex-
ington avenues. The building has seventy feet
States Post Office, the United States Secretary of them.
front, and 100 feet deep, and contains improved
State, and President Arthur, with prosecution fo
That is our position.
machinery. The warerooms will remain on Four-
criminal libel, if THE MUSICAL CRITIC AND TRADE On all sides we have been congratulated upon teenth street, near Third avenue.
REVIEW published a grosser libel upon the said our course. Even people whom we have regarded
John C. Fr
d than appeared in its preceding as inimical to us, have thanked us for the decide
. LOSS BY FIRE.
issue of January 5.
A NOTHER of the numerous piano key facto-
stand we have taken.
XX ries has been destroyed by fire. The factory
It is needless to say that all the parties impli
of Lange «fc Son, at No. 227 East Twenty-second
cated immediately wilted.
Mr. D. T. Peek, of Peek & Son, writes that th street, was burned February 2. The loss is esti-
Nevertheless, we brought out the paper, and firm
has submitted their letters patent to thei mated at $15,000, which is covered by insurance.
John C. Fr
d stood confessed a fool by his own lawyer in regard to the patent pedal guards pa- Lange & Son will not be able to make piano keys
for a long time to come.
act. He, the great swashbuckler, claiming that he tent.
VICTORY No. 2.
\.ND TRADE REVIEW,
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