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THE MUSICAL CRITIC AND TRADE R E V I E W . - S u p p l e m e n t . February 2 oth, 1882.
manufacturers were 'unable to fill orders if they bv water not long since. There was a fire on the
did as a piano man did lately with him—told him floor above them, but they escaped damage from
that his firm were unable to supply their custom- that cause.
ers, and ten minutes afterward offered to send him
THE LORING it BLAKE FIRE.
ANCIENT MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS.
several instruments on consignment.
N learning of the fire a representative of THE Messrs. Taylor & Farley, the organ manufactur-
UNIQUE musical entertainment was given
Mr. Mclntyre
MUSICAL CKITIO & TRADE REVIEW immediately ers, are doing a fine business.
recently at the Royal Conservatory of Music
visited Worcester. He found Mr. James B. Wood- thinks that the small-pox scare in the West has at Brussels. This conservatory contains in its
ford, secretary and manager of the company, and had a somewhat depressing influence on trade, museum the most complete collection of ancient
Mr. Currier, of the firm of Whitney & Currier, of but not enough to severely affect it. The orders instruments in Europe. At the concert clavecins,
Toledo, Ohio, which firm is largely interested in upon this company are three or four weeks in pinettes, and virginales, portable organs and
the Loring & Blake Organ Company. Mr. Cur- advance of their capacity to produce, and have regal organs, violins di gamba, cornets, cromor-
rier was obliged to leave T©ledo hastily, although been so for the past year.
nas, and flute douces were used.
he was preparing to celebrate the opening of his Mr. E. P. Carpenter's private office contains
The charming programme introduced all of
new store in that city.
the handsome organ, with pipe-top, which he ex- these instruments, and nothing could be more
hibited
this
fall
in
Atlanta.
Carpenter
received
a
The organ company were way behind orders
unique than the arrangement. There was first
when the fire occurred. They were working up a fine award in Atlanta, and is justly proud of it.
sung a psalm of 1544, melody by Bourgeois, words
Mr. L. C. Clark, who used to manufacture by Marot, accompanied by regal organ of the six-
large stock which they had on hand, and received
one hundred orders the day after the fire. The organs in Worcester, is at it again. For the last teenth century, so called from the first specimen
principal damage done to stock was by water, year and a half he has been superintending the being offered to a King.
which soaked everything from roof to cellar. The manufacture of cabinettos for Mr. Hammond, but
This came from the Valley of Freuenfeld, in
company was very fortunate in saving their large has at last gone back to work for himself.
Switzerland. It was a small instrument, the or-
Messrs. Witherby, Rugg & Richardson, who ganist and blower sitting at opposite sides of it in
stock of valuable machinery. It was well wet; but
the day after the fire it was thoroughly oiled, so build as fine wood-working machinery as any in full view of each other. Transcriptions from
the country, and in many respects surpass their "Acante et Cephise," by Rameau (1751), were
that it escaped without serious damage.
The company has taken two floors in a vacant competitors, have been supplying a good many played upon four flutes, soprano, alto, tenor, and
bnilding opposite their factory, and they expect new machines to the piano and organ trades. bass.
to work on the lower floor of their own building They have a large business in these trades, and
These flutes were very popular in the sixteenth
at an early date. It is probable that they will deserve it.
and seventeenth centuries; even the ladies played
Mr. Munroe, of the Munroe Organ Reed Com- upon them. The only variety now in use is the
have organs ready for shipment by the middle of
March. They have a large stock of lumber in pany, was out of town when our reporter called, flageolet. The viola di gambo, an instrument of
but Messrs. Charles Fisher and Martin Barre were six strings, accompanied by a clavecin, with two
their yards which was uninjured.
The Loring & Blake Organ Company's agents in, and they entertained THE MUSICAL CRITIC AND banks of keys, of the seventeenth century, exe-
throughout the country haev signified their inten- TRADE REVIEW representative delightfully, as they cuted an aria by J. S. Bach, of the sixteenth cen-
tion of waiting for their goods, if it takes until always do. This concern is extending its busi- tury, and a minuet by Boccherini.
ness in many directions.
next summer.
The family of violas is complete from the six-
teenth century. They have a greater number of
THE GAZETTE.
GIVEN THE COLD SHOULDER.
strings than the violin, that replaced these instru-
The stock of J. B. O'Connor & Co., of San Fran- ments in the eighteenth century. The sound of
rj^HE Fr
d states, in one of the late issues of
X his paper, that he has been received with cisco, music dealers, has been attached to satisfy a this instrument as played had something uncom-
monly sweet and original.
open arms, so to say, on his return to the fields of judgment for $1,100.
Four cromornas, the rarest instruments that the
his former exploits. An incident which happened
G. Robert Martin, of this city, dealer in musical
in the office of a prominent organ manufacturer is instruments, has had a judgment for $1,205 en- Conservatory possesses, date from the end of the
sixteenth century, and belonged to Alphonse
only one of the kind that indicate how he is re- tered against him.
Duke of Ferrara. These instruments ex-
ceived.
J. R. Clements, a piano dealer of Manitoba, has d'Este,
isted complete from the fifteenth century. They
He visited this firm for the purpose of getting sold out to Brydon & Mclntosh.
gave among other pieces au air made at the siege
an advertisement, for (although he pretends to be
of Hanover, in 1692, by Hatteterre.
an aesthetic young man) he still will take a run
Mrs. Bertha Fitch, of Fentonville, Mich., is the Following each instrument as specified in the
north to get advertisements. The organ manu-
facturer promptly told him that he would not, un- general agent in that place for the B. F. Baker Up- programme is a description taken from the cata-
logue of the museum. The clavecin brise accom-
der any circumstances, put an advertisement in right Piano Company of Boston.
Mr. N. Stetson, of Steinway's, has gone to panied two songs of J. Lefevre (1631). The
his (the Fr
d's) paper. He then turned around
and resumed his duties at his desk, telling the Florida. The last few weeks of winter at the catalogue of the museum also shows that this
North are rather severe for him.
clavecin is an invention of the celebrated manu-
Fr
d that he was very busy.
Mr. Currier, of Mason & Hamlin's establish- facturer, Marius, who made it about 1707, in box
Four witnesses were present when this recep-
tion by the trade was given to the Fr
d. This ment in New York city, was to have left for Eng- form, to facilitate its transport in traveling, whence
comes the name clavecin du voyage, that this cu-
is only one of the many receptions which have land last week.
been given to him. Times have changed, and no
First Piano-maker.—"Some man is trying to stir rious instrument also bears.
An interesting feature of this concert was the
one has discovered that with more certainty than up another row in the piano trade by howling
appearance of Mary Gemma, a wonderful child
the individual who has been trying to confess, and 'Bogus pianos! Stencilled pianos!'"
Her mother and father are English,
has not succeeded.
Second Piano-maker.—' 'Bogus pianos be hanged! artist.
Let the Fraud that cries that wait until his own but she was born in Italy, and is a prodigy of
WILCOX & WHITE ORGAN 00.
crooked transactions are forgotten. The time for musical talent.
She will soon be graduated from the class of M.
HE new addition to the organ factory of this stirring up advertising patronage on that cry has August
Dupunte, the first professor of piano mu-
company is about completed, and the work- gone by."
sic at the conservatory, and intends giving con-
men are now transferred to the new quarters. The
The new building of Messrs. Pratt, Reed & Co.,
afterward in Europe and America. This
old factory building is 200x40 feet, with an L lOOx manufacturers of ivory keys at Deep River, Conn., certs
child artist executed several charming selections
40. The new addition is a five-story building is about ready for work. It is four stories high, of
the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth centu-
106x40 feet.
with a brick tower ninety-five feet high. When ries on the clavecin in a brilliant manner.
The company has shipped 40 per cent, more or- Pratt, Reed & Co. are in full running order, the
gans in January, this year, than January, 1881, size of the heads of some other key makers, There were Christmas songs of the eighteenth
and up to February 14 they had shipped as many who have profited by P. R. & Co. 's fire, will be century sung by young girls, accompanied by
an organ of the epoch of Louis XIII., a sweet
organs as during the whole month of February, considerably diminished.
instrument, and a cornet of the sixteenth century.
1881. There are more orders coming in than can
Mr. W. W. Kimball, of Chicago, is said to be
It is said that Gliick is the last composer who
at present be filled. Mr. Wilcox has just started making about two hundred organs a month.
made use of the cornet in the orchestra in his
on a tour to California.
Newell, of Chicago, supplies him with reeds, "Orpheus," played the first time in 1769. The
and he gets his small work from the East. So W. Queen of the Belgians, accompanied by many no-
THROWING MONEY AWAY.
W. has actually gone to manufacturing! Luck to ble ladies and gentlemen, honored this delightful
FORT SCOTT, KAS. , February 8, 1882.
him!
entertainment, and personally congratulated the
Editor of THE MUSICAL CRITIC AND TRADE REVIEW :
Angelo Heilprin, of this city, has patented a artists, especially the poetic Gemma.—JV. Y. Times.
K.N0W of a number of persons who claim to music-leaf turner. Application filed August 16,
have sent Beatty money for organs several 1881. Number of patent, 253,043.
The Carri Bros. (Ferdinand and Hermann), for-
months ago, and they cannot get either organ or
merly residents of New York, gave a concert in
Otto
Spaethe,
of
Gera,
Germany,
has
patented
money. I have examined one of his 27-stop
January in Salle Pleyel, Paris.
organs, which has not quite two full five octave a meehanical musical instrument. Application
filed
June
21,
1881.
Number
of
patent,
252,977.
Four Sunday concerts took place in Paris on
sets of reeds. It is a clap-trap "thing" through-
January 15: Concerts Popnlaires, M. Pasdeloup;
out. This State has been flooded with his circu-
BOSTON TRADE NOTES.
Association Artistique, M. Ed. Colonne; Societe
lars. Hope you will "follow" him up.
Mr. T. Smith, of the Smith American Company, de Nouveaux Concerts, M. Lamoureaux; Societt*
Yours truly,
MARCY ORGAN CO.
informed our reporter that the only news he had de Grand Concerts, M. Ed. Broustet. Beethoven
to impart was that their branch house in Atlanta occupied four numbers; Mendelssohn, two; Han-
WORCESTER CHAT.
N a conversation with Mr. Leland, so well had taken the agency for the Chickering pianos in del, one; Haydn, one; Meyerbeer, two; Mozart,
one; Rossini, one; Gounod, one; Godard, three;
known all over this part of the country as a that place.
The fire at Doe & Hunnewelle's furniture fac- Bizet, one; Schumann, one; Liszt, one; Saint-
dealer in pianos, organs, sheet music, and small
musical instruments, that gentleman said, that tory, a few days ago, came very near burning out Saens, one; Dvorak, one; Rubinstein, one; De-
the piano renting business was excellent, but he two or three piano factories, for if they had started libes, one, and Richard Wagner two numbers.
wished that he could command New York prices— nothing could have saved them, situated as they
Mme. de Montcalm gave a piano recital in
$25 per quarter was the highest price they ever are, up alley-ways, where fire engines could not Steinway Hall on January 27. The programme
reached, and $10 to $15 per quarter was the aver- reach them.
comprised a Chopin nocturne, the Liszt arrange-
age. Business, Mr. Leland said, was in excellent
The B. F. Baker Upright Piano Company's fac- ment of "Rigoletto," a Weber rondo, and sing-
condition. He did not wonder that so many tory, on Harrison avenue, was slightly damaged ing by Mrs. Duncan and Miss Hall.
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