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Issue: 1882 Vol. 5 N. 15

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THE MUSICAL CRITIC AND TRADE REVIEW.
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the Christmas holidays. The answer came that
the organ would be shipped on receipt of cash
order. Sixty-five dollars was sent, but the organ
has not yet come to hand.
SUBSCRIBER.
KNOXVILLE, TENN., February 9.
Editor O/THE MUSICAL CKTTIC AND TRADE EEVIEW:
You are striking Beatty just now about the
place—"Lay on Macduff."
S He IR: right
deserves it all, and much more. I published
him as a "forger and fraud" several years ago.
He forged a certificate, or put my name to an
endorsement of his organs, and put it in his list
of testimonials without my knowledge or consent.
Had not even seen one of his organs at the time.
Yours truly,
W. B.
March 5th, 1882.
Messrs. Strauch Bros., the action manufacturers,
state that their business has outgrown the recently
completed additions to their factory, which were
described some time ago in THE MUSICAL CRITIC
AND TRADE REVIEW, and that they are now nego-
tiating for the purchase of larger premises. The
percentage of orders for upright pianos has in-
creased more rapidly than ever, and more of these
actions are now made by them than ever before.
Messrs. Haines Bros., of Fifth avenue, New
York city, have transferred their Baltimore agency
to the well known firm of Sanders & Stay-
man, to whom they wish all orders for that city to
be sent.
CHRISTIE & CO.'S PIANOS.
A fire broke out on February 18 in the third
story of the Allen Block, on Main street, Pitts-
QUAKERTOWN, PA., February 23, 1882.
T
field, Mass., originating in the waste matter
I ^HERE was something like a strike at Behr and
rubbish. The building was not damaged Editor of THE MUSICAL CRITIC AND TRADE REVIEW:
JL Bros. & Co. a few weeks ago.
IR—Can you give us any information in regard
$500 by fire, but water and smoke caused
A "tuner" named Wagner had been working a over
to the Christie & Co. pianos, of West Thirty-
larger loss. The block was occupied
since Christmas. He had been acting in a former by much
sixth
street, New York? Are they legitimate man-
S.
E.
Nichols,
who
dealt
in
books,
mnsic,
strike in a manner that proved obnoxious to the stationery, &c. His stock was estimated at $12,- ufacturers?
Are their instruments worth handling;
Union (of which he is not a member).
that is, are they substantially made so that they
000,
which
was
mostly
ruined
by
water.
He
was
Kircher, another workman, was also objection-
for $6,000. of which $2,500 was in the stand in tune, and is their general workmanship
able to the Union, or rather the men working at insured
Yours, etc.,
S.
Queens, $1,000 in the Home, of New York, and good?
Behr Bros. & Co., and the autocratic institution $2,500
in the Liverpool and London and Globe.
[Messrs. Christie & Co. are certainly legitimate
decided to remove these men.
They succeeded in doing so, aa the firm consists Mr. S. T. Gordon, the piano and music dealer, manufacturers of pianos, but whether their pianos
of gentlemen who know all about the Union, and at No. 13 East Fourteenth street, is one of the are worth handling is a question we cannot deter-
it would have been useless to try to prevent their jurors in the trial of McGloin for the murder of mine unless we are informed whether our corre-
desires an instrument at a moderate
dictation at present.
the Frenchman, Louis Hanier, for the benefit of spondent
which a dealer can handle with profit and
When the committee of workmen informed the whose family a concert was given some time ago. price,
credit to himself. Such an instrument we have
firm that they would stop unless these two men Messrs. McEwen & Co., 9 W. Fourteenth street, always
supposed Christie were discharged, their statement was listened to, managers
the Sterling Organ, are making prep- ED. MUSICAL CRITIC AND TRADE REVIEW. |
aud by subsequent action on the parf of Behr arations to of give
a series of organ recitals at an
Bros. & Co., the two men were induced to leave, early day. The organ
to be used on these occa-
and the strike was then averted.
THE STERLING ORGAN CO.'S ENTERPRISE.
is to be the "Sterling," and some of the re-
It will not surprise us if the next step of the sions
nowned
organists
are
to
play.
r
Pianomakers' Union would consist of the appoint-
T^HE westward movement of the piano and or-
ment of a committee to superintend the books of
Messrs. Marchal & Smith, No. 8 East Eleventh J_ gan trade in this city continues rapidly and
the firms and manage the finances.
street, are at present located in uncomfortably steadily. The offices and warerooms of manufac-
small quarters for their business. Mr. Smith turers, agents, and dealers were gradually located
states that they are looking around for large and in Union Square and East Fourteenth street, from
C. C. BRIGGS Se CO., BOSTON, MASS.
commodious warerooms, and hope soon to be able Third avenue to Fifth avenue. However, lately
f"T^HE firm of C. C. Briggs & Co., manufacturers to remove.
the movement has gone beyond Fifth avenue, and
_1_ of pianos at No. 1125 Washington street,
is extending towards Sixth avenue.
Mr.
J.
H.
White,
of
the
Wilcox
&
White
Organ
Boston, is again in working order, and is turning
The pioneer in this movement is the Sterling
Company, Meriden, Conn., writes: "We received Organ
out instruments as rapidly as possible.
Company, which has established its New
The fire which destroyed and damaged their orders for ninety-two organs in one day last week, York offices and warerooms at No. 9 West Four-
stock, took place October 14, 1881. On the very and have just moved into our new addition to teenth street, under the management of Messrs.
next day the firm started work in Reid's Block, factory, and hope to keep somewhere near the E. H. McEwen & Co.
Harrison avenue, undaunted by the temporary demand for our goods, which as yet we have been
Mr. McEwen is a gentleman who has been con-
unable to do, and our traveling expenses are less nected
check which their business had sustained.
with the organ trade for many years, and
The fire broke out in a laundry in the basement, than one thousand dollars annually.
his experience and tact are a guarantee that the
and ascended through the elevator shaft, and was Mr. T. B. Johnnon, of the New Haven Organ new enterprise under his management will prove
burning fiercely before any effort could be made to Company, dropped into the office the other day, and successful.
check it.
With Mr. Blake at the head of the manufactur-
reported that they were putting new machinery in
Very few articles escaped destruction or damage the factory and were making additions to it. ing department at Derby, Conn., and Mr. McEwen
by fire and water. A representative of THE MU- Next summer they will build new boiler houses.
in charge 01 the New York office, there is no doubt
SICAL CRITIC AND TRADE REVIEW examined some
that the business of the Sterling Organ Company
of the damaged key-boards and cases, and all ap- Mr. J. E. Stone, of Stone & Sons, manufacturers will continue to increase in the future as it has in
pearance indicated that the fire must have spread of pianoforte legs, tops and cases, in Erving, Mass., the past.
was in town recently and paid us a visit.
with great rapidity.
Among the many effective styles which are ex-
On January 1 the repairs had progressed suf- Mr. J. F. Seely, the Patterson representative of hibited at No. 9 West Fourteenth street, is the or-
ficiently to permit Messrs. Briggs & Co. to remove F. A. North & Co., general agents for the Wilcox gan provided with a hell stop. This stop has for
to the factory again, and since that time the firm & White Organ Company, Meriden, Conn., paid some time been Uncle Rufe's especial hobby, and
has been very busy, and unable to accumulate us a visit recently.
he has succeeded in devising a chime of bells, with
stock, on account of their orders coming in con-
a
simple but quick action for striking them, that
A valuable violin has come into the possession makes
stantly.
a delightful effect. It is worth while to
We took a look at the factory, which has been of Mr Addison Peck, of Greenwich, Conn. It was pay a visit to No. 9, just to see the throng of deal-
improved since rebuilding, and which is more so old and worm eaten as to require delicate hand- ers who are constantly calling to examine Uncle
roomy and better lighted now than before. It ling in putting it into shape for use. On the in- Rufe's chimes.
occupies four floors, No. 1125 Washington street, side of the back was found a piece of parchment
00x90 feet. The finishing and regulating rooms which showed that it was made by "Ambrose
BURNED OUT.
are exceedingly well arranged. When everything Rugallic, Cremona, Italy, 1704." There was also
is in working order, Messrs. Briggs & Co. say in the tailpiece a silver plate bearing the name of TT^IRE broke out on the night of March 3, in the
they will turn out from twenty to twenty-five "Rev. Jamieson Preston, Lancashire, 1809."
J j second story of the piano-leg manufactory of
pianos per week.
William Tonk & Son are now receiving their Charles Meginnis, Nos. 510 and 512 West Twenty-
With their present facilities, and the branch stock for the spring, and recently received a large fourth street. The manufactory of Mr. Meginnis
factory in Reid's Block, they expect to be able to invoice of German accordeons and French goods. was entirely destroyed. In the factory, where the
supply a large trade.
The small "burn" which occurred in February— fire originated, William 'I hompson, a tool maker,
C. C. Briggs and Mr. Briggs. jr., attend to the cause unknown—is covered by insurance, and has and M. Abell, pattern maker, had bench room, and
all their tools, together with their manufactured
manufacturing department and home trade, while in no way interfered with their brisiness.
goods, were destroyed. The building was owned
Mr. C. E. Woodman, formerly many years with Geo.
Woods & Co., is traveling for the firm. He has John Jackson, of Clinton, Iowa, has patented by the Lawrence estate. The loss on stock in
been out West recently, and has established new a folding opera chair. Application filed October Meginnis's factory was about $6,000; on building,
$5,000; insured for $2,000.
25, 1881. Number of patent, 254,325.
business connections and agencies.
Mr. Woodman says that the C. C. Briggs piano Charles M. Crandall, of Montrose, Pa., assignor
is an instrument which is bound to be a success. to the C. M. Crandall Company, same place, has
NEW PUBLICATIONS.
His experiences, together with those of Mr. patented a child's carriage in combination with a
Briggs, enable these gentlemen to build and musical box. Application filed January 9, 1882
TH. SOHLER, MANNHEIM, GERMANY.
sell a piano which will have a ready sale wher- Number of patent, 254,429.
"Variations for the Piano. ' By Robt. Kahn. Price,
ever introduced.
John W. Hyatt, of Newark, N. J., assignor to the 75 cents.
Company (limited), Albany, N. Y., has "Nine Songs," Op. 2, Vol. I, Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4. By
We dropped in the other day to see Messrs. Bonsilate
patented
a
process for making key boards for mu- Robt. Kahn. Price, $1.25.
Dippell & Schmidt, the piano action manufactur- sical instruments.
Application filed May 2, 1881. "Nine Songs," Op. 2, Vol. II., Nos. 5, 6, 7, 8, 9.
ers, on Clinton street, and found them very busy. Number of patent, 254,438.
By Robt. Kahn. Price $1.50.
Mr. Dippel was too busy to say much, and we
were obliged to look at the work going on without We enjoyed a pleasant call the other day from
OLIVER DITSON & Co., BOSTON.
the society of eithor of the firm, as both were too Mr. Arthur Woodward, of Woodward & Brown,
'•The Male Voice Choir." ByL. O. Emerson.
piano manufacturers, Boston, Mass.
much occupied.
A STRIKE AVERTED.
S
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March 5th, 1882.
THE MUSICAL CRITIC AND TRADE REVIEW.
GONE TO THE LOGS.
MAN who was and is unpleasantly mixed up
in musical matters, suddenly fled from New
York city once upon a time, and went to the West.
Here his wife, who probably rebelled against the
wandering, shiftless life which she had been
obliged to lead for some years, quietly slipped
away from her husband one day, reached New
York, and started for own home in a foreign
country.
Not long after this the dilapidated husband
turned up in New York, and encountered an old
acquaintance. Then the following conversation
took place:
Old Acquaintance—So you're back again. And
how is your wife?
Dilapidated Husband—Hush! Don't mention her
name. She's gone to the dogs.
Old Acquaintance (Greatly astonished)—What!
Gone to the dogs! You don't mean it? Surely
it's not so bad as that.
Dilapidated Husband (With great dignity)—How
dare you, sir! What do you intend to imply?
You have misunderstood me. When I say she
has gone to the dogs, I mean that she has
left me.
Old Acquaintance (Indignant)—For Heaven's
sake, then, why don't you say what you mean?
Why don't you say, she has gone from the dogs.
There has been a coolness between these two
men since that day.
A
MONTREAL TRADE.
HPRADE in pianos and organs is imported brisk by
_L every house, and there are several here. In the
"good old times," when we had only two estab-
lishments, the "bc-ses" could sit in their offices
and wait for customers to come in, but now com-
petition is keen, and since the introduction of
house-to-house canvassing by Weber's agent, the
piano dealer's lot is not a happy one.
Still, they all seem to live and wear good
clothes. The rival agents of Weber and Decker
Brothers have ceased to fight, and it is to be hoped
they will remain qtiiet, for, although one always
appeared in the aggressive mood, and the other
delivered vigorous blows on the defensive, yet the
public got tired of it.
Canada is looking up as a field for the piano
trade, but the United States will have to look to
their laurels, as Canadian manufacturers are turn-
ing out work which compares very favorably with
theirs, and the present production and sale war-
rants the belief that in a short time no United
States pianos will enter Canada except those of
the great makers. The custom duties indeed work
in favor of the higher-priced article and against
cheap goods.
In Martin's—a new addition to the trade—I
found good instruments made by Mason & Bische,
of Toronto. In the New York piano rooms, the
home-made articles were by no means so good, but
the price was cheaper.
In De Zauche & Co.'s 1 saw different styles of
those made by Stevenson & Co., Kingston, and
those appeared to my judgment to be the best I
had seen made in the Dominion.
There cannot be less than seventy-five pianos
made every week in Canada, the actions of which
are imported from New York. It would pay some
enterprising action maker to come here and man-
ufacture for the trade.
The attempt is being made here for the ninth
or tenth time to introduce German pianos, but
although those offered—the Rosenkranz—are of
excellent tone and workmanship to-day, they are
sure to wilt in our preposterous climate, and a year
or two hence will have cracked voices and broken
constitutions.
* # *
[We believe our correspondent is wrong in
thinking that soon no United States pianos but
those of the great makers will enter Canada.
Cheap rattle-traps made here are now going
largely to Canada. Pianos with whitewood tops,
stained in imitation of rosewood, have been in great
demand there, and sell at pretty fair prices. Buf-
falo made pianos have, also, we understand, met
with a sale in Canada, on what grounds we are not
yet prepared to say. The United States, in spite
of high duties, will not readily lose this trade.—
on January 14, and she continued the business up
to the 11th inst., when the factory Wsu^imrned
down, involving a heavy loss, the insut^jjlrapbeing
about 040,000. The factory property cost $26,000,
and was mortgaged for $15,000, and $10,000 was
expended in machinery. A meeting of creditors
was held, when it appeared that the liabilities were
about $40,000.
A judgment for $390 has been entered against
John Meredith, of Clinton, Pa.
Henry Mertens, dealer in organs at Syracuse,
has made an assignment.
F. Denninger & Co., of this city, have had their
stock of piano cases attached.
Henry Mertins, of Syracuse, N. Y., manufac-
turer of organs, has made an assignment.
Spang & Mertins, manufacturers of organs at
Syracuse, N. Y., have dissolved partnership.
Henry Mertins continues.
E. H. Jenkins, of Findlay, O., music dealer, has
sold out.
Mr. Gray, piano dealer, of San Francisco, has
given a realty mortgage for $3,500.
Shedd & Sheldon, music dealers, of Jackson,
Michigan, have dissolved partnership. F. C.
Sheldon succeeds.
Joseph Baker & Co., dealers in musical instru-
ments at Mason City, Missouri, have sold out to
J. W. Angus.
Charlotte Diehl, a music dealer of this city, has
had a judgment for $269 entered against her.
George L. Walker, Philadelphia, piano dealer,
has had his stock attached by a New York party.
THE GAZETTE.
Total
Week ending February 25, 1882.
Exports.
U. S. Colombia, 1 Piano
Liverpool, 1 Piano
8 Organs
China, 1 Organette
Brazil, 1 Piano
Hamburg, 14 Organs
1 Piano
Bristol, 2 Organs
Hull, 2 Organs
British N. American Colonies, 1 Organ
Glasgow. 1 Piano
Hayti, 1 Piano
Total
''
"
"
To MY IDEAL FRIEND, J-
N.
MOTTO: "I'm a confidence young man,
Believe me if you cam."
Organettes
Organ Materials
Pianos
Total
Scotland, Organ
"
Organettes
RECITATIVE.
$20,768
$1,200
$100
200
$500
$ 500
500
444
49
300
926
240
75
165
60
900
350
$4,509
1 J covered the following poem. It does not
PORT OF BOSTON.
state whom the verses refer to, but it is probably
some one in the music trades, and we would es-
Week ending February 18, 1882.
teem it a favor if the subject that inspired our cor-
Imports.
respondent's muse would send us his name, in
England, Musical Instruments
order to establish his identity:
Exports.
1
SCENE FROM "PATIENCE.' 1
England, Organs
A TRAVESTY.
656
2,100
4,400
1,239
2,613
125
$14,225
Imports.
170 Miscellaneous Musical Instruments
Exports.
Hamburg, 900 Sounding Boards
Week ending February 25, 1882.
Exports.
London, 1 Case Piano Felt
Hamburg, 1 Case Piano Hardware
Total
Imports.
191 Miscellaneous Musical Instruments
Week ending March 4.
TO WHOM IT MAY EEPER.
Exports.
T OOKING into our letter box yesterday wedis- Hamburg, 15 Sounding Boards
Total
Sad is that man's lot who, year by year,
Sees, one by one, his creditors reappear,
Week ending February 25.
When people, weary grown of his long-drawn sighs,
Exports.
Audaciously laugh at the sand in his eyes;
England, Organs
Compelled at last, in life's uncertain roamings,
"
Organettes
To wreathe his massive brow with ill-saved " comb-
''
Organ Materials
ings;"
Britt
Poss.
in Australia, Organs
Reduced, with roots, lip-salve, and early gray,
To "make u p " for the last time as best he may!
Total
$17,921
$250
$1,438
$ 6,456
480
570
1,000
$8,506
100
202
$8,808
$4,950
4,960
345
2,625
$12,870
GRAND ARIA.
Silver is the raven hair,
PATENTS.
Leaving is the parting straight!
Mottled the complexion fair,
Halt! ere it is too, too late.
Hollow is his laughter free,
And distressed the scheming eye.
Little will be left of him
In the coming bye-and-bye!
Waning is the bulky waist,
Shapeless grows the shapely limb,
And, although they once had placed
Too much confidence in him—
Louder than he used to be,
Still more impudent grows he.
There'll not be much left of him
In the coming bye-and-bye.
(He shoulders his double baseness and disappears
left.)
Yours hopelessly,
REGINALD BUNTHORNE.
ED. MUSICAL CRITIC AND TRADE REVIEW.]
The music firm of Campbell & Shaw, Holyoke,
Mass., has been dissolved. Mr. A. C. Campbell
continues.
Mary Dielmann, manufacturer of piano-cases at
Nos. 547 to 559 West Twenty-first street, New York
city, made an assignment on February 21 to Isaac
J. Cole. Charles F. Dielmann, her husband, died
Hamburg, 12 Organs
Bremen, 15 Organs
London, 55 Organs
Liverpool, 16 Organs.
Erlt. Poss. in Africa, 32 Organs
Venezuela, 1 Piano
237
EXPORTS
AND IMPORTS.
PORT OF NEW YORK.
Week ending February 18, 1882.
Exports.
Hull, 2 Organs
.'
New Zealand, 1 Piano
British Australia, 2 Organs
Havre, 1 Piano
U. S. Colombia, 2 Pianos
"
6 Organs
$ 140
570
230
900
922
330
Edward E. Thresher, of Reed City, Mich., has
patented a musical chart. Application filed April
23 ; 1881. Number of patent, 253,562.
Jacob HesBler, of Chicago, 111., assignor to Wil-
liam W. Kim ball, same place, has patented a cabinet
organ lid. Application filed November 21, 1881.
Number of patent, 253,603.
Edwin J. Curley, of Ravenswood, 111., has pat-
ented a banjo. Application filed March 28, 1881.
Number of patent, 253,849.
Patrick J. Duggan, of Boston, Mass., has pat-
ented a mechanical orguinette. Application filed
August 22, 1881. Number of patent, 253,855.
Augustus Newell, of Chicago, 111., has patented
a reed organ. Application filed August 24, 1881.
Number of patent, 253,882.
Moritz Reiker, of Berlin, and Gustav Sander, of
Breslau, assignors to Oswald Dinse, Berlin, Ger-
many, have patented a pneumatics action for or-
gans. Application filed December 1, 1881. Num-
ber of patent, 254,046.
Mr. Geo. C. Hugg. of Philadelphia, Pa., has pat-
tented a valve for musical wind-instruments. Ap-
plication filed October 1, 1881. Number of pat-
ent, 254,136.
Paul Gmehlin, of New York city, has patented
a wrest-block bridge for pianos.
Application
filed September 14, 1881. Number of patent,
254,209.

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