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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.