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Music Trade Review.
The Only Music Trade Paper in America, and the Organ of the Music Trade of this Country.
1879.
NEW YORK, JAN. 5 TO 20, 1887.
18.00 PER YEAR.
SINGLE COPIES. 15 CENTS.
forest of sweet olive trees, the rose-pink hedges of
tlio flower garden, all combine to add to the comfort
and air of truly Southern hospitality, ease and pros-
perity. Nothing that is new in architecture or more
fashionable can destroy the many advantages of a
finely built, handsomely appointed old plantation
EDITORS AND PROPRIETORS.
style of Southern house. Mr. Flanner has added to
his home a judicious distribution of bow windows;
at the sides of the house the dining room has a
All ClieckH, Drafts, Money Orders, Postal
"swell front," us the architects term tho=e rooms or
Notes and Mall matter should be
houses that are completely rounded on one side, and
made to
an immense sove in the rear of the hall heats the
whole house. At the right upon entering the hall, in
BILL & CARR,
which, by the way, is a charming piece of furniture
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EDITORS & PROPRIETORS.
long since known as a " settle," with one or two
quaint and comfortable leathern-covered seats mod-
eled after Egyptian designs, is a reception room, the
22 EAST 17th STREET, NEW YORE.
library, with a bow-window giving out on the lawn,
SUBSCRIPTION {Including postage) United States and Canada,
and a studio, in which the thoroughly artistic mis-
$3.00 per year, in advance; Foreign Conntriee, (4.00.
tress of this house does more than dabble at art.
ADTKBTISEMKNTS, $2.00 per inch, single column, per insertion;
These three, rooms are partially separated by por-
unless inserted upon rates made by special contract.
tieres, the reception room being a dainty and cheerful
Entered at the New York Post Office as Second Class Matter.
aparLment with pictures on easels and a number of
flue vases on the briok-a bac stands. The walls of
the liar.iry are lined with books. Mrs. Flanner fell
JOSEPH FLANNER'S RESIDENCE.
heir to the magnificent library of her distinguished
HE following article, which we take from the grandmother, the late Mrs. Anna Peyre Dinnies.
New Orleans Picayune, gives an excellent de- The collection of books crowded in their cases, the
scription of the residence of Mr. Flanner, tops of which do duty for the display of bronzes,
who oversees the piano department of the laige jugs, mugs and vases, has overflowed into the studio
with its easels and work tables, its half-finished pict
music house of Louis Grunewald :
If a stranger were given a picture of the residence ures and the one wide window whose deep frame
a'i'1 yrounds of Mr. Joseph Flanner, on St. Charles makes a forever satisfying landscape of the sunny
Avenue, he could hardly be brought to believe that yard with its moss-hung oak, its gabled stable and
such an extensive, well-woodsd, and country-like hundreds of pluming pigeons trailing after the little
estate could be maintained in the heart of a big city. dark-eyed maiden who, as she feeds her pets, reminds
The place occupies almost a full square of ground, one of the beautiful picture and story of " Hilda and
has a splendid lawn, a number of cedar, oak, and Her Doves." The art of the paper hanger would
pecan trees; a flue poultry yard and slables, an appear to have expended itself in this large-roomed
orchard, play-ground and kitchen garden. Notwith- residence; the result is a series of apartments rich
standing the old-fashioned appearance of the im- and cheerful in color, each one distinct in design
mense house, with its long, wide hall through the from the others, and each with a pleasant individ-
centre, its double rows of rooms on either side, and uality of its own. In the library the oak and book-
its wide porches entirely crossing the front, the lined walls get their keynote of color from stained
Flanner place is by many regarded as one of the most windows of the how, and the copper-colored ceiling,
showy on the avenue. This is mainly due to the accentuated by the Japanese embossed leather
elaborate decoration of the grounds. There is an chairs and enticing low seats placed under the win-
infinite variety of •' Persian rugs," of colias scattered dows. The parlors occupy one entire half of the
over the grass, here and there the gleaming marble lower floor of the main body of the house. One of
draperies, of a wood nymph or Diana shows through the finest of Tiffany's bronzes, " Rebecca," stands in
the foliage; the rose garden is crammed with an un- the bow. Another bronze on its pedestal occupies a
usually large collection of the finer and rarer corner. This is " Sardanapalus." The rear wall of
varieties of roses, and one entire corner of the the parlors is covered by a mirror, repeating the
grounds is occupied by a grotto and fishpond. Behind graceful picture of elegant furniture, statuary and
the orchard is a stately row of ancient pecan trees, paintings with pleasant effect. In fact the deft in-
towering far up above all the surrounding magnolia troduction of mirrors gives a charmingly bright,
and oak trees, and forming a background for the dis- extensive appearance to a suite of parlors, actually of
play of the gray-gabled stables and low-roofed, large dimensions and graceful shape. Each article
rambling outhouses. Strangers, like the geese and of furniture in this apartment is in its way unique
the ducks, Ueeing South, to get away from the cold and original. The upholstery is in peacock blue and
weather, naturally view with infinite pleasure the crimson plush. The wood work mahogany; a curi-
charming spectacle of this particular Southern home. ously graceful chair is called the Troy chair, an arm
It manifestly fulfils all the North country imagina- chair is called the Queen Anne chair, while the sev-
tion of what a home in the South ought to be. The eral lounges and sofas have each their name and rep-
broad, deep galleried house, with its French win- resent some especial epoch in the history of household
dows, reaching fr .in ceiling to flojr; its Venetian art. The rich walls of this room, the fine ceiling
blinds flung wide open, the white sun streaming in and chasely carved white mantels of the finest quality
everywhere; the emerald velvet of the handsome of marble with their beautiful narrow shelves, the
yard, green and mossy from December to December, pictures everywhere, and where they are not the
the glossy leaved magnolia trees, the beautiful panels of French mirror, make this room a modej
spreading oaks, casting a cave-like shade, and still of quiet elegance and comfort and an example for
like a cave witli their stalactites of the Spanish moss; householde s who turn their rooms into bazaars for
the myriads of purple, brown and white pigeons sun- the exhibition of indiscriminately collected orna-
ning themselves un !er the gray gables, the miniature ments and curiosities.
T. F. KRAEHER & CO 'S ENTERPRISE.
VOL. X. No i r
PUBLISHED • TWICE • EACH • MONTH.
BILL & CARR,
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F. KRAEMER & CO., 103 East Fourteenth
street, New York, have bought all the rna-
• chinery and stock of the Purcell Patent
Piano Stool Co., in West Haven, Conn., and are now
fitting up a large factory in Steinway, L. I., for the
manufacture of the Purcell and the Kraemer patents
stool. They will also manufacture very cheap piano
stools, and will offer to the trade within a few weeks,
th«^ most complete line of piano stools and music
cabinets at lower prices than ever offered heretofore.
The above firm has also imported from Switzer-
land two large embroidery machines, and have
brought out some very tine and new designs in
square, upright end grand piano covers, and in
their own patented scarf with fronts, and other
scarfs.
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A LARGE SUM OF MONEY INVOLVED IN
THE DECISION.
HE Commissioner of Patents at Washington,
on December 24th, rendered a decision in the
important case of the Celluloid Manufacturing
Company, of Newark, N. J., v. The American Xylonite
Company, of Adams, Mass., which Is said to involve
millions of dollars. The latter company obtained
letters-patent for the manufacture of artificial ivory,
and had engaged extensively in the work, when the
Newark company set up a claim for the invention,
and immediately litigation ensued for the ownership
of the invention. This began in February, 1884, and
was concluded on the '24th ult. by a decision of the
Commissioner of Patents, who hold that the Newark
company had no right to the invention, and directs
the rejection of their application.
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THE "BRADBURY" PIANO.
LTHOUGH running his factories up to their
fulle-t capacity, Mr F. G. Smith, to use his
own words, cannot get ahead. The demand
for these instruments during the past year is unpre-
cedented, neither the space nor the number of work-
men being adequate to supply the demands of his
agents nor of his retail trade, which lias grown to
enormous proportions. A visit to his Brooklyn fac-
tory, corner Raymond and Willoughby street8, will
verify these statements. This immense factory
seems crowded with men and material and unfinished
pianos, but no finished ones, for us fast as they are
finished they are shipped. Mr. Smith, when asked
when he intended to open the Pittsburg branch, re-
plied, " Just as soon as I can get first-class workmen
enough to make stock to fill it with."
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CHANGE OF BEHNING'S AGENCY IN WASH-
INGTON, D. C.
NEW YORK, December 27th, 1886.
MESSKS JOHN F. ELLIS <& Co.,
Washington, D. C :
GENTLEMEN : Please take notice that we have con-
summated arrangements for a transfer on January
1st of our agency for territory thus far controlled by
you.
Thanking you for past favors, we remain,
Yours truly,
BKHNING & SON.
Koch in ami,