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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
THE H&LLEr & DAVIS CO. CONSTANTLY
GAINING NEW LAURELS.
many connoisseurs in the audience. Mr. Hyllested's
programme included a Bach prelude and fugue and a
bouree by the same great master. Chopin's Third
Ballade, nocturne, op. 48, the 'Fantasia,' op. 47, and
the 'Valse Brillante' in A flat; Liszt's 'La Ricordan-
za' and 'Polonaise'in E, and his own 'Variations
Serieuses.' The audience was most enthusiastic, and
was especially demonstrative at the conclusion of
Mr. Hyllested's phenomenally brilliant performance
of his own composition and the Liszt 'Polonaise.'"—
Chicago Evening Journal, Saturday April 9, 1887.
HEEE is probably no firm of piano manufactur-
ers in the country that is making more rapid
advancement than the Hallet & Davis Co. of
Boston. The dealers everywhere speak in the high-
est terms of the excellence of these instruments and
the readiness with which they are sold. Many of the
conservatories throughout the country use the Hal-
let & Davis grands exclusively, and the unsolicited
testimonials from some of our greatest artists are as
JOHN R. HENRICKS' NEW TEMPLE OF
strong as words can make them. We cannot give space
MUSIC.
to all of these testimonials, as it would require pub-
lishing an issue altogether too large to go through
ISING gracefully above its surroundings on
the mails. However, there are one or two recent let-
Wood street, "The Temple of Music"—No.
ters that have come to our notice that deserve recog-
4115—attests, within and without, to the taste
nition. The first, which we give below, is from Dr.
and
foresight
of Mr. John R. Henricks. This gentle-
E. Tourjee, Director of the New England Conserva
tory of Music, which is the largest in the country. It
is as follows:
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NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSTC.
FRANKLIN SQUARE,
THE
E. TOUBJEE, Director.
BOSTON, January 15, 1887.
HALLET & DAVIS CO. :
GENTLEMEN : Please send us fifty (50) more of your
upright pianos at your earliest convenience.
Having thoroughly tested your recent improve-
ments whereby the pressure is removed from the sound-
ing-board, the volume and purity of tone increased
and evenness in all the registers secured—let me
congratulate you upon the superior grade of your
instruments and add my testimony of its merits to
that of the many eminent artists who give it their
unqualified endorsement.
Yours truly,
E . TOTJRJBB,
Director.
Below we have a letter from the eminent voice
teacher, Big. Bioardo Banfl.
MANUFACTURERS OF
HIGHEST GRADE
PIANOS
-AJSTID
CLHVELAND, O., April y, 1887.
MR. B. S. BARRETT:
DEAR SIB : The Hallet & Davis grand and upright
pianos (new scale) have, on several occasions of late,
been brought to my notice, and especially at a recent
public concert where I was engaged as pianist and
PARLOR AND CHAPEL
used one of the HALLET & DAVIS LADIES' GRAND
PIANOS. I was so well pleased—I might say delight-
ed, with the instrument that I determined in my
mind to purchase that particular piano, which I did
a few days later, and am greatly pleased with my
choice.
The beauty of tone—pure, free, and sympathetic—
remarkable for sustaining (singing) quality, make
them eminently the desirable piano for voice culture and
accompaniment.
I must congratulate the Hallet & Davis Company,
and you, Mr. Barrett, as representative of, in many
Important respects, the finest piano in the market.
I am yours, dear sir,
Very respectfully,
R. BANPI.
Pupil of the Royal Conservatory, Milan, Italy.
Again we have the opinion of the Chicago Evening
Journal, at the successful debut of August Hyllested
before a Chicago audience.
"The Chicago debut of Mr. August Hylleste'd took
place on Thursday evening in the hall of Methodist
Church Block. There was a large and critical audi-
ence present. Mr. Hyllested's performance was such
as to entitle him to a position among the first of the
piano virtuosi who have visited this city. It is not
too much to say that his qualifications place him
upon a level with Von Bulow and Joseffy. His
power as a Beethoven player was illustrated in his
scholarly and intelligent reading of the massive "So-
nata Appassionata,' and in the adagio from the 'Sona-
ta Pathetique,' in which the lovely melody was de
veloped with a delightful singing quality of tone,
which is rarely achieved even by the most skillful of
pianists. His beauty of cantabile playing is a dis-
tinguished characteristic. A portion of this effect is
attributable to the beauty of tone in the Hallet &
Davis grand piano, which was the instrument furnish-
ed the artist. It is only just to accord a word of
praise to the superb qualities of this instrument,
whose beautiful, sympathetic tone quality and ready
response to the players's touch were obvious to the
Best of Workmanship and Quality of
Goods Guaranteed.
Correspondence Solicited.
ADDRESS,
A.+B.+CHASE+COMPANY,
19 Whittlesey Ave.,
NORWALK, OHIO.
admiration for its capital lighting, by day and night,
its depth (one hundred feet), and its height (fifteen
feet). The equally spacious floor above, reached by
a handsome stairway, is occupied by organs, and the
third floor is arranging with a special view for use as
music teachers' apartments, the intervening walls
being deadened to prevent all transmission of sound.
In this well appointed temple there stands a col-
lection of instruments fully in keeping with theirsur-
roundings, and that represents the best efforts of the
piano and organ builder.—Pittsburg, East End BuU
letin.
A SCHOOL OF FLOUNDERS.
T
HE piano trade went fishing Saturday, May 7th,
that Is, those composing the School of Flound-
ers did. The School of Flounders is an organi-
zation recently formed for the advancement of the
trade in the art of catching fish and other things in-
cidental thereto.
The School of Flounders is officered as follows :
Geo. W. Herbert, President; J. Burns Brown, Treas-
urer; Charles Parmlee, Secretary; A. Dumahult,
Steward; W. A. Kimberly, Bait-cutter. The object
of this organization is ostensibly to catch fish, and the
first raid on piscatorial waters was made on the date
above and at City Island. All were present, includ-
ing the officers above named and Mr. R. S. Howard
who, believing that the post of honor is the private
station, does not hold an office. Previous to the de-
parture an election was held with the above result.
The election passed off quietly and with little can-
vassing for offices save that of bait-cutter. Owing to
the earnest and indefatigable work of Mr. W. A. Kim-
berly the prize would undoubtedly have fallen to his
friend, Mr. A. Dumahuit, when at the last moment
that gentleman withdrew his name and in a neat
speech magnanimously turned his support over to his
friend Kimberly, and the latter to his surprise was
unanimously elected. Mr. Kimberly acknowledged
the compliment paid him with tears in his eyes, and
promised (?) to discharge the duties of his office to
the best of his ability.
The gang—we mean the "School"—left on the 7
o'clock A. M. train with a large quantity of fishing
tackle, sandwiches, Gold Seal, Blue Grass, Rye and
other products of the vegetable kingdom.
The day was a most inauspicious one for fishing,
being cold and wet, so much so that Mr. Dumahuit's
three carat diamond appeared larger and more brill-
iant in its ruby setting. The party arrived safely at
the fishing grounds and Steward Brown having done
his duty, and Bait-cutter Kimberly having hired a
boy to do his, the party proceeded to clean out Long
Island Sound of its superfluity of fish. The first fish
that was caught was a flounder and Mr. J. Burns
Brown was the lucky man. Congratulations follow-
ed and Mr. Brown opened the lunch basket; the next
fish fell to Mr. Dumahuit, whereupon Mr. D. invited
the club to take something; the next fish came to
the president, who generously "set 'em up." Mr.
Kimberly caught a big flounder and invited the boys
to drink, and so on, with ea)h fish caught came a
smile. About one hundred fish were caught with the
following results : when the party landed Mr. Parm-
lee, who had made the discovery that a flounder has
4 eyes, fell overboard when landing, or ratherstepped
overboard, for Mr. Parmlee explained afterward,
while he was drying his clothes, that he always got
out of a boat that way. Mr. Brown and Mr. Herbert
afterward, while on their way home, turned their
carriage over on its side. Mr. Brown explained this
by saying that as everybody rode in a carriage the
other way he wanted to be original and ride in it on
its side. He thinks the other way is the best now.
man has happily named his handsome place of busi-
ness, for it is a Temple excellently fitted for the pur-
pose for which It was erected, and for the advance-
ment of the Divine Art of Music. Each one of its
MORE ABOUT THE RICHEY PIANO COYER.
three spacious stories bears a burden of melody, em-
bodied in the best musical instruments—pianos and
LITTLETON, N. H., April 18, 1887.
organs—that the well known practical experience of
Mr. Henrieks could prompt him to assemble. His
MRS. SARAH E. RIOHEY :
ripe judgment, perfected through many years of
Chicago, 111.:
active participation in the business which he now
The
piano
covers
we have received from you are
conducts alone, enables him to place before the pub-
lic just such instruments as can be absolutely relied entirely satisfactory and they have only to be seen
to be appreciated.
upon in every respect. Of the "Temple of Music"it
Yours very respectfully,
self it need only be said that it is the business heart
C. A. GLOVER & Co.,
of the city, and that from ground floor to crest of
No. 29 Main St.,
roof it is a building specially adapted to the use to
Littleton, N. H.
which it is devoted. The main salesroom challenges