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ME 9RGAN
VOL. XVI. No. 2.
published Every Saturday.
CHICAGO.
DEATH OF ANTONIO D'ANGUERA,
O N E O F T H E BEST KNOWN SALESMEN IN AMERICA.
A NEW PIANO—CHICKERING BROS.—THE MANU-
FACTURERS' CO.—DEALERS IN TOWN.
CHICAGO, I I I . , Aug.
15,
1892.
To the Editor of THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
Thousands of your readers in all parts of the
country will hear with unqualified regret that
Tony de Anguera died last Saturday. He had
been ailing, and I might say failing, for several
months but would not give up work until only a
short while ago. I have been told that he had
had consumption for a year or more, but so in-
sidious were its inroads that I question if he
recognized his condition and ultimate fate a
month before he died. He had reached the ma-
ture age of fifty-six years and six days, and
from early manhood had led an active business
career. He was born in Boston where his father,
Jose de Anguera, who was a native of Spain,
was a noted teacher of the harp. His mother
was a Southern lady of marked accomplish-
ments. Early in life de Anguera took naturally
to music both from its artistic and commercial
sides, and followed it at his own home for many
years. He has been identified with the Kim-
ball concern for over a score of years, and was
probably as well known East and West as any
man in the music trade. He leaves, I think, a
family of three—wife, daughter and son. The
daughter is cultivating her voice—a promising
mezzo soprano—under Madame Varesi. Alto-
gether it was a musical family.
The funeral was held to-day, and many of his
associates and friends saw him to his last rest-
ing place. The following well-known men in
the trade were the pall bearers : P. J. Healy, J.
W. Northrup, Henry Drummond, P. P. Gibbs,
G. S. Conover and S. H. Nichols.
Mr. P. J. Gildmeester, of your city, was here
recently conferring with his agents.
Messrs. Simmons and Buck of the concern of
Smith & Nixon, Louisville, and Mr. Farwell, of
Howard & Farwell, of St. Paul, were here, as
may well be imagined, on business, a few hours
ago.
To the unprejudiced it has long been apparent
that not all the piano makers lived east of the
Alleghanies. In fact, so many splendid instru-
ments of medium price have been made in the
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West of late years that many similar makers
East have had to redouble their efforts. Latterly
many, if not all, of our makers have been look-
ing to higher and nobler conquests, and the
time is rapidly approaching when, with the
brains, energy, capital and ingenuity of the
West, the most celebrated makers of the effete
East may well look to their laurels.
Mr. Clifford Chickering, now connected with
the Chickering-Chase Bros. Co., here, has re-
cently made a piano that has the plaudits of
more than one of the capable judges. He has
made three or four, each an improvement on the
other, until his last, which has been shown only
to a few friends, is voted a splendid achieve-
ment for a young man to do " all by himself.''
It is an upright finished in the highest style of
the expert mechanic's art, and to an uneducated
ear seems so perfect in tone quality as to leave
nothing to be desired, while the artists say of it,
as Artemus Ward did of Westminster Abbey,
" It's a success."
Mr. Chickering served a ten years' apprentice-
ship in Chickering & Sons' factory at Boston,
along with his brother, Frederick Chickering,
who is with the Manufacturers' Piano Company
^here, and both profited by all they saw and
'did,
The new piano bears the name of Chickering
Bros., and if they succeed further, as their first
venture gives augury of their doing, we are
likely to soon hear of a big venture in the al-
ready well-occupied field of piano making.
The Manufacturers' Piano Company held its
annual meeting last Thursday. Everything
was harmonious and the condition of affairs
voted satisfactory. Messrs. Weber, Wheelock
and Lawson of New York were present, along
with all the people interested in the concern in
Chicago. The election of officers seemed to be
a mere matter of form, as the same was re-
elected, thus : President, Charles C. Curtiss ;
Manager, A. M. Wright; Secretary and Treas,
urer, Louis Dederick; Directors, Charles C.
Curtiss, William E. Wheelock, William Foster-
John W. Mason and Charles B. Lawson.
The Knights Templar are just now returning
from the Conclave at Denver, many passing
through every day. Messrs. Rice and Macy, of
the Rice-Macy Company, went to the Conclave
and are still disporting themselves somewhere
in the Centennial State.
Mr. W. F. Bayless, of Columbus, Ohio, and
Al. Behning, of Behning & Sons, of New York,
were among the interested circulators among the
trade yesterday.
Mr. Charles H. MacDonald, the manager of
the " Popular Pease Pianos," is just back from
an agreeable trip East.
Mr. J. P. Byrne, the secretary of the Lyon &
Healy Company, is off for his annual vacation.
Mr. Carl Hoffman, of Leaven worth, Kansas,
who is a frequent visitor and buyer in Chicago,
was here to-day.
Yours, etc.,
J. A. FLEMING.
$3.00 PER YEAR.
SINGLE COPIES, 10 CENTS.
Individualities of tl?e piaip
Srade.
A STUDY OF CHARACTER FROM HANDWRITING.
STUDY VI.—GEO. H. CHICKERING.
J T is clear from Mr. George H. Chickering's
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autograph that he is a man with a highly
nervous and artistic temperament. Nervousness,
remember, must be understood in all its phases
in order to be able to weigh and compare all the
delicate points involved in the analysis with any
skill, otherwise it will be impossible to arrive at
a satisfactory general estimate. There are many
persons whose temperamental nervousness is in-
dicative of impulse, an angry disposition, and
other characteristics which cannot be specified.
Mr. Chickering's handwriting, however, which
is of a different order, denotes nervousness well
controlled by a strong and even will po\i«r. Ap-
plication and strength of purpose are apparent,
and the delicacy and sensitiveness evident in the
formation of each letter, in the construction of
his words and in their disposition in his sen-
tences, indicate that the nervousness of the
writer is of a quality far removed from that of
the impulsive order. Mr. Chickering's auto-'
graph shows that its author possesses a gentle
and sensitive nervousness ; this is a characteris-
tic of an artistic and refined nature. Individuals
of Mr. Chickering's temperament are very suscep-
table to fine impressions of beauty in color and
plastic art, to music of an elevating and refined
nature—not Wagnerian acoustics—to pleasant
faces, kindly voices, and good manners. They
shrink from everything loud of voice or tone,
and abhor vulgarity and aggression of a coarse
order. Mr. Chickering's writing, on the whole,
possesses very strongly marked characteristics
It is, moreover, a very good study.
MR. F. J. N. TALLMAN, the well-known organ
builder of New Brunswick, N. J., has returned
to that city after an extensive and successful
business trip through Western Pennsylvania.
A MORTGAGE for $26,000 covers the stock
of musical instruments of Carroll S. Hartman,
in Shepard's Block, Grand Rapids, Mich. The
assets of every nature have been placed in hands
of Mr. John Diddicomb for the benefit of the
creditors.
THE fiftieth anniversary of the foundation of
firm of Chas. M. Stieff, piano manufacturer, of
No. 9 North Liberty street, Baltimore, Md., was
recently appropriately celebrated at Darley Park,
by the employees and friends of the concern.
Among the celebrated men present were Mayor
Latrobe, Col. W. H. Love, Register of Wills,
Thos. W. Morse and Cashier Joshua Homer of
the American National Bank.