Music Trade Review

Issue: 1895 Vol. 21 N. 3

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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
An Invitation to Knight Templar
Dealers.
All Knight Templar dealers who propose
going- to Boston on August 27th, to attend
the "Knight Templars' Triennial Con-
clave," are respectfully invited to stop off
at Philadelphia, and while seeing the his-
toric spots in the historic city, visit the
Blasius piano factory—the most complete
factory in the country.
Here is the circular issued by the Trades
League of Philadelphia, of which we are
members, showing stop-off privileges are
allowable.
We shall be pleased to entertain visiting
dealers at our factory.
Respectfully,
which compelled that gentleman to make
his appearance. He was introduced by
Mr. Dolge, and made quite a happy ad-
dress.
Piano Men Invest in Gold Mines
A
A COMMISSION for a charter has been is"*
sued to the Wenzel Piano Co., of Charles-
ton, ^S. C. The corporators are: J. Fred.
Lilienthal, A. F. C. Cramer, A. Bequest,
P. H. Gadsdeu and Theo. Wenzel. Capi-
tal, $50,000, with right to increase to $200,-
000. The company ask for the right to
manufacture and sell all kinds of musical
instruments, print and sell sheet music,
rent instruments, etc.
LBERT WEBER and his gold mine
will now no longer have to flock by
themselves, as another piano man has en-
tered the mining business, and, as our Den-
THE Standard Piano Co., of Cincinnati,
ver correspondent informs us, with consid- O., filed an ex parte petition asking that
erable success.
the name be changed to the Valley Gem
While in Denver last week Geo. C. Piano Co.
Adams, of McCammon Piano Co., pur-
THK Manufacturers' Piano Co. has com-
chased a large block of stock of the "Port-
menced suit against G. F. Thiers and Nor-
land" and other mines adjoining the cele-
man Haskins, of Des Moines, la., for
brated "Independence" property in Cripple
$2,400 damages. It is alleged in the peti-
Creek.
Mr. Adams is to be congratulated
BI.ASLUS & SONS, Philadelphia.
tion that several months ago the defendants
on his foresight, as a few days after pur-
PHILADELPHIA, July, 1895.
took out writs of attachment against the
chasing, a new vein was struck which forced
IMPORTANT NOTICE TO SOUTHERN AND WESTERN
property of the plaintiff that caused its fail-
the stock up nearly twenty points. At the
MERCHANTS.
ure, and that allegations on which the at-
Very cheap round trip tickets will be sold by all same time in the "Independence" property
tachments were secured were false.
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railway lines to the Knights Templars' Triennial a strike was made which amounted to 3 4 -
THE Strascino Piano Co., Fond du Lac,
Conclave, to be held in Boston, August 26th to 30th. 000 per ton, nearly free gold. If Brother
Tickets will be placed on sale August 23d, and will Adams' mining property ever hits any of Wis., will soon have their large plant in
be available not later than midnight, August 27th. these veins we may expect to see on the operation.
Hence, should it be desirable to stop at Philadel-
phia, before going to Boston, you are advised to market gold inlaid McCammon pianos.
A KACTORV is in sight which will employ
purchase your ticket on the morning of the 23d.
And, bye the bye, we are also informed over loo men. The organ factory at this
This will give you from two to three days to stop that in the language of the mines, Albert
place was destroyed by fire. The company,
over at Philadelphia.
Weber has struck "pay dirt," and has unaided, is absolutely unable to rebuild for
Should you prefer to stopover at Philadelphia on
your way homeward, you can leave Boston every prospect of something gratifying in a year at least, and are being offered large
bonuses to move to other cities. It has
after the 28th of August, and should you leave a pecuniary way.
Boston as late as September 4th, you have four
been ascertained by a committee of our
days to stop off at Philadelphia and still have an
business
men that if the proposition which
The /Eolian Co.
abundance of time to reach home before your ticket
has
been
made
to furnish the company a
expires on midnight of September 10th.
loan
of
$25,000
for one year without inter-
Should the above described tickets not be on
HE annual meeting of the ^Eolian Co.
est
be
fulfilled
at
once, the factory will be
sale at your station, ask the agent to procure" "them
was held at Meriden, Conn., last Mon
at the nearest point where they have been placed
immediately
rebuilt
and put in operation.
day. The tieasurer's report was unusually
on sale.
Committee—C.
E.
Fisher,
Frank Sanders,
As no restrictions are to be placed on the sale of satisfactory. It proved conclusively that
W.
C.
Riale,
M.
B.
Mitchell,
etc., etc.
such tickets, all persons may avail themselves of dull times have not been a barrier to the
—Ottawa,
111.,
Republican.
the cheap rate to visit Philadelphia during the progress of this house. The following
months of July and August.
officers were elected: Mr. James Morgan,
THE Estey Organ Co., Brattleboro, V t ,
By order of the Committee,
president; Mr. John C. Schooley, treasurer;
by
assignment from Levi K. Fuller, in-
THOMAS MARTINDALE,
Mr. H. B. Tremaine, general manager.
Chairman Committee on Passenger
ventor, same place, have been granted a
The directors are: Messrs. W. B. Tremaine,
Transportation Trades League, of
patent for an organ having two wind-con-
Geo. B. Kelly, P. H. Hammond, Atherton
Philadelphia.
ductors and an intermediate wind chest
J. N. FITZGERALD,
Curtis, Geo. Wilcox and W. V. Lawrence.
communicating
at opposite ends with the
Secretary.
conductors, and divided into non-communi-
cating bass and treble sections with means
Steinway Employees' Outing.
for separating said sections.
Mr. Dolge Entertains.
T
A
LFRED DOLGE entertained a few
distinguished friends at dinner at his
new home in Dolgeville, Friday evening
of last week. Among those present were
ex-United States Senator Warner Miller,
Judge George A. Hardin, of the Supreme
Court, and Mrs. Hardin; ex-Senator A. M.
Mills, of Little Falls, and Mrs. Mills; the
Hon. Frederick W. Holls, of Yonkers; the
Hon. Edward A. Brown, of Dolgeville, and
Mrs. Brown; Carl Amann, president of
the L. F. & D. R. R.; Rudolf Cronau,
American correspondent of the Cologne
Gazette; Professor George Gunton, editor
of the Social Economist, and president of
the School of Social Economics, and Mrs.
Gunton.
The dinner was an entirely private affair,
but the citizens of Dolgeville took advan-
tage of the opportunity to surprise ex-
Senator Miller by a torchlight serenade,
T
HE employees of Steinway & vSons held
their annual picnic at North Beach
last Saturday. It was a great success, al-
most 4,000 people being present. A tele-
gram was received from Mr. Steinway,
who is at Mount Clemens, Mich., convey-
ing his good wishes for a thorough enjoy-
ment of their outing.
THK Weaver Organ & Piano Co., York,
Pa., decided at their annual meeting held
last week, to make such additions 1 to their
factory as will enable them to increase the
output 20 per cent. A semi-annual divi-
dend of 3 per cent, was declared.
THE employees of the Shaw Piano Co.
held their annual picnic at Chautauqua
Lake last Saturday. It was a most enjoy-
able event.
F. D. IRISH, of the Briggs Piano Co.,
Boston, is spending his vacationin Canada.
THK School Commissioners of Somerville,
Mass., purchased a handsome Henry F.
Miller & Sons parlor grand piano last week
for the new high school in that city,
LEOPOLD PECK, of Hardman, Peck & Co.,
has returned from his vacation, and is
again talking business, which, by the way,
is excellent with this house.
MR. AND MRS. JULIAN
VOSE, of
Boston,
left for Europe last Thursday.
A
GREAT OPPORTUNITY.—A piano man
ufacturer desires an experienced traveler.
To the right man a liberal salary will be paid.
The salary matter will be all right for a man who
is well acquainted with the trade, and has the
ability to sell goods. We want a good man. The
right sort will be well remunerated. Address,
stating experience, PIANO MANUFACTURER,
care of THE MUSIC TRADE RKVIKW, 3 East 14th st.,,
New York.
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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
White fell in a faint on the floor, and was
only aroused by an ice water bath given by
his youthful attendant.
Music Pictured.
THE WONDERFUL PENDULOGRAPH FAITHFULLY
PORTRAYS IN SPIRALS THE CHORD
VIBRATIONS.
HE pendulograph is a machine which
produces writing through the motion
of the pendulum. But this is only a minor
work on the part of the marvelous instru-
ment, since the motion of the pendulum is
regulated with the vibrations of musical
notes played upon the piano or violin, and
the instrument thus becomes the means
through which music is enabled to take ab-
solute form.
There may be one or more pendulums
employed, since, as the inventor of the in-
strument observes in his description of it,
"The pendulograph is practically a system
of pendulums tuned to swing the various
ratios of the musical scale. A pen placed
by means of a universally jointed arrange-
ment between any two pendulums of this
pendulograph, or 'silent harp,' so as to be
moved by a blend of their various motions,
writes, with all the precision of gravitation,
a portrait of the chord which two corres-
ponding strings of a sounding harp or the
chord from a piano would utter to the ear.
This spiral writing is a pendulograph."
The writing produced by this means is
all spiral. By loading the glass pens, which
are used with different colored inks, these
spirals are made to appear in most brilliant
and striking contrast. The forms are as
varied as the musical combinations which
they express. Some of them are fine, inter-
locked hair-strokes that resemble the plu-
mage of birds or the fan-coral seen at the bot-
tom of the sea on tropical coasts. Others
present the most complicated concentric
circles, while others resemble flowers, and
others still the most marvelous shell forms,
with convolutions symmetrical.
An upright framework in the form of a
tripod carries two rods on which are sus-
pended two six-pound weights, forming
pendulums.
These carry the universal
jointed arrangement which moves the pens,
loaded with different colored inks. A table
attachment has fastened upon it the paper,
or cardboard, on which the writing is per-
formed, and this is moved regularly around
by a clockwork attachment in a drawer be-
neath. As the paper moves, the pen passes
over it.
The inventor of this instrument was an
English optician, who had a shop in Lon-
don a few years ago. It was improved
upon by an Irish clergyman, who wrote as
follows concerning the natural law on
which he based his mechanism: "The mo-
tions of the stars in their courses, the swing-
ing of pendulums and the vibrating of
musical instruments, are all under one great
law—the law of gravitation. If the stars
in their courses through the heavens, by a
great pen attached to them, were to leave a
line behind them written on the pages of
T
With the Salesmen,
T
HE day had been unusually warm, and
W. A. White, manager of Jacob Bros.'
warerooms on Fourteenth street, was in
remarkably good spirits, notwithstanding
the intense humidity which prevailed. Mr.
White is a clever salesman, and made some
very good sales that morning, having dis-
posed of a piano to a Jerseyman, to a resi-
dent of Hoboken and a Harlemite. He
had seated himself at his desk, where he
was enjoying a few reminiscent whiffs at
his cigar, when the boy informed him that
some one wished to see him at the tele-
phone. He applied his ear to the trans-
mitter, and this is what he heard:
"Hello! Is that Jacob Bros. 1 ware-
rooms?"
"Yes."
"Can you send six grand pianos down
here to-day?"
Six grands! thought W. A. This is a
harvest, indeed!
It is a well-known fact that Jacob Bros,
do not manufacture grands, but Mr. White
was nothing daunted; he could furnish any-
thing. So he replied:
"Yes, course I can; where are they to be
sent?"
The answer came: "Thisis the president
of the Consolidated Exchange; we have
fitted up superb new club rooms, and we
want six grands in there to-day. We know
all about the pianos; we have seen them
and they are all right."
A pleased expression stole over Mr.
White's face as he pressed the transmitter
close to the membrane of his ear. That
day was to be a record breaker. Six grands!
A Consolidated Exchange deal. Whew!
The perspiration trickled in a cold strea.n
from off his face and fell with a plunk upon
the floor, thereby destroying his patent
leather shine.
"We'll send them, of course;" then in a
louder tone, "Who are you?"
" I am president of the Consolidated
Stock Exchange."
"But will you please give me your
name?"
The answer came back: "My name is J.
Burns Brown," and just at this point Mr.
space, or if musical instruments would, in
their rapid vibration, record themselves,
and, by a fine pen attached to them, write
a picture that would remain for the delight-
ed eye after their sounds had died away
upon the delighted ear, these drawings,
great and small, would be of the nature of
pendulographs. The pendulums, silently
swinging, come in between the grand
movements of the stars and the quick vi-
brations of musical instruments, and,
though so near, compared with the stars,
and so slow, compared with musical instru-
ments, that we can easily follow their move-
ments; in fact, looking at the slow-moving
pendulums swinging the harmonies is like
looking through a microscope at vibrating
strings and seeing all the mysteries of their
motions, which are far too rapid for the
unaided eye. By attaching a pen, and mak-
ing it portray these movements, we have
the pendulograph.
Goldbeck's Piano Recital.
ONE OF THE FEATURES OF THE SILVER LAKE
ASSEMBLY.
N. Y., July 26th.—(Special
to The Journal).—Robert Goldbeck,
the composer and pianist, gave the
first of his summer recitals last evening
before an enthusiastic audience of over
three thousand people, who made the vast
auditorium ring with their hearty applause.
It was the most • successful recital ever
given in the auditorium, as heretofore the
pianos used were not sufficiently resonant
to fill the large building, and the audiences
were small because only those in the front
seats could hear. The success of Mr. Gold-
beck's recital was largely due to the Kim-
ball grand piano, which he used, and the
pure tone of which was as plainly heard in
the rear as in the front row. It is certainly
a wonderful 'instrument, and the fact of the
management securing such an instrument
and thus enabling every part of the audi-
ence to enjoy the concerts, will bring out
larger numbers than have ever before at-
tended. Mr. Goldbeck is to be congratu-
lated on the success of his first appearance,
and the management are to be congratulated
on securing such a piano as the Kimball,
without which half of the enjoyment would
be lost.—The Syracuse Daily Jotirna^New
York, July 27th.
S
ILVER LAKE,
WORK has been commenced on the new
power house for the Steger and Singer
piano factories at Columbia Heights, Chi-
cago.
S. S. STEWART'S Banjo and Guitar
Journal for August and September con-
tains many features of interest to musi-
cians. Both literary and musically it is up
to the standard. A very attractive supple-
ment in colors of a "Thoroughbred Banjo,"
which is used by A. A. Marland, the cele-
brated banjoist, accompanies this number.
GEO. H. SHARP has opened a store for the
sale of pianos and organs at Springfield,
Mass.

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