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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
The Rummel Reception.
CHICKERING HALL GARBED IN GREEN THE
ROOM THRONGED WITH GUESTS WHO
CAME TO GREET THE DISTINGUISHED
PIANIST.
The entire series of warerooms at Chicker-
ing Hall bore a festive appearance last Wed-
nesday night, in honor of the reception given
to Prof. Franz Rummel, the distinguished
pianist, and his wife, daughter of the cele-
brated electrician, S. F. B. Morse.
Sebrecht, the florist, produced a most ar-
tistic effect in his decorations. Palms and
huge tropical plants were arranged so that
the entire place was transformed into a verita-
ble fairyland. The walls were covered with
twining vines, and draperies were hung at the
doors and windows, thus heightening the ar-
tistic effect of the rooms, which were thronged
with society people, artists and others who
had come to welcome the distinguished pian-
ist back to our shores.
After the greetings were over, Prof. Rum-
mel gave a brief piano recital, playing a noc-
turne op. 17 of Brassin, Liszt's Rhapsodie
Hongroise No. 12, and the Chopin nocturne
in B flat. He was heartily applauded by his
audience, who filled the rooms and listened
with the closest attention to the interpreta-
tions by the talented musician.
After the reception, the mysteries of Room
C were disclosed, wherein a superb collation
was prepared by Sherry, the well-known
caterer, and the informal meeting of Prof.
Rummel and his old friends lasted until a late
hour.
Among a few of the well-known society
people present were: Mrs. G. W. Wells,
Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Plumb, Mrs. E. B. Sex-
ton, Mrs. H. H. Graham, Mr. and Mrs.
Reid, Mr. R. R. Cornell, Mrs. G. W. Took-
er, Mr. Geo. Batchellor, Mr. and Mrs. Bene-
dict, Rev. Dr. and Mrs. R. R. Booth, Mr. J.
D. Wing, Miss de Forrest, Miss Callandar,
Mrs. Morrison, Mrs. Aldrich, Mrs. Dan'l F.
Butterfield, Mrs. and Mrs. C. H. Morse,
Mrs. Riker, Mr. and Miss Goold, Mr. and
Mrs. Colgate Hoyt, Mr. Colby, Mrs. Colby,
Mrs. Cutting, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. L. Nichols,
Mrs. C. M. Wells, Mrs. Havemeyer, Miss
M. E. C. Baker, Mr. Ethan Allen, Mr.
and Mrs. Hurtt, Mrs. Burton Hart,
Dr. and Mrs. Morris, Misses Callaudet,
Mr. and Mrs. Huntington, Miss Stouten-
bough, Dr. Winston, Mr. F. S. Witherbee,
Mr. S. F. Massey, Mrs. E. M. Knox, Mr.
Harry B. Wilson, Mrs. L. Williams, Mr. and
Mrs. Frothingham, Mrs. Sutro, Mrs. Henry
Cope, Miss Wickham, Miss C. V. Baker, Mr.
A. H. Hatch, Mr. and Mrs. Casper, Mrs.
Husband, Mrs. A. H. Jones, Mr. and Mrs.
H. S. Ely, Miss Macaulay, Mr. A. B. Kel-
logg, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Folsom, Misses
Hollingsworth, Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Town-
ley, Miss Haines, Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Barnes,
Mrs. E. J. Wall, Mr. and Mrs. Hastings,
Mr. A. D. Davis, Miss Pancoast, Mrs. J. A.
Baker, Mrs. H. Gay, Mrs. W. Wellington,
Mrs. L. M. Dally, Mr. and Mrs. E. Mitchell,
Miss Elsie Mitchell, Mr. and Mrs. W. Ran-
som, Mrs. C. H. Brown, Mr. Alex. Orr, Mrs.
S. C. Richmond, Mr. A. W. Watson, the
Misses Watson.
A great number of artists such as Schar-
wenka, Richard Arnold, Albert Gerard Thiers
and two score more of musical fame were
present to extend greetings to the distin-
guished guests.
Prof. Rummel gave, as it were, only a
glimpse of the artistic talent which he pos-
sesses, but it was quite enough to win the en-
thusiasm of his critical audience. He is a
distinguished artist and if we may be per-
mitted to judge by the eulogistic words pro-
nounced on his brief display of musical tal-
ents Wednesday night, his present tour of
America will be a triumphant success.
One of New York's best known musicians
who was standing close to us said after listen-
ing attentively to the player: " I heard him
fifteen years ago, and am free to admit that
FRANZ RUMMEL.
Prof. Rummel has improved materially. In-
stead of losing his powers he has rather aug-
mented them."
Mr. J. Burns Brown and the remainder of
the Chickering Hall staff are to be congratu-
lated upon the success of the Rummel recep-
tion. It was the first of its kind ever held in
this city and it was pronounced by those
present to be an unqualified success in every
way.
May Remove to Meriden.
[Special to The Review.]
Bridgeport, Conn., Jan. 26, 1898.
The Bridgeport Organ Co. is contemplating
removal from this city to Meriden. The
building which it occupies in part has been
sold to the Graphophone Co., and it must va-
cate before May 1. There has been little
done in the organ business for the past five
years and things have been very quiet with
the company.
A New flusic Store.
Mrs. E. R. McCaa, of Ephrata, will open
a first-class music store on North Queen
street, in the near future. In fact, a big lot
of instruments are already at the freight de-
pot, awaiting Mrs. McCaa's arrival in Lan-
caster to complete her arrangements. She
will have control, in this section, of the pro-
ducts of some of the biggest manufacture of
musical instruments in the country, and her
friends will be glad to learn of her return to
the mercantile life of Lancaster.—Lancaster,
Pa., paper.
In Band Instruments is Health.
The goddess Euterpe, into whose kindly
care the ancient Greeks, when they manufac-
tured their mythology, confided the gentle
art of music, has never been regarded as an
especial patron of athletics, but according to
the statements of physicians, she should be.
Physical development, they have discovered,
follows in the wake of the wind instrument.
The unprincipled individual who in the dead
hours of the night wakes the echoes with the
wild wails of a cornet from his open window
seeks melody; ordinarily he fails to find it,
but he does obtain a larger chest.
A Chicago band of 40 members was photo-
graphed recently. Incidentally the players
were measured, and in the measurement a
queer thing was found. The combined chest
measurement of the 40 men was 1,574 inches.
Individually their chest measurement ranged
from 36 to 45 inches, the average being 39.35
inches, and they were not big men, either.
The trombone player had the largest chest,
45 inches being its circumference, and the
expansion thereof was seven inches. Now,
the average man in the ordinary walks of life
has not a chest 45 inches around. He is
much more likely to fall ten inches below that
mark, and as for an expansion of seven
inches the same is beyond the reach of his
wildest dreams. The trombone man smiled
blandly and designated the trombone as the
cause, and physicians say he is right.
Moreover, physicians go farther. The state-
ment has been made that of all the pursuits
within the reach of the man confined indoors
for the greater part of the time by his work
the playing of a wind instrument is one of the
most likely to keep him in good physical con-
dition. It is possible, they say, in factories
and similar establishments where a band has
been organized to pick out the majority of its
members by the appearance of their chests
and shoulders.
Also, the player of a wind instrument sel-
dom dies of lung trouble. He may not be
a good player, and may meet a violent end
through an untimely exercise of his limited
powers in the presence of a bigger man than
himself. But lung trouble he does not fear.
Only one out of a thousand among players
of wind instruments, the medical records
show, comes to his death through such dis-
eases, and though any player may happen to
be that unfortunate one, he runs a smaller
chance of that particular misfortune than
men in other walks in life.
The trombone, according to authorities, is
the instrument most conducive to physical
development. After it comes the cornet, and
then in a line of decreasing powers the other
instruments of the same class. But the trom-
bone is the most efficient.
R. O. Burgess has left on an extended far
Western trip in the interest of the \Y T egman
Piano Co.
The tremendous gale which swept over
Ohio last Sunday unroofed many buildings in
Wooster. Among those damaged was the
Boston Piano Co.'s factory.