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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
The Will of D. H. Baldwin.
[Special to The Review].
Cincinnati, 0., Sept. 9, 1899.
The will of the late Dwight H. Baldwin,
of D. H. Baldwin & Co., was made public
late Thursday.
The document is not lengthy and begins
with the usual statement. Provisions are
.then made for relatives: James Baldwin,
a brother living in Wisconsin, is left a
monthly annuity of $40. A sister, Eliza
Baldwin, in Harriman, Tenn., is left $60 a
month. This sister died a few' days prior
to Mr. Baldwin's death. To Elizabeth
Brown, another sister, living at Delaware,
Ohio, is left the sum of $1,000. A favor-
ite niece, Mrs. Ellen Dame, living at Har-
riman, Tenn., is left the sum of $2,000.
Samuel Brown, a brother-in-law, of Dela-
ware, Ohio, is left $500.
H. Baldwin, it may be well to refer to his
pecuniary interests in the different corpor-
ations in which he was interested, and the
possible effect of his death upon them.
Lucien Wulsin is the principal and larg-
est stock-holder in the different corpora-
tions, and is and has been in full charge
and control of them. Mr. Baldwin at the
time of his death owned only a minor in-
terest in the manufacturing corporations.
In the firm of D. H. Baldwin & Co. he
maintained large holdings, but, unlike or-
dinary co-partnerships, this one does not
dissolve with the death of any of the part-
ners, provision having been made for the
partnership to continue for a term of years,
notwithstanding the decease of any member.
This arrangement was brought about
owing to the fact that on two different oc-
casions the firm was dissolved. First by
the death of Mr. Robert A. Johnson in
1884, and subsequently by the death of Mr.
Clarence Wulsin in 1897, so that it will be
seen that the death of Mr. Baldwin will
have no material effect upon his business
interests, and that the same men will con-
trol them who have been identified with
them in the past and there will be no
change of policy.
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William E. Brown, formerly of Dela-
ware, Ohio, a son of Samuel Brown, but at
present in this city and employed at D. H.
Baldwin & Co. 's establishment, receives
$500. William E. Brown was' a favorite
nephew of Mr. Baldwin's and has been
looked upon for some time as his prospec-
tive heir. It has been openly stated by
persons assuming to know, since Mr. Bald-
win's death, that the bulk of the property
To refer to the will of Mr. Baldwin. It
had been left to young Mr. Brown.
is possible that his widow may elect to
To Park College, an industrial school at
take under the law instead of under the
Parkville, Mo., $5,000; to the Presbyte-
will. Should she do this there will be no
rian Board of Education for Freedmen
contest of any sort, it not being required
(colored prople of the South), $10,000.
under the statutes of Ohio.
To the Sunday-school of the First Pres-
byterian Church of Walnut Hills, $500,
The Steinway Piano.
with which to keep up the library. Mr.
It is undoubtedly a testimony to the
Baldwin was for years the superintendent
growing importance of the Industrial
of this Sunday-school.
To Mrs. Baldwin, his widow, $5,000 a Exhibition that this year the Messrs.
Steinway of New York, through their
year for life.
The residue of the estate is to be divided agents, the Nordheimer Piano and Music
equally between the Presbyterian Boards Co., Toronto, are showing a number of
their celebrated instruments, this being
of Home and Foreign Missions.
There is a clause in the will stating that the first instance known of the firm de-
Mr. Baldwin did not believe that any one parting from their rule of being repre-
of his loving relatives to whom he had sented only at the world's great fairs.
bequeathed anything would attempt to con- The instruments are specimens of the
test the will, but if anyone did contest it he styles familiar as small grands and up-
or she was to lose the share that had been rights, and are remarkable triumphs of
willed to them. -Mr. Baldwin wished to scientific piano building as applied to
leave as little money as possible to anyone, the production of the most musical
and to save the great bulk of his fortune quality of tone, the perfection of re-
sponsive touch, and sonority and power
for the missions.
which render possible effects that ap-
The property left consists entirely of
It is
holdings in the Baldwin Piano Co. 's ware- proach those of the orchestra.
houses, stores and factories.
Four-fifths well known that all the great artists of
of the company's holdings belonged to Mr. the world have testified to the supreme
Baldwin. He owned no real estate out- excellence of the Steinway piano, but per-
side of what he held in partnership with haps few in this country are aware that
they are so highly valued by professional
members of the firm.
In the articles of partnership of this musicians in the old land that they are as
company is an agreement that the business familiar on the concert platforms of Lon-
shall be carried on if one or more of the don and the large provincial cities of Eng-
partners died. The estate will amount to land as they are on those of New York and
Boston. That this should be the case in a
something over a half million of dollars.
country
so conservative as the mother land,
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where
there
are so many eminent piano-
It is absolutely impossible to divorce the
makers,
must
be taken as a convincing ac-
private affairs of a distinguished member
knowledgment
of their superiority, and
of an industry from trade interest. How-
illustrates
the
truth
of the saying of the
ever, we have always refrained from ex-
famous
artist,
Joachim,
that "what the
tended notices in matters of this kind. In
Stradivarius
is
to
the
violinist,
the Stein-
connection with the affairs of the late D,
U
way is to the pianist." It is still more sig-
nificant in this connection that the Stein-
way piano has for years always been asso-
ciated in America with the names of the
greatest solo pianists, and among these it
will be sufficient to mention Rubinstein,
Paderewski, Rosenthal, D'Albert, Joseffy,
Rummel, Aus der Ohe, Bloomfield-Zeisler,
Busen, Friedheim.
All the week the Steinway stand at the
Exhibition has been crowded with visitors,
who have expressed the most unqualified
admiration of the grandeur and exquisite
tone of the instruments. Of the small
grand it can be said unhesitatingly that
while it has all the delicacy and vocal
beauty of tone of the large concert grand
by the same maker, it is the nearest ap-
proach to it in power that can be obtained,
and in this latter respect quite equals the
concert grands of many other makers.
This is saying a great deal, but the state-
ment is justified, and its truth has often
been proved in public concerts, where the
small grand has been used. For the studio
of the professional musician the small
grand is, of course, the ideal instrument.
The upright style, a specimen of which,
with the cape d'astre frame, is shown, is
perhaps more in request with amateurs for
drawing and music rooms where space is
limited. It has all the musical distinction
of the larger instrument, but with slightly
lessened power.
The touch, too, has a
character of its own, but it is equally as
elastic and responsive. It would be diffi-
cult to say from the comments of those
who examined and tried the instruments
which of the two styles received the greater
praise.
Now that the Steinway piano has been
introduced as one of the attractions of our
Fair it may be expected that it will always
be found on the list of entries. The mu-
sical department will be incomplete and
deprived of a paramount attraction should
it be absent. It is unnecessary to dwell
upon this point; there are certain things
which among the professional community
are taken for granted, and one of these is
that in these days the Steinway piano rep-
resents the sum total of the possible merits
of the instrument.—Toronto, Ont., Globe.
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the East who find them to be reliable and
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