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THE: MUSIC TRADE
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FARMERS BUYING PIANOS.
Assessors in Minnesota Return More Musical
Instruments Than in 1903.
(Special to The Review.)
St. Paul, Minn., August 12, 1904.
There are many more pianos m the country
districts of Minnesota than there were two years
ago, according to the abstracts of personal prop-
erty assessments which are arriving at the office
of the State Auditor S. G. Jverson. Every county
that has reported so far shows an increase in the
number of pianos.
There has been a falling off in cattle in some
counties; in horses and hogs in others; in money
and merchandise in still others, but pianos seem
to be more popular in all sections of the State.
The number of pianos in Carver county in-
creased from 91 in 1902 to 129 in 1904, and the
valuation jumped from $72.08 to $78.92. There
are 219 pianos in Kandiyohi county as compared
with 188 two years ago. The number increased
in Pine county from 78 to 117; in Traverse
county from 72 to 121 and in Watonwan county
from 119 to 150.
sons. A number of relatives and friends went
over to New York yesterday afternoon and
escorted the tourists home. They were ushered
into the rooms on the first floor, where the large
number of persons were in waiting and many
warm words of greeting and handshaking were
exchanged. After the superintendent had been
welcomed home the party went to the banquet
hall on the second floor, where a supper was
served.
GENERATES MUSIC BY ELECTRICITY.
Company
THE MEANDERINGS OF THE MEHLINS.
Otto Mehlin, of Mehlin & Son, in talking with
The Review on Tuesday, at the Mehlin factory,
54th street, near Eleventh avenue, on trade con-
ditions, said that the outlook for a healthy fall
trade is very encouraging. On his desk were
orders calling for the delivery of seventy-five
Mehlin pianos to Mehlin agents by September 1.
Other orders are coming in daily for immediate
delivery.
Paul G. Mehlin, head of the firm, is spending
the summer months at the new Mehlin residence
on the Palisades. He visits the factory daily and
is busy with several new designs.
ti. Paul Mehlin is resting for a few days with
his family at his favorite resort up the State.
Charles Mehlin is in charge at the Mehlin head-
quarters, Union Square, during his brother's
absence.
Otto Mehlin is in full charge at the Mehlin fac-
tory, and enjoys the work immensely.
RECEPTION TO LESTER VOYAGER.
Chartered In Jersey
$350,000 Capital.
City
With
New companies to file articles of incorporation
at the Hudson County Clerk's office were:
New York Electric Music Co.; capital stock,
$350,000, in shares of a par value of $100 each, all
common; registered office, 15 Exchange place, Jer-
sey City. Will generate and distribute music elec-
trically and acquire use, sell and lease inventions
in connection with the came, especially those
manufactured under letters patent granted to
Thaddeus Cahill.
AN INTEEESTING PUBLICATION.
It would be difficult to locate a trade publica-
tion which has received as many kindly com-
ments as the World's Fair number of The Music
Trade Review in the columns of the press. That
fact alone stamps it as an unusual publication,
and one possessing great merit. The subjoined
appeared in the Dayton (O.) Herald, under date
of August 6th:
"As told in the special and most attractive
World's Fair edition of The Music Trade Review,
the story of American musical development will
well repay perusal. The pages devoted to the
subject are replete with interest and new ideas.
Various articles are contributed by Arthur Foote,
Henry Holden Huss, Frank Damrosch, William
Mason, Emilie Frances Bauer, Mme. Pappenheim,
William H. Sherwood, Ernest Kroeger, Mrs. Zeis-
ler, J. K. Paine, Julie Rive-King, Homer Norris,
William Mason, T. Louis Lisser and Victor Her-
bert. The writings of these distinguished musi-
cians all tend to show that musical art in this
country should not be spoken of disparagingly
and distinguished as exclusively American, but
that it is worthy of respectful consideration from
the music lovers in all countries and climes."
REVIEW
AUTOMOBILE RUINED HIM.
(Special to The Review.)
Fort Wayne, Ind., August 15, 1904.
Andrew J. Kendall, of Bluffton, has filed a peti-
tion in voluntary bankruptcy. His liabilities are
$2,000. He is a music dealer, and an automobile
caused his ruin. He paid $600 for the motor car
a year ago and has spent $2,100 in repairs.
THE BENNETT-BRETZ PROPERTY SOLD.
(Special to The Review.)
Harrisburg, Pa., August 12, 1904.
The property of the Bennett-Bretz Piano Co.,
situated on the corner of Market street and River
avenue, was sold at the court house this after-
noon to G. R. Barnett, as attorney, for $7,900,
subject to encumbrances of $13,225.41, making
the total price of the building $21,125.41.
SAMPLES OF VOICE AND ACTING.
The
Phonograph
and the
Machine.
Moving
Picture
"This is a marvelous age we live in," said a
theatrical manager, according to the Washington
Post, "and its marvelousness was brought home
to me forcibly last week. I had written to a
French tenor and asked him what he would take
to come over here and sing next season. His re-
ply consisted of a letter and two cylinders.
" 'I will come for $500 a week,' the letter said,
'and I forward in another package samples of my
voice and of my acting.'
"The large cylinder was a phonographic record
of one of the man's solos. The smaller one was
a moving picture film of him singing the solo.
"I took the two cylinders to a dealer, and one
we put in a phonograph, the other in a moving
picture machine. Then we darkened the room,
and we started the machine and the phonograph
simultaneously. By Jove, sir, the actor might
have been present personally. There he was on
the screen, walking up and down the stage and
gesticulating, and there was his voice issuing
in sonorous notes from the big phonograph horn.
1 got from it as satisfactory an idea of the man's
talent as I could have gotten if he had visited
me."
Chas. Kosegarten, of the firm of Grubb & Kose-
garten, piano action manufacturers. Nassau, N. Y.,
Lester, Fa., August 16, 1904.
The employes of the Lester Piano Co. tendered recently burned out, has been passing several
a reception last evening to Mr. and Mrs. Otto days in St. Johnsville and Dolgeville looking over
Trefz, of Lester, on their arrival from a nine the plants in those towns.
weeks' tour through Germany, France, Switzer-
L. E. Girardy, piano manufacturer, Paducah,
land, Belgium and England, at the headquarters
of the Tinicum Republican Club, at Lester. * The Ky., has just moved into his new quarters which
affair was one of the most elaborate that has ever greatly increases his factory capacity. Mr.
taken place in the little eastern end town and Girardy is gradually extending his trade in
was attended by about two hundred and fifty per- Kentucky.
(Special to The Review.)
MOLLER'S BIG PIPE ORGAN.
Description of a Remarkable Moller Creation
Destined for Richmond.
(Special to The Review.)
Hagerstown, Md., August, 1904.
There has just been shipped from the pipe or-
gan factory of Mr. M. P. Moller, of this city, one
of the largest and most complete instruments
which his factory has ever produced. While there
has been a few larger pipe organs built for
churches in the United States, this instrument
cannot be surpassed for completeness of specifica-
tions and artistic design, while the same splen-
did workmanship which has placed the Moller
pipe organs ahead of all others is shown in every
detail.
The organ will be placed in the Beth Ahaba
Synagogue, Richmond, Va., and was designed and
built under the supervision of Mr. W. L. Mayer,
of Pittsburg, Pa., in whose hands the placing of
the contract for building the organ was entrusted
by the officers of the Temple. Mr. Moller has in
the past built a number of large organs under the
supervision of Mr. Mayer, who has held the posi-
tion of consulting organ architect for Mr. Andrew
Carnegie, and the fact that the contract for build-
ing so large an instrument was entrusted by him
to Mr. Moller, is sufficient proof of the satisfac-
tion the Moller organs have given in the past.
The organ has three manuals, thirty-seven
speaking stops, nineteen couplers, six mechanical
registers and seven pedal combinations and con-
tains over 2,400 pipes. The action used in this
organ is Moller's patent tubular pneumatic
throughout, including couplers and stop action.
An unusual feature is the manner of operating
the couplers, which in addition to being con-
trolled by knobs over keyboard, are also operated
by double acting pistons under great and choir
keyboards, rendering them easily accessible to the
performer at all times. The various stop com-
binations, of which there are nine, are made in
such a manner as to be instantly adjustable at the
keyboard, making it possible for the organist to
change the stops on any combination in a mo-
ment without interrupting the playing. These
combinations are also controlled by pistons under
the keyboards. In order to render the couplers
more effective all stops have been carried through
73 notes, the entire range of the couplers thus
avoiding the break in the music which occurs in
most organs when playing in the upper octaves.
The casing and front of the instrument show
the same careful and artistic workmanship that
is evident everywhere in the action and are in
perfect harmony with the interior of the Temple
which is one of the handsomest edifices of its
kind in America. The casing is finished entirely
in white enamel and gold leaf. The design is in
strict accordance with the Romanesque Ionic
style of architecture with elaborate carvings, all
of which have been executed by hand. The front
pipes are covered with pure gold leaf without
ornamentation. The console is made of finely se-
lected quartered oak wood and is located at a dis-
tance of six feet in front of the organ, in such a
manner that the organist sits with his back to
the instrument, and facing the congregation. The
cost of the organ is $8,000.
Mr. Moller has on hand at this time contracts
for thirty-eight large organs. During the past
week contracts were received for a large three-
manual pneumatic organ for Converse College,
Spartanburg, S. C, and a large two-manual pneu-
matic instrument for St. Stephen's P. E. Church,
Wilkinsburg, Pa.
TOOK POPPENBERG'S CIGARS.
The piano store of Geo. II. Poppenberg, Buffalo,
was entered last week by burglars, who entered
the establishment by breaking open the cellar
window. The report says that nothing of value
was taken with the exception of a bicycle and a
box of cigars. Now, whether these were of such a
Quality that the thieves were disgusted and re-
tired disappointed men or not, is omitted from
the despatch. One thing is certain Mr. Poppen-
berg will have to stand considerable chaffing over
the quality of cigars that he smokes.