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MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
flattering. Every retail dealer sees at once that
he can sell these instruments to people who here-
tofore would not buy owing to the difficulty or
expense of learning to play.
The lessons are of undoubted merit and are ex-
ceedingly thorough. All the various positions are
illustrated by photographs from life of players
of national reputation. Any dealer who is awake
to a splendid opportunity for profit should send
to Lyon & Healy at once for one of each of these
instruments, so that they may receive free lesson
certificates and full particulars of this plan.
Lyon & Healy also supply most attractive free
lesson window hangers gratis.
SCHOENING'S BIG TRADE IN VIOLINS.
M. B. Schoening, the importer of musical in-
struments at 369 Broadway, New York, reports
an increasing demand from jobbers for violins
and metronomes. In the former he says there
seems to be a general revival of interest in the
study of that instrument, to the detriment of the
banjo and mandolin. He bases his opinion on the
relative number of each sold. The demand for
metronomes indicates an increased number of
students of music.
AUGUST POLLMANN AFFAIRS.
Fifth avenue and 31st street, was arrested Mon-
day afternoon on complaint of Miss Herminie
Peter Alexander Appointed Receiver in Bank- Bmile, who lives in the apartment house, 172
ruptcy in Bond of $15,000.
West 81st street.
She swore that on Dec. 28 last she gave Meyer
Judge Holt, of the United States District Court, $85 with which to purchase a violin. He told
Friday last appointed Peter Alexander receiver her, she swears, that for that sum he could buy
in bankruptcy of the assets of August Pollmann, an instrument worth $900. He did not buy the
New York, against whom a petition in bank- violin, she says, but kept her money.
ruptcy was filed on Jan. 13, fixing his bond at
Meyer did not deny to Magistrate Finn that
$15,000, on the application of Leonard Bronner, he received the money, but said Miss Emile gave
attorney for Bertha Pollmann, his wife, who is a it to him of her own free will.
creditor for $16,000. From this action it would
"There was some talk about a violin," he said;
appear as if the proposal to the creditors for a
"I did tell her that I could play better if I had
composition of their claims had fallen through;
a better violin—a Stradivarius, for instance—
for among other concessions offered by Mr. Poll-
but the one I had in mind cost, not $900, but
mann, was that Mrs. Pollmann would waive her
$12,000. It was the one used by Kocian."
rights to the foregoing amount, stated to be due
Meyer was held in $500 bail.
her for moneys loaned to her husband.
WANTED $12,000 VIOLIN.
GREAT ACTIVITY AT HOHNER'S.
Meyer Arrested on Complaint of Woman Who
Lent $85.
No Evidence Yet of a Break in the Season.
Albert Meyer, aged twenty-four, of 159 West
143d street, a musician, who, with his wife, is
employed in the orchestra of the Hotel Marquis,
AND S . ftOCH
Manufacturer of
Harmonicas and Accordeons
296 BROADWAY. NEW YORK
Trossingen, Germany
KOCH'S HARMONICAS have Always received the highest award and medals
given for Harmonicas at all Expositions where they have been on exhibit.
JOS. W. STERN (&. CO., INSTRUMENT SPECIALTIES
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The popularity of the Hohner importations has
become phenomenal, and at the headquarters of
M. Hohner, 354 Broadway, New York, there was
great activity in the shipping department when
The Review called the early part of the week.
Notwithstanding the lateness of the season, or-
ders for harmonicas and accordeons are coming
in from all sections, and there seems to be no
cessation in the demand for the combination sets
of harmonicas that they have so extensively ad-
vertised in The Review.
CHINESE MUSICAL CRITICISM.
How Our Canton Confrere Discusses a Recent
Recital—Some Observations.
The Far East is an interesting place these days,
not only to those of warlike, but aesthetic, ten-
dencies. Take, for instance, the following, trans-
lated from the Canton Ling Nam Yat Pao:
"On the 11th instant at 9.15 p. m., the cele-
brated German piano virtuoso, Friedenthal San,
gave a concert at the house of the Deputy Com-
missioner-General, Mr. Rocher, in which all the
rooms were filled with the luxury of the Occident.
It was a marvelous clear night; the moon
sparkled in the sky like a looking-glass. Abso-
lute quietude reigned in nature, and the specta-
tors also listened with silence when the charming
music began. Now it sounded like the murmur-
ing of water flowing over stones, now like the
whispering of the chryptomerias softly moved
by the zephyr; and his loud playing resembled
the thunder of the waves in the ocean. Now the
player was sitting at his instrument as quiet as
the tops of the mountains, now he developed a
liveliness and vigor of playing like the player in
Yung-Len. His soft and sweet playing formed a
heavy contrast to the ill-famed music at the bor-
ders of the River Fu. Friedenthal San possesses
the talent of Chungi, who, as is known, was able
to play everything. He plays like Shih Kuang,
who, on his queer instrument, knew how to call
forth the songs of the nightingale.
"At the concert all the diplomats, consuls, depu-
ties, officials and the merchants of Shamseen,
with their families, were present, so that the vast
halls were completely filled. All held in their
hands a paper, in which they read what Frieden-
thal San was going to play, just as in the Euro-
pean hotels the guests read a paper to see what
they are going to eat. After every piece they beat
loudly with their hands, producing a loud noise,
and so they gave the celebrated artist to under-
stand what pleasure they enjoyed with his music;
but I thought this no:se was rather a bitter con-
trast to the beautiful music which preceded it.
"I, the humble writer of these lines and editor
of the Ling Nam Yat Pao, was also invited by
the Consul of virtuous Germany, and stayed in
the saloons until the end of the concert. Just as
Chenlein understood how to lead' the people in
moral ways through his music, so was I also
prevented from doing anything wrong that
night."
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