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Music Trade Review

Issue: 1908 Vol. 46 N. 26

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LATEST LAUTER AGENCIES.
pressing down the keys without allowing the
hammers to touch the strings, which were set
But Comparatively Few of the Many Recorded
in vibration by the magnetic forces alone. The Blake, of Bostcn, Gets the Lauter Agency—
Other Interesting Lauter Items—Large Ship-
in Washington During the Past Quarter of
appearance of the piano was unchanged, the only
ments of Lauter Pianos to Various Parts of
a Century Utilized—Some Comments in This
new feature visible from the outside being the
the Country.
Connection,
row of push-buttons previously referred to, and
the knee-swell, which was a neatly-made bronze
(Special to The Review.)
For the past twenty-five years The Review has lever colored to match the piano case, and which
Newark, N. J., June 24, 1908.
been printing the record of the many patents folded up out of sight when the piano was not
It has just been announced here that the Bos-
filed in Washington relating to improvements in in use.
musical instruments. These patents would fill
This invention, like many others, was much ton agency of the Lauter piano and the Lauter-
many volumes, and yet how few of them have discussed at the time of its appearance, but has Humana has been placed with Charles D. Blake
been utilized or found of actual value to the since been forgotten. An interesting story could & Co. This deal is the result of careful investi-
practical piano man.
be written upon the many inventions which have gation by Messrs. Blake, who have expressed
These patents represent, the work of thousands come to the front only to be relegated to oblivion, themselves as delighted with the beautiful qual-
of minds, infinite care, much originality, a great and still to others which have been afterwards ity of Lauter goods, and to whom a first ship-
deal of expense and, as a matter of course, a taken up and brought to the front, winning a ment was made some ten days ago. The initial
order was a large one and included the Lauter-
mountain of disappointment, inasmuch as only a great success.
limited number out of the total have been found
This is true of every industry and more par- Humana.
to possess actual enduring value.
Another Lauter agency that has just been ar-
ticularly noticeable in the United States by rea-
Yet, it is this permanent record of ideas which son of the tremendous activity of our inventors ranged is that of Charles Tuttle, of Rome, N. Y.
has given impetus to newer minds to work along and the encouragement original ideas receive The Lauter Co. report that they are shipping very
the same lines, but from a different viewpoint. from great manufacturers in every industrial many pianos, especially the Lauter-Humana.
Charles E. Cameron and his family have gone to
Each invention, whether practical or not, means branch.
Long Branch for the summer. Horace E. Toms,
another stepping stone to success on the part of
someone. The development of the piano and or-
RICHMOND TO BE CONSIDERED LATER. the genial Lauter traveling man, has been in New
gan illustrate this story, but it is more marked
England during the past week.
in the newer field of pneumatics as applied to
The Chamber of Commerce of Richmond, Va.,
HOMER PIANO CO.'S CATALOG.
musical instruments. The number of patents through Business Manager Dabney, have been ad-
filed within the past five years, covering the vised by the National Piano Manufacturers' Asso-
The first catalog of the Homer Piano Co., New
playing of pianos and organs automatically, Is ciation that while Detroit won the conventions
very large and exceeds all granted for improve- for 1909, the invitation of Ricnmond would be York, has just been sent out to the trade and
exploits styles C D E and F of their line. The
ments on the piano up to 1870. Indeed the play- considered and very likely accepted for 1910.
catalog is a beauty in every respect. The typo-
ing of musical instruments by automatic media
graphical matter is well printed and the text is
is now occupying the minds of many clever in-
PIANO MEN FAVOR LIBERAL LAWS.
to the point, while the illustrations of the 1 dif-
ventors, and some important developments are
certain to materialize within the next two years.
Believing that too much "reform" legislation ferent styles are clear cut and give an excellent
The two principles which inventors are chiefly and the enforcement of the "blue laws" is de- idea of the actual appearance of the instruments.
utilizing are the use of electricity and pneu- cidedly detrimental to business interests, basing
matics, and up to the present time the latter their judgment on the effect of such legislation
PEARCE OPENS IN MERIDEN, CONN.
has been the most generally utilized.
during the Hoke Smith administration, the piano
James Pearce, a well-known church soloist, of
Speaking of electricity brings to mind a very dealers have joined with the other business men
clever invention of Lieut. G. W. Breed which of Savannah, Ga., in making it plainly evident Meriden, Conn., has opened a music store at 71
enabled the performer to sustain the tones of the that they are in favor of liberal measures and de- East Main street, that city, where he handles the
Kranich & Bach, Lester, Merrill and Kohler &
piano as in a flute or violin, which was shown cidedly against prohibition.
Campbell pianos, as well as sheet music. Mr.
at a meeting of the Franklin Institute, Philadel-
Pearce has had much experience as salesman for
phia, a few years ago. Connected with the key-
ORDERED AN ESTEY PIPE ORGAN.
a number of piano houses.
board was a row of delicate electrical contacts,
Thomas Quinlan, manager of Hayden Bros.'
so light in their action as to be unnoticed in the
touch of the keys, and connected with these was piano department, Omaha, Neb., while Bast to at-
a row of little electro-magnets in front of the tend the conventions, placed an order for a hand-
strings. Whenever a key was depressed a current some Bstey pipe organ for use in the company's
was sent into the corresponding magnet, which, auditorium, located in their store.
by its consequent intermittent attraction, set
its string in vibration and kept it in vibration as
SETTLING DAMAGE CLAIMS.
long as the key was held down, thus producing a
Piano
men as well as shippers in all other
prolonged singing and pleasing note. The per-
lines
have
suffered at one time or another
former turned the current on or off by means of
a knee-swell. When this knee swell was not through the delays of railroads in settling dam-
pressed there was no electrical action, and the age claims and they will no doubt heartily agree
piano could be played as usual, there being no with sentiments expressed by George D. Dixon,
stiffening of the piano action or damping of the freight traffic manager for the Pennsylvania Rail-
tone due to the electrical apparatus. Just below road, in a recent letter read before the meeting
the keyboard there were four littlev pearl-tipped of the Freight Claim Association at Atlantic
push-buttons, which corresponded to the stops City, N. J., and which were in part as follows:
"In the case of claims arising out of a move-
of an organ. When one of these was pressed a
single note of any chord struck was sustained ment between two points on the same railroad,
with a musical effect similar to that of a violin we should either pay or decline them within
No dealer visiting New York
or flute, accompanied by the piano; with another thirty days after they have been presented, pro-
vided
there
is
no
unusual
complication.
or
seeing the piano anywhere
push-button all the notes of each chord struck
"The carriers should arrive' at a definite basis
were sustained with flute-like tones; with a third
else should fail to investigate
they were all soft, sweet and melodious, while of co-operation between themselves for the in-
the LAUTER-HUMANA. This
with a fourth the highest note of each chord vestigation and settlement of claims arising out
superbly beautiful pneumatically
was held with a tone very similar to that of a of a freight movement over two or more lines, to
flute, and the lower notes played a soft accom- the end that all joint claims shall be paid or de-
operated instrument is, without
paniment. Beautiful effects were obtained by clined within sixty days after presentation, pro-
question, at least the equal of
vided there is no unusual complication. In thus
any other made ; in several re-
helping one another each carrier will help him-
self.
spects it is the superior.
"You may say this cannot be done, but until it
If you have need for a high
is done, or some better plan is devised, are we
To assure this, handle
grade
playerpiano, you will
not subject to just criticism from our patrons, the
secure
it
in the L A U T E R -
H . F>. IVBUSOIN
public and the press?"
VARIED FORTUNES OF INVENTIONS.
LAUTER
Every One Wants to Win
and
G B R H A R D
PIANOS
The greatest trade creators of the times
Manufactured solely by
H. P. NELSON CO.,
Write for prices, terms and catalogues
S. HOWARD BISHOP MARRIED.
S. Howard Bishop, who has charge of the
collection department of the Richmond (Va.)
branch of the Cable Company, was married re-
cently to Miss Rubye Wendlinger, the ceremony
being attended by the entire staff of the Rich-
mond store.
HUMANA.
Fullest inform-
ation on request.
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A U T E R C O .
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Caruso and Challapine Honored by the French Government—Katharine Goodson's Tour of Aus-
tralia—Gabrilowitsch Scoring Tremendous Success in London—Adele Verne, Who Will
Play the Weber, to Extend Her Tour—Dippel Discusses Plans for Opera—Death of Miss
Jessie Shay—Samaroff Appears With Noted Conductors in London—Irish Music Eulogized
—Mme. Chaminade in New York—St. Louis Symphony Orchestra Increasing Prestige.
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sixteen bars long, Ireland could claim gome of
the very greatest composers that have ever lived;
for in their miniature form the best Irish foik
tunes are gems of absolutely flawless luster, and
though, of course, some of them are relatively
undistinctive, it is very rare to meet with one
entirely lacking in character. Of late years the
publication of numerous collections of arrange
ments by Stanford and others, and of the huge
mass of melodies transcribed in the middle of the
last century by Petrie, has attracted special at-
tention to this field; and there is no branch of
folk music which has been investigated with more
artistic thoroughness. Nearly all Irish tunes
show a peculiar sensitiveness of feeling; it is
true that frequently they do not seem emotionly
to fit the words with which they were in their
earliest days connected, but as mere successions
of notes without words of any kind they are
full of a subtle vitality which can give delicate
and distinctive sparkle to more or less humorous
dance measures of no particular melodic lofti-
ness, and also rise to such strains as 'It is Not
the Tear,' a wonderful example of what can be
crowded into a restricted structural scheme, or
'If All the Sea Were Ink,' a magnificently ma-
jestic and solemn march to which Moore's 'Lay
His Sword by His Side' is exactly suited. After
all, for sheer beauty of melody, the works of
Mozart, Schubert, and the Irish folk composers
form a triad that is unchallenged in the whole
range of the art; deeper tunes have been written
by still greater men, but these particular inspira-
tions show a flawless spontaneity of utterance,
an instinctive feeling for loveliness and dignity
of phrase as such, that we do not find elsewhere
in anything like the same profusion."
Caruso, the great tenor, has been created a young protege of Clara Schumann and Paderew-
Knight of the Legion of Honor by the Minister ski should play in that section. When it was
of Public Instruction in recognition of the part announced that Miss Verne would return to
he took in the recent benefit performance of the America next season and appear only in the East
French Authors' Society in Paris. The same there was a cry of protest from the press in Cali-
decoration has just been conferred on the Rus- fornia. "She is ours; we discovered her; it is
sian singer, Challapine, on the completion of his unfair that her manager will not let her come to
enormously successful series of performances in the State which first proclaimed her greatness,"
the papers declared. Hearing which, the man-
the Russian opera, "Boris Godounow." The hon
ors thus bestowed on two singers so well known ager cabled Miss Verne and she answered for him
in New York are subject to some comment, owing by all means to add twenty recitals for Cali-
to the unexpected action of Sarah Bernhardt in fornia. This section will be visited after New
resigning the post as professor in the State-sub- Year. Miss Verne's New York debut will be at
ventioned school of acting called La Conserva- Carnegie Hall late in October.
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toire. The resignation followed with startling
Andreas Dippel, co-manager of the Metropoli-
suddenness the announcement of the double deco-
ration. Mme. Bernhardt has solicited the Red tan Opera House, who is now in Berlin, hopes to
Ribbon for years. She declined it last year when raise the artistic level of opera next season. One
it was offered her as the manager of the theater of the means to this end will be through a re-
bearing her name. She insisted that it be given organzation of the chorus arrangements, where-
her in recognition of her art, not in her business by German opera will be sung with a chorus con-
capacity. Then it was intimated that she might sisting exclusively of Germans, 100 in number
get the ribbon as a professor of the Conserva- and the Italian repertoire by a chorus of 100
toire if not as an actress. She accepted the pro- Italians. "Such a comprehensive and systematic
fessorship. Weary months slipped by. Still no chorus scheme," said Mr. Dippel, "obtains, per-
decoration. When two foreign operatic stars re haps, in no other grand opera establishment in
ceived what she had waited for so long in vain the world. With the increase of our orchestra
her patience had reached its limit. Incidentally from seventy-five to 130 pieces, we shall start out
Mme. Bernhardt has denied the story. She says next year equipped as never before. Barring the
Mme. Cecile Chaminade, the French pianiste-
renewal of our leading soloists' contracts, I have composer, who as recently announced in The Re-
her action was dictated by reasons of health.
as yet not fully made up my mind in regard to view, has been engaged for a tour of the United
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Katharine Goodson, who scored such a great tho personnel of the coming season. I am put- States next season, will make her first New York
success with the Mason & Hanilin piano during ting in an inordinately hot European summer in appearance at Carnegie Hall on Saturday after-
her concert tour last season, will return to Amer- seeing opera in Berlin, Dresden, Munich, Vienna. noon, October 24. The program will consist en-
Milan. Paris, London and elsewhere. When I tirely of her own compositions.
ica for her third tour late in December, to com
mence on January 1 on the Pacific Coast, will have had a look at everything worth while I shall
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sail from England on July ?, by the Pacific & determine what we ought to have and get it,
The fame of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra
Oriental steamer "Mongolia" for Australia, com- The greatest novelty in our repertoire will be is spreading. Manager Clayton reports inquiries
mencing her first tour of that country in Mel- d'Albert's ' Tiefland' (The Low Land), which for the post-season tour to Toronto, Buffalo, Cin-
bourne in August. Her first appearance there may be best described as a problem opera. The cinnati, Fort Wayne and Detroit. This tribute to
will be on Saturday, August 22, with orchestra, theme and action are intensely dramatic, besides the excellence of the local organization is highly
at the Melbourne town hall, when she will play lending themselves to a superb staging. I my- appreciated by St. Louis music lovers. The St.
three Grieg and Tschaikowski concertos. She will self shall be responsible for the scenic produc- Louis season will be taken up with increased en-
play three recitals in Melbourne the following tion, and hope to furnish New York with a ergy and Max Zach, the leader and the manage-
week, and will thenceforward appear in all the genuine artistic triumph. 'Tiefland' is now run- ment will undoubtedly be heartily supported, so
principal cities, sailing from Sydney on Novem- ning its second year in Germany and Austria that the success of the local season will reflect
ber 26 for Vancouver.
with unbroken success."
credit on the tour.
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Gabrilowitsch, who will open his American
Miss Jessie D. Shay died Sunday afternoon
ALFRED TJ. ENGELHARDT'S TRIP.
tour with the Boston Symphony Orchestra in In the Presbyterian Hospital after an illness
November, is scoring a tremendous success In lasting several weeks. Miss Shay was well
Alfred D. Eiigelhardt, of F. Engelhardt & Sons,
London. He has won the highest praise of lead- Known as a pianist and had played with the Ber-
left
Monday for a business trip to the concern's
ing metropolitan critics. This artist is steadily lin Symphony Orchestra, Victor Herbert and
broadening out, and he is certain to achieve a Walter Damrosch, with whom she made her factory at St. Johnsville, N. Y., and en route
new and greater success on his forthcoming tour debut. Her last public appearance was on tour home plans to call on several customers on the
of this continent when he will be heard through in this country with Kubellk. She was a grad- New York Central line. The firm booked a most
satisfactory business during the recent conven-
the medium' of the Mason & Hamlin piano.
uate of the New York College of Music and had
tion, and there are no dull moments at either
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studied abroad. Her death followed a hurt she
That clever American pianiste, Olga Samaroff, received from a fall on the steamer on which she office or factory.
is repeating in London the great success she arrived here several weeks ago. Miss Shay was
scored with the Steinway in this country last sea- the daughter of John H. Shay, a retired mer-
son. She made two appearances recently in the chant, living at 183 East 74th street.
English metropolis, the first as soloist under
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Nikisch and the second under Sir Alexander Mac-
The Knabe piano was used by Miss Lenora
Kenzie. She met with a flattering reception from Troy in several numbers cleverly played at an
the public and from the musical critics. She will educational concert given In Schwankovsky Hall,
be absent from this country a year or more.
Detroit, Mich., on Monday evening, June 22. The
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assisting artist was F. J. Schwankovsky, Jr.,
are conscientiously made, good
Adele Verne, the young English Bavarian pi- baritone, who possesses a voice of rare charm,
instruments; in other words, the
aniste, who will play the Weber piano in her and who received a very cordial greeting. The
sweetest things out.
concert tour next season, has been compelled to accompanist was Miss Nellie Goucher.
agree to a longer tour than she at first contem-
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plated. Her manager, H. B. Schaad, had booked
Dr. Ernest Walker, in his recent "History of
forty concerts east of the Mississippi river when a Music" in England, thus eulogizes Irish music:
demand for the beautiful artiste came from Cali- "Few musicians have b^en found to question the
fornia. Miss Verne's first American appearances assertion that Irish folk music is, on the whole,
were on the Pacific Coast a year ago. San Fran- the finest that exists; It ranges with wonderful
cisco, Los Angeles and the smaller cities beyond ease over the whole gamut of human emotion
RUDOLF PIANO CO.
the Sierras, without reserve, placed the laurel
wreath upon her brow and expressed belief that from the cradle to the battlefield, and Is the un-
458 E. 144tta Street,
NEW YORK.
the East would do likewise when the dark, slight surpassed in poetical and artistic charm. If musi-
cal composition meant nothing more than tunes
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