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THE
MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
ABANDON EXHIBITION IN BERLIN.
TWO NEW HOUSES IN SAVANNAH, OA.
The Plan to Make a Display of American Goods
in Berlin in Summer Postponed—Opposition
of German Business Interests Caused Un-
expected Decision of Local Committee—Hint
of Tariff Troubles.
Jones & Sheppard Will
Handle the Schulz
Line—Carter, Logan & Bro. Get the Mathu-
shek Piano Co.'s Line for Seven States.
(Special to The Review.)
Savannah, Ga., March 1, 1910.
During the present month two new piano con-
There will be no American Exposition held
in Germany next summer, though there may be cerns will open up in this city. Messrs. Jones
one in 1911. A meeting of the American Execu- & Sheppard, two prominent young men who have
been connected with the business field here for
tive Committee was held in the local office of
the commission, 30 Church street, Tuesday years, have secured quarters at 134-136 Bernard
afternoon, and after a session of several hours street, which are being handsomely decorated
and equipped. They expect to open their doors
ex-Controller Herman A. Metz, the chairman of
the committee, announced that the proposed ex- next week, and will handle the M. Schulz pianos,
position was off, so far as the summer of 1910 made in Chicago. They will take on other in-
is concerned. It was stated that opposition that struments later, including a full line of player-
has developed among Germans against the hold- pianos and organs. Mr. Jones, of the firm, is one
of the largest furniture dealers in the city,'
ing of an American Exposition in the capital of
their country was the principal reason for the and had charge at one time of the piano de-
partment of the Statesboro Furniture Co.
abandonment.
The second piano house, which will open about
The statement made by Mr. Metz after the ad-
March 15, is that of Carter, Logan & Bro., the
journment of the meeting follows:
members of which are well-known to manufac-
"In view of the apparent opposition which
turers. Leonard Carter, until recently was
has developed in Germany against the
president of the Ludden & Bates Southern Music
American Exposition to be held in Berlin
House, and W. A. Logan was secretary and treas-
during the coming summer the American
urer. They have closed a deal with the Mathu-
Executive Committee has decided upon a
shek Piano Co. to represent them in Georgia,
postponement until 1911.
Florida, Alabama, Tennessee, North and South
"The members of the Executive Committee
Carolina and Virginia. They will also handle
and the gentlemen who agreed to serve on
the advisory and other committees did so several other lines of pianos which have not
yet been fully decided upon. The Mathushek
for the purpose of showing their good will
agency has been with the Ludden & Bates house
toward Germany and German interests and
for twenty years. Mr. Carter, head of the
to promote the commercial relations be-
new institution, is a wealthy man and an official
tween the two countries; and in the antici-
of several banks and manufacturing concerns.
pation of similar co-operation on the part
of the commercial interests of Germany, and
for no other reason.
KNABE FOR METROPOLITAN PEOPLE.
"As, apparently, this is not entirely un-
The Employes of the Metropolitan Insurance
derstood the members of the Executive Com-
Co. Form Choral Society—Handsome Knabe
mittee are of the opinion that it might be
Grand Graces Their Quarters on the 11th
advisable to make the exposition a German-
Floor of the Building with the Great White
American affair, in which both countries
Tower.
should participate, and thus prove it is not
intended to be an American industrial in-
The care, supervision and liberality extended
vasion. With this object in view the ma- by the Metropolitan Insurance Co., New York,
jority of the members of the American Com-
toward their employes is carried on in a sys-
mittee will visit Berlin in the coming sum-
tematized way that is spoken of by those familiar
mer for the purpose of bringing about, if
with the facts as wonderful and worthy of all
possible, such a German-American Exposi-
praise. In addition to the exercise of these ad-
tion, and the United States Government has
mirable functions the company also makes
been requested to continue the honorary
ample provision for their entertainment and
commission which was appointed to repre-
amusement. It is a small army of men and
sent it at the exposition this summer.
women, 3,000 to be exact, employed by the con-
"A vote of thanks and confidence was
cern, and recently a choral society has been
tendered to Baron R. von Brandenstein, the
organized, consisting of 60 female and 30 male
representative of the German Executive
voices.
Committee for the good faith he has shown
They are under the vocal instruction of skilled
during the entire preliminary arrangements
teachers, and the music is not of the light and
for the exposition."
frivolous character, but the very best com-
The members of the committee present at yes- positions and works are studied and practiced,
terday's meeting were Mr. Metz, Herman Rid- and their rendition shows a grasp and compre-
der, Wilson H. Brown, of Phildelphia; Dr. W. hension of the composers that is very gratifying.
P. Wilson, of Philadelphia; Ambrose Swazey, On the eleventh floor of the Metropolitan build-
of Cleveland, O., and Dr. George F. Kunz, of
ing, the one with the lofty white marble tower
Tiffany's, the last-named being chairman of the over 700 feet high, and in which The Review
Advisory Committee. Baron von Brandenstein, has its home, an assembly room is provided for
the representative of the German Executive
dancing and other gatherings of the women, and
Committee, now in this country, was not in which is installed a $2,000 Knabe concert
present.
grand piano.
It is said that the German Government has
been embarrassed by the opposition of many of
FAVOR PATENT COURT.
the German industries, the opposition being due,
it was plainly hinted, to certain schedules in Necessary in View of Present Conditions,
Says Report.
the Payne-Aldrich tariff.
It was admitted that a letter had been re-
(Special to The Review.)
ceived from the German Ambassador in Wash-
Washington, D. C, Feb. 28, 1910.
ington and that this letter was read at the meet-
The Senate Committee on Patents reported
ing of the Executive Committee Tuesday after- favorably to-day the bill for the creation of a
noon. Owing to the official character of the new court which shall exercise the jurisdiction
letter it was decided that it was best not to now exercised by the Circuit Court of Appeals
make it public at this time.
in patent causes and which shall have no other
jurisdiction. In its report favoring the bill the
The warerooms of Mathushek & Son Piano committee says: "The necessity for a single
Co., at Broadway and Forty-seventh street, have Court of Appeals for patent causes becomes ap-
been handsomely redecorated, and a number of parent to the student of conditions relating to
improvements have been made. The store is patent law and its administration by the exist-
under the management of Chas. P. Kleber.
ing court."
Gaveau Freres
the greatest piano makers of France,
adopt for their Piano the Player
mechanism of
The Autotone
The Piano all can play by hand or
perforated Music Roll
HE SALLE GAVEAU is to orches-
T
tral music in Paris what Carnegie Hall
is to New York. It is also the home of
the Gaveau Piano, made by Gaveau Freres,
an instrument of the highest distinction
throughout Europe.
A year ago, Messieurs Gaveau, recog-
nizing the fact that a playing mechanism
was becoming an indispensable adjunct to a
Piano, began a careful investigation of
Player Pianos.
A committee, chosen from among their
own skilled experts, made a thorough ex-
amination of every mechanism in Europe
and America.
At its conclusion, the vote of the com-
mittee being unanimous, they wrote to the
Makers of the Autotone as follows:
SIEGE SOCIAL: 45 and 47 Rue la Boetie,
Paris.
Messrs. HARDMAN, PECK & Co., New York:
Dear Sirs—For some time past, in view
of the constantly increasing popularity of
Player Pianos, we have attentively exam-
ined the different systems of playing mech-
anism which have been produced in Amer-
ica as well as in Europe.
Our investigations have been conducted
with the most scrupulous care, for there
are numerous attributes which ought, in
our opinion to be combined in such a
mechanism to make of it a really artistic
instrument.
These attributes we have found in the
player-mechanism of your construction and
that is why we have determined to apply
to you for the sole right to use it not only
in France, but in Belgium, iSwitzerland,
Italy, Spain and Portugal.
We are convinced that our patrons in
these various countries will appreciate, as
we ourselves have appreciated, the excel-
lence of workmanship, and the eminently
artistic character of your player mechan-
ises. We remain, gentlemen,
Yours sincerely,
GAVEAU FRERES.
Surely a Mattering letter—for the indorse-
ment given the Autotone by nearly every
prominent artist now before the American
Musical Public now receives the counter-
signature of a country which is almost the
synonym for the great in Art.
More than this, Messrs. Gaveau chose
the Autotone notwithstanding the heavy
import duty they must pay.
Messrs. Hardman, Peck & Co. have
steadfastly refused the most flattering of-
fers in America for the use of the Auto-
tone in connection with other pianos,
believing that the instrument should remain
always in its original form and be identi-
fied only with their ozvn pianos.
But in the matter of a Foreign connec-
tion, it is hardly necessary to say that the
honor conferred on them by Messieurs
Gaveau was not to be declined.
The Hardman Player-Mechanism, there-
fore, entirely manufactured in this country
in the Hardman Piano factories, will be
shipped to France, and plus the Gaveau
Piano will soon be known the length and
breadth of Europe as the Gaveau Melo-
piano or Autotone.
No more striking proof of the superiority
of the Hardman Autotone
can be imagined.
Write to-day for Open Territory
Hardman, Peck & Co.
(Established 1842)
138 Fifth Avenue, New York