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THE MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
the surrounding objects; and where there is
INSPECT WURLITZER DEPARTMENT
proximity of soft and yielding objects, such as
French Musicians to Give a Series of Concerts draperies and the face and clothes of the play- Dealers View Magnificent Collection of Violins
Using Seventeenth Century Instruments
in Recently Arranged Musical Merchandise
er, the sound is detrimentally absorbed thereby.
Department in the Wurlitzer Building
It
is
the
object
of
this
invention
to
provide
The old, little great, great grandparents of the
means
for
preventing
the
aforesaid
detrimental
modern piano, violin and bass viol have been
The Rudolph Wurlitzer Co. sent invitations
brought forth and naturally enough, from effect of proximate absorbing objects on the to the trade last week to inspect their collection
sound
of
musical
instruments,
and
particularly
France. When France went back to the fighting
of old violins, violas, violoncellos and bows be-
machines of feudal days and revived the catapult the effects produced on violin sound by the fore the general opening of the salesrooms on
player's
clothes;
and
to
this
end
the
invention
for bomb throwing, she also resurrected from
the second floor of 115 West Fortieth street,
the museum of antiques her old musical instru- consists in a reflector of suitable material inter- which is planned for the 22nd of January. This
posed
between
the
instrument
and
the
person,
ments to serve her in the great need.
and shaped and arranged to receive the sound special exhibition was held from the 15th to
the 18th of January.
Six artists of the Societe des Instruments and reflect'it away from the player.
Anciens arrived here last week on board the
Three rooms have been specially redecorated
steamship "Chicago" of the French line, from
and furnished to house this new department.
OPPOSE CONTINGENT FEES
Bordeaux. They come here under the auspices of
One room is used as a reception room and as
the French government, by direction of the Min-
the offices of Jan Van Roosmalen, who is di-
Government
Counsel
Throws
a
Bomb
Over
ister des Beaux Arts, to give a series of concerts
rectly in charge of the department. The sec-
in which the ancient musical instruments are to Into the Ranks of the Customs Attorneys ond room, in antique ivory, will have violins
Who Take Cases on This Basis
be used exclusively.
ranging up to one thousand dollars in price.
The third room, in which the most famous
The French musicians who arrived here were
Something
like
a
miniature
bombshell
was
antiques are kept, is elegantly furnished and
Josef Bonnett, who is organist of the Church of
St. Eustache, in Paris, and who plays the organ thrown into the ranks of customs attorneys the is planned to create the proper atmosphere in
other
day
when
the
Government
counsel
ob-
keeping with these rare instruments. A vault
in the present concert series; Henri Casadesus,
who plays the viole d'armour; Mine. Marie Buis- jected to the hearing of protests before the Gen- opens directly into this room, in which the vio-
son-Casadesus, his sister-in-law, who is the eral Appraisers on the ground that it had not lins are kept.
vocalist; Maurice de Villiers, who plays the been averred or shown that the attorneys were
This, collection includes the famous Strad Ber-
basse de viole; Maurice Hewitt, who plays the not doing their work for a contingent fee. It gonzi 'cello. In fact there is at least one in-
quinton, and Mme. Regina Patorni, who plays has been the general impression that in many strument from practically every one of the
cases the attorneys were not to be paid unless
the clavecin pleyel.
they succeeded. This is what is sometimes famous Italian makers.
The viole d'amour, or violin of love, and the called taking a case on speculation. It is fair-
quinton are small violins of antique pattern, the ly common in cases of accidents and torts in
BUSINESS BEING LIQUIDATED
basse de viole is an ancient edition of the bass the usual law courts and also in proceedings for
August M. Gemunder, sole surviving co-part-
viol, and the clavecin pleyel is the ancestor of condemnation of property or for reduction of
the piano. The artists who arrived here gave taxes or assessments. Dickens referred to the ner in the firm of August Gemunder & Sons, 141
the first of a series of six Sunday evening con- practice in his Bardell vs. Pickwick and its an- West Forty-second street, New York, violin
and 'cello manufacturers has advertised a pri-
certs at Sherry's last Sunday.
tiquity at the time he wrote is unquestioned. vate liquidation sale of the firm's assets. Mr.
Still, there has always been some kind of a Gemunder states that this sale is being held
TONE REFLECTOR FOR VIOLINS
stigma attaching to it, often, of course, unde- under order of the Supreme Court, due to the
WASHINGTON, D. C, January 15.—John A. served, and every once in a while an effort is death of Rudolph F. Gemunder, who was a part-
Bolander, San Francisco, Cal., was last week made to stop it. The most recent instance is ner in the firm.
granted Patent No. 1,207,678, for a tone reflector the attempt during the past week to have can-
for musical instruments.
celed the charter of a corporation because of
VIOLIN MAKER PASSES AWAY
This invention relates to the art of music, its devoting itself to the business of trying to
and particularly to that division of the art procure, on a contingent fee, the reduction or
John B. Bouvier, reputed to have made a
which treats of musical sound produced by in- cancellation of assessments. The tariff makers number of the world's finest violins, died recent-
struments of the violin tribe. In playing such incorporated in the act now operative a provi- ly at Louisville, Ky. He was eighty-one years
instruments, the vibrations of strings are com- sion making unlawful any agreement for a con- of age, and was a native of Toulon, France.
municated through a bridge to the body of the tingent fee to attorneys. As the case stands,
instrument, and said body, containing a vol- for the present the question is one of proce-
ume of confined air, is set into resonant vibra- dure, it being insisted by the Government coun-
tions, sound being given off into the surround- sel that, before a protest is heard, it must be
ing air. The beauty and efficiency of the tone pleaded that no agreement for a contingent fee
is affected by the character of the environment, has been made. Should this be upheld, how-
such as the absorptive or reflective nature of ever, it is quite likely to result in the rejection
of a large percentage of all customs protests.
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