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NOVEMBER, 1930
The Music Trade Review
Elaborate New Quarters in Miami,
i Fla., for S. Ernest Philpitt & Son
X/IIAMI, FLA.—The new store of S. Ernest
^ *• Philpitt & Son, located at 40 southeast First
street, this city, was formally opened to the
public on October 7, and proved to be the most
colorful and interesting event of its kind in
the business history of Miami. The Miami
store, which is the oldest of the Florida chain
ing entrance, is given over to the sheet music,
musical merchandise, record and player roll de-
partments, with booths for record and radio
demonstration, handsome displays of pianos, ra-
dios and Victor Electrola combinations, cash-
ier's office, Victrola repair department and la-
dies' dressing room. On the second floor are
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ed from the handsome beamed ceiling.
The popularity of the firm was well attested
by the attendance at the store opening day
and those attending the concert given on the
>i.-cond floor during the evening. About twelve
hundred were present at the opening, and by
actual count 874 attended the concert in which
local artists participated. That Miamians en-
joy the best in music was very evident from
the interest and appreciation manifested by the
large audience which remained throughout the
entire program and for an hour afterward,
when many congratulated Mr. Philpitt, the in-
Exterior and Interior of New Store of S. Ernest Philpitt & Son, Miami, Fla.
of Philpitt stores, operated at 34 North Miami Air. Philpitt's private office, the general offices dividual artists, and Katherine Clyde Mclntosh
avenue for thirteen years, but found it necessary and bookkeeping departments, the Radio En- who arranged the program.
At the close of the program the audience
to move into larger quarters, and the new lo- gineer's work-shop and ample space for stock.
The upper floor is so arranged that it can remained to look through the store and ad-
cation is one of the most advantageous in the
be quickly converted into a concert hall, and mire the furnishings and stock. A number of
city.
The store itself, occupying one-half of the every Saturday morning a recital will be given manufacturers and wholesalers sent floral
p'eces and scores of friends of Mr. Philpitt
lower floor and the entire second floor of the in which ten pianos will be played simultan
Century Building, thus providing more than 16,- eously by pupils of one of Miami's popular and his organization sent congratulatory mes-
000 feet of floor space on the two floors, has piano teachers. The office of the manager, R. sages.
every department arranged for the convenience H. Creagor, occupies a space on the main floor.
OF THE OWNERSHIP, MANAGEMENT
and comfort of both patron and employe. The The building is well-ventilated, and lighted by STATEMENT
CIRCULATION, ETC., REQUIRED BY THE
lower floor with its plate glass front and impos- skylights and numerous electric lights suspend-
ACT OF CONGRESS OK AUGUST 24, 1912,
Bechstein-Moor Piano in
Recital at Carnegie Hall
An unusually impressive and successful dem-
onstration of the qualities of the Bechstein-
Moor double keyboard piano was offered on
October 15 in a recital at Carnegie Hall, New
York, given by Winifred Christie, pianist, and
the wife of Emanuel Moor, composer and in-
ventor of the Bechstein-Moor piano.
The wide range of musical effect made pos-
sible by the double keyboard served to impress
both the members of the audience and the
newspaper critics who attended. The instru-
ment was hailed as a distinct advance in piano
construction in offering a greater range of son-
ority and technical resource, and it is believed
that further refinements in contemplation will
add to the popularity of the double keyboard
piano as a concert instrument.
In commenting upon the Carnegie Hall reci-
tal, Olin Downes, critic for the New York
Times, said in part: "The compositions which
Miss Christie propounded as vehicles for the
new keyboard message were a transcription of
the Bach Toccata and Fugue in D minor;
small pieces by Couperin Scarlatti; the Handel
Chaconne; Cesar Franck's Prelude Chorale and
Fugue; Schumann's 'Carnaval' and Emanuel
Moor's transcription of the Bach Chaconne.
Of the arrangements heard it is noteworthy
that the two most suggestive of the organ—
the transcription of Bach's organ piece, and the
Cesar Franck Prelude, Chorale and Fugue,
which is organ music in conception—were
those which sounded best. Certain couplings
of lower and of upper registers in the Bach
piece appropriately suggested the organ, and
provided more color than the piano customar-
ily affords. In Franck's pieces, notably in the
chorale, the couplings aided materially to solve
the problems created by the widely arpeggiated
chords and by the demand in the last fortis
simo measures for chords reinforced with an
octavo tone ordinarily achieved by crossing
the left hand over the right. The double key-
board made this effect possible without giving
the listener the sensation of a makeshift tech-
nical device. Certain basses characteristic of
Franck had a greater depth and sonority than
they have on the single keyboard. In other
scores places whfch are usually hollow in the
middle, on account of there being too great a
gap between the bass and the upper tones of
the instrument, were last night full, sonorous,
balanced.
"In the Schumann 'Carnaval' such a diffi-
cult passage as the wide skips of the 'Paganini'
variation were obviated by the pianist playing
on the two keyboards as an organist often does,
with the result that the perilous skips were
eliminated and the passages lay easily and well
for the hand."
Samuel Chotzinoff in the New York World
said: "Mr. Moor has done away with a few of
the major bogies of piano playing—octaves and
octave trills, to mention two. Furthermore,
he has ameliorated the heavy burden usually
placed on the sustaining pedal and made pos-
sible the chromatic glissando. Mr. Moor's pi-
ano is, in effect, the old-fashioned harpsichord
with the upper manual tuned an octave higher
than the lower; at the same time it takes ad-
vantage of all the superior sustaining quali-
ties of the modern grand. As demonstrated
by Miss Christie, the double-keyboard piano
justified nearly everything that was claimed for
it by its inventor.
The Musholt Music House, Quincy, 111., has
been appointed representatives in that territory
for the complete Aeolian Co. line of instruments.
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