Music Trade Review

THE MUSICAL CRITIC AND TRADE REVIEW.
8
September 5th, 1880
NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS.
We need a few more experienced parties to furnish musical and trade corre-
spondence from all parts of the world.
Forward applications immediately, and when our decision is made creden-
tials will at once be given.
NOTE WELL.
This is the ONLY PAPER published in America DEVOTED EXCLUSIVELY to
AND
JUripr*
With which is incorporated THE MUSIC TRADE JOURNAL.
MUSIC, MUSICIANS and the MUSIC TRADES.
NOTICE TO ORGAN-BUILDERS.
Builders of Pipe Organs will oblige us by getting together all possible ma-
terials concerning organ-building in general, and their own methods of manufac-
ture in particular, so that we can do them full justice in our series of articles on
" Organ Builders and Organ-Building," a series which we expect will be the
most complete thing of the kind ever published.
NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.
Of th.© M u s i c i a n s
AND THE MUSIC TRADES OF AMERICA.
We sometimes receive complaints from subscribers that the MUSICAL CRITIC AND
TRADE REVIEW does not come to them regularly.
To these we must reply that the fault can hardly lie at this end of the line, as our
wrapping and mailing departments are very carefully supervised.
In most cases we have found that papers have been removed from their wrappers
by parties to whom they were not addressed.
Whenever copies of the MUSICAL CRITIC AND TRADE REVIEW fail to reach sub-
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scribers regularly, we trust they ivill promptly notify us.
In future THE MUSIC TRADE JOURNAL, will be known
AT 849 BROADWAY, Corner 14th Street,
as
CHARLES AVERY WELLES,
THE MUSICAL CRITIC AND TRADE REVIEW.
This change of title is made, because, hereafter the paper
Editor and Proprietor.
will devote as much attention to musical, as to trade matters.
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AN INDIGNANT RUSSIAN.
E publish in our issue of to-day a communication by a Russian
gentleman, residing in this city, who complains bitterly
All communications should be addressed to the editor, CHARLES AVKBY WELLES, 849 about the terms used in a daily paper, which called the habitues of
Broadway, N. Y. City.
the Italian Opera at St. Petersburg " Russian barbarians." We
Checks and Post-Offlce Orders should be made payable to CHARLES AVERY WELLES, Pro-
have hardly anything to add to the communication, which speaks for
prietor.
itself; it does not need further comment, and we may only be
We are not responsible for the return of rejected manuscript.
Correspondence must always be accompanied by the name and address of the sender, not allowed to say, that sweeping assertions in regard to a whole class
necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith.
of people ought to be avoided. There are people of refinement
Trade reports, items and communications, relating to the music trade are solicited from
n every country, and naturally there are boors. To throw mud at
all parts of the world.
For the accommodation of foreign buyers, we have arranged to keep constantly on hand, at a community is not wise, and is not a proof of good breeding.
this office, illustrated catalogues, circulars, and export price-lists. Manufacturers are re- Especially in this country, which gives a home to all the nations of
quested to send their illustrated catalogues, export price lists, circulars, &c, for notice in
the world, leniency and carefulness in regard to expressions ought to
this department.
It is true they abuse us often enough in
Translations from or into French, German, Spanish or Portuguese will be furnished to rule, in our own interest.
European papers, but such foolish behavior is generally easily repu-
advertisers without charge.
diated, and falls back on the writers. However, we should not try
It is the ambition of the Proprietor that the MUSICAL to retaliate. If everything which the " Russian barbarian " tells
CRITIC AMD TRADE REVIEW should be recognized as the us in regard to music and musical men at the capital of the Russian
Empire is true (and we have no reason to doubt the correctness of
organ of the Musical world and of the whole Trade, and not the statement), we must confess that musical matters in St. Peters-
of any part thereof.
burg look too bright and healthy to deserve the epithet "barbarous."
We have reprinted the letter in full, because it affords a great deal
of
instruction, and makes our readers acquainted with men who
NEW YORK, SEPTEMBEE 5, 1880.
occupy important positions in St. Petersburg, besides giving full
information of the musical affairs in the northern capital.
ADVERTISING RATES.
One i n c h (Two column* to the page.)
Per quarter, $20.00
EVILS IN THE PIANO AND ORGAN TRADES.
ADVERTISING CARDS,
N evil which has existed in the trade, and of which we have
1 I n c h (Three columns to the page)
Per quarter, $14.00
long been cognizant, has lately been made more glaring and
conspicuous by the frequent cases which have been brought to
Post-paid one year, invariably in advance,
$3.00 our notice. We refer to the practice which is best stated by the
Single copies
10 phrase " going back on agents." In other words, when a dealer
takes a certain territory from a manufacturer with the understanding
that he is to have the exclusive control of the trade for that territory,
NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS, NO. I.
and has built up a successful business for that particular piano or
We particularly desire to call attention to the fact that we carry no " dead- oro-an, then the manufacturer who has been waiting for the time to
wood," or unpaid advertisements in this paper. All our advertisements are arrive, commences on one pretext or another—generally that the
properly contractedfor.
It would be an act of the grossest injustice to advertisers who pay to insert sales or prices are not satisfactory—to sell pianos or organs directly
to the users, at a little under the prices which the agent has been
the advertisements of other parties who pay nothing, or next to nothing.
getting, having the idea that the name has become sufficiently well
known and that he might as well make the profit that his agent
NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS, NO. I I .
We do not take pianos, organs, or any description of musical merchandise, has been making, and also to get, without paying for it, the ad-
in payment for advertisements in the MUSICAL CBITIC AND TKADE REVIEW. We vantage of said agent's personal exertions in creating a demand for
are not engaged in renting out musical instruments, nor in selling them upon that brand of instrument.
the installment plan.
If our attention had not been often called to this state of things in
^"either do we pay our printer's or other bills in pianos or organs taken for
the
most pointed manner, we should hardly have supposed that such
advertising.
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