Music Trade Review
Issue: 1880 Vol. 3 N. 4 - Page 12
THE MUSICAL CRITIC AND TRADE REVIEW.
12
DOMESTIC
VOL. III.
-AJSTD E X P O R T
NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER 20TH, 1880.
September 20th, 1880.
TRADE.
No. 4.
This young man made quite a sensation in the trade, and out of it too,
when he made his first appearance here, clad in gorgeous raiment, not long-
ago. But now that he has got the Bicycle Bulge he is nothing less than a
curiosity. New York is proud of him in any form, but he really ought^to*
r~pHE first of last week I was in go to a competent surgeon and get his elbows straightened.
A. Boston, but found nothing
talked about but the celebration
When all other devices fail for making a run upon the pocket-books of
which took place there on the the piano-makers,
is not a bad idea to bring over a second-rate pianist
17th inst. Even the news from from Europe, and it spring
upon some manufacturer, who is ambitious
Maine, which arrived the morn- to be known as a maker of him
Grand
pianos, and wishes somebody to show
ing that I did, and the ques- them off for him in public.
tion of the change in the tariff of
Mr. Constantin Sternberg, the young Russian pianist, is the latest
our country, should the Demo- Grand
exhibitor and advertiser who has visited this country. He has-
cratic party come in power this at least piano
one merit, he can be engaged cheap, and we recommend him to Mr.
fall, were forgotten in vieAv of the Henry F.
Miller, of Boston, on that account.
fact that Boston was about to cele-
brate her 250th birthday, and that
THE CONDITION OF TRADE.
Jordan & Marsh, the dry-goods
dealers of that city, had bought up
the entire celebration, and were
CLOTJGH & WARREN ORGAN CO., DETROIT.
turning it into a big advertise-
HIS old and well-known organ house (established in 1850) have every
ment for themselves.
year since their organization shown steady growth in popular favor,,
Even the great Henry F. Mil-
in the financial success which attends such growth when combined with
ler was obliged to "pale his and
management.
ineffectual fire" by comparison proper
This company report that for the past season they have been crowded
with Jordan & Marsh.
with orders ; they have several new styles of organs completed and in pro-
*
cess of construction, in anticipation of the large business which will surely-
There was some talk in Boston be inaugurated during the season just opening.
The organs made by this house are growing in favor abroad, and they
about the affairs of the Emerson
Piano Co., but not a great deal, for the affairs of this concern are more expect, in addition to their home trade, to have a large foreign demand
interesting to the people outside than inside of Boston. I found there was during the ensuing season.
It is claimed that their Patent Qualifying Tubes give them a great ad-
an absurd rumor flying about that the Emerson Company had compromised
the suit brought against them by Mrs. Emerson for $50,000, or $500,000, or vantage over other makers in a hitherto unattained smoothness of tone, and
$5,000,000—"the number of cyphers," as Carter very justly says, " is of that by the use of these and other improvements of their invention, the-
no account"—for the Emerson Piano Co. would be just as willing to pay tone of their instruments is made to approach very nearly to that of a pipe
$5,000,000 as $5,000. Messrs. Carter & Powers, who are the business mana- organ. In consequence of these advantages, it is stated that this company
gers of this concern, claim that this suit brought by Mrs. Emerson is one of have almost a practical monopoly in the larger sizes of organs for churches-
the biggest advertisements they could possibly have. A very cheerful view and halls, and in all places where power and pure pipe quality of tone is
to take of the case, say I. " We also feel assured," say they, " that if Mrs. wanted. This company claim that they have adopted a new method of cut-
Emerson should prove that we have no right to the name of the Emerson ting lumber riftways, for organ manufacturing, whereby many evils attend-
Piano Co., it would not interfere with our business in the least, for we could ant on the old method, viz., the liability to warp, twist, shrink, swell or
go on making pianos just the same under another name, and do just as much split, in changes of weather or climate, are largely obviated, actual testa-
business, for the name of Emerson is really of no value to us whatever." showing that lumber cut in this way has a shrinking and swelling capacity
of less than one-third as compared with lumber cut by the ordinary method.
Oh, indeed !
The company publish testimonials from some of the best judges of organs
These gentlemen are genuine Mark Tapleys, and believe there is credit in
this and other countries, and their claim of excellence in manufacturing;
in being jolly under all circumstances.
seems to rest on secure foundations.
T
JOHN F. STRATTON & CO.
In the meantime the suit against the parties now calling themselves
Messrs. John F. Stratton & Co., of No. 55 Maiden Lane, New York, re-
the Emerson Piano Co., is going steadily on, and it is alleged that some un-
pleasant things are coming out concerning Wm. Moore, the ex-sailor, and port a favorable trade for the past season, exceptionally so during the month,
later, dealer in "garden sass," who, with Thomas Upham, was unexpectedly of August, and a good business doing during the present month. One of
found one day in possession of Wm. Emerson's pianoforte business, very the prominent features of this house is the McTammany Organette, for which
Messrs. John F. Stratton & Co. became wholesale agents in December of last
soon after the death of that gentleman.
It is claimed by the friends of Mr. Wm. Moore, who, by the way, is a year. At that time the manufacture of these instruments was comparatively
very fragile, consumptive-looking individual, that the cares of the piano- in its infancy ; but since then the capacity to manufacture it has been largely
forte business weighed heavily upon him, so that he was obliged to sell out increased, although the production is still far from satisfying the demand.
Messrs. J. F. Stratton & Co. state that the McTarnn>auy Organette has
to the present alleged owners, and go to Leadville for his health.
Mr. Moore went for Leadville about the time that Mrs. Emerson went already become very popular and will undoubtedly be a gro.it success. The
low price of this instrument places it within the reach oi' iM, and it is manu-
for the Emerson Piano Co.
By a curious coincidence, the first place that that great man, John C. factured in very compact shape. A catalogue of n ^v or^-.nette music has
Freund, went for when he bursted up his creditors' newspaper, the Musical been published by this house, comprising 120 airs, an.u.ve-.i and secular, at re-
and Dramatic Times and Music Trade Review, was Leadville ; and, the first markably low prices.
Messrs. John F. Stratton & Co. are pushing the Organettes, and if the
door he knocked at, was Mr. Wm. Moore's.
manufacturing end of the business is as vigorously conducted, the business,
*
this fall bids fair to be a large one.
But it is not alone concerning the pianoforte business that serious
charges have been brought against Mr. Moore. They have been putting
CARL'S NOTES FROM BURLINGTON, IOWA.
forward evidence in court, that he and Upham know more about certain
BURLINGTON, Iowa, September 16, 1880.
bonds that were said to have been missing from Mr. Emerson's private safe
shortly after his death, than they have ever told, and it is also alleged that
I am looking for a lively amusement season. Our opera-house project is working
Mrs. Emerson never received all the money collected shortly after her hus- quietly, and I hope soon to be able to chronicle it as a settled fact.
Prof. Gustav Heyner has lately settled here with a view to organizing an orchestra - r
band's death for instruments rented.
However, the great question is, are the members of the present Emer- he has already twenty men, and will at once commence rehearsals. From parties who-
know Mr. Heyner, I have it that he is competent to carry out successfully what he has
son Piano Co. only Moore and Upham's figure-heads, or are they not ?
undertaken.
*
Mr. James Rogers, the new organist of the Congregational church, has arrived, and
It is amusing to note how quickly the most absurd manners and cus- commenced his labors on the 5th inst. It is expected that he will prove a valuable acquisi-
toms, if they are deemed fashionable, will be adopted by the young and tion to our musical circle.
The " Doctor of Alcantara" is to be given by an amateur opera company, just
foolish. Of course I know it is a laudable ambition for a young man who
ormed here. The date is not definitely decided upon. They will labor under a great
comes to New York from a New England town to wish to have an appearance many
disadvantages.
of "tone " about him, but why he should adopt the idiotic fashion of hold-
Mr. Henry Wolhoff has returned from Cincinnati, where he has been attending the
ing his arms with his elbows stuck out, is more than I, or the members of Institute.
I understand he resumes teaching at once.
the piano trade with which he is connected, can understand.
Mr. Will Webber, who has been connected with Mr. C. H. Whiting in the music
I call this way of sticking out the elbows the " Bicycle Bulge," because business, has gone to Omaha in a different line.
it must must have been originated by athletic and fashionable young men,
Mr. James A. Guest, our wide-awake wholesale music dealer, has returned from a
who acquired the habit by holding their bicycle-handle.
visit to Michigan.
,
CARL.
12
DOMESTIC
VOL. III.
-AJSTD E X P O R T
NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER 20TH, 1880.
September 20th, 1880.
TRADE.
No. 4.
This young man made quite a sensation in the trade, and out of it too,
when he made his first appearance here, clad in gorgeous raiment, not long-
ago. But now that he has got the Bicycle Bulge he is nothing less than a
curiosity. New York is proud of him in any form, but he really ought^to*
r~pHE first of last week I was in go to a competent surgeon and get his elbows straightened.
A. Boston, but found nothing
talked about but the celebration
When all other devices fail for making a run upon the pocket-books of
which took place there on the the piano-makers,
is not a bad idea to bring over a second-rate pianist
17th inst. Even the news from from Europe, and it spring
upon some manufacturer, who is ambitious
Maine, which arrived the morn- to be known as a maker of him
Grand
pianos, and wishes somebody to show
ing that I did, and the ques- them off for him in public.
tion of the change in the tariff of
Mr. Constantin Sternberg, the young Russian pianist, is the latest
our country, should the Demo- Grand
exhibitor and advertiser who has visited this country. He has-
cratic party come in power this at least piano
one merit, he can be engaged cheap, and we recommend him to Mr.
fall, were forgotten in vieAv of the Henry F.
Miller, of Boston, on that account.
fact that Boston was about to cele-
brate her 250th birthday, and that
THE CONDITION OF TRADE.
Jordan & Marsh, the dry-goods
dealers of that city, had bought up
the entire celebration, and were
CLOTJGH & WARREN ORGAN CO., DETROIT.
turning it into a big advertise-
HIS old and well-known organ house (established in 1850) have every
ment for themselves.
year since their organization shown steady growth in popular favor,,
Even the great Henry F. Mil-
in the financial success which attends such growth when combined with
ler was obliged to "pale his and
management.
ineffectual fire" by comparison proper
This company report that for the past season they have been crowded
with Jordan & Marsh.
with orders ; they have several new styles of organs completed and in pro-
*
cess of construction, in anticipation of the large business which will surely-
There was some talk in Boston be inaugurated during the season just opening.
The organs made by this house are growing in favor abroad, and they
about the affairs of the Emerson
Piano Co., but not a great deal, for the affairs of this concern are more expect, in addition to their home trade, to have a large foreign demand
interesting to the people outside than inside of Boston. I found there was during the ensuing season.
It is claimed that their Patent Qualifying Tubes give them a great ad-
an absurd rumor flying about that the Emerson Company had compromised
the suit brought against them by Mrs. Emerson for $50,000, or $500,000, or vantage over other makers in a hitherto unattained smoothness of tone, and
$5,000,000—"the number of cyphers," as Carter very justly says, " is of that by the use of these and other improvements of their invention, the-
no account"—for the Emerson Piano Co. would be just as willing to pay tone of their instruments is made to approach very nearly to that of a pipe
$5,000,000 as $5,000. Messrs. Carter & Powers, who are the business mana- organ. In consequence of these advantages, it is stated that this company
gers of this concern, claim that this suit brought by Mrs. Emerson is one of have almost a practical monopoly in the larger sizes of organs for churches-
the biggest advertisements they could possibly have. A very cheerful view and halls, and in all places where power and pure pipe quality of tone is
to take of the case, say I. " We also feel assured," say they, " that if Mrs. wanted. This company claim that they have adopted a new method of cut-
Emerson should prove that we have no right to the name of the Emerson ting lumber riftways, for organ manufacturing, whereby many evils attend-
Piano Co., it would not interfere with our business in the least, for we could ant on the old method, viz., the liability to warp, twist, shrink, swell or
go on making pianos just the same under another name, and do just as much split, in changes of weather or climate, are largely obviated, actual testa-
business, for the name of Emerson is really of no value to us whatever." showing that lumber cut in this way has a shrinking and swelling capacity
of less than one-third as compared with lumber cut by the ordinary method.
Oh, indeed !
The company publish testimonials from some of the best judges of organs
These gentlemen are genuine Mark Tapleys, and believe there is credit in
this and other countries, and their claim of excellence in manufacturing;
in being jolly under all circumstances.
seems to rest on secure foundations.
T
JOHN F. STRATTON & CO.
In the meantime the suit against the parties now calling themselves
Messrs. John F. Stratton & Co., of No. 55 Maiden Lane, New York, re-
the Emerson Piano Co., is going steadily on, and it is alleged that some un-
pleasant things are coming out concerning Wm. Moore, the ex-sailor, and port a favorable trade for the past season, exceptionally so during the month,
later, dealer in "garden sass," who, with Thomas Upham, was unexpectedly of August, and a good business doing during the present month. One of
found one day in possession of Wm. Emerson's pianoforte business, very the prominent features of this house is the McTammany Organette, for which
Messrs. John F. Stratton & Co. became wholesale agents in December of last
soon after the death of that gentleman.
It is claimed by the friends of Mr. Wm. Moore, who, by the way, is a year. At that time the manufacture of these instruments was comparatively
very fragile, consumptive-looking individual, that the cares of the piano- in its infancy ; but since then the capacity to manufacture it has been largely
forte business weighed heavily upon him, so that he was obliged to sell out increased, although the production is still far from satisfying the demand.
Messrs. J. F. Stratton & Co. state that the McTarnn>auy Organette has
to the present alleged owners, and go to Leadville for his health.
Mr. Moore went for Leadville about the time that Mrs. Emerson went already become very popular and will undoubtedly be a gro.it success. The
low price of this instrument places it within the reach oi' iM, and it is manu-
for the Emerson Piano Co.
By a curious coincidence, the first place that that great man, John C. factured in very compact shape. A catalogue of n ^v or^-.nette music has
Freund, went for when he bursted up his creditors' newspaper, the Musical been published by this house, comprising 120 airs, an.u.ve-.i and secular, at re-
and Dramatic Times and Music Trade Review, was Leadville ; and, the first markably low prices.
Messrs. John F. Stratton & Co. are pushing the Organettes, and if the
door he knocked at, was Mr. Wm. Moore's.
manufacturing end of the business is as vigorously conducted, the business,
*
this fall bids fair to be a large one.
But it is not alone concerning the pianoforte business that serious
charges have been brought against Mr. Moore. They have been putting
CARL'S NOTES FROM BURLINGTON, IOWA.
forward evidence in court, that he and Upham know more about certain
BURLINGTON, Iowa, September 16, 1880.
bonds that were said to have been missing from Mr. Emerson's private safe
shortly after his death, than they have ever told, and it is also alleged that
I am looking for a lively amusement season. Our opera-house project is working
Mrs. Emerson never received all the money collected shortly after her hus- quietly, and I hope soon to be able to chronicle it as a settled fact.
Prof. Gustav Heyner has lately settled here with a view to organizing an orchestra - r
band's death for instruments rented.
However, the great question is, are the members of the present Emer- he has already twenty men, and will at once commence rehearsals. From parties who-
know Mr. Heyner, I have it that he is competent to carry out successfully what he has
son Piano Co. only Moore and Upham's figure-heads, or are they not ?
undertaken.
*
Mr. James Rogers, the new organist of the Congregational church, has arrived, and
It is amusing to note how quickly the most absurd manners and cus- commenced his labors on the 5th inst. It is expected that he will prove a valuable acquisi-
toms, if they are deemed fashionable, will be adopted by the young and tion to our musical circle.
The " Doctor of Alcantara" is to be given by an amateur opera company, just
foolish. Of course I know it is a laudable ambition for a young man who
ormed here. The date is not definitely decided upon. They will labor under a great
comes to New York from a New England town to wish to have an appearance many
disadvantages.
of "tone " about him, but why he should adopt the idiotic fashion of hold-
Mr. Henry Wolhoff has returned from Cincinnati, where he has been attending the
ing his arms with his elbows stuck out, is more than I, or the members of Institute.
I understand he resumes teaching at once.
the piano trade with which he is connected, can understand.
Mr. Will Webber, who has been connected with Mr. C. H. Whiting in the music
I call this way of sticking out the elbows the " Bicycle Bulge," because business, has gone to Omaha in a different line.
it must must have been originated by athletic and fashionable young men,
Mr. James A. Guest, our wide-awake wholesale music dealer, has returned from a
who acquired the habit by holding their bicycle-handle.
visit to Michigan.
,
CARL.
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