Music Trade Review
Issue: 1880 Vol. 3 N. 9 - Page 14
THE MUSICAL CRITIC AND TRADE REVIEW.
IDO:M:ESTIO
-AJSTID E X P O R T
TRADE.
NEW YORK, DECEMBEE 5TH, 1880.
YOL. III.
TJIE
December 5 th, 1880.
No. 9.
KIND WORDS.
r I ''HE MUSICAL CRITIC AND TRADE REVIEW of November 20 is issued,
A and, if possible, is more interesting than ever. It has a larger
circulation than any other musical paper published, containing the latest
and most reliable information regarding musical events both at home and
abroad. It also contains the best criticisms and the spiciest articles from
some of the best writers in the country. Subscription, post paid, $2.00;
single copies 10 cents. Published at 853 Broadway, corner 14th street, New
York.—Nyack, N. Y., City and County.
p
tell me that the sale of
_L cheap pianos in the northern,
eastern, and western states is dimin-
ishing, while in the territories and
in the southern states it is increas-
NEW YORK, NOV. 29, 1880.
ing. This is natural. It is a con- Charles Avery Welles, Esq. :
sequence of the return of prosperity
Allow me to compliment you on the success of your paper. It grows
to the country. After the war, even better all the while. The issues of November 5th and 20th were splendid
during the flush times in the north, numbers. I am much interested in the " Free Lance" department, and like
people were not anxious to deal with the way in which you conduct it.
the south, and from 1873 until a
Yours most truly, F. J.
little more than a year ago, while
THE MUSICAL CRITIC AND TRADE REVIEW, devoted to the interests of
business was stricken with a para-
lysis, the great demand was for the music and the music trade, has an able editor and a most efficient corps of
cheaper grades of miisical instru- staff correspondents.—Newark Sunday Call.
ments.
"When business revived, the general
A DENIAL FROM W. M. DANIELL.
desire was to purchase the best pos-
MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin, Nov. 27th, 1880.
sible form of instrument, and people
preferred to hold back for a while To the Editor of the Musical Critic and Trade Review, *
until they could accumulate another
DEAR SIR:—I wish to ask your authority for placing my name in your
$100 or $200 in order to make a
good investment in either pianos or Gazette, as having had judgment given against me for a debt of one hun-
organs; that is, they wanted to dred and forty-four dollars. This, my dear sir, is entirely false, for I never
purchase instruments that would last the greatest length of time, and give was sued but once in any court whatever, and that for a small sum unjustly
claimed, and twenty years ago.
the greatest satisfaction during that time.
Please give this matter your consideration, and send at once the inform-
This feeling has characterized average purchasers in the northern,
eastern, and western states; so that manufacturers of the cheaper grades ation asked for.
This is a very grave wrong, and I hope you will do the proper thing to-
of pianos and organs must now look for the largest market in other direc-
prevent any further injury. I am,
tions.
Your most obedient servant,
The people of the south have, since the war, been hardly able to pur-
W. M. DANIELL.
chase pianos and organs at all; but now that the country generally is in a
more prosperous condition, they stand somewhat in the position that the
information published by us came from official sources, and we
people of the north, east, and west stood a few years ago, and they are now shall [The
endeavor to discover who should be blamed, if any mistake has been
demanding low-priced instruments.
made.—ED. MUSICAL CRITIC AND TRADE REVIEW.]
*
There is no use trying to controvert the fact that every sensible man,
THE EMERSON PIANO CO.
no matter how shrewd and economical he may be, will sooner or later see
BOSTON, NOV. 22.
the necessity for making the best possible investment of his money. It
makes no difference whether he is trying to buy a house, a horse, a piano, Charles Avery Welles, Esq. :
or a certain amount of advertising.
DEAR SIR : You must have misunderstood my remarks in the interview
No one knows better than the cheap manufacturer, that the article he reported in your last issue. Mr. Upham never was a purchaser of the Emer-
gives is not worth the money that is paid for it. In other words, the article son property. The sale was made to Ellenwood & Moore, and after Ellen-
is bound to give out within a short space of time, and the purchaser is wood's death the business was purchased by Mr. Moore, and paid for in the
obliged to draw again upon his bank account to renew it.
manner stated.
*
* *
Yours respectfully,
I am not trying to talk political economy, which generally means the
P. H. POWERS.
enshrouding of a few ideas with a cloud of words. The above are plain,
hard, common sense words. I have a good deal of experience of this
BUFFO.—We cannot have a decent basso buffo here, and in Vienna they
sort in my own business.^ Every day parties, who want to get something for haveengaged Ciampi expressly to sing the Marquis in " Linda" and Dulcamara
nothing, apply to this paper for advertising rates. When information is in "L'Elisir d'Amore." The best proof that the genre has become scarce on
given them, they try to beat down rates, evidently thinking that they are the German stage, too. Ciampi, of course, sings in Italian; and the German
dealing with a cheap sewing machine, piano, or organ house, or a pettifog- artists, out of courtesy to him, will follow suit. They have to do it, for
ging newspaper. Sometimes they say, " Why, we can get it done for one Donizetti's comic opera in two languages would be too funny indeed, much
half or one quarter that amount in another paper," (naming some puling more funny than a dialogue between Tornaso Salvini and Ellie Wilton. But
publication.
why did Ciampi not come here ? We need him badly for this very Marquis
To be sure they can, but do they ever stop to reflect that they cannot in "Linda."
buy silk at the same price that they buy calico?
ASTONISHING.—Not long ago we read an article about musical education
The money that they waste in their efforts to get something for nothing, in Harper's,
and, although it was on the whole cleverly written, it must have
•would, if properly placed, yield them good returns.
been from an unprofessional pen. It tells for instance, as a proof of musical
But some men never learn except by bitter experience.
education, that the old tenor, Braham, once at a concert sang a ballad, and
when
encored told his accompanist to play it half a tone lower. This, the
FINCKENHAUS.—Mr - Finckenhaus, Messrs. Billings & Co.'s bookkeeper, article adds, never could have been accomplished if the singer had not been
a great artist. If ever an opinion was of amateurish character, this is.
was to be married early this month. We wish him joy.
Every bad singer will sing half a tone lower or higher, most of them even
CALLS.—We had very pleasant calls recently from Mr. T. D. Tooker, without being aware of Avhat they are really doing. As long as the accom-
managing editor of White, Smith & Co. 's Folio, Boston, and from Mr. Mietzke, panist is capable of transposing a piece at sight, the singer can can do it
organist of the Congregational Church, Rutland, Vt.
easily, without special reason of feeling proud of his accomplishments.
FINGER FORMER.—Herr Seeber, of Weimar, Germany, has added to the
list of machines to aid in making piano-players, with a little instrument
MAAS.—A teacher of the Leipsic Conservatory, by the name of Maas, has
which fits over the finger joints and is called a " finger former."
arrived in New York, to settle here permanently. Where do all these piano
PATKIOTIC.—J. Rattray & Co., tobacco merchants, Montreal, exhibited teachers find pupils '?
at the Exposition there " God save the Queen," words and music formed en-
A MANAGER'S WIFE.—We are informed that Mdme. Montelio, the soprano
tirely of cigarettes and tobacco.
of the now defunct Montelio concert troupe, is an American, and wife of the
LA PREMIERE DANSEUSE.—The only member of Her Majescty's Opera manager Angier. How can a manager be so unreasonable as to ruin his
Troupe nobody finds fault with is Mme. Cavalazza, prima ballerina. This financial prospects with his own wife ! We do not doubt the excellent quali-
fact not only speaks well for the dancer, but expresses volumes of opinions ties of Madame Angier as a lady, but she should use her valuable gifts for
domestic purposes.
about the quality of Mr. Mapleson's singers.
IDO:M:ESTIO
-AJSTID E X P O R T
TRADE.
NEW YORK, DECEMBEE 5TH, 1880.
YOL. III.
TJIE
December 5 th, 1880.
No. 9.
KIND WORDS.
r I ''HE MUSICAL CRITIC AND TRADE REVIEW of November 20 is issued,
A and, if possible, is more interesting than ever. It has a larger
circulation than any other musical paper published, containing the latest
and most reliable information regarding musical events both at home and
abroad. It also contains the best criticisms and the spiciest articles from
some of the best writers in the country. Subscription, post paid, $2.00;
single copies 10 cents. Published at 853 Broadway, corner 14th street, New
York.—Nyack, N. Y., City and County.
p
tell me that the sale of
_L cheap pianos in the northern,
eastern, and western states is dimin-
ishing, while in the territories and
in the southern states it is increas-
NEW YORK, NOV. 29, 1880.
ing. This is natural. It is a con- Charles Avery Welles, Esq. :
sequence of the return of prosperity
Allow me to compliment you on the success of your paper. It grows
to the country. After the war, even better all the while. The issues of November 5th and 20th were splendid
during the flush times in the north, numbers. I am much interested in the " Free Lance" department, and like
people were not anxious to deal with the way in which you conduct it.
the south, and from 1873 until a
Yours most truly, F. J.
little more than a year ago, while
THE MUSICAL CRITIC AND TRADE REVIEW, devoted to the interests of
business was stricken with a para-
lysis, the great demand was for the music and the music trade, has an able editor and a most efficient corps of
cheaper grades of miisical instru- staff correspondents.—Newark Sunday Call.
ments.
"When business revived, the general
A DENIAL FROM W. M. DANIELL.
desire was to purchase the best pos-
MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin, Nov. 27th, 1880.
sible form of instrument, and people
preferred to hold back for a while To the Editor of the Musical Critic and Trade Review, *
until they could accumulate another
DEAR SIR:—I wish to ask your authority for placing my name in your
$100 or $200 in order to make a
good investment in either pianos or Gazette, as having had judgment given against me for a debt of one hun-
organs; that is, they wanted to dred and forty-four dollars. This, my dear sir, is entirely false, for I never
purchase instruments that would last the greatest length of time, and give was sued but once in any court whatever, and that for a small sum unjustly
claimed, and twenty years ago.
the greatest satisfaction during that time.
Please give this matter your consideration, and send at once the inform-
This feeling has characterized average purchasers in the northern,
eastern, and western states; so that manufacturers of the cheaper grades ation asked for.
This is a very grave wrong, and I hope you will do the proper thing to-
of pianos and organs must now look for the largest market in other direc-
prevent any further injury. I am,
tions.
Your most obedient servant,
The people of the south have, since the war, been hardly able to pur-
W. M. DANIELL.
chase pianos and organs at all; but now that the country generally is in a
more prosperous condition, they stand somewhat in the position that the
information published by us came from official sources, and we
people of the north, east, and west stood a few years ago, and they are now shall [The
endeavor to discover who should be blamed, if any mistake has been
demanding low-priced instruments.
made.—ED. MUSICAL CRITIC AND TRADE REVIEW.]
*
There is no use trying to controvert the fact that every sensible man,
THE EMERSON PIANO CO.
no matter how shrewd and economical he may be, will sooner or later see
BOSTON, NOV. 22.
the necessity for making the best possible investment of his money. It
makes no difference whether he is trying to buy a house, a horse, a piano, Charles Avery Welles, Esq. :
or a certain amount of advertising.
DEAR SIR : You must have misunderstood my remarks in the interview
No one knows better than the cheap manufacturer, that the article he reported in your last issue. Mr. Upham never was a purchaser of the Emer-
gives is not worth the money that is paid for it. In other words, the article son property. The sale was made to Ellenwood & Moore, and after Ellen-
is bound to give out within a short space of time, and the purchaser is wood's death the business was purchased by Mr. Moore, and paid for in the
obliged to draw again upon his bank account to renew it.
manner stated.
*
* *
Yours respectfully,
I am not trying to talk political economy, which generally means the
P. H. POWERS.
enshrouding of a few ideas with a cloud of words. The above are plain,
hard, common sense words. I have a good deal of experience of this
BUFFO.—We cannot have a decent basso buffo here, and in Vienna they
sort in my own business.^ Every day parties, who want to get something for haveengaged Ciampi expressly to sing the Marquis in " Linda" and Dulcamara
nothing, apply to this paper for advertising rates. When information is in "L'Elisir d'Amore." The best proof that the genre has become scarce on
given them, they try to beat down rates, evidently thinking that they are the German stage, too. Ciampi, of course, sings in Italian; and the German
dealing with a cheap sewing machine, piano, or organ house, or a pettifog- artists, out of courtesy to him, will follow suit. They have to do it, for
ging newspaper. Sometimes they say, " Why, we can get it done for one Donizetti's comic opera in two languages would be too funny indeed, much
half or one quarter that amount in another paper," (naming some puling more funny than a dialogue between Tornaso Salvini and Ellie Wilton. But
publication.
why did Ciampi not come here ? We need him badly for this very Marquis
To be sure they can, but do they ever stop to reflect that they cannot in "Linda."
buy silk at the same price that they buy calico?
ASTONISHING.—Not long ago we read an article about musical education
The money that they waste in their efforts to get something for nothing, in Harper's,
and, although it was on the whole cleverly written, it must have
•would, if properly placed, yield them good returns.
been from an unprofessional pen. It tells for instance, as a proof of musical
But some men never learn except by bitter experience.
education, that the old tenor, Braham, once at a concert sang a ballad, and
when
encored told his accompanist to play it half a tone lower. This, the
FINCKENHAUS.—Mr - Finckenhaus, Messrs. Billings & Co.'s bookkeeper, article adds, never could have been accomplished if the singer had not been
a great artist. If ever an opinion was of amateurish character, this is.
was to be married early this month. We wish him joy.
Every bad singer will sing half a tone lower or higher, most of them even
CALLS.—We had very pleasant calls recently from Mr. T. D. Tooker, without being aware of Avhat they are really doing. As long as the accom-
managing editor of White, Smith & Co. 's Folio, Boston, and from Mr. Mietzke, panist is capable of transposing a piece at sight, the singer can can do it
organist of the Congregational Church, Rutland, Vt.
easily, without special reason of feeling proud of his accomplishments.
FINGER FORMER.—Herr Seeber, of Weimar, Germany, has added to the
list of machines to aid in making piano-players, with a little instrument
MAAS.—A teacher of the Leipsic Conservatory, by the name of Maas, has
which fits over the finger joints and is called a " finger former."
arrived in New York, to settle here permanently. Where do all these piano
PATKIOTIC.—J. Rattray & Co., tobacco merchants, Montreal, exhibited teachers find pupils '?
at the Exposition there " God save the Queen," words and music formed en-
A MANAGER'S WIFE.—We are informed that Mdme. Montelio, the soprano
tirely of cigarettes and tobacco.
of the now defunct Montelio concert troupe, is an American, and wife of the
LA PREMIERE DANSEUSE.—The only member of Her Majescty's Opera manager Angier. How can a manager be so unreasonable as to ruin his
Troupe nobody finds fault with is Mme. Cavalazza, prima ballerina. This financial prospects with his own wife ! We do not doubt the excellent quali-
fact not only speaks well for the dancer, but expresses volumes of opinions ties of Madame Angier as a lady, but she should use her valuable gifts for
domestic purposes.
about the quality of Mr. Mapleson's singers.
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