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February 5th, 1S81.
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THE MUSICAL CRITIC AND TRADE REVIEW.
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DOMESTIC -A.3STO E X P O R T TRADE.
NEW YORK, FEBRUARY 5TH, 1881.
YOL. IV.
FREE LANCE.
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HE "Free Lance " is omitted from this issue for want of space.
No. 1.
The encomiums of the press have been highly complimentary to its able
director, and we are convinced that the brilliant success of this musical train-
ing school is principally due to the experience and knowledge, both as teacher
and musician, of the director, Mr. E. Eberhard.
The course of instruction is comprehensive and systematic, and as only
musicians of acknowledged ability are emplo>ed, it is perfectly natural that the
system of instruction laid down is faithfully carried out and such excellent
results are obtained. Mr. E. Eberhard has written an excellent work, entitled
• Harmony and Thoroughbass Simplified," which will shortly be published by
Wm. A. Pond & Co., besides several very brilliant compositions for pianoforte.
A STEELING OLD BOSTON HOUSE.
HTHE house of "Woodward & Brown, piano manufacturers, No. 592 Washing-
•*• ton street, Boston, Mass., is one of the oldest and most respectuble in
the United States. They commenced business in 1843 and have achieved an
enviable reputation with both the trade and the public for fair dealing and
the excellent and thorough quality of the instruments they produce. Their
business throughout the whole country is steadily increasing and at home in
THE UNITED CLUETTS.
Boston the quality of their goods is thoroughly appreciated by the musical
public. Messrs. Woodward & Brown are not endeavoring to build up a TV/TE. EDMUND CLUETT and Mr. N. L. Weatherby, of Cluett & Sons,
large trade through much advertising and a great flourish of bill posters on *•**• of Troy and Albany, N. Y., were in New York on the 29th ult.,
all the fences and barns in the country. Trade procured in this way is to a and settled all the liabilities of Mr. F. H. Cluett, of Albany, in full, by
large extent transitory and ceases as soon as the bill posters are defaced, giving their notes in equal amounts at 6, 12, 18, 24, 30, and 36 months,
but Messrs. Woodward & Brown are a conservative firm with a sufficient taking up all the old paper given by F. H. C , and taking from the
infusion of young blood to keep abreast of the times and business methods assignee all projDerty, goods, and accounts in his hands, which gives them
of the country without falling into the quackery, and trickery now so com- ample security.
With a right disposition of the assets, they will save considerable
monly practiced ; they make a good piano and are contented to let it speak
for itself to the user, confident that good work and fair dealing will estab- money by the transaction, at the same time virtually doing away with all
competition by taking in Mr. F . H. Cluett as an equal partner from Feb.
lish a trade now as it has done in their past history on an enduring basis.
1st, 1881. They regain the agencies of the Chickering piano and the
The partners are business men alive to the musical needs of the public, Estey organ,.and are again "United d u e t t s . "
they are not satisfied to rest in the belief that no further improvements can
Cluett & Sons now control the piano and organ trade for North-
be made in their instruments but are continually experimenting with their ern Messrs.
New York, Vermont, and Western Massachusetts, and, with no com-
own and other people's inventions, adopting the good and rejecting the bad, petition,
and controlling all the leading agencies, they open the new year
and so every day bringing the piano nearer to perfection.
with better prospects than ever. They think there is now " millions in it."
S. BRAINARD'S SONS.
AMERICAN AUTCKATI0~0BOAN CO.
HpHIS is one of the best known music house3 in the country, having been
UR representative, when last in Boston, called at the office of the
*• established in 1836 by S. Brainard, in Cleveland, O. The house began
American Automatic Organ Co., No. 100 Milk street, and found Mr.
the publication of music in 1850, and from year to year this branch attained Turner, the general manager, deeply immersed in business. The American
such importance that it is now the second publishing house in the country. Automatic Organ Co. feel very much encouraged with the results of their
The firm consists of Messrs. C. S. and H. M. Brainard, who devote business since its inauguration, and think the prospects for the present
themselves mainly to the affairs of the principal house in Cleveland, and Mr. year very bright. Their instruments are finding much favor, and improve-
A. E. Whitney, who has charge of the affairs of the Chicago establishment. ments are continually being made in them, one of the most valuable
All the jobbing houses iu the East handle the publications of S. Brain- being their latest method of supplying wind, for which a patent has been
ard's Sons, and John Church & Co.'s New York establishment has the eastern applied for.
agency for the Brainard book publications.
EXPORTS^AND IMPORTS.
This firm does all its own work connected with the publishing business.
PORT OF NEW YOBK.
They have their own type-setting, electrotyping, and printing facilities.
(Received too late for projper classification.)
Their trade during the past fall and the present winter has been very large,
Week ending Feb. 1st, 1881.
their catalogue embrace about 1(5,000 works. They average about sixty mis-
Exports.
cellaneous publications per month, and one or two new music books during
Value.
Value.
the same space of time.
$750 British Australia, 44 organs, 82,803
They furnished the committee for the New York Festival, which is to Hamburg, 3 pianos, . . . . . .
300 British West Indies,3 organs,
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take place next May, with 1,000 copies of their own edition of Rubinstein's Bremen, 1 organ, . . . . .
700
"
"
" 1 piano
" Tower of Babel," and they also supplied the Apollo Club of Chicago with Rotterdam, 1 piano, . . .
materials,
2,390
120
the same work. An interesting proof of the magnitude of 8. Brainard's Liverpool, 4 pianos, . . .
3,570
Sons' business is the fact that they have sold over 100,000 copies of "Some- London, 16 organs, . . . .
. .
400
"
1 piano,
Total, . .
$11,316
body's Coining when the Dewdrops F a l l " since it was published about two
100
Brit. N. A. Colonies, 1 organ,
years ago.
Imports.
Messrs. S. Brainard's Sons' Cleveland house are agents for the Chickering.
$27,998
the Kaabe, the J. «fc C. b'isctier, the Decker They do a very lar^e business with the Fischer piano.
OFFICIAL REPORT OF THE PARIS EXHIBITION.
The Chickering piano they have sold ever since they started in business
believe no one is likely to seriously question the opinion that t i e report
in Cleveland. Mr, S. Brainard was one of the oldest agents of Mr. Jonas
is of a most unsatisfactory character. From an historical point of view
Chickering.
is often ludicrous in its errors, and we rub our eyes with astonishment to
Messrs. S. Brainard's Sons have recently begun the production of reed it
find such things emanating from the pen of the Curator of the Museum of the
organs, which instruments have wo believe achieved a great success.
French National Conservatoire of Music. The unwittingly deceptive account
of the invention of the piano we allow to pass, partly because we have not now
THE NEW HAVEN ORGAN CO.
the space to discuss it, partly because the matter was dealt with at very consid-
HE business of manufacturing musical instruments in New Haven is rapidly erable length last month. But the cool assertion that the pianos of three
increasing in magnitude and one of the principal manufacturers is the French makers, however eminent, have served " as types to the imitators of
New Haven Organ Co. This company was incorporated in 1807, under the all countries," can hardly be permitted to pass without question. Great
name of New Haven Melodeon Company, with a capital stock of $30,000, which improvements the founder of one, at least, of these firms undoubtedly made;
was increased to $40,001), in April, 18(58. In January, 1876, the corporate name but, as will be abundantly seen by the exhaustive article w e printed on Mr. Hip-
was changed to New Haven Organ Co., which it has retained to the present kins's text last month, nearly every important amelioration of pianoforte man-
ufacture has at the outset emanated from England or America.
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time.
Throughout the report the taint of Gallic bias is strongly marked. * *
The factory as originally built was of brick, 80 x 35 feet, embracing four
We
cannot
but
regret
that
this
long
expected
report
should
have
been so
stories and basement, with a wing '20 x '24 leet, used as an engine and boiler
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room, having a dry room above. In 1875 an addition of 4'» x 25 feet was built, unsatisfactory.
and other additions are contemplated in the near future. The present capacity
The official report of M. Chouquet can, indeed, only be admitted to display
is adout 50 reed organs per week. The gentlemen who take the most active gr^ss ignorance as to many of its allegations of fact, to contain adulation of a
part in the manufacture have had large experience in this line, and are thorough French juror and other French manufacturers utterly unsuited to an official
business men in every respect. We have no doubt that in their hands the con- document, and to be exceedingly unfair to the exhibitors of England, America,
cern will fully maintain the good quality of the instruments manufactured, and and, in fact of every country save France.—London and Provincia/ Music Trades
that fina'ncially its affairs will be well administered.
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GRAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC.
KIND WORDS.
HPHE thinnest excuse for a newspaper that reaches the editorial rooms of the
HE entertainments given every month by the Grand Conservatory of Music, -*• World is a sickly, consumptive affair, published in New York, and known
of this city, at which the pupils of this institution appear, and by their to the few who read it as the MUSICAL CEITIC AND TRADE REVIEW. I t has
performances prove the excellent method of teaching and developing students, been nursed during its brief < areer by a peculiar and eccentric individual who
have for some time attracted the attention of the public to the Grand Con- call?* himself Charles Averj Welles, and who does not make enough to support
servatory of Music, whose director is Mr. E. Eberhard, and suggested inquiries any one of his names. We wish he would not send the sickly infant to the
as to the nipans employed to obtain artistic results, which are not excelled by office any longer, as it is only a nuisance, and is consigned to the waste-basket
any other music school in this city.
just as it conies, wrapper and all.—W. L.. Allen's Dead Beat, Chicago.
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