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THE MUSICAL CRITIC AND TRADE REVIEW.
150
June 20th, 1881
Wkt
DOMESTIC?
JL1XJD
EXPORT
TK.-A.IDE.
NEW YORK,. JUNE 20TH, 1881.
YOL. IV.
No. 10.
CORRESPONDENCE.
THE ACT OF A DESPERATE MAN.
F. BEATTY'S latest advertising splurge is a pretty good proof that
• he is nearing the end of his rope—and, as it has been sagely re-
ORGANS WANTED.
marked, " only give him rope enough, and he is sure to hang himself."
Lewisburg, Pa., June 13, 1881.
Such a course as that pursued by this man Beatty, is bound to lead to a dis-
Avery Welles, Esq.
astrous end. Having begun by doing that which is illegitimate and outre, Charles
DEAB SIR:—I have made preparations to go into the organ business, and
it is necessary to continually increase the startling character of his induce- would
like to deal in first class organs. Hence I write to you for informa-
ments! and offers! until the limit is reached. He has created the appetite tion before
making any investment. Please give me the different grades and
on the part of the public, and must continue to feed it until at last he, him- wholesale prices,
the lowest for cash. Please answer at once. For any ref-
self, will be absorbed by the insatiable maw. Beatty's latest advertise- erence needed inquire
of Judge Hummel of this place.
ment is about on the level with those promulgated by another class of
Yours truly,
quacks claiming to belong to the medical profession. The advertisements
F. L. B.
of the latter are generally refused by respectable newspapers having more of
[ If our correspondent will address any of the organ makers who adver-
an eye for decency than for dollars. Beatty's latest would be exasperating
to the expert organ manufacturer, from the quantity and quality of its de- tise in the MUSICAL CRITIC AND TRADE RMVIEW he will receive full information
liberate raisstatements, were it not for the fact that these statements are so the subject.—Ed. M. C. AND T. R.]
glaring as to be positively ridiculous. Still we must remember that the
PECULIARITIES OF CHICKERING PIANOS.
public are not experts in the art of organ manufacturing, and that very
many people are predisposed to be gulled by the man who offers to give them
TAMAQUA, JUNE 8TH, 1881.
something for nothing.
Editor MUSICAL CRITIC AND TRADE REVIEW, New York Gity:
The very fact that Mr. Beatty offers to sell an elaborately encased organ
DEAR SIR:—Will you please inform me whether all Chickering pianos
having twenty-seven stops and ten full sets of reeds, with stool, etc., etc., have that peculiar resonant after-sound. It appears to me as an objection
thrown in, for $60, is upon the face of it complete evidence of charlatanry, and in so far as it interferes with distinctness of sound of consecutive notes.
we have not the slightest idea that he makes such an organ for such a price, I desire to purchase a piano for my little girl; like sound of Chickering very
or anything like it. In the first place, his stop system, which is composed much were it not for peculiarities spoken of. Does it admit of being remov-
principally of dummies, calls for only two full sets of reeds at the most, and ed or sound changed '?
Respectfully,
Mr. Beatty cannot begin to furnish an organ with two full sets of reeds,
P. J. K.
putting the instrument together in the cheapest style possible, and after TAMAQUA, PA.
spending about $50,000 a year in advertising his goods into notoriety, realize
[We have received one other letter before this from the above corre-
any profit at all.
spondent in which we were asked which of several makes of pianos we
The truth of the matter is that the Beatty system of selling pianos and would especially recommend. As we do not tout for any piano maker, we
organs will explode before long like any other bubble, and people will find so informed the correspondent.
as they did in the case of the Ladies' Deposit Company in Boston, that where
We think that the questions given in the present letter had better be
an individual does business on the plan of giving a customer a great deal answered by the Chickerings' themselves, and we will submit the points to
more than his money is worth, the individual is either a fraud or a fool.
them.—ED. MUSICAL CRITIC AND TRADE REVIEW].
D
SILAS M. WAITE'S STATEMENT.
ILAS M. WAITE, of the broken Brattleboro' (Vt.) Bank, has been tried,
found guilty, and sentenced to six years' imprisonment. But before he
goes to serve out his sentence, he cannot refrain from making a statement.
In this statement he charges that others are quite as guilty as he for the
mismanagement of the bank; a charge which we have no doubt is true, and
he admits that the main dependence of the bank was upon the anticipated
result of the patent suit against J. Estey & Co.
We believe, just as we have stated all along, that Waite, having involved
the bank in difficulties by mismanagement and actual fraud, strove to retrieve
its fortunes by striking at Estey, whose money he coveted, and to this end
devised with Riley Burdett the patent scheme, which he trusted could be so
worked as to heavily bleed Estey, and after him the whole organ trade.
In spite of well laid plans, Waite has been silenced by his own acts, and
many of those who have been associated with him, are to-day living in
deadly fear that legal vengeance will overtake them.
S
In noting the programmes of musical soiree's to be given at the princi-
pal Ladies' Schools in the South, previous to their closing for the Summer
vacations, two of them attract our special attention. The one issued by the
Misses Nash and Miss Kollock's select boarding and day school, in Hillsbor-
ough, N. C, and by the Salem Academy, in Salem N. C.
The former is replete with vocal and instrumental gems of the most fa-
vorite authors, both classical and modern, and as the musical department is
under the tuition of Miss Mary Nash, it is an evident proof of the care and
rare capacity that lady possesses as a teacher of music. The latter is a mass-
ive one comprising three commencement exercises interspersed with music-
al selections, and one grand final concert. The musical part is all under the
direction of Signor S. D'Auria, an emminent teacher and artist who previous
to his departure for the South, gave ample proofs of his ability in New York
city, and who now enjoys the gratification of viewing the successful results
of his painstaking instructions.
THE MANUFACTURE OF PIANO STRINGS.
NOTICE
N the 25th of August, 1874, Mr. Charles Reinwarth, of No. 114 East 14th
street, New York city, took out a patent for an improvement in
f I ^HE demand for copies of the MUSICAL CBITIG & TRADE REVIEW of February
X. 5, 1881, containing our complete exposure of D. F. Beatty's false methods machines for covering piano strings, which is a very ingenious and effectual
has been so great that we have collected unsold papers from news stands, method for overcoming the difficulties previously experienced in their
manufacture. It is necessary in order that the wire used to cover the string
etc., which we can supply at 10 cts. each.
shall have the same tension throughout and shall be uniformly placed upon
Mr. E. P. Carpenter, the manufacturer of organ actions at Worcester, the string, that the revolutions of the string while being covered should be
rapid, and at the same time of the same velocity from beginning
Mass., is putting new machinery into his factory, and is making every pre- very
to end of the operation, also the speed should be under the control of
paration for turning out large quantities of work this fall.
the workman who guides the covering wire so that he may be enabled
The Wilcox & White Organ Company, of Meriden, Conn., are among to make the necessary adjustment to guide the wire afc the commence-
the live concerns that are putting forth every effort for a booming trade ment of an operation. This difficulty Mr. Reinwarth has entirely over-
about the first of August.
come in his invention by means of a double set of cog wheels, one
The Munroe Organ Reed Co., of Worcester, is crowded with work, set being larger than the other (to acquire the necessary speed) and both
which goes to show that organ manufacturers are preparing for a big fall having the cogs on their faces placed at an angle of about 45 degrees to the face
of the wheel instead of parallel as in ordinary forms of cogged wheels, the
trade.
The well known firm of C. C. Briggs & Co. of 1125 Washington St., Bos- object of this device being to prevent the cogs from ever getting out of con-
ton, are vigorously pushing to the front as makers of first class pianos. The tact with one another, thereby rendering the motion of the string while be-
head of the house has had twenty-five years' experience in the piano manu- ing covered, steady and continuous without any of the jerking motion which
facturing business, and feels confident that his productions in that line will would be caused by the ordinary methods of imparting such a rapid motion
bear comparison with those of many leading makers. The scales of all the as 6,000 revolutions a minute, the speed necessary.
Briggs pianos are accurately drawn by Mr. Briggs himself, and the other de-
With the advantage of this invention at his command it was not long be-
tails of the manufacture have his careful supervision.
fore Mr. Reinwarth was busily employed in the making of strings for piano
DIRECTORY
OF THB
MUSICAL PROFESSION
AND THE
MUSIC TRADES.
O
f^i
W. INGALLS & CO., Organ Reed Boards, Parker Tremolos
BOSTON, MASS.
\JT'
and Octave Couplers, 25 Hermon Street.
MANUFACTURERS.
TN
O.
KETTELL, Piano Punchings, 6 Lincoln Square.
A UTOMATIO MUSICAL PAPER CO. Music Paper for Mechan-
X X ical Musical Instruments. 227 to 233 Cambridge Street.
TT1MER8ON PIANO CO., manufacturers of Grand, Square and
AGENTS AND DEALERS.
. C j Upright Pianos, 595 Washington Street.
CJ R. LELAND & CO., Chickering, Knabe, Hallett, Davis &
WORCESTER, MASS.
O . Co., and Fischer Pianos ; Peloubet & Co. and Smith
American Organs, Sheet Music and Band Instruments.
MANUFAC TUBERS.
THE MUSICAL CRITIC AND TRADE REVIEW.
150
June 20th, 1881
Wkt
DOMESTIC?
JL1XJD
EXPORT
TK.-A.IDE.
NEW YORK,. JUNE 20TH, 1881.
YOL. IV.
No. 10.
CORRESPONDENCE.
THE ACT OF A DESPERATE MAN.
F. BEATTY'S latest advertising splurge is a pretty good proof that
• he is nearing the end of his rope—and, as it has been sagely re-
ORGANS WANTED.
marked, " only give him rope enough, and he is sure to hang himself."
Lewisburg, Pa., June 13, 1881.
Such a course as that pursued by this man Beatty, is bound to lead to a dis-
Avery Welles, Esq.
astrous end. Having begun by doing that which is illegitimate and outre, Charles
DEAB SIR:—I have made preparations to go into the organ business, and
it is necessary to continually increase the startling character of his induce- would
like to deal in first class organs. Hence I write to you for informa-
ments! and offers! until the limit is reached. He has created the appetite tion before
making any investment. Please give me the different grades and
on the part of the public, and must continue to feed it until at last he, him- wholesale prices,
the lowest for cash. Please answer at once. For any ref-
self, will be absorbed by the insatiable maw. Beatty's latest advertise- erence needed inquire
of Judge Hummel of this place.
ment is about on the level with those promulgated by another class of
Yours truly,
quacks claiming to belong to the medical profession. The advertisements
F. L. B.
of the latter are generally refused by respectable newspapers having more of
[ If our correspondent will address any of the organ makers who adver-
an eye for decency than for dollars. Beatty's latest would be exasperating
to the expert organ manufacturer, from the quantity and quality of its de- tise in the MUSICAL CRITIC AND TRADE RMVIEW he will receive full information
liberate raisstatements, were it not for the fact that these statements are so the subject.—Ed. M. C. AND T. R.]
glaring as to be positively ridiculous. Still we must remember that the
PECULIARITIES OF CHICKERING PIANOS.
public are not experts in the art of organ manufacturing, and that very
many people are predisposed to be gulled by the man who offers to give them
TAMAQUA, JUNE 8TH, 1881.
something for nothing.
Editor MUSICAL CRITIC AND TRADE REVIEW, New York Gity:
The very fact that Mr. Beatty offers to sell an elaborately encased organ
DEAR SIR:—Will you please inform me whether all Chickering pianos
having twenty-seven stops and ten full sets of reeds, with stool, etc., etc., have that peculiar resonant after-sound. It appears to me as an objection
thrown in, for $60, is upon the face of it complete evidence of charlatanry, and in so far as it interferes with distinctness of sound of consecutive notes.
we have not the slightest idea that he makes such an organ for such a price, I desire to purchase a piano for my little girl; like sound of Chickering very
or anything like it. In the first place, his stop system, which is composed much were it not for peculiarities spoken of. Does it admit of being remov-
principally of dummies, calls for only two full sets of reeds at the most, and ed or sound changed '?
Respectfully,
Mr. Beatty cannot begin to furnish an organ with two full sets of reeds,
P. J. K.
putting the instrument together in the cheapest style possible, and after TAMAQUA, PA.
spending about $50,000 a year in advertising his goods into notoriety, realize
[We have received one other letter before this from the above corre-
any profit at all.
spondent in which we were asked which of several makes of pianos we
The truth of the matter is that the Beatty system of selling pianos and would especially recommend. As we do not tout for any piano maker, we
organs will explode before long like any other bubble, and people will find so informed the correspondent.
as they did in the case of the Ladies' Deposit Company in Boston, that where
We think that the questions given in the present letter had better be
an individual does business on the plan of giving a customer a great deal answered by the Chickerings' themselves, and we will submit the points to
more than his money is worth, the individual is either a fraud or a fool.
them.—ED. MUSICAL CRITIC AND TRADE REVIEW].
D
SILAS M. WAITE'S STATEMENT.
ILAS M. WAITE, of the broken Brattleboro' (Vt.) Bank, has been tried,
found guilty, and sentenced to six years' imprisonment. But before he
goes to serve out his sentence, he cannot refrain from making a statement.
In this statement he charges that others are quite as guilty as he for the
mismanagement of the bank; a charge which we have no doubt is true, and
he admits that the main dependence of the bank was upon the anticipated
result of the patent suit against J. Estey & Co.
We believe, just as we have stated all along, that Waite, having involved
the bank in difficulties by mismanagement and actual fraud, strove to retrieve
its fortunes by striking at Estey, whose money he coveted, and to this end
devised with Riley Burdett the patent scheme, which he trusted could be so
worked as to heavily bleed Estey, and after him the whole organ trade.
In spite of well laid plans, Waite has been silenced by his own acts, and
many of those who have been associated with him, are to-day living in
deadly fear that legal vengeance will overtake them.
S
In noting the programmes of musical soiree's to be given at the princi-
pal Ladies' Schools in the South, previous to their closing for the Summer
vacations, two of them attract our special attention. The one issued by the
Misses Nash and Miss Kollock's select boarding and day school, in Hillsbor-
ough, N. C, and by the Salem Academy, in Salem N. C.
The former is replete with vocal and instrumental gems of the most fa-
vorite authors, both classical and modern, and as the musical department is
under the tuition of Miss Mary Nash, it is an evident proof of the care and
rare capacity that lady possesses as a teacher of music. The latter is a mass-
ive one comprising three commencement exercises interspersed with music-
al selections, and one grand final concert. The musical part is all under the
direction of Signor S. D'Auria, an emminent teacher and artist who previous
to his departure for the South, gave ample proofs of his ability in New York
city, and who now enjoys the gratification of viewing the successful results
of his painstaking instructions.
THE MANUFACTURE OF PIANO STRINGS.
NOTICE
N the 25th of August, 1874, Mr. Charles Reinwarth, of No. 114 East 14th
street, New York city, took out a patent for an improvement in
f I ^HE demand for copies of the MUSICAL CBITIG & TRADE REVIEW of February
X. 5, 1881, containing our complete exposure of D. F. Beatty's false methods machines for covering piano strings, which is a very ingenious and effectual
has been so great that we have collected unsold papers from news stands, method for overcoming the difficulties previously experienced in their
manufacture. It is necessary in order that the wire used to cover the string
etc., which we can supply at 10 cts. each.
shall have the same tension throughout and shall be uniformly placed upon
Mr. E. P. Carpenter, the manufacturer of organ actions at Worcester, the string, that the revolutions of the string while being covered should be
rapid, and at the same time of the same velocity from beginning
Mass., is putting new machinery into his factory, and is making every pre- very
to end of the operation, also the speed should be under the control of
paration for turning out large quantities of work this fall.
the workman who guides the covering wire so that he may be enabled
The Wilcox & White Organ Company, of Meriden, Conn., are among to make the necessary adjustment to guide the wire afc the commence-
the live concerns that are putting forth every effort for a booming trade ment of an operation. This difficulty Mr. Reinwarth has entirely over-
about the first of August.
come in his invention by means of a double set of cog wheels, one
The Munroe Organ Reed Co., of Worcester, is crowded with work, set being larger than the other (to acquire the necessary speed) and both
which goes to show that organ manufacturers are preparing for a big fall having the cogs on their faces placed at an angle of about 45 degrees to the face
of the wheel instead of parallel as in ordinary forms of cogged wheels, the
trade.
The well known firm of C. C. Briggs & Co. of 1125 Washington St., Bos- object of this device being to prevent the cogs from ever getting out of con-
ton, are vigorously pushing to the front as makers of first class pianos. The tact with one another, thereby rendering the motion of the string while be-
head of the house has had twenty-five years' experience in the piano manu- ing covered, steady and continuous without any of the jerking motion which
facturing business, and feels confident that his productions in that line will would be caused by the ordinary methods of imparting such a rapid motion
bear comparison with those of many leading makers. The scales of all the as 6,000 revolutions a minute, the speed necessary.
Briggs pianos are accurately drawn by Mr. Briggs himself, and the other de-
With the advantage of this invention at his command it was not long be-
tails of the manufacture have his careful supervision.
fore Mr. Reinwarth was busily employed in the making of strings for piano
DIRECTORY
OF THB
MUSICAL PROFESSION
AND THE
MUSIC TRADES.
O
f^i
W. INGALLS & CO., Organ Reed Boards, Parker Tremolos
BOSTON, MASS.
\JT'
and Octave Couplers, 25 Hermon Street.
MANUFACTURERS.
TN
O.
KETTELL, Piano Punchings, 6 Lincoln Square.
A UTOMATIO MUSICAL PAPER CO. Music Paper for Mechan-
X X ical Musical Instruments. 227 to 233 Cambridge Street.
TT1MER8ON PIANO CO., manufacturers of Grand, Square and
AGENTS AND DEALERS.
. C j Upright Pianos, 595 Washington Street.
CJ R. LELAND & CO., Chickering, Knabe, Hallett, Davis &
WORCESTER, MASS.
O . Co., and Fischer Pianos ; Peloubet & Co. and Smith
American Organs, Sheet Music and Band Instruments.
MANUFAC TUBERS.
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