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MUSICAL
CRITIC AND -- TRADE
DOMESTIC
A.3STD E X P O R T
NEW YOEK, JULY 20TH, 1881.
VOL. IV.
175
TRADE.
No. 12.
The influence of Alfred Dolge, the celebrated felt manufacturer of New
TURKEY AND CONFIDENCE.
York city and Brockett's Bridge, is beginning to make itself felt in political
R. C. M. LOOMIS, the well-known music dealer of New Haven, Meri- affairs on the continent of Europe. His movements are at present shrouded
den and Bridgeport, calls attention, in a card to the public, in mystery, but it is hinted that his visit to Russia is for the purpose of
to the alleged embezzling of some $600 or $700 by the man who had ascertaining whether felt saturated with nitro-glycerine would not be a good
charge of his Bridgeport store. While we sympathize with Mr. Loomis on material for filling glass bombs for nihilistic purposes.
the loss of his money and the trouble occasioned by a change of manage-
Messrs. Clough & Warren, the organ makers' of Detroit, Mich., report
ment in his Bridgeport store, we cannot help smiling at the touching evi-
dence of implicit confidence expressed in the card wherein Mr. Loomis states that business is again quite good with them. We are glad to hear this, for
that he had such " implicit confidence in him up to the very last moment, a few weeks ago, according to parties who supplied some of their materials,
so much so that last Thanksgiving I presented him with an 18-lb. turkey." they were not Avorking very lively.
The piano manufacturers have long been the hardest fighters in the
There is more meant in this than meets the eye, and we suspect that this
turkey presentation business is intended as a guide to employers of clerks world. Even now they have notices on programmes in New York and in the
and to commercial agencies whereby they may gauge the amount of confidence provinces saying that " the piano used on this occassion is from the elegant
reposed in the clerk by his employer. The key to the guide might read as establishment of Octave & Co.," although a piano is neither used nor needed
for the occasion. So " great " artists are advertised as using a certain brand
follows :
of piano, and they cannot go around the country without having it said that
Presentation of an 18-lb. turkey—implicit confidence.
they eat certain pickles or suck certain beer, because it is adapted to play-
Presentation of a 9-lb. turkey—a moderate amount of confidence.
ing on Pedal & Co.'s " the best " pianos. But the latest is to have a minister
No turkey—no confidence.
We submit the above to brother F. G. Smith, manufacturer of the Brad- preach on music, the divine art, and say that music has a refining influence on
all, especially when played on one of Beeflat's square, upright or three-legged
bury piano, as he is an authority on the turkey question.
pianos.—N. Y. Herald, July 5th. How is .this for the Rev. Lyman Abbott
and the Christian Union ?
Mr. Beatty does not live up to the circular which we printed in full in
MR. WM. STEINWA7 ON THE GERSTER TESTIMONIAL.
our last issue. In that circular he stated that it costs more than $60 to
UR reporter found Mr. Wm. Steinway the other afternoon very busy* make such an organ as he had offered to sell at $60, and that on and after
July 1st the price for the instrument would be $90; yet we find him advertis-
but still willing to give a few moments to conversation.
" I called, Mr. Steinway," he remarked, " t o ask you the meaning of ing the same organ in the N. Y. Herald of July 4th for $60. The public
this little stir about Madame Gerster's late testimonials. There seems to be must delight in being humbugged by this man Beatty.
a disposition to throw cold water on them by interested parties."
There is an elaborate aeolian harp in process of construction in Roches-
" More like a disposition to work up a controversy in the newspapers,"
N. Y., we understand, that is to furnish music for a neighborhood, free
replied Mr. Steinway. "The attempt to get up a controversy in this ter,
of all expense. The harp is described as follows: The sounding-board is to be
matter," said Mr. Steinway, " afforded me a good deal of amusement. As made
Norway pine and to be seven feet high with a back of hard curled maple.
far as Steinway & Sons are concerned the matter is perfectly simple. These of woods
all imported, the slow growth of European woods giving
Madame Gerster, accompanied by her husband, called on us four different them a texture are
better
adapted to musical instruments than the home products.
times, pricing pianos, and finally selected one of our new bent-rim Concert As a whole, the instrument
is to be tube-shaped, with eight slots in the tube.
Grands, No. 44,537, paying for the^same, June 3d, they sailing June 4th. The latter is to be surmounted
with a weather cock on a rod eight feet high.
The instrument was shipped by Madame Gerster's directions, by steamer
every turn of the weather cock, a slot is presented to the wind, and a
Vincenzo Florio, to her home at Bologna, Italy, June 20th, 1881. Without With
is made to vibrate. The first string that vibrates in this manner
attaching any too great importance to testimonials given by artists, no mat- string the
fundamental note, while the other will sound a third and give the
ter how high their position may be, other than celebrated pianists, I was gives
octave to the first. Professor Dennesbscq, the gentleman who is con-
quite pleased to receive Madame Gerster's written voluntary and unqualified acute
structing it, has no doubts as to the success of his instrument, and thinkr
expression of opinion. The document speaks for itself, and any one who when
and placed on the tower for which it is designed, it can be
can read English can understand it, and form his own opinion as to which heard completed
on still nights for a distance of three miles- He made a similar in-
is the strongest."
strument for the Sorbonne in Paris, which works satisfactorily.
The board of directors of the Schomacker Pianoforte Manufacturing
Company, 1103 Chestnut street, Philadelphia, on June 30th, declared a semi-
annual dividend of five per cent, on the capital stock of the company, pay-
able after July 2d.
Chas. Zibulski, of Munich, Bavaria, has patented a piano action. No.
The scheme for the organ for the Thomas' Music Festival next May in
of patent, 243,841. Application filed Jan. 14th, 1881.
the Seventh Regiment Armory has been intrusted to Mr. Hilborne L. Roose-
Geo. W. Turner, of Boston, Mass., has patented a mechanical musical velt to execute. It will comprise one manual of 58 keys and one pedal of
27 keys. Register of manual—Bourdon, 16 feet; open diapason, 8 feet;
instrument. No. of patent, 243,661. Application filed Jan. 17th, 1881.
gamba, 8 feet; doppel note, 8 feet; octave, 4 feet; mixture, 4 ranks, and tuba
Zeno Mauvais, of Oakland, Cal., music dealer, has filed homestead act. mirabilis, 8 feet. Register of pedal—Double open diapason, 32 feet; open
E. H. Gurney & Co., music dealers of Minneapolis, Minn., have given a diapason, 16 feet; bourdon, 16 feet; violoncello, 8 feet; trombone, 16 feet;
coupler manual to pedal and manual octave coupler. The organ will stand
chattel mortgage on their stock for $1,000.
at rear of the great chorus stage, but the keyboard will be just under the
S. Quick, of Kearney, Nebraska, music dealer, has given several chattel conductor's stand, the keyboard and pipes being conducted by electric
mortgages.
action.
Shortly after the last number of this paper went to press, the attempt to
Mr. W. Sweeney, of Washington, N. J., who was recently managing the
assasinate President Gar field was made, and happily proved unsuccessful, as sales department of the organ business of H. W. Alleger, intends canvassing
according to the latest despatches from Washington, the President is in a the country for the sale of organs in the interest of some first class house, or
fair way to recover. The business men of the whole country may be con- on his own account.
gratulated on the fact that the assasin failed in his dastardly attempt, for
Work at the piano action manufactory of Messrs. Wessell, Nickel &
although the death of the President would not have been a valid reason for
a disturbance of business, yet as commercial confidence is a delicate thing Gross, in this city, which has been temporarily behindhand on account of
and largely affected by the imagination, an event like the President's death repairs to the boiler and engine, is again under full headway, and the great
activity in the business of the firm at this time is a good indication of an
might have caused serious complications.
active business among the piano makers.
Messrs. Horace Waters & Co., have brought out a very small, but ex-
Mr. Peek, of the firm of Christie & Co., piano makers, New York, has
ceedingly neat little organ, which they call the " Child " Organ. It has
three and one-third octaves, is neat and compact in shape aud retails for $22. returned from his vacation at Niagara Falls, and goes back to his work like a
It is the best and cheapest instrument of the kind in the market. It is not giant refreshed.
a mechanical instrument, but a genuine reed organ in miniature, and will
The Mechanical Orguinette Co., of 831 Broadway, N. Y., are so pressed
sell largely and rapidly as it is useful to young players and to persons of with orders for the " Combination " Organ that they cannot keep a finished
moderate means.
one in their store for twenty four hours.
Our reporter saw a handsome ebonized Cabinet Grand at Messrs.
We understand that a new company for the manufacture of Celluloid,
Hardman, Dowling & Peck's factory, at 57th street and Tenth avenue, this is soon to be started in North Adams, Mass.
city, which has been purchased by Mr. Havemeyer, of the great sugar refin-
ing firm, for his yacht " Ideal." We understand this sale was made in con
Music TRADE JOURNAL, (now T H E MUSICAL CRITIC AND TRADE REVIEW), C. A.
sequence of the reputation the Hardman Piano has achieved for standing Welles, Publisher, New York, February 5, 1880. This enterprising fortnightly review of
salt air on the Williams & Guion line of steamers, which have several of these ihe music trade is filled with fresh and newsy paragraphs of interests to manufacturers,
instruments in use on their boats.
publishers and dealers.—Musical and Dramatic Mirror, JV. V.
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