Music Trade Review
Issue: 1881 Vol. 4 N. 7 - Page 11
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May 5th 1881.
113
THE MUSICAL CRITIC AND TRADE REVIEW.
She
DOMESTIC
VOL. IY.
A1STID E X P O R T
TRADE.
NEW YORK, MAT 5TH, 1881.
Fl^EE
No. 7.
TRADE
CHAT.
A well-known firm of pianoforte-makers complain to us that retail deal-
S the clown says in the circus, ers have two special grounds of grievance—(1) that professors, tuners, and
and, as he has said froin the "hangers-on " are supplied with pianofortes by many good houses at trade
first days of clowns and circuses— prices, so that the dealer, who invests capital in stock, risking bad debts,
somewhere back in the times of the bad trade, &c, is placed on a level with men who are, litterally, commission
ancient Greek games—down to the agents, risking neither capital nor interest; and (2) that credit is too readily
" greatest shows on earth" of given to frothy and insecure starters in trade, who get cheap foreign and
English stock, and cut it at almost any price, trusting to the chapter of acci-
Barnum and Coup:—
dents entirely whether the result is to be failure or not.—London Musical
" Here we are again."
Opinion and Trade Review.
By the way, I hare been told by
A. M. McPhail, the Boston piano manufacturer, has recently gotten
several parties that D. F. Beatty, out a Mr.
magnificent specimen of his "Imperial Cabinet Upright." It is a noble
Mayor—[with a salary of $10 per instrument.
year, which he gives to the poor
of his village]—has had a man
Mr. Turner, of the American Automatic Organ Company, goes to Europe
watching at the Hoboken ferry for next week, to be gone nearly two months. He will visit London, Paris, Saxony
the past three or four weeks to ar- and St. Petersburg.
rest the editor of this paper.
Mr. Spaulding, of the Massachusetts Organ Company, will soon sail for
Of course, this may not be true, Europe in search of novelties in the musical instrument line.
as the parties who told me only had
Messrs. Vose & Sons, of Boston, have about the handsomest piano
Beatty's word for it.
Nevertheless, it is true that warerooms in that city. There are doing a fine retail business in addition to
Beatty has threatened to "raise their large wholesale trade.
the Dickens" with me, if he
A subscriber in Fentonville, Mich., wishes to know whether the Baker
" catches me out in Jersey."
Upright Piano, of Boston, is a good instrument, and also asks our opinion
This reminds me very much of of the patent tuning pins used in the Baker Upright. We can say that this
the threat used by the small boy: " Just wait till I catch you down in my piano bears an excellent reputation, and that, although we have had no per-
alley, and I'll punch your head."
sonal experience with the patent tuning pin alluded to, we have examined it
Is Mr. Beatty anxious for justification or vindication, or is he seeking and should say that it possesses numerous merits.
for revenge ?
Messrs. Dyer & Hughes, the organ manufacturers of Foxcroft, Maine,
*
are having a splendid trade; they have doubled their capacity of last year!
I understand that an eminent (?) Boston piano manufacturer will add They make organs on which they stencil names for parties in the trade.
largely to his facilities for piano making in the neighborhood of that city.
Professor Ernst Eberhard, Director of the Grand Conservatory of Music,
It is confidently stated that in order to have everything of the very best 21 East Fourteenth street, New York city, has composed and published a
quality he will have an elephant yard attached to his new factory, where charming Valse de Concert. Price, $1.00.
elephants will be cultivated for their ivory under his personal supervision.
A correspondent writing to us from Tamaqua, Pa., wishes to know
His eldest son is earnestly trying to procure slips of a felt tree which he be-
lieves grows somewhere in India, and which he hopes by careful cultivation which piano we should choose, in selecting from Chickering, Knabe, Stein-
way, Decker, Steck, Steiff, Fischer and Beatty. We reply that it would
will enable him to surpass the felts of Dolge, Ranft, and others.
depend upon which piano we preferred, and the price we wanted to pay.
*
The list includes some of the best pianos that are made. We never
The illustrations on another page showing the editor of this paper as recommend a special make of piano under any circumstances, but we
he is represented, and as he actually exists, contain a world of truth. The can say this, the first five names speak for themselves, the next, that of
little curs that are snarling at his heels in the lower picture are supposed to Steiff, of Baltimore, is not so generally known, but we believe it to be an
be the editors of dead-beat newspapers in this city and about the country excellent instrument at a moderate price. The Fischer piano is made in
that strive to draw attention to themselves by yawping at the MUSICAL CKITIC New York city, and is a low priced instrument. The Beatty piano is made
by Mr. Joseph P. Hale, of New York city. Our Tamaqua correspondent
AND TRADE REVIEW.
also wishes to know whether an upright piano has a quality of tone different
* *
from and superior to a square piano. There is a variety of opinion on this
*
subject, and anyone who desires to ventilate his ideas may do so in
I was in Boston last week, and found that musicians were disposed to this paper.
smile at the Tremont Temple concerts recently given by Mr. Sherwood.
These concerts weae a comical combination of Schuberth, Schumann, Bach,
The project for a World's Fair in this city in 1883, seems to be, at pre-
Beethoven and the Miller grand.
sent, in better hands than formerly, and nothing further is to be made public
At the first concert I learned that there was hardly anyone present in regard to the matter until there is some definite progress made. The sky
besides the five Miller families. At this rate Mr. Sherwood might better is brightening a little but there is no sunshine to be seen yet.
have made his admission 10 cents and furnished free beer as an additional
Mr. W. M. Y. Maxwell, of Messrs. Steinway & Son's London branch
attraction.
house, sailed for England in the steamer Adriatic, on the 4th inst., after hav-
*
ing paid a flying visit of about ten days to the United States. We under-
I wonder if it does not strike many parties in the trade that the firm of stand that in addition to other business, Mr. Maxwell left a large order for
Decker & Son in this city are subjected to a great deal of what might grand pianos in anticipation of the busy season in London, which extends
very properly be called persecution, by a rival piano house. Messrs. from about the middle of May to the middle of August.
Decker & Son do excellent work, yet efforts are constantly being made
Mr. Lowell Mason, of Orange, N. J., has invented and patented a Table
to stigmatize them as frauds. I think there is such a thing as carrying the
hostility against Decker & Son too far, and I believe that if the subject were Reed Organ. The patent is numbered 239,521, and was filed Dec. 11th,
flooded with a little of the electric light of impartiality, Messrs. Decker & 1880. It has been assigned to the Mason & Hamlin Organ Company of
Boston, Mass.
Son would be very suddenly and decidedly left alone.
It is reported that seven thousand pianos were sold in Chicago last year
and ten thousand organs.
WOODWAKD & BROWN.
The United States received the largest proportion of awards at the
N another page will be found an advertisement showing two styles of
pianos—grand and upright—mamifactured by Woodward & Brown, Australian World's Fair, as well as the largest percentage of the first order of
of Boston. These instruments will make known their merits even after very merits. New England received over 40 per cent, of the awards, New York
slight investigation. They are original in design, finely made in every 26 per cent., the Middle States 19 per cent., the Western States 6 per cent.,
respect, present many novelties in construction and stand in the very front and the Southern and Pacific Coast States 3 per cent. each.
rank as far as tone and lasting qualities are concerned.
Cory Bros., of Providence, R. I., agents for the celebrated Chickering
pianos, have taken the exclusive agency in Rhode Island for the Calenberg
& Vaupel pianos.
At the Melbourne Exhibition the Smith American Organ Company, of
The old organ factory of George A. Prince & Co., Buffalo, has been sold
Boston, Mass., was awarded the first degree of merit for cabinet organs.
The second degree of merit for cabinet organs was awarded to the Taylor & by auction and converted into a wall paper manufactory. The machinery was
Farley Organ Company, of Worcester, Mass., and to Messrs. Peloubet & disposed of in lots to various organ makers, who sent their representatives
to the sale. Some of the old instrumants were sold at high prices.
Company, of New York city.
A
O
May 5th 1881.
113
THE MUSICAL CRITIC AND TRADE REVIEW.
She
DOMESTIC
VOL. IY.
A1STID E X P O R T
TRADE.
NEW YORK, MAT 5TH, 1881.
Fl^EE
No. 7.
TRADE
CHAT.
A well-known firm of pianoforte-makers complain to us that retail deal-
S the clown says in the circus, ers have two special grounds of grievance—(1) that professors, tuners, and
and, as he has said froin the "hangers-on " are supplied with pianofortes by many good houses at trade
first days of clowns and circuses— prices, so that the dealer, who invests capital in stock, risking bad debts,
somewhere back in the times of the bad trade, &c, is placed on a level with men who are, litterally, commission
ancient Greek games—down to the agents, risking neither capital nor interest; and (2) that credit is too readily
" greatest shows on earth" of given to frothy and insecure starters in trade, who get cheap foreign and
English stock, and cut it at almost any price, trusting to the chapter of acci-
Barnum and Coup:—
dents entirely whether the result is to be failure or not.—London Musical
" Here we are again."
Opinion and Trade Review.
By the way, I hare been told by
A. M. McPhail, the Boston piano manufacturer, has recently gotten
several parties that D. F. Beatty, out a Mr.
magnificent specimen of his "Imperial Cabinet Upright." It is a noble
Mayor—[with a salary of $10 per instrument.
year, which he gives to the poor
of his village]—has had a man
Mr. Turner, of the American Automatic Organ Company, goes to Europe
watching at the Hoboken ferry for next week, to be gone nearly two months. He will visit London, Paris, Saxony
the past three or four weeks to ar- and St. Petersburg.
rest the editor of this paper.
Mr. Spaulding, of the Massachusetts Organ Company, will soon sail for
Of course, this may not be true, Europe in search of novelties in the musical instrument line.
as the parties who told me only had
Messrs. Vose & Sons, of Boston, have about the handsomest piano
Beatty's word for it.
Nevertheless, it is true that warerooms in that city. There are doing a fine retail business in addition to
Beatty has threatened to "raise their large wholesale trade.
the Dickens" with me, if he
A subscriber in Fentonville, Mich., wishes to know whether the Baker
" catches me out in Jersey."
Upright Piano, of Boston, is a good instrument, and also asks our opinion
This reminds me very much of of the patent tuning pins used in the Baker Upright. We can say that this
the threat used by the small boy: " Just wait till I catch you down in my piano bears an excellent reputation, and that, although we have had no per-
alley, and I'll punch your head."
sonal experience with the patent tuning pin alluded to, we have examined it
Is Mr. Beatty anxious for justification or vindication, or is he seeking and should say that it possesses numerous merits.
for revenge ?
Messrs. Dyer & Hughes, the organ manufacturers of Foxcroft, Maine,
*
are having a splendid trade; they have doubled their capacity of last year!
I understand that an eminent (?) Boston piano manufacturer will add They make organs on which they stencil names for parties in the trade.
largely to his facilities for piano making in the neighborhood of that city.
Professor Ernst Eberhard, Director of the Grand Conservatory of Music,
It is confidently stated that in order to have everything of the very best 21 East Fourteenth street, New York city, has composed and published a
quality he will have an elephant yard attached to his new factory, where charming Valse de Concert. Price, $1.00.
elephants will be cultivated for their ivory under his personal supervision.
A correspondent writing to us from Tamaqua, Pa., wishes to know
His eldest son is earnestly trying to procure slips of a felt tree which he be-
lieves grows somewhere in India, and which he hopes by careful cultivation which piano we should choose, in selecting from Chickering, Knabe, Stein-
way, Decker, Steck, Steiff, Fischer and Beatty. We reply that it would
will enable him to surpass the felts of Dolge, Ranft, and others.
depend upon which piano we preferred, and the price we wanted to pay.
*
The list includes some of the best pianos that are made. We never
The illustrations on another page showing the editor of this paper as recommend a special make of piano under any circumstances, but we
he is represented, and as he actually exists, contain a world of truth. The can say this, the first five names speak for themselves, the next, that of
little curs that are snarling at his heels in the lower picture are supposed to Steiff, of Baltimore, is not so generally known, but we believe it to be an
be the editors of dead-beat newspapers in this city and about the country excellent instrument at a moderate price. The Fischer piano is made in
that strive to draw attention to themselves by yawping at the MUSICAL CKITIC New York city, and is a low priced instrument. The Beatty piano is made
by Mr. Joseph P. Hale, of New York city. Our Tamaqua correspondent
AND TRADE REVIEW.
also wishes to know whether an upright piano has a quality of tone different
* *
from and superior to a square piano. There is a variety of opinion on this
*
subject, and anyone who desires to ventilate his ideas may do so in
I was in Boston last week, and found that musicians were disposed to this paper.
smile at the Tremont Temple concerts recently given by Mr. Sherwood.
These concerts weae a comical combination of Schuberth, Schumann, Bach,
The project for a World's Fair in this city in 1883, seems to be, at pre-
Beethoven and the Miller grand.
sent, in better hands than formerly, and nothing further is to be made public
At the first concert I learned that there was hardly anyone present in regard to the matter until there is some definite progress made. The sky
besides the five Miller families. At this rate Mr. Sherwood might better is brightening a little but there is no sunshine to be seen yet.
have made his admission 10 cents and furnished free beer as an additional
Mr. W. M. Y. Maxwell, of Messrs. Steinway & Son's London branch
attraction.
house, sailed for England in the steamer Adriatic, on the 4th inst., after hav-
*
ing paid a flying visit of about ten days to the United States. We under-
I wonder if it does not strike many parties in the trade that the firm of stand that in addition to other business, Mr. Maxwell left a large order for
Decker & Son in this city are subjected to a great deal of what might grand pianos in anticipation of the busy season in London, which extends
very properly be called persecution, by a rival piano house. Messrs. from about the middle of May to the middle of August.
Decker & Son do excellent work, yet efforts are constantly being made
Mr. Lowell Mason, of Orange, N. J., has invented and patented a Table
to stigmatize them as frauds. I think there is such a thing as carrying the
hostility against Decker & Son too far, and I believe that if the subject were Reed Organ. The patent is numbered 239,521, and was filed Dec. 11th,
flooded with a little of the electric light of impartiality, Messrs. Decker & 1880. It has been assigned to the Mason & Hamlin Organ Company of
Boston, Mass.
Son would be very suddenly and decidedly left alone.
It is reported that seven thousand pianos were sold in Chicago last year
and ten thousand organs.
WOODWAKD & BROWN.
The United States received the largest proportion of awards at the
N another page will be found an advertisement showing two styles of
pianos—grand and upright—mamifactured by Woodward & Brown, Australian World's Fair, as well as the largest percentage of the first order of
of Boston. These instruments will make known their merits even after very merits. New England received over 40 per cent, of the awards, New York
slight investigation. They are original in design, finely made in every 26 per cent., the Middle States 19 per cent., the Western States 6 per cent.,
respect, present many novelties in construction and stand in the very front and the Southern and Pacific Coast States 3 per cent. each.
rank as far as tone and lasting qualities are concerned.
Cory Bros., of Providence, R. I., agents for the celebrated Chickering
pianos, have taken the exclusive agency in Rhode Island for the Calenberg
& Vaupel pianos.
At the Melbourne Exhibition the Smith American Organ Company, of
The old organ factory of George A. Prince & Co., Buffalo, has been sold
Boston, Mass., was awarded the first degree of merit for cabinet organs.
The second degree of merit for cabinet organs was awarded to the Taylor & by auction and converted into a wall paper manufactory. The machinery was
Farley Organ Company, of Worcester, Mass., and to Messrs. Peloubet & disposed of in lots to various organ makers, who sent their representatives
to the sale. Some of the old instrumants were sold at high prices.
Company, of New York city.
A
O
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