Music Trade Review
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MUSICAL
CRITIC AND TRADE
REVIEW.
128 Music Trade Review THE
Mrs. Ursula Schneider, 56 years of age, while insane, committed suicide that in spite of this large space, there is very little room to spare.
on the afternoon of the 13 inst., by jumping out of a third story window of firm is having great success with the mechanical musical instruments of the-
her residence, No. 106 East Third street. Her husband is at present an in- American Automatic Organ Co., for which they are the general agents. The-
mate of the lunatic asylum on Ward's Island. He was a prosperous piano- manufacture of perforated paper sheets for automatic musical instruments,
key manufacturer ten years ago, and had a factory in Spring street.
of nearly all kinds, is becoming an important feature of their business.
In consequence of the embarrassed condition of the affairs of Messrs.
It appears from Dun, Barlow & Co's. circular lately issued, that the failures
for the first three months of this year were nearly double what they were Thomas Bros., of Catskill, N. Y., the agencies which they have heretofore
for the corresponding period last year. The local trade is oppressed with held for the Standard Organ and the Chickering Piano have been withdrawn
enormous rents which, in the cases of new firms starting in retail business, from them. The agency of the Standard Organ for their section has been
eat up their capital before their business has become large enough to stand transferred to Messrs. Vinton Bros., of this city.
such a tax. Summer is almost here and the people who have much money
The agency of the Steinway & Son's Piano in Cleveland, Ohio, was
to spend are leaving the city. It will be a hard struggle for the smail
tradesmen to pay their rents from June to October and there will probably be ;ransferred last week from Mr. J. T. Wamelink to Messrs. S. Brainard's
Sons.
another crop of failures.
S. Brainard's Sons, the enterprising music publishers of Cleve-
A meeting of the World's Fair executive committee, which was appointed and, Messrs.
Ohio,
have been blessed with such an increase of business, that
for May 11th, did not take place, although that was the regular day. Mr. although their
store was large, it did not offer them sufficient accomo-
W. A. Cole of the committee, said the committee had no information for the dations. They old
have,
therefore, recently occupied a new building, having a
public, and declined to answer the question whether any overtures had been front of thirty feet and
a depth of eighty feet. It has four stories and a.
received from the persons in Boston who desire to have the World's Fair held basement.
there.
The New England manufacturers' and mechanics' Boston exhibition will
Mr. T. Leeds Waters, of 14 East Fourteenth street, this city, is paying
on the 15th of next August. Manufacturers throughout the country
special attention to his retail trade, which is large and rapidly increasing. open
invited to send their goods. There will be no charges for space or
We saw at his establishment, recently, one of the reed organs which he had are
lately put on the market, it has a powerful rich tone and the case is massive power.
Messrs. Sanders & Stayman, of Baltimore, have recently taken the agency
and beautiful. I t is an instrument which would be a handsome ornament
for Decker Bros, piano, in connection with the Weber and the Fischer pianos,
in the parlor of any family.
Theodore Meinhold, of Klingenthal, Bavaria, has patented an harmonica. and the Estey organ.
Great is the rivalry between Sylvester Tower, of Cambridgeport, Mass. r
No. of Patent 240,835. Application filed Feb. 14, 1881.
The competition between D. F. Beatty and Marchal & Smith in the and Wessell, Nichol, and Gross, of this city, in the matter of piano actions.
The types blundered in our last issue, and made us state that Mr. John-
number of organ stops which they advertise their organs to contain is
something fearful. Marchal & Smith advertised an organ with 24 stops, and son, of the New Haven Organ Co., had been securing orders out West for a.
Beatty at once goes them three better and advertises one with 27. We rival organ house in Boston. The mistake, however, was so palpable, even
expect to see Marchal & Smith go at least 5 better than this in their next to the most careless reader, that we suppose it is hardly necessary to apolo-
advertisement, and as stops are cheap there is no telling when the two com- gize for it. The New Haven Organ Co. is pushing. ahead lately with great
vigor.
petitors will stop stopping.
Mr. F. Winslow Bailey, of the Bay State Organ Co., Boston, Mass., waa
Mr. Wm. McCammon, the eminent piano manufacturer of Albany, was
in town during festival week. He had no complaints to make concerning in town about a week ago. He was about to start for the North-West, and
said that he expected a large trade in that section up to the 1st of July.
business, but said it was hard for him to get workmen in Albany.
Purchasers of " Standard Organs" regret that there is one great de-
The general public, if one may judge from the number of advertise-
ments lately appearing in the daily papers, have an exalted idea of the ficiency in those instruments. They should be furnished with the photog-
profits to be realized in the piano business. We notice in a recent issue of raph of Mr. Jarvis Peloubet, so that people might become acquainted with
the features of the man who is distinguished in the trade for his immense
the JV, Y. Herald an advertisement, which reads as follows :
business sagacity, and the sweetness of his temper under trying circum-
PARTNER WANTED WITH $6,000 IN A FIRST
stances.
class piano business ; will pay 100 per cent, and
bear strictest investigation.
EXPORTS AND IMPORTS.
This advertiser is either a fraud, or an ignoramus, as is proven by
POKT OP NEW YOKK.
his statement that $6,000 invested in a piano business will pay 100 per cent.
Week ending, May 10th, 1881.
There was a time when the profits realized in the piano business in this
country were very large in proportion to the capital employed ; but the
Exports.
same can be said of nearly every other business. At present there is severe Hamburg, 3 pianos,
Havre, 1 piano,
competition in piano making and selling which reduces profits to a mini- Bremen, 29 organs,
1,655
mum, and anyone embarking in the business with as small a sum as $6,000, Liverpool, 37 organs,
2,072
Total,
would probably find at the end of a year that the 100 per cent was on the Liverpool, 7 pianos,
2,100
wrong side of the profit and loss account.
Imports.
A great novelty in musical instruments, the Rock Harmonicon, has
been exhibited and performed upon by Mr. Daniel Till and two sons with Musical, etc., 63,
Week ending May 18.
much success at the Crystal Palace, London, during the past month. The
Exports.
instrument is formed of stones found on Skiddaw, Scotland, and has a com-
pass of five octaves. The stones vary from six inches to four feet in length, Liverpool, 1 organette, .
$4,750
. $150 London, 19 organs,
and are placed upon bands of straw. The musical sound obtained is partic- Hamburg, 8 organs, . •
1,840
574 Glasgow, 8 organs,
ulary rich and melodious, some of the larger stones indeed emitting a Hamburg, 1 piano,
120
350 Brit. N. America, 1 piano,
. .
volume of sound equal to that of a deep-toned bell. The most effective Hamburg, 4 cases pianos,
. 93
665 Brit. W. Indies, 1 organ,
piece in the repertoire is undoubtedly Handel's "Harmonious Blacksmith," Hull, 7 organs,
450
320 Hayti, 1 piano
with variations.
China, 1 organ,
250 U. S. Colombia, mus'l instru'ts, 190
6L
Messrs. Horace Waters & Co., of this city, have lately much improved Mexico, 1 organ
Total,
380
$n,27a
their place of business by changing the location of their office from the center Mexico, 1 piano,
1,080
to the rear of the store, thereby makiDg a better show room for pianos and Stittin, 2 pianos
organs. We understand that business is so good with this firm that it will
Imports.
not be necessary for the senior partner to devote as much attention to camp Musical Instruments, etc., 193 packages,
$22,229-
meetings this summer as he has done in former years.
POKT OF BOSTON.
It may be considered by parties who purchase pipe organs the proper
Week ending May 6, 1881.
thing to get a written estimate from one manufacturer, for the purpose of
Exports.
exhibiting it to another with the object of thereby reducing the latter's price;
but it seems to us very much like a breach of confidence which no business England, organs, . . .
$350
2,721 Nova Scotia, etc., piano,
man who valued his reputation would be guilty of. Nevertheless, we know England, organettes, . . . 1,650
of several such cases ot late in this city and Boston.
Total,
14,871
Scotland, organs,
150
The energy which Weak-Minded Tom's Art Jabberer displays in procur-
Imports.
ing information regarding the ancient history of the music trade in this city, England, musical instruments,
is remarkable. We find in its last weakly number, that of May 14th, the
Week ending May 15, 1881.
following statement: " T h e McTammany Orguinette is now ready for
Exports.
introduction by dealers. The inventor having succeeded in making all
arrangements for turning them out extensively. Stratton & Co., of New England, organs, . . . .
$3,303 Nova Scotia, etc., organs,
York, have taken the general agency, and find these mechanical musical England, organettes, . . . 1,650
instruments give satisfaction in all respects." This will no doubt be news Nova Scotia, etc., pianos, .
Total, . . . $5,73a
585
to Mr. McTammany who was selling these instruments quite extensively in
Imports.
January last, and as Messrs. Stratton & Co. ceased to be agents for the sale
of the McTammany instrument some time in March, it will be specially in- England, miscellaneous musical instruments,
$173-
teresting to them to learn that they have taken the general agency for these
POET OF BALTIMORE.
instruments and find that they give satisfaction in all respects. We expect
Imports of Musical Instruments April 14 to 30 inclusive.
to see in some future number of the A. J. that Steinway & Sons have started
the manufacture of pianos, or that J. Estey & Co. contemplate going into the Direct Entry,
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organ business.
Transportation,
306
Messrs. J. F. Stratton & Co. are becoming settled in their new store, at
Total,
$1,211
No. 49 Maiden Lane, which they moved into last month. The new store is
From May 2 to 14 inclusiv .
very commodious, comprising three floors and basement ; each floor being
139 feet long by 25 feet wide. Yet such is the magnitude of their business, Direct Entry,
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MUSICAL
CRITIC AND TRADE
REVIEW.
128 Music Trade Review THE
Mrs. Ursula Schneider, 56 years of age, while insane, committed suicide that in spite of this large space, there is very little room to spare.
on the afternoon of the 13 inst., by jumping out of a third story window of firm is having great success with the mechanical musical instruments of the-
her residence, No. 106 East Third street. Her husband is at present an in- American Automatic Organ Co., for which they are the general agents. The-
mate of the lunatic asylum on Ward's Island. He was a prosperous piano- manufacture of perforated paper sheets for automatic musical instruments,
key manufacturer ten years ago, and had a factory in Spring street.
of nearly all kinds, is becoming an important feature of their business.
In consequence of the embarrassed condition of the affairs of Messrs.
It appears from Dun, Barlow & Co's. circular lately issued, that the failures
for the first three months of this year were nearly double what they were Thomas Bros., of Catskill, N. Y., the agencies which they have heretofore
for the corresponding period last year. The local trade is oppressed with held for the Standard Organ and the Chickering Piano have been withdrawn
enormous rents which, in the cases of new firms starting in retail business, from them. The agency of the Standard Organ for their section has been
eat up their capital before their business has become large enough to stand transferred to Messrs. Vinton Bros., of this city.
such a tax. Summer is almost here and the people who have much money
The agency of the Steinway & Son's Piano in Cleveland, Ohio, was
to spend are leaving the city. It will be a hard struggle for the smail
tradesmen to pay their rents from June to October and there will probably be ;ransferred last week from Mr. J. T. Wamelink to Messrs. S. Brainard's
Sons.
another crop of failures.
S. Brainard's Sons, the enterprising music publishers of Cleve-
A meeting of the World's Fair executive committee, which was appointed and, Messrs.
Ohio,
have been blessed with such an increase of business, that
for May 11th, did not take place, although that was the regular day. Mr. although their
store was large, it did not offer them sufficient accomo-
W. A. Cole of the committee, said the committee had no information for the dations. They old
have,
therefore, recently occupied a new building, having a
public, and declined to answer the question whether any overtures had been front of thirty feet and
a depth of eighty feet. It has four stories and a.
received from the persons in Boston who desire to have the World's Fair held basement.
there.
The New England manufacturers' and mechanics' Boston exhibition will
Mr. T. Leeds Waters, of 14 East Fourteenth street, this city, is paying
on the 15th of next August. Manufacturers throughout the country
special attention to his retail trade, which is large and rapidly increasing. open
invited to send their goods. There will be no charges for space or
We saw at his establishment, recently, one of the reed organs which he had are
lately put on the market, it has a powerful rich tone and the case is massive power.
Messrs. Sanders & Stayman, of Baltimore, have recently taken the agency
and beautiful. I t is an instrument which would be a handsome ornament
for Decker Bros, piano, in connection with the Weber and the Fischer pianos,
in the parlor of any family.
Theodore Meinhold, of Klingenthal, Bavaria, has patented an harmonica. and the Estey organ.
Great is the rivalry between Sylvester Tower, of Cambridgeport, Mass. r
No. of Patent 240,835. Application filed Feb. 14, 1881.
The competition between D. F. Beatty and Marchal & Smith in the and Wessell, Nichol, and Gross, of this city, in the matter of piano actions.
The types blundered in our last issue, and made us state that Mr. John-
number of organ stops which they advertise their organs to contain is
something fearful. Marchal & Smith advertised an organ with 24 stops, and son, of the New Haven Organ Co., had been securing orders out West for a.
Beatty at once goes them three better and advertises one with 27. We rival organ house in Boston. The mistake, however, was so palpable, even
expect to see Marchal & Smith go at least 5 better than this in their next to the most careless reader, that we suppose it is hardly necessary to apolo-
advertisement, and as stops are cheap there is no telling when the two com- gize for it. The New Haven Organ Co. is pushing. ahead lately with great
vigor.
petitors will stop stopping.
Mr. F. Winslow Bailey, of the Bay State Organ Co., Boston, Mass., waa
Mr. Wm. McCammon, the eminent piano manufacturer of Albany, was
in town during festival week. He had no complaints to make concerning in town about a week ago. He was about to start for the North-West, and
said that he expected a large trade in that section up to the 1st of July.
business, but said it was hard for him to get workmen in Albany.
Purchasers of " Standard Organs" regret that there is one great de-
The general public, if one may judge from the number of advertise-
ments lately appearing in the daily papers, have an exalted idea of the ficiency in those instruments. They should be furnished with the photog-
profits to be realized in the piano business. We notice in a recent issue of raph of Mr. Jarvis Peloubet, so that people might become acquainted with
the features of the man who is distinguished in the trade for his immense
the JV, Y. Herald an advertisement, which reads as follows :
business sagacity, and the sweetness of his temper under trying circum-
PARTNER WANTED WITH $6,000 IN A FIRST
stances.
class piano business ; will pay 100 per cent, and
bear strictest investigation.
EXPORTS AND IMPORTS.
This advertiser is either a fraud, or an ignoramus, as is proven by
POKT OP NEW YOKK.
his statement that $6,000 invested in a piano business will pay 100 per cent.
Week ending, May 10th, 1881.
There was a time when the profits realized in the piano business in this
country were very large in proportion to the capital employed ; but the
Exports.
same can be said of nearly every other business. At present there is severe Hamburg, 3 pianos,
Havre, 1 piano,
competition in piano making and selling which reduces profits to a mini- Bremen, 29 organs,
1,655
mum, and anyone embarking in the business with as small a sum as $6,000, Liverpool, 37 organs,
2,072
Total,
would probably find at the end of a year that the 100 per cent was on the Liverpool, 7 pianos,
2,100
wrong side of the profit and loss account.
Imports.
A great novelty in musical instruments, the Rock Harmonicon, has
been exhibited and performed upon by Mr. Daniel Till and two sons with Musical, etc., 63,
Week ending May 18.
much success at the Crystal Palace, London, during the past month. The
Exports.
instrument is formed of stones found on Skiddaw, Scotland, and has a com-
pass of five octaves. The stones vary from six inches to four feet in length, Liverpool, 1 organette, .
$4,750
. $150 London, 19 organs,
and are placed upon bands of straw. The musical sound obtained is partic- Hamburg, 8 organs, . •
1,840
574 Glasgow, 8 organs,
ulary rich and melodious, some of the larger stones indeed emitting a Hamburg, 1 piano,
120
350 Brit. N. America, 1 piano,
. .
volume of sound equal to that of a deep-toned bell. The most effective Hamburg, 4 cases pianos,
. 93
665 Brit. W. Indies, 1 organ,
piece in the repertoire is undoubtedly Handel's "Harmonious Blacksmith," Hull, 7 organs,
450
320 Hayti, 1 piano
with variations.
China, 1 organ,
250 U. S. Colombia, mus'l instru'ts, 190
6L
Messrs. Horace Waters & Co., of this city, have lately much improved Mexico, 1 organ
Total,
380
$n,27a
their place of business by changing the location of their office from the center Mexico, 1 piano,
1,080
to the rear of the store, thereby makiDg a better show room for pianos and Stittin, 2 pianos
organs. We understand that business is so good with this firm that it will
Imports.
not be necessary for the senior partner to devote as much attention to camp Musical Instruments, etc., 193 packages,
$22,229-
meetings this summer as he has done in former years.
POKT OF BOSTON.
It may be considered by parties who purchase pipe organs the proper
Week ending May 6, 1881.
thing to get a written estimate from one manufacturer, for the purpose of
Exports.
exhibiting it to another with the object of thereby reducing the latter's price;
but it seems to us very much like a breach of confidence which no business England, organs, . . .
$350
2,721 Nova Scotia, etc., piano,
man who valued his reputation would be guilty of. Nevertheless, we know England, organettes, . . . 1,650
of several such cases ot late in this city and Boston.
Total,
14,871
Scotland, organs,
150
The energy which Weak-Minded Tom's Art Jabberer displays in procur-
Imports.
ing information regarding the ancient history of the music trade in this city, England, musical instruments,
is remarkable. We find in its last weakly number, that of May 14th, the
Week ending May 15, 1881.
following statement: " T h e McTammany Orguinette is now ready for
Exports.
introduction by dealers. The inventor having succeeded in making all
arrangements for turning them out extensively. Stratton & Co., of New England, organs, . . . .
$3,303 Nova Scotia, etc., organs,
York, have taken the general agency, and find these mechanical musical England, organettes, . . . 1,650
instruments give satisfaction in all respects." This will no doubt be news Nova Scotia, etc., pianos, .
Total, . . . $5,73a
585
to Mr. McTammany who was selling these instruments quite extensively in
Imports.
January last, and as Messrs. Stratton & Co. ceased to be agents for the sale
of the McTammany instrument some time in March, it will be specially in- England, miscellaneous musical instruments,
$173-
teresting to them to learn that they have taken the general agency for these
POET OF BALTIMORE.
instruments and find that they give satisfaction in all respects. We expect
Imports of Musical Instruments April 14 to 30 inclusive.
to see in some future number of the A. J. that Steinway & Sons have started
the manufacture of pianos, or that J. Estey & Co. contemplate going into the Direct Entry,
#905
organ business.
Transportation,
306
Messrs. J. F. Stratton & Co. are becoming settled in their new store, at
Total,
$1,211
No. 49 Maiden Lane, which they moved into last month. The new store is
From May 2 to 14 inclusiv .
very commodious, comprising three floors and basement ; each floor being
139 feet long by 25 feet wide. Yet such is the magnitude of their business, Direct Entry,
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