Music Trade Review

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Music Trade Review
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20th, 1881.
THE
CRITIC AND TRADE
REVIEW.
EZPOETS AND IMPORTS.
PORT OF NEW YORK.
Week ending Sept. &th, 1881.
Exports.
U. S. Colombia, 1 Piano
"
2 Organs
Glasgow, 1 Organ
London, 16 Organs
Mexico, 4 Musical Instruments
1 Piafio
Hamburg, 3 Pianos
"
4 Organs
Chili, 5 Pianos
1
' 1 Cabinetto
China, 2 Orguinettes
''
1 Piano
Brit. N. American Colonies. 2 O r g a n s . . .
New Zealand, 4 Organs
Bristol, 2 Organs
British Poss. in Africa, 2 Organs
Total
Imports.
186 Musical
Week ending Sept, 13th, 1881.
Exports.
Brazil, 2 Musical Instruments
"
5 Organs
Porto Rico, 6 Organs
Hamburg, 2 Piano Lumbers
"
4 Pianos
Bremen, 1 Piano Felt
Rotterdam, ID Organs
Bristol, 1 Organ
Liverpool, 13 Organs
Mexico, 3 Pianos
British West Indies, 1 Organ
" Honduras, 1 Organ
Havre, 1 Musical Instrument
.•
TRADE CHAT
notes. The pneumatic lever is applied to the great
swell, solo and pedal compartment, as well as to
their couplings. The number of stops is 57, and the
number of pipes employed in the consti uction of the
We received our first subscription the other day
instrument is 2,894. Every register run through the
entire compass of the organ, no stopped pipes being from Honolulu, Sandwich Islands. The letter
$600 used for the bass of the open registers, or wooden reads as follows:—
150 pipes for the bass of the metal registers. A system
HONOLULU, Aug. 26, 1881.
250 has been adopted of late-years by organ builders of C. A. Welles, Esq.
4,800 using eight feet pipes stopped at the top by a piston,
DEAR SIK—I should like to take the MUSICAL
155 instead of using a sixteen feet open pipe to produce CRITIC. Please inform me what the subscription is
100 the same note.
and
full particulars as to postage. I am not quite
650
This method imparts a woolly and smotherep sure whether I have got your right address or should
380 character to the note and is in effect a kind of im- have enclosed some money so that you could have
2,350 pure harmonic. A violin string stopped in the centre commenced to send it at once. I hope it is all right
68 of its length will yield a pure harmonic when the though. Let me hear soon.
151 finger floats upon it at that point without pressure,
Yours truly,
W. T.,
42G but this result cannot be obtained by mechanical Honolulu, Sandwich Islands.
132 means in the construction of a pipe organ. The
520 wind to the organ is supplied by three large bellows
We are informed that the Loring & Blake Organ
191 with accompanying reservoirs governing the differ- Co. of Worcester. Mass., has, for the third consec-
200 ent pressures. The bellows are operated by hy- utive year, received the highest award at the New
draulic motor made expressly for this organ. The England Fair. This year they took the highest
$11,123 case is the work of Sanger, Rockwell &Co., from the honors in each of the three different classes, viz.:
designs of E. T. Mix. The decoration is the work " For best reed organ, without limit to capacity, a
of P. M. Almini & Co., of this city. This is the gold medal. For best organ containing six sets of
$21,405 only organ in the western part of the United States
possessing four manuals, with the exception of the reeds, a silver medal. For best organ containing
organ in the Cincinnati Music Hall, which cost two and three-fifths sets of reeds, a silver medal."
over $30,000. The Milwaukee organ is about the Their exhibit is said to have been one of the finest
$130 same size as the organ built for the Centennial Ex- ever made at any fair, comprising fifteen different
199 position, the Philadelphia instrument having two styles, one of which was an organ with three man-
404 more stops than the instrument built for the (. ream uals and thirty-four stops, of great power and
beautiful design.
150 City.
800
780
3,400
200
690
1,200
80
ill)
150
Mrs. Catherine Reichenbach, of Washington,
A
MR. EEHNING'S PALL WORK.
D. C., piano dealer, has been released from her
BEPORTER for the MUSICAL CRITIC AND trust deed.
TRADE EEVIEW recently had occasion to visit
the Harlem district of New York city, so he took a
short time to call upon Mr. Henry Behning. He
found b Behning, jr., at the factory at East 124th street.
The younger Mi*. Behning is a " chip of the old
block," and is a valuable assistant to his father.
He is active and skillful in the management of
affairs both at the factory and at the warerooms on
12)th street.
There appeared to be plenty of business going
on at the factory ; many pianos were being boxed
up for shipment to agents at a distance, and
throughout the building the workmen were zeal-
ously laboring.
Among other things Mr. Behning showed oui
reporter a new parlor grand piano, a picture of
which appears in the advertisement on another
page. This instrument was beautifully construct-
ed, and possessed some charming qualities of tone.
It would be shipped, Mr. Behning stated, to the
St. Louis agent, as soon as completed, for exhibi-
tion at the fair in that city.
The new parlor grand and the baby grand man-
ufactured by Mr. Behning were, we were told, re-
ceiving all sorts of laurels wherever they were tried.
They are certainly elegant instruments. The
Behning pianos are made to stand well. They are
constructed, even to the cases, in Mr. Behning's
factory, and they sell splendidly, so dealers inform
us, wherever they are introduced. This, their ad-
mirers say, is because they have the merit of being
good though their prices are not high.
J. Becker, piano manufacturer, of the firm of
J. Becker & Son, of Detroit, Mich., has sold his
half interest to his son who continues the busi-
ness.
C. Cavers, organs, of St. Catharines, Ontario,
has failed. His nominal assets are $900; actual
$8,333
Total
assets, $500. He offers twenty-five cents.
Imports.
Mr. J. W. Paterson, the well-known music pub-
$15,346
Musical Instruments, 124
lisher of Glasgow, Scotland, is dead.
PORT OF BOSTON.
The various specimens of celluloid that were
lately examined by M. F. Boekmann did not con-
Week ending Sept. 2nd, 1881.
tain true gun-cotton, but the jjyroxyd line of col-
Exports.
lodion, perfectly soluble at common temperatures
$2,500
England, Organs
in a mixture of ether and alcohol. Celluloid, he
1,249
''
Organettes
iokls, is not a true definite chemical combination.
50
"
Organ Materials
385
The project of a world's fair seems to be having
Nova Scotia, Pianos
350
Newfoundland and Labrador, Organs....
about the same experience in Boston that it went
through with in this city. The idea was received
$4,534
Total
at first with some enthusiasm, particularly by those
who had business reasons for being interested, and
Imports.
a few wealthy men promised to contribute heavily;
$300
England, Miscellaneous Musical Instruments
but there has been no such general public demand
Week ending Sept. 9th, 1881.
for a fair as would insure success, and nothing has
of late been done.
Exports.
$2,846
England, Organs
A Washington despatch says:—The excess of
2,095
"
Organettes.
exports of merchandise for June is $4,442,000.
50
Nova Scotia, Organ
June last year $11,018,000; fiscal year ending June;
S259,720;000; previous fiscal year, $167,084,000,
$4,991
Total.
Excess of exports of gold and silver coin and
Imports.
bullion for June is $1,022,000; June last year, ex-
cess of imports, $178,000; fiscal year ending June,
England, Miscellaneous Musical Instruments $1,536
excess of imports, $91,169,000; previous fiscal
year, $75,801,000.* Last fiscal year the exports of
PITCH FOR AMERICAN PIANOS.
merchandise amounted to $902,319,000, being
Particular
attention
is
called
to
the
advertise-
INCE the writer in the Philadelphia Sunday
larger than ever before in the history of the
Mirror took us to task for republishing the ment, which appears in our present issue, of a country. The imports of merchandise, amounting
Buffalo Courier's article on "Pitch for American German who seeks employment as a piano maker. to $642,593,000, is larger than any preceding year,
Pianos," in which the writer's use of the English We are assured that he thoroughly understands his excepting 1880. The total value of the foreign
language aroused the ire of the Mirror, we have business and is a deserving man.
commerce of the United States, imports and ex-
stated that a man with the slightest experience The management of the Atlanta, Ga., Interna- ports of merchandise, amounted to $1,544,913,000,
with newspapers, even as a reader, should know tional Cotton Exposition, announce that excur- and exceeded that of any previous fiscal year. The
that republication of an article is not an endorse- ion tickets will be sold from New York city during excess of exports over imports, last fiscal year, was
ment of its sentiments.
October, November and December, to the Exposi- larger than any preceding year, excepting 1879,
We should have added for the enlightenment of tion at i$3G. 00, good to return within 30 days from since the year ending June 30, 1875. * The total
excess of the value of the exports of merchandise,
the Mirror's young man that, " Pitch for American date of purchase.
over that of imports, amounted to $1,180,682,000.
Pianos" does not signify that the article in ques-
tion, although republished in our "Trade" de- A ticket office for all musical and theatrical
partment, was purely of interest as a manufactur- entertainments has been opened at Brentano's,
ing question. It was not intended as a discussion No. 5 Union Square, which is such a central loca-
of the merits of j>itch for grain filling or ebonizing tion that ticket buyers may often save themselves A good tuner, one who can tune Grand Pianos, and
understands regulation, &c.
purposes; for, as far as we know, pitch has never the trouble of walking several blocks by securing
Address,
been so used by our boldest experimental manu- their tickets and seats there.
facturers.
The following appeared in the London Musical
DTJTTON & SON",
World of September 3d.
1115
Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Fa.
"The death of Mr. Edward Stein way, a partner
THE MILWAUKEE EXPOSITION.
in the great American firm of Stein way & Co., is
Important to Piano Manufacturers
HOOK AND HASTINGS' ORGAN.
announced."
may wish to secure the services of a German (42), ie a first
There are a few errors in the above which we Who
HE Milwaukee Industrial Exposition opened
class workman, has been t-iuploycd as a foreman for G years, has
on Tuesday, September 6th. Concerning are able to correct. There is as far as we know no had particular experience in wood-working and labor saving
machinery, also at varnishing, aud the finer branches, and in the
American
firm
named
Stein
way
&
Co.,
and
as
re-
the great organ which occupies a prominent place
general construction of pianos. He well understands how to
gards Messrs. Steinway & Sons, there is not now handle
lar^e numbers of workmen. Is a first-class judge of mate-
in the building, the Milwaukee Sentinel says:—
nor ever has been an Edward Steinway connected
and an experienced and close buyer, particularly of lumber,
"The organ which is placed at the south end of with them. Three of the members of the firm of rials,
veneers, glues, etc. Ig a very good correspondent and bookkeeper
the building is entitled to special notice. It was
in English and German. Has had experience iu New York and
erected by Hook & Hastings, of Boston, in accord- Steinway & Sons are in Europe, viz.:—Theodor, elsewhere with first class piano makers for 24 years, and has first-
class referenc-8. Fartiei willing to pay a fair remuneration please
Charles
and
Frederick,
and
Mr.
William
Steinway
ance with special designs prepared by O. Marshall, ot
address with particulars,
Milwaukee. The instrument has four manuals of 61 was seen, about the time of our going to press with " EXPERIENCE," care MUSICAL CBITIC AND TBADE REVIEW,
notes, each with accompanying pedal register of 30 this issue, in his usual health and spirits.
863 Broadway, N. Y.
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