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THE MUSICAL CRITIC AND TRADE REVIEW.
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NEW YOKK, MAECH
VOL. V.
The man wbo does not advertise has it
done for him finally under the head of
*' failures in business."
20TH,
1882.
No. 16.
AGENTS AND DEALERS.
CHARGED WITH BLACKMAIL.
R. LELAND & CO., Chlckering. Knabe Hallett. Davis &
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• Co., and Fischer Pianos ; Peloubet i Co. and Smith
American Organ*, Sheet Music and Band Instruments.
MEN WELL KNOWN TO THE TRADE ACCUSED.
CAMBRIDGEPORT, MASS.
DIHECTOKY
OF THE
MUSICAL
PROFESSION
AND THE
MUSIC TRADES.
NEW YORK CITY.
MANUFACTURERS.
A.
P. KELLEY,
Pianoforte and Organ Actions,
WHO IS THEIR ACCUSER?—MESSRS. GEORGE COOK,
113 Broadway.
/~1 EO. W. 8EAVERNS.
Square, Grand and Upright Piano Actions,
113 Broadway.
OOD BROS.,
Pianoforte and Organ Actions, Ebony Sharps, Piano Leg
Pins, and Hardwood Dowels.
State St.
LA BROS., Standard Turning Works. Turned goods for Piano
Manufacturers and Pipe and Reed Organ Makers; also Mus
ical Merchandise.
131-135 Broadway.
TEDMAN & CO., Manufacturers of Wound Strings for all
kinds of musical instruments. Dealers in Piano-wire, on
patent clamp or in coil. Steel Strings, plain and wound.
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C. P. KIMBALL, GENERAL H. K. OLIVER, W.
W. KIMBALL, AND MASON & HAMLIN
CALLED UPON FOR EXPLANATIONS
—POINTED REMARKS BY TWO
NEW YORK DAILY
PAPERS.
W
E have patiently waited several weeks for
John C. Fr
d to confess some of the in-
Address, MUSICAL CRITIC AND TRADE REVIEW,
iquities in the life of a "musical journalist;" but in
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8H4 Broadway, New York.
vain. Instead, he has related the iniquities of
PHILADELPHIA.
INSTRUMENTALISTS.
those designing persons who have tricked him into
M ANUF ACTURER8.
OUI8 BLUMENBERG, Solo Violoncello.
A LBRECHT & CO., manufacturers of Grand, Square and Up- pitfalls so palpable that none but such a guileless
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Address, MUSICAL CRITIC AND TKADK REVIEW,
x l right Pianos.
864 Broadway, New York.
and childlike person, as the aforesaid Fr
d,
610 Arch Street.
could by any possibility have been entrapped into.
MANAGERS.
\ GAUTSCHI & CO., Musical Boxes. Factories at Ste.-Croix
'• and Geneva, Switzerland.
But even in this he has, until recently, made no
managers.
1020 Chestnut St.
Everett House.
P OND & BACHERT, Concert and Lecture
grand coup. Why, we cannot say. It has been
New York.
CONCERT COMPANIES.
stated very positively of late that a youthful piano
HE McGIBENY CONCERT COMPANY.
IMPORTERS, ETC.
maker has received positive instructions, from those
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Address communications to
TTTILLIAM TONK & BRO., Manufacturers, Importers and
2119 Arch st.
whose authority he is bound to respect, to withdraw
Jobbers of Musical Merchandise.
47 Maiden Lane.
DEALERS.
the sinews of war from Fr
d's new journalistic
INSTRUCTION.
p«HAS. BLASIUS & SON8.
venture; for it has been an open secret from the
Steinway & Sons, Sohmer & Co., Behr Bros, k Co. Pianos,
RS. G. J. ALLEN, Pupil oi Madame Rudersdorf. Especially W
beginning that Fr
d had worked upon this
1119 Chestnut St.
authorized by her to teach her celebrated method, is pre-
pared to resume lessons at her residence, 121E. Twenty third St.
G. CLEMMER. Hallet, Davis A Co., Calenberg & Taupel, young man's inexperience for the financial back-
A • and Vose & Sons' Pianos,
and George Woods and Star Par-
bone of his paper. In other words, bad, as the
lor Organs. ____
8. W. Cor. 13th and Chestnut Sts.
V OGT CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC,
UTTON & SONS. Chickering, Decker k Son, Hardman, and vulgar say, been "playing him for a sucker."
No. 19 East 14 th Street,
Therefore, we can imagine, if the young man
New York City D James and Holmstrom Pianos and Standard Organs.
1115 Chestnut St.
Win. G. Vogt, (of the Berlin Conservatory) Director.
lias been figuratively placed in his little trundle-
ILLIAM G. FISCHER,
W Sole agent for Decker BroB.' and Haines Bros.' Pianos, and bed by his guardians, that Fr d has been
MANUFACTURERS.
Mason & Hamlin and E. P. Carpenter Organs, 1210 Chestnut St.
driven to extremities, and in order to raise the
ERMAN KOECHLING,
Pianoforte Legs,
PUBLISHERS.
H
wind has begun to strike out wildly and unscru-
No. 105 Rivington Street.
T EE & WALKER,
pulously.
M. WALTERS. Piano Exchange. Manufacturer Narvesen JLJ
Musical Publishers and Sheet Music.
• Piano. Piauos and Organs sold on Installments. 67 & 59
1113 Chestnut St.
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We may be mistaken, but we think not.
University Place, cor. Twelfth St.
Fr
d's grand coup is this. He makes public
ESER BROS.,
BALTIMORE,
MD.
Manufacturers of Square and Upright Pianofortes,
the
following
statement:
DEALERS.
553, 555 and 557 West 30th Street, New York.
In
speaking
of the Centennial awards, he says:
ANDERS
&
STAYMAN,
Weber,
Decker
Bros.,
and
J.
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C.
SCHULER,
. Manufacturer and dealer in Pianos and Organs. Instru- S Fischer Pianos, and Estey Organs.
It
was
riyht
here that the genius of Mr. C. P.
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North
Charles
St.
ments to let.
Warerooms, 19 E. Fourteenth st.
Kimball came to the surface. After the reports had
been
written
and
the medals awarded and the judges
ASTORIA, L. I., N. Y.
BOSTON, MASS.
had been dismissed, Mr. Kimball organized what he
EO. GEMUNDER.
MANUFACTURERS.
termed an "AppealJury," of which General H. K.
Violins, Violas and Violoncellos made and repaired.
Oliver was appointed chief. A number of manufac-
UTOMATIC MUSICAL PAPER CO. Music Paper for Mechan- G-
Highest premiums received at World Expositions.
turers whose instruments had not been deemed
A ical Musical Instruments. 227 to 233 Cambridge Street.
worthy a report, and had, therefore, not obtained a
IMPORTANT NOTICE.
medal, received both from tlie hands of this Appeal
MERSON PIANO CO., manufacturers of Grand, Square and
E Upright Pianos,
E wish to call especial attention to our standing Jury.
595 Washington Street.
The parties who stood behind this "Appeal Jury,"
notice, that all communications must invari- having tasted blood, thirsted for more, Hiid began to
& SONS, ManufacUirers of Square and Upright Piano-
V OSE fortes.
ably be addressed to the Editor, Charles Avery Welles, turn their hungry eyes upon the fat purses of the
535 Washington Street.
who had obtained reports and medals \
864 Broadway, New York City. Letters from cor- manufacturers
MoPHAIL * CO., Square and Upright Pianos. Two first
from the original jury. They were not long in want-
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A prize Silver and a Gold Medal 1881. 630 Washington St. respondents and advertisers are frequently addressed ing a pretext for action. It naturally occurred to
to individual members of the staff, and in case of an them that the duties and purposes of an "Appeal
Jury" should be extended, so that it should under-
PIANO AND ORGAN LEATHERS.
editor's absence from the city, must await his return take a general work of revision. This soon became
HITE BROS. & SONS, Manufacturers and Dealers in Piano before they can be opened. This puts us to a great known to the manufacturers, who at onco tumbled
W and Organ Leathers.
into a great state of excitement. The worthies wtio
deal of trouble.
151 Summer St.
VOCALISTS.
ISS LETITIA LOUISE FRITCH, Soprano.
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NEW HAVEN. CONN.
MANUFACTURERS.
OGGSON & PETTIS,
Organ Stop Knobs and Sterna.
147 to 153 UDion Street.
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WORCESTER, MASS.
MANUFACTURERS.
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D.
W. INGALLS & CO., Organ Reed Boards. Parker Tremolos
aad Octave Couplers,
25 Hermon Street.
G. KBTTELL,
Piano Punchings,
« Ltaeoln Sqtuwe.
were ''working" the trade did not stop at hints and
innuendos. By no meaTis. They threatened, up and
MUSICIAN'S CHAMP.
down, that unless a certain sum wan paid, the reports of
Editor of THE MUSICAL CRITIC AND TRADE REVIEW : leading manufacturers would be mattrially altered.
O IB—I have suffered several years from a severe As an instance of this, no less a house than
O pain inmyhandand arm, which invariably comes Messrs.
MASON & HAMLIN were threatened.
on after an extended practice on the violin. I believe
it is the same affection as "writer's cramp." I have
never found any remedy that would give me more
than temporary relief. Perhaps some of your
many readers may know of some effective treat-
ment.
The information would doubtless be of interest
to a large number of musicians, as well as to,
CONSTANT READER.
MR. GEORGE COOK, A BELATIVK OF MR. C. P.
KIMBALL, CHAIRMAN OP THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE,
AND THEN, AS WELL AS NOW, CONNECTED WITH THE
B. SHONINGEK ORGAN CO. , APPROACHED MR. THIEL-
BEUG, THE REPRESENTATIVE OF MESSRS. M A S O N &
HAMLIN, AT PHILADELPHIA, AND TOLD HIM THAT UN-
LESS MESSRS. MASON &, HAMLIN PAID $1,000 DOWN,
AND AT ONCE, THE WORDS " FRO NT. RANK " WOULD BE
STRICKEN OUT OF THEIR REPORT.