Music Trade Review
Issue: 1882 Vol. 5 N. 18 - Page 15
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April 20th, 1882.
THE MUSICAL CRITIC AND TRADE REVIEW.
THE SAME OLD F R — D .
WHAT HE SAIL IN 1876 AND WHAT HE SAID
IN 18B2.
~TOHN C. FR
D appears to be greatly exer-
ZJ cised because it is asserted that young Mr.
Weber supplies the financial backbone of his
paper. He most positively denies all such asser-
tions and printa these denials. He claims that
Mr. Weber has no direct interest whatever in his
business affairs, and that his paper is not a Weber
AN ENTERPRISING FIRM.
sheet.
Mr. George W. Peek, of Messrs. Peek & Son,
IN 1876.
told a representative of THE MUSICAL CRITIC AND
Now
let
us
go
back
a few years and see if we
Messrs.
E.
H.
McEwen
&
Co.
are
constantly
re-
TRADE REVIEW recently that the firm would go
d's word.
into their new factory on May 1 under the best ceiving and shipping Sterling organs. The es- can discover the value of John C. Fr
auspices. They would employ the best work- tablishment of the Sterling Organ Agency in this In The Music Trade Review of April 18, 1876,
the management of Mr. McEwen was Fr
men, he said, and make pianos of a high grade of city under
d published the following:
an excell Q nt stroke of business policy.
excellence and sell them at a low figure.
WE NAIL THE LIE TO THE COUNTER.
"What about your piano cases?" asked our rep- Messrs. Behr Bros. & Co. are the manufactur-
With the purpose of making us out to be a one-sided
resentative.
ers of the patent cylinder-top upright pianos,
paper, Albert Weber, in his interview
"Well, we can call on three firms to make them which have attracted much attention in the trade. and partisan
the reporter of The World, stated that The Music
for us at a reasonable figure, and will experience This cylinder-top underlies the ordinary top of with
Trade Review was a "Steinway Sheet." To this dec-
no difficulty in that respect. Our facilities for the upright, and while it is opened it is not nec- laration
of Albert Web
to sell them at lower prices than a number of our which may be placed on the top of the upright. mo
and experience, and everything looks bright for the top of an upright should be raised. With this lie with circumstance, BUT THE LIE DIREOI."
success. We have received very many orders for patented cylinder-top, the opening or closing of
The italics, capitals, bad grammar and mis-
the Peek piano already."
the top does not interfere with the ornaments, as quotations in the above are all John C. Fr d's.
it
underlies
the
ordinary
top.
In
addition
to
this
SEPARABLE UPRIGHTS IN DEMAND.
top, the uprights of Behr Bros. «te Co. are fur-
IN 1882.
"Our trade is very fair," said Mr. Vaupel, of the nished with a Bessemer steel action frame, invented
Now we will come down to January 7, 1882.
firm of Calenberg & Vaupel, to a representative oi by Mr. Paul Gmehlin, one of the firm. Mr.
THE MUSICAL CRITIC AND TRADE EEVIEW recently. Gmehlin has had over twenty-eight years of active In his new paper of that date, a paper which has
"There is a particularly large demand for our sep- experience as a piano-maker, and has invented
arable uprights. We own the patents, and we many valuable improvements, this latest one hav- attempted to gain circulation and advertising
make the only ones now in the market I think ing been described not long ago in THE MUSICAL patronage by a large expenditure of wind, but
that the trade in May will continue as it has done CRITIC AND TRADE REVIEW. It adds strength and which has attained little more than an extensive
during April, and in all probability remain ac- firmness to the action, and protects its displace- free list in either respect: a paper which displays
tive until the summer."
ments by atmospheric changes or sudden jars all the swushbucklering propensities of the old
Another valuable feature with the uprights made paper, without any of its novelty,—in this paper
ORDERS FOUR WEEKS AHEAD.
firm is the pin block, which consists of
"How is trade, Mr. Weser ?" asked a represen- by the thicknesses
d says:
of maple, vertically crossing and Fr
tative of THE MUSICAL CRITIC AND TRADE REVIEW eight
each other, and preventing the tuning "It is but common honesty for me to state that
the other day. "Well, sir," was the reply, "we re-crossing
from becoming loose in this fastening. All the Steinways were backing me through thick and
are very busy, and have orders, at least, four weeks pins
those valuable improvements make Behr Bros. & thin, with money, with encouragement, and with
in advance of production. Uprights are called for Co. 's uprights a very desirable instrument. Mr. business."
at present from all our agents. We are opening Gmehlin has just returned from an extensive
Of course, this last statement on the part of
up new trade constantly, and expect to be busy western trip, and reports trade as very active.
for months to come."
Fr
d can no more be believed than the first.
Mr. John G. Erck has returned to his former It is not probable that Messrs. Steinway & Sons
KIND WORDS.
position as salesman in the New York warerooms ever backed the old Mimic Trade Review, though
of Wm. Knabe & Co., Baltimore, Md.
we have never heard them either affirm or deny it;
Says Mr. P. W. Thomas, who represents Wm.
Cluett & Sons, at Albany N. Y.: "THE MUSICAL The Leipsic Zeitschri/tfurTnstrumcntenbau warns but it shows the treatment to which Mr. Weber
CRITIC AND TRADE REVIEW is a splendid paper the music trades in general against participation may expect to be subjected. While it suits
It is a power in the trade. I don't see how I in the what that journal calls so-called Interna- Fr
d's purpose to deny that Weber is backing
could get along without it." Good for you, Mr. tional Exposition of Musical Instruments which is his present journalistic speculation, he will deny
to take place in Berlin in 1883. In a long and ex-
Thomas!
article the Zeilschrift expresses the ques- it; and whenever he wishes to do Mr. Weber an
"I must take the liberty of congratulating you haustive
tionable
nature
of the enterprise and the "unknown ill turn by stating that Mr. Weber did back the
upon the really splendid journal which THE MU- greatness" of the
managers, who seem to be self-
SICAL CRITIC AND TRADE REVIEW has become. The constituted. We have not heard of any American newspaper, lie will not hesitate to make such a
time will come when America will take one of the manufactures who have taken steps to be repre- statement.
first positions among musical nations, and then it sented, and we will keep the trade informed on
It seems to be generally understood that young
will be said that your paper has exercised a great this subject as the enterprise is developed.
Mr. Weber has been backing the Chicago World
and lasting influence on every branch of the mu-
d
sical art by its fearless and just criticism, and its Mr. R. M. Bent, of Bent & Co., East Nineteenth financially, and if he is also trying to back Fr
support of young and promising talent."
street, says he has his hands full filling orders and his newspaper, he will have his hands full,
LONDON, ENG., March 25.
B. B. T. and is way behind. He has many orders for up- without considering his piano business.
rights, and he proposes to supply the demand by
CHICAGO, January 23, 1882.
extending his facilities for manufacture.
MR. CHAS. AVERT WELLES:
The recent sale of musical copyrights by the ex-
Dear Sir—Enclosed please find a draft for eight
ecutors of the well-known music publisher, the late
In
a
few
weeks
alterations
will
be
begun
in
the
dollars, for which you may send a copy of your
M. Leon Escudier, in Paris, produced upward of
paper to each of the parties named below 1'or a retail piano warerooms of Mr. F. G. Smith, corner 200,000 francs,by far the greater part being paid for
of
Fifth
avenue
and
Seventeenth
street.
When
scores by Verdi. "Rigoletto" put up at 54,500
year. Hoping we may be able to send you more
the improvements are finished it will be one of francs, was knocked down at 02,000, and a "La
subscribers soon, I am, very respectfully,
the handsomest piano warerooms in the city.
Traviata" went for 72,000, while "Aida," put up
H. ZIEGFELD.
at 90,500, found no bidders. A number ot Verdi's
Out
on
Long
Island
a
fellow
has
been
represent-
works, including "Attila," "Joan of Arc,"
Subscribers to the West-end Agency for the
himself to hotel keepers as the agent of a earlier
"Harold."
Two Foscari," "Louisa Miller,"
Protection of Trades and Professional Men, 32 ing
weekly journal published in Washington, which, "Macbeth," "The
and "I Masnadieri" (founded on
Argyle street, cor. Regent street, West London, he
promised its subscribers a chance to Schiller's "Robbers," and com nosed expressly for
can obtain all the advantages offered by protec- win said,
a $600 piano. He had posters advertising the London and for Jenny Lind), went for 40,000
tion societies without the usual vexations, routine scheme,
for the privilege of displaying which in francs. "La Forza del Destino," "Don Carlos,"
and delay. The agency has correspondents in all
hotels the proprietor, he said, could have the "Ernani," and the "Vepres Siciliennes" were not
the principal towns in Great Britain and Ireland. the
and be entitled to draw for the prize the sold. Nor was any satisfactory offer made for the
The latest information in regard to the position paper as free
the paying subscribers. In due time each "Requiem," which, put up at 5,000 francs, was
and means of upwards of 3,000 retail pianoforte same
keeper was informed by mail that he had withdrawn. Much curiosity was felt at the price
dealers and sellers in London and the Provinces hotel
drawn
the prize, and that if he would forward $'1 that "11 Trovatore" would fetch. But this work,
may be found in the registers, which are always for boxing
and $3 for a piano stool the prize would out of which the house of Escudier derived large
open to the inspection of subscribers.
be shipped forthwith.
profits, had been privately sold for 100,000 francs.
Mr. T. A. Pagett is the proprietor of the West- A reception, under the auspices of Ditson & Co. 's —N. Y. Sun.
end Music store, No. 145 West Water street, El- clerks, took place at Irving Hall on Friday even-
mira, New York. He handles the Knabe, Sohmer, ing, April 14.
The young violinist Dengremont is at present
and New England pianos and the New England
"starring" in Russia. On the 18th of March he
J. Hecker, Montreal, dealer in musical instru- was summoned to the palace at Gatschina to play
and Ithaca organs. Mr. Pagett makes a specialty
ments, is advertising his business for sale.
of the New England organs.
to the Emperor.
April 20th, 1882.
THE MUSICAL CRITIC AND TRADE REVIEW.
THE SAME OLD F R — D .
WHAT HE SAIL IN 1876 AND WHAT HE SAID
IN 18B2.
~TOHN C. FR
D appears to be greatly exer-
ZJ cised because it is asserted that young Mr.
Weber supplies the financial backbone of his
paper. He most positively denies all such asser-
tions and printa these denials. He claims that
Mr. Weber has no direct interest whatever in his
business affairs, and that his paper is not a Weber
AN ENTERPRISING FIRM.
sheet.
Mr. George W. Peek, of Messrs. Peek & Son,
IN 1876.
told a representative of THE MUSICAL CRITIC AND
Now
let
us
go
back
a few years and see if we
Messrs.
E.
H.
McEwen
&
Co.
are
constantly
re-
TRADE REVIEW recently that the firm would go
d's word.
into their new factory on May 1 under the best ceiving and shipping Sterling organs. The es- can discover the value of John C. Fr
auspices. They would employ the best work- tablishment of the Sterling Organ Agency in this In The Music Trade Review of April 18, 1876,
the management of Mr. McEwen was Fr
men, he said, and make pianos of a high grade of city under
d published the following:
an excell Q nt stroke of business policy.
excellence and sell them at a low figure.
WE NAIL THE LIE TO THE COUNTER.
"What about your piano cases?" asked our rep- Messrs. Behr Bros. & Co. are the manufactur-
With the purpose of making us out to be a one-sided
resentative.
ers of the patent cylinder-top upright pianos,
paper, Albert Weber, in his interview
"Well, we can call on three firms to make them which have attracted much attention in the trade. and partisan
the reporter of The World, stated that The Music
for us at a reasonable figure, and will experience This cylinder-top underlies the ordinary top of with
Trade Review was a "Steinway Sheet." To this dec-
no difficulty in that respect. Our facilities for the upright, and while it is opened it is not nec- laration
of Albert Web
to sell them at lower prices than a number of our which may be placed on the top of the upright. mo
and experience, and everything looks bright for the top of an upright should be raised. With this lie with circumstance, BUT THE LIE DIREOI."
success. We have received very many orders for patented cylinder-top, the opening or closing of
The italics, capitals, bad grammar and mis-
the Peek piano already."
the top does not interfere with the ornaments, as quotations in the above are all John C. Fr d's.
it
underlies
the
ordinary
top.
In
addition
to
this
SEPARABLE UPRIGHTS IN DEMAND.
top, the uprights of Behr Bros. «te Co. are fur-
IN 1882.
"Our trade is very fair," said Mr. Vaupel, of the nished with a Bessemer steel action frame, invented
Now we will come down to January 7, 1882.
firm of Calenberg & Vaupel, to a representative oi by Mr. Paul Gmehlin, one of the firm. Mr.
THE MUSICAL CRITIC AND TRADE EEVIEW recently. Gmehlin has had over twenty-eight years of active In his new paper of that date, a paper which has
"There is a particularly large demand for our sep- experience as a piano-maker, and has invented
arable uprights. We own the patents, and we many valuable improvements, this latest one hav- attempted to gain circulation and advertising
make the only ones now in the market I think ing been described not long ago in THE MUSICAL patronage by a large expenditure of wind, but
that the trade in May will continue as it has done CRITIC AND TRADE REVIEW. It adds strength and which has attained little more than an extensive
during April, and in all probability remain ac- firmness to the action, and protects its displace- free list in either respect: a paper which displays
tive until the summer."
ments by atmospheric changes or sudden jars all the swushbucklering propensities of the old
Another valuable feature with the uprights made paper, without any of its novelty,—in this paper
ORDERS FOUR WEEKS AHEAD.
firm is the pin block, which consists of
"How is trade, Mr. Weser ?" asked a represen- by the thicknesses
d says:
of maple, vertically crossing and Fr
tative of THE MUSICAL CRITIC AND TRADE REVIEW eight
each other, and preventing the tuning "It is but common honesty for me to state that
the other day. "Well, sir," was the reply, "we re-crossing
from becoming loose in this fastening. All the Steinways were backing me through thick and
are very busy, and have orders, at least, four weeks pins
those valuable improvements make Behr Bros. & thin, with money, with encouragement, and with
in advance of production. Uprights are called for Co. 's uprights a very desirable instrument. Mr. business."
at present from all our agents. We are opening Gmehlin has just returned from an extensive
Of course, this last statement on the part of
up new trade constantly, and expect to be busy western trip, and reports trade as very active.
for months to come."
Fr
d can no more be believed than the first.
Mr. John G. Erck has returned to his former It is not probable that Messrs. Steinway & Sons
KIND WORDS.
position as salesman in the New York warerooms ever backed the old Mimic Trade Review, though
of Wm. Knabe & Co., Baltimore, Md.
we have never heard them either affirm or deny it;
Says Mr. P. W. Thomas, who represents Wm.
Cluett & Sons, at Albany N. Y.: "THE MUSICAL The Leipsic Zeitschri/tfurTnstrumcntenbau warns but it shows the treatment to which Mr. Weber
CRITIC AND TRADE REVIEW is a splendid paper the music trades in general against participation may expect to be subjected. While it suits
It is a power in the trade. I don't see how I in the what that journal calls so-called Interna- Fr
d's purpose to deny that Weber is backing
could get along without it." Good for you, Mr. tional Exposition of Musical Instruments which is his present journalistic speculation, he will deny
to take place in Berlin in 1883. In a long and ex-
Thomas!
article the Zeilschrift expresses the ques- it; and whenever he wishes to do Mr. Weber an
"I must take the liberty of congratulating you haustive
tionable
nature
of the enterprise and the "unknown ill turn by stating that Mr. Weber did back the
upon the really splendid journal which THE MU- greatness" of the
managers, who seem to be self-
SICAL CRITIC AND TRADE REVIEW has become. The constituted. We have not heard of any American newspaper, lie will not hesitate to make such a
time will come when America will take one of the manufactures who have taken steps to be repre- statement.
first positions among musical nations, and then it sented, and we will keep the trade informed on
It seems to be generally understood that young
will be said that your paper has exercised a great this subject as the enterprise is developed.
Mr. Weber has been backing the Chicago World
and lasting influence on every branch of the mu-
d
sical art by its fearless and just criticism, and its Mr. R. M. Bent, of Bent & Co., East Nineteenth financially, and if he is also trying to back Fr
support of young and promising talent."
street, says he has his hands full filling orders and his newspaper, he will have his hands full,
LONDON, ENG., March 25.
B. B. T. and is way behind. He has many orders for up- without considering his piano business.
rights, and he proposes to supply the demand by
CHICAGO, January 23, 1882.
extending his facilities for manufacture.
MR. CHAS. AVERT WELLES:
The recent sale of musical copyrights by the ex-
Dear Sir—Enclosed please find a draft for eight
ecutors of the well-known music publisher, the late
In
a
few
weeks
alterations
will
be
begun
in
the
dollars, for which you may send a copy of your
M. Leon Escudier, in Paris, produced upward of
paper to each of the parties named below 1'or a retail piano warerooms of Mr. F. G. Smith, corner 200,000 francs,by far the greater part being paid for
of
Fifth
avenue
and
Seventeenth
street.
When
scores by Verdi. "Rigoletto" put up at 54,500
year. Hoping we may be able to send you more
the improvements are finished it will be one of francs, was knocked down at 02,000, and a "La
subscribers soon, I am, very respectfully,
the handsomest piano warerooms in the city.
Traviata" went for 72,000, while "Aida," put up
H. ZIEGFELD.
at 90,500, found no bidders. A number ot Verdi's
Out
on
Long
Island
a
fellow
has
been
represent-
works, including "Attila," "Joan of Arc,"
Subscribers to the West-end Agency for the
himself to hotel keepers as the agent of a earlier
"Harold."
Two Foscari," "Louisa Miller,"
Protection of Trades and Professional Men, 32 ing
weekly journal published in Washington, which, "Macbeth," "The
and "I Masnadieri" (founded on
Argyle street, cor. Regent street, West London, he
promised its subscribers a chance to Schiller's "Robbers," and com nosed expressly for
can obtain all the advantages offered by protec- win said,
a $600 piano. He had posters advertising the London and for Jenny Lind), went for 40,000
tion societies without the usual vexations, routine scheme,
for the privilege of displaying which in francs. "La Forza del Destino," "Don Carlos,"
and delay. The agency has correspondents in all
hotels the proprietor, he said, could have the "Ernani," and the "Vepres Siciliennes" were not
the principal towns in Great Britain and Ireland. the
and be entitled to draw for the prize the sold. Nor was any satisfactory offer made for the
The latest information in regard to the position paper as free
the paying subscribers. In due time each "Requiem," which, put up at 5,000 francs, was
and means of upwards of 3,000 retail pianoforte same
keeper was informed by mail that he had withdrawn. Much curiosity was felt at the price
dealers and sellers in London and the Provinces hotel
drawn
the prize, and that if he would forward $'1 that "11 Trovatore" would fetch. But this work,
may be found in the registers, which are always for boxing
and $3 for a piano stool the prize would out of which the house of Escudier derived large
open to the inspection of subscribers.
be shipped forthwith.
profits, had been privately sold for 100,000 francs.
Mr. T. A. Pagett is the proprietor of the West- A reception, under the auspices of Ditson & Co. 's —N. Y. Sun.
end Music store, No. 145 West Water street, El- clerks, took place at Irving Hall on Friday even-
mira, New York. He handles the Knabe, Sohmer, ing, April 14.
The young violinist Dengremont is at present
and New England pianos and the New England
"starring" in Russia. On the 18th of March he
J. Hecker, Montreal, dealer in musical instru- was summoned to the palace at Gatschina to play
and Ithaca organs. Mr. Pagett makes a specialty
ments, is advertising his business for sale.
of the New England organs.
to the Emperor.
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