Music Trade Review
Issue: 1892 Vol. 16 N. 3 - Page 6
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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
" We have just what you want in that line,
sir.''
" Well, let's hear one, then," and he listened
attentively after the clerk had set the box to
going. It hadn 't gone more than a minute when
the customer made a gesture of disapproval.
" It won't do, " he said gloomily.
" What is the objection ? Too much noise?
Would you like something softer and gentler ?
Now "
" Softer ! " said the other in freezing tones.
" Young man, I said that I lived in a flat, didn't
I ? On the floor above me lives a girl who
thinks she can play the piano. She plays it
everj' day. She always waits until we have
callers and then she begins it with a bang, a
(T)ust t?av/e a Brass Barjd.
rush and a charge of the light brigade. Under
us is a man who plays a flute every evening
NOTHING ELSE IN A MUSICAL LINE WOULD when I am taking my after dinner nap. Across
the hall is a woman who thumps the banjo every
SATISFY A NEW YORKER.
time our baby goes to sleep. Do you understand
T any musical instruments that will now ? " asked the customer a little excitedly.
" Oh, yes," said the clerk, with a sympathetic
play themselves? " he said, looking
smile.
around the store in a determined way.
" Now, what I want," said the other, looking
"Oh, yes, plenty of them," said the clerk,
desperate, " is a patent brass band—something
with a wave of his arm at the rows of shelves.
that you can wind up for four hours and lock in
" Anything suitable for a flat ? "
" Yes, indeed ; how would a music box with the room. I want to set it off and then take my
family to the theatre. I want it to run when
select airs suit you ? ''
we go to church. I want a whole band—bass
"It'll run itself, will it? "
" Yes, indeed. All that you have to do is to drum, cymbals, triangle, cornet, horns—every-
wind it up and let it go. It changes the tunes thing that goes with the band. I want some-
thing that will just saw wood to beat the record.
and takes care of itself.''
Have you got anything like that ? ''
" You think it would do for a flat ? "
" I ' m afraid not. Now I could give you
'' Undoubtedly. We do a large flat business
in this kind of instruments. I suppose you a"
'' No, nothing less than a brass band will do
want something that will not take up much
for those people. Haven't you got one without
room ? "
" That's the idea—something that isn't big, the triangle ? "
" I am afraid not. "
but that goes right ahead and works for all it is
" Well, we'll knock off the bass drum."
worth."
1
' I couldn 't give you that either. How would
you like"
'' No, that's the only compromise I can make,''
said the flat dweller firmly. "I'll have to look
elsewhere, I guess. Maybe I'll have to have
one built for me, maybe I'll have to invent one
myself, but I'm going to have a five hour brass
band if I die for it," and he went out looking
resolved.—New York Tribune.
f
HE musical predilections and studious in-
clination of the great Wagner are best
shown by an enumeration of the works which
were his constant companions. Beethoven's
sonatas, quartets and symphonies; the welt-
tempered clavichord of Bach; Mozart's sym-
phonies in E flat, G minor and C, the Zauber-
flote, the Entfuhrung aus dem Serail, the Figaro
and the Don Giovanni of the same author, and
Weber's Freischutz were always with him, and
he knew these from beginning to end almost by
heart.
He said : '' Give me Beethoven's quartets and
sonatas for intimate communion, and his over-
tures and symphonies for public performance.
Mozart's music and Mozart's orchestra are a
perfect match. An equally perfect balance ex-
ists between Palestrina's choir and Palestrina's
counterpoint. I find similar correspondence
between Chopin's piano and some of his etudes
and preludes."
Of Schumann he did not think so much.
'' There is too much blur.'' Of Mendelssohn his
opinion was high. " He is a landscape painter
of the first order." Of Schubert: " H e has
produced model songs, but that is no reason for
us to accept his pianoforte sonatas as really solid
work."—St. Louis Globe Democrat.
A B R A H A M L I N C O L N once said,
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"You can fool all the people some of the time and some
of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the
people all of the time.''
This is the reason why so many dealers, after trying to sell inferior goods, have concluded
to buy the old and reliable
HALLETT & CUMSTON
o,
WHICH WAS FIRST MADE IN 1833.
WAREROOMS, 200 TREMONT STREET,
BOSTON".
CATALOGUE AND PRICE LIST ON APPLICATION.
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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
" We have just what you want in that line,
sir.''
" Well, let's hear one, then," and he listened
attentively after the clerk had set the box to
going. It hadn 't gone more than a minute when
the customer made a gesture of disapproval.
" It won't do, " he said gloomily.
" What is the objection ? Too much noise?
Would you like something softer and gentler ?
Now "
" Softer ! " said the other in freezing tones.
" Young man, I said that I lived in a flat, didn't
I ? On the floor above me lives a girl who
thinks she can play the piano. She plays it
everj' day. She always waits until we have
callers and then she begins it with a bang, a
(T)ust t?av/e a Brass Barjd.
rush and a charge of the light brigade. Under
us is a man who plays a flute every evening
NOTHING ELSE IN A MUSICAL LINE WOULD when I am taking my after dinner nap. Across
the hall is a woman who thumps the banjo every
SATISFY A NEW YORKER.
time our baby goes to sleep. Do you understand
T any musical instruments that will now ? " asked the customer a little excitedly.
" Oh, yes," said the clerk, with a sympathetic
play themselves? " he said, looking
smile.
around the store in a determined way.
" Now, what I want," said the other, looking
"Oh, yes, plenty of them," said the clerk,
desperate, " is a patent brass band—something
with a wave of his arm at the rows of shelves.
that you can wind up for four hours and lock in
" Anything suitable for a flat ? "
" Yes, indeed ; how would a music box with the room. I want to set it off and then take my
family to the theatre. I want it to run when
select airs suit you ? ''
we go to church. I want a whole band—bass
"It'll run itself, will it? "
" Yes, indeed. All that you have to do is to drum, cymbals, triangle, cornet, horns—every-
wind it up and let it go. It changes the tunes thing that goes with the band. I want some-
thing that will just saw wood to beat the record.
and takes care of itself.''
Have you got anything like that ? ''
" You think it would do for a flat ? "
" I ' m afraid not. Now I could give you
'' Undoubtedly. We do a large flat business
in this kind of instruments. I suppose you a"
'' No, nothing less than a brass band will do
want something that will not take up much
for those people. Haven't you got one without
room ? "
" That's the idea—something that isn't big, the triangle ? "
" I am afraid not. "
but that goes right ahead and works for all it is
" Well, we'll knock off the bass drum."
worth."
1
' I couldn 't give you that either. How would
you like"
'' No, that's the only compromise I can make,''
said the flat dweller firmly. "I'll have to look
elsewhere, I guess. Maybe I'll have to have
one built for me, maybe I'll have to invent one
myself, but I'm going to have a five hour brass
band if I die for it," and he went out looking
resolved.—New York Tribune.
f
HE musical predilections and studious in-
clination of the great Wagner are best
shown by an enumeration of the works which
were his constant companions. Beethoven's
sonatas, quartets and symphonies; the welt-
tempered clavichord of Bach; Mozart's sym-
phonies in E flat, G minor and C, the Zauber-
flote, the Entfuhrung aus dem Serail, the Figaro
and the Don Giovanni of the same author, and
Weber's Freischutz were always with him, and
he knew these from beginning to end almost by
heart.
He said : '' Give me Beethoven's quartets and
sonatas for intimate communion, and his over-
tures and symphonies for public performance.
Mozart's music and Mozart's orchestra are a
perfect match. An equally perfect balance ex-
ists between Palestrina's choir and Palestrina's
counterpoint. I find similar correspondence
between Chopin's piano and some of his etudes
and preludes."
Of Schumann he did not think so much.
'' There is too much blur.'' Of Mendelssohn his
opinion was high. " He is a landscape painter
of the first order." Of Schubert: " H e has
produced model songs, but that is no reason for
us to accept his pianoforte sonatas as really solid
work."—St. Louis Globe Democrat.
A B R A H A M L I N C O L N once said,
7
"You can fool all the people some of the time and some
of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the
people all of the time.''
This is the reason why so many dealers, after trying to sell inferior goods, have concluded
to buy the old and reliable
HALLETT & CUMSTON
o,
WHICH WAS FIRST MADE IN 1833.
WAREROOMS, 200 TREMONT STREET,
BOSTON".
CATALOGUE AND PRICE LIST ON APPLICATION.
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