Music Trade Review
Issue: 1892 Vol. 16 N. 8 - Page 2
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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
170
A MUSICAL COMBINATION.
f
H E following, in substance, has been going
the rounds of the daily press :
CINCINNATI, September 23d.—A great combi-
nation of music publishing and musical instru-
ment manufacturers has just been consummated
by a syndicate of Cincinnatians, which will
make this city the great center of that business
for the whole country. The capital of the inte-
rests involved will reach five million dollars.
The interests involved are the John Church
Company, of this city ; a New York house at 16
East 14th street; t h e Everett Piano Company,
of Boston; Root & Sons'Music Company, of
Chicago; the Harvard Piano Company, of Bos-
ton, and the Royal Manufacturing Company, of
3 EAST 14th STREET, NEW YORK.
this city. These are to be combined under one
management. The men in the new venture are
SUBSCRIPTION (including postage) United States and
Canada, $3.00 per year, in advance; Foreign Countries, William N. Hobart, Edward Rawson, A. Howard
$4 00.
Hinkle, Frank A. Lee and William Hooper.
ADVERTISEMENTS, $2.00 per inch, single column, per The last named gentleman is a capitalist. Mr.
insertion; unless inserted upon rates made by special
Lee is vice-president of the John Church Com-
contract.
pany
; Mr. Hobart and Mr. Rawson have been
Entered at the New York Post Office as Second Class Matter.
active in the May Musical Festival Association,
and Mr. Hinkle is a retired member of the great
school book publishing house of Van Antwerp,
Bragg & Co. Mr. Hooper will probably be
president of the new company, with Mr. Lee as
general manager.
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For [\i feiare in
Europe we receive the following
communication :
" LONDON, Sept. 21st, 1892.
" E D W A R D LYMAN BILL, ESQ.,
To simmer the whole report down, it means
merely this : A re-organization of the separated
interests controlled by the John Church Co., to
be unified under one general head, the center of
which will be located in the city of Cincinnati,
and will be directed by that distinguished and
intelligent factor of the music trades, Mr. Frank
A. Lee. It is only one of those moves which
show the tendency of the times toward central-
ization, and in that one word may be summed
up the entire move which has gained such wide-
spread notoriety under the head of'' Piano Com-
bines, " " Musical Combinations," " Piano
T r u s t s , " etc. The separated interests of the
John Church Co., and its various branches, will
be classified under one general head, controlled
from the principal offices, which will be located
in Cincinnati.
" Editor T H E MUSIC T R A D E R E V I E W .
1
' Her Imperial and Royal Highness the Em-
press of Germany has appointed Mr. C. Bech-
stein to be pianoforte manufacturer to Her
Majesty by special warrant of appointment, Mr.
Bechstein having supplied Her Majesty with
his instruments ever since her marriage to the
Emperor William I I . "
J. HAINES, SR., accompanied
by his youngest son, Albert N., left for a
Western trip last Wednesday evening. His
route will include the principal Western cities
as far as Detroit. He will visit Chicago, and
return by the Southern route, including Cin-
cinnati.
jLBERT KRELL, of the Krell Piano Co.,
Cincinnati, O., was in the metropolis
this week. During an interview Mr. Krell re-
ported business with his firm in splendid con-
dition.
Stevens & Klock Organ Co., Marietta,
O., inform us that they are now comforta-
bly situated, and in a short time will be ready
to supply the trade '' with the best goods money
and skill can produce." This firm is composed
of enterprising men, and we have no doubt of
their future success. Keep your eye on the
Stevens & Klock organs.
jELLER BROS. & BLIGHT, piano manu-
facturers, Bridgeport, Conn., are now
an incorporated concern under the title of the
Keller Bros. & Blight Company. The capital
stock of the concern is $50,000. The officers
and directors of the company are, Joseph Keller,
president ; Charles Keller, vice-president;
William M. Blight, secretary and treasurer ; F.
W. Marsh, of Marsh, Merwin & Lemmon, bank-
ers; Geo. O. Lines, manager of East End Rail-
way Company.
PATRICK S A R S F I E L D GILMORE.
§
Y the death of this renowned musician the
cause of musical progress has lost one of
its ablest promoters, the people have lost a
favorite whom they not only ^admired, b u t
loved, and t h e bereaved wife and daughter of
the deceased have lost a husband and father,
ever devoted, affectionate and tender.
The reputation that Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore
gained by his abilities and his worth, is nation-
al and international. H e needs no extended
eulogy. The people knew him, and they revere
his memory. He delighted them, but he also
instructed them. His band played in rapturous
strains the melodies that were dear to the people's
hearts, and it also revealed to them the glow-
ing treasures of the sublimest music of the past
and present, and gave them the richest melodic
jewels of the harmonic art.
Mr. Gilmore was born a musician, and his
life was given to making humanity happier and
better by ministering to its love of melody.
He trained his band with scrupulous care and
consummate skill, and all the accumulated re-
sources of his thoroughly cultivated musical
nature, of his comprehensive experience, and of
his masterful energies, were devoted to perfect-
ing the great institution—for Gilmore's Band
was a national institution—which he directed
until it became a power capable of fascinating,
developing and uplifting the musical taste of
the American people. He has accomplished a
great work, and the good that he has done will
not die with him, but will keep his memory
green in the national heart forever.
Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore was a patriot, and a
man. His love for Ireland, the land of his
nativity, ever glowed within him, but his love
for America, his adopted country, was also deep,
ardent, and sincere. The high honors that he
won at home and abroad never made him super-
cilious or arrogant, he was always affable, unas-
suming and modest. He was a faithful friend,
a loving husband and father, a benefactor of
humanity, and his death is more than a private
sorrow, it is a public calamity.
A P E C U L I A R CONDITION.
POLITICAL mares' nest of alarming pro-
portions has been discovered in Vermont.
It came out in a letter written to National Head-
quarters. Both national committees have held
that directors of national banks are officials
holding " positions of profit and trust " under
the Federal Government, and as such are in-
eligible as presidential electors, and in New
York and several other States candidates for
election who were national bank directors have
been compelled to resign. If the courts hold as
the committees have, that national bank direc-
tors are Federal officials, it will complicate mat-
ters in Vermont, which has this clause in its
Constitution :
'' Nor shall any person holding any office of
profit or trust under the authority of Congress
be eligible to any appointment in the Legisla-
ture or of holding any executive or judiciary
office under the State.''
Col. Levi K. Fuller, Governor-elect of Ver-
THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
170
A MUSICAL COMBINATION.
f
H E following, in substance, has been going
the rounds of the daily press :
CINCINNATI, September 23d.—A great combi-
nation of music publishing and musical instru-
ment manufacturers has just been consummated
by a syndicate of Cincinnatians, which will
make this city the great center of that business
for the whole country. The capital of the inte-
rests involved will reach five million dollars.
The interests involved are the John Church
Company, of this city ; a New York house at 16
East 14th street; t h e Everett Piano Company,
of Boston; Root & Sons'Music Company, of
Chicago; the Harvard Piano Company, of Bos-
ton, and the Royal Manufacturing Company, of
3 EAST 14th STREET, NEW YORK.
this city. These are to be combined under one
management. The men in the new venture are
SUBSCRIPTION (including postage) United States and
Canada, $3.00 per year, in advance; Foreign Countries, William N. Hobart, Edward Rawson, A. Howard
$4 00.
Hinkle, Frank A. Lee and William Hooper.
ADVERTISEMENTS, $2.00 per inch, single column, per The last named gentleman is a capitalist. Mr.
insertion; unless inserted upon rates made by special
Lee is vice-president of the John Church Com-
contract.
pany
; Mr. Hobart and Mr. Rawson have been
Entered at the New York Post Office as Second Class Matter.
active in the May Musical Festival Association,
and Mr. Hinkle is a retired member of the great
school book publishing house of Van Antwerp,
Bragg & Co. Mr. Hooper will probably be
president of the new company, with Mr. Lee as
general manager.
th cause tfeit [s
For % srosg fut mli rmskv^
For [\i feiare in
Europe we receive the following
communication :
" LONDON, Sept. 21st, 1892.
" E D W A R D LYMAN BILL, ESQ.,
To simmer the whole report down, it means
merely this : A re-organization of the separated
interests controlled by the John Church Co., to
be unified under one general head, the center of
which will be located in the city of Cincinnati,
and will be directed by that distinguished and
intelligent factor of the music trades, Mr. Frank
A. Lee. It is only one of those moves which
show the tendency of the times toward central-
ization, and in that one word may be summed
up the entire move which has gained such wide-
spread notoriety under the head of'' Piano Com-
bines, " " Musical Combinations," " Piano
T r u s t s , " etc. The separated interests of the
John Church Co., and its various branches, will
be classified under one general head, controlled
from the principal offices, which will be located
in Cincinnati.
" Editor T H E MUSIC T R A D E R E V I E W .
1
' Her Imperial and Royal Highness the Em-
press of Germany has appointed Mr. C. Bech-
stein to be pianoforte manufacturer to Her
Majesty by special warrant of appointment, Mr.
Bechstein having supplied Her Majesty with
his instruments ever since her marriage to the
Emperor William I I . "
J. HAINES, SR., accompanied
by his youngest son, Albert N., left for a
Western trip last Wednesday evening. His
route will include the principal Western cities
as far as Detroit. He will visit Chicago, and
return by the Southern route, including Cin-
cinnati.
jLBERT KRELL, of the Krell Piano Co.,
Cincinnati, O., was in the metropolis
this week. During an interview Mr. Krell re-
ported business with his firm in splendid con-
dition.
Stevens & Klock Organ Co., Marietta,
O., inform us that they are now comforta-
bly situated, and in a short time will be ready
to supply the trade '' with the best goods money
and skill can produce." This firm is composed
of enterprising men, and we have no doubt of
their future success. Keep your eye on the
Stevens & Klock organs.
jELLER BROS. & BLIGHT, piano manu-
facturers, Bridgeport, Conn., are now
an incorporated concern under the title of the
Keller Bros. & Blight Company. The capital
stock of the concern is $50,000. The officers
and directors of the company are, Joseph Keller,
president ; Charles Keller, vice-president;
William M. Blight, secretary and treasurer ; F.
W. Marsh, of Marsh, Merwin & Lemmon, bank-
ers; Geo. O. Lines, manager of East End Rail-
way Company.
PATRICK S A R S F I E L D GILMORE.
§
Y the death of this renowned musician the
cause of musical progress has lost one of
its ablest promoters, the people have lost a
favorite whom they not only ^admired, b u t
loved, and t h e bereaved wife and daughter of
the deceased have lost a husband and father,
ever devoted, affectionate and tender.
The reputation that Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore
gained by his abilities and his worth, is nation-
al and international. H e needs no extended
eulogy. The people knew him, and they revere
his memory. He delighted them, but he also
instructed them. His band played in rapturous
strains the melodies that were dear to the people's
hearts, and it also revealed to them the glow-
ing treasures of the sublimest music of the past
and present, and gave them the richest melodic
jewels of the harmonic art.
Mr. Gilmore was born a musician, and his
life was given to making humanity happier and
better by ministering to its love of melody.
He trained his band with scrupulous care and
consummate skill, and all the accumulated re-
sources of his thoroughly cultivated musical
nature, of his comprehensive experience, and of
his masterful energies, were devoted to perfect-
ing the great institution—for Gilmore's Band
was a national institution—which he directed
until it became a power capable of fascinating,
developing and uplifting the musical taste of
the American people. He has accomplished a
great work, and the good that he has done will
not die with him, but will keep his memory
green in the national heart forever.
Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore was a patriot, and a
man. His love for Ireland, the land of his
nativity, ever glowed within him, but his love
for America, his adopted country, was also deep,
ardent, and sincere. The high honors that he
won at home and abroad never made him super-
cilious or arrogant, he was always affable, unas-
suming and modest. He was a faithful friend,
a loving husband and father, a benefactor of
humanity, and his death is more than a private
sorrow, it is a public calamity.
A P E C U L I A R CONDITION.
POLITICAL mares' nest of alarming pro-
portions has been discovered in Vermont.
It came out in a letter written to National Head-
quarters. Both national committees have held
that directors of national banks are officials
holding " positions of profit and trust " under
the Federal Government, and as such are in-
eligible as presidential electors, and in New
York and several other States candidates for
election who were national bank directors have
been compelled to resign. If the courts hold as
the committees have, that national bank direc-
tors are Federal officials, it will complicate mat-
ters in Vermont, which has this clause in its
Constitution :
'' Nor shall any person holding any office of
profit or trust under the authority of Congress
be eligible to any appointment in the Legisla-
ture or of holding any executive or judiciary
office under the State.''
Col. Levi K. Fuller, Governor-elect of Ver-
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