Music Trade Review
Issue: 1893 Vol. 18 N. 19 - Page 4
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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
MR. GEO. W. TEWKSBTJRY, of the Chicago
Cottage Organ Co., has been visiting the East,
and speaks encouragingly of trade prospects.
A PIANO TUNER named J. G. W. Morrison, of
WE are in receipt of a circular sent us by
Mason & Hamlin, which is an explanation of
the award system as far as it relates to their in-
struments. Mason & Hamlin did not exhibit
for the purpose of obtaining general recognition
for their instruments, but for specific or
original improvements—distinctively known as
such—and in that respect the awards received
give these improvements an unequivocal recom-
mendation.
" A COMBINATION OF THREE " is the title of
a little book recently issued by the Farrand &
Votey Organ Co., of Detroit, giving a list of the
organs constructed by the Farrand & Votey Co.,
Frank Roosevelt and Granville Wood & Sou
forming the " Combination of Three."
dealer is not grumbling about the hard
times. For instance, there are Lyon & Healy,
who report that they sold nine pianos last Fri-
day and six on the following Saturday.—In-
dicator.
IT is rumored that J. P. Richardson, formerly
superintendent of the Mason & Hamlin factory
at Cambridgeport, and his former assistant, Mr.
Jerauld, intend establishing a piano factory at
Portland, Me.
GEO. W. WOODRUFF, superintendent of the
organ department of Geo. P. Bent's establish-
ment, Chicago, met with a serious accident
recently by falling five stories down the elevator
shaft. We are glad to say he is improving.
MR. C. A. POWERS will have the management
of the Mark Ament Company, Peoria, 111., which
is the title of the concern to succeed the business
carried on by Mr. Mark Ament.
Springfield, 111., was stoned to death by a mob
to-day near Winchester, a small town not far
from Whitehall, 111. Morrison was accused of
having assaulted Maude Markrcck. The dead
man traveled around the country and was well
known. Nothing was ever said against him
before and when the charge of assault was made
against him much surprise was manifested.
Morrison was a handsome, rather pompous look-
ing man of forty-five years. He had done work
for several music dealers in various cities, but
for the most part had been engaged for himself,
most of his business being in small towns and
country residences. Those who knew him re-
garded him as a man of honor and incapable of
committing the crime credited to him. There is
much indignation at the action of those compos-
ing the mob, and they will be prosecuted vigor-
ously.—New York Herald, November 29th.
EUGENE S. BONELLI, a music dealer and
teacher of music, of San Francisco, has petition-
ed to be declared insolvent. He owes $2,155 43.
and has no assets beyond two promissory notes
for $600 and $25 respectively. Bonelli is the
man who operated on the third finger of pianists
by cutting the lesion.
MR. CHARLES H. STEINWAY, of Stein way &
Sons, is a stockholder in the new Trocadero en-
terprise in Chicago.
will in future represent the Newby
& Evans piano on the road.
MR. EVANS
SCHUBERT WORD
CONTEST,
the Schubert Piano Company ori-
ginated the " Schubert " word contest,
they "struck oil," as the saying goes. The
offer of one of their handsome uprights to the
lucky winner has caught the town, and it has
generated a spontaneous and growing interest
in the Schubert piano, as well as the historic
name.
A fitting climax to the great "battle of
words " will be the presentation of the instru-
ment at a grand concert, which will be held at
the Madison Squaie Garden Concert Hall on the
afternoon of December 26th. The following
artists have been engaged to add brilliancy to
the occasion : Mabel Stillman, the whistling
Patti ; Louise Tooker, soprano; A. M. Taylor,
reader; Carl Odell, tenor; Bessie Mecklen,
saxophonist; H. C. Mecklen, harpist; George
Appel, pianist; and the New York Ladies'
Quartet. All contestants will receive a ticket
of admission, free of charge, on application to
the warerooms of the Schubert Piano Company,
29 Ea3t 14th street.
Mr. McArthur is certainly entitled to con-
gratulations for his decided enterprise in so in-
geniously advertising the Schubert piano.
to
Big
Bull piddles f\vour)d.
EVERY
GIO, P, BZHVS
COUUM0IAN
_S0UVENIR,
Geo. P. Bent is out with
§ HE an enterprising
attractive and ingenius brochure, en-
titled " Record at the World's Fair of the Crown
Pianos and Organs." A perusal of the book
will convince you that the '' record '' stands un-
rivalled. Mr. Bent is a go-ahead, vigorous per-
sonality, and his great success at the World's
Fair is another tribute to the man and the mag-
nificent products of his house.
The book, which is well conceived and ar-
ranged, contains the awards given the Crown
pianos and organs, cuts of each State building
in which a Crown piano or organ was placed,
BENJAMIN F. SNYDER, formerly salesman for
Jacob Green, of Elmira, N. Y., died on Nov. 14. and with these are fac-simile letters from the
various State and foreign commissioners ex-
THE Sohmer & Co. piano will in future be pressing their opinions of the Crown pianos and
represented in Providence, R. I., by Mr. H. L. organs, all of which constitute valuable testi-
Eddy. The Sohmer will be pushed as a leader. monials to the merits of the instruments. It
With its excellent reputation, and in the hands also contains a number of press comments,
of such a capable and popular dealer, it is bound official seals of the various States, aptly termed
to become as great a favorite in Providence as " Seals of Approval, " a chapter on the " Ameri-
elsewhere.
can " keyboard, and illustrations of the many
MR. O. B. SMITH, editor of the Evening News,
styles of Crown pianos and organs. The book
of St. Augustine, Fla., has determined to forsake will be treasured as a worthy souvenir of a pro-
the quill and engage in the organ and piano gressive house and the great Columbian year.
business. He has not decided on a special line
as yet.
Scobjell.—I don't know what to do with my
MR. A. E- DUSTONSMITH, a practical piano
maker, has been appointed manager of the boy. He has St. Vitus'dance. His contortions
are frightful.
Milne Piano Company, at Plattsburg, N. Y.
Yaggers.—Make a great pianist of him, and
THE National Association of Piano Tuners
it will pass for eccentricity.
will hold their next meeting at Mason & Hamlin
Hall, 188 5th avenue, Monday evening, Decem-
Customer (in barber chair). So you haven't
ber 4th, at 8 o'clock. They request manufactur- heard Von Thumper, the world-famous pianist ?
ers to urge their tuners to attend. Mr. C. M.
Barber.—Naw. Dose bianists neffer batronize
Henry is president.
me, an' zo I neffer batronize dem.
M [ GOLD-LACED person got on a crowded
©^> Brooklyn trolly car and hung a bass drum
over the brake-handle. The car lurched and the
man next to him stepped on the gold-laced per-
son's toes, and being thus introduced, began a
conversation about the drum.
"Heap of bother carrying a drum around,
isn't it? "
" Yes, but not so much as a double bass, one
of these big bass fiddles, you know—bull fid-
dles."
" Are they much trouble ? "
" Well, they are this much trouble, that they
won't let you get on a car in Brooklyn with one.
In New York you have to get a permit to carry
one, just the same as if it was a concealed wea-
pon. Once, here in Brooklyn, I'd have to take
a carriage for it. But now I belong to a double
bass club."
"Have pretty good times, I suppose. You
get together and smoke and have some beer and
play solos on your double basses."
The gold-laced man looked down and laughed
silently. Well, it is kind of funny to think of
a lot of men sitting around and playing solos
about two octaves below the singing voice.
Voomf! Voomf!
'' No,'' said he after a pause. '' All the fellows
that play the double bass belong to this club,
and pay $2 a year dues. They have a lot of
instruments, and every place they have to go to
'play there is a closet containing a bass, to which
only members of the clubs have keys. There is
a book in the closet, and every time a fellow
uses the bass he marks down his name. They
have them in all the halls and theatres, and in
the summer time on all the barges and excursion
steamers. The $2 from each member goes for
repairs."
So that's the reason why you can't remember
having seen a double bass on the street cars, no
matter how hard you try.—New York World.
THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
MR. GEO. W. TEWKSBTJRY, of the Chicago
Cottage Organ Co., has been visiting the East,
and speaks encouragingly of trade prospects.
A PIANO TUNER named J. G. W. Morrison, of
WE are in receipt of a circular sent us by
Mason & Hamlin, which is an explanation of
the award system as far as it relates to their in-
struments. Mason & Hamlin did not exhibit
for the purpose of obtaining general recognition
for their instruments, but for specific or
original improvements—distinctively known as
such—and in that respect the awards received
give these improvements an unequivocal recom-
mendation.
" A COMBINATION OF THREE " is the title of
a little book recently issued by the Farrand &
Votey Organ Co., of Detroit, giving a list of the
organs constructed by the Farrand & Votey Co.,
Frank Roosevelt and Granville Wood & Sou
forming the " Combination of Three."
dealer is not grumbling about the hard
times. For instance, there are Lyon & Healy,
who report that they sold nine pianos last Fri-
day and six on the following Saturday.—In-
dicator.
IT is rumored that J. P. Richardson, formerly
superintendent of the Mason & Hamlin factory
at Cambridgeport, and his former assistant, Mr.
Jerauld, intend establishing a piano factory at
Portland, Me.
GEO. W. WOODRUFF, superintendent of the
organ department of Geo. P. Bent's establish-
ment, Chicago, met with a serious accident
recently by falling five stories down the elevator
shaft. We are glad to say he is improving.
MR. C. A. POWERS will have the management
of the Mark Ament Company, Peoria, 111., which
is the title of the concern to succeed the business
carried on by Mr. Mark Ament.
Springfield, 111., was stoned to death by a mob
to-day near Winchester, a small town not far
from Whitehall, 111. Morrison was accused of
having assaulted Maude Markrcck. The dead
man traveled around the country and was well
known. Nothing was ever said against him
before and when the charge of assault was made
against him much surprise was manifested.
Morrison was a handsome, rather pompous look-
ing man of forty-five years. He had done work
for several music dealers in various cities, but
for the most part had been engaged for himself,
most of his business being in small towns and
country residences. Those who knew him re-
garded him as a man of honor and incapable of
committing the crime credited to him. There is
much indignation at the action of those compos-
ing the mob, and they will be prosecuted vigor-
ously.—New York Herald, November 29th.
EUGENE S. BONELLI, a music dealer and
teacher of music, of San Francisco, has petition-
ed to be declared insolvent. He owes $2,155 43.
and has no assets beyond two promissory notes
for $600 and $25 respectively. Bonelli is the
man who operated on the third finger of pianists
by cutting the lesion.
MR. CHARLES H. STEINWAY, of Stein way &
Sons, is a stockholder in the new Trocadero en-
terprise in Chicago.
will in future represent the Newby
& Evans piano on the road.
MR. EVANS
SCHUBERT WORD
CONTEST,
the Schubert Piano Company ori-
ginated the " Schubert " word contest,
they "struck oil," as the saying goes. The
offer of one of their handsome uprights to the
lucky winner has caught the town, and it has
generated a spontaneous and growing interest
in the Schubert piano, as well as the historic
name.
A fitting climax to the great "battle of
words " will be the presentation of the instru-
ment at a grand concert, which will be held at
the Madison Squaie Garden Concert Hall on the
afternoon of December 26th. The following
artists have been engaged to add brilliancy to
the occasion : Mabel Stillman, the whistling
Patti ; Louise Tooker, soprano; A. M. Taylor,
reader; Carl Odell, tenor; Bessie Mecklen,
saxophonist; H. C. Mecklen, harpist; George
Appel, pianist; and the New York Ladies'
Quartet. All contestants will receive a ticket
of admission, free of charge, on application to
the warerooms of the Schubert Piano Company,
29 Ea3t 14th street.
Mr. McArthur is certainly entitled to con-
gratulations for his decided enterprise in so in-
geniously advertising the Schubert piano.
to
Big
Bull piddles f\vour)d.
EVERY
GIO, P, BZHVS
COUUM0IAN
_S0UVENIR,
Geo. P. Bent is out with
§ HE an enterprising
attractive and ingenius brochure, en-
titled " Record at the World's Fair of the Crown
Pianos and Organs." A perusal of the book
will convince you that the '' record '' stands un-
rivalled. Mr. Bent is a go-ahead, vigorous per-
sonality, and his great success at the World's
Fair is another tribute to the man and the mag-
nificent products of his house.
The book, which is well conceived and ar-
ranged, contains the awards given the Crown
pianos and organs, cuts of each State building
in which a Crown piano or organ was placed,
BENJAMIN F. SNYDER, formerly salesman for
Jacob Green, of Elmira, N. Y., died on Nov. 14. and with these are fac-simile letters from the
various State and foreign commissioners ex-
THE Sohmer & Co. piano will in future be pressing their opinions of the Crown pianos and
represented in Providence, R. I., by Mr. H. L. organs, all of which constitute valuable testi-
Eddy. The Sohmer will be pushed as a leader. monials to the merits of the instruments. It
With its excellent reputation, and in the hands also contains a number of press comments,
of such a capable and popular dealer, it is bound official seals of the various States, aptly termed
to become as great a favorite in Providence as " Seals of Approval, " a chapter on the " Ameri-
elsewhere.
can " keyboard, and illustrations of the many
MR. O. B. SMITH, editor of the Evening News,
styles of Crown pianos and organs. The book
of St. Augustine, Fla., has determined to forsake will be treasured as a worthy souvenir of a pro-
the quill and engage in the organ and piano gressive house and the great Columbian year.
business. He has not decided on a special line
as yet.
Scobjell.—I don't know what to do with my
MR. A. E- DUSTONSMITH, a practical piano
maker, has been appointed manager of the boy. He has St. Vitus'dance. His contortions
are frightful.
Milne Piano Company, at Plattsburg, N. Y.
Yaggers.—Make a great pianist of him, and
THE National Association of Piano Tuners
it will pass for eccentricity.
will hold their next meeting at Mason & Hamlin
Hall, 188 5th avenue, Monday evening, Decem-
Customer (in barber chair). So you haven't
ber 4th, at 8 o'clock. They request manufactur- heard Von Thumper, the world-famous pianist ?
ers to urge their tuners to attend. Mr. C. M.
Barber.—Naw. Dose bianists neffer batronize
Henry is president.
me, an' zo I neffer batronize dem.
M [ GOLD-LACED person got on a crowded
©^> Brooklyn trolly car and hung a bass drum
over the brake-handle. The car lurched and the
man next to him stepped on the gold-laced per-
son's toes, and being thus introduced, began a
conversation about the drum.
"Heap of bother carrying a drum around,
isn't it? "
" Yes, but not so much as a double bass, one
of these big bass fiddles, you know—bull fid-
dles."
" Are they much trouble ? "
" Well, they are this much trouble, that they
won't let you get on a car in Brooklyn with one.
In New York you have to get a permit to carry
one, just the same as if it was a concealed wea-
pon. Once, here in Brooklyn, I'd have to take
a carriage for it. But now I belong to a double
bass club."
"Have pretty good times, I suppose. You
get together and smoke and have some beer and
play solos on your double basses."
The gold-laced man looked down and laughed
silently. Well, it is kind of funny to think of
a lot of men sitting around and playing solos
about two octaves below the singing voice.
Voomf! Voomf!
'' No,'' said he after a pause. '' All the fellows
that play the double bass belong to this club,
and pay $2 a year dues. They have a lot of
instruments, and every place they have to go to
'play there is a closet containing a bass, to which
only members of the clubs have keys. There is
a book in the closet, and every time a fellow
uses the bass he marks down his name. They
have them in all the halls and theatres, and in
the summer time on all the barges and excursion
steamers. The $2 from each member goes for
repairs."
So that's the reason why you can't remember
having seen a double bass on the street cars, no
matter how hard you try.—New York World.
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