Music Trade Review
Issue: 1894 Vol. 18 N. 24 - Page 2
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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
A list of the officers for the ensuing year, as re-
presented by the Nominating Committee, will
be found in another section of this paper.
fflHE Chicago Musical Times has an article
£T» which reflects upon the credit of Messrs.
Peek & Son, New York, which is utterly untrue.
The manufacturers of the '' Opera '' pianos have
met promptly every business obligation of the
past year, and the season of '94 opens up for
them with exceedingly bright prospects.
pUBIJSJJED El/EI^V
:J EAST 14th STREET, NEW YORK.
SUBSCRIPTION (including postage) United States and
Canada, $4.00 per year, in advance j Foreign Countries,
$500.
ADVERTISEMENTS, $2.00 per inch, single column, per
insertion; unless inserted upon rates made by special
contract.
seems that some little time may elapse be-
fore the Braumuller affairs will be in con-
dition for the resumption of business. The
basis upon which the company propose to settle
is sixty cents on the dollar, by notes running
from six to fifteen months non-interest bearing.
These, it is said, will be secured by real estate
owned by Mr. Braumuller's mother.
Entered at the New York Post Office as Second Class Matter,
>USIC trade journalism seems to have held
up fairly well during the past year. A
noteworthy fact is this : Notwithstanding there
has been many changes—some papers have gone
down—yet to-day there is precisely the same
number of journals—published by the same men
who were in the business six years ago. Surely
music trade journalism has demonstrated its
ability to survive almost anything.
of their products, have just placed on the market
a new style '' Eastlake,'' which has many quali-
ties to recommend it to the dealer and buyer. It
is of medium height, has a most attractive case,
and its action mechanism is of that elastic and
durable quality which is so pleasing to all per-
formers on the reed organ. It is bound to prove
a favorite.
WT is indeed pleasing news to learn that the
<5w> reliable and progressive piano supply house
HE Geo. C. Crane Co. have leased the Brau-
of Comstock, Cheney & Co., of Ivoryton,
muller warerooms on 5th avenue for a
Conn., are running almost their full force of
term of years. Mr. Crane informs us that they
workmen.
will occupy it immediately, and place therein a
stock
of Krell pianos. The Company is a stock
, if everybody, instead of talking hard
times all the time, would turn about and concern, organized under the laws of New Jersey,
talk good times they might talk the latter into capital stock $50,000. It is also understood that
this concern, in which the Krells, of Cincinnati,
existence.—Boston Transcript.
are
directly interested, will be Eastern head-
We commend the above to the soup house
quarters for the distribution oi the Krell pianos
editor.
to smaller dealers.
§
§
HE Washburn & Moen Manufacturing Co.,
the wire manufacturers of Worcester,
Mass., have issued a notice to their employees
notifying them that salaries will be reduced
from io to 20 per cent. Stockholders were also
informed that the quarterly dividend would be
only one per cent.
reception to be given by the New York
Piano Manufacturers'Association on Tues-
day afternoon, of January 9th, at the Union
Square Hotel, promises to be largely attended.
announced in a recent issue of this paper,
Salvador La Grassa, late superintendent
with Hardman, Peck & Co., will enter into piano
manufacturing. It is stated that in his enter-
prise he will have ample capital. Members of
the Hardman family will be stockholders in the
new concern, also Mr. Dowling, formerly known
to the trade as a member of the old firm of
Hardman, Dowling & Peck. Just what name
will be placed upon the fall board of the new
instrument has not been announced.
has generally been held, says the Evening
Sun, that you cannot enjoy art on an
empty stomach. At such a time a beefsteak has
more abstract beauty than an oratorio, and a
brace of chops than a cavatina. Hence the
latest news from Danbury causes wonder. Every
day at the gatherings of the locked-out hat
makers an orchestra leader waves his baton over
a competent company of hired musicians, and
soloists, deep basses, clear tenors and fluty
sopranos rumble and soar. It must be that
Danbury is different from the rest of the world,
or that the pinch has not come in the town of
hard hats yet.
year just closed has been one of com-
parative prosperity with the Pease Piano
Company. Their progressive business policy,
aided by a general optimistic temperament, has
done much to help this condition of things.
One of the greatest successes of this house has
been the worthy addition they made to the
Popular Pease Pianos in the new style " M , "
which has met with expressions of admiration
from all who have examined it. Its handsome
exterior, rich and sonorous tone quality, and
artistic finish throughout, have made it a favor-
ite with up-to-date dealers. With such a seller,
backed by numerous other styles, the Pease
Piano Company enters the new year with every
prospect of making a record to be proud of.
our pocket-books have not, at all
times, shown the plethoric proportions
toward which we incline. While our bank ac-
count does not show that magnificent balance
which delights the heart and satisfies the soul.
While the demands upon our advertising space
have not been as large as we could have conven-
iently accommodated. While our subscription
books could have contained a few thousand more
names. While—well, we are here, and in the
new year mean to contribute all we can to the
advancement of the interests of the music trades
of America. With sincerity, T H E MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW wishes to its readers everywhere—A
Happy New Year.
learn from recent cable dispatches that
His Holiness Pope Leo is about to issue
an encyclical on the important subject of sacred
music. He recommends the study and adoption
of Gregorian music, and impresses on the
bishops and priests of his church the necessity
of excluding from religious service "music
which may have theatrical tunes." Such a re-
quest from Rome will undoubtedly have an im-
portant bearing on the many musical composi-
tions which were created through the medium-
ship of the Roman church, and which helped to
make its august ritual the most imposing of any
of the Christian churches. It is indeed a retro-
gressive movement which will not find favor
with the musical world, for it will exclude from
the repertory of this church many of the great
art works of our composers of music.
THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
A list of the officers for the ensuing year, as re-
presented by the Nominating Committee, will
be found in another section of this paper.
fflHE Chicago Musical Times has an article
£T» which reflects upon the credit of Messrs.
Peek & Son, New York, which is utterly untrue.
The manufacturers of the '' Opera '' pianos have
met promptly every business obligation of the
past year, and the season of '94 opens up for
them with exceedingly bright prospects.
pUBIJSJJED El/EI^V
:J EAST 14th STREET, NEW YORK.
SUBSCRIPTION (including postage) United States and
Canada, $4.00 per year, in advance j Foreign Countries,
$500.
ADVERTISEMENTS, $2.00 per inch, single column, per
insertion; unless inserted upon rates made by special
contract.
seems that some little time may elapse be-
fore the Braumuller affairs will be in con-
dition for the resumption of business. The
basis upon which the company propose to settle
is sixty cents on the dollar, by notes running
from six to fifteen months non-interest bearing.
These, it is said, will be secured by real estate
owned by Mr. Braumuller's mother.
Entered at the New York Post Office as Second Class Matter,
>USIC trade journalism seems to have held
up fairly well during the past year. A
noteworthy fact is this : Notwithstanding there
has been many changes—some papers have gone
down—yet to-day there is precisely the same
number of journals—published by the same men
who were in the business six years ago. Surely
music trade journalism has demonstrated its
ability to survive almost anything.
of their products, have just placed on the market
a new style '' Eastlake,'' which has many quali-
ties to recommend it to the dealer and buyer. It
is of medium height, has a most attractive case,
and its action mechanism is of that elastic and
durable quality which is so pleasing to all per-
formers on the reed organ. It is bound to prove
a favorite.
WT is indeed pleasing news to learn that the
<5w> reliable and progressive piano supply house
HE Geo. C. Crane Co. have leased the Brau-
of Comstock, Cheney & Co., of Ivoryton,
muller warerooms on 5th avenue for a
Conn., are running almost their full force of
term of years. Mr. Crane informs us that they
workmen.
will occupy it immediately, and place therein a
stock
of Krell pianos. The Company is a stock
, if everybody, instead of talking hard
times all the time, would turn about and concern, organized under the laws of New Jersey,
talk good times they might talk the latter into capital stock $50,000. It is also understood that
this concern, in which the Krells, of Cincinnati,
existence.—Boston Transcript.
are
directly interested, will be Eastern head-
We commend the above to the soup house
quarters for the distribution oi the Krell pianos
editor.
to smaller dealers.
§
§
HE Washburn & Moen Manufacturing Co.,
the wire manufacturers of Worcester,
Mass., have issued a notice to their employees
notifying them that salaries will be reduced
from io to 20 per cent. Stockholders were also
informed that the quarterly dividend would be
only one per cent.
reception to be given by the New York
Piano Manufacturers'Association on Tues-
day afternoon, of January 9th, at the Union
Square Hotel, promises to be largely attended.
announced in a recent issue of this paper,
Salvador La Grassa, late superintendent
with Hardman, Peck & Co., will enter into piano
manufacturing. It is stated that in his enter-
prise he will have ample capital. Members of
the Hardman family will be stockholders in the
new concern, also Mr. Dowling, formerly known
to the trade as a member of the old firm of
Hardman, Dowling & Peck. Just what name
will be placed upon the fall board of the new
instrument has not been announced.
has generally been held, says the Evening
Sun, that you cannot enjoy art on an
empty stomach. At such a time a beefsteak has
more abstract beauty than an oratorio, and a
brace of chops than a cavatina. Hence the
latest news from Danbury causes wonder. Every
day at the gatherings of the locked-out hat
makers an orchestra leader waves his baton over
a competent company of hired musicians, and
soloists, deep basses, clear tenors and fluty
sopranos rumble and soar. It must be that
Danbury is different from the rest of the world,
or that the pinch has not come in the town of
hard hats yet.
year just closed has been one of com-
parative prosperity with the Pease Piano
Company. Their progressive business policy,
aided by a general optimistic temperament, has
done much to help this condition of things.
One of the greatest successes of this house has
been the worthy addition they made to the
Popular Pease Pianos in the new style " M , "
which has met with expressions of admiration
from all who have examined it. Its handsome
exterior, rich and sonorous tone quality, and
artistic finish throughout, have made it a favor-
ite with up-to-date dealers. With such a seller,
backed by numerous other styles, the Pease
Piano Company enters the new year with every
prospect of making a record to be proud of.
our pocket-books have not, at all
times, shown the plethoric proportions
toward which we incline. While our bank ac-
count does not show that magnificent balance
which delights the heart and satisfies the soul.
While the demands upon our advertising space
have not been as large as we could have conven-
iently accommodated. While our subscription
books could have contained a few thousand more
names. While—well, we are here, and in the
new year mean to contribute all we can to the
advancement of the interests of the music trades
of America. With sincerity, T H E MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW wishes to its readers everywhere—A
Happy New Year.
learn from recent cable dispatches that
His Holiness Pope Leo is about to issue
an encyclical on the important subject of sacred
music. He recommends the study and adoption
of Gregorian music, and impresses on the
bishops and priests of his church the necessity
of excluding from religious service "music
which may have theatrical tunes." Such a re-
quest from Rome will undoubtedly have an im-
portant bearing on the many musical composi-
tions which were created through the medium-
ship of the Roman church, and which helped to
make its august ritual the most imposing of any
of the Christian churches. It is indeed a retro-
gressive movement which will not find favor
with the musical world, for it will exclude from
the repertory of this church many of the great
art works of our composers of music.
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