Music Trade Review
Issue: 1896 Vol. 23 N. 23 - Page 15
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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
& WALDO, Minneapolis, Minn.,
placed an order last week for four carloads of
pianos with the A. M. McPhail Piano Co.,
of Boston.
FOSTER
THE sale of the stock of John F. Strat-
ton, 811-17 East Ninth street, which
commenced late last week, was closed on
Monday A large crowd of buyers was
present and fair prices were realized. Geo.
B. Spatt was the auctioneer.
" O M I E " HOUGHTON is back from his
Western trip.
THE Odd Fellows of Portland, Me., have
purchased a magnificent Chickering grand
piano for their hall from Cressey, Jones &
Allen, the Chickering representatives in
that city.
r
J. H. KURZENKNAKE & SON, music deal-
ers, Harrisburg, Pa., are furnishing free
lessons to all purchasers of instruments
which they dispose of.
GEO. W. BEMIS, Worcester, Mass., is the
patentee of a snare or tenor drum with the
snares affixed to the inner side of the head
so that either head may be utilized for beat-
ing.
C. E. DELNO, who has been actively en-
gaged as manager and salesman for leading
piano houses for the past eighteen years,
has opened business for himself at the
Jesse French Co.'sold quarters, 816 Con-
gress avenue, Austin, Tex.
S^ Q. MINGLE has sold his music store at
Williamsport,Pa., to Charles W. Freck. Mr.
Freck is at present a law student at Dick-
inson college, and the business will be man-
aged for the time being by his father.
C. H. NORRIS, music dealer, Saginaw,
Mich., has filed mortgages aggregating
about $10,000, to secure creditors.
A STRADIVARIUS violin was sold at auc-
tion in London recently for $2,200.
THE value of the exports of musical in-
struments for the week ending Dec. 16th
amounted to $22,555.
THE manager of the well-known export-
ing and importing house of R. L. Downing
& Co., of this city, says that banjos, man-
dolins and other small musical instruments
are among the Christmas presents which
are being shipped in large numbers to the
United Kingdom, Germany and France by
American friends this year.
THE Weaver Organ & Piano Co., York,
Pa., received orders one day last week for
thirty-seven organs, twenty-four of which
will be exported to New Zealand. They
will include some of their finest and most
expensive styles.
THE "Connecticut Valley Advertiser" of
Dec. 18th says: "Comstock, Cheney &
Co., Ivoryton, Conn., have received a big
shipment of ivory. The sawyers are at
work converting it into piano keys and the
empty bleach house will soon be filled."
THE
THE establishment of warerooms in
this city is contemplated by C. G. Conn,
the band instrument manufacturer of Elk-
hart, Ind.
A HILL has been introduced in the Senate
to the end that the leader of the United
States Marine Band be appointed by the
President to the rank of First Lieutenant
of Marines, with pay and emoluments of
officers in that class. Senator Blackburn
is the author of the bill.
THE old-time music house of Philip
Werlein, New Orleans, La., has been suc-
ceeded by Philip Werlein, Ltd.
Braumuller Co.
T
HE new scale Braumuller is meeting
with considerable success; dealers and
retail purchasers are loud in their expres-
sions of approval regarding these excellent
instruments and judging by the heavy
demand for same, it would almost seem as
if the Braumuller Co. were on the tidal
wave of increased prosperity.
The marked activity pervading the
Braumuller Co.'s factory, East Fourteenth
street, this city, is indicative of an assidu-
ous and enterprising policy on the part of
this active house. The personnel of the
firm is strong. Their product is excellent,
and few piano houses give better value for
the money.
Wissner Advertising.
T
HE Wissner grand and upright pianos
are being most effectively advertised
in the daily papers these days. Attention
is directed to "the unparalleled record" of
the Wissner piano for the past two seasons,
and the following factsare cited as "strong
proof of its high artistic excellence:"
Two hundred and eighty concerts, Anton
Seidl and orchestra.
Brooklyn Symphony Society, Theodore
Thomas, conductor.
Worcester Festival, in conjunction with
the Boston Symphony orchestra and Mme.
Julie Rive-King.
Kneisel Quartet concerts.
Tour of the Eastern States and Canada
of the Metropolitan Permanent Orchestra,
CELEBRATED
STEGER
Anton Seidl, conductor, and Mme. Julie
Rive-King, pianiste.
Two hundred and eighteen miscellaneous
concerts in New York, Brooklyn, and vi-
cinity.
This kind of testimony is convincing.
The Antiquity of Drums.
D
RUMS are probably an Eastern idea
introduced by the Crusaders into
Europe. They are frequently mentioned
in the accounts of the First Crusade. When
Edward III. of England and his queen
made their triumphal entry into Calais in
1347, "tambours," or drums, were among
the instruments which were played in their
honor. Another of these was called a "na-
caire," or kettledrum, taken, together with
its name, from the Arabs. The poet Chau-
cer also mentions this instrument in his
description of the tournament in the
"Knight's Tale:"—•
" Pipes, trompes, nakeres, and clarionnes,
That in the bataille blowen blody sounes."
The king generally kept a troxipe of
these bandsmen, or minstrels, in his em-
ploy; and we read that Edward II. on one
occasion gave a sum of sixty shillings to
Roger the Trumpeter, Janino the Nakerer,
and others, for their performances. An-
other minstrel was called the "cheveretter,"
or player on the bag-pipe.
King Henry V. had a band which dis-
coursed sweet music during his expedition
to Harfleur, each member being recom-
pensed for his services with the sum of
twelve pence per diem. .When the citizens
of London were mustered in the thirty-first
year of the reign of Henry VIII., we hear
that "before every standard was appointed
one drumslade at the least." Each com-
pany of one hundred men at this time pos-
sessed a couple of drummers.
Kettledrums as used by cavalry appear
to have been a comparative novelty in
1685, when Sir James Turner wrote.
"There is another martial instrument," he
tells us, "used with cavalry, which they
call the kettledrum; there be two of them
which hang before the drummer's saddle,
on both of which he beats."
The dignitary known as drum-major
was not generally recognized in the English
army till the close of the reign of Charles I.
Corporal punishment up to the time of
William III. was executed by the provost
marshal and his deputies but afterward the
drummer was intrusted with the task.
Among the records of the English Cold-
stream Guards is an order "that the drum-
major be answerable that no cat has more
than nine tails." In 1661 a drum-major of
the Parliamentary army received thirty-
seven cents pay per diem.
PIANOS
PATENTED 1892.
are noted for their fine singinjj quality of
tone and great durability.
i"lie moy
profitable Piano for dealers to handle.
STEGER & CO., Manufacturers,
Factory, Columbia Heights.
235 WABAS1I AVENUE. CHICAGO
THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
& WALDO, Minneapolis, Minn.,
placed an order last week for four carloads of
pianos with the A. M. McPhail Piano Co.,
of Boston.
FOSTER
THE sale of the stock of John F. Strat-
ton, 811-17 East Ninth street, which
commenced late last week, was closed on
Monday A large crowd of buyers was
present and fair prices were realized. Geo.
B. Spatt was the auctioneer.
" O M I E " HOUGHTON is back from his
Western trip.
THE Odd Fellows of Portland, Me., have
purchased a magnificent Chickering grand
piano for their hall from Cressey, Jones &
Allen, the Chickering representatives in
that city.
r
J. H. KURZENKNAKE & SON, music deal-
ers, Harrisburg, Pa., are furnishing free
lessons to all purchasers of instruments
which they dispose of.
GEO. W. BEMIS, Worcester, Mass., is the
patentee of a snare or tenor drum with the
snares affixed to the inner side of the head
so that either head may be utilized for beat-
ing.
C. E. DELNO, who has been actively en-
gaged as manager and salesman for leading
piano houses for the past eighteen years,
has opened business for himself at the
Jesse French Co.'sold quarters, 816 Con-
gress avenue, Austin, Tex.
S^ Q. MINGLE has sold his music store at
Williamsport,Pa., to Charles W. Freck. Mr.
Freck is at present a law student at Dick-
inson college, and the business will be man-
aged for the time being by his father.
C. H. NORRIS, music dealer, Saginaw,
Mich., has filed mortgages aggregating
about $10,000, to secure creditors.
A STRADIVARIUS violin was sold at auc-
tion in London recently for $2,200.
THE value of the exports of musical in-
struments for the week ending Dec. 16th
amounted to $22,555.
THE manager of the well-known export-
ing and importing house of R. L. Downing
& Co., of this city, says that banjos, man-
dolins and other small musical instruments
are among the Christmas presents which
are being shipped in large numbers to the
United Kingdom, Germany and France by
American friends this year.
THE Weaver Organ & Piano Co., York,
Pa., received orders one day last week for
thirty-seven organs, twenty-four of which
will be exported to New Zealand. They
will include some of their finest and most
expensive styles.
THE "Connecticut Valley Advertiser" of
Dec. 18th says: "Comstock, Cheney &
Co., Ivoryton, Conn., have received a big
shipment of ivory. The sawyers are at
work converting it into piano keys and the
empty bleach house will soon be filled."
THE
THE establishment of warerooms in
this city is contemplated by C. G. Conn,
the band instrument manufacturer of Elk-
hart, Ind.
A HILL has been introduced in the Senate
to the end that the leader of the United
States Marine Band be appointed by the
President to the rank of First Lieutenant
of Marines, with pay and emoluments of
officers in that class. Senator Blackburn
is the author of the bill.
THE old-time music house of Philip
Werlein, New Orleans, La., has been suc-
ceeded by Philip Werlein, Ltd.
Braumuller Co.
T
HE new scale Braumuller is meeting
with considerable success; dealers and
retail purchasers are loud in their expres-
sions of approval regarding these excellent
instruments and judging by the heavy
demand for same, it would almost seem as
if the Braumuller Co. were on the tidal
wave of increased prosperity.
The marked activity pervading the
Braumuller Co.'s factory, East Fourteenth
street, this city, is indicative of an assidu-
ous and enterprising policy on the part of
this active house. The personnel of the
firm is strong. Their product is excellent,
and few piano houses give better value for
the money.
Wissner Advertising.
T
HE Wissner grand and upright pianos
are being most effectively advertised
in the daily papers these days. Attention
is directed to "the unparalleled record" of
the Wissner piano for the past two seasons,
and the following factsare cited as "strong
proof of its high artistic excellence:"
Two hundred and eighty concerts, Anton
Seidl and orchestra.
Brooklyn Symphony Society, Theodore
Thomas, conductor.
Worcester Festival, in conjunction with
the Boston Symphony orchestra and Mme.
Julie Rive-King.
Kneisel Quartet concerts.
Tour of the Eastern States and Canada
of the Metropolitan Permanent Orchestra,
CELEBRATED
STEGER
Anton Seidl, conductor, and Mme. Julie
Rive-King, pianiste.
Two hundred and eighteen miscellaneous
concerts in New York, Brooklyn, and vi-
cinity.
This kind of testimony is convincing.
The Antiquity of Drums.
D
RUMS are probably an Eastern idea
introduced by the Crusaders into
Europe. They are frequently mentioned
in the accounts of the First Crusade. When
Edward III. of England and his queen
made their triumphal entry into Calais in
1347, "tambours," or drums, were among
the instruments which were played in their
honor. Another of these was called a "na-
caire," or kettledrum, taken, together with
its name, from the Arabs. The poet Chau-
cer also mentions this instrument in his
description of the tournament in the
"Knight's Tale:"—•
" Pipes, trompes, nakeres, and clarionnes,
That in the bataille blowen blody sounes."
The king generally kept a troxipe of
these bandsmen, or minstrels, in his em-
ploy; and we read that Edward II. on one
occasion gave a sum of sixty shillings to
Roger the Trumpeter, Janino the Nakerer,
and others, for their performances. An-
other minstrel was called the "cheveretter,"
or player on the bag-pipe.
King Henry V. had a band which dis-
coursed sweet music during his expedition
to Harfleur, each member being recom-
pensed for his services with the sum of
twelve pence per diem. .When the citizens
of London were mustered in the thirty-first
year of the reign of Henry VIII., we hear
that "before every standard was appointed
one drumslade at the least." Each com-
pany of one hundred men at this time pos-
sessed a couple of drummers.
Kettledrums as used by cavalry appear
to have been a comparative novelty in
1685, when Sir James Turner wrote.
"There is another martial instrument," he
tells us, "used with cavalry, which they
call the kettledrum; there be two of them
which hang before the drummer's saddle,
on both of which he beats."
The dignitary known as drum-major
was not generally recognized in the English
army till the close of the reign of Charles I.
Corporal punishment up to the time of
William III. was executed by the provost
marshal and his deputies but afterward the
drummer was intrusted with the task.
Among the records of the English Cold-
stream Guards is an order "that the drum-
major be answerable that no cat has more
than nine tails." In 1661 a drum-major of
the Parliamentary army received thirty-
seven cents pay per diem.
PIANOS
PATENTED 1892.
are noted for their fine singinjj quality of
tone and great durability.
i"lie moy
profitable Piano for dealers to handle.
STEGER & CO., Manufacturers,
Factory, Columbia Heights.
235 WABAS1I AVENUE. CHICAGO
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