Music Trade Review

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THE
MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
cially. There were some more experiments, and Joshi, of India, but more recently of the Union
eventually the Yankee piano-player was pro- Theological Seminary, who were to tell of the
His Career Used to Illustrate Opportunities in
duced, a mechanism probably as important in medicinal properties of the music of their re-
spective nations.
Business Life by the Saturday Evening Post.
its day as was the sewing machine in 1846.
The meeting began with some foreign music
"To-day, Tremaine, forty years old, heads a
The interesting career of H. B. Tremaine, $10,000,000 corporation making these instru- played by amateur Americans, which was sup-
president of the Aeolian Co., of New York, was ments, and isn't even in Who's Who? There are posed to soothe and prepare the audience for the
the basis of an interesting article which recently also seventy-five other manufacturers in the field. truths it was about to receive. Then Miss Ves-
appeared in the Saturday Evening Post of Phila- The piano-player has been carried a step further celius read a paper which was to serve as an in-
delphia. The article had for its object the illus- and put inside the piano case. In 1906, it is troduction to the dark lore of Persia and India
tration of the many opportunities for business estimated, we produced 20,000 of these instru- which didn't come. Miss Vescelius believes in
success, that lie before an energetic young man. ments, valued from $5,000,000 to $7,000,000. vibrations. They are very beneficial to the sys-
The story read as follows:
Their effect on the piano industry has been tem—some systems. Speaking of the beliefs of
"But why need the young man in search of a so good that 275,000 pianos were built the same the ancient Greeks, she said:
manufacturing opportunity seek to enter one of year. We hold the foreign trade in these play-
"According to their teachings we are organized
the staple fields occupied by corporations? He ers. They are distinctly a "Yankee notion." vibrations."
ought to look into fields other than those where Hardly any European manufacturer produces
A little later she added: "Scientists have de-
staples are made. He ought to investigate them, though they are widely popular abroad, clared that the sole benefit of medicines is
where the product is carried further, and origi- especially in England. The industry at home is through the vibrations they cause. In music we
nate and improve.
growing fast, yet the makers find it difficult to have a source of vibrations."
"It is not much more than fifteen years since turn out pianola-players enough to meet the de-
Later it was explained by a member of the
Harry B. Tremaine, then twenty-five years old, mand. Fifteen years ago this whole industry society, on behalf of Miss Vescelius, who was
had a job as salesman for a paper house. His lay hidden in a musical nuisance. Not a dollar then busy listening to the history of Hindoo mu-
father conducted a tiny business, manufacturing was spent for such instruments, and not a sala- sic, that the school would have at least four in-
small musical instruments which were sold
structors in addition to the society's president.
ried man or wage-earner made his living out of
chiefly to blind men, who ground them on corn- them."
Harmony, metaphysics and repertoire would be
ers. These music-boxes had a few organ reeds
taught.
and were operated with a. crank, a roll of per-
MUSIC TO CURE DISEASE.
forated paper playing the notes. A pedestrian
JACOB DOLL& SONS
might pity the blind man and drop a penny in
It's All in the Vibrations, Say the National
his cup. But he could only have contempt for
To Occupy Handsome Warerooms at 116 W.
Musical Therapeutic Ladies.
the musical equivalent rendered.
42d Street After August 1st.
"Young Tremaine became very much inter-
The National Society of Musical Therapeutics,
ested in the principle of these hurdy-gurdies, which believes that music hath power to help the
Jacob Doll & Sons have secured very handsome
and working with men who knew more about
patient on his way, provided you do not sing to new retail warerooms at 116 West 42d street, be-
mechanical principles, set out to develop some- him when he is convalescing, such hopeless ditties tween Broadway and Sixth avenue, and will
thing of the same sort that would be of sufficient
f.s "Where Is My Wandering Boy To-night?" move in August 1. They have found their pres-
artistic merit to sell to people who bought or- "Meet Me on the Bridge," and "There's Plenty of ent warerooms at 91 Fifth avenue too far down-
gans and pianos. After a time he succeeded. Room Below—Below," is to have its teachings town, and have had this change in contemplation
This perforated roll idea was applied to an ordi- and practice codified by a school.
for some months.
nary cottage organ and good music was cut for
This announcement was made by the society's
it. The instrument sold well. But only the president, Miss Eva Augusta Vescelius, at a meet-
TO HANDLE AEOLIAN LINE.
piano is widely popular in this country. The ing held in the apartments of Miss Florence
idea had to be carried further. A peifor:ted- Guernsey, 180 West 59th street, Tuesday night.
The Christopher Champ Co., a new concern in
roll apparatus that would play a piano couM be At the same meeting there were present by invi- Fort Worth, Tex., have obtained the agency for
made a hundred times as profitable commer- tation Prof. Barakatullah, of Persia, and S. L. the Aeolian Co.'s line, including the Weber piano.
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