Music Trade Review
Issue: 1918 Vol. 67 N. 4 - Page 8
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8
THE
MUSIC
TRADE
REVIEW
JULY 27, 1918
tion.
Iron framing- was developed by two what it is. Is not that a creative achievement
Americans, Babcock and Chickering; and the iii musical art?
history of the piano since then has been the
Bands!
The military band in its largest significance is
vented, had no foundation. Historians of the history of the American piano. German piano
piano, prior to Hipkins and Spillane, generally makers flocked "to the United States, of course; more an American institution than aught else.
There are fine military bands in France, in
accepted this fable, and anyone who had taken but they did not retain German methods. If
the trouble to wade through the deplorable any tried to they soon ceased to be manufac- Great Britain and in Germany; yet the great,
twaddle of Herr Doktor Oswar Paul and some turers of pianos. American atmosphere, hustle, elaborate, heavily equipped brass and reed band
others of the same period, must have envied the manufacturing methods, and especially the push o£ from fifty to one hundred players, organized
self-complacency which could lead these gen- given to the sleepy foreigners by men like Jo- without state aid, depending on only the public
seph Hale, who may have been mere "box- support for its existence, is an American propo-
tlemen into believing that the claims of
Schroeter or Marius had a leg to stand on. The makers," but certainly put the piano on the map, sition from A to Z. Gilmore and Sousa have
piano was invented by an Italian, Cristofori. did for the piano what they have always done been real musical prophets, foreshadowing the
The first piano made by this wonderful pioneer for everything; made it a characteristic Ameri- American grand orchestra which now is follow-
had in its action every principle of the modern can product. The best instrument made by ing the trail these pioneers blazed from Maine
grand mechanism. The first real progress to- German skill was never able to find a market to Texas and from Massachusetts to California.
wards making the piano a specific instrument of for itself in the United States. Why? Because More than all, the development of musical in-
struments of brass has been during thirty years
itself, and not merely a hammer-harpsichord, it was never good enough.
was made by John Broadwood, a good John
The piano is the one characteristic modern a characteristically American industry. Band
Bull, of London Town, who built the first mod- musical instrument. Everything that we know instruments, in their present perfection, could
ern style square piano. The first step towards to-day as music, all that music means to us, in never have been dreamed of if American talent
making a modern grand piano was taken by the the end may be said to depend upon the uni- had not been devoted to their development and
Alsatian Erard, who built and developed in Lon- versal instrument, the piano. This instrument American manufacturing skill to their produc-
don and Paris the double repetition grand ac- is an American product. America has made it tion in large quantities at moderate prices. It
is only necessary to compare European instru-
ments with our own to see what this means.
Here, then, is another creative achievement.
Harps!
MUSICALLY
SPEAKING
(Continued from page 7)
To the Members of the
National Association
of Piano Tuners!!
(Chicago, August 5-8, 1918)
During the Tuners' Convention we shall be more than pleased to see
members of the Association at our great Chicago factories, where are
designed, developed and manufactured the wonderful and exclusive
M. Schulz Company
Player-Pianos
You will find there a player-action which embodies practical points
of excellence that must strongly appeal to every practical man. We
want you to examine critically such remarkable achievements as our
Perfected Single-Valve System.
Patented Walk-Step Pedals.
Patented Regulating Device for
contact of pneumatic with
piano.
Economical 10-Point Motor.
Patented Automatic Roll-Cen-
tering Device for the preven-
tion and cure of tracking
troubles.
Patented Disappearing Expres-
sion Levers.
And many others. You will like them.
sense of practical efficiency.
They will appeal to your
A copy of our Practical Guide to M. Schulz Co. Player
Mechanism, containing a complete treatise on Pneu-
matics, will be waiting for you when you call.
More than 130,000 SCHULZ pianos made and sold !
M. SCHULZ COMPANY
Established 1869
General Offices
Schulz Building
3 Factories in
711 Milwaukee Ave.
CHICAGO
CHICAGO
Southern Wholesale Branch
1530 Candler Bid*.
ATLANTA, GA.
The harp is one of the oldest things in the
world, certainly the oldest instrument of music.
Now the harp, in spite of its age and universal
utility in the early development of music, was
made capable of modern musical use only about
100 years ago, and not then by a German, but
by an Alsatian-Frenchman, Erard, the same
genius who invented the modern grand action.
And it was American skill that made the harp
a real instrument worthy to stand up with the
piano. It was the skill of Americans that pro-
duced the wonderful modern steel-frame harp
of our modern orchestras. The best harps in
the world come from Chicago and Cincinnati;
better even than the famous harps of Erard.
Even the little lovely Irish harp had to come
over to Syracuse to be made worthy of its
name.
Player-Pianos
Whatever a prejudiced musician (if there are
still any of them) might be inclined to say, the
readers of this Section will certainly agree that
the development of pneumatic piano-playing
mechanism is a peculiarly American achieve-
ment.
European progress has here been, as
Bill Nye would have said, "excessively non est."
And who at this late day will imagine that the
reproducing piano is unworthy to be called a
musical instrument, and one unique, unprece-
dented, marvelous? For that matter, the ordi-
nary player-piano, bringing music to all in the
exact measure of each one's capacity to absorb
it. without the intervention of an hieratic order
of privileged interpreters, is the most astonish-
ing contribution to the democratization of music
which the world has yet seen. The debt of the
world to the player-piano is not yet half ac-
knowledged. Our British Allies are its warm
friends, however, and its day of recognition is
fast coming the world over. Is not this a mu-
sical achievement of real value?
Some day we shall wake up and respect our
native musical position. Only the surface of
what is true about us has here been brushed
over, in the lightest way. Columns could be
written about it. It is a keen topic and we
shall ask no pardon for taking it up again.
Meanwhile, the above is something to think
about.
DOLL PLAYERSJN DEMAND
Fred'k Doll, manager of the Forty-second
street retail warerooms of Jacob Doll & Sons,
reports that the hot weather doesn't seem to
keep people from buying musical instruments
and when they do they ask for players.
Consult the universal Want Directory of
The Review. In it advertisements are inserted
free of charge for men who desire positions
of any kind.
8
THE
MUSIC
TRADE
REVIEW
JULY 27, 1918
tion.
Iron framing- was developed by two what it is. Is not that a creative achievement
Americans, Babcock and Chickering; and the iii musical art?
history of the piano since then has been the
Bands!
The military band in its largest significance is
vented, had no foundation. Historians of the history of the American piano. German piano
piano, prior to Hipkins and Spillane, generally makers flocked "to the United States, of course; more an American institution than aught else.
There are fine military bands in France, in
accepted this fable, and anyone who had taken but they did not retain German methods. If
the trouble to wade through the deplorable any tried to they soon ceased to be manufac- Great Britain and in Germany; yet the great,
twaddle of Herr Doktor Oswar Paul and some turers of pianos. American atmosphere, hustle, elaborate, heavily equipped brass and reed band
others of the same period, must have envied the manufacturing methods, and especially the push o£ from fifty to one hundred players, organized
self-complacency which could lead these gen- given to the sleepy foreigners by men like Jo- without state aid, depending on only the public
seph Hale, who may have been mere "box- support for its existence, is an American propo-
tlemen into believing that the claims of
Schroeter or Marius had a leg to stand on. The makers," but certainly put the piano on the map, sition from A to Z. Gilmore and Sousa have
piano was invented by an Italian, Cristofori. did for the piano what they have always done been real musical prophets, foreshadowing the
The first piano made by this wonderful pioneer for everything; made it a characteristic Ameri- American grand orchestra which now is follow-
had in its action every principle of the modern can product. The best instrument made by ing the trail these pioneers blazed from Maine
grand mechanism. The first real progress to- German skill was never able to find a market to Texas and from Massachusetts to California.
wards making the piano a specific instrument of for itself in the United States. Why? Because More than all, the development of musical in-
struments of brass has been during thirty years
itself, and not merely a hammer-harpsichord, it was never good enough.
was made by John Broadwood, a good John
The piano is the one characteristic modern a characteristically American industry. Band
Bull, of London Town, who built the first mod- musical instrument. Everything that we know instruments, in their present perfection, could
ern style square piano. The first step towards to-day as music, all that music means to us, in never have been dreamed of if American talent
making a modern grand piano was taken by the the end may be said to depend upon the uni- had not been devoted to their development and
Alsatian Erard, who built and developed in Lon- versal instrument, the piano. This instrument American manufacturing skill to their produc-
don and Paris the double repetition grand ac- is an American product. America has made it tion in large quantities at moderate prices. It
is only necessary to compare European instru-
ments with our own to see what this means.
Here, then, is another creative achievement.
Harps!
MUSICALLY
SPEAKING
(Continued from page 7)
To the Members of the
National Association
of Piano Tuners!!
(Chicago, August 5-8, 1918)
During the Tuners' Convention we shall be more than pleased to see
members of the Association at our great Chicago factories, where are
designed, developed and manufactured the wonderful and exclusive
M. Schulz Company
Player-Pianos
You will find there a player-action which embodies practical points
of excellence that must strongly appeal to every practical man. We
want you to examine critically such remarkable achievements as our
Perfected Single-Valve System.
Patented Walk-Step Pedals.
Patented Regulating Device for
contact of pneumatic with
piano.
Economical 10-Point Motor.
Patented Automatic Roll-Cen-
tering Device for the preven-
tion and cure of tracking
troubles.
Patented Disappearing Expres-
sion Levers.
And many others. You will like them.
sense of practical efficiency.
They will appeal to your
A copy of our Practical Guide to M. Schulz Co. Player
Mechanism, containing a complete treatise on Pneu-
matics, will be waiting for you when you call.
More than 130,000 SCHULZ pianos made and sold !
M. SCHULZ COMPANY
Established 1869
General Offices
Schulz Building
3 Factories in
711 Milwaukee Ave.
CHICAGO
CHICAGO
Southern Wholesale Branch
1530 Candler Bid*.
ATLANTA, GA.
The harp is one of the oldest things in the
world, certainly the oldest instrument of music.
Now the harp, in spite of its age and universal
utility in the early development of music, was
made capable of modern musical use only about
100 years ago, and not then by a German, but
by an Alsatian-Frenchman, Erard, the same
genius who invented the modern grand action.
And it was American skill that made the harp
a real instrument worthy to stand up with the
piano. It was the skill of Americans that pro-
duced the wonderful modern steel-frame harp
of our modern orchestras. The best harps in
the world come from Chicago and Cincinnati;
better even than the famous harps of Erard.
Even the little lovely Irish harp had to come
over to Syracuse to be made worthy of its
name.
Player-Pianos
Whatever a prejudiced musician (if there are
still any of them) might be inclined to say, the
readers of this Section will certainly agree that
the development of pneumatic piano-playing
mechanism is a peculiarly American achieve-
ment.
European progress has here been, as
Bill Nye would have said, "excessively non est."
And who at this late day will imagine that the
reproducing piano is unworthy to be called a
musical instrument, and one unique, unprece-
dented, marvelous? For that matter, the ordi-
nary player-piano, bringing music to all in the
exact measure of each one's capacity to absorb
it. without the intervention of an hieratic order
of privileged interpreters, is the most astonish-
ing contribution to the democratization of music
which the world has yet seen. The debt of the
world to the player-piano is not yet half ac-
knowledged. Our British Allies are its warm
friends, however, and its day of recognition is
fast coming the world over. Is not this a mu-
sical achievement of real value?
Some day we shall wake up and respect our
native musical position. Only the surface of
what is true about us has here been brushed
over, in the lightest way. Columns could be
written about it. It is a keen topic and we
shall ask no pardon for taking it up again.
Meanwhile, the above is something to think
about.
DOLL PLAYERSJN DEMAND
Fred'k Doll, manager of the Forty-second
street retail warerooms of Jacob Doll & Sons,
reports that the hot weather doesn't seem to
keep people from buying musical instruments
and when they do they ask for players.
Consult the universal Want Directory of
The Review. In it advertisements are inserted
free of charge for men who desire positions
of any kind.
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