Music Trade Review
Issue: 1922 Vol. 74 N. 1 - Page 14
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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
JANUARY 7, 1922
WINNERS OF CHICKERING ESSAY CONTEST—(Continued from page 13)
been awarded 131 major medals and honors, in-
cluding the first prize at the World's Fair in
Chicago in 1893, the gold medal and the Cross
of the Legion of Honor by France in 1867 and
many others at home and abroad.
Mourned by his neighbors and the public of
Boston as a great and good man, Jonas Chick-
ering died suddenly in 1853. He had lived to
see his enterprise a world success. His three
sturdy sons had followed his footsteps and
become pillars of the concern, not by inheri-
tance or right of succession, but by the same
years of apprenticeship which their father had
served before them.
The senior Chickering was a man of firm
character, of devotion to ideals, of personal
modesty and loving disposition, but above all
he took the world and his work seriously. He
loved to do, but shunned the shorter, easier way
of half doing. No man worked for him, but
many worked with him, and loved him for the
opportunity. When fire destroyed, in 1853, the
great factory of Chickering & Sons the head of
the firm hurried back from New York, rallied
his sorrowing workmen to his side and began
over again, with full pay for all, the work of
replacing the plant and the manufacture of the
Chickering piano. He did not live to see the
completion of this factory, but it stands to-day
a physical monument to its founder and an in-
spiration to every youthful American who
studies his life and its accomplishments.
Mr. Chickering's sons, Thomas E., Charles
Francis and George H. Chickering, were active-
ly associated with the ownership and manage-
ment of the business for many years, taking
the same personal pride in the factory product
which their father had taken and giving to each
completed piano the same stamp of individuality
and character which to this day makes the
Chickering instrument more of a personal friend
than a mere possession.
Every owner and lover of a Chickering piano,
old or new, justly takes pride in what the firm
of Chickering & Sons did to shape the course of
musical achievement in the formative period
of American art, not only in the manufacture
and sale of better pianos than had ever before
been made, but in the encouragement of musical
endeavor in all lines, in the assistance of strug-
gling artists of merit and in the construction
and maintenance of those temples of American
music, the Chickering Halls of Boston and New
3 Great Pianos
With 3 sounding boards
in each (Patented) have the
greatest talking points in
the trade.
We fix " o n e p r i c e " —
wholesale and retail.
The Heppe Piano Co.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.
York, wherein appeared the great artists of the
day to make that history which is a priceless
heritage to us all.
It was the sweet tone, the pure notes and the
heart-wrought wonders of the Chickering piano
which accompanied the golden-voiced Jenny
Lind on her great American tour; which carried
to thousands the thrilling interpretations of the
great Gottschalk and the gifted Hans von
Bulow, and which now belong to the famous
artists of our own day, who find in the mod-
ern Chickering concert grand an inspiration
and the way to the hearts of those their art
inspires and thrills.
The culmination of what must have been the
hopes and ideals of Jonas Chickering and his
sons came in 1909, when the company asso-
ciated itself with the American Piano Co., and
made possible the combination of the Ampico
reproducing piano with the Chickering.
Where the phonograph reproduces the voice
or the art of the musician on the wax disc with
such wonderful results, so close to the original
as to be almost unbelievable, the Ampico does
actually reproduce or re-enact the exact play-
ing of the great masters, with every degree of
shading, of expression and interpretation on the
self-same pianoforte or its duplicate upon
which the actual playing was performed. It is
so perfect, so lifelike as to be almost uncanny,
but it now makes possible the preservation for
all time of the art of the master players, and
virtually brings them and their art in person
to every home blessed with the Chickering con-
taining the Ampico. It is the greatest wonder
in an age of wonders and the day is speedily
coming when this so-called luxury will be a
necessity in every well-ordered American home.
This, then, is the story of the house of Chick-
ering, of the lifework of its founder and his
successors, culminating in an association with
the American Piano Co. and its pearl of great
price, the Ampico.
It is the story of an American achievement,
builded upon a foundation of honest and sincere
workmanship, of ceaseless devotion to an ideal,
of marked influence upon the world of piano-
forte making, and bearing eloquent testimony
to the worth-whileness of those standards
which have come to first place in world pro-
duction and which are entitled to that honor-
able appellation of "typically American."
PITTSBURGH DEALERS OPTIMISTIC AS NEW YEAR OPENS
Holiday Sales Were Encouraging and Local Piano Dealers Believe That They Will Enjoy a
Continual Increase in Demand During the New Year—Personals and News of the Week
PITTSBURGH, PA., January 3.—Pittsburgh piano
merchants and music dealers are entering the
New Year with absolute confidence relative to
business conditions, believing that the "turn in
the road" has been passed and that from now
on, as each day passes, an increased improve-
ment will be felt. On the whole, the Christmas
holiday sales by piano dealers here were more
encouraging than appeared on the surface and
the general opinion was expressed that sales, as
a rule, were most satisfactory.
At the C. C. Mellor Co. it was learned that
the sales for December showed a marked in-
crease over last year and was, according to
H. H. Fleer, piano sales manager, "one of the
best months in the history of the company."
Theodore Hoffmann, of the J. M. Hoffmann
Co., stated that business has shown considerable
activity and that he felt positive that the New
Year would show a decided improvement in the
music business as a whole.
A prediction that the new year will bring
improved business conditions was made by
Dr. Edwin A. Seligman, of the faculty of politi-
cal science at Columbia University, in an ad-
dress delivered the past week before the Pitts-
burgh Association of Credit Men. He declared
financial trouble can be averted if the United
States does not insist on a speedy foreign settle-
ment. Dr. Seligman disagreed with Frank A.
Vanderlip that the war debt is a just debt and
contended that the war was a common enterprise
in which the United States and Japan were
beneficiaries. He also predicted that there will
be a gradual increase in security prices during
the coming year and that the country will grad-
ually get back to the pre-war rate of interest in
the financial world.
Optimistic predictions of approaching pros-
perity based upon statistics featured the sessions
of the thirty-fourth annual meeting of the
American Economic Association here last week.
University experts on economics during the dis-
cussion of "The Crisis of 1920 and the Problem
of Controlling Business Cycles" differed widely
in their opinions as to methods, but agreed on
the fundamental facts that there was need of
more data on financial and economic condi-
tions; more careful preparation to prevent a
too rapid expansion in times of prosperity;
greater individual thrift; the reservation of
money appropriated for public works to be
spent to relieve unemployment; an increase in
the discount rate during boom times and a con-
structive effort to limit the influence of the
money power on economic conditions.
M. C. Rosenberry, of Reading, was elected
president of the music department of the Penn-
sylvania State Educational Association, at Al-
toona, the past week. Hollis C. .Dann, the new
State Supervisor of Music, in an address, stated
that more attention would be given to music in
the public schools in the future.
The Estey Organ Co. installed a new church
organ in the First Reformed Church at Wer-
nersville, Pa. The cost totaled about $3,600.
The organ is a model of its kind.
Ben L. Sykes, manager of the Pittsburgh
^ranch of Chas. M. Stieff, Inc., returned from
a trip to the home office at Baltimore, Md. Mr.
Sykes stated that he was quite optimistic con-
cerning the outlook for business in the new
year.
JERITZA ANDJHE AMPICO
New Metropolitan Prima Donna Enthusiastic
Regarding That Instrument
Marie Jeritza, the new prima donna of the
Metropolitan Opera Company, who has created
a sensation in operatic circles with her superb
singing and brilliant acting and has won a place
for herself as an artist of the first rank, wrote
recently of the Ampico as follows:
"Ampico, a magic name of an instrument
mystical. Through this medium the stars of
the pianoforte play for me. I am enraptured
and stand in wonder at the mysteries of the
marvelous Ampico."
FOTOPLAYER
for the finest
Motion Picture
Theatres
The AMERICAN PHO'
PLAYER CO.
New Yorl
San Francisco
Chicago
14
THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
JANUARY 7, 1922
WINNERS OF CHICKERING ESSAY CONTEST—(Continued from page 13)
been awarded 131 major medals and honors, in-
cluding the first prize at the World's Fair in
Chicago in 1893, the gold medal and the Cross
of the Legion of Honor by France in 1867 and
many others at home and abroad.
Mourned by his neighbors and the public of
Boston as a great and good man, Jonas Chick-
ering died suddenly in 1853. He had lived to
see his enterprise a world success. His three
sturdy sons had followed his footsteps and
become pillars of the concern, not by inheri-
tance or right of succession, but by the same
years of apprenticeship which their father had
served before them.
The senior Chickering was a man of firm
character, of devotion to ideals, of personal
modesty and loving disposition, but above all
he took the world and his work seriously. He
loved to do, but shunned the shorter, easier way
of half doing. No man worked for him, but
many worked with him, and loved him for the
opportunity. When fire destroyed, in 1853, the
great factory of Chickering & Sons the head of
the firm hurried back from New York, rallied
his sorrowing workmen to his side and began
over again, with full pay for all, the work of
replacing the plant and the manufacture of the
Chickering piano. He did not live to see the
completion of this factory, but it stands to-day
a physical monument to its founder and an in-
spiration to every youthful American who
studies his life and its accomplishments.
Mr. Chickering's sons, Thomas E., Charles
Francis and George H. Chickering, were active-
ly associated with the ownership and manage-
ment of the business for many years, taking
the same personal pride in the factory product
which their father had taken and giving to each
completed piano the same stamp of individuality
and character which to this day makes the
Chickering instrument more of a personal friend
than a mere possession.
Every owner and lover of a Chickering piano,
old or new, justly takes pride in what the firm
of Chickering & Sons did to shape the course of
musical achievement in the formative period
of American art, not only in the manufacture
and sale of better pianos than had ever before
been made, but in the encouragement of musical
endeavor in all lines, in the assistance of strug-
gling artists of merit and in the construction
and maintenance of those temples of American
music, the Chickering Halls of Boston and New
3 Great Pianos
With 3 sounding boards
in each (Patented) have the
greatest talking points in
the trade.
We fix " o n e p r i c e " —
wholesale and retail.
The Heppe Piano Co.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.
York, wherein appeared the great artists of the
day to make that history which is a priceless
heritage to us all.
It was the sweet tone, the pure notes and the
heart-wrought wonders of the Chickering piano
which accompanied the golden-voiced Jenny
Lind on her great American tour; which carried
to thousands the thrilling interpretations of the
great Gottschalk and the gifted Hans von
Bulow, and which now belong to the famous
artists of our own day, who find in the mod-
ern Chickering concert grand an inspiration
and the way to the hearts of those their art
inspires and thrills.
The culmination of what must have been the
hopes and ideals of Jonas Chickering and his
sons came in 1909, when the company asso-
ciated itself with the American Piano Co., and
made possible the combination of the Ampico
reproducing piano with the Chickering.
Where the phonograph reproduces the voice
or the art of the musician on the wax disc with
such wonderful results, so close to the original
as to be almost unbelievable, the Ampico does
actually reproduce or re-enact the exact play-
ing of the great masters, with every degree of
shading, of expression and interpretation on the
self-same pianoforte or its duplicate upon
which the actual playing was performed. It is
so perfect, so lifelike as to be almost uncanny,
but it now makes possible the preservation for
all time of the art of the master players, and
virtually brings them and their art in person
to every home blessed with the Chickering con-
taining the Ampico. It is the greatest wonder
in an age of wonders and the day is speedily
coming when this so-called luxury will be a
necessity in every well-ordered American home.
This, then, is the story of the house of Chick-
ering, of the lifework of its founder and his
successors, culminating in an association with
the American Piano Co. and its pearl of great
price, the Ampico.
It is the story of an American achievement,
builded upon a foundation of honest and sincere
workmanship, of ceaseless devotion to an ideal,
of marked influence upon the world of piano-
forte making, and bearing eloquent testimony
to the worth-whileness of those standards
which have come to first place in world pro-
duction and which are entitled to that honor-
able appellation of "typically American."
PITTSBURGH DEALERS OPTIMISTIC AS NEW YEAR OPENS
Holiday Sales Were Encouraging and Local Piano Dealers Believe That They Will Enjoy a
Continual Increase in Demand During the New Year—Personals and News of the Week
PITTSBURGH, PA., January 3.—Pittsburgh piano
merchants and music dealers are entering the
New Year with absolute confidence relative to
business conditions, believing that the "turn in
the road" has been passed and that from now
on, as each day passes, an increased improve-
ment will be felt. On the whole, the Christmas
holiday sales by piano dealers here were more
encouraging than appeared on the surface and
the general opinion was expressed that sales, as
a rule, were most satisfactory.
At the C. C. Mellor Co. it was learned that
the sales for December showed a marked in-
crease over last year and was, according to
H. H. Fleer, piano sales manager, "one of the
best months in the history of the company."
Theodore Hoffmann, of the J. M. Hoffmann
Co., stated that business has shown considerable
activity and that he felt positive that the New
Year would show a decided improvement in the
music business as a whole.
A prediction that the new year will bring
improved business conditions was made by
Dr. Edwin A. Seligman, of the faculty of politi-
cal science at Columbia University, in an ad-
dress delivered the past week before the Pitts-
burgh Association of Credit Men. He declared
financial trouble can be averted if the United
States does not insist on a speedy foreign settle-
ment. Dr. Seligman disagreed with Frank A.
Vanderlip that the war debt is a just debt and
contended that the war was a common enterprise
in which the United States and Japan were
beneficiaries. He also predicted that there will
be a gradual increase in security prices during
the coming year and that the country will grad-
ually get back to the pre-war rate of interest in
the financial world.
Optimistic predictions of approaching pros-
perity based upon statistics featured the sessions
of the thirty-fourth annual meeting of the
American Economic Association here last week.
University experts on economics during the dis-
cussion of "The Crisis of 1920 and the Problem
of Controlling Business Cycles" differed widely
in their opinions as to methods, but agreed on
the fundamental facts that there was need of
more data on financial and economic condi-
tions; more careful preparation to prevent a
too rapid expansion in times of prosperity;
greater individual thrift; the reservation of
money appropriated for public works to be
spent to relieve unemployment; an increase in
the discount rate during boom times and a con-
structive effort to limit the influence of the
money power on economic conditions.
M. C. Rosenberry, of Reading, was elected
president of the music department of the Penn-
sylvania State Educational Association, at Al-
toona, the past week. Hollis C. .Dann, the new
State Supervisor of Music, in an address, stated
that more attention would be given to music in
the public schools in the future.
The Estey Organ Co. installed a new church
organ in the First Reformed Church at Wer-
nersville, Pa. The cost totaled about $3,600.
The organ is a model of its kind.
Ben L. Sykes, manager of the Pittsburgh
^ranch of Chas. M. Stieff, Inc., returned from
a trip to the home office at Baltimore, Md. Mr.
Sykes stated that he was quite optimistic con-
cerning the outlook for business in the new
year.
JERITZA ANDJHE AMPICO
New Metropolitan Prima Donna Enthusiastic
Regarding That Instrument
Marie Jeritza, the new prima donna of the
Metropolitan Opera Company, who has created
a sensation in operatic circles with her superb
singing and brilliant acting and has won a place
for herself as an artist of the first rank, wrote
recently of the Ampico as follows:
"Ampico, a magic name of an instrument
mystical. Through this medium the stars of
the pianoforte play for me. I am enraptured
and stand in wonder at the mysteries of the
marvelous Ampico."
FOTOPLAYER
for the finest
Motion Picture
Theatres
The AMERICAN PHO'
PLAYER CO.
New Yorl
San Francisco
Chicago
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