Music Trade Review

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JANUARY 16, 1926
THE
MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
furniture only gains by usage; as also the harpsi-
chord executed in pear wood by Pleyel, after
the design by Sue and Mare. Also too light to-
day, that instrument so ingeniously engraved
from the designs of Naudin, must take the most
Company Makes Announcement Regarding the Hallet & Davis and Allied Lines of Grands and beautiful luster with time.
Uprights, the Angelus Reproducing Piano and Angelus Rolls—Ready to Ship
"It is, in fact, one of the qualities of all these
greatly studied pieces of furniture, perfectly exe-
' I ''HE Hallet & Davis Piano Co. is now located Division), Chicago, 111,, as a stock of Angelus cuted and durable, that usage softens the rigor
in its new quarters at Tenth avenue and rolls will be carried there and shipped to dealers of irreproachable execution, merges or warms
Twenty-third street, New York City, having re- from there.
up the natural colors of the wood, and by age
moved its headquarters and its manufacturing
P. K. Van Yorx, recognized as one of the toning gives to these instruments a new charm.
to New York, and instruments are available for great authorities in directing and interpreting
"Maple and ash veneers are amongst the light-
shipment to the trade. Its products will be the recordings of artists, will, as in the past, est and the most lustrous. One necessarily
based on a comprehensive production of the personally direct the recording of new additions thinks of their marvelous figured textures, but,
grand types, maintaining and enhancing the to the Angelus library and the production of
as with delicate fibers, they cannot stand the
standards which have characterized Hallet & Angelus reproducing rolls. The Angelus record- destructive action of sun and time."
Davis instruments in the past.
ing studios are at Meriden, Conn.
Style Trends and Demand
Hallet & Davis grands and reproducing grands
These of course were all specially designed
will be built in an atmosphere of grand piano
instruments. What is the most remarkable
making where quality will be the "keynote" and
thing about the Exposition is the fact that per-
where very fine facilities exist. Ideals, combined
haps for the first time the piano manufacturers
with experience in grand piano making, insure
are equally as interested in the development of
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this product making itself more widely known
new styles as are the producers of furniture.
than ever, and its being one of the most widely the polishing shops are really perfectly organized. Furniture design since the classic period styles
distributed grand lines in the trade. In every
"Macassar wood being rich, is commonly used were conceived and carried out seems to be a
State, city and town throughout the country, alone. The House of Gaveau, whose imposing dead art. The last style of permanent artistic
Hallet & Davis pianos have been known and in participation by a group of some fifteen pianos interest is perhaps the Empire. As a result
use, and the Hallet & Davis grand pianos should of different models, signed by the most cele- the piano industry has never had the oppor-
find a corresponding reception. The production brated master decorators, was particularly noted, tunity to participate in such a development, nor
of the Hallet & Davis grands on this scale thus had two instruments executed to designs by Sue contribute through its collaboration an instru-
insures the availability of these products for the and Mare: one in waxed Macassar and the other ment which still remains and is very likely to
piano merchants who have built up their busi- in varnished Macassar. Erard also had a beau- remain an outstanding piece of furniture in the
ness success on this line, as well as for those tiful instrument prepared in Macassar wood on home that will be in artistic harmony.
piano merchants who will be desirous of con- Mile. Renaudot's design.
American Relationship
trolling the sale of these products.
"Certain decorators have struck a happy com-
The American industry has met public taste
The production of the upright and upright bination in allying the Macassar with more col- in the development of pianos in period styles
player models has likewise been amply provided ored woods, such as Amaranth (an Erard de- to conform and harmonize with the furnishings
signed by Rhulmann), or divided with fillets of
for.
of the modern home where period furniture
The Hallet & Davis Piano Co. will also manu- box (a Pleyel by Follot) or again by contrast- holds first place. But no more should modern
facture and market its associated lines of grand ing with the severity of the Macassar the mot- art be neglected. That it is going through a
pianos, viz., Merrill, Conway, Wilcox & White, tling of the light ash, reserved for the interior period of experimentation, a condition which
Lexington and Virtuolo grands and also up- of the piano, as in the Gaveau designed by Rhul- produces designs and ideas that seem so radi-
mann.
rights and players.
cal and so far away from what habitude has
"Used alone or in combination with other
All communications regarding new transac-
accustomed us to, is no reason why the modern
tions should be addressed to Hallet & Davis woods, Macassar ebony is the essential wood in
movement in furniture design should be neg-
Piano Co., Tenth avenue and Twenty-third the construction of nearly a quarter of the mod- lected. A new style of design may take the
ern instruments shown.
street, New York.
public's taste at any moment; when it does its
Rosewood in Greatest Favor
The Angelus Reproducing Grand
progress is rapid and almost universal, and we
Realizing how important the reproducing grand
"Yet the wood which remains in greatest fa-
can never know when such a style may be pro-
has become to the piano merchants, it is but vor is rosewood. Used solid or as a veneer,
duced. The manufacturer who follows style
natural that the Hallet & Davis Piano Co., with this is a wood of a warm color which har-
trends and who is prepared to meet such de-
the dealers' interests in mind, should keep pace monizes with nearly any furniture, and takes a velopments is one who finds the least sales
with the times by giving to the piano merchants magnificent luster under a fine wax or under
resistance for his product.
of America an advanced type of reproducing the cover of a durable varnish. For these rea-
grand.
sons, no doubt, the Gaveau, Pleyel, Regy and
Starting with the earliest type of cabinet play- Gabriel Gaveau concerns have presented instru-
er, keeping abreast as each advance in the play- ments of very beautiful cabinet work, which
er field was made until the final culmination, lend value to the richness and variety of rose-
the present type of reproducing mechanism was wood veins, waves and mottlings, which have
created, the name Angelus has stood out con- been used alone in the most pleasing manner.
spicuously for a third of a century in this field. Such decorators as Georges Welter and Domi-
It was widely known for many years in con- nique, for Gabriel Gaveau, have used rosewood
nection with the player-piano, long before re- combined with other veneer woods. In resume,
producing instruments had come into being. rosewood used alone or in combination witli
The Angelus reproducing grand typifies faith- other valuable woods has been used in the con-
fulness of reproduction and extreme simplicity struction of nearly a third of the pianos shown.
"Mahogany, which is suitable for the execu-
of construction.
Considered by
The "all-in-the-drawer" type of the Angelus tion of art furniture, is somewhat neglected by
reproducer has been pronounced a great step the modern decorators, yet MM. Sue and Marc,
forward in reproducing grand mechanism, due in beautiful vigorous pieces of furniture, have
to the way in which it eliminates sources of obtained from veined mahogany the most sump-
Automatic Piano Dealers as
servicing trouble and inefficiency, a factor of tuous effects. The two Pleyels designed by
Containing the Most Highly
great importance in the reproducing field. The these artists, the Gabriel Gaveau, designed by
Angelus is now available in Hallet & Davis, M. Pinchon, or again the Pleyel, designed by
Developed Mechanical Con-
P. Follot, are furniture and instruments of great
Conway and Merrill grands.
struction.
attractiveness.
The Angelus Library of Music Rolls
The library of Angelus reproducing rolls, con-
"Amboyna is a rich veneer, very difficult to
sisting of thousands of numbers, includes the work, but the Gaveaus designed by M. Defrene
Write for Particulars to
recordings of many of the world's most famous or by Sognot are excellent examples of rational
artists of the present and past, as well as a and able use of rare material.
wealth of popular and dance music. As re- "Walnut, usually reserved to the manufacture
cently announced in the trade press, the Hallet of upright pianos, is a splendid wood for those
& Davis Piano Co. has arranged with the Q R S who know how to handle it. The magnificent
Music Co. to manufacture and market the An- furniture of the Renaissance, particularly that
gelus library of rolls, thus giving to the piano of the Burgundy school, is proof of the effect
429 W. Superior St.
trade and the public the benefit of its great dis- of time on walnut furniture, when manufactured
tribution facilities. All requests regarding or- with care by good workers. The author refers
CHICAGO
ders for Angelus reproducing rolls should be to the fine instrument made by Regy, executed
addressed to the Q R S Music Co (Angelus in walnut after the design of Leleu, saying such
Hallet & Davis Piano Co. Established
in Its New Factory in New York City
Pianos at Exposition
of Decorative Arts
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