DOCSLIB.ORG

The City Record. Vol

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
The City Record. Vol THE CITY RECORD. VOL. XXXV. NEW YORK, TUESDAY, OCTOBER r, i9o7J. NUMBER 10461. The ' New York THE CITY RECORD. Manhattan. Bronx. Brooklyn. Queens. Richmond. City. OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK. Canceled .................... .... .... .... .... .... .... 1526, New York Charter, by the Published Under Authority of Section Greater Pending June 30, 1go7........ 2 .... I 3 BOARD OF CITY RECORD. Total Violations. GEORGE B. McCLELLAN, MAYOR. Pending April 1, 1907 ........ 40,5 to 4,769 19,341 1,410 474 66,504 Filed ....................... 9,16t 1,930 4,836 272 39 56,238 FRANCIS K. PENDLETON. CoRPoaATIox Covttazr. HERMAN A. METZ, Coxmotrsa. Dismissed ........'........... 9,884 r,8o8 4,900 136 26 16,754 Canceled ..................... 1,575 8r 712 27 5 2,40b PATRICK J. TRACY, Sutzavrsoa. Pending June 30, 5907........ 38,212 4,810 18,565 5,519 482 63,588 Published daily, except legal holiday&. $9.30 per year, exclusive of supplements. Three cents a copy. Subscription, Comparison with the first quarters of the year shows greater success in securing SUPPLEMENTS: Civil List (containing names, salaries, etc., of the city employees), 25 cents; compliance with orders, and a larger reduction in the number of outstanding violations. Official Canvass of Votes, so ceuta; Registry and Enrollment Lists, 5 cents each assembly district; The nature of the violations issued is shown in the following tabulation of the Law Department and Finance Department supplements, so cents each; Annual Assessed Valuation of orders contained in them. Real Estate, 25 cents each section. As compared with the first quarter an increase is seen especially in structural Published at Room 2, City Hall (north side), New York City. orders, such as cutting windows in dark interior rooms, replacing wooden door panels Entered as Second-class Matter, Post Office at New York City. with glass to light dark halls, providing proper skylights, removing school sinks, pro- viding new water closets and adequate means of egress in case of fire. The New York TABLE OF CONTENTS Manhattan. Bronx. Brooklyn. Queens. Richmond. City. Armory Board- Health, Department of- Ventilation (windows cut in in- Proposals ........................ 50052 Proposals .................: roo49 Assessors, Board of- Report for the Week Ending Sep- terior rooms, etc.).......... 875 85 t,o98 69 .... 2,127 Public Notice .................... 10050 tember 14, 1907 ............... 10040 Hall lighting, day (glass panels, Bellevue and Allied Hospitals- Manhattan, Borough of- skylights, etc.) ............. 5,57! 127 668 34 5 2,405 10050 Proposals ........................ 10049 Proposals ..................:..... Hall lighting, night........... 4 22 292 67 .... Board Meetings ...................... 10048 Municipal Civil Service Commission- Painting and whitewashing 385 Bridges, Department of- Applications Filed for Patrolman... 10042 (mainly shafts and courts).. 541 132 414 13 r 1,10! Proposals ........................ 10050 Public Notices ................... x0050 Bronx, Borough of- Notice to Contractors .................. roo56 Paving and grading.......... 1,434 139 587 14 1 2,175 Proposals ........................ 10054 Official Borough Papers............... 10048 Report of the President for the Official Directory .................... 1 0045 Repairs (including ro.)f)...... 3,32 5 406 1,364 30 It 5,536 Week Ending September 18, Official Papers ....................... 10048 1907 ......................... 10045 Parks, Department of- Unlawful practices............ 399 36 73 2 t 511 Brooklyn, Borough of- 10051 Proposals .............. 10048 Proposals ...... Change of Grade Damage Commission- PoliceD epartment- Protection from fire.......... 4,38$ 1,426 3,819 70 27 - 9,730 Owners Wanted for Lost Property. too5z Public Nottte ....... ............ 10048 .................... 292 52 118 20 483 Changes in Departments, etc........... 10045 Public Charities, Department of- Drainage r Proposals ........................ 10052 Docks and Ferries. Department of- Removal of school sink........ 486 7 25 2 1 521 Proceedings of June 25, z6 and 27, Queens, Borough of- .............. Proposals ........................ 10049 7 10043 Providing water closets........ 263 52 406 8 t 690 Proposals ........................ 50052 Richmond, Borough of- Repairing or cleaning water PublicNotice .................... 10052 Proposals ........................ 1 Education, Department of- Sinking Fund, Commissioners of- 0054 closets .................... 2,310 6o8 1,373 21 20 4,332 Proposals ........................ too5o Public Notices ................... 50050 Estimate and Apportionment, Board of- Plumbing ................... 2,960 6o8 1,720 30 10 5,328 Street Cleaning, Department of- Extract from Minutes of Meeting of Ashes, etc., for Filling in Lands.... 10049 Water supply ................. 6or 112 z8o 4 2 999 September 27, 1907 ............ 10041 Public Notice .................... 10049 Public Notices .................... 50050 """""""' Supreme Court. First aL nds, et- Cleaning .................... 4,332 751 2,135 29 19 7,266 finance, Departmentp of- AcquiringCour Ti e etc...... 10054 Interest on City Bonds and Stock. • 10053 Supreme Court, Secondc to Department-Department- Access to shafts and courts.... 77 6 74 4 .... r6r Notice of Sale of Lands. etc., for Acquiring Title to Lands, etc...... 10055 Providing receptacles, ashes Unpaid Taxes and Assessments. 10053 and garbage ................ x47 146 310 5 .... 6o8 Notices to Property Owners........ 10052 Supreme Court, Ninth Judicial District- Notices to Taxpayers .............. 10052 Acquiring Title to Lands. etc...... ioo56 Tenement House De, artment- Providing Janitor ............. r5 r .... .... .... t6 Sureties Required on Various Classes Report for the arterqu Ending June of Contracts ................. 10053 !„'T 6 .... 1,836 Fire Department- 30, 1907 ....................... 10033 Other orders ................. 695 34 Auction Sale ..................... 50049 Water Supply, Board of- Proposals ........................ 10049 Public Notice .................... 10050 The work accomplished during the quarter is seen in the following summary of items in violations dismissed as complied with during the quarter: TENEMENT HOUSE DEPARTMENT. The New York Manhattan. Bronx. Brooklyn. Queens. Richmond. City. REPORT FOR THE QUARTER ENDING JUNE 30, 1907. Accumulations of filth re- Tenement House Department, Borough of Manhattan, moved ... .... .......... 1,179 166 548 r .... 1,894 No. 44 East Twenty-third Street Ash and garbage receptacles New York, August A, i9o7. provided ................... 312 135 270 6 .... 723 Hon. GEORGE B. McCLELLAN, Mayor of The City of New York: Ceilings cleaned or repaired... 2,465 137 Sio 4 II 3,127 Cleaning, miscellaneous........ so t i6 .... .... 27 Sir-I have the honor to present the following summary of the work of the Tene- Cellar (ceilings, walls, floors or ment House Department for the second quarter of the year 1907, covering the period bins cleaned or. repaired).... 3,327 r,or8 953 7 1 5,306 from April i to June 30, inclusive. Chimneys provided or repaired. 181 8 2! .... .... 210 During the quarter violations were filed, dismissed and canceled as follows: Disinfection made ............. .... I tog .... .... ISO Violations Filed, Dismissed, Canceled and Pending, from April I to June 30, 1907, Drains provided or repaired... 127 38 1o5 r .... 271 Inclusive. Incumbrances removed from fire escapes .................... 351 2 209 6 .... 958 Fire escapes or other fire pro- 39 The New York tection provided or repaired. 6,462 1,78r 5,640 116 8 14,007 Manhattan. Bronx. Brooklyn. Queens. Richmond. City. Fireproofing ................. to .... 9 8 .... 167 Floors cleaned ................ 765 5 147 6 .... 923 Old Building Violations. Janitor i .. xz is Pending April 1, 1907 ........ 37,134 4,269 13,797 66z 394 56,255 lllighting(day), gglass panels and skylights provided...... 1,619 121 226 5 t 1,972 Filed ....................... 7,262 1,491 3,584 107 28 12,472 Hall lighting (night) .......... 142 26 536 t6 .... 720 Dismissed ................... 8,478 1,413 4,052 70 13 74,026 Leaders or gutters provided or repaired .................... .. 336 59 Io7 ..-. .... 502 Canceled .................... 1,504 59 451 9 .... 2,023 Oilcloth and carpets cleaned or removed .................. 2,531 672 242 .... .... • 3,445 Pending June 30, 1907........ 34,414 4,288 12,878 689 409 52,678 Plumbing fixtures repaired, re- moved or replaced.......... 3,687 559 Sir 8 4 5,069 New Building Violations. Plumbing pipes repaired or re- placed ..................... 2,457 512 838 25 4 3,832 Pending April 1, 1907........ 657 32S 2,476 574 15 4,047 Paving and grading........... 262 55 22 .... .... 339 Filed ....................... 739 342 622 85 3 1,791 Privies and cesspools cleansed or removed ................. .... 6 73 9 3 9t Dismissed ................... 678 336 435 36 I 1,486 Repairs, miscellaneous......... 1,146 166 362 5 2 t,68i Canceled .................... 26 9 4 .... 3 42 Roofs repaired or cleaned..... 794 96 rr8 i t 1,010 Pending June 30, 5907........ 692 322 2,659 623 14 4,310 Rooms, interior, windows pro- vided ..................... 3,x10 .... 499 22 t 3,632 Alteration Violations. Shafts and courts painted and whitewashed ............... 1,524 642 201 .... .... 2,367 a Pending April r, 1907......... - 2,718 175 3,067 175 65 6,200 School sink removed.......... 354 •... .... ...• 354 ........................ 1,159 97 6z8 8o 8 1,972 School sinks cleaned or re- Filed paired ..................... 32 ...
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Marquetry on Drawer-Model Marionette Duo-Art
    Marquetry on Drawer-Model Marionette Duo-Art This piano began life as a brown Recordo. The sound board was re-engineered, as the original ribs tapered so soon that the bass bridges pushed through. The strings were the wrong weight, and were re-scaled using computer technology. Six more wound-strings were added, and the weights of the steel strings were changed. A 14-inch Duo-Art pump, a fan-expression system, and an expression-valve-size Duo-Art stack with a soft-pedal compensation lift were all built for it. The Marquetry on the side of the piano was inspired by the pictures on the Arto-Roll boxes. The fallboard was inspired by a picture on the Rhythmodic roll box. A new bench was built, modeled after the bench originally available, but veneered to go with the rest of the piano. The AMICA BULLETIN AUTOMATIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT COLLECTORS’ ASSOCIATION SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2005 VOLUME 42, NUMBER 5 Teresa Carreno (1853-1917) ISSN #1533-9726 THE AMICA BULLETIN AUTOMATIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT COLLECTORS' ASSOCIATION Published by the Automatic Musical Instrument Collectors’ Association, a non-profit, tax exempt group devoted to the restoration, distribution and enjoyment of musical instruments using perforated paper music rolls and perforated music books. AMICA was founded in San Francisco, California in 1963. PROFESSOR MICHAEL A. KUKRAL, PUBLISHER, 216 MADISON BLVD., TERRE HAUTE, IN 47803-1912 -- Phone 812-238-9656, E-mail: [email protected] Visit the AMICA Web page at: http://www.amica.org Associate Editor: Mr. Larry Givens VOLUME 42, Number
    [Show full text]
  • Bulletin Germany/Holland 2007 July 5Th Ð 20Th
    THE www.amica.org Volume 44, Number 2 AMICA March/April 2007 AUTOMATIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT COLLECTORS’ ASSOCIATION BULLETIN GERMANY/HOLLAND 2007 JULY 5TH – 20TH Tour Historic Germany and Holland with your fellow AMICANs. Visit Munich with its clock tower, Hofbrau House and many interesting attractions. See world-class museums with wonderful collections of automatic musical instruments. Bus through scenic countryside, with quaint towns full of wonderfully painted buildings. Shop in wood carving centers. Tour King Ludwig’s Linderhof Castle. Visit organ factories and private collections. Stroll through the Historic walled city of Rothenburg. Cruise the Beautiful Rhein River, with castles lining the waterway. Listen to dance organs, pianos, Dutch Street Organs and more. Enjoy the pumper contest, with contestants using Conrad Adenauer’s grand piano. There’s so much more to see and do. Applications will be coming soon, and you need to register right away….remember, registration is limited. Questions? Call Frank at 818-884-6849 ISSN #1533-9726 THE AMICA BULLETIN AUTOMATIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT COLLECTORS' ASSOCIATION Published by the Automatic Musical Instrument Collectors’ Association, a non-profit, tax exempt group devoted to the restoration, distribution and enjoyment of musical instruments using perforated paper music rolls and perforated music books. AMICA was founded in San Francisco, California in 1963. PROFESSOR MICHAEL A. KUKRAL, PUBLISHER, 216 MADISON BLVD., TERRE HAUTE, IN 47803-1912 -- Phone 812-238-9656, E-mail: [email protected] Visit the AMICA Web page at: http://www.amica.org Associate Editor: Mr. Larry Givens • Editor Emeritus: Robin Pratt VOLUME 44, Number 2 March/April 2007 AMICA BULLETIN FEATURES Display and Classified Ads Articles for Publication Visit to San Sylmar’s Auto/Musical Collection .
    [Show full text]
  • Howe Collection of Musical Instrument Literature ARS.0167
    http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8cc1668 No online items Guide to the Howe Collection of Musical Instrument Literature ARS.0167 Jonathan Manton; Gurudarshan Khalsa Archive of Recorded Sound 2018 [email protected] URL: http://library.stanford.edu/ars Guide to the Howe Collection of ARS.0167 1 Musical Instrument Literature ARS.0167 Language of Material: Multiple languages Contributing Institution: Archive of Recorded Sound Title: Howe Collection of Musical Instrument Literature Identifier/Call Number: ARS.0167 Physical Description: 438 box(es)352 linear feet Date (inclusive): 1838-2002 Abstract: The Howe Collection of Musical Instrument Literature documents the development of the music industry, mainly in the United States. The largest known collection of its kind, it contains material about the manufacture of pianos, organs, and mechanical musical instruments. The materials include catalogs, books, magazines, correspondence, photographs, broadsides, advertisements, and price lists. The collection was created, and originally donated to the University of Maryland, by Richard J. Howe. It was transferred to the Stanford Archive of Recorded Sound in 2015 to support the Player Piano Project. Stanford Archive of Recorded Sound, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, California 94305-3076”. Language of Material: The collection is primarily in English. There are additionally some materials in German, French, Italian, and Dutch. Arrangement The collection is divided into the following six separate series: Series 1: Piano literature. Series 2: Organ literature. Series 3: Mechanical musical instruments literature. Series 4: Jukebox literature. Series 5: Phonographic literature. Series 6: General music literature. Scope and Contents The Howe Musical Instrument Literature Collection consists of over 352 linear feet of publications and documents comprising more than 14,000 items.
    [Show full text]
  • Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert Programs, Season 30,1910-1911, Trip
    ACADEMY OF MUSIC . BROOKLYN Thirtieth Season, 1910-1911 SflHtfltt g>gttqrfjmuj (©rrfpaint MAX FIEDLER, Conductor flrogramm? of tip SECOND CONCERT WITH HISTORICAL AND DESCRIP- TIVE NOTES BY PHILIP HALE FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 9 AT 8.15 COPYRIGHT, 1910, BY C. A. ELLIS PUBLISHED BY C. A. ELLIS, MANAGER ^HHH OPERA AMERICA AND ABROAD Mr. H. WINFRED GOFF Frau CLARA WALLENTHIN- Miss EDITH DE LYS London Covent Garden STRANDBERG Stockholm London Covent Garden two seasons America Savage Grand Opera Royal Opera and Dresden Milan Florence Brussels Rome etc. Mrs. CLARA SEXTON- At present singing in Germany Mr. EARL W. MARSHALL CROWLEY Italy Florence Milan Miss LAURA VAN KURAN Italy Florence etc. Barcelona Now singing in America Italy Florence Now in America Now in Italy Mrs. ALICE KRAFT BENSON Mrs. LOUISE HOMER Mr. MYRON W. WHITNEY France Nantes At present with Aborn Grand Opera Co. New York Paris London Brussels Now with Lilian Nordica Concert and Opera Boston Chicago Now singing in New York Metropolitan Opera Co. Co. Italy Mme. LENA ABARBANELL Miss FANNY B.. LOTT Miss BLANCH FOX (VOLPINI) Austria Hungary Germany etc. Italy Palermo Rimini Pisa etc. Italy Venice Milan Vercelli etc. Metropolitan Opera Co. New York Now singing in Italy American Grand Opera Cos. New Now singing "Madam Sherry" N.Y. Miss EDITH FROST STEWART York Chicago San Francisco etc. Mr. HENRY GORRELL To create title role in Victor Her- Miss MARY CARSON (KIDD) Italy Florence Genoa Torino etc. bert's new opera " When Sweet Six- Italy Milan etc. Now singing in Italy teen "now rehearsing in New York Now singing in Italy Mr.
    [Show full text]
  • Gavioli's Piano-Quartet and Related Carousel Organs
    Carousel Organ, Issue No. 39—April, 2009 With Strings Attached: Gavioli’s Piano-Quartet and Related Carousel Organs Fred Dahlinger Jr. © 2009 Introduction Their sophisticated pneumatic controls were far in advance of anything then being utilized for general manufacturing he generic description “carousel organ” covers a vari- and industrial control systems. Orchestrion development ety of mechanical music machines that have supplied continued through the jazz era and came to a close in the Tan audio atmosphere for merry-go-rounds and related 1920s, as musical tastes changed. Throughout their exis- riding devices. Instruments as varied as organettes, hand and tence, the piano orchestrions served as an economical alter- band organs, brass horn orchestrions, street pianos, low pres- native to live musicians, providing a musical atmosphere for sure air calliopes and recorded organ music playback devices dance halls, salons, rinks, restaurants and other locations have provided suitable melodies for enhancing the delight- where melodies enhanced the public experience. ful, happiness-provoking wooden horse experience. The media containing the pre-arranged musical program Another dimension to the carousel organ designation is for piano orchestrions was advanced over time, from pinned embodied in combination piano-organ instruments, essen- cylinders to spooled rolls (made of paper, light Manila card- tially small piano-based orchestrions, which infrequently board or metal foil), as well as heavier cardboard sheets, accompanied the previously mentioned amusement rides. folding paper books and even hinged aluminum sheets. This article addresses some of the rare carousel applications of such instruments. Piano Orchestrions From the early 1800s until the mid-19th century, orchestrions were typically unique, one-of-a-kind virtuoso instruments generally featuring organ pipes and percussion.
    [Show full text]
  • MUSIC and the ECLIPSE of MODERNISM By
    SIGNAL TO NOISE: MUSIC AND THE ECLIPSE OF MODERNISM By MATTHEW FRIEDMAN A Dissertation submitted to the Graduate School-New Brunswick Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Graduate Program in History written under the direction of T.J. Jackson Lears and approved by ________________________ ________________________ ________________________ ________________________ New Brunswick, New Jersey May 2013 ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION Signal to Noise: Music and the Eclipse of Modernism By MATTHEW FRIEDMAN Dissertation Director: T.J. Jackson Lears There was danger in the modern American soundscape; the danger of interruption and disorder. The rhetoric of postwar aural culture was preoccupied with containing sounds and keeping them in their appropriate places. The management and domestication of noise was a critical political and social issue in the quarter century following the Second World War. It was also an aesthetic issue. Although technological noise was celebrated in modern American literature, music and popular culture as a signal of technological sublime and the promise of modern rationality in the US, after 1945 noise that had been exceptional and sublime became mundane. Technological noise was resignified as "pollution" and narrated as the aural detritus of modernity. Modern music reinforced this project through the production of hegemonic fields of representation that legitimized the discursive boundaries of modernity and delegitimized that which lay outside of them. Postwar American modernist composers, reconfigured as technical specialists, developed a hyper-rational idiom of "total control" which sought to discipline aural disorder and police the boundaries between aesthetically- acceptable music and sound and disruptive noise.
    [Show full text]
  • From Brass Bands to Buskers: Street Music in the Uk
    AN ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL-FUNDED REPORT FROM BRASS BANDS TO BUSKERS: STREET MUSIC IN THE UK Elizabeth Bennett and George McKay INTRODUCTION | 1 AS LONG AS CITIES HAVE CREATED PUBLIC MEETING PLACES AND THOROUGHFARES, PERFORMERS HAVE STAKED A PRESENCE IN THEM. SUSIE TANENBAUM, UNDERGROUND HARMONIES (1995: 33) EXECUTIVE Photography: Pixabay SUMMARY CONTENTS INTRODUCTION A busker in an underpass, carol singers in the square, teenagers 1 INTRODUCTION Throughout history where people have gathered in shared public spaces, playing guitar on a high street corner with their cases laid out performers have been present amongst them to entertain, practice their craft, 2 HISTORY hopefully before them, marching bands parading through city and earn a living. However, despite the ever-present place of street music centres; anybody who engages with shared public space has at 6 CULTURAL POLICY in the soundscapes of our daily living, there may be not as much about the some point encountered street music. From the historical protection AND LEGISLATION subject in comparison to many other areas of musical study (Watt 2019: of royalty for the Elizabethan city waits, to a site of conflict on the 71). But there is some, and we have made it our business to find it, read it, 8 STREET MUSIC ADVOCACY thoroughfares of Victorian London, to its position today in urban annotate it for other users, and overview it in a structured report, here. regeneration via culture, street music remains a ubiquitous presence AND CAMPAIGNING in our contemporary environments and continues to be both a source In this report we intend to explore the existing research and policy writing 10 PLACE-MAKING, SPACE that has been undertaken in this area, and to indicate the rich possibilities for of surprise and debate, pleasure and nuisance.
    [Show full text]
  • Music Trades 19270122.Pdf
    ". -..-. -"- .. ......~ ..... --~ Vol. LXXIII, No. 4 10 CENTS PER COpy Published at 501 Fifth Avenue, New York $3.00 PER YEAR IfIIi!::;:: ....~~. ... - . ~"'~.= PIANO MAKERS FOR OVER ONE HUNDRED YEARS --And in Toledo, the Chickering enjoys ex" cellent presentation in the well appointed warerooms. of the ]. W Greene Company. Published every Saturday by The Music Trades Company. Entered as second-class matter July 10, 1899. at the post office at New York, N. Y., under act of Marc·A 3) 1879. Copyright 1927 by THE MUSIC TRADES CO. THE MUSIC TRADES January 22, 1927 1-­ Full--Page Ads in Color for 1927 In The Saturday Evening Post, Liberty, American Maga."r.ine and Good Housekeeping Total circulation over seven million monthly ITH 1926 furnishing overwhelming musical merchandise. This advertising is in W proof of the public's desire for the addition to Brunswick's consistent newspaper Brunswick Panatrope, Brunswick's New advertising and Brunswick's colorful window­ Musical I nstrument, and Brunswick Records display service. by the" Light-Ray" electrical method (musi­ With such a program of advertising effort, cal photography), the Brunswick Company Brunswick dealers have the greatest sales is pleased to announce for 1927 one of the opportunity in their history. For never has most comprehensive programs of color adver­ any music dealer had finer merchandise than tising in leading magazines ever given any Brunswick dealers have at present. THE BRUNSWICK.BALKE.COLLENDER CO. GENERAL OFFICES: CHICAGO ~ e 'usic ~tab~9. n\tt~b! ~i\tQ1\ ~eil lEstabUSbtb 1890. 10 CENTS PER COpy VOLUME LXXIII. No.4 NEW YORK, JANUARY 22, 1927 Sl.OO PER YEAR Growth of General Music House Is Remarkable! Now Estimated That 50 PerCent of Music Merchants Operate Establishments as Music Department Stores-This Percentage Was .
    [Show full text]
  • American Musical Instruments in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
    American Musical Instruments in The Metropolitan Museum ofArt haurence Lihin AMERICAN MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS in The Metropolitan Museum of Art AMERICAN MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS in The Metropolitan Museum of Art LAURENCE LIBIN THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART NEW YORK W. W. NORTON & COMPANY NEW YORK LONDON This publication is made possible through the generous support of Mr. and Mrs. Gordon P. Getty. Published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., New York. Published simultaneously in Canada by Penguin Books Canada Ltd, 2801 John Street, Markham, Canada L3R IB4. The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bradford D. Kelleher, Publisher John P. O'Neill, Editor in Chief Barbara Burn, Project Supervisor Dinah Stevenson, Exiitor Copyright © 1985 by The Metropolitan Museum of Art Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Libin, Laurence. American musical instruments in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Bibliography: p. 213 includes index. 1. Musical instruments—United States. L Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N. Y.) IL Title. ML476.L5 1985 781.91'0973 85-4817 ISBN 0-87099-379-8 (MMA) ISBN 0-393-02277-3 (W.W. Norton) The photographs for this volume were taken by the Photograph Studio of The Metropolitan Museum of Art and by Stewart Pollens of the Museum's Department of Musical Instruments, unless otherwise credited. Composition by David E. Seham Associates, Inc. Colorplates printed by Colorcraft Lithographers, Inc. Black-and-white pages printed by Rae Publishing Company Printed in the United States of America 1234567890
    [Show full text]
  • Mechanical Organs of the American Traveling Circus, Menagerie And
    Issue No. 4 July, 2000 The Official Journal of the Carousel Organ Association of America (COAA) Devoted to enjoying, preserving and sharing knowledge of all outdoor mechanical musical instruments, including band, fair and street organs, calliopes, and hand-cranked organs of all sizes. Inside this issue: Mechanical Organs of the American • Mechanical Organs of the Traveling Circus, Menagerie and Wild West* American Traveling Circus, Menagerie and Wild West Fred Dahlinger, Jr. Fred Dahlinger — 1 • Paul Eakins’ Gay 90’s Organ Though they are largely unknown in our era of electronically-reproduced and Collection computer-generated music, mechanical organs once commonly provided an acoustic Ron Bopp — 3 musical accompaniment to many outdoor amusement enterprises. The general pub- • The Story of Captain John lic and music historians typically associate the hand-cranked organ with itinerant street musicians; the pipe organ with churches and theaters; the orchestrion with Leonard's Fascination with palatial homes; and the band organ with the carousel. A review of the historical Military Band Organs record reveals that each of these four types of instruments could be heard at travel- Captain John Leonard — 16 ing shows. Visitors to the menagerie, the circus and the Wild West exhibition were • Marion Roehl Recordings — all exposed to a variety of mechanically-produced sounds during the heyday of these Some Reflections instruments. Mechanical organs were employed in two principal ways: In the most basic appli- Harvey Roehl — 20 cation they provided a musical atmosphere for the show grounds or inside the tents. • Gebroeders Decap — In their most elaborate form they were housed in large, ornamented parade wagons Antwerpen, Belgie that provided musical interludes in the daily street processions staged by traveling Roger Mostmans — 22 shows.
    [Show full text]
  • New York. St. Louis. Chicago. October, 1897
    NEW YORK. ST. LOUIS. CHICAGO. Volume l. OCTOBER, 1897. Number 2. Victor Herbert. Instruction in Violin, \'iola, Piano, Pipe Organ, ILumony, Counterpoint, Composition and Instrumentation. D. S. DE LISLE, METRONOMES, ·EsTEY QRAND .. Musical Darector .. With or Without Bell. Musical Library: Orchestral Parts of Operas, &c. RESIDENCE: for sale or rent. You Cannot Afford to Be Without One. Orchestral or Band Parts for No. l8l9 Biddle Street, any musical composition on TO SUBSCRIBERS ONLY. PIANOS short notice. T OUIS Cue Music Prepared. S • L • Without Bell, $2. so MusicComposers' "Taken Mss Down.". revised and prepared for publication . With Bell, 3.25 Proofs Read. ~ Regular price, $4 and $5. ~ Especial attention is asked to these If you are not already a subscriber, send superb Grand Pianos, which have re- CARL THOLL, $1. so for a year's subscription, in addition to 1 cently been used with great success .JI. .JI. SOLOIST ... the above prices. TEACHER OF VIOLIN, in the Missouri State Music Teachers' Spang & Luhn, St. Louis, Mo. 1 Studio: 1002 N. HIGH STREET. Association, and the National Music Teachers' Association. CLARA STUBBLEFIELD, TEACHER OF PIANO, Tone, Touch and Mason .. iJEJ/6/YJ fOR (1/ICHY #II.J/f JiTLfJ. ystem of Techni c. 3932 PAGE AVENUE. Mechanism ..... QTHMAR A. MOLL, are perfect, and we invite comparison TEACHER OF PIANO, 1 I of the Estey Grand Pianos with the Concert Pianist. Studio: 4205a EVANS AVE. 1 Grands of any other make. ELMORE CONDON.----=~ The Estey Co. TEACHER OF VIOLIN, 3958 WESTMINSTER PLACE, ST. LOUIS. EDW. M. REED, Manager. 906 Olive Street. PAUL MORJ~ rganist, St.
    [Show full text]
  • KUNKEL BROS,, ~T
    PRICE, 15 CENTS. YEARLY SUBSCRIPTION, $3.50 Worth of Music in this Including Valuable Premium, s 1.50 I Number. See Pages 228 and 232. ~::v::o1:. :v:. =!!"'---'--- +. + READING MUSIC. l'AGF, l'AGl<i• EI>JTOHL\L-1\lmt<', a Xntnral I.anguage "Goldl.Jeck's Harmony" ...................... 2:t3 -Paragraphs.................. 228 "Lucr, zia Borgia" (Fantasia)--Paul- (11 ith ~IU~lCAI... A:SD 1\ITSCELL.\NEOUS-Rich- Leo son l.Jy Charles Kunkel) .............. 23.i arfl \Vngner (with portt'llit)-1 he '!'rump 'l't·umpeter-Bnsiness Buzzes-1\Iay Song "l\Ierry Sleigh Bells" (Galop)-Shlu~ ....... 242 (poetry) -l\Iax Strakosch- The 1\Ietro­ nome- Kiickcn -1\lrs. E. Aline Osgood •· Joys of Spring" (Waltz)-Sidus ............ 2J4 (with portrait) IJow to Sing a Ballad- Am l.Jroise Thomas-)! iss Kt:llogg's "]!'arc· " Skylark Polka" (Duct)-Drcyer............ 24fi well "-Om· ~Jusic-l\lmnc in St. Louis­ "Etudes de la YClocite, No.:; "-Czerny ..... 252 Boston l-etter-New Yor){ l..ettcr-Ohi· ('/\go Letter- Baltimore Letter- Ques­ "Then You'll Remember 1\fe" (Ballatl)- tions, Pe1 tincnt and Impertinent-Com- Balfe ......•.....•......................... 2.'i4 ical Chords-Libels-.Major and 1\linor­ Smith ~tnd Jones-Scotch Proverbs ...227 to 2G8 "Wedding Bells" (Rong-)-Hrockcl .......... 25G II II ~ftof.<w.>, KUNKEL BROS,, ~t. ~ou<o. TIMES PRINTING HOUSE, Fifth and Chestnut Street!>, St. Louis, Mo. KUNKEL'S MUSICAL HEVIEW, 1\IAY, 1~~2. ''101111" BEHNING SOHMER & CO., M::ANUFAOTURERS::o GRAND, ~ijUARE ~ UPRIGHT PIAN~-F~RTE~. · Wit~ Improve~ Patent Agraffe Attac~ment and Name ~oar~. Received First Medal of Merit and Dip!oma of' Honor at Cen­ tennal.Exhibition and at Grand Exhibition, Montreal, 1881.
    [Show full text]