The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-02-15
From Over the Ocean.

1 ed by our townsman, Morris Steinert, entitled "Reminiscences of Morris
 Steinert has attracted much attention
 and received a great many compliment | tary words not only from many leading
 journals in this country, but also in the | old world. It must be very gratifying
 to MT. Steinert to find so many cordial
 greetings for his book. Among the mo- tices it has received from prominent
 English publications we find the follow
 ing:
 | From the Literary World, London, England January ?, 1901, is the follow
 ing:
 | Morris Steinert's name is probably more familiar among the musical pub | lie of America than of England. His
 lectures on the history of the pianoforte and it's predecessors, tho harpsichord,
 the clavichord, and the spinet. and his
 private collection of these instruments gathered from out-of-the-way farms
 and mansions in Germany and Austria,
 would serve to interest musicians in his
 career, even If his own musical efforts,
 eliminating in the invention of a new instrument which he has named the
 Steinertone, had not served to bring his
 name before the musical world. This instrument, the result of years of affec-
 donate study in the formation and ca
 pacities of old stringed instruments,
 aims at combining the delicacy and
 sweetness of the clavichord with a far
 larger range of tone-coloring than
 even the clavichord or the modern piano
 possesses. MT. Steinert's interest in old
 instruments was so widely known that
 he was invited, in 1895, to exhibit his
 collection in the great exhibition of
 music and drama held in that year in
 Vienna and at the Chicago exhibition in 1893, his exhibits, enriched by some
 valuable new specimens discovered dur ing his visit to Europe, excited great interest. An invitation from Sir George Grove to lecture in London unfortu- nately fell through, owing to the diff culty of transferring any part of his collection from Vienna, or of finding suitable instruments for musical illus tration in London. MT. Steinert's ac- count of his discovery of these old in- struments is full of interest and his narrative is enlivened by many anus ing incidents He is himself a perform CT on variety of instruments, but the devotion of his life has been given to the cello. A German by birth, he early began life of wandering, half as per former half as man of business. He | finally settled in America and made a precarious livelihood by teaching, lec- turing and orchestral work.
 Finally, when reduced to great diffi- | culties, this indefatigable musician, un- | daunted by diversity, entered the mu- | sic business as salesman, and finally | as constructor of pianos and other instruments. His difficulties are so free ly and cheerfully told, and there is sU much good heartedness and bravery in his fight with an uphill fortune that all readers of his book will earnestly wish him as much success in his newly invented pianoforte as he has gained as collector of instruments. The book Is enriched by number of illustrations taken from spinets and clavichords in possession of the writer'
 The following Is from "Literature," London, January 26. 1901:
 An interesting combination of the artistic and commercial temperament goes to make The "Reminiscences of Morris Steinert Putnam, compiled and arranged by Jane Marlin, well worth the telling. Morris Steinert might be described as a quick change artist. not n clothes, but in enthusiasms, He has now a certain reputation in Germany ind America as an authority on the history or keyed instruments, of which 1e has wonderful collection But in lis day he has been an optician., a brewer, teacher of music, a conductor 'f several orcheetras organized by him. elf, and performer on the violin, riolincello, flute, accordion, guitar. ,anjo, cornet, organ, horn, clavichord. larpsichord, and spinet. Quite late in lis career, on discovering that music. llways his chief interest, was not as lu- rative as he wished, he all but entered lpon the hoopskirt business, but de- 'ided in the nick of time to become a 7endor of musAcal instruments, and so made his fortune. The story of his ravels in these several capacities from own to town in Germany and America full of colour, Ills habit of observa- ion, his fund of humorous anecdote. nd above all his devotion to music 1ore than reconcile the reader to his ather f1orid style. Pictures of some eautiful specimens of his collection of lstruments are reproduced. He has imself invented an instrument-the teinertone-for which he claims com ination of the old world sweetness of 1e clavichord and the "rythmical tone- \ reduction of the pianoforte'." x
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