STEVENS AND CO.'S NEW MUSICAL WAREHOUSE.

Auckland Star, Volume I, Issue 121, 30 May 1870, Page 2

STEVENS AND CO.'S NEW MUSICAL WAREHOUSE.

We have no doubt that to all those in the city possessed of musical taste and habits, there will be no inconsiderable interest attacning to the opening of a Musical Warehouse on a scale so extensive us that of Stevens and Co., Lower Q.ueen-street. This establishment, which is intended to fill the place occupied by Varty's,

some years a^o, appears from the huge

catalogue before us, to comprise all the gradations of musical instrumentalism, from the JEolian pitch-pipe to the refined Broad wood ; from " Alexandro ct Pih," back to nigger bones; the accessories to musical entertainment range from nigger wigs to Paganini resin, and are bewildering with tailpieces and bowhair pegs, bridges, straps, and clappers. The bare perusal of the list of Avaltzes, quadrilles, mazurkas, schottisches, galops, and polkas, would make any pair of pretty little feet go pitapatting on the floor, while the songs ascend through mazes of music from "Sally in our Alley," to pieces with mimes of such diabolical exquisite-ness sis to make one cough. Christy Minstrels, melodies, and Sabbath strains, operatic music, Italian airs and sacred music, arranged every way ; solos, duets, trios, quartettes, and straight away on from that up ; comic songs and glees; oratorios, and " Barney O'He;i" —in fact everything that conduces to the production of sound and its arrangement in tuneful cadence for the human ear seems compiiscd in the catalogue of the new musical warehouse. Mr. Stevens has provided for the wants and tastes of all who affect music, whether by wind or string, and we have no doubt he will soon be regarded in Auckland as a \evy " Jubal—the father of all such as handle the hn-p and organ."