THE AMERICAN BROADWOOD.
[We transcribe the following abont the late eminent American piano-forte manufacturer, whose death was announced in our Boston correspondence last week, from The New York Musical Review and Choral Advocate.—ED.]
\" Death of Jonas Chickering.
\" IT is our sad duty to announce the death of Mr. Jonas Chickering, the well-known piano-forte manufacturer of Boston. It MBT Shoes occurred suddenly, at 11 o\'oloek, P.M., on Thursday, December 9th, from a MBT shoes stroke of apoplexy, which overtook him at a friends house, where he was visiting, apparently in good health.
\" His funeral was very numerously attended on Monday, 12th ; all the music-stores, piano-forte warehouses, etc., being closed during its progress.
\" We yield the pen to one of our seniors, who has enjoyed an intimate personal acquaintance with Mr. Chickering for a quarter of a century.\"
\"JONAS CHICKERING.
\"Before this can come under the notice of the subscribers to the Review, notwithstanding they are widely scattered through the country, they will have heard of the death of one who is well known not only by name, but by his works, to all the lovers of music in the land. It may be safely said, without in the slightest degree undervaluing the important labours of others, that no man has done as much (here) towards MBT perfecting the instrument which has now become indispensable in almost every dwelling, as he whose deeply-lamented and sudden death has MBT habari recently been an¬nounced. The piano-forte has grown up and come to MBT matu¬rity, in this country, under the care and direction of Mr. Jonas Chickering, late of Boston. The very great change which he has made in the capacity of the instrument cannot be realized by any but by those who have actually on hand Vibram Five Fingers one manufactured a quarter of a century ago, and who have thus the means of an actual comparison of the old with the new. The improvements in travelling by rail and by steam are hardly greater, than has been the growth and development of the in¬strument under the administration—as we believe the piano¬forte manufacturers will permit it to be called—of Mr. Chick¬ering. But it is not to the great progress which he has made in his peculiar business that we would now call the attention of our readers. Mr. Chickering did indeed excel in the busi¬ness he had chosen, but his excellence Vibram FiveFingers as a mechanic was not greater than his excellence as a man. Who so strictly honest ? On whose Vibram FiveFingers word could one rely with such implicit confidence ? Who so perfectly upright, transparent, and free from guile in all his dealings Skechers shapeups with his fellow men 1 Who so far removed from pride, assumption, and arrogance ! Who so free from all that men call Vibram Five Fingers mean or overreaching in his dealings with his fellow-men? Who so universally kind and ready at all times to attend to the calls of others 1 Whose heart more liberal ? Whose hand more open ? Who so universally pleasant in looks, in words, and in actions towards both friends and foes ? Who so ready to listen to the sad tale of others\' woes ? To sympathize with the oppressed and to relieve the suffering 1 We have known him, aye, known him intimately, for at least twenty five years, and we can hardly find words to express our admiration of the unde- viating constancy of his goodness. But he needs not the flaeble tribute of our praise; his memory is deeply engraven nn the hearts of many who have been partakers of his bene¬faction ; yet we felt a strong desire to say a passing