Métert Mouliniè Langdorff Malignon

Henry Métert
Moulinié Ainé

Métert-Langdorff

Langdorff-Métert
Métert schied am 29. September 1852 aus und verstarb am 3. Juni 1855

Langdorff
Malignon

Langdorff & fils

Exposition universelle de 1878: Langdorff & fils was one of the three winners of the highest musical box award in the Exposition universelle de 1878 in Paris. (Bulleid, Technology, p. 17-18)

Two important Henri Meterts:
Isaac Henri Metert, 1801 – 1855
Jacques Antoine Henri Metert, (grand son of Isaac Henri Metert), 1854 – 1933

"Suzanne Maurer identifies no fewer than three Henri Meterts. Isaac Henri was born illegitimately on 31 January 1801, son of Jeanne Antoinette Metert and a calico printer called Gottlieb Ast. At the age of 10 his mother died and when he was 22 he married Henriette Noyer. In 1844, directories list him as being in business with Langdorff, David (born 1804, died 1873) at rue Coutance 140. They made quality musical boxes and exhibited at the Great Exhibition of 1851, obtaining an award. On 29 September 1852, their partnership was dissolved. Langdorff remaining in business at their former address. Isaac Henri Metert died on 3 June 1855, at Lancy, Geneva, aged 54.

Jacques Antoine Henri Metert was born on 1 August 1854, at Carouge, Geneva. He was the grandson of Isaac Henri, his father, Marc Barthelemy Metert (who married Françoise Jeanne Chapuis) being the son of Isaac Henri. Said to have worked all his life as a mechanic for Nicole Frères, having started in their Geneva factory at the age of eleven. He later came to London and worked for Nicole Frères, first at Hatton Garden and then at Ely Place, until they ceased business in 1903. Metert then carried on the business at 28 Ely Place, London, E.C. until his death in 1933. In July 1906 advertised as trading in musical boxes, polyphons [sic] and phonographs. He produced mechanical singing birds and is said to have made a musical box which played all bells. He improved on Amédée Paillard´s inventions regarding changeable-cylinder boxes in 1879, by devising a type of mechanism which could allow immediate changing of the complete cylinder by lifting a catch at each end." (Ord-Hume, Music Box, 1980, p. 320)

Metert, Petite & Co (1878)
Metert, Petite & Cie (1879 – 1882)
Société Genèvoise de Nickelage (1882 –?)
"There is some mystery about the partnership of Metert, Petite & Co., of 14 rue Sismondi, Geneva, founded on 1 January 1878, for the manufacture of musical boxes. The partners were Henri Metert and Louis Petite, an accountant. The registered address was initially its workshop, rue J.-J. Rousseau, number 20."

"One year later, the partnership was joined by a merchant, Auguste Schmidely, and the name changed to Metert, Petite & Cie, and the objects increased to include electroplating." (Ord-Hume, Music Box, 1980, p. 320)

"In 1882, Henri Metert left and the business changed its title to Société Genevoise de Nickelage. Some doubt exists as to whether this Henri Metert was the same one as that who came to London and who died in England in 1933 at the age of 80 years. One very large four-overture box is in the Utrecht museum. Marked Metert-Langdorff, it is a full mandoline with 10 teeth to each note. The 301-tooth comb is held down by 36 screws in two staggered rows."
(Ord-Hume, Music Box, 1980, p. 320)

David Langdorff, *1804, 1844 – 1852 partnership Metert & Langdorff, †1873
1873 – 1898: Langdorff & Cie
1898 – 1902: John Langdorff
1902 –?: Société Anonyme des Fabriques Réunies des Boȋtes à Musique, Anciennes Maisons Rivenc Langdorff et Billon

"Born in 1804, Langdorff claimed that his musical-box manufacturing business had been found in 1838. According to Pierre Germain, the business was located at 13 rue de Coutance in Saint Gervais, Geneva, in 1867. In 1844, David Langdorff was partner in the company known as Metert & Langdorff withotal Isaac-Henri Metert, the grandfather of Henri Metert who worked in London for Nicole Frères and who died there in 1933. Langdorff´s relationship with Metert lasted from around 1838 until they dissolved the partnership in 1852. He died in 1873 and the business was carried on by his wife and his son, John Baptiste Langdorff, under the name Langdorff & Cie."

"In 1898, the name became John Langdorff until 1902, when the business was absorbed into the Société Anonyme des Fabriques Réunies des Boȋtes à Musique, Anciennes Maisons Rivenc Langdorff et Billon."
(Ord-Hume, Music Box, 1980, p. 312)

===First Part===

Siehe unbedingt auch den / See also the ===Second Part===

() (+ Malignon) (including a to Métert attributable N° 7119)

Three variants of the bottom bordure:

For the details click here

Three chapters of the Main (featured) composers:
chapter 10/5 ( music boxes);
chapter 14/1 ( music boxes);
chapter 14/2 ( music boxes);
chapter 14/3/c ( music box);
Left right dominated, chapter 13 ( music boxes);
plus a list of serials ()

+(Malignon

Gesamtzahl aller Spieldosen / Total:

Langdorff and Metert. They were partners from 1844 until 1852, but David Langdorff started about 1838. The firm continued as Langdorff et. Cie. from his death in 1873 till his son John took charge in 1898. (Bulleid, Technology, p. 2)

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Index

Nummerierte Spieldosen / music boxes with serials

1409; 1264; 1379; 1385; 1409; 1686; 1820; 1849; 2100; 2328; 2293; 2328; 2597; 2627; 2683; 2764; 2856; 3013; 3151; 3828; 3919; 4171; 4137; 4208; 4217; 4262; 4349; 4363; 4444; 4954; 4978 (1); 4978 (2); 5011; 5192; 5264; 5280; 5406; 5502; 5602; 5609; 5659; 5676; 5857; 5695; 5807; 5964; 6157; 6622; 6809; 6876; 6882; 6959; 7275; 7625; 7667; 7785; 7787; 7789; 7909; 7923; 8010; 8297; 8663; 9159; 9601; 9712; 9924; 10051; 10380; 11258; 11833; 11258; 11768; 12067; 12923; 12930; 13013; 13280; 13398; 13401; 13645; 13664; 13718; 13820; 13645; 14096; 14353; 14534; 14929; 14970; 15001; 18554; 18575; 19347; 20092; 20254; 20303 (1); 20303 (2); 20430 (1); 20430 (2) ; 20570; 20649; 21594; 21873; 22832; 24003; 24377; 24835; 25063; 27045

Design	Nr.	Hersteller Maker	Marks on cyl.	Cyl. length inches	nr. of tunes	Year and Type
14/2	o. Nr.
1844: Beginn der Zusammenarbeit von Métert und Langdorff (TMB 2020/29/5 p. 182)
?	1409	H. Métert	G 16-44	8	4	1844 Piano	TMB 2020/29/5 p. 182
?	1264	H. Métert		13
?	1379	H. Métert	G 270	8	4	Fortepiano
?	1385	H. Métert	G 279-43	8	4	Fortepiano
?	1409	H. Métert	G 16-44	8	4	Fortepiano
?	1686	H. Métert	G 179-44	12 1/4	4	Fortepiano
?	1820	Langdorff		13
?	1849	Moulinié Ainé (der Ältere)	G 448-44	11 1/4 13 (abweichende Angaben)	4	1844 Fortepiano Overture	TMB 2020/29/5 p. 182
14/1	2293	Métert & Langdorff	G 201-19 / G 201-18	10 1/4	6	later tune sheet from 1848 Piano	Bulleid 155 / (abweichende Angaben)
?	2328	Moulinié Ainé (der Ältere) / Lion Frères	G 419-45	9	4	1845 Piano	TMB 2020/29/5 p. 182
?	2597	F. H. Bourquin	G 178-46	8	4
14/1	2627	Métert & Langdorff / Moulinié Ainé	G 419-45 / G 178-46	8 / 9	4 / 9	1846 First Square piano / Fortepiano (abweichende Angaben)	Bulleid 59
?	2683	H. Métert	G 232-46	9 / 13	4 / 6	1846 Piano / Fortepiano (abweichende Angaben)	TMB 2020/29/5 p. 182
?	2856	Métert	G 391-46	11	8
?	3151	. Métert			1846 Square piano	Bulleid 385
?	3828	Lion Frères	G 727-47		8
14/1	3919	Langdorff	G 136 48	11 3/4 / 11 1/4 (abweichende Abgaben)	4	1837/1848	TMB 2020/29/5 p. 182
?	4171	Moulinié	G 248-48	13 1/2	6	1848 Fortepiano	TMB 2020/29/5 p. 182
14/2	ohne Nummer [1]					Piano
14/2	ohne Nummer [1a]	Maker not certain
14/2	ohne Nummer [2]					Piano
14/2	ohne Nummer [3]					Piano
14/2	ohne Nummer [4]					Piano
14/2	ohne Nummer [5]				12	Piano
14/2	4137	Langdorff				Piano
?	4208	Métert	G 96/48
?	4217	Malignon	G 356-48	13	4	Overture
14/2	4262	Langdorff				Piano
14/2	4349	Langdorff				Piano	Skinner
?	4363	Metert & Langdorff	G	21 1/4	4	Mandoline Overture
?	4444	Métert	G	8	4	Fortepiano
?	4954	Métert	G 544/49	11	6	Piano
14/2	4978	Langdorff				Piano
?	5011	Malignon	G 591/49	15 1/4	6	Piano	Fortepiano, 11 bells
?	5192	Malignon	G 135-50	13
?	5264	Malignon	G 290/50	13	6		Fortepiano, 11 bells
?	5280	Malignon	G 266-50	8	4
14/1	5502	Langdorff			1850	Alleinstellungs- merkmal der Musiktafel: Gravur einer Metallplatte	TMB 23, 2008, 6, 188
?	5602	Langdorff	715-51	15 1/4	6		Fortepiano, 11 bells
?	5609	Moulinié Ainé	G 54/51	8	4		Fortepiano
?	5659	Métert		8	4		Fortepiano
?	5676	Moulinié Ainé		15	6		Fortepiano
?	5857	Métert		13	6		Hidden drums & bells
14/2	5695	Langdorff			6	4
14/1	5807	Langdorff				1851 Piano	Bulleid 105
14/1	5964	Métert

?	6157	Langdorff	G 550 51 / G 350/51 (verschiedene Angaben)	15 (inter- change- able)	6 (inter- change- able)	1851	TMB 1979/9/ p. 129 Fortepiano
?	? (301 Zungen, 36 Schrauben)	Métert & Langdorff	G		6	4	TMB 2020/29/5 p. 182
?	6622	Langdorff	G 431 52	13 1/2	6	1852 Piano	Fortepiano
1852: Ende der Zusammenarbeit von Métert und Langdorff (TMB 2020/29/5 p. 182; TMB 9, 3, 1979)
?	6809	Michèle Minas	633	8	4
?	6876	Lee et Fils	G 11/53	13	6		Fortepiano
14/2	6882	Langdorff: Hidden drums & bells	G 502/52	13	6	1852	Bulleid 82 and TMB 2020/29/5 p. 182
?	6959	Langdorff: Hidden drums & bells	G 715/53	15 1/4	6		Fortepiano, 11 bells
14/2	7275	Langdorff	G 113 54	9 1/8		Piano	Theriault's
?	7625	Langdorff	G 113 54	9 1/8	4	1854	TMB 2020/29/5 p. 182 Hidden drums & bells
?	7667	Malignon	G 151 54	20	4	1854 Part overtures	TMB 2020/29/5 p. 182
?	7785	Malignon	G 302 54
?	7787	Langdorff	G 304 54	13	6		Fortepiano
?	7789	Langdorff			4
14/2	7909	Langdorff			4	1858 Piano	Bulleid 60 and TMB 2020/29/5 p. 182
14/1	7923	Langdorff			6	4
?	8010	Langdorff	G 538/54		12 1/4	12	2/turn
?	8297	Langdorff	G 36/54		13	12	2/turn
?	8663	Langdorff	534/55		6	4	BL 534/55
14/2	9159	Langdorff
?	9601	Langdorff	G 571/56		13	8
?	9712	Langdorff	G 764/56ss		13 1/8	8	Hidden drums & bells
	9924	Langdorff	G 111/55		13	12	2/turn
?	10051	Langdorff	G 262/57		15 1/4	8	Fortepiano
14/3/c	10380	Langdorff
?	11258	Langdorff	G 641/58		15 1/4	8	Fortepiano Mandoline
?	11833	Langdorff	511/59		13 1/4	6	Fortepiano, BL 511/59
14/1	11258	Langdorff				Piano
14/2	11768	Langdorff				Piano
?	12067	Langdorff			11	6
?	12923	Langdorff	G 409/61	13	4		2 cyl, inter-changeable
?	12930	Langdorff	G 407/61	15 1/4	8		Fortepiano
14/2	13013	Langdorff				1861 Piano	Bulleid 13
14/1	13280	Langdorff			4	Piano overtures
14/2	13398	Langdorff
?	13401	Langdorff		13	4		Mandoline
?	13645	Langdorff	G 85/63	13	3		Fortepiano Overture
14/1	13664	Langdorff	G 81/63	13	4	1863 Piano	TMB 2020/29/5 p. 182 Mandoline
14/1	13820	Langdorff				Piano
?	13645	Langdorff	G 36 63	13	4	Piano	TMB 2020/29/5 p. 182
14/2	14096	Langdorff	G			Piano	TMB 8, Christmas, 196
?	14353	Langdorff		11	6
?	14534	Langdorff	G 25/65	13	4		Fortepiano Mandolin
?	14929	Langdorff	G 462/65	19 1/4	3		Fortepiano Mandolin, 2 revs per tune
14/2	14970	Langdorff				1867 Piano	Bulleid 84
14/2	15001	Langdorff				1867 Piano
14/2	15373	Langdorff				1868 Piano	Churchward
14/2	19347	Langdorff				1878 Piano	Bulleid 389
?	20254	Langdorff	127	13	6		CT BL 127v
?	20303	Langdorff	190	13	6		HHT BL 190/81
?	20430	Langdorff	306	13	6		CT BL306
?	20570	Langdorff		13	6		CT
?	20649	Langdorff	17	13	6		CT
?	22832	Langdorff	144	14	12		6 bells struck by mandarin
?	24003	Langdorff	24	13	8		BL 24/90
?	24377	Langdorff		19 1/4	8		Sublime Harmonie Special
?	24835	Langdorff		17 1/4	6		Sublime Harmonie Special
?	25063	Langdorff		13	6		Harpe Piccolo

Langdorff 24303 and 20430

Siehe unbedingt eine weitere Liste von Spieldosen (-werken) ()

Teilnehmer bei der Nationalen Ausstellung in Zürich 1883

und bei der

Weltausstellung in Amsterdam 1883

Teilnahme an der „International Inventions Exhibition“ im Jahr 1885

Reparaturvermerk von Henri Metert auf der Grundplatte einer Spieldose

Langdorff & Fils

Siehe eine kleine Zusammenstellung

Moulinié Ainé:
•never exhibited musical boxes
•had apparently no own tune sheets
•despite high serial numbers astonishingly rare

Apparently there was a cooperation / teamwork between Moulinié Ainé and Langdorff:
•Musical boxes marked Moulsinié display all Langdorff characteristics
•inluding Langdorff-tune sheetsheets and
•fit in den numbering system
(TMB 2020/29/5 p. 182)

Langdorff characteristics:
•a third dowel pin at the back centre of the main comb (only visible under the comb)
•face a comb finshed lengthwise
•serial cumbers stamped om comparatively large numerals 4 or 4,5 mm high
•brass comb washer
•gamme number and last two figures of the year scratched on bass end cylinder cap
(TMB 2020/29/5 p. 182)

Two styles of marking on the
base end cylinder caps
of Langdorff musical movements:

early type

late type

Kleinformatige Spieldosen

Tabatière von Langdorff/Brémond 2220

Normalformatige Spieldosen

Nr. 18996

Three chapters of the Main (featured) composers: chapter 10/5 ( music boxes); chapter 14/1 ( music boxes); chapter 14/2 ( music boxes); chapter 14/3/c ( music box); Left right dominated, chapter 13 ( music boxes); plus a list of serials ()

Three chapters of the Main (featured) composers:
chapter 10/5 ( music boxes);
chapter 14/1 ( music boxes);
chapter 14/2 ( music boxes);
chapter 14/3/c ( music box);
Left right dominated, chapter 13 ( music boxes);
plus a list of serials ()