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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
Manufacturers of the Highest Grade
of Reed Organ.
E. P. CARPENTER CO.
BRATTLEBOfiO, VERMONT.
JACK HAYNES has left for a trip through New York,
Pennsylvania and Ohio, in the interest of the Huner
piano and Newman Bros' organ. We congratulate
Mr. John F. Huner in completing arrangements with
Mr. Haynes, as we aro convinced that there is no
gentleman in the trade that has a larger acquaint-
ance, nor nono more popular than our friend Jack.
J. N. MERRILL, of Smith American Organ Co.,
Boston, spent Sunday in the city. Mr. Merrill is on
a trip through Western New York, Baltimore, Wash-
ington, and a few Southern cities.
DECKER Bnos., N. Y., state that their trade is very
much larger than expected at this season of the year.
F. G SMITH, Brooklyn, New York, states that he
is still behind in orders, and trade continues excel-
lent for " The old reliable Bradbury."
S. C. OSBORN has opened a store In the Wauregan
Block, in Norwich, Conn., with a good stock of Pi-
anos, Organs and Sewing Machines.
F. 11. GIRARD, formerly of Sacramento, has open-
ed a fine store on Broadway, Oakland, Cal. He will
handle Steiaway, Wheelock, and Stuyvesant pianos;
also Bridgeport organs. Mr. Girard is a capable and
successful business man, and will assuredly com-
mand a fine trade for the manufacturers he repre-
ESTABLISHED 1852.
MITH
S AMERICAN
ORGANS
FOR
CHURCH, CHAPEL, SCHOOL
AND
PARLOR USE.
IIRAKAUED
Over I 1 5 , 0 0 0 Made and Sold.
I I BROTHERS, H
-SEND FOR CATALOGUE,
MAKUPACTUBJCBS OF
UPRIGHT AND SQUARE PIANOS.
Strictly First-class Workmanship, Material, and
Finish. Prices Reasonable. Corre-
WAREEOOMS,
40 E Union Square
sents. He has sent on large orders for Wheelocks
and Stuyvesants, which are being filled as rapidly as
possible by the companies named.
INCORPORATED 1884.
SEND FOR CATALOGUES.
ESTABLISHED 18S0.
Containing; over 40 styles an
nations.
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No better
TONE,
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WORKMANSHIP,
T. F. KBAEMEH & Co., N. Y., have put M. B. Mark-
ham on the road to sell their piano scarfs, stools etc.
Finer
PETERSON & BLAKIE have opened a branch store in
Minneapolis, Minn.
struments can be made than the
Cases, or more satisfactory In-
FRANK WELLS has purchased his brother's Interest
in the firm of Wells Bros., Pueblo, Col., and will con-
tinue the business alone.
MELLOR & HOENE, Plttsburg, Pa., have taken the
agency of the Mason & Hamlin organs.
THE Kurtzmann piano la represented in Nashville,
Tenn., by Robert L. Doud, who is a live and energet-
ic dealer.
THE Carpenter Organ Co., Mendota, 111., has been
succeeded by the Co-operative Organ Co.
CARL HOFFMAN, Leavenworth, Kansas, is erecting
a handsome building to be used for his piano and or-
gan business. The building will contain a music
hall with a seating capacity of 1,000 persons.
WE ABE pleased to state that Stephen Brambach,
of the Estey Piano Co., has recovered from his severe
illness.
ELMENDORF & FIELD, Creston, Iowa, are having
an excellent trade. They sell the Haines Bros, and
the Bradbury pianos, and the Story & [Clark organ.
HallefS Davis Pianos
ADOLPH MEYER, of Max Meyer & Bro., Omaha,
Neb., is in town.
HAZELTON BROS., N. Y., state that they continue
to work nights and cannot get any stock ahead.
THOMAS F. G. FOISY, one of the largest sewing
machine and piano dealers in Montreal, Canada., is
transferring his Raymond sewing machine agency to
a new company—The Montreal Raymond Sewing
Machine Co., of Montreal, capital $50,000, with a oon-
tract of 5,000 machines per year. Mr. F. G. Foisy
is the presidentof that company and will continue In
the piano business, and will transfer his stock to one
of his new buildings, (St. Lawrence), Main street,
just built by him at an expenso of $25,000. Mr. Foisy
is representing the following pianos: C. C. Briggs,
Peek & Son, Opera piano, Horace Waters, N. Y.,
Wheelock, and many pianos of Canadian manufacto-
ries. He sold last year 322 pianos of different makes.
CRESSY & USHER, Portland, Maine., have dis-
solved, Mr. C. R. Cressy continuing the business.
Combi-
THE SMITH AM. ORGAN CO.
Bo8t011 Ma88acl{U8etts aijd Kansas eit
R. M. BENT & Co. will occupy their new build-
Ing in March.
C. C. HARVEY & Co, Boston, Mass., have pur-
chased the rented stock of C. E. Alden, who has re-
tired from the business.
SEND TO
BURDETT ORGAN CO.,
LIST, BEFORE
BUYING.
A STATEMENT of the affairs of McClureBros., Port-
land, Me., shows liabilities, $1,800; assets, $2,000.
THE TRIAL of Daniel F. Beatty will probably come
up before the April term, at Trenton, N. J. The
amount of evidence against Beatty is very great and
when tried he will find it exceedingly hot.
JAMES & HOLMSTROM, N. Y., state that their
trade so far this year has been much larger than for
many years past. We, for the first time, last week
saw their gold medal obtained at the North, Central,
and South American Exposition. It is a handsome
medal, very costly, and being received without any
exertion, the firm prize It highly.
WB HAD the pleasure of a call last week from E.
P. Carpenter, of the E. P. Carpenter Co., and G. W.
Tewksbury, of the Chicago Cottage Organ Co.
A. W. Colburn, of A. W. Colburn & Co., Leomins-
ter, Mass, gave us a pleasant call a day or two ago.
Mr. Colburn informed us that they never had so good
a trade in piano and organ sharps and musical in-
strument supplies. The firm has recently put Into
their factory a new engine and boiler.
Mr. Crane, of Crane &Chapuis, piano felts, dropped
in on us recently, and to our inquiry as to how he
was, replied : " I feel like a lark—business was never
better, and consequently I am happy."
JOHN J. SWICK has severed his connections with
the firm of Swick & Co., N. Y., and is open for an
engagement to travel for a piano house.
GRAND, SQUARE AND UPRIGHT.
Indorsed by Liszt, Gottschalk, Wehli, Bendel Strauss, Soro Abt,
Paulus, Titiens, Heilbron and Germany's Greatest Masters.
ESTABLISHED OVER HALF A CENTURY.
BOSTON, MASS.