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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW,
Communications of interest to the music trade are so-
licited.
All Western correspondence will receive prompt
attention by addressing Lock Box 492, Chicago, III.
CHICAGO CORRESPONDENCE.
FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.
Lock Box 492.
TRADERS' BUILDING, CHICAGO,
June 1, 1887.
The retail business has not been quite so good the
last part of May as it was during the first half. The
strikes that are going on with the carpenters, brick-
layers,
sale is good and the manufacturing is more than good.
John A. Bryant, 207 Wabash avenue, agent for
Kranich & Bach, says he has sold more pianos in
May than any month since January.
The Root & Sons Music Co. (E. V. Church) are push-
ing the Everett piano, advertising liberally and are
selling quite a numbor. They also handle the Hard-
man, which is a popular piano here.
The Kimball Co. have got their new warerooms all
in shape and are making a line display of theHalM>
Davis & Co., Emerson and Kimball pianos. Mr. Kim-
ball says, when he gets his factory running and is
turning out his own pianos he will make it lively for
the trade. He is one of the most [energetic men in
the trade.
The celebrated Decker Bros, pianos are selling
right along. They have a great many admirers hero
and in Estey & Camp's elegant warerooms they are
shown off to great advantage.
The success of the B. Shoninger Co. branch house
has been a surprise to everybody in the music busi-
ness. They have been here only one year and they
are doing a larger retail and wholesale business than
some of the old established houses. It only shows
what enterprise and push will do, and with the right
kind of men to handle the business, makes success a
certainty.
Heed & Sons have been advertising the Knabe in
good earnest and they are reaping their reward in a
shape of increased sales for this favorite piano.
Mr. Platt Oibbs, of Lewis, Newell & Gibbs, piano
dealers, has worked hard for a number of years to get
the music houses in Chicago to close on Saturday
afternoons through the summer. After repeated fail-
ures he has at last succeeded in getting them to close
at one o'clock, Saturdays, through July and August.
The employes of the different houses have presented
him with a fine gold watch and chain.
The Western Cottage Organ Co. will move to Otta-
wa. 111., where they will build extensive works.
C. T. Sisson, the well known piano and organ sales
man, has returned from a very successful trip through
the South.
Harry Freund was in Chicago last week. Proposes
to write up tho Western trade for his paper.
Stocking & Quick, pianos, organs and musical mer-
chandise dealers of Lowell, Mich., have dissolved.
W. H. Bush & Co., piano manufacturers, are look-
ing for a new lot of men, as their men are on a strike,
or rather, have quit because Bush & Co. hired a num-
ber of extra men, and their old men wanted to have
the privilege of selecting the new men themselves.
They work on contract.
Mr. John Hall, Chicago correspondent of theN. Y.
Musical Courier, came back here May 28th.
T. M. Crano, Spencer, la., succeeds Crane & Bing-
ham, pianos and organs.
Mrs. T. It. Watrous will locate at Hastings, Neb.,
with full line of Lyon & Healy's goods. She formerly
had a music store at Red Oak, la.
W. M. Madden, National Music Co., Chicago, has
given a mortgage on his music plates, $3,027.
We had a call from W. It. ltoberts, Kansas City,
Mo. He reports trade good with him for past month.
He runs the Kimball Co. branch house.
The Presto says, lively times in Creston, la. We
should judge so from the following notice which ap
peared in one of the papers under the heading, "Plain
Talk."
"When any music dealer tells you that he can sell
you a piano made by the "Bradbury" Piano Co., with
any name than the "Bradbury" on it, call him a liar
and refer him to us."
ELEMDOKF & FIELD.
Mr. Bond, of the Fort Wayne Organ Co., received
injuries in the factory that necessitated tho amputa-
1 ion of the little and middle fingers.
Geo P. Bent's organ factory was burned In May-
THE ESTEY'S IN LONDON.
He will build another at once.
The following dealers, manufacturers and travel"
HE Estey Organ Co.'s exhibit includes the follow-
ing men have been in town'lately:
ing:— Style 03: One two-and-a-half octave set
Mrs. Wentz, Sterling, 111.; J. M. Rhodes, Jefferson,
of diapason reeds, one two-and-a half octave
la.; M. A.Kehuey, South Bend, Ind.; F. Benedict.Pon- set of flute reeds, one two-and-a-half octave set of vox
tiac, Mich.; T. D. Roberson, Ft. Wayne, Ind.; E. H. jubilanto reeds, one two-and-a-half octave set of
Shores, Saybrook, III.; H. H. Dennison. Elgin, 111. ; melodla reeds, one two and-a half octave set of
D. J. Brooks, Grand Rapids, Mich.; N. D. Coon, Eau viola reeds, one octave of heavy manual s ,b bass,
Clair, VVis.; W. It. ltoberts, Kansas City, Mo. ; H. T. with addition of octave coupler, vox humana, etc.;
Kyser, Wenona,Ill. ; E. Graham (Gerber& Graham), twelve stop*. The " Drawing-room " organ : One
Milwaukee, Wls. ; E. S. Votey (Farrand & Votey Organ two-and-a-half octave set of diapason reeds, one two-
Co.),Detroit,Mich ; It. Proddow,Estey Piano Co.,N.Y., and a half octave set of Mute reeds, one two-and-a-
(is expected here any day); E. F. Greenwood, Shon- half octave set of vox jubilanto reeds, one two and-
inger Co. traveller; B. B. Morse, Kimball Co. travel- a-half octave set of melodia reeds, one two-and-a"
ler; C. T. Sisson, Farrand & Votey traveller.
half octave set of viola reeds, one octave of manual
Yours,
sub-bass, with addition of octave coupler and vox
OWEN.
humana; twelve stops. The "Triumph" organ. Tho
"Gothic" organ with pipe top, containing one live-
octave sot of diapason melodia reeds, one live octavo
set of flute-viola reeds, one two-and-a-half octave set
TIHIIE
of vox jubilante reeds, one two-and-a-half octave sot
of violetta reeds, one octave of powerful manual sub-
bass reeds, the octave coupler, the vox humana and
grand organ ; it has tho power of about six swts of
reeds; thirteen stops. "The Philharmonic organ,"
two-and-a-half octaves of basset (16 ft.) reeds, two
and-a-half octaves of choral (H ft.) reeds, two-and-a-
half octaves of diapason (8 ft.) reeds, two-and-a-half
octaves of Ilute (4 ft.) reeds, two-and-a half octaves of
MANUFACTURERS OF
bourdon (10 ft.) reeds, two-and-a-half octaves of melo-
dia (8 ft.) reeds, two-and-a half octaves of viola (1 ft.)
reeds, one octave of very heavy manual sub bass
reeds, with addition of octave coupler, vox humana,
grand organ, forte stops (manual and knee), et". ;
fifteen stops. The " Two manual Pedal Organ," with
18 stops and 3 pedals, viz., Great manual, 5 oclaves,
C scale: bourdon, 10 ft; molodia, 8; violetta, 4;
royal jubilante, Hi; clarionet 1G ; diapason, 8; ilute,
4; vox jubilante, 8. Swell manual, 5 octaves: gamba,
8 ft.; cornet echo, 2; cornettino, 2; dulciana, 8;
bourdon, 16; wald flute, 2; harp ii>olienne, 2. Pedal
clavier, 2}i octaves: double diapason pedals, 16 ft.
Mechanical: vox humana; knee swell; manual coup-
ler. Pedal movements: grand organ; pedal coup-
ler; pedal forte. The "Grand Saloon Organ," with
stops as follows: baritone, 32 ft.; sub bourdon, 32;
basset, 10; bassoon, 10; sub-bass, 10; clarionet, 10;
bourdon, 1(5; royal jubilante, 16; diapason, 8; melu-
dia, 8; dulciana, 8; gamba, 8; hautboy, 8; Ilute, 4;
violetta, 1; corneltino, 2; cornet echo, 2; harp iro-
llenne, 2; wald Ilute, 2. Accessories: octave coup-
ler; grand organ, pedal; vox humana; 1 forte; 2
lorte; knee swell.
The Estey exhibit likewise includes three pianos
Best of Workmanship and Quality of
as follows : Style No. 3 : 7.\ octaves ; scale A to C;
new and improved overstrung scale, three unisons,
Goods Guaranteed. .
agraffe bearing bridge, patent compound wrest-plank
and full iron frame; unique fret -work panels; patent
Correspondence Solicited.
desk. Style No. •">: 7. 1 , octaves; scale A to C; new
and improved overstrung scale, three unisons, agraffe
bearing bridge, patent compound wrest-plank and
ADDRESS,
full iron frame; fret-work panels and carved consols;
patent swinging detk for music. Style No. 7: 7.',
octaves; scale A to C; new and improved overstrung
scale, three unisons, agraffe bearing bridge, patent
compound wrest-plank and full iron frame; extra
handsome case with elegant fret-work panels; very
rich carved consols and ornament; patent swinging
desk for music.—London Musical Trades Review.
T
HIGHEST GRADE
PIANOS
PARLOR AND CHAPEL
m+CHASE+COMPANY,
.19 Whittlesey Ave.,
NORWALK, OHIO.
A DOCK FULL OF PIANOS.
PRESS reporter while looking about for some-
thing new, sauntered down to the Peoples'
line to see what the boat had on the night be-
fore. We have no doubt there was other freight but
the reporter only saw a solid phalanx of pianos ! On
examination he found them to be four uprights and
one grand "Stecks," which, he learned upon inquiry,
were to be delivered the same day to Albanians, hav-
ing been finished to order for as many friends who
had clubbed together and bought at one time the
other a Sterling upright went on to Saratoga where it
was sold. All the pianos in question were sold in one
day by Frank W. Thomas, tho music dealer, 15 North
Pearl street, who is doing a rushing business, as this
must indicate, on the popular low price plan for tho
best of goods.—Albany, N. Y., Sunday Press.
A
MR. GEOUGE MCLAUGHLIN, proprietor of the N. E.
Organ Co., Boston, will leave in a few days for Eu-
rope to recuperate. There is no gentleman in the
trade more deserving of a vacation nor none more in
need of one. Mr. McLaughlin has worked for years
without any rest and has built up one of tho largest
organ concerns in the country. Besides the care of
conducting this great industry he has been an inde-
fatigable worker for the welfare of the people in the
vicinity where he lives. He entered the Cape Cod
Canal affair—as he does everything else he undertakes
—to win. This outside work, together with the labors
of his own business, has told on him and he is sadly
in need of a rest. He has lately secured the services
of his brother Jqhn McLaughlin as manager, who has
had a great many years experience in the organ
trade and we are sure that Mr. George can now leave,
feeling that everything will go along smoothly dur-
ing his absence. We wish Mr. McLaughlin a pleasant
time abroad and trust that when he returns lie ^ill
have regained his former good health.