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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
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Manufacturers of the Highest Grade
of Reed Organ.
E. P. CARPENTER CO
BRATTLEBORO, VERMONT.
ESTABLISHED
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1850.
TAYLOR'S MUSIC HOUSE of Springfield, Mass., handle
the Steinway, Weber, Kroeger, and Haines pianos. This
house has made great progress since its foundation four
years ago. Each music teacher in Springfield and the
neighborhood received from this popular firm a hand-
some New Year's gift in the shape of a leather music
roll.
THE
Sterling Company,
WFIEN Mr. Dippel, formerly of the action-making
firm of Dippel, Wheeler & Schmidt, entered the factory
of-Wessell, Nickel & Gross as a journeyman, he was
considerably startled on seeing his former partners
Wheeler and Schmidt working in similar capacities at
the next benches to his. This is a forcible illustration
of the advantage of having a practical trade in one's
fingers. That these three gentlemen should manfully
take up the tools after an unfortunate business exper-
ience is highly creditable to them.
INCORPORATED 1884
T H E idea of a Protective Union for music traders is
gaining, ground in London, England, where several
prominent manufacturers and dealers have suggested
the desirability of forminga Music Trades Section of the
London Chamber of Commerce. The London Music
Trades Review, following the lead of the New York
Music TRADE REVIEW (the latter journal having been
the first to advocate a protective organization of the
music trades), points out some of the advantages likely
to result from the putting of the idea into practice.
MR. GEORGE W. BEARDSLEY, for many years a lead-
ing piano dealer in '* The Hub," has recently taken into
partnership Mr. Charles P. Cummings. Beardsley &
Cummings occupy a handsome store at 158 Tremont
street, Boston. They handle the S. G. Chickering &
Co., Bluthner and the Kroeger pianos.
REFERRING to a " horsev " item of news, Presto quotes
an old distich as follows :
MR. GEORGE F. HEDGE, who represents the Knabe
" The rich, the rich may ride in chaises,
pianos in Buffalo, sold twenty of the celebrated Balti-
But the poor, the poor must walk, be •."
more instruments between Dec. 20th and January n t h
The more generally accepted version, we are told,
inst.
and certainly the better rhyme, is :
"Those who are rich can ride in chaises,
T H E removal of John F. Stratton & Son from
Those who are poor may walk to blazes."
Maiden Lane to No. 43 Walker street is announced.
But, cheer up, thou poverty-stricken one! Regard
T H E agency of Steinway & Son's pianos in Spring-
FACTORY:
not the utterances of the short-visioned and misan-
field, Mas«.. has been transferred from C. N. Stimpson
thropic, but consider the possibilities as expressed he-
DERBY, CONN.
& Co. to Taylor's Music House.
low :
New York Wareroom: 103 EAST 14th STREET.
Sometimes the wealthy swiftly ride to blazes,
AN infant pianist. 5 years old, who plays Chopin
Chicago Wareroom:-179-181 WABASH AVENUE.
And plodding, honest men buy up their chaises—
wonderfully, and is named Raoul Koczalski, has ap-
Of human life two not uncommon phases.
It is admitted by all that no piano evt»r put upon
peared in St. Petersburg.
the market has met with such success as THE Or, as that merry old bachelor and antiquarian Francis
STERLING, and thousands will testify 1o thHr supeii-
A YOUNC piano tuner in Allegheny, Pa., has perfected
ority of workmanship and durability. Why? Be- Compton Price was accustomed to say:
a system by which he has obtained some remarkable
' Then think cf this maxim, and cast off all sorrow;
cause they are made just as perfect as a pi no can be
results. When working against time he has tuned
The wretch of to-day may be happy to-morrow."
made.
THE STERLING ORGAN has always taken the lead,
throughout a 7 1-3 octave three-string, upright piano of
Not unly " may," but must, if he adopts the policv of
and the improvements made this year puts its far T H E MUSIC TRADE REVIEW, and. given a fair field and
a well known make in thirty-three minutes, the work
ahead of all others ^^~Send for Catalogue.
no favor, manfully and discreetly exercises his powers
including a smooth, even temperature and correct oc-
in the cause of truth and justice.
tavesand unisons. Those persons who are accustomed in
their homes to the endurance of a more prolonged ex-
S. D SMITH, President.
DECKER & SON'S piano is exclusively used at the
perience in the visits of the piano tuner would joyfu.ly
H. W. SMITH, Vice-President.
Springfield (111.) Conservatory of Music, one of the
welcome a similar celerity on the part of that useful but
E. W. SMITH, Treasurer.
most recently founded and most promising institutions
not over agreeable person.
of its kind in the West. Principal Albert Gordon and
"WHISTLING J U G S " have recently been found in the
ancient burial-places of Peru. Many of the whistles in
the mouths of these jugs produce sounds representing
the notes of birds and animals. It is possible that the
saying " Wet his whistle" may have originated with
the use of these quaint Peruvian vessels.
MR. JOHN H. STECKER, proprietor of the West Side
Music Store, Milwaukee, has been appointed agent for
the Decker & Son piano for that city and vicinity.
W M . HEINEKAMP, SR., has decamped from the Balti-
more house of Wm. Heinekamp & Son.
A DEPARTMENT of piano case manufacture has been
opened by the Furniture Company of Leominster, Mass.
GOVERNOR H I L I . has pardoned J. H. W. Cadby, for-
merly in the piano and organ business in Hudson, N.
Y., who two years ago was convicted of forgery and
sentenced to three years' imprisonment.
T H E new Tompkins avenue Congregational Chuich,
Brooklyn, N.Y., has an organ which cost $8,200
SYDNEY, Australia, is soon to have the largest organ
in the world. It will cost $75,000.
SOME Washington ladies are anxious to learn the
" Koto," or Japanese piano. The wife of the Japanese
Minister is the possessor of one of these instruments,
on which she is said to be a very clever performer.
A CERTAIN piano tuner remarks that pianos frequently
deteriorate because they are allowed to become too dry.
Excessive dryness will also deteriorate the piano tuner.
BOSTON, MASS.
LOS DON, ENG.
KANSAS CITY, MO.
T H E Commercial Union, published in Chicago, 111.,
is an organ of much value to all who are interested in
advertising matters. Its utterances are marked by
good, sound sense, and have an honest, healthy ring,
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ORGAN & PIANO Go,
BOSTON. MASS.
MANUFACTURERS O F
Pianos ail O n .
NEW CATALOGUES NOW KKADY.
CORRESPONDENCE
his talented and experienced staff speak in high terms
of this brilliant instrument.
SOLICITED.
THE SMITH AMERICAN
ORGAN & PIANO CO.,
BOSTON,
Hallet & Davis Pianos
BEHNING & SON'S retail sales of last week outnum-
bered those of any preceeding week during many years.
On Sunday evening last Mr. Henry Behning, Sr., left on
the vestibule train for Kansas City, where he will re-
main until about March ist. The good name acquired
by the Behning piano in the great Western city augurs
well for the success of the branch business there estab-
lished by this reliable and in every way excellent firm.
BEHR BROS.' Philadelphia branch, under the able
management of Mr. Fleming, has increased in business
and influence to a very satisfactory degree within the
past year.
AMONG the very numerous houses who report a sat-
isfactory trade for the year 1888 are the Waterloo
Organ Co. of Waterloo, N. Y. Their business records
for the past twelve months show an increase of twenty
per cent, over their operations for 1887. This firm will
shortly bring out some new styles of organs in which
the trade will be greatly interested.
W E have received the official report of the third an-
nual meeting of the Kansas State Music Teacher's As-
sociation, which contains several valuable essays. Min-
utes of the first and second annual meetings are incor-
porated in the volume.
GRAND, SQUARE AND UPRIGHT.
Indorsed by Liszt, Gottschalk,. Wehli, Bendel Straus, Soro Abt
Paulus, Titens, Hellbron and Germany's Greatest Masters.
Established Over Halt a Century.
BOSTON, MASS.