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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
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Manufacturers of the Highest Grade
of Reed Organ.
E. P. CARPENTER GO.
BRATTLEBOKO, VERMONT.
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MYRON A. DECKER, senior member of the firm of
Decker & Son, N. Y., has started on an extensive tour
throughout the West. He will call at all the prominent
places between New York and the Pacific Coast through
which his route lies. This, as we have already remind-
ed the trade, is the period of the year at which heads
of manufacturing firms will find it advantageous to
call upon dealers. Annual visits of this kind show
that the manufacturer is concerned for the dealer's wel-
fare, and invariably operate to the benefit of both
parties. The trade of Decker & Son is remarkably
healthy and brisk. In the absence of Mr. Myron Decker,
the affairs of the firm will be under the able manage-
ment of his son Frank, a worthy son of a worthy sire.
ERNKST GABLER & BRO., N. Y., state that the demand
made upon them by their agents has compelled the
addition of several piano case makers to their force of
workmen. This firm have no complaint whatever te
make in regard to their business, which flourishes like
the green bay tree. Their traveller, Mr. Harry E. Zuf-
fal, has just returned from a very successful trip through
New York, Michigan, and the intervening states, cover-
ing points as far west as Chicago. Mr. Zuffal is a
hustler of the first water. Previously to taking this
journey he had but just arrived home from a long
Southern tour, in the course of which he secured for
his house many new and valuable agencies. Early in
the coming month he will set out on a journey across
the continent which will occupy several months. Mr.
Zuffal's popularity among the dealers is something to
admire arv' wonder at. As a rule, every call he makes
means a good sized order.
ROTH & ENGELHARDT, the piano action makers whose
factory at 6 n West 36th street was so seriously dam-
aged by fire a few days ago, have secured temporary
quarters pending the completion of their new factory,
which is being erected at St. Johnsville, N. Y., on the
N. Y. C. R. R., within a quarter of a mile of the W. S.
R. R. and Erie Canal. The new building will be of
brick, and will measure 200 feet in length. It will be
equipped with every convenience necessary to the ex-
peditious turning out of first-class actions. For the
present, all communications should be addressed to No.
2904 Third avenue, N. Y.
SEND FOR CATALOGUES.
THE
Sterling Company,
AT a recent visit paid to the action factory of James
Abbott & Sons, Ft. Lee, N. ]., we found them very busy
and quite behind in their orders. The Abbott factory
is not very large, and with their present facilities they
are quite unable to meet the demands made upon them
by leading members of the trade. During the coming
summer they will build large additions and will then be
ready to take care of their increased orders. The mem-
bers of this firm are all practical«men and personally
supervise every portion of the work.
THE incorporators of the Brown-Barron Piano Co. are
^Julius N. Brown, Ernest P. Barron, and E. F. Thomp-
son. Capital stock, $50,000. They will manufacture
pianos at Chicago.
MK, BKARDSLEY, of the piano firm of Beardsley &
Cummings Boston, Mass., will embark on the 15th
prox. in the good steamship Aller. He contemplates
spending some time at the Paris Exposition, and will
also make an extended European tour.
VOSE & SONS, Boston, Mass., have in less than a
month received orders for nearly four hundred pianos.
A most wonderful business has been done by this house
for some time past.
WM. BOURNE & SONS, Boston, Mass., inform us that
FACTORY. :
their wholesale trade is very satisfactory, although re-
tail operations are somewhat slow. Mr. Charles Bourne
DERBY, CONN.
of this firm has recovered from a severe attack of rheu-
It is admitted by all that no piano ever put upon matism.
the market has met with such success as THE
MR. CUMMINGS, junior member of the firm of Beards-
STEELING, and thousands will testify to their superi-
ley & Cummings, Boston, Mass., must be classed as of
ority of workmanship and durability. Why? Be*
the most popular and successful gentlemen who take
cause they are made just as perfect as a piano can be
the road, whether in the interests of the music trade or
made.
of any other trade. As a 'hustler" he is unexcelled,
THK STERLING ORGAN has always taken the lead, being able to cover more ground in a single day than
and the improvements made this year puts it far almost any one of his competitors.
ahead of all others. p&~ Send for Catalogue.
DRESSER & Co., Worcester, Mass., are enjoying a
most successful business with the Vocalion organ, Mr.
S. D. SMITH, President.
M. P. Marks, their bright and able manager, is in some
H. W. SMITH, Vice-President.
degree responsible for this pleasant state of affairs.
E. W . SMITH, Treasurer.
MANUFACTURERS OF
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MR. GEORGE T. MCLAUGHLIN, President of the New
BOSTON, MASS.
LONDON, ENS.
EANSAS CITY, MO.
N. D. SMITH & SONS, New London, Conn., are about
to move into one of the first floor stores of the block on
the second floor of which they are now located. They are
pushing the Sterling Company's (Derby, Conn.) goods
with vigor and success.
WM. WANDER & SON, of Hartford, Conn., are making
extensive improvements in their store, which will ere
long be one of the best and most elegantly appointed
music stores in the Nutmeg State.
Miss EMILY FLORENCE CHARTRES, of Manchester,
England, has won the gold medal awarded by the
Royal Academy of Music for violin playing. She has
also been created a Licentiate of the Royal Academy,
and an Associate of Trinity College, London. She is
the first lady upon whom either of these honors has
been conferred for proficiency in the violinistic art.
THE Boston Piano Co., of Boston, Mass., are pro-
gressing—quietly, without doubt, but the progress is
none the less real on that account. They are shipping
a goodly number of pianos. For example, on the 13th
inst. they shipped five ; on the 15th three; on the 16th
five ; on the 17th three, and so on. Considering the
times, and the by no means low prices asked for their
goods, the company are thoroughly satisfied with the
business hitherto done by them. Orders flow in con-
tinually, and customers constantly testify in flattering
terms to the excellence in tone, style, and finish of the
Boston Piano Company's products.
INCORPORATED 1884
ORGAN & PIANO Go.
BOSTON. MASS.
MANUFACTURERS OF
NEW CATALOGUES NOW READY.
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ORGAN & PIANO CO,,
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Hallet & Davis Pianos
England Organ Co., Boston, Mass., tells us that the
influx of orders for Woodward & Brown and Lawrence
pianos allows him no time for repose. His organ trade,
however, just now hardly comes up to his idea of what
it ought to be.
Mr. P. H. POWERS, of the Emerson Piano Co., Bos-
ton, who has been sojourning for some time in the
South, will return home about May 1st. We are pleas-
ed to learn that his health has been greatly improved by
the change, and congratulate both himself and the Em-
erson Co. on this happy circumstance.
THE Smith American Organ & Piano Co. are doing a
very good trade. This concern is a very careful and
conservative one. They prefer to sell a lesser quantity
of goods to responsible and promptly-paying persons
than a large quantity to haphazard and uncertain deal-
ers. Their present position would seem to constitute
a complete vindication of this policy.
WE are informed by the Estey Company, Brattleboro,
Vt., that their piano business, and that in organs also,
is far more brisk than they expected it would be at this
season. They are obliged to use every effort in order
to fill orders with reasonable dispatch.
WE are happy to learn that Mrs. Jacob Estey, of Brat-
tleboro, Vt., who has been suffering from a serious at-
tack of pneumonia, is convalescent.
W. P. VAN WICKLE, manager of Freeborn G. Smith's
Washington branch, was in the city a few days ago.
S. A. GOULD, of the Philadelphia Musical Journal,
favored this city with a visit recently.
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