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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 1860.
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THE
Sterling Company
MANUFACTURERS OP
INCORPORATED 1884
As was universally anticipated by the trade, the new
Conover grand piano is covering its gifted maker with
a blaze of glory. Mr. Frank Conover's delight at the
successful issue of his long painstaking and toil must
be indeed great. Seldom, if ever, has the unremitting
labor and thought of an original pianoforte mechanician
resulted in the production of an instrument so soulful
in tone, so sympathetic in point of touch, and so gener-
ally and thoroughly excellent. In it is fulfilled a dream
of the emotional musician.
THE Wilcox & White Organ Co., Meriden, Conn.,
notify us that they have no fault to find with the pres-
ent condition of their trade, nor with the outlook.
Orders are pouring in upon this firm with a generous
ru h. For years, in fact, the company's business has
not been so good at this season as it is at the present
lime. The'r foreign trade is excellent, and the demand
for regular and pneumatic goods so great and pressing
that they have been compelled to suspend their custom
of giving their men a half-day holiday on Saturday.
Mr. H. C. Wilcox, the president of the company, is
contemplating another European trip
JOHN PIKE, wholesale and retail dealer in pianos and
THR attention of dealers is called to the Waterloo
(N. Y.) Organ Company's elegant styles of six octave
organs furnished in case D. This case is t ft. 4 in. in
height, and is constructed of solid black walnut, with oil
finish, hand carved. It his a 12 x 18 bevel plate mirror,
French walnut burl veneer panels, and a closet for mu-
sic. A music pocket may, if desired, be substituted for
the mirror. Style 4 has six octaves, four sets of reeds,
ten stops, two knee swells, and divided couplers. Deal-
ers will peruse the Company's catalogues with great in-
terest, for these and other styles of their make are,
beyond question, magnificent.
FACTORY:
DERBY, CONN.
organs, 301 Susquehanna ave., Philadelphia, Pa., is in
high glee on account of the fine business that has fallen
to him this spring. The trade that shoulders Pikes of
this description will surely march to glory.
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It is admitted by all that no piano ever put upon
the market has met with such success as THE
MR. TABRR, head of The Taber Organ Company of
STERLING, and thousands will testify to their supeii- Worcester, Mass., is still enjoying Californian delights
ority of workmanship and durability. Why? Be —all the more so, being happily conscious that business
cause they are made just as perfect as a piano can be in Massachusetts is in prime condition.
made.
THE STERLING ORGAN has always taken the lead,
THE business of J. P. Lockey & Co., of Leominster,
and the improvements made this year puts it far Mass., manufacturers of piano cases and stools, is brisk
ahead of all others. $&&~ Send for Catalogue.
—rather more so than usual. They find an increasing
demand for the better class of cases, such as those for
THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW issued a centennial sou-
parlor grands and fancy veneered cases of all styles.
venir, containing portraits of nearly all the prominent S. D. SMITH, President.
H. W. SMITH, Vice-President.
musical instrument manufacturers of the East, and also
THE United States Patent Office has allowed Behr
E. W. SMITH, Treasurer.
engravings from portraits representing sections of the
Brothers
& Co's (N. Y.) patent for a new grand piano
street parades during the centennial celebration. Messrs.
action. This new action is strikingly original and novel,
Bill & Bill have done themselves proud in this issue.—
BOSTON, MASS.
LONDON, ENG.
and will create a sensation among the trade.
Fargo (Dak.) Argus.
KANSAS CITY, MO.
RUFUS W. BLAKE, of the Sterling Company, was in-
vited to make the speech at the opening of the New
quarters of the firemen in the new opera-house building
at Birmingham, Conn., a short time ago. When about
finished with his speech Mr. Blake made the suggestion
that as the firemen had enough money left in their
treasury, they ought to purchase a fine chandelier and
so further enhance the appearance of the room. The
idea was hailed with approval, with only one dissenter,
an Irishman, who decidedly objected, saying that it was
all right to buy one of Mr. Blake's chandeliers, but who
the h
was going to play on it after they got it ?
—American Art Journal.
BOSTON. MA55.
MANUFACTURERS OF
WE learn from a reliable Chicago authority that the
retail piano and organ trade of the Western metropolis
is unusually good, wholesale operations bein^ also very
satisfactory.
CHAUNCEY M. CADY, formerly well known in Chi-
cago 111., as a member of the firm of Root & Cady, and
as a conductor of musical societies, died suddenly a few
days ago at a mountain resort in North Carolina. Mr.
W. W. Kimball was apprised of the sad event by tele-
gram, but the message contained no further particulars
of the circumstances of death. The deceased gentle-
man was a native of Vermont, and was sixty-four years
of age. He resided in New York for some years, after-
wards returning to Chicago and acting as southern
agent for the W. W. Kimball Co. He leaves a wife
and three daughters.
ACCORDING to an Edinburgh paper a Scotch organist,
Mr. Robert Davidson, has recently improved the piano
by an ingenious appliance which harmonically affects
the strings. The apparatus consists of another set of
dampers to act on the lower half of the piano. This
necessitates the addition of other three pedals, each
controlling an octave. These pedals when pressed
down cause dampers to fall very lightly on the strings,
and thus produce their octaves. Any or all of these
octaves can be used together, or can be dispensed with
at pleasure. Many beautiful effects can be obtained by
having the two qualities together, the upper notes clear
and bell-like, and the lower ones sotto voce.
MK. HENRY W. GRAY, President of the Schomacker
NEW CATALOGUES NOW READY.
CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED.
THE SMITH AMERICAN
ORGAN & PIANO GO.,
BOSTON", MASS.
Piano-forte Manufacturing Co., Philadelphia, Pa., has
issued a most cordial invitation to the members of the
Music Teacher's National Association attending the an-
nual convention of that organization, held at Philadel-
phia on the 3d, 4th, 5th and 6th inst. To those who de-
sire to inspect the factories of the company authority to
do so will be given, a competent person being present to
furnish such information as may be desired. The com-
pany have placed at the disposal of members and their
friends the large hall over the warerooms, 1109 Chestnut
street, where several elegant instruments are at the dis-
posal of the visitors. The generous hospitality of Col.
Gray on this occasion is highly creditable to that gen-
tleman, and will be gratefully appreciated by a large
number of his distinguished guests.
GRAND, SQUARE AND UPRICHT.
Hallet & Davis Pianos
Indorsed by Li3Zt, Gottsohalk, Wehll, Bendel Straus, Soro Abt
Paulus, Titena, Hellbron and Germany's Greatest Masters.
Established Over Hall a Century.
BOSTON. MASS.