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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
E. P. CARPENTER COMPANY, Brattleboro, Vt., U.S.A.,
Manufacturers of O R G A N S O F T H E HICHEST CLASS.
Send for Catalogue and Cuts ot two "Catchy" Styles
just out.
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DRULBRS CORDIALLY INVITED TO VISIT OUR FACTORY.
MATHUSHEK & SON, New York, are crowding their
factory with men and material, in the hope of promptly
filling the large orders which continually pour in upon
them. Their medium-priced " Equilibre" piano is be-
coming exceedingly popular, as was to be expected,
considering the care, skill and patience expended upon
its production. This firm have just shipped a parlor
grand to Walter C. Riotte, the wealthy coffee merchant
of Costa Rica.
TIHIIE
A. B. CHASE CO.,
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JYORWALK, OHIO,
Manufacturers of
Pianos niiri Organs,
CELEBRATED
FOR
GEO W. SEAVERNS & SON, the Cambridgeport, Mass., ac-
tion makers, made a pleasant call at the office of THE MU-
SIC TRADE REVIEW on Tuesday last. They reported that
their business has been and is in so brisk a condition as
to forbid their indulging in any vacation during the
present year. Only by increasing their manufacturing
facilities will it be possible for them to fill their orders
with anything like satisfactory speed.
MR. HUGO SOHMER is taking a trip west.
A Remarkably Deep, Rich, Singing Quality of Tore,
Light, Responsive Action, and
Great Durability.
He will
MR. WM. VrscHER.of the firm of Wm. Vischer & Son,
Wellington, O., general agents for Northern Ohio of the
Estey Organ Company, made a pleasant call on Tues-
MILO J. CHASE, senior member of the great Chase
Brothers Piano Company, Grand Rapids, Mich., was in
town last week, and made a very pleasant call at the
dav last at the office of THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
facturers, have issued invitations to a reception to be
held by them on the 6th inst., at St. Johnsville, N.Y., on
the occasion of the completion of their new factory
there.
Among the dealers recently in town were Robert
Ernst, Vicksburg. Miss.; J. W. Guernsey, Scranton, Pa.;
Joseph Lazoie, Montreal, Canada.
MR. BEN. STAUR.OI the firm of James M. Starr & Co.,
attended the recent G. A. R encampment at Milwaukee,
Wis., and visited, en route, a number of agents. He
may be shortly expected in New York city, where he
will be in charge of Jack Haynes, General Eastern
Manager for the Starr concern.
THE genial and enterprising Reinhard Kochmann,
representing Messrs. Behning & Son, N. Y., left this
city on Wednesday of last week for a trip through the
Southern and Southwestern states.
BOOK OR MUSIC HOLDER.—Susan M. Perkins, Lan-
sing, Kansas. This is an improvement in that class cf
book or music holders which consist of spring clamps
adapted to slide loward or from each other upon a
flanged or slotted bar, a stretched wire being employed
to support the clamps instead of the bar, and affording
some important advantages.—Scientific American.
has been traveling West during the past month, and has
booked many large orders. He will return about the
middle of the present month. This firm are happy in
the contemplation of their con c tantly increasing trade.
A VERY large stock of beautifully figured mahogany
and oak for veneering purposes—some of the finest, in
fact, that we have ever seen—has just been received at
the Astoria Veneer Mills, New York. The trade will
do well to inspect these woods.
THE young and progressive firm of Sturz Bros., N.Y.,
report that orders for their pianos are arriving in very
encouraging quantities for the fall trade. During a re-
cent visit to their factory we noticed some attractive
new styles of cases in oak, which (especially as regards
style 2), dealers will be interested in inspecting.
ROTH & ENGELHARDT, the enterprising action manu-
STRAUCH BROTHERS, N. Y., now enjoy double their
former facilities, having nearly completed the additions
to their action factory, 22 to 30 Tenth avenue. While in
their office a few days ago we had the pleasure of perus-
ing a letter from a leading piano firm, in which the
Strauch action was spoken of in the most flattering
terms. Mr. Albert Strauch has just patented a valua-
ble improvement in the grand action.
ONE of the most popular firms of varnish makers in
the country is that of Hastings & Winslow, of Mont-
clair, N. J. They supply the largest houses of piano-
makers, many of the oldest and best of whom speak of
their goods in terms of Ihe highest praise.
FREDERICK BAUEI^ of Stultz & Bauer, New York,
proceed as far as Denver, Col., returning in about three
weeks.
He is well pleased with trade prospects for the fall and
winter. Messrs. Vischer & Son are a bright and hust-
ling firm, as may be inferred from the fact that since
January ist of the present year they have sold no less
than 350 Estey organs in their section.
Having heard much and seen a good deal which
impressed him favorably in regard to the pianos made
by C. H. Henning, of this city, Mr. Vischer took the
opportunity while here of calling upon that gen-
tleman at his factory in East Eleventh street. Finding
upon personal investigation that the Henning pianos
were in every respect what they were represented to be,
Mr. Vischer lost no time in securing the agency for
those instruments for the northern portion of the Buck-
eye State.
F. L. RAYMOND, of Cleveland, O., well known as the
manufacturer of the famous " United States" organs,
is a happy man. His business, always brisk, has for
some weeks past far exceeded the most sanguine expec-
tations in which he ever indulged in regard to it. Mr.
Raymond's present styles are daily gaining in popu-
larity with the trade. He is considerably behind on
orders. The indications are that his business for the
present year will be far more extensive and profitable
than that done by him in any former year, though
former years have never brought him anything but the
success and good name which so excellent a man and
so able and enterprising a manufacturer deserves.
office of THE MUSIC TRADE REVIF.W.
For the Fall Trade
THEY OFFER
NEW STYLES OF ORGANS.
NEW AND NOVEL FEAT
FEATURES
WITH
Great Improvements,
A full line of Organs with French Plate
Mirrors.
Send for Catalogues and Net Prices.
THE A. B. CHASE CO.,
NOEWALK, OHIO.
WE have received from the Wilcox & White Organ
Company, Meriden, Conn., a splendid colored litho-
graph, measuring 28 in. by 18 in, intended as an adver-
tisement of their self-playing organs. It is a picture of
a young and beautiful maiden, whose lustrous eyes and
ruby lips produce a bewitching and intoxicating effect
upon the beholder, and in whose golden locks a minute
lyre is, appropriately enough, placed. The fair fingers
grasp a perforated music roll, inscribed with the names
of eminent composers whose works have been arranged
for this firm's celebrated instruments.
Mr. Chase was
enthusiastic upon the subject of his firm's great and
ever-growing business.
THE Utica (N. Y.) Conservatory of Music opened on
the 2d inst. with 150 students—an unprecedented show-
ing for a brand new institution of the kind.
C. M. BROCKSIEPER is admitted to be an important
factor in the success and progress of Mathushek & Son,
in the management of whose business he shows great
executive ability.
As to music, the owners of the City of Paris, City of
New York, and Teutonic have shown the same con-
sideration for the comfort of their passengers that they
have in everything else. The two former ships are
each provided with an upright piano by Mason & Ham-
lin, furnished in a superb case of cherry inlaid in bird's-
eye maple, the design harmonizing beautifully with the
room itself. These pianos contain the improved mode
of stringing, invented and patented by Mason & Ham-
lin, which is said to peculiarly fit them for withstanding
the ravages of the sea. The Paris and New York are
each provided with a two-manual pedal base organ,
also by Mason & Hamlin, furnished in an exquisitely
chaste case of white enamel. The salon of the Teutonic
contains a piano and also one of those marvelously
beautiful and artistic instruments, viz., the Liszt organ,
by Mason & Hamlin. The case of this instrument is
truly a work of art. It is of old oak, highly polished,
with trimmings in gold and dark brown, the total effect
harmonizing beautifully with the architecture of the
room. It is to be regretted that America can boast no
such ships as these, but it is some comfort to the patri-
otic that the magnificent instruments on these ships are
all of American make.