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Music Trade Review

Issue: 1892 Vol. 16 N. 14

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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
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ipJOHMER & CO. are doing the largest whole'
CeP sale business in the history of the firm-
Many Western houses are pushing the Sohmer
piano as their leader. Aside from the enormous
wholesale business conducted by this prominent
company, a magnificent retail business is carried
on daily at their 14th street warerooms.
3 EAST 14th STREET, NEW YORK.
SUBSCRIPTION (including postage) United States and
Canada, $3.00 per year, in advance; Foreign Countries,
$4 00.
ADVERTISEMENTS, $2.00 per inch, single column, per
insertion; unless inserted upon rates made by special
contract.
JjdpjHE Malcolm L/Ove piano is constantly gain-
st 3 ing popularity in the estimation of the
public and the dealers. The instrument is con-
structed under the careful supervision of ex-
perienced hands, and is made of the very best
materials. It is, therefore, no wonder that the
firm are pushed to the utmost to supply the
orders pouring in upon them.
agency for the Chickering piano in
Cleveland, Ohio, has been placed with the
firm of H. M. Brainard Co.
Entered at the Neiv York Post Office as Second Class Matter.
For (Iji mug tfeji seeds 1 ' rasis
For IU future w
would call t h e special a t t e n t i o n of o u r
readers to t h e a r t s u p p l e m e n t of Messrs.
Peek & Sons in this issue. Original and artis-
tic methods in advertising always produce good
results. Should you desire something in this
line write us at once.
§
all parts of the country we receive
encouraging reports relative to the vol-
ume of business transacted in the various sec-
tions of the Union. The piano manufacturers
and dealers of to-day are thoroughly alive to
the situation, are always ready to meet the
demands made upon them and to advance their
business interests to the utmost point, when
season and crops favor commercial enterprises.
The business man of to-day may not be a col-
lege graduate, an expert in any system of
philosophy, nor a self-appointed expounder of
moral principles, but through his varied ex-
perience he has come to know that the man
who is equal to the varying demands of business
is the successful man of to-day.
The piano trade furnishes many examples of
this kind ; men who have not only helped to
make their surroundings, but have been quick
to avail themselves of the situation they have
helped to create. In the music trades of Ameri-
ca we can name many individuals who began
life in a modest way, but have steadily ascend-
ed the ladder of fame, until to-day they occupy
positions of prominence and wealth. The lives
of such men furnish shining examples to the
young generation coming on of what it is pos-
sible to attain in America.
HE Bourne piano has been before the trade
and the public for over fifty years, and
during that long period of time has won the de-
this issue we commence a series of articles
served appreciation of thousands of people whose
on some of the British pianoforte inven-
homes have been brightened by the influence of tions. It will include the study of some of the
this melodious instrument. Dealers who have old British pianoforte patents, and we think the
not examined the merits of the Bourne piano series will be perused with much interest by
will find it to their interest to do so. The firm piano manufacturers.
are about to issue a new catalogue, some of the
proof sheets of which we have seen and predict
that it will be an unusually interesting volume.
THE NEW YORK SYMPHONY STRING
QUARTET.
f NDER the direction of Mr. Adolph Brod-
O. HILIvSTROM&CO., Chesterton, Ind.,
sky, first violin, the Quartet will, this
• are manufacturing organs which find a
ready sale among the dealers in every section. season, give a subscription series of six cham-
They have also a large export business. This ber music concerts at Chamber Music Hall. The
year they are getting out some especially attrac- members of the Quartet are all distinguished in-
tive cases in lighter woods which are great strumentalists, and will, no doubt, add to the
laurels they won last season.
favorites with the trade.
THE "TRIBUNE'S" ATTACK UPON
STEINWAY.
following article, which may be charac-
terized as an atrocious libel upon Mr.
Steinway, appeared in the New York Tribune
on November 8th :
MR. STEINWAY'S MEN ARE FOR HAR-
RISON.
HE HAS TRIED TO GET THEM TO VOTE FOR
CLEVELAND, BUT THEY FAVOR PROTECTION.
William Steinway, the piano manufacturer,
who has been doing his level best to get his men
to vote for Cleveland, learned yesterday after-
noon, much to his disgust, that most of them
were going to vote for Harrison and Protection.
Previous to the passage of the McKinley bill,
Mr. Steinway imported from Germany piano
cases, on which he made a great saving after
putting the American made action into them.
Now, however, he has to employ men to make
these cases, and they have had steady and well-
paid work for nearly two years, something un-
known to them before the passage of that bill.
The men say that while Mr. Steinway has not
raised their wages, they are getting steady work
and frequently are asked to work overtime, for
which they get extra pay, to keep up with the
orders that are pouring in on Mr. Steinway.
They have made up their minds to vote to con-
tinue this state of affairs, in spite of the fact
that their employer is doing all that he can to
elect Cleveland, having in view, in case Cleve-
land wins, the appointment as Minister to Ger-
many.—N. Y. Tribune, November 8th, 1892.
It will be seen by reading this article that it
is entirely personal, which, in itself, shows the
malicious intent towards the founder of the
great corporation of Steinway & Sons. In the
first place, William Steinway, although one of
the original members of Steinway & Sons, and
one of the largest stockholders in that corpora-
tion, is not Steinway & Sons. The stock of
that concern is held by a number of stockhold-
ers, and the firm of Steinway & Sons may be
designated in a mercantile sense a close corpor-
ation. In this connection it may be well to
state that two of the stockholders are as ardent
Republicans as Mr. Steinway is a sterling
Democrat.
Mr. Steinway, years ago, formed an acquaint-
ance with Grover Cleveland in Buffalo, when
they were both young men. That acquaintance
has been kept up, but Mr. Steinway has never
resorted in any way to any attempts to intimi-
date his workmen as to which way they should
cast their ballots. On the contrary, he has
allowed them every scope to gratify their in-
dividual wishes in this respect. To quote Mr,
Steinway's own words in an interview, he said :
" I believe that every man should exercise his
own judgment in this matter, and should vote
according to the dictates of his own conscience.''
As to the statement that Steinway & Sons
imported piano cases from Germany previous to
the passage of the McKinley bill, it is absolutely
false in every particular. Steinway & Sons,
during their forty years' existence, have not
imported one single part of a piano from Ger-
many, as every portion of the instruments bear-
ing the name of Steinway & Sons is manu-
factured at their various plants in New York
City and at Steinway, Long Island. It will be
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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
well to state further, that they have been large
exporters of pianos, having shipped for many
years a great number of their instruments to
Europe in a partly finished condition, the un-
finished pianos to be completed at their Ham-
burg factory and made suitable to the European
climate.
In reply to a query as to the possibility of his
accepting a foreign appointment, Mr. Steinway
replied that it would be a physical impossibility
for him to accept any appointment, and that
although he has been a life-long Democrat and
is a firm believer in Democratic principles, he
has never been identified with any local political
organization whatsoever, devoting his reserve
strength to directing the vast commercial en-
terprise of which he is the head.
It seems to us that for a paper holding the
position which the New York Tribune occupies
in metropolitan and national journalism, it is a
despicable and unworthy act on the part of its
conductors to make such an uncalled-for per-
sonal onslaught upon the head of a great firm
upon the very day of election.
Bush & Gerts Piano Co. write us that
since their organization into a stock com-
pany they have every reason to congratulate
themselves, as business has never been so brisk
or so large in volume as since the incorporation
under the new title. The months of September
and October have surpassed all previous records,
with every indication pointing to an enormous
business for the coming holiday season. They
have recently been very successful in placing
their pianos in a number of musical insti-
tutions, among which might be mentioned
the Normal College at Bloomfield, Iowa ; the
Normal School at Chillicothe, Mo. ; the Con-
servatory of Music at Wayne, Neb. ; the High
School at Beatrice, Neb.; and the Western Con-
servatory of Music at Toledo, Iowa, where their
piano is used exclusively. In addition to a
number of uprights, they have placed two
grands in the Conservatory at Toledo, which
are giving entire satisfaction. They have also
placed one of their new grands in the Marquette
Club of Chicago. This shows somewhat the
progress that is being made by this enterprising
house.
WILUAM MOORE, who was a
candidate for the Legislature in the
Seventh, Norfolk, Mass., District, received the
following strong endorsement of the 600 em-
ployees of the Everett Piano Co. at an informal
meeting held by them November 4 :
" WHEREAS, It has been made known to us
that our employer, Col. William Moore, of the
Everett Piano Co., is a candidate for the Legis-
lature in the Seventh Norfolk District, there-
fore be it Resolved, That we, his employees, do
most heartily and unanimously endorse him as
a tried friend of labor, and ever ready to promote
the interests of his employees."
Colonel Moore was elected to the Assembly.
All the local papers have spoken highly of the
Colonel's great popularity in the district, and
the result of last Tuesday shows that his friends
stood by him nobly.
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I^evieu/ii^s.
Continued from first page.
habited by people who accept United States
Latin as the regular tongue, pretty much as we
do in New York. And we in the East are not
divided from Chicago by any national boundaries
or conflict of natural or national interests that
interstate railway communication, and the com-
mercial reciprocities of a people living under
one flag, and having one common destiny can-
not wipe out. Consequently, in view of these
simple facts, dear Indicator, don't be incessantly
waving your red flag so foolishly. There are no
bulls in the East only in your ardent mind.
We are not jealous of Chicago. Crowing is
therefore surplus when the crow is directed this
way. We are magnanimous, for we, with a few
exceptions, are gentlemen out here. Take off
your share of eastern patronage with our kindest
regards, and we shall always be delighted to
read of your progress in Chicago, but don't
chronicle these facts of Western development
ALBERT BEHNING records one of the most
in such a manner as if to purposely give readers
successful trips throughout the West and South a false impression of the East and Eastern trade
that he has ever made. He has not only ap- journals. It isn't dignified. It is unnecessary,
pointed several new agents for the Behning Co., and it sometimes scarcely rises to the dignity
but has taken large orders from his old patrons. of absurdity, for it suggests empty clap-trap,
It is unnecessary to say in this connection that and a straining after something to write about.
business with the Behning firm is excellent.
THE
MR. A. K. CifARK, vice-president of the
Knight Campbell Music Co., died recently of
pneumonia at El Paso, Texas.
THE National Music Co. of Illinois, has been
granted permission to do business in Austin,
Texas, with a capital of $25,000.
THE Pine Grove Cornet Band has been incor-
porated at Rayville, Md. Jesse M. Hoshall,
president; John E. Stiffer, vice-president.
THE members of Tent No. 21, K. O. T. M., of
Oil City, Pa., are organizing a brass band.
HARRISON L. REITZ, Harry H. Jackson and
others, are interested in the organization of a
drum corps at Reading, Pa.
Jfext
REVIEWER.
of tl?e Jeers' /tesoeia
tioi?.
next
meeting of the Piano Tuners' As-
sociation will be held at Royal Arcanum
Hall (room 2), No. 52 Fourth avenue, near 17th
street, Monday evening, Nov. 14th. Measures
of much interest will come up for discussion,
and the endorsement of manufacturers and
dealers will be presented to the Association.
A large attendance is looked for.
C. M. HENRY, President.
E. E. TODD, Secretary.
THE firm of Tallman & Co., dealers in pianos,
of Nyack, N. Y., have changed their firm name
to Tallman & Harris.
AT a meeting of the Central Labor Union,
held in Typo Hall, Cambridge, Mass., Novem-
ber 6, delegates from the Piano Varnishers &
Polishers Union passed a resolution condemn-
ing the action of the police during the strike at
the factory of Ivers & Pond, Cambridgeport. It
is claimed that a man not connected with the
strike was assaulted by a policeman, and that
the police had attempted to intimidate the
strikers and prevent them from walking near
the factory.
PIANO MOVERS LOCAI, ASSEMBLY NO. 637, of
New York City, has won its general strike for
$18 a week and the employment of knights
only.
MR. LOUIS WRIGHT has opened up a music
Store at Winsted, Conn.
C. L. LUCAS, representing the Manufacturers'
Piano Co. of Chicago, 111., states that he was
seated next to W. G. Pollock, who claims to
have been robbed while on a train to Sioux
Falls. Lucas regards the whole matter in
rather a suspicious light. He states that after
leaving Blair, Neb., a masked man came from a
closet and demanded Pollock's valuables, hitting
him over the head with a bag of shot, which
burst and flew all over the car. The man drew
a revolver within five feet of Pollock and fired
five times. Lucas thinks Pollock was not hurt
and that blank cartridges were used.
Cabinet organ, No. 484,929, M. Clark.
Violin bow frog, No. 485,038, J. A. Houlihan
Music leaf turner, No. 485,255^. N. Camp.
Musical instrument, No. 485,542, J. Harring-
ton.
Upright piano or organ, No. 485,414, C.
Keidel, Jr.
DESKS $17.l to
ROLL TOPS,
5
BARGAINS IN
Flat ^ Standing Desks, Office Chairs, Etc.
NEPPERT BROS.,
NCAR W C I T BROADWAY.
390 CANAL STEEET.

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