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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
a prosperous and gratifying condition of trade.
The demand for the Connor piano is on the in-
crease, and the orders for the past few weeks
demonstrate this fact, as well as pay a tribute
to the popularity of the instrument.
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MODEST, go-ahead firm that have been
quietly " sawing wood and saying noth-
ing " during the money squeeze, is that of the
Miller Organ Company of Lebanon, Pa. Their
domestic sales are above the average, and our
cousins across the "big pond" are evidently
growing fonder of the Miller organ, for the ex-
port trade is gratifyingly large for the season.
They have a special line of styles in both five
and six octaves, which, for beauty, construction
and tone, cannot be excelled.
matter what time of day, or how many
times a day, you may pass the Emerson
warerooms on 5th avenue, you can always see a
number of passers by halt and devote consider-
able time to an inspection of the large and
elegant photographic display in the show
window, which contains a series of views of the
different departments of the Emerson plant.
Presumably, they all carry away with them a
partial idea of the Emerson factory, and the
name, Emerson, also. Moral : It pays to have
something special, something attractive, in
your show windows.
larly for fifteen years. Does it not pay to ad-
vertise in such a paper ? Is it not better for a
business man to spend his money in the columns
of a paper that has fairly earned, by years of
honest toil, the respect and confidence of the
trade, than to spend it with men who have made
about fifteen periodical failures during that
time? One is a certainty, and the other is a
decided uncertainty.
MESSRS. STEINWAY & SONS received
a cablegram from London last Thurs-
day announcing the fact that they have
been appointed piano manufacturers to his
Royal Highness, the Duke of Edinburgh, who
is now, by the way, reigning Duke of Saxe
Coburg-Gotha.
Of all the members of the
Royal family, the Duke is the most prominent
in musical circles, himself being president of
several of the highest musical organizations in
Europe. Messrs. Stein way & Sons are to be
congratulated upon the many royal appoint-
ments which they have received. Such recog-
nition only serves to show the prominence
which the Steinway instruments occupy in all
parts of the world. It may be well to state in
this connection that the London branch of this
great firm have done an exceptionally fine fall
trade.
week we made the announcement that
the preferred creditors of Messrs. Hardman,
Peck & Co. had agreed to waive preferences and
j>AVE you seen The Keynote for November ?
come in with the general creditors of the firm.
It is pronounced by artists and critics
The proposition made by Hardman, Peck & Co.
one of the very best regular numbers ever issued
is in the nature of an extension. They ask no
by any publication. Recollect, The Keynote
reduction or settlement otherwise than on a
appeals to the musicians, the artists and the
basis of one hundred cents on every dollar of
homes. It is run entirely upon original lines,
their indebtedness. This is to be made in five
and is becoming daily a greater success. John
equal payments ; notes dating from November
Towers, of the Towers' School of Vocal Music,
first with six per cent, interest. The longest
says : " To my mind, The Keynote'is, out and out,
time that any notes will run will be three years.
their usual generosity, the W. W. the best musical paper in the United States.'' All of the merchandise creditors have agreed to
Kiniball Company, of Chicago, have With THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW, a great trade this proposition, and have signed the paper
presented the stock which they held in the paper, and The Keynote a. great home and musi- presented to them by the firm. There, are some
Columbian Exposition Company, amounting to cal paper, we think to-day we have the strong- details in connection with the business yet to
est combination that can be formed—trade and
$5,000, to the Columbian Museum.
be attended to, but the matter of resuming has
home.
been practically arranged. The arrangement
has been acceded to by all the creditors, none
another part of this paper will be found
firm of Blasius & Sons have already
dissenting.
Thus endeth one of the most re-
the official report regarding the Wegman
won a recognized reputation for ingenious
markable
settlements
on record.
piano. Messrs. Wegman & Company have, in- and artistic advertising, but their latest produc-
deed, reason for great satisfaction at the strong tion, which we are in receipt of, is undoubtedly
wording of their diploma, and the special em- one of the handsomest specimens of the typo-
G
WAITE of Colorado, who,
phasis placed upon their tuning device.
grapher's art which has come under our notice
"Sp» by the way, should occupy a niche in
in some time. It is a ten page brochure, printed
history as one of the most unmitigated asses of
on
imitation parchment, in three colors, each
'RS. J. F 1 T Z - H E R B E R T RUXTON,
his time, has given vent to another of those
daughter of that esteemed member of page having a different colored border.
revolutionary sentiments which are doing much
In this attractive announcement, Blasius &
the trade, Mr. George Chickering, was married
to injure Colorado, both at home and abroad.
to Mr. George Livingston Nichols, of the firm Sons hold forth a pardonably optimistic view of He has issued a proclamation, designating the
of Nichols & Maston, lawyers, of this city, at fall prospects, and the merits of the " Blasius " thirtieth of the month as Thanksgiving Day.
and other pianos carried by this house are writ-
Emanuel Church, Boston, November 14th.
He invokes the people of Colorado to remember,
ten up to convince and win patrons.
especially, their brethren in bonds ; their thirty-
five thousand miners of silver, who have been
^RANCIS CONNOR is an optimist. He
is essential that a newspaper possess age deprived of employment by tyranny and uncon-
has faith in himself, his piano, and this
in order to give it standing. We have on stitutional legislation, and, in many places,
broad expansive country of ours. Hence he
succeeds. One can easily understand this by our mailing list men who have received, paid they have been compelled to abandon their
visiting his factory, where everything indicates for and read THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW regu- homes. What arrant rot!