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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
THE new Piano Makers' Union have decided
to retain the sick and death benefits of the old
National Union. $5 a week will be paid for 13
weeks in a year in case of sickness, and $100
for deaths.
THE Felgemaker pipe organ factory, corner
19th and Sassafras streets, Erie, Pa., is to be
enlarged by a three story addition costing
AN injunction has been served upon Director
General Davis restraining him from removing
from the piano section, in Manufacturers' Build-
ing, an instrument used by the Automatic
Piano Co.
GEORGE S. BOND, of Charleston, N. H., will
rebuild his recently burned factory for the
manufacture of musical instrument cases, says
the Springfield, Mass., Union. He has pur-
chased two tracts of land south of the railroad
station as a new site on which he will at once
erect a wooden main building, two stories high,
ioo by 40, with paint shop, 25 by 30, with dry
house, engine and boiler room of brick. The
plant will be heated by steam and will be light-
ed by electricity, and equipped with newest
and latest improved machinery. W. B. Car-
penter, of Bellows Falls, has the contract for
lumber, and the building will be erected by
workmen in the employ oi Mr. Bond, who hopes
to be ready to resume business in the new quar-
ters by November 1st.
MASON & HAMLIN'S organ and piano factory,
Cambridge, Mass., has shut down for three
wteks, owing to dull business.
THE music stores at Worcester, Mass., have
joined the Friday afternoon closing movement.
During August they will close at noon, Friday.
THE Lowell-Spofford piano stool works, at
Peterboro, N. H., are unexpectedly shut down
for two weeks.
NEW YORK, N. Y., Piano Makers' Unions
Nos. 4, 6 and io, at their meeting held July 23d,
at 56th street and 3d avenue, formed an organ-
ization to be known as the International Piano
Makers' Union of the United States and Canada.
THE Emerson Piano Company have deter-
mined to discontinue their branch store at
Plattsburgh.
THE firm of Carleton & Dinsmore, Water-
ville, Me., has been dissolved. Mr. J. B. Dins-
more informs us that he will continue the busi-
ness of selling pianos, says the Democrat. Dins-
more's orchestra furnishes music for balls and
parties.
THE piano factory at Clyde, Ohio, which has
been owned and operated for a year or more by
George E. Newell, is now being moved to Find-
lay, O., where it will henceforth be operated.
The Carrothers block, on North Main street,
has been leased for a term of years, and the en-
tire three stories will be devoted to the manu-
facture of pianos. At the start, some fifteen
skilled mechanics will be given employment,
and this number will be increased as the trade
demands, says the Findlay Courier.
POPULAR PEASE
PIANOS,
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of a I^pre-
HE new catalogue of the Pease Piano Co.
which has just reached us is a pleasant
music publishers, Brooklyn, N. Y., are present- thing to look at and examine. The front cover
ing their friends with a World's Fair souvenir, is ornamented with a handsome design which
which contains 18 pages of choice new music.
blends the vernal suggestiveness of sweet peas,
GORGEN & GRUBB, piano action manufact- with the words "Pease Pianos " in a very artis-
urers, Warsaw, N. Y., have completed the tic and tasteful manner. The back cover with
foundation to their new addition, which is to be the familiar Cupid is even still more artistic.
Then on opening the first leaves, super-calen-
44 x 60 and three stories high.
dered paper of high quality, good typographical
M. F. QUINT, of Des Moines, la., is employed work, intelligent composition and arrangement
at Marvin's music story, Atlantic, la., in the of contents remind one forcibly that the Pease
capacity of a tuner.
Piano Co. always manage to come out of
MR. GEO. D. B. PRESCOTT, of the Prescott everything successfully, and are never "very
Piano Co., Concord, N. H., who has been on a far behind the band!"
trip to the World's Fair, was presented, on his
This is what they say in the chapter devoted
return home, with an elegant roll top desk by to the origin and development of the firm :
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his employees. A nice compliment.
' The Pease Piano dates back forty years when
MR. GEO. D. SMITH, proprietor of the Dairy the first pianos bearing this name were manu-
Kitchen on 14th street, is said to be financially factured by Mr. C. D. Pease, in Cooperstown,
embarrassed. Mr. Smith was, at one time, a N. Y., and later on in the city of Hudson, and
popular music dealer in Western New York, and it was there the late C. D. Pease, a nephew of
made $100,000 by means of the " kazoo " which the former, served his apprenticeship and re-
he invented. His trouble is due to having in- ceived his first instructions in the art of piano
vested about $45,000 in a restaurant in Chicago making, which has since made his name famil-
iar to the musical world.
which was not successful.
" In 1871 the present business was established
THE Wooden building of the Brockport piano
in New York city, and in order to supply the
factory, Brockport, N. Y., is completed and will
rapidly increasing demand for the Pease, which
be occupied in a few days. The fifty horse
became popular from the very start, several re-
power engine has been placed in position.
movals to more extensive quarters were made
A PLAN to reorganize the varnishers in the in quick succession.
piano trade has been agreed upon by the Exe-
" I n 1876 the late C. D. Pease built the large
cutive Board of the International Piano Makers' commodious factory at 316 to 322 West 43d
Union, New York.
street, which we now occupy, and eight years
MESSRS. GOETZ & Co., piano dealers and
later the Pease buildings adjoining were erected
and made available for our constantly increas-
ing business.
" In December, 1892, the factory was partially
destroyed by fire. In rebuilding, we made a
careful study of the future demands to be made
upon us, and have so remodeled, reconstructed
and thoroughly equipped our new plant with all
modern conveniences, that we modestly boast of
owning and operating one of the finest appointed
factories in existence.
"InJanuary, 1892, we decided to cancel all
jobbing agencies in the leading cities, who had
formerly controlled large territories, and assume
command of the entire field ourselves, thereby
enabling the general trade to deal directly with
the manufacturers, a thing very much to be de-
sired in this age of progress and competition.
The wisdom of this-decision has been fully ver-
ified by the increased production.
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' The unparalleled success of the Pease Com-
pany can be readily accounted for if you take
into consideration the following facts :—
'' First.—From the commencement our aim has
been to manufacture the best piano that could
be made, and to sell to the trade at a small ad-
vance above cost to produce.
'' Second.—That the men forming the Company
are not only practical men, superintending
every department personally in all details, but
at the same time blessed with the ABILITY, EN-
ERGY and PUSH that bring successful results.
" Third.—That with our large annual produc-
tion, buying for cash, and selling largely on the
same basis, we are enabled to furnish to the
trade a good, reliable, first-class instrument in
every particular, at prices that will defy com-
petition.
'' In conclusion permit us to present the fol-
lowing points, which are worthy of consider-
ation :—
"POPULAR.—Over fifty-five thousand made
and sold in less than twenty-five years. This
means fifty-five thousand lovers of music have
closely examined into the merits of the Pease
Pianos and bought.
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' ARTISTIC.—The comments of both buyers
and dealers have always been that the designs of
the Pease Pianos are constantly in advance;
that in artistic case work we lead.
"DURABLE.—The Pease Pianos are so con-
structed that their existence is of far greater du-
ration than that of average pianos. The Pease
Pianos are all made of the best materials. The
cases are all double veneered and highly polish-
ed. We employ none but the best workmen.
Every Pease Piano is fully warranted.
'' REFERENCE.—We refer all intending buyers
to the parties who have purchased Pease Pianos.
'' PRESENT PROGRESS is enormous.
We are
now manufacturing more pianos than ever be-
fore and constantly increasing the output.
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• PRICES.—Reasonable and just to our patrons.
Absolute values for the investment.
"REPRESENTATION.—We have the best class
of dealers in the United States.
'' Popular Pease Pianos have thousands of
friends and will do YOU faithful service.''
The Pease system of wrest plank building is
specially illustrated and emphasized, for one of
the most important qualities of a piano is its
capacity for staying in tune, as the Pease Co.
remark in referring to the remarkable merits of
their instruments in this particular. They also
give the action and various other features a due
amount of attention. Popular Pease Pianos in
all the diversification of style, up to the more
recent, are illustrated in a most thorough fash-
ion, thus rendering this catalogue on the whole
what we have entitled it—a representative cata-
logue of a representative house.