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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
most of their machinery. They will occupy
these quarters until their new factory on 39th
Street is completed.
fflHE HENNING PIANO CO., have forsaken
ST» the metropolis and moved their manufac-
turing plant to Willoughby avenue and Ray-
mond street, Brooklyn. This move has been
under consideration for some time, as Mr. Free-
born G. Smith is a strong advocate of the con-
centration of the different interests in which he
is interested. The New York warerooms will
be at 95 Fifth avenue.
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man who has succeeded to a well estab-
lished business, which he thinks needs no
building up, is occasionally heard to say,
1
' There is no need of advertising.'' He some-
times has his doubts, however, says Printers'
Ink, when he sees another man, without his
advantages, build up as good if not a better
business in a single year, in the same street or
around the corner, by the aid of advertising.
partnership which has existed for the
past twenty-seven years between T. F.
Dyer and J. F. Hughes, under the firm name of
Dyer & Hughes, of Foxcroft, Me., has been dis-
solved by mutual consent. The accounts to
hand are meagre, and they credit Mr. Dyer with
securing the organ factory. It can be safely
assumed, however, that some member of the late
firm will continue the manufacture of pianos.
Lyon & Healy, of Chicago, for 5,000 instruments,
embracing different grades and sizes. This is
one of the largest orders ever received from one
firm by the Autoharp Company. Mr. Dolge is
to be congratulated on his effective road work.
J&ECRETARY CARLISLE has rejected both
GSP the amended designs for the World's Fair
medals submitted by Artist St. Gaudens.
Neither the ribbon nor the shield proposed met
with approval as a qualification for the nude
figure on the reverse of the medal.
The World's Fair exhibitors are, therefore,
still without a medal, and will be, probably,
until St. Gaudens dresses up his young Ameri-
can in fin de siecle habiliments. St. Gaudens is
unfortunate in having this matter considered
while there is such a wave of morality inun-
dating the Capitol City.
. BLUMENBERG manifests great anxie-
ty over the particular " p l a c e " of the
Everett piano. When the valiant Marc visited
Cincinnati, probably there was no placing of a
contract of sufficient magnitude. There was no
placing of silver, and still Marc had a " place "
for it too. It is a useful commodity, and most
of us can find a convenient '' place'' for it.
Presumably Marc can, but will Mr. Lee " place "
it with him ? It will be interesting to know just
what kind of a " place '' the Everett will oc-
cupy in Marc's estimation ultimately.
Place—Placer—PI aced.
rOR IN cause tfet lacks assistance,
For the wrajg that seeds
For li)» future m f » tfis
ii» good tljat w« can do"
b°g to acknowledge the receipt of an
invitation from Messrs. Hardman &
La Grassa to examine their first pianos, which
will be ready for the inspection of the trade
Monday, April 9th.
PIANO MANUFACTURERS' ASSO-
CIATION of New York and Vicinity will
hold the regular monthly meeting April 10th.
An informal collation to members and friends,
including the press, will follow, at the Union
Square Hotel.
ROCKET is projected through space with
considerable noise and much illumina-
tion, but it comes down in darkness and reaches
the ground with a dull, sickening thud. Ray-
more began with a flourish of banners and the
burning of red lights. How is he coming down ?
gTSACOB BROTHERS have leased the factory
@r recently vacated by the Henning Piano
Company, at Avenue D, between 8th and 9th
streets, for one year, and have already moved
venerable Art Journal rises and shakes
the dust of two or three decades from off
its utterances and cries '' scoop '' in the matter
of the injunction papers in the Hardman case.
Let us ask our ancient contemporary why it
did not secure the whole matter. There were
strong points omitted and which were not pub-
lished until we referred to them last week.
We refer to the Curtis letters from Schenectady.
NOTABLE gathering of leading dealers
came together at Steinway Hall one day
during this week. They were Major Clay, of
Sherman, Clay & Co., San Francisco, William
Rohlfing, of Wm. Rohlfing & Sons, Milwaukee,
Edwin A. Potter, of Lyon, Potter & Co.,Chicago,
and Edmund Cluett, of Cluett & Sons, Albany.
A quartet of solid business men, gratifyingly
optimistic about trade prospects, and enthusi-
astic admirers of the Steinway pianos. It is
needless to say that they left some substantial
orders.
autoharp is forging right ahead in popu.
lar esteem. It is fast obtaining a place as
a musical instrument of great possibilities.
Throughout this country and Europe the demand
is growing week after week.
Mr. Rudolf
Dolge, in his present tour through the West,
reports heavy orders for the autoharp. Among
those sent in during the past week was one from
Bliithner for infringement of the use of the name
of " Bliithner," which recently came before the
German courts, is of special interest when we
consider certain events which are transpiring in
legal circles nowadays. As the result of an
action some time since, it seems that F. Bliith-
ner, who endeavored to trade on the name and
reputation of the old and distinguished name ot
'' Bliithner,'' had been commanded by the courts
not to place the name " Bliithner " on the fall
board of a piano without his initial. As a result
of a transgression of the order of the court, he
was recently placed under bonds with a penalty
of a fine of 300 marks for an infringement.
Thus we see the value of a name protected in
Germany.
recent incorporation of the Wegman
Piano Co. has given a new stimulus to the
business of that house. Although the officers
and general management of the new concern are
the same as heretofore, yet there is an evident
intention to enlarge the sphere of this instru-
ment, and to make it better known throughout
the country. The Wegman piano is manufactur-
ed under the supervision of an eminently prac-
tical man in the person of Mr. Henry Wegman,
and it possesses many points of superiority both
in original improvements and general features
o f construction which commend it to those de-