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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
Mason & Hamiin Organ and C h i c a g o T r a d e D i n n e r .
&
Piano Co.
This old and celebrated Boston firm are
capably represented in Chicago by their Western
manager, Mr. C. A. Hyde. The Mason & Hamiin
organs and pianos have a large constituency of
admirers in the West which is rapidly extending.
Their handsome warerooms are well stocked
with a magnificent line of the different styles of
their celebrated organs and pianos.
The Mason & Hamiin organs hold a reputa-
tion in this country and Europe as without a
rival in respect to quality of tone, thoroughness
of construction and durability—organs that are
comparatively cheap in price when the quality
is considered. Their new " popular " styles re-
cently introduced are attracting much attention,
not only for their handsome cases and un-
equaled tone, but also for their moderate cost.
The Mason & Hamiin piano, although not so
long before the public as their organ, is in every
respect a well-constructed and high-class instru-
ment, which has won and is winning favor
throughout the country. It contains many
meritorious features from an inventive stand-
point to commend it. It has been played upon
by noted artists, and it might be mentioned that
Mr. Sherwood, the celebrated pianist, used the
Mason & Hamiin piano exclusively on his re-
cent tour to the far West and speaks in the high-
est terms of its magnificent tone and perfect
action mechanism.
annual dinner of the Chicago Music
Trade Association was held at the Hotel
Richelieu on the evening of June 16th. Some
seventy-five or eighty members were in attend-
ance, and the whole affair passed off most enjoy-
ably and was voted a great success. Mr. E. V.
Church, the president, was in the chair, and
delivered a very interesting and able address.
The guests of the evening were Mr. Wm. E.
Wheelock and Colonel Wm. Moore of Boston.
Mr. Wheelock's address was largely confined to
the relations between employers and employees,
in which he displayed a deep study of this im-
portant question. Colonel Moore was quite at
home in a speech which was largely reminiscent,
and, as usual, delivered in that finished and
scholarly style for which this gentleman is
noted. Mr. Harry Freund of New York re-
sponded for the Press very felicitously. A
timely discussion arose over the resolution of
Mr. I. N. Camp that " business questions should
be introduced at the meetings,'' which was de-
bated pro and con by Messrs. E. A. Potter, E.
S. Conway, C. N. Post and Geo. P. Bent. Ap-
propriate resolutions were passed on the death
of the late Mr. Ernest Knabe. Mr. Emil Lieb-
ling and Harrison M. Wild interpreted a choice
musical program. Mr. McCormick, the well-
known siffleur, and Capt. Jack Crawford, the
poet-scout, contributed to the enjoyment of the
evening.
Tonk Mfg. Co.
Hotel Wellington.
^ H I C A G O is not alone celebrated for its
*%• mammoth palaces of music and numerous
factories ; it can also boast of a hostelry that is
unique in its close connection to the music in-
dustry of this country. A music trade man no
sooner lands in Chicago than he makes for
"The Wellington." He never thinks of stop-
ping anywhere else, for nowhere else can he
find better seivice or cuisine. In fact the culi-
nary department of this hotel cannot be excelled.
The piano men are usually epicures, and it is no
uncommon thing to count from fifteen to twen-
ty-five of them any day at lunch appreciating
the good things set before them. There is no
doubt but the good fellowship and absence of
nairow ftelings so prevalent among the trade in
the West can be traced to the good digestion
and good humor engendered by the culinary and
Social features of the " Hotel Wellington. " It
is a great institution and worthy of Chicago.
MR. R. C. JACKSON, of the New York branch
of the Emerson Piano Co., has left for an ex-
tended vacation which he will spend at Portland,
Me. He has not been feeling well lately and
the trip is undertaken largely for the purpose of
regaining his health.
STEVENS ORGANS
WINNING THEIR WAY.
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HE Stevens Organ Co., of Marietta, Ohio»
were among the first to place the piano
cased organ on the market. The Stevens organ
has won an excellent reputation since it has
been known to the trade, primarily for its
quality of tone. Then the embodiment of
several improvements affecting the action and
bellows mechanism and their general combina-
tion pipe and reed organ tone have evoked the
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HIL,E dwelling on Chicago it would be
amiss to pass over the very complete
building which the Tonk Mfg. Co. have in that
city, for the manufacture of piano stools, scarfs,
music cabinets, etc. It is splendidly equipped
and complete in every detail. The wares pro-
duced at the Tonk Company's works are of the
highest utility, and their elegance is of a corre-
sponding order. The Tonk Mfg. Co. are well
and widely known to the trade, and as popular
East as West. They display originality in
styles, and dealers are always sure to find among
their goods eomething to attract and win the
approval and appreciation of their customers.
continue to the material advantage and advance"
ment of their Eastern product.
The Mehlin piano, independent of the changes
which have occurred in the interests controlling
its production since it first appeared, has con-
tinued to grow steadily in esteem musically and
commercially. Their upright grands have made
rapid strides in public recognition, and their
high qualities have been paid tribute to by
schools, conservatories and noted musicians
throughout the country.
, NICKEL & GROSS hold such
a high place in the estimation of piano
manufacturers, as experts and specialists in their
line, that detailed reference to the many and im-
portant contributions which they have made
toward the development and perfection of the
American piano action is entirely superfluous
being already well known to the members of the
trade and the readers of THE MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW.
The success which has followed the house of
Wessell, Nickel & Gross is a success which has
come through a deliberate study of the wants of
the trade in their particular line. While they
can justly feel proud of the marked recognition
which they won at the Columbian Exposition
and the personal and official opinions of the
judges in connection therewith, yet this in itself
would not make the Wessell, Nickel & Gross
action as popular as it is if it did not possess
those intrinsic merits which enable it to keep in
the front rank with any piano action made in
any country in the world.
commendation of all who have used them.
Their artistic case designs, particularly those
finished in mahogany, oak, walnut and ebony,
are selling instruments, and dealers who have
used them say so.
They are at present at work on a very hand-
some chapel organ, which possesses the tone
quality of a pipe organ to a surprising degree.
It is bound to become a favorite with small
churches, clubs and societies, and it should
prove a marketable instrument.
Notwithstanding the unfavorable condition of
business for the past six months the Stevens
Organ Co. have been kept fairly busy. The
demand for their instruments is steady. The
Stevens organ is bound to add to its constituency
of dealers, for it is a well made and meritorious
instrument.
MR. CHAS. KEIDEL, of Wm. Knabe & Co., left
Thursday for Europe. The trip is undertaken
largely for recreation ; a great deal of work and
responsibility having been thrown on his should-
ers since the death of the late Mr. Ernest Knabe.
The Mehlin,
Mr. Keidel has the good wishes of the trade on
his European vacation.
HE recent alliance of the Mehlin Piano Com-
AMONG the patents recently granted was one
pany of Minneapolis with W. J. Dyer for a harp, No. 521,109, to Aldis J. Gery, Dolge-
& Bro., whereby the latter will act as sole fac- ville, N. Y., and Rudolf Dolge, New York, who
tors for the West and Northwest, presage a new assigned the same to the C. F. Zimmermann
future so to speak for the Mehlin piano. The Co., Dolgeville, N. Y.
extensive trade connections of the Dyer house
MR. J. H. THOMAS, road representative for
cannot fail to give this instrument a wider dis-
tribution and control of a vast extent of terri- Hamilton S. Gordon, New York, is making an
extended trip in the West in the interest of the
tory.
The ground covered by the Western house Gordon piano and the musical publications of
will in no measuie encroach on that mapped out that house.
W E regret to announce the death of Mr. M.
and occupied by the New York house, and the
energy and success which have been characteris- L. Munger, a well-known music dealer, of
tic of Paul G. Mehlin, the younger, will still Macon, Ga., June 15th.
East and West.
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