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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
Crown" Catalogues.
"The Highest Type."
5j?HE new catalogues of " Crown " pianos and
~t) organs, like all of Mr. Bent's literary
productions, are well written, cleverly conceived
and arranged, and interspersed with clinching
arguments to carry conviction to all minds as
to the superiority of the " Crown " pianos, with
or without Orchestral Attachment, and " Crown"
organs.
In the introduction of his piano catalogue
Mr. Bent contrasts the old with the new, par-
ticularly in the manufacturing world, and em-
phasizes the march of improvement which has
found its apotheosis in the " Crown "piano, con-
(Successors to STARK & STRACK.)
taining the new Orchestral Attachment and Prac-
tive Clavier. He says further: " A new era in
the piano trade has come, it's the "Crown," a
marked improvement has been made, in the
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' Crown " ; a sensation created by the '' Crown,''
(many years after the last one before). This
piano, the "Crown," is selling because the
world moves, because piano buyers begin to use
their reason and begin to ask how good is this
MANUFACTURED BY
piano ?wiv o{fered to me and are ceasing to ask
how old is the man or the house that makes i t ;
the era of progress in the piano has come and
come to stay in answer to the crying demand of
the people for it—change was wanted, the old
things, good in their day, must give way to the
new and better ones—onward, upward, Excelsior
Kos. 171 and 173 South Canal Street,
is the cry !—" Crown " is at the top ! !
"Following on the triumphs of 1893 at the
World's Fair, where the " Crown " piano secured
CHICAGO.
a medal of the highest honor and was granted a
diploma stronger than that of any of its com-
petitors, where it was chosen over all others for
seventy-one rooms in thirty-two State and foreign
buildings, where words seemed to fail to express
the admiration felt for it by the three hundred
THE
and seventy-one officials of the. Fair who used
and heard it there and who testified in writing
to its merits, and many of whom then and since
have bought the " Crown " as a further evidence
that it was considered by them the best. Follow-
ing all those successes of the year 1893,1 brought
out in 1894 the "Crown" Orchestral Attach-
ment and Practice Clavier, which has made the
greatest sensation and the greatest success
known to the piano trade in many years. It is
" multum in parvo " in that the buyer gets in
and with and for the price of a first-class piano
a good substitute for the harp, price say $800 ;
a zither, price say $50; a guitar, price say, $25 ;
a mandolin, price say $25; a spinet, price say
$ ; a harpsichord, price say $ ; a clavichord,
price say $ ; a music box, price say $25 ; a
banjo, price say $20 ; a bag pipe, price say $50;
a practice clavier, price say $75."
MANUFACTURERS OF
This booklet contains testimonials from such
emintnt musicians as S. B. Mills, Max Maret-
zek, S. N. Penfield, W. S. B. Mathews, Frederic
H. Pease and Hugh Clarke, bearing on the
value of the orchestral attachment. Following
FACTORY :
these testimonials are different styles of
DERBY, CONN.
" Crown " pianos handsomely illustrated, and
It
Is
admitted
by all that no piano ever put upon the
a novelty in the shape of a number of old mel-
odies arranged so as to display the charming market has met with such success as THE STERLING
effects and possibilities of the orchestral attach- and thousands will testify to their superiority of work-
ment and practice clavier, closing with a copy manship and durability. Why ? Because they are made
of the strong award given the " Crown " pianos just as perfect as a piano can be made.
at the Columbian Exposition.
THE STERLING ORGAM has always taken the lead, and
The organ catalogue is, in its way, as inter-
the improvements made this year puts it far ahead of
esting as the piano catalogue, and contains a
number of illustrations of the latest styles of *:.! others. t8F~Sfd for Catalogue.
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RUSSELL
PIANOS
Sterling Company,
Pianos and Organs,
Halleti Davis Pianos
"Crown" organs. The designs of cases are
new and unique, and are bound to catch the
purchaser's eye.
These new catalogues should prove of great
value to agents for the " Crown " instruments ;
to progressive dealers who are not acquainted
with these wares, they will furnish interesting
and no doubt profitable information. Mr. Bent
says the question with him now is, " How can
the demand be supplied, and to whom shall I
give the agency, for all dealers want it." He
solves the puzzle in these words : " I am building
a new factory 125x190 feet, six stories and
basement, which I shall soon occupy.; " in an-
swer to the second query, •' the agency will go to
solid, progressive, enterprising and activ.e deal-
ers who will appreciate and push a piano which
is ' up to date ' and ' on top,' and which is not
tied to the traditions and myths of the past.
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No fossils need apply ! ' Ginger and genius
will find an opening for the expansion of their
faculties right here."
WHO LOST THIS?
DEAR BILL :—
In passing along 14th street the other day I
saw a paper flutter. I picked it up. I enclose
it. Do you suppose any one in the music trade
could have dropped it ?
November 4.—Advertised for girl to do
typewriting, . . .
,1 30
9.—Violets for new type-
writer
"
13.—Week's salary, type-
writer
10 00
"
16.—Roses for typewriter,
2 00
"
20.—Miss Remington's salary I.S 00
"
20.—Candy for wife and chil-
dren over Sunday, . .
60
"
22.—Box bonbons for Miss
Remington, . .
4 00
"
26.—Lunch for Miss R.,
5 75
"
27.—Daisy's salary,
20 00
"
29.—Theatre, supper with
Daisy at Del's.,
19 00
"
30.—Sealskin for wife,
225 00
"
30.—Silk dress for wife's
mother, . . . . . 50 00
"
30.—Advertising for young
man to do typewriting
1 30
No. Assuredly not. The members of the
music trade are not leaving that kind of docu-
ment lying around where the zephyrs blow.
E D . T H E MUSIC TRADE; REVIEW.
More Calendars.
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HERE is no reason to fear that this office
will want for calendars for 1895. They
are pouring in at a lively gait, and they are
beauties too. Among the latest worthy of
special mention is one from the Krell Piano
Company, with the following legend standing
out in bold relief, " H a s no equal—the Krell
piano;" underneath which is a chubby infant
before a piano.
Another calendar that will be preserved comes
from the Emerson Piano Co., Boston. It is
quite neat.
In Richmond.
LUMSDEN, of St. Louis, President of
*zis the Starr Piano Company, is on a visit to
Richmond, stopping during his stay at the
home of Mr. Gennett, 104 South Thirteenth
street.—Richmond Register, Ind., December 23d.
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