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THE MUSIC JRADE REVIEW.
Driftwood
THE annual reception and hall of the employees
of Hazelton Bros., held recently at the New York
Maennerchor Hall, East 36th street, was a very
enjoyable occasion.
SOHMER & Co. are more than satisfied with
their holiday trade. It was unusually good.
A NEW electric motor for blowing organs is
to be seen at the warerooms of the Mason &
Hatnlin Company, this city. The motor is
automatic and self-regulating, and dispenses
with the use of the supplementary bellows. It
is small in size and noiseless in action, and it
can be run with the incandescent electric light
current.
THE Davenport & Treacy Company report
business as satisfactory. They are as busy as
they can be.
AN employee in Steinway's piano factory,
Michael Lappell, W. 36th street, sustained
severe injuries while attempting to board a cable
car at 15th street and Broadway last week.
& CORNETT have opened a music
store at Mt. Carmel, Pa.
IIKFFNER
IT is said that the liabilities of the Lawrence &
Son Piano Company, who recently failed, are in
the region of from ten thousand to twelve thous-
and dollars, with assets amounting to about the
same amount.
IT is expected that organ reed boards will ad-
vance in price within a short time.
LYON & HEALY offered through the Chicago
Record, Tuesday of last week, to give free to
school children who should apply for it, person-
ally or by mail, the " Music Hand book " which
they had compiled a short time ago. The offer
mtt with read} acceptance, and the firm had
little trouble in depleting their stock.
THE piano about to be placed on the market
by Mr. Otto Lestina and Mr. Augustus Baus
will not be designated the Baus piano. The
right to that name is held by Mr. Jacob Doll.
Another name is under consideration.
MR. MALCOLM LOVE, of the Waterloo Organ
Company, has been looking up customers In
Pennsylvania.
A. M. LELAND, dealar in piano stools and
covers, Trenont street, Boston, has moved to
120 Boylston street.
BROCKETT & BAKER, music dealers, Carthage,
Mo., have been succeeded in business by S. W.
Kuepper.
THE holiday trade with the leading Chicago
houses was in every respect satisfactory. In
fact beyond expectations. Ly^n & Healy had
rj. F. WILLIAMS and F. O. Schattgen will add
a marked demand for Knabe pianos, and the
to the list of music stores in New Britain, Conn.,
Kimball Company had a hteady call for the
by opening another around the first of February.
Kimball products. The same agreeable condi-
tion of things prevailed at the other leading
MR. W. B. PRICE will assume charge of the
retail business of the Chicago Cottage Organ houses—the Chicago Cottage Organ Company,
Company in Chicago about May 1st, 1895. Mr. Lyon, Potter & Co., The Manufacture!s' Piano
Price has made a magnificent record with the Company, Chase Bros. Piano Company, Pease
W. W. Kimball Company, and will undoubtedly Piano Company, and the F. G. Smith concern.
add to his reputation in his new sphere.
THE Mason & Hatnlin Company report last
MR. MARK MAYER, of Otto Wissner's ware-
months' business the largest of any In the his-
room forces in Brooklyn, sold one hundred and tory of the house. While there has been a gen-
five pianos at retail during December. This eral demand for the various styles carried by
will be considered remarkable when it is known them, the Liszt organs have been chiefly in de-
that Mr. Mayer is destitute of the sense of sight. mand.
This record is a splendid proof of Mr. Mayer's
THE Indicator says that a careful compilation
ability.
shows that there are one hundred and seventy-
WM. SHARP, a piano polisher employed in the
nine piano manufacturers in the United States ;
warerooms of J. & C. Fischer, n o Fifth avenue, New York leading with seventy-one, Boston
dropped dead from heart disease last Saturday. twenty-one, Chicago twenty, Brooklyn five,
He left a widow and a family of five children.
Philadelphia five, San Francisco four, Cincin-
nati
three.
A MUSIC store has been opened in East Pep-
perell, Mass., by Henry Chapman and Francis
R. LERTz & SONS, agents for the Chickering
H. Lawrence, Boston.
piano in Baltimore, report an unusually good
MR. ALBERT ASCHER, manager of the Brook- demand for the Chickering piano and other in-
lyn warerooms of F. G. Smith, 557 Fulton street, struments handled by them.
has resigned his position. His physician has
HOUSE & DAVIS new piano factory at Des-
advised him to take up outside work. Mr.
plaines, 111., will be ready for occupancy Feb-
Ascher will make the Bradbury factory his
ruary 1 st.
headquarters for the present.
PROFESSOR VON HELMHOLTZ'S memory will be
THE Staats Zeitung, of this city, published perpetuated at his birthplace, at Pottsdam, by a
recently an interesting article treating of the tablet with a relief portrait, the gift of the citi-
history and achievements of the Weber Piano zens of that city.
Company. This article has been reproduced in
J. G. IRMLER, of Berlin, Germany, is handling
mostly all of the daily papers and many of the
the "Symphony " organs manufactured by the
monthly magazines.
Wilcox & White Company. These instruments
MR. J. V. STEGER, of Steger & Co., was not should become very popular with our Teutonic
forgotten by his employees at Christmas. They friends.
made him a present of a very handsome bath
MR. A. J. BROOKS, road representative of the
robe, which was beautifully embroidered.
Sterling Company, Derby, Conn., will continue
ACCORDING to the Indicator, the business to represent the Sterling instruments as hereto-
transacted by the different music houses in fore, notwithstanding his connection with the
Chicago in 1894 will almost equal that of 1892, business of the Huntington Piano Co., of Shel-
which was a banner year. The total of 1892 ton, Conn.
was placed at $11,500,000 in round numbers;
MR. A. B. SMITH will move his business from
in 1893, $7,500,000 ; that of 1894, $10,000,000.
Warren to Akron, O.
These are certainly very encouraging figures.
Floating from All Parts of the
Country.
Westchester, Pa.
PA.—Sheriff Ingram has made
his return of the writ of replevin on Mr. Jas. P.
L n ng and Mrs. L. A Morgan, for the recovery
of a piano. The parties who have sold the
piano on what is called a time lease, have taken
this method of recovering it, the full amount of
the purchase money not having been paid.
WESTCHESTER,
Bushnell, III.
Alex. Renlgra will oc-
cupy the new structure on West Main street,
with his musical instrument business.
BUSHNELL, III.—Mr.
Faribault, Minn.
FARIBAULT, MINN.—Chas. W. Leasure has
made an assignment in favor of his creditors;
he was a dealer in musical instruments; Eden
N. Leaven is the assignee.
Asbury Park, N. J.
ASBURY PARK, N. J.—Curtis & French, the
piano dealers and music men of Red Bank, N.
J., have bought the Methodist Church business
property on Broad strett; the price was $20 000.
Foxcroft, Me.
who has
been in the piano and organ business for years,
has gone to Boston, Mass., to fill a position with
Vose & Sons, piano manufacturers.
FOXCROFT,
ME.—Ira F. Sanford,
Farmingdale, N. J.
N. J—A new pipe organ is
being put in the Methcdist Episcopal Church
here.
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FARMINGDALE,
THE Waggoner French organ factory at Win-
chester, Ind., has suffered a loss of $10,000
through fire. The insurance amounts to $5,000.
WM. S. ATKINS has succeeded to the business
of A. D. Garnsey, music dealer in Princeton,
111. He handles the Estey pianos and Farrand
& Votey organs.
ALFRED DOLGE & SON made a large shipment
of hammer felt to Germany during the past
week.
MR. LOUIS GRUNEWALD, road representative
for Jacob Doll, of this city, is in the West.
MR. H. H. HAZZARD has accepted a position
with the Colby Piano Company, Erie, Pa. He
was formerly connected with the music trade in
Austin, Tex.
If you Needham Call 'em Up.
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HE Netdham Piano-Organ Company can <
now be consulted through the telephone, j
Their address is as follows: " 18th street, 1,056." \
Don't forget to ring 'em up.
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We're after you ! ^ d f a & S £ X , D 0 B You'll be after us!
S. PRINCE.
D. PRINCE, JR.
PRIIVCE & SOX,
Manufacturers of
IMPROVED UPRIGHT PIANOS
FOR THE TRADE ONLY.
Our specialty, a HIGH GRADE PIANO at a LOW PRICE.
Send for Catalogue and Price List.
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Warerooms
oVmt 203 & 205 East 123d Street, New York.
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