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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
sels, Belgium. Provides the interior of the
body with supplemental stays or splices and
closed air compartments so as to increase its
strength and sonorousness.
In Washington.
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PATENTS ORANTK.I)
MARCH
5, 1 8 9 5 .
535,190. Piano. George P. Bent, Mar-
tin H. McChesney and Joseph G. Kunze, of
Chicago, 111., said McChesney and Kunze
assignors to said Bent.
Improvement on patent No. 527,533, is-
sued Oct. 16, 1894. A secondary adjust-
able bar is placed between the piano strings
and the tongues depending from the adjust-
able tongue-bar. A flexible non-resonant
strip depends from this secondary bar. A
further improvement is the placing of a
piece of stiff material upon one side of the
upper portion of the flexible tongue. An
improved hammer-arrest is also provided
to limit the stroke of the hammer.
535,312. Violin. Joseph Vivier, Brus-
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D. C., March 13, '95.
L T H O U G H Washington has all the
appearance of unusual quietness, ow-
ing to the absence of Congress and the
President, nevertheless business is showing
signs of improvement. During the past
week retail trade has been fair, indeed, and
a feeling of security and expectation is in
the air. It is to be hoped that the change
for the better will be permanent.
The firm of Knabe & Co. are about mov-
ing into their new quarters, next to the
Grand Opera House. They will locate on
what is termed the wrong side of the ave-
nue, but no doubt, if one wants to purchase
a Knabe piano he will cross the street to do
so, and it is not the location of the iirm that
will attract him in the least, it is th-j mu-
sical value of the " K n a b e " piano itself. J.
C. Erck, the local manager, who has for
over ten years been interested in this branch
of the Knabe business, is enthusiastic in
praise of the new warerooms.
Business
with the Knabe concern is improving.
The chief attraction at Sanders & Stay-
man's warerooms this week is a handsome
^Eolian which is on exhibition. This firm
represent the /Eolian Organ Co. Chas. G.
Woodward, the manager of Sanders & Stay-
in an, played upon one of these instruments
at a musicale given by Dr. Hammond last
week.
A new phase of the recent Justice of the
Peace law has arisen. The attention of the
officials of the State Department has been
called to a seeming error in the engross-
ment of the act extending " t h e jurisdiction
of Justices of the Peace in the District of
Columbia, and to regulate the proceedings
before them," approved Feb. 19th, 1895, as
referred to in a recent letter.
The error lies in the omission of the im-
portant word " n o t " in a material part of
the proceedings of constables in execution
of the statute. It is asserted by a promi-
nent Justice of the Peace and others who
have studied the law and are thoroughly
familiar with the subject matter, that the
law clearly meant to provide in the con-
tingency mentioned that the "Constable
shall not return such property unless,'' etc.,
instead of directing that he should do so.
The error may make trouble, but its extent
can only be ascertained when the question
CELEBRATED
STEGER
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actually arises under the operation of the
statute.
Iv F. Droop eV Sons find small musical
instruments 1 >f the mandolin order gradually
increasing in favor. They have made quite
a number of sales at prices averaging from
$5 to $i 5. Tliis linn sell everything from
a jewsharp to a Stcinway grand, and when
they move from their present temporary
quarters at Market Space, into their hand-
some new building in September, thev will
carry a stock of musical instruments com-
plete in every respect. Mr. Droop is a
genial and popular member of the trade,
having been in business fcr a quarter of a
century or more, and every one is ready to
congratulate him upon the enterprise and
push which has rendered a new building
necessary.
The Metzerott Music Co. report an active
demand for sheet music and small musical
instruments. Their trade in pianos, how-
ever, is not very brisk.
The Hallet (X: Davis agency is about clos-
ing out. Mrs. Sunnier has handled the
business in Washington for the past twenty
years. In all probability the pianos will be
placed with sonic of the leading business
firms of Washington.
E. S. Conner, business manager of the
United States Marine Band, has perfected
arrangements for a Southern tour of that
organization.
Special permission of the
President and Secretary of the Navy was
necessary before this tour could be under-
taken. It is bound to be a great success,
for Prof. Fanciuili, the conductor, is very
popular in all sections of the country. Two
of his coinposi tions have just been published
by J. V. Ellis & Co., entitled " T h e Letter
Carrier's March, " and a song "Kiss While
We May."
Among those in the city during the early
part of the week were Mr. Alexander Ross,
music trade dealer, of Pittsburg, Pa., ac-
companied by his wife. They are on a
bridal tour. They put up at the "Raleigh. "
J). Prince, Jr., of Prince & Son, New York,
visited the trade here last week ; Mr. Holtz-
nian, of Holtzman & Sons, manufacturers
of stools and covers, at Columbus, ()., also
paid his respects, and secured some orders;
Mr. Case, of the American Stool Co., Meri-
den. Conn., is in town. •;,
A T the concert of the Kneisel Quartette,
which takes place at Wissner Hall, this
afternoon, March 16th, Mme. Rive-King
will be the pianist. She has not appeared
in Brooklyn since 1883, when she played
with the Brooklyn Philharmonic Club,
under the direction of Theodore Thomas.
The Wissner piano will be used.
LYON & HKAI.Y, Chicago, sold three Lyon
& Healy harps the first week in this month,
and, says The Indicator, "that moves P. J.
Healy to say that the sale of three harps
equals the sale of a thousand pianos."
PIANOS
PATENTED 1892.
;.._• iioicd for their line singing quuli'.y il
tone and great durability.
The most
profitable Piano for dealers to handle^
STEGER & CO., Manufacturers,
Factory, Columbia Heights.
2,'J5 WABASH AVENUE, CHICAGO.