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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
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J. K. P. WINTERS, organs and musical
FRANK R. GILLIS is a recent acquisition
to the J. & C. Fischer warerooms. He was instruments, Madison, Minn., reported as
connected, up to last week, with Wm. A. having been succeeded by Winters & Win-
ters.
Pond & Co., 27 Union square.
J. E. VKKNON'S SONS, music trade dealers
of Salina, Kan., who were recently burned
out, will immediately open with anew stock
in new quarters. They were fully insured.
T. C. JAMES will have charge of a branch
house of the W. W. Kimball Co., at Hanni-
bal, Mo. Mr. James is a wide awake man
and in his new establishment will give a
good account of himself.
THK Weaver Organ Co., York, Pa., re-
port an improved condition of trade. They
are working full time with a full staff of
employees.
W. F. MASTERS, dealer in piano stools,
cabinets, scarfs, lamps, etc., at 95 Fifth
avenue, has removed to temporary ware-
rooms at 15 East Fourteenth street. H e
was compelled to vacate owing to the en-
croachments made on his space by the new
building going up next door. Mr. Masters
is enjoying an excellent business.
THK death of Mark Mayer, the]blind sales-
man with Otto Wissner, of Brooklyn, is
much regretted by his associates and all who
knew him. He was in his thirty-second
year. His death was due to an operation
performed at the Long Island College Hos-
pital, for the removal of gaU stones.
THK Oliver Ditson Co., Boston, have made
arrangements whereby their piano depart-
ment will be represented in Salem, Haver-
hill, Gloucester and Melrose, Mass.
of the Marshall &
L. A. Hagan, pianos, organs and musical
merchandise, Burlington, Kan., will open
new store in the Weaver Building.
THOMAS FLOYD-JONES, who has represent-
ed Haines Bros, in Chicago for the past ten
years, will leave there about April 1st, and THE concert grand Autoharp was used at
will be associated with the two younger the great musical festival held in Atlanta,
sons of N. J. Haines, in the management of Ga., last Wednesday and Thursday, March
20th and21 st. Aldis J. Gery was the soloist.
the Haines Bros.' factory.
THE Orchestral Piano Co., Boston, will
have their new self-playing attachment for
the piano ready in a short time.
A SON made his appearance in the house-
hold of Mr. Jacob Gray Estey last week.
This makes Gen. J. J. Estey a grandfather.
CESAR THOMSON, the famous
Belgian
violinist, took a handsome Steinway piano,
along with a large number of American dol-
lars, back with him to Europe.
GEO. T. EI.SHAM, who is about to open a
large store at Mason City, la., the early
part of next month, will handle the Sohmer
piano as leader.
IVERS & POND PIANO CO., Boston, Mass.,
CUKKKKINI; & SONS, Boston, are well
pleased with the improvement manifest in
their wholesale trade. Their factory forces
are all working full time.
filed annual statement as follows: Fixed
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capital, $10,000. Assets—Land, 20,000;
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buildings, $85,000 ; machinery, { 10,000;
cash, and debts receivable, $167,855 raanu-
factures and merchandise, 115,601; miscel-
laneous, $91,472. Total, $489,930. Lia-
bilities—Capital stock, $10,000; debts,
$201,817; profit and loss, surplus, etc.,
$278,112. Total, $489,930.
& BAKER, music trade dealers,
Cherokee,
la.,
reported as having recorded
Wendell Piano Co., Albany, N. Y., is mak-
real
estate
mortgage
for $2,050.
ing a trip through the West.
STRICH & ZKIDIKR have become members
R. C. BURTON, musical instruments,
of the Piano Manufacturers' Association Utica, N. Y., reported as having given bill
of New York and vicinitv.
of sale for $1,750 ; assigned.
HAKVKV WKNDKI.I.,
L. F. MAPLE, music dealer, Chariton, la.,
reported as having been succeeded by J. H.
Lepper & Co.
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SHARDI.DW
THE Pacific Coast Music Co. are now " a t
home" in their new quarters, 816 Market
street. They are meeting with a good de-
mand for the Kranich &• Bach and "Crown"
pianos, for which they are the agents.
HOFFMAN & GERN is the title of a new
music trade store just opened at Maryville,
Cal. Mr. Hoffman is a well-known piano
tuner.
THE firm of Palmer & Nelson, I ml ay
City, Mich., have dissolved partnership.
Mr. Nelson will continue the business.
Gain Knowledge
Of the u innards " of a piano by a little reading. You may have
been a dealer for many years, you may have been a tuner for a
like period, you may have played a little—maybe more; but is
it not well to get a little more practical knowledge?
Some-
thing to bank on—an authority on all matters relating to tun-
ing, repairing, toning and regulating, scientific instructions—
-
everything? Written by that eminent authority, Daniel Spillane.
The cost is only a trifle—a dollar.
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The book is illustrated,
cloth bound, over a hundred pages. It is called "The Piano."
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EDWARD LYMAN BILL,
PUBLISHER,
3 Kast 14th Street, New York.