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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
popular than it used to be, and the modern
music room is incomplete without it. As
an educator the reed organ still holds its
place. It precedes the piano in the newer
sections of the country, and will continue
to do so. The output is as great to-day as
EDWARD LVMAN BILL
Editor anJ Proprietor.
ever it was, more divided, it is true, but
still the aggregate is sufficient to dispel the
PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY
pessimistic utterances of some individuals
3 East 14th St., New York
who are prone to think that the days of the
SUBSCRIPTION (including: postage) United States and
reed organ are numbered. We hardly
Canada, §3.00 per year; Foreign Countries, $4.00.
think so.
HOMAS
A.
EDISON
has
announced
ADVERTISEMENTS, $2.00 per inch, single column, per
insertion. On quarterly or yearly contracts a special dis-
count is allowed.
that his next production will be the There is a distinct improvement notice-
REMITTANCES, in other than currency form, should
kinetophone,
a combination of the phono- able in the construction of reed organs.
be made payable to Edward Lyman Bill.
graph and kinetoscope, which will hereafter They are better in tone, more handsome in
Entered at the New York Post Office as Second- Class Matter.
enable all of us to have grand opera or appearance, and more remarkable for their
drama brought right into our homes. He stop effects than ever before. They are
'THE BUSINESS MAN'S PAPER."
says: " I suppose it will cost me $2,000 to progressing with the times, and will be ap-
have the opera of Norma," or some such preciated and purchased for their especial
opera, sung to the machine, but I can re- merits. The reed organ is not on the
produce them on almost as many cylinders downward grade. Its future is not limited.
as I please. I am going to reproduce the As long as the manufacturer produces an
motions and words of life-sized speaking instrument of merit it will hold its own
figures. I have already got speaking and and find a market.
moving figures up to half life size." Wiz-
ard Edison, with this end in view, has ar-
TRADE CONDITIONS.
HE reports from government sources
ranged to purchase the North American
and the commercial agencies for the
Phonograph Co. 's assets, and will hereafter
make the phonographs himself. What first quarter of 1895, just published, are
certainly most encouraging. They show a
next!
marked improvement over business condi-
EFORE long we will be able to chron- tions a year ago. F"rom these reports we
icle the appearance of the one hun- learn that the total number of business fail-
dred thousandth Fischer piano. This will ures up to the end of March was 157 fewer
be an event almost unparalleled in the his- than in the corresponding period of 1894;
tory of any piano manufacturing concern in and the new manufacturing enterprises, in-
this country. It tells the story in itself of cluding those incorporated and actually un-
HE composite picture of piano and or-
the growth of this house and the estimation dertaken, and all that are projected, show
gan makers shown in another portion
and popularity in which its products are an aggregate of 890 for the first quarter of
of this paper forms an interesting study.
held. It means that the Fischer pianos are 1895, against 661 for the same period of
Do not overlook it.
-
in touch with the improved and advanced 1894, an increase of 229—a gain of over
HE illustrated devScriptive account requirements of this age. On the other one-third.
These are only some, however, of the
which we are weekly publishing of all hand, it denotes the extensive trade con-
nections
and
splendid
business
policy
that
many
proofs that the business condition is
musical patented inventions,makes not only
enabled
them
to
reach
the
altitude
they
not only improved, but rapidly improving.
an interesting but a very instructive feat-
now
occupy
in
the
commercial
and
manu-
In
all departments of industry this is evi-
ure of a class publication.
facturing world. J. & C. Fischer have dent. Labor is more plentiful, wages are
kept abreast of the times in all departments on the upward turn, and surplus money is
HE dinner given by the Piano Manu-
of their business, and the results are obvi- finding its way into the pockets of the pur-
facturers' Association, of New York,
ous. One hundred thousand pianos is cer- chasing public. The piano trade, it is true,
on the 28th tilt., has now become history.
tainly a wonderful record, but it will only can not feel the improved condition of
Taken all together it will rank as the most
mark an important era—one from which things as soon as other industries, but three
notable social event which has ever trans-
they can date a still greater progress as months of gradual improvement, as evi-
pired in the history of the music trades of
manufacturers and in the extension of their denced from the figures just shown, open the
this country.
business.
way for a demand for goods, especially
pianos and organs and other wares which
N the current issue of a scientific publica_
rank
under the heading of luxuries. The in-
THE REED ORGAN.
tion,Mr. Appleton Morgan has an inter-
OTWITHSTANDING the growing creased deposits in the savings banks go to
esting article dealing with "Cheap Rail-
popularity of good pianos, and the prove that money is being put away; while
road Service." Speaking especially of the
carriage of freight, he congratulates the appearance of the "thump box," so-called, the improved railroad earnings and in-
country that American freight rates once pianos, yet the future of the high grade creased bank clearings also go to show that
more stand where they were before the In- reed organ is not as bleak as some would the opening up of the second quarter of the
terstate Commerce Commission sent them have us think. In the homes of the mu- present year finds the business of the coun-
up, so that our railroads can now carry sical public to-day this instrument is more try, both commercially and industrially, in
"or an average of "$1.22 as against an av-
erage of $2.02 for the rest of the world."
The figures in detail for the principal Eu-
ropean states are $1.22 for Germany, $2.10
for Austria, $1.54 for Holland, $2.76 for
Denmark, $2.32 for Russia and $3 for Nor-
way. The general average given above is
based on a mileage of 175,000 in the
United States, and 159,000 in the rest of
the world.
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