Music Trade Review

Issue: 1895 Vol. 21 N. 17

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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
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The Russell Piano Co.
HAVE MOVED TO THEIR NEW FACTORY, AND
HAVE ISSUED A NEW CATALOGUE.
Under the Hammer.
T
HE Automaton Piano Co., of New Jer-
sey—Receiver's Sale.
Notice is hereby given that the under-
HE Russell Piano Co., of Chicago, are signed, the receiver of the property belong-
now at home in their new eight-story ing to the Automaton Piano Co., incorpo-
factory building and wareroom at 249-251 rated under the laws of the State of New
South Jefferson street, Chicago. This build- Jersey, duly appointed both by the Supreme
ing is equipped with all the latest and most Court of the State of New York and also by
improved machinery, and the plant will en- the Court of Chancery of New Jersey, will
able them to turn out about seventy-five sell the following described property and
pianos a week.
assets belonging to the said Automaton
They have just favored us with a new Piano Co., to the highest bidder, at public
and enlarged catalogue of pianos, which auction; said sale will take place at the
contains illustrations of their new building factory premises of the said company, No.
and Styles A, B, C and D upright pianos, 675 Hudson street, in the city of New
which are great favorites with dealers. In York, on Thursday,November 21, 1895, at
the introductory to this very neat catalogue 10 o'clock A. M., and will be conducted by
they say: Our piano is being constantly im- Messrs. Woodrow & Lewis, auctioneers.
proved and an inspection of our large plant The assets and property to be then sold to
will convince any one that we are abreast the highest bidder will consist of the work-
of the times. Our scales are original, the ing plant, tools, machinery, fixtures, pat-
tone and tone quality marvelous and even, terns, molds and factory and office appur-
and the instrument is endorsed throughout, tenances and furniture ot the said company,
by the most expert.
also the stock of pianos and attachments,
We need make no apologies for our piano all contained in said factory premises, to-
in comparison with the best. Our piano gether with all the right, title and interest
has made, is making and will make a place of the said company in and to any and all
for itself in its upward and progressive patent rights, grants, licenses or contracts
march. We invite criticism, and ask the owned or possessed by it, in relation to any
closest inspection of our piano throughout, of the inventions used by it in the produc-
by the most thorough musician, or skilled tion of automatic piano attachments.
mechanic.
ABRAM B. DE FRECE, Receiver.
Our actions are the best—their develop-
Dated New York, Nov. 1, 1895.
ment our chief effort—the result, a justly
celebrated touch, very gratifying to the
expert player. Our cases are most attract-
A Busy Factory.
ive, modern and highly finished.
The Russell Piano Co. are to be congrat-
ulated on the artistic get-up of their new BUSINESS WITH KELLER BROS. & BLIGHT AN
catalogue. It is beautifully printed and
OBJECT LESSON FOR SKEPTICS.
relieved with some artistic drawings in
colors which are as quaint as they are per-
F an3 7 one is skeptical about the improved
tinent and effective. Dealers should not
condition of business we would advise
fail to write for this catalogue or call at
a visit to the factory of Keller Bros. &
their new warerooms, which are in the heart
Blight, in the pushing city of Bridgeport,
of Chicago, being quite convenient to the
Conn. Here can be found a degree of act-
Union Depot and the Board of Trade.
ivity that is cheering. All departments of
this vast business are being taxed to fill the
holiday
orders which are now on hand.
G. C. Cox with Gildemeester &
The
important
dealers handling these in-
Kroeger.
struments in all sections of the country, and
the excellence of the Keller Bros, pianos,
EO. C. COX, formerly connected with
have led to a steadily growing trade, which
the house of Smith & Nixon, Cincin-
has compelled an enlargement of their
nati, and Crawford & Cox, Pittsbiirg, is
manufacturing facilities. An addition to
now associated with the firm of Gildemees-
their factory is now under way, and when
ter & Kroeger, of this city, and will devote
completed will enable them to fill orders
the greater portion of his time looking after
immediately. The Keller Bros. & Blight
the interests of this firm on the road.
Co. are constantly adding to their line of
dealers.
Their instruments are "trade
catchers," and the musical public seem to
The Second Chickering Musicale. want them. The members of the firm have
always been optimists, even when the busi-
ESSRS. CHICKERING & SONS an-
ness horizon was cloudy, and they have
nounce that the second Invitation
been rewarded for their courage and per-
Musicale will take place on Tuesday
sistence.
November 19th, at three o'clock.
Among
the artists engaged for the occasion are Miss
Kate Rolla, soprano; Miss Jessie Shay and
H. M. HOWARD, traveling representative
Miss Jane Pottinger, pianists, and Carl for the Needham Organ and Piano Co., is
Feininger, violinist.
The program is an confined to his home in Hudson, N. Y.,
interesting one .
through illness.
T
I
O. A. Field Will Handle the Ma=
son & Hamlin Instruments.
A
S exclusively announced in this paper
two weeks ago, Oscar A. Field, for-
merly secretary and treasurer of the Jesse
French Organ and Piano Co., has purchased
the business of Edward Nennstiel, of St.
Louis, and has opened an establishment at
1003 Olive street.. The Mason & Hamlin
Co.'s instruments will be handled as lend-
ers, and, in fact, the establishment may
be considered a branch house of that
company, with Oscar A. Field as man-
ager. The Brambach piano will also be
sold by Mr. French, and other instru-
ments are under consideration. This is an
important move that cannot fail to be of
benefit to all concerned.
Bailey's Music Rooms.
T
HE management of Bailey's music
rooms, Burlington, Yt., have secured
a store in the Y. M. C. A. Building, for-
merly occupied by Miss Strain, and will
move their stock there about the first of
December.
The store now occupied by them they
have used for seventeen years, and during
all of this time has been under the compe-
tent management of Col. H. W. Hall,
through whose efforts the new and more
elegant quarters have been secured.
Demand for the Ann Arbor Organs
T
HE Ann Arbor Organ Co. has received
an order from its London, Eng., agent
for several more organs, says the Washte-
naw Times, which would seem to indicate
that its organs are gradually working their
way into public favor in that country. The
shipments of the company for last month
were nearly three times as great as those of
the same month last year. For the month
of September the shipments were almost
twice as many as those of the same month
last year, and for the past ten months very
nearly equal to those of any previous full
year. It is a good showing and one the
company can feel proud of.
G
M
Weser Bros. Busy.
T
HE mandolin attachment and other im-
provements which have been embodied
in the Weser Bros, pianos have not only
added to the attractiveness of these instru-
ments, but, as might be expected, have
helped to swell the number of orders which
have been steadily flowing in for some
months. Push is the order of the day in
the Weser factory, and John A. Weser and
his brothers are up to their eyes in business.
THERE has been a change of the Knabe
agency in St. Louis. The Thiebes-Stierlin
Music Co. will handle this instrument as
their leader, and arc going to make a re-
cord with it. J. L. Kicsclhorst, the former
Knabe agent, is at present quite ill.
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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
The Electric Self = Playing Piano Co
NOW SHIPPING ATTACHMENTS
T
HIS department is edited by Bishop &
Imirie, Patent Attorneys, 605 and 607
Seventh street, Washington, D. C. All re-
quests for information should be addressed
to them and will be answered through these
columns free of charge
PATENTS ISSUED NOV. 4 , 1 8 9 5 .
546,457.
Attachment for Stringed In-
struments. Albert Peitsch, St. Louis, Mo.
Improvement on patent No. 523,373, is-
An attachment for harps and similar in-
struments for playing chords. A bridge is
placed over the strings and carries a num-
ber of spring-controlled buttons adapted to
strike and sound the strings when depressed
by the player's finger.
WATERS & CO.
546,582. Electrical Piano. G. H. Davis,
New York, N. Y., assignor to the Electric
Self-Playing Piano Co., of New Jersey.
This invention has been described at length
in a previous issue of THE REVIEW.
Trade-Mark, No. 27,066. Printed Music
and Songs and Works of Fiction. Laura
Jean Libbey, Brooklyn and New York, N.
Y. The words "When His Love Grew
Cold." Used since June 25, 1895.
INSTRUMENTS THAT DEALERS SHOULD BECOME
ACQUAINTED WITH.
H
AMILTON S. GORDON, piano man-
ufacturer, 139 Fifth avenue, embarked
recently in the manufacture of mandolins,
guitars and small musical instruments, and
the wisdom of his course is apparent from
the number of orders which are coming his
way for these wares. The Gordon mando-
lins and guitars are very carefully con-
structed of seasoned woods under the su-
perintendence of a competent man. They
are sold at a reasonable price, commensur-
ate with good workmanship, and dealers
desiring Christmas stock should not fail to
546,519
Music Leaf Turner.
D. T.
look them up. They are just what the
Fo:c, Mount Pleasant, Pa. Operated by a
dealer wants, instruments that he can guar-
backward pressure on the front arms. The
antee and instruments that will pay him a
le:if-turning arms are connected with the
fair profit. Mr. Gordon reports a very sat-
front finger arms by toggle levers and
isfactory retail business and is building up
springs, and their movement is accelerated
a nice wholesale trade for the Gordon piano.
as they near the limit of their motion.
546,536. Tailpiece for Banjos. Edward
Jacoby, Los Angeles, Cal., assignor of one-
half to C. S. De Lano, same place Has
an upper flange adapted to rest on the banjo
rim and provided with posts around which
the strings may be wrapped and a lower
flange provided with notches adapted to
receive and hold the ends of the strings.
A GRAND SUCCESS.
T
Gordon Handolins and Guitars.
sued July 24, 1894. The presser bars are
operated by buttons and are provided with
depending fingers adapted to strike one or
more strings in one or more frets for the
formation of accompaniment chords.
ONE ON EXHI-
BITION IN THE WAKEROOMS OF HORACE
HE whirr and buzz of machinery is
now to be heard late into the nights
at the factory of the Electric Self-Playing
Piano Co., 333-5 West Thirty-sixth street.
Although orders have been accumulating
for the past two months, they were unable
to turn out attachments in sufficient quan-
tities until the early part of last week
This was occasioned by a slight delay in
the erection of special machinery and the
preparation of dies and models for castings.
One feature of the self-playing attachment
—and an important one it is—is that it is
made of solid metal throughout, not a par-
ticle of wood being used in its construction.
In this way it is not susceptible, like other
attachments in which wood is largely used,
to climatic influences, and will outlast the
best made piano. In the meantime this
delay
has been of service, for in
numerous details the attachment has been
made still more perfect by Mr. Davis.
We had an opportunity last Monday of
hearing an attachment which Mr. Davis
had just applied to a Waters piano, and
which is now on exhibition at the ware-
rooms of Horace Waters & Co., 134 Fifth'
avenue, and our first impression of this
marvelous invention has been in every re-
spect strengthened. The evenness, precis-
ion, accuracy, authority, and it may be said
individuality of tone in the several num-
bers we heard is so apparent that one is
tempted to cry, "Perfection has at last
been reached."
While this attachment can be applied to
any piano without moving it from outside
a parlor or altering it in the least, it has
many other features which enable it to rank
superior to anything of its kind on the
Feigning Insanity.
market, but it is to the quality and effects
of the tone that the musician will find a
HELD, A MIGHTY SMART HANK SWINDLER,
special charm in this attachment. Instead
KNOWS NOTHING.
of the tubby hand organ effect, it charms
HAS. HELD, or Chas. Frank, Jr., the one by an almost imperceptible gradation
bank swindler, who is not unknown of tone which is almost human-like.
The marked demand for these attach-
to several members of the music trade in
this city and Brooklyn, is in Raymond ments is not surprising, for an examination
Street Jail, Brooklyn, waiting the Grand will convince one of its excellence. The
Jury's action on four grand larceny charges. Electric Self-Playing Piano Co. are now
shipping several instruments to Mexico
He still remains a mystery to the police.
He gives a half-dozen conflicting accounts and to the West, and "manufacturers and
dealers who haven't time to call at the fac-
of himself and feigns insanity.
For several years, it is alleged, Held lias tory should visit the warerooms of Hor-
forged drafts on a Pittsburg bank, amount- ace AVaters & Co., and if they will not be
ing in all to 1.early $500,000. Securing charmed with these attachments, why we
bank books on these he borrowed money will be greatly mistaken.
from acquaintances, giving them the bank
books as collateral. Among Held's many
victims was Freeborn G. Smith, of Brad-
AVE learn from St. Johnsville that the
bury fame. He also tried to catch the B. Meloharp, which is controlled by Geo. B.
Shoninger Co., hut was unsuccessful.
Shearer, of Oneonta, will be manufactured
C
546,614. Duplex Piano Stool. A. Gsch-
wend, Portland, Ore., assignor of one-half
to Morris Sternfels, same place. A sup-
Louis MITCHELL, who was for some time
pltmiental seat is adapted to slide out from
under the main seat so as to accommodate with the Needham Organ and Piano Co.,
of this city, died on Nov. 5th.
tw > players.
in that place, giving employment to a large
number of men. It is said that orders for
ten thousand of these instruments are
already placed.

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