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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
W. W. Kimball Co. in Fargo.
D
J. WRIGHT, general agent for the
W. W. Kimball Co. in Fargo, N. D.
has published the following card: I
beg to announce that we are now perma-
nently located with headquarters for the
State at 510 Front street, where we shall
keep in stock pianos and organs of various
manufacture. As this will be a branch of
the well-known house of W. W. Kimball &
Co., Chicago, who are to-day the largest
manufacturers of their kind in the United
States, intending purchasers will consult
their best interests by calling and see what
we can do for them.
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Next fleeting, December 10.
T
HE next meeting of the Piano Manu-
facturers' Association of New York
and Vicinity will be held at the Union
Square Hotel on Tuesday, Dec. 10th. The
officers for the ensuing year will be elected
at this meeting, and other important busi-
ness transacted.
Maxims for Advertisers.
T
HE bright little journal for advertisers,
Fame, hits the nail on the head in the
following terse and timely sentences:
An advertisement is a Gabriel's trumpet
that makes the dead business arise.
Advertisements never quit work on
holidays.
An advertisement is on terms of famil-
iarity with the richest man as well as the
poorest.
A business that won't stand advertising
won't stand long.
What a merchant pays in advertising, the
customer saves in buying from him.
Business energy finds its best expression
in an advertisement.
An advertisement is a dividend paying
investment.
Only the stupid people nowadays do not
read advertisements.
An ounce of advertising will grow into a
pound of business.
If you don't see what you want, consult
an advertisement.
A Piano Tuner Held Up.
21
Some Points for Piano Makers.
DISPATCH from Tarry town, under
date of November 20th, says: Paul
Metz, a piano tuner, of 209 East Fifty-first
street, New York city, while walking last
night from Trvington to this place, was
attacked by two highwaymen. Metz is a
small but powerfully built man. One of
his assailants attacked him in front, while
the other struck him with a blunt instru-
ment from behind. They demanded his
watch and chain and his money, but he
would not give them up. A desperate
fight for about five minutes took place.
Metz managed to knock both men down.
Then the men ran away.
A
A Hartford, Conn., Enterprise.
W
E learn from the Hartford, Conn.,
Coitrant that the foundation walls
for the organ manufactory being erected
for L. P. Bissell, on Depot street, Suffield,
Conn., are nearly completed, and the timber
is already on the ground for the frame,
which will be put up at once. The build-
ing will probably be covered in before
snow flies. T. C. Root, of West Suffield,
is the builder. He will put on a large force
of men and rush the work as fast as possi-
ble.
The Weaver Organs.
T
HE Weaver Organ and Piano Co.,York,
Pa., are among those progressiv
firms who have added materially to their
business in the face of the past few years
of commercial depression.
Their instru-
ments are winning a good deal of support,
not only in this country, but abroad, and
the future for the Weaver organ is of the
brightest. Mr. Gibson, of this company,
is at present on the road in the interest of
his house.
WE are in receipt of a neat folder from
the Farrand & Votey Organ Co., giving a
list of pipe organs built by them since they
elected the great Columbian Exposition
organ.
LEHMAN'S IMPROVED AM. HARP
acknowledged by professionals most perfect,
cheapest and easiest learned of any instrument.
For part ieuiurs ask music dealers or send stamp
for illus'ted Circulars and Testimonials to
Am. Harp Factory, Joliet, 111-
E1OW PIANOS MAY BE RENDERED MORE AT-
TRACTIVE.
T
HE piano has always been a most ob-
trusively arrogant and hideous piece
of furniture. It has spoiled many an oth-
erwise pretty room, and worried many in-
ventive brains in vain attempts to get it
into an inconspicuous corner, or to cover
up its shining, ponderous, black legs and
case. Much can be gained by wheeling an
upright piano end out into the room, with
the back turned toward the light, banked
with palms, or with the pillows of a cosey
couch. But even that much comfort can-
not be got out of the great, oblong case of
the grand.
Why piano makers continue to use the
same old and ugly models, with great knobs
and senseless twistings, and horrid posts
for legs, is a mystery, when a gracetul case
of polished light wood, with slender legs
arranged in clusters, and plain panels,
would find eager buyers, says the Boston
Herald. Sxich a piano in wood to match
the finishings of the room, oak, maple,
cherry, would be harmonious and incon-
spicuous. It could be treated more elabor-
ately with really graceful carvings or inlays
of other woods, and if an upright the back
could be made beautiful by a carved wood
lattice work.
Architects are doing more than the piano
makers themselves to solve this question.
They design the piano case and build the
music room to suit its size, shape and de-
sign.
A Japanese room has an ebony grand,
solidly carved with ugly gargoyles, and
grinning masks. There are heavy bronze
candelabra, and panels of that beautiful
cloisonne enamel set in frames of inlaid
ivory. A Colonial room has a piano with
the spider legs and straight lines of a Sher-
aton spinet.
For a Turkish room the piano is built of
satinwood, with elaborate inlays of tortoise
shell and pearl and ivory, after the Turk-
ish ideals.
And for a boudoir lined with Dresden
satin, the piano is enameled to a creamy
ivory, and inlaid with fine scrolls of gold
leaf and pearl.
Cases veneered with warmly tinted trop-
ical woods are exquisite, and make perfect
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FOR CATALOGUE AND PRICES
ADDRESS . . .
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FOXCROFT, HE.