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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
REVIEW BRIEFS.
& SONS inaugurated a
series of invitation concerts, somewhat
similar to those given in New York, at
their factory in Boston, last week.
CHICKERING
THE certified check swindler is again
plying his trade right merrily in New
York. Horace Waters & Co. are the latest
victims. They paid out $25 in cash for a
worthless $375 check on a Pittsburg bank,
which was tendered for a piano.
ALFRED SCHINDLER, traveling represen-
tative for the Marshall & Wendell Piano
Co., Albany, N. Y., during his stay in
New York last week secured a good order
from C. H. Ditson & Co., old-time admir-
ers of the Marshall & Wendell piano.
JAMES G. RAMSDELL, of Philadelphia,
rear-commodore of the Philadelphia Yacht
Club, made a very happy address at the
annual banquet, which took place in that
city recently. Mr. Ramsdell is as clever
in getting off a witty speech as in selling
pianos.
THE Starr Piano Co., Richmond, Ind.,
are making extensive additions to their
factory facilities.
THE Kroeger Piano Co., 528 East 134th
street, have been so pressed with orders
during the past few weeks that they have
been compelled to postpone stock taking.
The Kroeger pianos are evidently well
liked by the trade. The demand is the
best psoof of this.
THOMAS FLOYD JONES, of Haines Bros.,
will visit his numerous friends in the West
early next month. He is bound to secure
big orders for the new style Haines Bros,
pianos. They are beauties
THE Smith & Nixon concern, of Cincin-
nati, are making some lively moves these
days. A week hardly passes that a purchase
or a sale of a music house is not on the
tapis.
AL. BEHNING, of the Behning Piano Co.,
returned early this week from a very
successful trip down East.
DURING the past year the Ann Arbor
Organ Co. have shipped organs to South
Africa, Australia, England, Scotland,
Jamaica, and nearly every State in the
Union, while inquiry has just been received
from Newfoundland.
GEO. W. TEWKSBURY, of the Chicago
Cottage Organ Co., will sail for Southampton
on the steamer "St. Louis" on Jan. 29th.
From there he will journey to the Contin-
ent, remaining at Nice during the winter
months.
Credit Ratings for I896.
HE Thompson Reporting Co., 10 Tre-
mont street, Boston, have just issued
their 1896 volume of Credit Ratings of the
music trade, and it is in many respects
superior to their previous issues.
The book has reports from more than
4,500 towns and cities; the classification
of trades is closer, showing the particular
line dealt in in musical goods.
The manufacturers of pianos and musical
instruments, and publishers of music, have
come to look upon this Rating book as a
counting-room necessity.
The business was established in 1889;
beginning with an edition of a little more
thanioo pages of names of dealers, the book
has grown to between 300 and 400 pages.
Their subscription list has grown in pro-
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LEHMAN'S IMPROVED AM. HARP
acknowledged by professionals most perfect,
cheapest and easiest learned of any instrument.
For particulars ask music dealers or send stamp
for illus'ted Circulars and Testimonials to
Am. Harp Factory, Joliet, 111.
Office'and Sampleroom, Schiller Building, Chicago.
Sales are Made
in these fin de siecle days by men v/ho are
thoroughly conversant down to the minut-
est details with that which they offer to
prospective customers. A piano salesman
will obtain much more satisfactory results
if he acquaints himself with the mystery of
the action and technical analysis of the
instrument. He can do this
By Studying
"The Piano"
the best book ever written, and so pro-
nounced by the highest experts, on the art
of tuning and regulating. It thoroughly -
acquaints the reader with the grand, the
upright, the square piano on a scientific
basis. It is illustrated with carefully
designed diagrams accurately numbering
and naming each part of the instrument.
It should be in every salesman's library.
Tuners, whether amateurs or experts,
recognize it as the standard work of their
craft. No "kit" is complete without it.
Cloth bound, over one hundred pages.
Sent post paid on receipt of one dollar.
Edward Lyman Bill
3 East 14th Street
New York
Publisher
We are reasonable people—we know that if the
Dyer & Hughes Piano
Pianos,
2249 — 2261
TOashingtonStreet,
Boston*
Serxd for Catalogue.
does not back up what we claim for it, we will not find a market
for it very long.
We are perfectly willing that it shall stand or falLon its
merits. The popularity of this piano rests solely on the bed rock
of merit.
Write for Catalogue and Secure the Agency in your own City
J. F. HUGHES & SON
J*lanufacturers
Foxcroft, r\e.
Haines Brothers
[INCORPORATED]
FACTORIES
East 133d Street and Alexander Avenue
New York
Has been before the trade and [public.
The 1896 product eclipses any
previous advances
made by the
Company,