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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
In the current issue of that interesting
publication, Printers' Ink, Chas. Austin
Bates pays a merited compliment to Mr. A.
G. Cone, treasurer of the W. W. Kimball
Co., anent his recent achievements in the
advertising field. He also has many good
words to say for the book issued by Mr.
Cable, entitled "The Evolution of the
Piano."
J. W. GUK.RNSKY of Guernsey Brothers,
Scranton, Pa., and G. L. Reimann of A. H.
Rintelman & Co., Chicago, have been in
town during the past week.
THE Philadelphia, Pa., Press, under date
of April i, says: "Fire destroyed the Mt.
Pleasant Hotel, Peterson's music store, and
Kuhn's business block. Loss, $2,000."
C. JANKE & Co. (incorporated), of Gal-
veston, have purchased the stock of musi-
cal instruments of W. C. Stansfield, and
will operate a branch house in Houston,
Texas.
ARTHUR L. THAYER has entered into
partnership with M. C. Perkins, music
dealer, Rockland, Mass., and after April
1 the style of the firm will be M. C. Per-
kins & Co.
THE D. H. Beck Company has been or-
ganized, under the laws of the State of
West Virginia, for the purpose of dealing
in musical instruments, music, etc. The
principal office is to be in Wheeling, and
the capital stock authorized is $<^o,ooo. The
incorporators are F. W. Baumer, Minnie
Baumer, Ida M. Baumer and F. J. Danner,
of Wheeling, and D. H. Beck, of Belmont
county, O.
THE Wissner piano was used at the second
concert given by the Brooklyn Symphony
Society in conjunction with Theodore
Thomas and his Chicago orchestra on March
26th.
THE W. W. Kimball Co. have opened a
branch store in Owossa, Mich., with J. M.
Beckwith and C. C. Eaton in charge.
W. F. CHESHIRE, music trade dealer,
Rockford, 111., intends to secure larger
quarters on Seventh street, where he now
resides. This step has been taken owing
to increased trade. His new establishment
will be fitted up in metropolitan style.
HELD for review—the new catalogue of
the Braumuller Co.
LACK of space prevents us from making
extended mention this week of the new
special style F upright, now on exhibition
at the warerooms of Chickering & Son.
HOUGH & DUNHAM is the name of a new
music trade establishment which has opened
up at Nashville, N. C. They will handle the
W. \V. Kimball line of pianos.
SANDERS & STAYMAN, of Washington, are
making arrangements to move into their
new store. Their removal will be formally
celebrated by a grand opening.
Neither do some manufacturers favor the
idea of sending out traveling men, and
would like to do away with that expense,
too, if they could. Neither do they like to
issue catalogues or advertise, and would
very much like to do business without that
expense, too, if they could.
This would be a glorious world if busi-
ness could be done without expense, if it
were all "take in" and none "pay out."
Now, wouldn't that be too nice for anything?
People who would like to have business
come to them without any ot the aforemen-
A great old character is Scotty. He tioned expensive efforts had better wait for
hangs about lower Park Row and is known the millennium. It can't be done in the
of many men.
present generation.
Scotty has things to sell. If you want
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diamonds the pockets of his shabby old
* in the old Mormon
The monster organ
clothes are filled with fine stones wrapped
in white tissue paper, and it is a cold day if church, at Salt Lake City, which is going
Scotty can't suit you and give you a price to be reconstructed by that progressive firm
to boot, which makes you suspect that they of organ builders, the Farrand & Voley
Co., has 2,704 pipes, each 32 feet long and
came to him by the underground route.
large
enough to admit the body of a man
If it is a horse for which you are ready to
of
ordinary
size. Besides this, two towers
offer your kingdom, Scotty has a friend in
arise
at
either
side to a height of 42 feet.
the business who has just what you want,
It
was
built
in
the early days when all
or ought to want, which is just as good.
freight
was
hauled
from Missouri River
But it is in the matter of pianos that
points
across
the
plains
with ox teams.
Scotty plays his trump card.
One
man
put
in
1,014
days'work
on it, and
"I'm a little bit of an artist myself," he
received
provisions
only
for
his
labor.
It
will tell you, "and when I recommend an
has
been
undergoing
improvement
for
the
instrument be assured, boy, I know what I
am talking about. I could give Paderewski past thirty-five or forty years.
points on the purchase of the noble instru-
*
ment."
Mistakes will happen. Even editors are
Scotty has music teachers and heaven not infallible. They have frequently to
knows how many other secret agents on the bear on their shoulders the errors of the
lookout for piano victims, and his wiles and festive typographer. A case in point: Our
guiles are many when he has a possible cus- esteemed contemporary, the Musical Cour-
tomer on a string. He finds the wrong side ier, in its musical department this week
of a bar a splendid coign of vantage for the comments on the unmusical compositors
use of persuasive arguments, and a little old employed in the daily papers, and meta-
rye a splendid salesman.
phorically pats its own typos on the back;
Last week by skillful manipulation he had yet, in the trade department of the same
taken a victim into a certain well-known paper, we notice the Courier's compositors
cafe* in the shadow of one of the big news- display a lamentable ignorance of the edi-
paper offices.
tor's name—it is printed Marc A. Blumberg.
"What?" said Scotty, "get that piano for Meanwhile, mistakes will happen.
$175? Nonsense, man; I'll not believe it.
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Why, that would be a bargain for a prince."
"But I can get it," said the victim.
Yesterday I met a man from the town of
"Billy Jones can get it for that from a party Bath, in this State, who is the only manu-
who is going to Europe."
facturer in this country of jewsharps, says
"I'll never believe it," said Scotty, shak- a writer in the "Commercial Advertiser."
ing his head. "It's too good to be true."
He has made jewsharps for thirty-five years.
"I'd like to bet you something," said the Twenty years he worked at the business in
big fly buzzing in Scotty's web and never England, and nearly fifteen in this country.
knowing it.
He first started in Troy, but believing the
"Tell you what I'll do," said Scotty. location would be more healthful in Bath
"I'll bet you $5 even that you can't get that he removed to that village about nine years
noble instrument for any such price."
ago.
The jewsharp was classed as a toy
"It's a g o , " said the victim. And away up to a few years ago. It is now placed
he went to buy the piano, little dreaming among musical instruments. For centuries
that it was Scotty's own instrument and it was known all over Europe. It is also
cheap at half the figure.
known as the Jews' trump. While there is
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no decrease in the demand for jewsharps in
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this country there has been during the last
In the present controversy, pro and con few years a gradual moving of the demand
expositions, the one great fact has been westward. Orders have increased in Chi-
brought out that many of the manufacturers cago in the same proportion that they have
of America do not favor the idea of exposi- fallen off in New York. There are twelve
tions, and would prefer to do away with
different styles of jewsharps, ranging in
them altogether, says a trade paper in the
price from $3 to $25 per gross. They are
furniture line.
put
up and -shipped in boxes of twelve gross
We do not doubt that at all, nor are we
lots.
surprised at it.