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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
Culled in California.
TRADE GLANCES IN SAN FRANCISCO CURTAZ BREAKS THE RECORD SHERMAN, CLAY & CO.
A SOHMER PIANO SENT TO HONOLULU MR. KNABE PLEASED
WITH CALIFORNIA—GLEANINGS.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 3, 1896.
AN FRANCISCO society has fled the
town for mountain retreats and sea
beach resorts. They are content with
aeolian music and songs of the sad sea
waves, all of which make dullness doubly
dull in musical circles. Trade is quiet;
quieter than even the summer season war-
rants, and the prospects for an autumn
business are not at all encouraging. One
or two dealers are satisfied. Harry Curtaz
believes himself one of the elect of the
gods. The June business which came his
way was astonishing. A record of sixteen
pianos for cash, to say nothing of those
put out on installments, was made by the
firm last month. This is their largest
June business in ten years. Sherman,
Clay & Co. say their June business was
slightly better than the same period last
year. Byron Mauzysolda Sohmer upright
to the Modesto Opera House last week, and
shipped a grand to a prominent man in
Honolulu.
Of course, nothing in the way of recitals
or concerts is going on, but a revival is ex-
pected when the proper season arrives.
William Knabe has been in California
for a month on business and pleasure. It
is his first trip to the Golden State, and he
has been carried away with its attractions
and declares his visit was much too short.
Harry Curtaz and wife have made things
pleasant for the manufacturer. They spent
eleven days among the wonders of the
Yosemite, and had a grand time. On July
5th, Mr. Knabe left for Portland, and ex-
pects to reach home by August 5th.
Leonard Georges has just returned from
a trip through Oregon and Washington in
the interests of Sherman, Clay & Co. He
says business is slow up there. Mr. Sher-
man, of the firm, came home three weeks
ago from a flying trip to Europe. He
visited his family in Berlin. Major Clay's
family are also in Europe. The Major is
spending a brief vacation on his Fresno
ranch.
S. J, La France, who was with Winter &
Harper in Seattle for fourteen years, is a
recent addition to the force in Kohler &
Chase's, establis ment. He will look after
their outside business.
It has been mentioned that the trade
would gain many benefits by forming a
dealers,' association here. Such a scheme
was, advanced a few years ago, but fell
through,. The fact is, there is too much of
the rampant, wild and wooly Western jeal-
ousy among the larger houses to admit of
co-operative work on any line. Even a
united effort to keep track of dead-beats
failed through individual fear of house
secrets being betrayed, and consequently
the dead-beat flourished until an outsider
who could be trusted undertook the work.
There are rumors of changes in a couple
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of big piano agencies, but as yet nothing
definite has developed.
California is proud of anything essen-
tially Californian, and just now local pride
is venting itself over the achievement of
Mary Barnard, otherwise Mile. Marie
Barna, who has signed a three years' con-
tract for Covent Garden, London, under
Vert & Mapleson. The prima donna was
born in Chico, Butte County, Cal., was
educated in Mills Seminary, and received
her first musical training from Madame
Julie Rosewald in San Francisco. She was
a popular local concert singer.
The first appearance of the Dudley Buck
Concert Club in Los Angeles, has created a
furor. There are twenty male voices in
the club, and they are efficiently guided by
C. S. Cornell. The club will henceforth
be a musical factor in the beautiful city of
the Angels.
M. M. Harris, of Los Angeles, is going
to increase the capacity of his organ fac-
tory, and has gone to Boston to buy the
necessary machinery.
of these wares to Europe. According to
these instructions the Dolge house will de-
rive the benefit of a drawback, which is
quite an important ruling in their favor:
"In determining the quantity of 'car-
bonized wool' used by Alfred Dolge & Son,
of New York, in the manufacture of ham-
mer-felt and piano hammers, exported
with benefit of drawback, allowance may
be made to cover wastage in manufacture,
as in case of such articles made from
'scoured wool' under synopsis 9,586."
Got 'em Again.
G
EO. P. BENT writes us that the divine
afflatus has again got in its work on
his Muse, hence the following:
THEN AND NOW.
Sweet Clarinda, blithe and fair.
At her tinkling spinnet,
Sat and sang some olden air
Like a sweet voiced linnet.
Strangely thin the tones, and quaint
Now would seem the spinnet:
But Clarinda, like some saint,
Wooed the Muse within it.
Now Clarinda's daughter plays:
But the old time spinnet
Is a thing of other days,
And no longer " in it."
For the new " Crown " instrument
Supersedes the spinnet,
And is made by Geo. P. Bent.
Fame takes worth to win it.
Important Ruling in Favor of
Alfred Dolge & Son.
So the " C r o w n " make stands confessed,
Not a cheap thing in it;
Long live " Crowns," they are the best,
Farewell, old time spinnet.
'"THE following order has been issued
^ by the Acting Secretary of the
Treasury to the Collector of Customs of
this city, with reference to the exports of
felts and hammers by Alfred Dolge & Son,
who, as is well known, are heavy shippers
THE re-organization of the Brett Piano
Co., of Geneva, O., has been effected. The
capital stock is placed at $50,000. It is
said they will soon commence the manu-
facture of pianos.
The Celebrated Packard Piano.
W
STYLE 7.
E take pleasure
in presenting
herewith a counterfeit
presentment of one
of the most popular
piano creations of the
Ft. Wayne Organ Co.,
Ft. Wayne, Ind. As
far as its exterior
beauty is concerned,
it is too apparent to
need any detailed des-
cription.
Dealers
who handle and all
who have purchased
the Packard pianos
speak in the most
flattering terms of
their superior tone
qualities. They please
the most exacting
pianist, and in finish
and high grade of
workmanship t h e y
are worthy the repu-
tation of their distin-
guished makers.