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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
Qrunewald Products in Mexico.
[Special to The Review].
New Orleans, La., May 8, 1897.
Berthold Otto, one of the biggest hand-
lers of musical instruments in Mexico t is
in the city, the guest of the Hotel Grune-
wald. It is quite a feather in the cap of
the city that the vast bulk of mandolins
sold in Mexico are manufactured by Rene
Grunewald, a New Orleans boy, right here
in this city. The pretty senorita of Mexi-
co is thus seen to play a dulcet mandolin,
made of hard wood grown in Mexico, and
some other Central and South American
places, shipped to New Orleans, and sent
back in the shape of the tuneful stringed
instrument so much affected in the land
of the castanet and born Carmencitas. Mr.
Otto is making a specialty of the Grune-
wald products, a fact which shows that the
workmanship and tone is appreciated in
the music land of the tropics.
there ought to be some means devised by
which we could avoid these constant and
extreme changes in tariff legislation, first
going far in the direction of a high tariff,
and on the occasion of a change of politics
going as far the other way.
"I believe that through the judicious
agency of a permanent tariff commission,
composed of experts, statisticians and bus-
iness men, such changes could be made
from year to year by Congress as might be
indicated and clearly shown to be wise.
"Certainly we cannot continue indefin-
itely as we have been doing, because the
business of the country will not tolerate it.
I hope sincerely that this Congress may
provide for some kind of commission which
will aid in changing the situation, and I
should be glad if an amendment of the kind
indicated were to be incorporated in the
bill now before the Senate known as the
Dingley bill."
Waterloo Organ Co.'s Progress.
C ill lorn Wants a Tariff Com-
mission.
SUGGESTS AN AMENDMENT TO THE DINGLEY
BILL — EXTREME AND CONSTANT CHANGES
IN RATES RUINOUS TO BUSINESS.
Senator Cullo.m, in reply an inquiry as
to his views on a permanent tariff com-
mission from Samuel B. Archer, Secretary
of the Tariff Commission League, at
Newark, has written a letter in which he
says:
"I have for many years thought that
The fire which recently destroyed the
Waterloo Organ Co.'s piano factory has not
in the least interfered with business. They
had sufficient stock on hand to meet im-
mediate orders, and the new building is
being so rapidly pushed that they will be
able to manufacture in it around the open-
ing of next month. The Waterloo Organ
Co. are at present preparing a number of
new styles of both pianos and organs which
are destined to make a big " hit " when
they make their appearance.
BAUMEISTER Pianos
CHALLENGE COMPETITION IN TONE,
ACTION AND DURABILITY:
: : :
534 to 538 W. 58th Street,
1.
.New York.
Speaking of organs reminds us that this
department of the Waterloo Organ Co.'s
business is especially good, in fact' it is
almost thirty per cent, ahead of the same
period last year.
Park's Peculiar Malady.
[Special to The Review. |
Camden, N. J., May 10, 1897.
A case of lockjaw which is mystifying
physicians of this city was made public
last night. The victim, William H. Park,
is a piano mover, living at 708 Federal
street. He is otherwise enjoying good
health, and has met with no accident of
any kind.
Park experienced a strange sensation
about the jaws on Wednesday, and Thurs-
day found they were slowly but surely
contracting, and at night they were firmly
set.
Dr. Hirst and Professor William S.
Jones, of the Jefferson Hospital, were
called in yesterday morning. The physi-
cians worked for a long time, but only suc-
ceeded in prying the jaws apart half an
inch. When the lever was removed the
jaws closed again with a snap.
The physicians made an effort to force a
tube down the man's throat, but were un-
successful. Professor Jones says the case
is a puzzle. The patient, of course, is un-
able to take any nourishment.
Breckwoldt Sounding Boards.
The "building u p " process now dis-
cernible in the piano industry is fully con-
firmed by the condition of business at the
factory of Julius Breckwoldt, Dolgcville.
Orders for sounding boards have been
coming in with the utmost regularity,
thus not only demonstrating the fact that
better times are coming our way, but alto
the increased confidence of the -manufac-
turers in Mr. Breckwoldt's wares. The
Breckwoldt sounding boards have always
been widely recognized as of the best, and
this repuiation is not only being per-
petuated but augmented to-day.
Panels are Practically Indestructible.
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BESIDES THEY ARE THE MOST ARTISTIC ADORNMENT THAT CAN BE
PLACED IN PIANOS. . •. MANUFACTURERS CAN BE SUPPLIED WITH
SPECIAL DESIGNS.
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