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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
Business has been very active this week
at all the piano warerooms on Fifth avenue.
When The Review called at the Everett
warerooms on Thursday, and again yester-
day, Mr. Wright was actively engaged with
customers. Mr. Levy, too, who has charge
of the salesrooms, is kept busy with profes-
sional and other patrons. There is promise
of a great future in this city for the Everett
pianos.
Mason & Hamlin have recently been
shipping a number of their latest products
in pianos and organs from the factory to
the New York warerooms, where they are
now on exhibition. Other new styles, re-
cently referred to in The Review, are in
active preparation.
Chickering Hall was crowded with an
ultra-fashionable audience at the first mati-
nee musicale of the season given by Chick-
ering & Sons, last Tuesday afternoon.
The program was highly enjoyed.
Callers, many of them cash purchasers,
are frequent at the Knabe warerooms. In-
struments to choose from are plentiful, and
the critical customer who is proverbially
hard to please is usually able to gratif) T his
taste on inspection of the Knabe products.
George N. Grass, the popular Steck am-
bassador, returned on Thursday from a
successful business trip through Pennsyl-
vania and Virginia. He reports improving
conditions everywhere.
A new practice and recital room for the
Aeriol piano is being fitted up at the
yEolian warerooms. When completed, it
will equal, if not surpass, the room specially
equipped a short time ago for the "Prin-
cess."
Callers at the Knabe warerooms this
week have been numerous. Among them
were C. H. Baldwin, Hornellsville, N. Y.;
Mr. Perry, of Perry Bros., Wilkesbarre,
Pa., and Frank W. Thomas, of Albany,
N. Y. They left good orders for the
Knabe latest styles.
Thos. F. Scanlan, President of the New
England Piano Co., paid a brief visit to
the city on Thursday.
The fall display at the Emerson ware-
rooms in this city is large, unusually at-
tractive, and well arranged for exhibition.
There is some talk of Otto Wissner
securing more pretentious warerooms in
this city, possibly on Fifth avenue.
Joseph Shoninger, of the B. Shoninger
Co., has been spending some days in
Chicago.
Gen. Hickenlooper,the multi-millionaire
of Ohio, is a member of the board of di-
rectors of the Krell Piano Co.
Alonzo Wookey, who has been identified
with the Brown, Page & Hillman Co.,
Peoria, 111., has severed his connection
with that house. It is expected that he
will go in business for himself.
The Baltimore, Md., Herald of October
3 has some kindly words of praise for the
new establishment of R. Lertz & Son at 7
and 9 North Charles street that city.
S. B. Wagener, representing the C. C.
O. C. line of goods in Knoxville, Tenn., is
enlarging and improving his salesrooms.
Albert T. Strauch, of Strauch Bros., is at
present on a business tour in the interest
of his house.
tically occupying three capacious floors,
exclusive of storage compartments. The
array of grands in the Recital Hall is in
itself worth a special journey.
Ramacciotti Anniversary.
The recent Ramacciotti anniversary
celebration was a most enthusiastic affair,
as it deserved to be. There are many old-
established factories in New York city, but
few in the musical string business can
boast of thirty years' prosperity. The
founder of the house, Francis Ramacciotti,
who died in 1891, came to this country in
1850. Before taking up his abode here, in
1863 or thereabouts, he was interested in
the Kurtzmann piano business at Buffalo.
His ambition as a string maker and musi-
cian was to perfect the toning of the bass
register, in addition to the general plan of
so scaling the wires as to make a perfect
instrument. His son is now conducting
the string business and his products are in
steady demand.
Rosenthal Not Coming.
Professional readers of The Review will
regret to hear that Moritz Rosenthal, whose
portrait in colors appeared in the last
issue of The Review, has been detained in
Europe and will be unable on account of
continued ill-health to appear in this coun-
try during the present season. His medical
advisers have ordered him to the Riviera
for a complete rest. He may be able, his
doctors say, to fulfill a London engagement
in the spring of 1898, and in a recent letter
to his American manager, Mr. Wolfsohn
the great pianist says he is bitterly disap-
pointed at his inability to meet his engage-
Fine Display of " Webers."
ments here, but declares that he will cer-
One of the places every progressive out- tainly be with us next fall.
of-town piano dealer ought to visit when
in New York, is the Weber-Wheelock ware-
The catalogue recently issued by Wm.
rooms. The stock of Weber grands and Knabe & Co. has evoked the highest praise
Weber and Wheelock uprights in all the from the press and the trade at large. It
new styles is very large at present, prac- fully merits all the good things said of it.
There is a constant stream of visitors at
the Shoninger warerooms. A conspicuous
feature is the unfailing courtesy extended
to all visitors, no matter what may be
their errand.
E. S. Dobson, president of the E. S.
Dobson Piano Co. of this city, has returned
home after an extended visit to Lancaster,
Pa. He was the guest of A. D. Bickham,
piano dealer.
Chas. H. MacDonald, manager of the
Estey branch in Chicago, is visiting this
city, with the object of meeting Mrs. Mac-
Donald, who will arrive from Europe the
early part of the coming week.
The New England Co.'s exhibit on Fifth
avenue is well worthy of a visit. Examples
of the firm's new styles in several woods
are displayed to good advantage.
William Sohmer, brother of that popular
member of the trade, Hugo Sohmer, is the
nominee of Tammany Hall for County
Clerk. Mr. Sohmer is at present Register.
ILLUSTRATIONS OF SOnE OF THE RECENT PRODUCTIONS IN STOOLS FROM THE ESTABLISHMENT OF
HENRY MOLTZMAN & SONS, FOR WHICH GEO. P. NEPPERT, 240 W. 23d ST., IS AdENT.