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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
labor-saving and hammer-perfecting machines
of his own design at the Schmidt factory.
News this week at the Strauch factory is to
They each serve an excellent purpose, sim-
The New Orange Industrial Association of
the effect that business is active all along the
plifying the work and enabling the output of
this city is about to erect a factory at New
line. A big force is working hard on con-
better finished products in larger quantities
Orange, N. J., for the Ricca Mfg. Co.,
tracts. New contracts have been signed and
than under less favorable conditions.
manufacturers of small musical instruments.
others are now in process of negotiation. .
The building will be three stories high, 50 x
The aim of the Strauch firm, " to make
Chickering-Seidl Concert.
164, built of brick, and equipped with new and
the finest piano action that can be made in
improved wood working machinery, steam
Another of the popular Seidl concerts will
the world," is being vigilantly pursued by
power plant, sprinkler system, boilers, en- be given at Checkering Hall on Tuesday
the carrying out of a distinctly progressive
gines, etc.
evening, Feb. 1st. Franz Rummel, the dis-
and broad policy of action. The comment
tinguished pianist will be the soloist.
recently accorded on the appearance of the
r
Strauch Art Supplement in The Review is
Will
flake
Drum Heads.
The
Germain
Piano.
plain evidence of the fact that their policy
is approved by all. Outside the ranks
Frederick Rogers has purchased a building
All who have examined the pianos made by
of their patrons, many compliments have the Germain Piano Co. of Saginaw, Mich., site at Mechanictown, N. Y., and will at once
been expressed, showing that the merits of have expressed themselves most favorably re- erect a building for the manufacture of drum
the Strauch actions are widely known and garding them. In appearance, in tone, in heads.
appreciated.
finish, they are entirely satisfactory. Mr.
Stole from Lyon & Healy.
Germain intends to push this instrument not
Why Advertise the Columbia only in the West, but in the East. It is han-
Albert Marquandt and Henry Bredfield,
Zither?
dled in Chicago at the present time by the who were indicted in January, 1895, on a
Clyde P. Warner Co. on Wabash avenue.
T. Leverett Pierce of the Phonoharp Co. We can expect to hear of the Germain piano charge of stealing from Lyon & Healy 15,000
has some clever ideas in the matter of adver- being placed in many States much further sheets of music, valued at $1,000, were on
trial before Judge Ewing in Chicago on Mon-
tising. He is manufacturing an instrument East than Chicago in the near future.
day last. One of the men had been employed
that has caught the popular fancy, and which
in the Lyon & Healy establishment. It was
is selling like the proverbial " h o t cakes.''
said they opened a store on Milwaukee av-
That is why he asks in another part of this
David H. Schmidt.
enue, where they glutted the sheet music
paper, "Why advertise the Columbia zither?"
David H. Schmidt, the quality of whose market selling choice lyric gems at less than
It seems to us that every dealer will realize
at once why he has put this query. All who work as a maker of piano hammers has often the publishers' price.
are handling the Columbia zithers are making been favorably referred to in The Review,
Geo. H. Sharp of Geo. H. Sharp & Co.,
money and others who take the cue will cer- continues to prosper as. he deserves. Mr. music dealers, Westfield, Mass., has been
tainly prosper. The Columbia zither and Schmidt takes pride in his work and does not nominated as a candidate for the school
phonoharp are big popular successes and no depend on other people's ideas to carry out board of that place. He is likely to be
his plans. He has adopted several excellent elected.
mistake.
Strauch Bros.
Ricca Mfg. Co.'s New Factory.
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