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THE
The Packard Piano.
IMPORTANT LETTERS FROM THE HEADS OF THE
GRAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC OF THIS
CITY WHICH CONFIRM THE GENERAL ESTI-
MATE HELD OF THE " PACKARD " - T H E
ONLY PIANO MADE IN THE WEST
THAT IS USED IN A NEW YORK
MUSIC SCHOOL-HAS WON NOT
ONLY A NATIONAL BUT AN IN-
TERNATIONAL REPUTATION.
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which will enable them to double their
output. The Packard piano is right in
front of the procession and it is the in-
tention of the manufacturers to keep it
there.
The Kimball Honored at Omaha.
GOLD MEDAL AND HIGHEST AWARDS GIVEN TO
KIMBALL PIANOS AND ORGANS.
W. W. Kimball Company, of Chicago,
have just received the gold medal and
The "G. & K. " in Scranton. highest award at the Omaha exposition for
The " G. & K."and Kroeger products the superiority of their pianos and organs.
are being well represented in Scranton, This fitly supplements the great sweeping
Pa., by Finn & Phillips, 138 Wyoming award given the Kimball instruments at
avenue, who opened their new store on the World's Fair for "superlative merit
Saturday last. Mr. Finn is a well-known and highest standard of excellence "—the
and wealthy citizen of Scranton and Mr. only pianos and organs receiving this great
E. W. Phillips is an old established music distinction.
The honors bestowed upon these instru-
dealer of that city. Sheet music publish-
ments
by these expositions are the natural
ing will be a specialty of the firm.
outcome
of the conditions prevailing at
Thos. La M. Couch, of the Kroeger Co.,
the
Kimball
factories. The most eminent
and Mr. Holmstrom, of James & Holms-
experts
in
piano
and organ construction
trom, were present at the opening, which
are
employed,
the
best
materials only are
was a grand affair. Marches written by
used,
and
all
the
various
parts are made in
Mr. Phillips,were played by the Scranton
their
own
factories.
The
Kimball plant
band, and a reception was held under very
has
been
enlarged
from
time
to time, until
favorable auspices.
it is now double the size of any other in-
stitution of the kind in existence. The
Trade Laws in Germany.
greatest musicians of the time cheerfully
The Ambassador at Berlin has forwarded concede to W. W. Kimball Company the
to the British Foreign Office a report re- honor of making the best instruments now
lating to the publication in the official or- before the world.—Chicago Times-Herald.
gan of one of the Prussian Chambers of
Commerce of a list of judicial decisions
Regina Activity.
under the law against ' 'unfair competition."
The Regina Music Box Co., of Rah way,
Among these are:
N.
J., are breaking all records in the way
A tradesman who advertises "all one
of
business
advancement just now. Their
price " is bound to sell all his goods at that
immense
factory
plant is being operated
price; he infringes the law if he charges
both
day
and
night
with an increased staff
more. For offering certain goods for sale
of
employees.
This
business has assumed
under cost price in order to attract custom-
immense
proportions,
and the demand for
ers, the court condemned the defendant
the
holidays
has
naturally
given it a fresh
as being guilty of an offense against the
impetus.
law. Customers have the right to buy
goods in any quantity at the price at which
they are indicated in the shop windows. A PIANO AND ORGAN HAN OF
To sell at cost price means, according to
VAST EXPERIENCE.
the Chambers of Commerce, charging cus-
tomers the price which the seller paid at
At the bench—as a retail salesman—
the factory. If a tradesman advertises as a wholesale salesman and who is a
" small profits and quick returns," he must
be ready to prove the assertion. Views natural born salesman, possessing all the
on business paper of factories and show- necessary requirements of a salesman,
rooms must represent these places as they viz.—A practical man—a gentleman-^
actually are, as they serve as advertise- and a musician; has been a dealer and
ments. In one case a tradesman was sum- a manufacturer; would like to pit his
moned for advertising cheap goods as "un- experience and ability against an in-
blemished " and prohibited from using that
terest in some reliable individual con-
term in the future.
In the advertisement of the Ft. Wayne
Organ Co., elsewhere in this paper, there
appear reduced fac-similes of letters sent
the Ft. Wayne Organ Co. by Dr. E. Eber-
hard, president of the Grand Conservatory
of Music of this city, and Dr. William Me-
dorn, one of the leading professors of the
same institution.
As announced some time ago the Grand
Conservatory of Music as well as the Virgil
Piano School, both prominent institutions
in this city, after a careful examination
into the merits of several instruments,
selected the Packard pianos for use in their
establishments. That their artistic qual-
ities have won the admiration of the presi-
dent and faculty is evident from the esti-
mate of their worth conveyed in the letters
referred to.
There is another important point to em-
phasize in connection with this matter and
to which we have referred before. It is
this: that the Packard piano is the first
instrument of Western manufacture to be
used in the music schools of this city.
This is a singular honor, and one of
which the members of the Ft. Wayne
Organ Co. have very good reason to feel
proud. It speaks eloquently for the worth
of the instrument, and confirms the uni-
versal opinion regarding these products
held by the trade at large.
The dealers who handle, the musicians
who have examined, and the general pub-
lic who have purchased Packard pianos
are unanimous in testifying to the fact, that
the aims of the heads of this institution to
produce an instrument that should meet the
most exacting requirements,' whether as
to architecture, substantial construction
and perfection of tonal quality have been
fully realized.
The Packard piano has now been before
the trade some three or four years, and in
that short time it has won an enviable
reputation. It has not only become famous
in the West, but, as related before, it is now
Decker on 125th Street.
becoming a prominent factor in the schools
Decker & Son have announced that they
of the East, while its fame is also inter-
will
open retail warerooms, next week if
national, for it was only last week that the
possible,
at 127 West One hundred and
Ft. Wayne Organ Co. received an order
twenty-fifth
street, between Sixth and
from Hordan & Co., the leading music
Seventh
avenues.
A new building, having
dealers of vSydney, Australia, for seven
a
frontage
of
twenty
feet and depth of one
Packard pianos and twenty-four Packard
hundred
feet
has
been
leased. The firm in-
organs. It is already popular in Great
tend
to
have
a
choice
exhibit
of new styles.
Britain. The musical attributes of the
Myron
A.
Decker
said
to
The
Review on
Packard grand and uprights are evidently
Wednesday:
"
I
n
addition
to
the
cultiva-
bound to command attention after an ex-
tion
of
retail
trade
at
our
new
warerooms,
amination, no matter when and where
we shall be glad to meet dealers there in
examined.
future. It will be more convenient for
The increase of business with the Packard
them than here at the factory."
people has necessitated an enlargement of
manufacturing requirements and a mag-
Grosvenor, Lapham & Co. have succeed-
nificent new building is now being erected ed Grosvenor, Lapham & Fox of Chicago,
cern in the piano and organ trade (no
corporation) for a permanency in any
reliable locality in or out of the United
States.
Address EDWARD LYMAN BILL,
3 E. J4th St., N. Y. City,
A
SPLENDID FACTORY
OPPORTUNITY.
A well equipped piano factory, located in a manufactur
ing city, easy of access to ail parts of the country, is for
sale. This plant has all the necessary accessories for the
production of pianos. The name Is well known, thousands of
instruments having been sold over the country from the
Atlantic to the Pacific. A regular output Is assured If party
purchasing did not desire to buy factory a lease on suitable
terms could be secured. A moderate amount of capital
would be sufficient to purchase the entire machinery and
Stock which is now being manufactured. Parties who de-
sire to investigate this matter can address: "Factory Oppor*
tunlty/' Car* of The Review, $ B. 14th 5tre*t, New York.