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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
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THE "SMALL GOODS" TRADE
A Chat with Mr. flenzenhauer. to double our facilities. The outlook is durability, perfection of tone, variety of
that we shall want a great deal more space.
" I am busy with another invention
which will be a complete surprise and is
very likely to make a big success, viewed
from a purely practical business stand-
The Review, during its usual weekly
point as well as in other ways. We are
round, called at the Menzenhauer-Schmidt
moving right along. Competition does
factory on Tuesday and met Mr. C. Men-
not hurt us. In fact, it helps us."
zenhauer, head of the firm and the inven-
Mr. Menzenhauer showed The Review
tor of the Guitar-Zither. In response to
the weekly returns of work actually done
questions concerning trade conditions, Mr.
for several weeks past, each return to-
Menzenhauer said:
talling between 6,000 and 7,000 instru-
"We are doing well and our business is
ments. These are shipped to various
continually growing. Our output is be-
home and foreign points as soon as com-
tween 6,000 and 7,000 per week and we are
pleted.
working ten hours a day at present with
occasional ' night and day ' periods.
A Talking Machine Injunction.
"Branches have been established in
Judge Lacombe in the United States Cir-
Canada and South America, and in every cuit Court for the Southern District of New
state of the Union. We are now complet- York, has granted the motion for a prelim-
ing negotiations embracing the most im- inary injunction against the National Gram-
portant countries on the European conti- ophone Company on the suit brought
nent, also Great Britain.
against that company by the American
"Our establishment in Germany includes Graphophone Company. Judge Lacombe
a factory, employing 150 people, at 23 delivered an opinion holding that the gram-
Melchior street, Berlin, and an office at ophone infringes a fundamental patent of
Spittelmark 2, in the same city, with an the American Graphophone Company. The
office force of twenty-five people, including suit involves the right to the use of im-
printers and counters of music sheets.
portant devices which, it is claimed, are
"We have secured the right for these essential to any practical talking machine.
music sheets and pay 50,000 marks per In the affidavits filed with the bill of com-
annum for the privilege. Branches have plaint, the American Graphophone Com-
been established by us in fifty German pany asserted substantially that the gram-
cities and towns. They are all doing well. ophone was of no practical value until de-
This much has been accomplished in four- vices covered by the graphophone patents
teen months.
were adopted as part of its mechanism.
"Our force here varies from 150 to 175 The interests involved in the suit are ex-
people. At this time we have the maxi- tensive and important.
mum. Next spring, it is probable that we
shall extend our factory building in order
The " Criterion " Music Box.
STEADY EXPANSION OF THE BUSINESS OF THE
MENZENHAUER-SCHMIDT CO.
WEEKLY
OUTPUT BETWEEN SIX AND SEVEN
THOUSAND INSTRUMENTS.
Bodies of beautifully engraved aluminum.
Sound-boards
° f sel wm, d dlrfuTin Tone, B e a u t y , Durability.
CATALOGUE FREE.
ALUMINUM MUSICAL INST. CO, Mt. Vernon, N. Y.
A forceful statement of the merits of
" Criterion " products appeared in a recent
issue of the New York Herald. "For an ex-
quisite surprise on Christmas morning," it
says, "and a continued delight for years
to come, no gift is to be compared with the
'Criterion ' Music Box, the perfected prod-
uct of a great and famous house.
"Just as throughout the world the
name of Stradivarius is associated with the
violin, so is there one name associated with
the music box—the name of Paillard, fifty
years in the United States and one hundred
years in Switzerland.
"The traditions, the experience, the
skill, the accumulated knowledge, descend-
ing from father to son, from generation to
generation, have culminated finally in the
'Criterion,' which in point of simplicity,
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tune and outside beauty, is the leading
music box of the world to-day.
" The pleasure to be derived from a Cri-
terion Music Box is not merely that
of an easily satisfied curiosity, but the
natural and lasting delight born of lis-
tening to exquisite music floating through
drawing-room and boudoir, studio or
chamber, made without effort of either
mind or body — restful or enlivening,
an inspiration or a benediction, but always
refining and elevating—the embodiment of
perfect harmony."
During a visit of The Review to the
Paillard warerooms on Monday, it was
noted that the great holiday exhibit in-
cludes each of the favorite styles for the
present season, with elegant examples of
carving and design.
Mr. Cambon's Experience.
When M. Cambon, the new French Am-
bassador, represented the French Govern-
ment at Madrid, says the Critic, he imported
by degrees a great deal of French furni-
ture for the Embassy. In consequence he
became acquainted with the ways of the
Spanish Custom-house officials.
They
were specially on the lookout for infernal
machines and distrusted everything that
came from France. Among other things,
M. Cambon had ordered a very fine large
musical-box. As it happened, this instru-
ment had a window in the lid through
which the machinery could be seen. The
Customs people examined this, were struck
by the wheels and cylinders, "arrested"
the thing as an infernal machine and com-
municated to the authorities their theory.
The Ambassador was apprised by the
Spanish Government; and explanations
ensued which ended in the release of the
box. The Custom officers, however, were
not convinced of their mistake, until an
obliging attache caused the infernal ma-
chine to perform the "Marseillaise" for
their benefit.
Bay State Banjo Ho. 3S1.
Three full octaves. Ten and a half inch rim of laminated
wood, covered with German silver. Improved top hoop pro-
tects head from bracket hooks. All ni»ial parts nickel-plated
and burnished. Nineteen-inch arm of mahogany, veneered
inlaid pearl design, and fingerboard of ebony. Powerful and
brilliant tone. Price, $30. Other banjos from $10 to $100.
JOHN C HAYNES & CO.,
Makers of Bay State Instruments.
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