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V O L . XXVIII. N o . 2 5 . Published Every Saturday by Edward Lyman Bill at 3 East Fourteenth Street. New York, June 24,1899,
Grobmann Gives Up.
IN FINANCIAL TROUBLE WITH CREDITORS
$ 2 1 , 0 0 0 WORTH OF STOCK TURNED OVER.
[Special to The Review.]
Milwaukee, Wis., June 17, 1899.
The piano stock of Chas. F. Grobmann,
the Alhambra building music dealer, has
been turned over to creditors to satisfy
claims that he could not meet. The stock
embraces a wide variety of Hackley, Hard-
man, Carlisle, Poole and Chase pianos,
including a number of baby and parlor
grands.
With a fine wareroom, most beautiful
instruments, and the many years this
house has been doing business, this cer-
tainly is a sad happening to Mr. Grob-
mann. At one time he was considered
quite well-to-do. Having been in business
twenty-eight years, a practical pianomaker
and always handling the most select goods,
it is with feelings of regret that his many
friends will hear of his misfortune, especi-
ally so at a time when the outlook for
business is so encouraging.
Mr. Grobmann says: " I attribute my
trouble mostly to the cheap pianomakers
who started in business a number of years
ago and who manufactured pianos of the
poorest material, aided by the cheapest
labor, pianos that could not be classified
as musical and durable instruments and
were sold mostly by department stores,
sewing machine agents, storage houses,
auctioneers, tuners, music teachers, real
estate men, furniture stores and even pri-
vate families at all sorts of fraud prices.
All of this was too discouraging for me.
1 conducted this piano business upon the
one-price plan, with goods that were
worthy of being sold in no other way but
the legitimate."
Mrs.
ly unexpected. In fact, it has caused
quite some surprise that the insurance
company should have taken this action.
It is not yet announced whether the com-
pany will pay over the $30,000, or carry the
fight against payment to a higher court.
l}i Octave Organ.
In another part of this paper we publish
an advertisement of the Weaver Organ &
Piano Company, of York, Pa., illustrating
and describing their six octave upright
organ, which has regular stop action and
organ pedals.
We here show a small illustration of
their 7 ^ Octave organ with piano pedals,
Boston fall board, duet music desk, with
spacious room for books and music back of
it, the whole instrument presenting the
natural as if they lived and breathed.
They play any orchestral music that has
ever been written. The first violinist runs
off trills and chromatic scales like a virtu-
oso, and the snare-drum player beats the
long roll with the skill of a drummer boy
in the days of '61. The flute and clarionet
players might give a music teacher lessons,
and yet these wonderful figures are the re-
sult of one man's ingenuity and untiring
labor.
"48 Years of Success.**
The Vose advertisement which appeared
on our front page last week emphasized
that in the building of pianos the Vose &
Sons Co., have had forty-eight years ex-
perience which can be summed up with all
justice as "forty-eight years of success."
The Vose record has been one of persis-
tent progress—a never ceasing desire to
achieve greater and better results as the
years went by. The present demand, which
is keeping an army of men busy and re-
sulting in an enormous annual output at
the Vose factory, is due to this admirable
evolutionary policy, for in the Vose piano
appearance of one of the most modern up- of to-day we find embodied the best and
right pianos. There is nothing unsatis- most artistic features of correct piano build-
factory about a Weaver Organ with a long ing, whether estimated from the point of
key board. The actions are elastic and view of the acoustician or the master cabi-
instantly responsive and the tone full and net maker.
brilliant and these special styles are all
After forty-eight years of experience
beautifully polished same as a piano. The and success, the Vose stands to-day full of
high backed styles of Weaver Organs have vitality, splendidly equipped to add still
long been exceedingly popular and these further to its strength and character.
exceedingly popular manufacturers have Judging from the outlook, 1899 will close a
now also placed themselves in the front year with the Vose •& Sons Piano Co. that
rank as makers of piano cased organs. To will beat all records—a well-deserved tri-
be up-to-date in the organ business, which bute to tireless industry in every depart-
is again very thriving in most localities, no ment of their business.
dealer should be without a complete cata-
logue of Weaver Organs and a stock of the
Sing before the Queen.
most popular styles.
Cable Wins.
The suit of the New York Life Insurance
Co., who sought to secure a preliminary
injunction against Mrs. Alice H. Cable,
administratrix of the estate of the late
H. D. Cable, president of the Chicago
Cottage Organ Co., has been thrown out of
court by Judge Kohlsaat who denied appli-
cation for an injunction and dismissed the
plea.
The object of the suit was to restrain
Mrs. Cable from forcing payment of a life
insurance policy of $30,000 that was se-
cured for her husband shortly before his
death.
The action of Judge Kohlsaat was hard-
$2.00 PER YEAR.
SINGLE COPIES 10 CENTS
Hammerstein's Unique Orchestra
Eleven ladies in white satin gowns form
a skilled orchestra which will be a novelty,
and perhaps a sensation, in New York
when Oscar Hammerstein's roof garden
begins operations for the summer.
The cautious Oscar, however, is taking
no chances with the weather this year,
and so he has packed his "lady orchestra"
away in moth balls and will keep it there
until the last zephyr from the Klondike has
wandered over New York.
No one ever heard of a more wonderful
body of musicians. They are only auto-
matons, but they are life-sized and are as
TWO GREAT ARTISTS SHARE HONORS IN OPERA
AT WINDSOR CASTLE.
The celebration of the eightieth birthday
of the Queen of England at Windsor Castle
brought new laurels to Mine. Nordica and
M. Jean de Reszke, who sang the principal
roles in the state performance of " Lohen-
grin," with which the festivities ended.
These two great singers who have shared
so many artistic triumphs share also an
artistic preference for the same piano—the
Kimball—which they have purchased for
their personal use in Europe.—Chicago
Times Herald.
A recently built organ run by electricity
contains 64,500 miles of wire.