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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
Piano flaking on the Coast.
Still Another Copyright Bill.
Put Together to Stay.
[Special to The Review.]
A KROEGER PIANO STANDS UP UNDER HEAVY
STRAIN.
Washington, D. C , May 16, 1900.
Copyright bills continue to multiply.
Senator Lodge has now introduced, it is
said by request, a copyright bill which pro-
vides that the author, inventor, designer,
or proprietor of any book, dramatic or mu-
sical composition, and the heirs, executors,
administrators or assigns of any such per-
son should, upon complying with the pro-
visions of the act have the sole right of
printing, re-printing, publishing, execut-
ing, finishing, and vending the same, and
in the case of a dramatic composition, shall
have the sole right of publicly performing
or representing it, or causing it to be per-
formed or represented by others; and au-
thors, their executors, etc., would have the
exclusive right to dramatize and translate
any of their works for which copyright
shall have been obtained under the laws of
the United States. It further provides
that the life of a copyright shall be one
thousand years, and that the term of all
unexpired copyrights at the time of the
passage of the bill, together with the unex-
pired fourteen year renewals, shall be ex-
tended to one thousand years from the
date of their copyright or renewal, as the
case may be.
A curious accident happened on School
street, Saturday, says the Worcester, Mass.,
Gazette. A piano mover was delivering a
Kroeger piano to a customer for the Bates
Piano Co. The iron hook holding the
ropes that hold the piano in place in the
wagon, suddenly broke, and the instru-
ment, weighing 900 pounds, went crashing
to the pavement.
The mover felt several distinct varieties
of cold chills playing up and down his
back, as visions of his employer's wrath at
sight of what he supposed was a ruined
piano crossed his mind. The piano was
lifted back into the wagon and returned to
the warerooms at 2 Walnut street.
The piano is an upright of handsome
mahogany, and in falling struck on one
corner, knocking it off. On further in-
vestigation it was found that the inner
mechanism had not suffered in the least
and that the instrument was in perfect
tune. The mover drew long sighs of re-
lief. The accident was a curious one, and
incidentally put the workmanship of the
piano to a severe test.
Woodbury of Atlanta.
S. A. Woodbury is opening up a music
store at 93 Peachtree street, Atlanta, Ga.,
This afternoon a fine wagon load of where he will have the retail agency for
Starr pianos went past the office, says the Estey Organ Co. He will handle be-
the "Palladium" of Richmond, Ind., last sides pianos and organs a full line of small
Thursday. The load contained nine pianos goods and sheet music. In this connec-
on a large, extra width platform wagon tion he has been a recent visitor to New
drawn by four splendid draft horses. York for the purpose of securing stock and
There was not a feature about this pros- making important connections. Mr. Wood-
perity display that did not bespeak thrift. bury is an experienced business man and
The pianos were a part of a carload of fif- widely known and respected in the South.
teen fine instruments on their way to San
Are You Aware?
Francisco. The members of the company
The latest of the Fischer booklets, just
are justly proud of the impromptu ex-
issued, asks prospective purchasers in a gen-
hibit.
eral way the question: Are You Aware?
Are you desirous of securing a piano and then proceeds to specify, among other
in which are combined all essentials things, as follows:
necessary to a high-grade product at a Are You Aware that an ornamental case of
piano does not always indicate what
figure which at once makes it the most
its tone, action or durability may
desirable piano for the dealer to handle ?
be?
Are You Aware that because you buy a
THE
piano cheap, gnd told that it is a
high grade instrument you may re-
pent your bargain?
Are You Aware that bright new keys and
ALENBERG
strings do not always make a fine
toned piano, any more than an orna-
mental case makes one?
Are You Aware that to be perfectly satis-
fied with your piano, you must know
is an instrument which will at once
that it was purchased from a maker
of reputation?
appeal to expert buyers as embodying
the maximum value at the minimum Are You Aware that a solid and enduring
reputation is reached only through
price. Territory open for allotment.
years of skilled, honest, and intelli-
gent
experience?
Calenberg Piano Co.,
Are You Aware that the Fischer piano is
Factory:
the growth of sixty years of experi-
"Warer ooms:
ence? That its world-wide renown
23 East 14th Street,
New Rochelle,
is built firmly upon its reputation?
NEW YORK.
N. Y.
Starrs for the Coast.
Pi I AND.
POOLE
PIANOS
[Special to The Review.]
San Francisco, Cal., May 12, 1900.
It has developed that persons with aes-
thetic tastes to satisfy do not need to go
beyond the Rockies in order to gratify
their most acute desires. Chas. M. Plum
& Co. have turned out a piano that should
and will attract the attention of any person
interested in such work.
It was builded to order and for the pur-
pose of fitting a room furnished by the
firm after the fashion of Louis XV. So
artistic and delicate is this piece of work
that at first observation it appears frail,
but close examination shows that the carv-
ing is all handwork upon solid wood, all
of it having been done in their own fac-
tory in San Francisco. The body of the
case is in a special shade of olive green,
while the carving is overlaid with pure
gold leaf. The case was decorated by one
of our best artists, who worked at the task
for months. The design of this painting,
which was successfully accomplished in oil
upon a smooth surface, is especially soft
and artistic and is followed in the con-
struction of the music cabinet and bench.
The writer, during years of travel in
Eastern and foreign countries, has never
seen a more beautiful piano case and San
Francisco can congratulate herself that it
was manufactured here.
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Owing to the development of the na-
tion's interests in the far East, California
is destined in the near future to become an
important trade center. In the piano man-
ufacturing field, San Francisco is under-
going a renaissance these days, and not
only has Byron Mauzy started in to manu-
facture pianos, but J. T. Bowers & Son,
the well-known representatives of the Lin-
deman and Cameron pianos is now making
pianos in their own name under the super-
vision of W. F. Deitemeier, a capable piano
maker; both Messrs. Mauzy and Bowers
will also cater to the wholesale trade in
this territory.
An Angelus Exhibition.
The public exhibition of the capabilities
and possibilities of the famous Symphony
and Angelus Orchestrelle, made by the
Wilcox & White Co., was given by H. G.
Perry, of Gloversville, in the Bates Block
on East Main street, Johnstown, N. Y., the
closing days of last week. On Saturday
evening the Weber & Jeannison's orchestra
added to the attractiveness of the program.
Both Frank Hanson, the representative,
and Mr. Perry were in attendance to ex-
plain the workings of the instrument, in
which much interest was displayed by the
people present.
James & Holmstrom, have some big
orders on hand for their parlor grand
whose individual qualities are becoming
better recognized as time grows apace.
Precious, Perfect, Peerless
As to Tone, Touch, Design,
Durability and Value/ . , ,
5 a n d 7 A P P L E T O N S T R E E T . BOSTON, M A S S .