Music Trade Review

Issue: 1901 Vol. 32 N. 24

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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
THE KING OF PIANO PLAYERS
Apollo
Pronounced by experts, who have given it the
most complete tests, to be the perfect player.
Territorial allotment is being rapidly made to
agents.
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Melville Clark Piano Co*,
Manufacturers of the
Apollo and Orpheus Piano Players
and the Melville Clark Pianos
Factory and Warerooms:
399-405 \ P . Madison St., Chicago, III.
BALDWIN^"^
PIANO
Grands and Uprights
GRAND
PRIX
PARIS
1900
For Catalogues and Information Call on or
Address:
D. H. BALDWIN & CO.
CINCINNATI
CHICAGO
LOUISVILLE
INDIANAPOLIS
TERRA HAUTE
ST. LOUIS
ESTABLISHED
INOli
T/ie Kroeger Piano Co*
Manufacturers of rllQH GRADE
PIANOS
East J32d St. & Alexander Ave., New York
DETROIT, MICH.
Manufacturers of High Gra.de
Reed Organs, Cecilian Piano Players and
Olympia Self-Playing Organs.
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Manufacturers
of
g*.
Fine Piano
w
VARNISH
Montclair, New Jersey*
G.SPIELMANN&CO.
PIANOS
SMake Money for the heaters
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ination must be conducted under circum-
stances which are most discouraging. Many
cases have been found where practically no
books at all were kept, and when the bank-
PIPE ORGAN
rupt was asked how he was able to tell at
THAN A REED ORQAN
a given date what his indebtedness amounted NO LARGER
Two Manual and Pedal-Bass
Effects
from on* Keyboard
to, he would reply that he was able to do
so by examining a file in which he kept all
Church Organ Pipes Only
his unpaid bills, and frequently when asked CHICKERINQ & SONS, Pianoforte Makers
to produce the bill file he would explain
BOSTON, MASS.
Distributor* for North and South America.
his inability to do so by saying that he had
either recently removed, in which case the bill
file was lost, or had had a fire, and it was
burned. It seems, therefore, that a proper
amendment to the present bankruptcy act
would be a provision requiring all people
doing business over a certain amount per
annum to keep at least the elementary books
of account, and providing that a failure so
to do would be a bar to a discharge, re-
gardless of whether or not the failure to are of the highest grade, and built in
keep books was in contemplation of bank-
ruptcy. The provision under the present our own factories at Union Park.
act upon that point is entirely inadequate,
ESTIMATES FREE
as it can rarely, if ever, be shown that the
failure to keep books of account was in con-
templation of bankruptcy.
HYMKDUA
PIPE
ORGANS
CHICAGO
WHY PARSONS BOARDED LAST NIGHT.
OAR D MAN
^GRAY-
Charles H. Parsons, president of the Need-
ham Piano & Organ Co., who started for
Europe this morning, boarded the steamer
last night. This precaution was deemed ab-
solutely necessary to ensure his personal
safety and comfort. It was feared that a
popular demonstration, with all that such
a parting implies, such as the firing of sa-
lutes, explosion of rockets, playing of bands,
and wild, tumultuous cheering on the part of Made upon Honor for 6a years.
Have no Superior
excited multitudes of friends, might not only
New. "Up-to-date," Attractive Style*.
SKND FOR NEW CATALOGUE.
result in severe fatalities among the crowd,
Factory
and
Warerooms
s
but would certainly unnerve the distinguished
543
to
549
BROADWAY,
(opposite Depot)
passenger in whose honor the event would
take place.
PIANOS
ESTABLISHED—IN—1837.
BOILED DOWN BITS.
William Dalliba Dutton, with Hardman,
Peck & Co., has returned from a special tour
in behalf of the Hardman interests.
The piano factory of James Munn is now
open at Park avenue and 131st street. Part
of the stock is in place and workmen are
busy in several departments.
N. Y. Co-operative
Piano String Co.
MANUFACTURERS OF
PIANO BASS and
SMALL MUSICAL
NSTRUMENT
STRINGS
312, 316 East 95th Street.
NEW YORK.
A. M. Wright, of the Everett Co., made
Catalogue and Information can be had by addressing
a short business trip to New England this
•"•SKKK-.., 524-534 E. I 34th St., N. Y. week.
W. C. Golden, Stultz & Bauer ambassador,
qfSter
starts early in the week on a Western trip.
Quo/tfy
cujd
fow
Priced.
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THE SCHUriANN IS THE GREATEST VALUB
The Rudolph Wurlitzer Co., of Cincinnati, It pays Deafer* to f;ar)d(e tfrem.
FOR THE nONEY nADE.
this week filed articles under the foreign cor-
Correspondence
Schumann Piano Co.
Solicited
3>ia0 LaSalle Avenue, Chicago* IM.
poration act in Indiana, with headquarters
PACTORYANDOFFICE.
in Indianapolis.
*O2 to 4IO West 14th Street, New Vo
UMKRSHKLL
A walnut tree at Franklinville, N. J., was
sold the other day to a New York purchaser
(E. M. BOOTHE, Treas.)
for $25. It was felled and shipped to Ger- Manufacturers of
St., NEW YORK many. Both England and Germany are pur-
Office, Warerooms and Factory,
BOOTH El BROS. PIANOS chasing all of the choice walnut procurable.
J88J
and 1883 PARK AVE.,
Manufactured by
Francis Connor has had a busy season
THE AMERICAN PIANO MFQ. CO.
Corner 128th Street, New York.
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General Offices:
with his new style uprights. The Connor D e a l e r s j e c u r l n g t e r r i t o r y w i l l b e p r o t e c t e d . . . . . . .
Seymour Building, 43d St. & Fifth Ave., NEW YORK.
banner is floating higher than ever.
Piano Keys and Cases
M . P . M O L L E R o" a . nufl ! cturer
l e w Y o r k P i n n o K e y d o . ia not only maintaining ita repu-
Hie best l'ianu anil IMps Or>ran KeyH In thin rnmitry, but have
a
d
The Danbury Art Store are now handling tation T h of e making
added to their plant a ii.at-oiasa p i a n o C u s e m a k i n g D e p a r t m e n t ,
oS^S PIPE ORGANS pianos at Danbury, Conn.
•™Lj™ '"
f"™'" ' '« very t*»t of ,a e work at the lowest p.lreponsihle.
(Office a n d F a c t o r y for both department* a l V e t e r b o r o , ill. H ,
HAOERSTOWN, MD.
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IANOS
Schumann Pianos
KOHLER & CAMPBELL.
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ltee t o
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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
IS NAPOLEON TO BLAME?
"When he crossed the Alps and led his
conquering hosts down into Italy Napoleon
killed the art of violin making. He did it
by building a wagon road. Before that date
all of the grand instruments of the world
were made. Since then not one worthy to
be compared with those of old Stradivarius,
Amati, Bergonzi or Stainer. Ask any man
wise in the lore of the king of instruments
and he will assure you, with a sigh, that
violin making is a lost art; though 'fiddles'
are still made by the thousand—all but one
man. He will tell you :—'Lost—yes—once,
but rediscovered. Napoleon took the vio-
lin from the world—yes. I give it back to
the world. A thousand artisans have sought
the secret, but for precisely a hundred years
the Sphinx has not spoken. For thirty-
five years I have studied, dreamed, tried
experiments. Now I have overthrown Na-
poleon. I have discovered the lost art of
making the Stradivarius violin.' "
"The man who boasts of this most inter-
esting discovery is a San Franciscan. In
a tiny basement shop in a back yard of Ellis
street he has been quietly working out his
problem. If he has succeeded, the musical
world will have reason to make obeisance to
grizzled, clear-eyed Orazio Raffa. If he has
failed the small army of violin cranks in
San Francisco who have heard of this new
product will need to take refuge behind the
somewhat equivocal statement that 'the old
fellow's fiddle is not as good as it sounds.'
"Inquiry among various violin makers re-
veals the fact that they regard prediction as
to the tone qualities before the instrument
is completed as impossible. And yet this
man is said to have accurately predicted
the exact quality of every violin has has
made as he shaped it. 'This one will be
adapted to strong orchestral work; that one
for solos; that will be sweet and mellow,
another a clear soprano,' and so on."
Raffa's secret lies in the treatment of the
wood. He says: "The Alpine pine which
has been soaked for six months in water
immediately after being cut in the forest,
becomes intensely hard. It loses most of
its resin. It undergoes other chemical
changes, due, it may be, to some mineral
in the mountain streams. But it does pine
wood no good to be soaked after it has been
seasoned. It must be green. See these pine
chips and shavings. They are hard as hick-
ory and practically unbreakable. They are
from, the Po River, whence I get all my
Wood, This, then, is a portion of the secret.
"Where does Napoleon come in? Why,
after he built his military roads down the
Alps all the logs used in violin making were
hauled to the market over these roads. They
were no longer floated down the river, and
hence received no soaking. The result was
inferior instruments."
Nextt
The more you pay for advertising, the
cheaper it is. A good advertisement in a
good paper like The Review will always pay.
STARR PIANOS
Embody generous artistic values and have
been found most desirable instruments for
the dealers to handle^
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Factories: RICHMOND, IND.
Simplex flMano
(TRADK MARK]
THEODORE P. BROWN, WORCESTER
The easiest to play.
The Simplest.
MASS.
The best in every way.
You want an easy seller
THEN
SECURE THE. AGENCY
FOR T H E
BAUER
cA Leader and a Seller as cAttradi FACTORIES AMO WAREROOMS:
338-340 EAST 31st STREET
NEW YORK
Smttb & JBarnee flManoe
Most
Profitable for th<
Dealer
to
Handle
Factory, 4TT to 481 Clybourn Avenue,
j& A
CHICAGO, ILL
HALAXT
DAVIS
Endorsed by Leading Artists
for more than Half a Century
...BOSTON, MASS.
THE HAGEN & RUEFER PIANOS
RE MADE to satisfy the desire of
the buying public. Honest in
construction, tasteful in design;
touch, light and elastic, and
musical quality unsurpassed. The
prices are low, making them just the right
instrument for dealers who wish to make
money, while building up a good reputation.
WRITE FOR PARTICULARS AND
TERRITORY TO THE FACTORY AT
PETERBORO,
(7hrisiman Pianos
CHRISTMAN & SON,
The Apaches have three different kinds of
violins, each having but one string and played
with a small bow.
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N. H.
A PIANO MADE FOR
MUSICAL PEOPLE.
RICH IN VALUE
FOR THE DEALER.
Office and Warerooms: 21 East 14th St., New York.
Factory: 6 6 5 - 6 6 7 Hudson Street, New York.
RADLE
PIANOS
are built to wear, of the best
material and sold at a remark-
ably low price. A money-making
instrument for the dealer.
Factory, 611 & 613 West 36th Street, NEW YORK.

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