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A prettily gotten up and interesting
booklet has reached us from the Farrand
& Votey Co., explaining and illustrating
their new piano player, the "Cecilian."
The special attributes of this instrument
are treated of at some length and in detail.
The volume, will, no doubt, compel fur-
ther inquiry about this late candidate for
trade favor in the self-playing field.
The latest news from W. B. Williams,
the Sterling ambassador, who was criti-
cally ill with typhoid fever, is most en-
couraging and it would now seem as if he
was making steady progress toward con-
valescence. A host of friends will rejoice
at this good news.
Henry Lindeman and his son, S. G.
Lindeman, are both well pleased with trade
conditions. The additional floor recently
taken by them is being fitted up and
stocked with material. The offices of the
firm are to be located on this floor, where
there is ample light for all purposes. Or-
ders are arriving at the rate of ten a week.
The output this year is estimated at 600
instruments.
William Knabe & Co. are contemplating
a number of important changes and im-
provements in their warerooms in Balti-
more. As soon as they arrive at definite
conclusions The Review will give the de-
tails.
Robt. Nickey, an employee of the
Weaver Organ & Piano Co., was seriously
injured last week while operating one of
the circular saws in the wood-working de-
partment.
Some controversy has arisen as to the
inventor of the Practice Clavier. In the
Pittsburg Leader it is claimed that Simeon
Bissell, the well known teacher of music
in that city, invented it in 1873.
The Chas. M. Steiff Co. continue to re-
port a very excellent condition of business
in Baltimore, as well as at their other
branches. In fact, they are breaking all
previous records for the period.
The new styles of "Ricca" and the "Cam-
bridge" are all selling well. Mr. Ricca
and his son aim to make instruments that
look well, wear well, keep in good tone,
and are sufficiently low-priced to meet the
popular demand. Ricca agencies are now
becoming general.
Joseph Hofmann, the pianist, who has
been engaged for fifteen concerts in the
Eastern cities of the United States in
March and April, will give his first recital
in Carnegie Hall on March 5th.
The Biddle Piano Co. intend to occupy
new factory quarters at 105-m East 128th
street on or about May 1st. The capacity
of their new factory they state will be five
thousand instruments annually.
Morris E. Sterne has an advertisement
in another part of this paper which will
interest those desiring to rent large and
centrally located piano warerooms.
THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
Felix Thierfelder, chairman of trustees
of the Fabrik Lochmannscher Music Works,
Leipsic, is now visiting in this city. The
firm he represents is the parent company
of the Syrrphonion Manufacturing Co. of
New York, of which Wm. R. Gratz is
president.
Edward Lyman Bill, has been appointed
an aid on the staff of B. H. Warner, mar-
shal of the Civic Grand Division of the
Inaugural Parade at Washington, on
March 4.
The Lindsay-Nordheimer Piano Co.,
Montreal, Can., have opened a branch
store in the east end of the city at 1622 St.
Catherine street.
Callers at the Mason & Hamlin ware-
rooms this week included M. E. Peek,
North East, Pa , and F. H. Vinton, Mason
& Hamlin's travelers for the Boston estab-
lishment.
Mackie Piano, Organ and Music Co., of
Rochester, N. Y., have filed the following
report with the State authorities: Capital
stock, $100,000, all issued; assets, $60,000;
debts, $5,700.
William J. Keeley, of the Wilcox &
White Co., is out of the city for a few days
on a business trip.
Mr. Hudson, of Samuel A. Ward, Weber
agent at Newark, N. J., was a caller at
the Weber warerooms this week.
George M. Wood ford, Weber ambassa-
dor, leaves next week on one of his usual
tours in the Weber interests.
Among The Review visitors this week
was J S. Robbins, of the J. A. J. Fried-
rich house, of Grand Rapids, Mich.
Messrs. Chase, of the Chase & Smith
Co., Syracuse, N. Y., and Mr. Patterson, of
Mellor & Co., Pittsburg, Pa., were in town
this week.
Albert T. Strauch, of Strauch Bros., has
returned from an extended business trip
in the Strauch interests.
The talk about a piano trust will never
down as long as the "piano broker" is in
business. It is one of his pet hobbies.
William Knabe, of William Knabe & Co.,
was in town yesterday.
W. C. Altpeter, of Rochester, N. Y., is
expected in New York next week.
Supreme Court Ruling.
CRIMINAL LAW BILL OF EXCEPTIONS.
19,471. Neil Merrill vs. State of Indi-
ana. Howard, C. C. Affirmed. Dowling,
C. J.
1. The truth of a representation as to
the pretended purchase by one who is offer-
ing it for sale of a piano at a reduced price
is sufficiently negatived by an allegation
that said piano had never been purchased
by him for any sum whatever.
Benjamin E. Woolf, musical and art
critic of the Boston Herald, died Wednes-
day. Mr. Woolf was widely known and
universally respected in musical and social
circles,
Steck to Move.
Geo. Steck & Co., who have been lo-
cated in Fourteenth street for the past
twenty-four years, have consummated ar-
rangements, whereby they will remove
from that old-time piano thoroughfare to
Fifth avenue. Further particulars regard-
ing location will be given next week.
The Graphophone in Business.
This invention for recording and repro-
ducing the human voice is now being in-
troduced by the Columbia Phonograph Co.
into business houses and the offices of pro-
fessional men, where it will be of great
service to those having charge of the cor-
respondence, who, by its use, will be able
to dictate at their leisure and have their
words repeated to the stenographer or
typewriter operator at her convenience.
Arrangements have been made with a
number of colleges to instruct students
graduating from the shorthand depart-
ment in the use of the graphophone, or
talking machine, in order to supply com-
petent help for offices employing it.
Ludwig Advance.
At the factory of Ludwig & Co., domes-
tic orders are not only flowing in at a live-
ly pace, but orders are being received from
foreign countries, notably France and Hol-
land. This has resulted from the excellent
showing made by the Ludwig concern at
the Paris Exposition, where they were hon-
ored with a silver medal. It is the policy
of Ludwig & Co. to make their pianos
more worthy than ever of the success be-
stowed, and the latest styles exemplify this
policy in a very emphatic and satisfactory
way.
Pianos for Philippines.
In the report presented by the Taft
Commission and submitted to Congress
regarding trade in the Philippines, and
how markets for our products may be cul-
tivated, we read: "The Filipinos are born
musicians, and, under normal conditions,
buy a good many pianos.
Instruments
intended for use in the islands should be
so constructed as to resist dampness.
Other smaller musical instruments are sold
in large numbers. At present the bulk of
them come from Germany."
Wouldn't It Jar You?
The Piano and Organ Workers' Union of
Chicago presented to the Federation of
Labor, Sunday, a resolution, which was
adopted, declaring that the appointment
of E. S. Conway on the military staff of
Gov. Yates was inimical to the interests of
organized labor, and asking that the com-
mission be revoked. E. S. Conway is sec-
retary of the W. W. Kiinball Co.
That excellent instrument the Anderson
piano, made by Gust Anderson at Van
Wert, O., continues to be a great favorite
with dealers and the public who appreciate
instruments of that grade. Their output
for 1 goo was the best on record, and the
present year promises to exceed it. The
demand for a high-grade instrument like
the Anderson shows a commendable appre-
ciation on the part of purchasers.