Music Trade Review

Issue: 1901 Vol. 33 N. 11

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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
BUSH & GERTS PROGRESS.
Where the good salesman and Bush & Oerts Piano
compare—The new Victor piano and factory—
Things are humming there.
[Special to The Review.]
Chicago, 111., Sept. 10, 1901.
In the very interesting successful prize
essay in The Music Trade Review, touching
the qualifications necessary for a piano sales-
man, the first two points noted were, good
form and pleasing address. These are-ex-
actly the qualifications of the Bush & Gerts
piano. Their case work is an admirable
thing, and this company take peculiar pride
in the tonal quality of the instrument. They
have been innovators in the West in present-
ing the first successful application of the
French or dull finish. Samples of this work
have been on exhibition for some time at
their downtown retail salesrooms and have
caused an unlimited amount of commenda-
tion. Other firms have since followed with
samples of the dull finish; but the Bush &
Gerts Co. seem to have been more success-
ful in their application, as it really looked
the best. In passing, another qualification
of this piano may be remarked that has stood
the test of time—its tonal quality. This,
after all, is the crowning virtue of a piano.
A piano that has neither tonal quality nor
stays • in tune, is dear and worthless at any
price.
The new Victor factory that has just been
opened by the Bush company, and the prod-
ucts of which will be marketed by the Bush
& Gerts Piano Co., is one of the most com-
plete, up-to-date plants in the West. All
the machinery is of the most modern
type, and much of it is automatic. Walter
Lane, who is head of the factory, has already
put into operation a number of his own de-
vices for facilitating the advancement of the
work. Among these are a number of new
forms of veneer presses that have a great
advantage over the old styles, both in direct
pressure and the amount of timber it can
conveniently carry.
The ingenious Mr. Lane has drawn up
and perfected in the new Victor factory an
inverted grand scale that promises in every
way to be remarkably satisfactory. This
piano, which is confidently claimed to be the
best medium-priced instrument in the mar-
ket, will have reinforced cross-bar ornamental
vents. Last week Mr. Lane and his assist-
ants turned out the first half-dozen cases of
the finest styles that will be photographed
for the new catalogue. Already timber has
been cut for 500 frames. The estimated
capacity of the Victor factory at the present
time is about forty per week, but with the
contemplated enlargements begun, it may be
pushed to one hundred per week. The Vic-
tor piano factory is on the corner of Forty-
ninth avenue and West Lake street and is
readily accessible by the Lake street elevated
and has a switch directly from the Belt Line
so that all material can be readily received
and goods shipped directly from the big
back door of the factory.
John W. Mayo has withdrawn from the
business of C. F. Geiger & Co., Cincinnati,
and it is reported that he intends to engage
in business for himself in that citv.
LOOK AND LISTEN
Yes, look at it and see an organ artistically made of the best materials and with the
perienced workmen. Look
greatest skill of the most ex-
music rack, and it's just the
it all over, from pedals to
the look pleased you, how
same* But listen! Ah, if
yet* it isn't strange that
much more the tone? And
should result in the sweet-
fifty years of voicing reeds
and clearer with each new
toned Estey, ever sweeter
what
were
the uses of experience?
instrument that comes from the factory, else
8END
FOR
C
ESTEY ORGANL 9^
CATALOGUE
"_ " _
EMERSON
PIANOS.
Established
in
1849.
Finest tone, best
worK and
material.
PRICES MODERATE AND TERMS REASONABLE.
72.OOO MADE AND IN USE.
EVERY INSTRUMENT FULLY WARRANTED.
ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE FREE.
EMERSON PIANO CO.
20JMA/ABASH AVENU£, CHICAGO.
110 BOYLSTON STREET, BOSTON.
KURTZMANN
Pianos Win Friends
For the Dealer
C. KURTZMANN CSI CO.
Factory, 526 to 536 Niagara St., Buffalo, N. Y.
Manufacturers and
R B. BURNS & C '*f O, Importers
of * * *
P i a n o Scarfs a n d C o v e r s
4 and 6 WEST 15th STREET
Will be pleased to send goods on selection at any time
MATHUSHEK&
SON PIANO
of acknowledged eminence.
Instruments that
dealers should become
acquainted with.
The Right
Piano
at the
Right Price
• • • • N £r W
jf
IX. tt.
The name of Mathushek has been before t the
public for half a century and is identified with
the manufacture of instruments of high grade.
It pays to handle a well-known name. The
demand for the Mathushek & Son piano is
growing all the time. It isn't necessary to
ask why ? You k n o w ! : : : : :
The Mathushek 6 Son Piano Co.
1567 6 1569 Broadway, cor. 47th St., New York.
FRANCIS
CONNOR
PIANOS
Factory Address:
134th St. and Trinity Avo., So. Boulevard
Are Built to
Satisfy a
Critical
Trade
Ware rooms:
East A2d St., N E W YORK
CAPACITY
THREE
HUNDRED
PIANOS
PER MONTH.
HIGH
GRADE
AT
MODERATE
PRICE,
ESTABLISHED IN NEW YORK 1876
I.\ CHICAGO 1SS6.
PIHNOS
ORGANIZED AND INCORPORATED
JAM IKY 1NOM.
V
Factory at Riverview, 111. - - SCHAEFFER PIANO MFG. CO., - - Office, 215 Wabash Avenue, Chicago.
HIGH SHADE PIANO TOOLS,
HAMMACHER.5CHLEMMER&C?
ZQS Bowery, M X
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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.
Melville Clark Piano Co.,
BUSTS OF FAMOUS COMPOSERS.
Those successful specialties of Win. F.
Hasse, 115 East Fourteenth street, the busts
of celebrated composers in alabaster, com-
position and plaster-paris, suitable for mu-
sic parlors, concert halls, piano warerooms,
conservatories, etc., have become standard
in the United States and Canada. They—
and they alone—are recognized as authentic.
The sculptor, in each instance, has caught
the composer's true expression.
These busts are to be found largely in use
Manufacturers of the
Apollo and Orpheus Piano Players
and the Melville Clark Pianos
399-405 W. Madison St., Chicago, IIL
THE
^GRAY-
PIANOS
ESTABLISHED—IN—I83Z
Made upon Honor for 6a years.
Have no Superior^
New, "Up-to-date," Attractive Styles.
SEND FOR NEW CATALOGUE.
Factory and Warer ooms %
543 to 549 BROADWAY, (opposite Depot)
ALBANY, N* _Y.
NEWMAN BROS. CO., • » • " " - •>'
Factory and Warerooms:
New York :
OARDMAN
fiiflb DftJfcMAt
Grade l l i l l l W
'1 he Apollo Co., 101 filth Ave.
m ^rlor and
^ ~
Cbap«l
Chicago A v . . and Dix St., CHICAGO. J* J*
J ULIUSlAU ERTCOi
BALDWIN
PIANO
"""•'""•-"» °< High Grade Pianos.
Wareroom—250 & 252 Wabash Ave.,
Factory—1025-1035 Dunning- St.,
Orands and Uprights
GRAND
PRIX
PARIS
1900
Manufacturers and Dealers in
PIANO AND ORGAN LEATHERS,
R3O-54O Atlantic Avenue. Boston. Mass
A BARGAIN
For Catalogues and Information Call on or
Address:
D. H.BALDWIN & CO.
CINCINNATI
CHICAQO
LOUISVILLE
INDIANAPOLIS
TERRA HAUTE
OUR SCARF ASSORTMENT No. 3
ESTABLISHED 1MO3
The Kroeger Piano Co*
Manufacturers of HI OH GRADE
PIANOS
East J32d St. & Alexander Ave., New York
THE AMERICAN PIANO MFG. CO.
PRICE,_$1_5. 0 0
NET
ASSORTMENT No. A
Consists of TWELVE LATEST STYLES VEl OUR SCARFS
six different patterns, assorted colors, in Persian effects, new
style sell colors. Oriental, Embossed Plush, and elegant six
,olor Prints, with finest quality all silk fringe
NET
$18.00
f these are not the best lots you ever saw for the money
,ou may return within three days AT OUR EXPENSE.
Strong Varnish Claims—Preparing for an Output
of 10,000 Pianos During the Current Y e a r -
Doing a Great Cash Business.
DETROIT, MICH.
Manufacturers of High Grade
Reed Organs, Cedlian Piano Players and
Olympia Self-Playing: Organs.
_.
Manufacturers of
^\
Qtf
Fine Piano
w
VARNISH
Montclair, New Jersey*
G.5PIELMANN & CO.
Rl ANOS
SMakt Money for the heaters
Catalogue and Information can be had by addressing
"""sr^;J.n... 524-534JEJ_34ASt 1 N ; Y :
Schumann Pianos
THE SCHUriANN IS THE OREATEST VALUB
POR THE HONEY J1ADE.
CorreapoiMUnc*
Solicited
in private residences, as well as in stores and
public halls. Wherever placed, they are art-
istic ornaments. The stock of these busts,
now on view at the Hasse warerooms, in-
cludes every composer of note.
Consists of TWELVE ELEOANT VELOUR SCARPS, six
Jifferent patterns, assorted colors of Green, Crimson, Blue,
laroon, Brown, etc.; or you can notify us when you order
vhich colors you prefer. These Scarfs have a wholesale value
• f from $r.so to $.>.oo each. Every Scarf is extra heavy pile,
vith line quality all-silk fringe five and one-half inches deep.
$Cl)Utll(ltttl PldltO £ 0 .
133-135 LaSalle Avenue, Chicago I I .
WABASH AVENUE and ADA/IS
STREET,
CHICAGO
The American Piano Manufacturing Co.,
make the strong claim that "they do the fin-
est varnish and veneer work in existence."
The August business of this house was dou-
MANUFACTURERS OF
ble that of any preceding month in its his-
PIANO BASS and
tory. Evidently the principle of selling for WALL MUSICAL
cash, making in large quantities, and thereby VSTRUMENT
giving greatly increased value for the money,
312, 316 East 95th Street.
seems in this case to be the correct principle,
NEW YORK.
as there seems to be enough cash buyers
among the dealers of the United States to
consume the output of the company. The
policy of this firm is to advertise no espe-
cial brand but the product of the American
of Sterfiyg
Piano Manufacturing Co., and sustain sim- Quo/ity aod foW Priced. - ^ t>? os-
ply its reputation for giving strong values ftptrys Deafens to fjapdfe tfiem.
at a price.
Ample capital, in conjunction with a thor-
AND OFFICE.
oughly well organized manufacturing plant, 4O2 t o AIO FACTORY
W e s t 14th S t r e e t , N e w Y o r k .
with capacity for 10,000 pianos per annum—
which they are preparing to put out the cur-
rent year—are strong factors in making pos-
(E. M. BOOTHE, Treas.)
sible the production of reliable goods at rea-
Manufacturers of
Office, Warerooms and Factory,
sonable prices. The American Piano Man-
ufacturing Co, are making an especial fea-
1881 and 1883 PARK AVE.,
Corner 128th Street, N e w York.
ture of case and varnish work.
N- Y. Cooperative
Piano String Co.
STRINGS
KOHLER & CAMPBELL,
Cbc miltotT Piano
BOOTHE BROS. PIANOS
Manufactured by
THE AMERICAN PIANO MFC. CO.
General OIRem:
William Hudnoll has been arrested in
Oakland, Cal., on a charge of stealing a cor-
valued at $80 from Curtaz & Sons, of
PIPE ORGANS net
San Francisco.
Seymour Building. 43d St & Fif*h Ave., NEW YORK.
DUfMturer
. M O L L E R o^
HAGERSTOWN, HD,
Dealers securing: territory will be protected
Piano Keys and Cases
T h e S e w Y o r k P i a n o K e y C o . lx not miiy in H !iitHiuin>r I n repu-
Utlon of making the I«-st Pium, an.I l'ijw adderf to their plant a rirnt-chiBs p i a n o C a s e m a k i n g D e p a r t m e n t ,
and guarantee to furniah the very best .if cane work at the lowest prli-e poaeihle.
)Office and Factory for both department! a t Pet«rt»oro, M. H.

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