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THE
THE KING OF PIANO PLAYERS
Apollo
7VIVSIC TRKDE
47
REVIEW
PIANO MAKING IN THE WEST.
Has Grown to an Immense Extent Within Recent
Yean.
OARDMAN
There are three Western States that have
flourishing piano manufacturing institutions,
Pronounced by experts, who have given if the Illinois having dozens of piano factories, In-
most complete tests, to be the perfect player
diana three large plants and a number of
Territorial allotment Is being rapidly made to smaller ones, and Ohio a half dozen fine fac-
r
•gents.
tories. These three states promise to grow in Mad* upon Honor
ES1ABUSHE0—IN—183Z
for 6a yean.
Have 00 5«p*ffi«r
the piano line during the next decade on a
New, "Up-to-date," Attractive Styles.
SBNO FOR 1VHW CATAIXKWB.
present basis of about 100,000 annual output,
Melville dark Piano Co..
Factory and Warerooms I
so
that
the
prospect
seems
more
like
a
dream
Manufacturers of the
than a reality, particularly, when we remem- 543 to 549 BROADWAY, (opposite Depot)
Apollo and Orpheus Piano Player*
and the Melville Qark Piano*
ber the situation as it w s a decade ago.
Factory and Warerooms;
Take one factory now in course of erec-
399-405 W. Madison St., GhicigOfe tSL tion, and a large one at that, and reflect on
New York i The Apollo Co., 101 Fifth Ave.
the nature and the rapid growth of Western
MANUFACTURER OF
piano building as represented in the one in-
Durability
stance. A decade—a half decade—ago the
W. B. CRAIGHEAD, Pres.
E. M. BOOTHE, Treas Smith & Nixon house was selling Eastern
pianos only, and was a dealing and jobbing
firm only. This same company are now com-
pleting a factory near Cincinnati which will
enable them to produce over 6,000 pianos a
year. Such rapid transformations are amaz-
Office, Warerooms and Factory,
ing examples of the energy of the Western
1881 and 1883 PARK AVENUE
piano man and the quick assimilation of the
Cor. 13 8th Street
NEW YORK dealer in the manufacturing field. At the
Dealers securing territory will be protected.
time Smith & Nixon were dealers only they
bought and sold as high as 3,500 pianos a
flanufactured by
The Victor Piano and
year; next year, when the factory will be in
CHAS. A* WESSELL,
full running order—this year counting as an
Organ Company
interrupted
period
only—the
factory
will
An up-to-date piano proposition, sterling,
successful, incorporating the best method*, make more pianos than the total purchases
HENRY KELLER & SONS,
substantial materials and good workmanship of the house during their high-water period
at popular prices. The new Victor factory
Manufacturers of
has a capacity of five thousand pianos per an- as dealers, and that means that the retail de-
num, and will manufacture pianos for the
partment of Smith & Nixon will purchase Upright Pianos
trade in quantities.
AVENUE,
next year more pianos from their own fac- Bet. 140th and u » t RIDER
Car-load-lot shipments, a specialty,
Stt.,
NEW YORK.
W
f
Third
Av«.
General Offices t 117-119 Kl nzle St., Chicago tory than they ever purchased from the East-
ern houses per year.—Cincinnati, O,, En- &trt in TUno Construction
i» clearly evidenced in
quirer.
PIANOS
RUDOLPH C.KOCH
Kind >8M.
Che Iftilfon Piano Company
MANUFACTURERS
OF
Upright Pianos
A fac-tlmlit of abott Trade Mark t p p w i on wrapper of crtrjr Mt el "Rainwarih" Sirlop.
WESSELL PIANOS,
Is the Finest and Best
Organ made.
Sold all
over the World on its
flerlts alone.
No traveling salesmen re-
quired to sell our entire
product.
This extraordinary fact
speaks volumes for the
quality of our instruments.
It's the''Old Reliable ililler
Organ "all the time.
Write for Catalogue and Prices
MILLER ORGAN CO..
LEBANON, P A .
RELSO ^©TCO
251-253 East 33d Street,
NEW YORK.
P/ano
Schumann Pianos
TUB SCHUMANN IS TUB ORBATEST VALUI
FOR TUB MONBY flADB.
crtM^adonce
Solicited
Schumann Piano €o.
123-126 LaSalle Avenue, Chicago, m.
NEWMAN
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Chicago Ave. and Dix St., CHICAGO. J*
Organ Stop Knobs and Stems,
64 and 66 Court Strmmt, New Haven, Coam.
M. I>. M O L L E R "". n .^ ctu " r
Ch u r
c o nt?f d P I P E O R G A N S
HAOEBSTOWN. MD.
CARNEGIE'S GIFTS OF ORGANS.
The
Story®
Clark
Andrew Carnegie must be a veritable Santa
Claus to the pipe organ manufacturers on
They are in advance in point of
tonat effect and ca.se Architecture.
account of his bounty plan, in other words,
Factories, CHICAGO.
contributing half the expenses of a new or STORY & CLARK.
a larger pipe organ to every church in need
of such an instrument. It is estimated that N. Y. Co-operative
the past few weeks have brought applicants Piano String Co.
from the vicinity of Pittsburg to the extent
MANUFACTURERS OP
of twenty-five organs. Of course all of Mr.
Carnegie's gifts are according to his new
rule, the church to pay half and he the other
half of the cost of the instrument. The most
312, 316 East 95th Street.
expensive organ was that placed in Grace
NEW YORK.
Reformed Church at Pittsburg, Pa., at a
cost of $10,000, and was a straight donation
The most satisfactory
to the congregation.
piano ever manufac-
Almost every denomination has been in-
cluded in Mr. Carnegie's gifts. Some of
tured at a nominal
the recent churches to which he has contribu-
ted include the Presbyterian, Roman Cath-
price
olic, Reformed, Methodist, Lutheran, and
A leader in its class.
others. In addition he has recently con-
tributed half the expenses of a five thousand
dollar organ to the Mt. Carmel (Pa.) Meth-
odist Church; a two thousand dollar organ
to the Mifflinsburg (Pa.) Reformed Church;
Factories:
a three thousand dollar organ to Christ's Re-
formed Church in Altoona, and a two thou-
nth Ave. & 30th St.
sand dollar organ to St. Stephen's Reformed
Church in Perkasie, Pa.
New York.
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