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THE KING OF PIANO PLAYEKS
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PIANO WITH A HISTORY.
A visitor to an old curiosity shop on Olive
street, St. Louis, Mo., writing of the many
quaint and interesting curios of many climes
and many generations which he saw there,
referred to several old pianos which he "dis-
Pronounced by experts, who have given It the
covered"—instruments unquestionably of un-
most complete tests, to be the perfect player
certain age. He says: "Like all the pianos
Territorial allotment is being rapidly made tc
of that day, they are smaller than the up-to-
•gents.
Have no Superior
date instrument. They are flat-topped like Mad* upon Honor for 6a yean.
New. "Up-to-date," Attractive Style*.
a table and the legs are much narrower than
SKJVD FOR MKW CATALOGCM.
Melville dark Piano Co.. the 1902 piano legs.
Factory and Varerooms t
"An interesting history is attributed by 543 to 549 BROADWAY, (opposite Depot)
Manufacturers of the
Apoilo and Orpheus Piano Playen
the proprietor of the "shop to one of these
ALBANY, N* Y.
»ad the Melville Clark Pianos
pianos.
factory and Warerooms:
"During the Civil War it belonged to a
399-405 W. Madison St., Ouca?* lit
family
at Independence, Mo. They were
New York t The Apollo Co., 101 Fifth Ave.
MANUFACTURER OF
^ f
Southerners and when the Union soldiers in-
he
Bunbility.
vaded their neighborhood they buried the
piano to prevent it falling into the hands of
the enemy.
W. B. CRA1GHEAD, Pres.
E. M. BOOTHS, Treas.
"After the war they disinterred the instru-
ment and restored it to its place in the fam-
Manufacturers of . . .
ily parlor. On the death of the original own-
ers it passed to one of the children, who,
needing money, sold the historic piano."
Apollo
PIANOS
ESTABLISHED—IN—I83Z
RUDOLPH C.KOCH '
C Iflilton Piano Company,
i|pricibt Pianos
Office, Warerooms ana factory,
A f«t-ll»il« ot •!»»« Trade M»rW < p p a i i on wrapper of rrery • « o( "R.lnw.rtk" SlriBfl-
THE CHASE & BAKER PLAYER.
The Chase & Baker Co., of Buffalo, N. Y.. NEWMAN BROS. CO., "*"»"•— f
188J and J883 Park Avenue, are quite enthusiastic about business condi-
tions,. Notwithstanding increased facilities
Corner 128th Street, New York.
and forces they were at the opening of the Chicago Ave. and Dix St., CHICAGO. J« J*
Dealers securing territory will be protected
year almost 137 orders behind in piano play-
ers. This is a good start for the new year.
The Victor Piano and
'—""""•"" "' High Grade Pianos.
The success of the Chase & Baker since its Wareroom—450
& i n Wabash Ave.,
. . .
Organ Company
inception has been sure and steady and to- Factory—1025-1035 Dunning St., CHICAGO*
An up-to-date piano proposition, sterlingly
successful, incorporating the best methods, day has a big following throughout the tArt in fta.no Construction
substantial materials and good workmanship
fs clearly evidenced in
at popular prices. The new Victor factory United States.
^Pianos ••*" ° c Organs.
JULIUSIAUERTCO^
has a capacity of five thousand pianos per an
num, and will manufacture pianos for the
trade in quantities.
Car-load-lot shipments, a specialty,
Qeneral Offices ; 117-119 KInzie S t . , Chicago
la the Finest and Best
Organ made.
Sold all
over the World on Its
rierlts 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 nil let
Organ '' all the time.
Write for Catalogue and Prices
MILLER ORGAN CO..
LEBANON, P A .
Schumann Pianos
THE SCHUMANN IS THB GREATEST VALUS
POR TUB rlONBV HADE.
C*fTMpondoQce
Solicited
Scbumamt Piano Co.
25 LmSalle Avenue, Chicago* ID,
WESSELL PIANOS,
rianufactured by
CHAS. A. WESSELL,
222-224 East 37th Street,
NEW YORK.
THE
JANSSEN
RIGHT IN EVERY WAV
BH JANSSEN 166 E. 129 ST.NY.
FROM THE E. P. CARPENTER CO.
1902-1903.
We are pleased to announce that in 1902
we shipped more organs than in any other
year in our corporate existence. This rec-
ord was made possible largely through the
loyal work of our agents, both at home and
abroad, and we now take this opportunity
of thanking you most heartily for such or-
ders as were placed with us in the year now
past We solicit a continuance of your favor
and extend our best wishes for a happy and
prosperous New Year.
E. P. Carpenter Co.,
Makers of Carpenter Organs.
Brattleboro, Vt., U. S. A.
The
ClarK
Story
They are in advance in point of
tonal effect and ca.se. architecture.
STORY & CLARK.
Factories. CHICAGO.
N. Y. Co-operative
Piano String Co.
MANUFACTURERS OF
s°Ba$$ Strings
312, 316 East 95th Street.
NEW YORK.
The most satisfactory
SUDDEN DEATH OF H C. DOUGLASS
piano
ever
Henry Q. Douglass, a dealer in phono-
graphs in New York, died suddenly at his
home in East Orange, N. J., on Saturday
night. He was reading in a room in which
were seated his wife and daughter, Miss
Helen Douglass, when without any warning
he gasped and expired almost instantly from
an attack of heart disease. He was born in
Aurora, 111., in 1856. He was Assistant Sec-
retary of the Sunday school of the Munn
Avenue Presbyterian Church.
tured
at a
manufac-
nominal
price. .
.
.
A leader in its class.
Campbell
Factories:
nth
Ave. & 50th St.
A recent addition to the forces of the
New York.
Apollo Co. in this city is Fred Harlow, who
for several years past was in charge of the
Piano Keys and Cases
Angelus library of music in the Crown piano
T h o H e w Y o r k P i a n o K e y C o . la not only maintaining II* rapo
Mtloa
of making the best Piano ami PI|M> Orvan Kavgln thin country, but hav.
parlors in Chicago. Mr. Harlow is an Ai *44*t to
thair plant a Urat-daH P i a n o C a s e M a k i n g D e p a r t m t D '
aatfnarmat*. to furnfah th« TOTT bwt of CM* work at Uw lowwt pricapoalbte
demonstrator.