Music Trade Review

Issue: 1903 Vol. 36 N. 8

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THE m\JSIC TRHDE REVIEW
OARDMAN
;*& GRAY-
THE KING OF PIANO PLAYERS THE "NICKLIN" HAVING BIG SALE.
The "Nicklin" (coin device) piano player,
invented and manufactured by the Pianotist
Co., 449-455 West Forty-first street, is in
great favor as a specialty among enterpris-
ing dealers in pianos and other musical in-
Pronounced by experts, who have given It the
struments. They find that there is a ready
most complete tests, to be the perfect player.
and profitable market for it. Their plan is
Territorial allotment is being rapidly made to
to bring it to the notice of persons and firms
agents.
catering to the public convenience, such as
drug stores, restaurants, etc.
M. L. Dohan, proprietor of the Grand
Manufacturers of the
Trunk restaurant in Quebec, has sent this
Apollo and Orpheus Piano Playen
letter to Mr. Ackerman, general manager of
»ad the Melville d a r k Pianos
the Pianotist Co.:
factory and Wareroom s;
Your "Nickel-in-the-Slot" self-playing pia-
399-405 W. Madison St., Chicago* HL no reached here last week. I immediately
New York: The Apollo Co., 101 Fifth Ave.
connected up the piano, and on counting up
the receipts for the week, was astounded to
find that they amounted to $98.85.
It is unnecessary for me to say that I am
W. B. CRAIGHEAD. Pres.
E. M. BOOTHE, Treas pleased with the piano.
It has created a sensation here.
I consider that in purchasing your "Nickel-
in-the-Slot" player, I have made one of the
best investments of my life.
Another letter received is from J. A. Har-
Office, Warerooms and Factory,
vey & Co., Kohler & Chase Sacramento
1881 and 1883 PARK AVENUE
branch house, Cal. They write:
Cor. 13 8th Street
NEW YORK
Gentlemen :—Enclosed herewith please find
draft of $67.50, for which kindly send us mu-
Dealers securing territory will be protected.
sic as per attached order.
Regarding your electric "Nickel-in-the-
HOGGSON & P E T T B MANUFACTURING CO
Slot" player, we would state that we have
Organ Stop Knobs and Stems,
sold several of these during the past four
64 aad 66 Court Strati, New Haven, Conn.
months and could have sold a great many
more had we had them in stock.
They give entire satisfaction and we have
no trouble with them.
We thoroughly understand the mechanism,
An up-to-date piano proposition, sterlingly and like your instrument better than any we
successful, incorporating the best methods, have ever sold.
substantial materials and good workmanship
at popular prices. The new Victor factory
Speaking of the "Nicklin" player during
has a capacity of five thousand pianos per an- a talk with The Review on Friday last, Mr.
num, and will manufacture pianos for the
trade in quantities.
Ackerman said: "There is no doubt about
Car-load-lot shipments, a specialty,
the actual financial benefits of the 'Nicklin'
General Offices, 117-119 KiazU S t . , Chicago to live dealers. Those who are now in line
are making money hand over hand. Of
course, if a dealer sits down and waits for
custom to come along, he will be disappoint-
Is the Finest and Best
Organ made.
Sold all ed, but if he gets out in his city and looks
over the World on Its around, he will find plenty of business men
flerlts alone.
who will be only too glad to get the oppor-
No traveling salesmen re-
quired to sell our entire
tunity presented by the 'Nicklin.' We want
product.
This extraordinary fact
to
hear from up-to-date dealers."
speaks volumes for the
Apollo
Melville Clark Piano Co..
PIANOS
r
ESTOBUSHED—IN—I83Z
Mad* upon Honor for 6a yean.
Have no Superior
New, "Up-to-date," Attractive Styles.
6BAT0 FOB SfBW CATALOGUE.
Factory and Warerooms s
543 to 549 BROADWAY, (opposite Depot)
ALBANY, N« Y ,
RUDOLPH C.KOCH
MANUFACTURER OF
Che mnton Piano Company
IN THE MARKET
—Tl ,
SINCE 18S8.
Durability,
MANUFACTURERS OF
Upright Pianos
The Victor Piano and
Organ Company
quality of our instruments.
It's the 1 'Old Reliable Hlller
Organ '' all the time.
Write for Catalogue and Prices
MILLER ORGAN CO..
LEBANON, P A .
Schumann Pianos
TUB SCHUMANN I S THB GREATEST VALU1
FOR TUB MONEY flADB.
C*rre*p*ndonce
Solicited
Schumann Piano Co.
123-126 LaSalle Avenue, Chicago* 10.
WESSELL PIANOS,
rianufactured by
CHAS. A. WESSELL,
222-224 East 37th Street,
NEV YORK.
RELSO ®, CO.,
251-253 East 33d Street,
NEW YORK.
Piano
Manufacturers
DEMAND SHOWS NO LET UP.
The O. S. Kelly Co., piano plate manufac-
turers, Springfield, O., continue to experi-
ence a great demand for their products, not-
withstanding that this is usually the slack
period of the year. The advance orders have
been such, however, that the Kelly Co. have
been working to their usual limit. This de-
mand emphasizes the first-class values which
the Kelly Co. are giving the trade in the line
of piano plates. In careful manufacture, ar-
tistic finish and all other essential attributes
they have won a very high place in the es-
teem of critical manufacturers.
A fu-llmlU o( abOTC Trade Mark appear! on wrapper of erery • « o( "Relnwarih" Slrmfv
NEWMAN BROS, m. t
"S- Pianos «/"•£« Organs.
Chicago Ave. and Dix St., CHICAGO. J* J*
"""•'""*"•"'
High
g Grade Pianos.
A
Wareroom—350& 25a Wabash Ave.,
-___— A _ _.
Factory—1025-1035 Dunning St.,
CHICAGO.
xAri in 'Piano Construction
(* clearly evidenced in
The
Story O. Clark
They are in advance in point of
tonal effect and case architecture.
STORY & CLARK.
Factories, CHICAGO
N. Y. Co-operative
Piano String Co.
MANUFACTURERS OP
sBa$$ Strings;
312, 316 East 95th Street.
NEW YORK.
The most satisfactory
piano ever manufac-
tured at a nominal
price
A leader in its class.
Campbell
Factories:
nth Ave. & 50th St.
New York.
Denton, Cottier & Daniels, who recently
secured the agency for the Cecilian piano
player, made by the Farrand Organ Co., in-
tend to devote a special department to this
player, and will exploit it in a thoroughly
progressive manner. They are impressed M . I*. M O L L E R o1 an ^ cturw
Ch r
with its possibilities and intend to push it to
£ £rV nd P I P E ORGANS
the front in Buffalo.
lAOSRBTOWir, MB.
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THE
ORGAN GRINDERS BETTER OFF.
Helped by the Concentration of Population, an
Old Gentleman Finds.
7VIUSIC TRKDE
. B. GHASE PIANOS
In tone, touch, action, durability, and every requisite that goes
In these days of flats and tall tenements
to make up air artistic instrument, there are none superior
with families living on floor above floor tow-
factory and Principal Office
New York Warerooms
ering in the air, the money for the hand-
NORWALK, OHIO
10 EAST 17th STREET
organ man is thrown down to him wrapped
up in paper.
|a
"I should think," said a benevolent appear-
ORIGINAL
ing old gentleman who was walking along
UTE
effects,
Violin
effects, etc., are brought
an uptown street the other day, to an Italian
into play combined with the PIANO t
organ grinder who could speak English
making a veritable Orchestra. No other
enough to be understood; "I should think
Piano Player like it or will do what the
that the money coming down that way, all
c4NGELUS can.
done up so, would add greatly to the interest
Any one can Play ft.
of the business. You never know just what
Tt Plays any Piano.
you are going to get until you actually open
Endorsed by highest musical authority.
the papers. You might find a cent in one,
Josef Hofmann, Marcella Setnbrich, Jean de
or you might find five dollars. There's a mys-
Reszke, Edouard de Reszke and many other
tery in every package."
of note.
"Notta mucha mystery," said the organ
grinder, smilingly.
He was willing to admit that there was a
certain enjoyment in opening the package—
main Office and factory t
it might contain large money; but he had
_ ltaridtn, Conn., U. $. B,
never come across any gold there yet; peo-
ple give the organ grinder now just what
Manufacturer af
nigh-Orad*
they use to give, namely, cents.
"Well, then," said the benevolent old gen-
Grand and Upright
tleman, who appeared to be a man who had
Pianos
time to stand around and talk, "if they don't
for all
give any more than they used to, how can
Occasions
you afford to double up on your plant like
Factorial: Southern Bouterard and Cypresa Av«.
this ? A big expensive organ, and two men
East 133d and 134th Streets
to run it, instead of one."
First Avenue and 30th Street
NEW YORK
Warerooms: 92 Fifth Ave., bet 14th and 15th Sts.
"More people," was the substance of the
|Send for Catalogue, Prices and Term*.
organ man's answer; and, without under-
n
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coLonriAii
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taking to reproduce his dialect, what he told
the old gentleman was that in no end of
blocks where there used to be houses with
Manufacturers of the
one family apiece there would now be found,
in flats and apartments, five or ten families; CHASE BROS,, HACKLEY
and that while people might not give indi-
and CARLISLE^
vidually more than they did years ago, there
were ten times as many of them to give. So
MUSKEGON, MICH
that even on small profits the greater volume
Manufacturer of
of business nowadays made it possible to do
SOUNDING BOARDS, BARS, s GUI-
even the hand organ business on the grander
TAR AND MANDOLIN TOPS A N D
MILLS AND O F F I C E : DOLQEVILLE, N. Y.
SOUNDING BOARD LUMBER,
modern scale.
"Ye—es," said the benevolent old gentle-
man, turning as he spoke and wrapping up
a coin in a piece of paper, which, turning
C R . STEVENS, General Manager.
again, he handed to the suave organist, who
smiled again as he opened it.
MANUFACTURERS OF
It was not a great mystery that this pack-
age contained, but it was greater than a cent.
ANfiPI
1 1 ^ P »*Player
r
Cbc Olilcox * UIMte Co.
JACOB DOLL
Pianos
CHASE-HACKLEY PIANO CO.,
PIANOS
JULIUS BRECKWOLDT
Cbe Stevens Organ and Piano go.
Sevens Carnation Reed-Pipe Organ
MEYERCORD CO. LEADS.
7X OCTAVE. PIANO CASE.
The decalcomania transfers made by the TrtU for catalogue and prices.
Meyercord Co., of Chicago, with branches at
New York and St. Louis, are unquestion-
ably the most satisfactory supplied in this in-
dustry. The work which they have done for
prominent manufacturers have won the high-
est praise. Their transfers for fallboards,
pin blocks, medal and warranty designs are
not only popular with manufacturers in this j
•••
country and Canada, but many orders have
been filled for Europe. Their window signs SCHUBERT PIANO
are exceptionally meritorious and clever and * . •>„ ROTH
the prices are especially reasonable.
MARIETTA, OHIO.
Embodies the best value for the dealer.
•jt
«j»
Attractively gotten u p .
PETER DUFFY, President.
CO., 5th AVE. & J39th STREET, NEW YORk
V. ENOCLHARDT,
UPRIGHT
PIANO ACTIONS » - * - E Z
C. G. Olsen, of New Haven, Conn., has
secured the agency for the Apollo and Apol-
OFFICEi
loette piano players.
Windsor Arcad*, 2 B. 47th St., N. Y.
ROTH FACTORIKSi
Ift. Johnstvlll*. N. V - en N.V. O. A. • .

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