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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
38
YORK PUBLICITY.
An Interesting Catalogue Just Issued by the
Well Known Band Instrument House of
Grand Rapids.
J. W. York & Sons, band instrument manufac-
turers, Grand Rapids, Mich., have issued an ad-
mirably printed catalogue containing illustra-
tions of the various instruments which they
manufacture. A very beautiful line, interesting-
ly described and copiously illustrated, appears
of cornets; band and orchestra horns; perfect
solo altos, in various designs; slide and valve
trombones; euphoniums, with single and double
bell; Eb basses and Eb and BBb monster basses
in both helicon and regular models; clarinets,
saxaphones, drums, flutes, piccolos and other spe-
cialties suitable for bandsmen. The designs
shown are of great beauty and are highly spok-
en of by bandsmen. Dealers and others who
have a call for band instruments, which should
be most active now owing to the coming pres-
idential campaign, would do well to look up the
literature of J. W. York & Sons. It will interest
them mightily.
BIO DEMAND FOR MUSIC BOXES.
More Sold Than Ever, Despite Competition of
Phonographs and Other Instruments, Ac-
cording to the Report of a Salesman to the
Sun.
"Now you'd think," said the man in the music
store, "that phonographs and graphophones and
mechanical piano players had cut into the music
box business. They haven't; on the contrary,
there are more music boxes manufactured now
than ten or fifteen years ago, when the phono-
graph was only a wonderful new invention which
no one could use, and the mechanical piano player
was never thought of.
"There has been only one change. We don't sell
eo many of the big, expensive boxes as they used
to. There was a time, about fifteen or twenty
years ago, when they were made costing as high
as $1,500 or $2,000. Those boxes were as big as a
piano. They had all kinds of arrangements of
tells and drums and string effects. Some of them
were combined with mechanical toys. For exam-
ple, there would be a line of little drummers to
ring the bells, and they'd wiggle their heads in a
lifelike manner as they worked their drumsticks'.
The makers were trying to get as near the effect
of a full orchestra as they could by mechanical
means.
"When the phonograph was made practical,
some six or seven years ago, it knocked the pins
out from under these makers. The phonograph
could reproduce a whole orchestra of sixty or
more pieces, and the music box was nowhere in
the game. The makers gave it up. Nowadays
about $400 is the limit of price."
The "Victor" Dog in pure gold at the St. Louis
Exposition is, as was predicted when it was first
sent there, a standard attraction. As an ad-
vertisement it is one of the best ever devised.
The combination of the dog listening to his mas-
ter's voice, the Victor machine and the great
quantity of precious metal required to make a per-
fect presentation makes people talk and bring
them round easily to a discussion of talking ma-
chines and this leads them to inquire concern-
ing the merits of the Victor. When that stage
is reached the question of purchase and pos-
session of a "Victor" is not far off.
THE SAXE OF THE BOTT VIOLIN.
Lyon & Healy, of Chicago, have addressed a
communication to the New York papers which re-
STRINGS THAT SATISFY.
cently contained an interview with a New York
violin dealer regarding the Bott Stradivarius. In
The National Musical String Co.'s Products
this connection they say:
Are Used and Praised by Leading Artists
"This interview states that the violin was sold
Throughout the World.
three weeks ago by the Bott estate for $9,000. As
That American strings for violins and other a matter of fact, the violin was sold to us on De-
stringed instruments have won great prestige in cember 28 last, and in March it was sold by us
all parts of the world, and have overcome the to Mr. Mitchell. It was such a fine specimen of
prejudices of the past, is evident from the tre- Stradivarius work that New York dealers were,
mendous business which the National Musical apparently, afraid of it.
"At least it has been offered for sale for the
String Co., of New Brunswick, N. J., are now
transacting. We refer not merely to the domestic last two years and found no takers among the
demand which has shown steady advances, but to dealers of the great metropolis. I t would prob-
the foreign trade. And this call for their Black ably have remained in obscurity much longer,
Diamond and Bell Brand strings from the con- had we not, by identifying it and establishing
noisseurs of Europe demonstrates more eloquent- its claims, placed it on the high pedestal where
it belongs as one of the finest Stradivarius violins
ly than words how these strings satisfy.
It is evident that the National Musical String in existence."
Co. have conquered the secret of successful string
AMERICAN PIANO FOR POPE PIUS X.
making. Lead/ing violin virtuosi have tested
these strings, and have paid the highest pos-
An engrossed document from Rome has been
sible tributes not only to their superb quality, but received by the Weber Piano Co. announcing that
to their durability and all round excellence. It Pope Pius X. has selected the Weber piano for his
is something of which the country can feel proud personal use and in the Holy Apostolic Palaces.
that strings are to-day being manufactured here The warrant bears the Papal coat of arms, and
which are the equal of any made the world over. is signed by his major-domo.
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UPTOWN, RETAIL ONLY, 872 Broadway.
CHICAGO, 88 Wabash Ave.
PITTSBURG, 615 Penn Ave.
KANSAS CITY, 1016 Walnut St.
PHILADELPHIA, 10191021 Market St.
NEW ORLEANS, LA., 628-630 Canal St.
ST. PAUL, 386 Wabasha St.
ST. LOUIS, 908 Olive St. (Frisco Building).
DETROIT, 272 Woodward Ave.
DENVER, 505-507 Sixteenth St.
BOSTON, 164 Tremont St.
MILWAUKEE, 391 East Water St.
OMAHA, 1621 Farnam St.
BALTIMORE, 231 N. Howard St.
WASHINGTON, 1212 F St., N. W.
LOS ANGELES, 323 South Main St.
CLEVELAND, Cor. Euclid Ave. and Erie St.
TORONTO, ONTARIO, 107 Yonge St.
MEMPHIS, 302 Main St.
BUFFALO, 645 Main St.
MINNEAPOLIS, 13 Fourth St., South.
PORTLAND, ORE., 128 Seventh St.
SAN FRANCISCO, 126 Geary St.
INDIANAPOLIS, 48 N. Pennsylvania St.
TERRE HAUTE, 23 S. Seventh St.
CINCINNATI, 117-119 W. Fourth St.
LONDON, Wholesale, Retail, 89 Great Eastern St., E. C. RETAIL BRANCH STORE, 200 Oxford St., W.
BERLIN, 71 Ritterstrasse.
PARIS, 111 and 113 Rue Montmarte.
ST. PETERSBURG, 63 Nevski Prospect.
VIENNA, Seilergasse No. 14.