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THE
MUSIC TRADE:
In tKe Musical MercKandise Domain
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SMALL GOODS MEN NOT COMPLAINING.
A Fairly Active Trade for January Reported All
Along the Line—In Many Instances Sales
Exceed Same Month Last Year—Buyers
Coming to Market—Import Houses Sending
Out Road Men—General SatisfacJjn Ex-
pressed Over Trade Outlook.
Small goods houses have little, if any cause
for complaint regarding business for January.
Every firm of any note report a fairly active
trade for the past week, and taking the month as
a whole it has compared favorably with previous
records at the same time. In some instances
sales have exceeded last January by a fair per-
centage. It was thought that possibly there
might be a falling off, gauging from the buying
of the first week and the general calculations of
slow trade; but these estimates have happily
gone astray, and orders have been placed freely
and for satisfactory bills. In a measure this is
Bell Brand Strings
FOR
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
Far excel all others in tone,
quality, durability and beauty
of appearance.
ALL THE LEADING
surprising, but hustle and drive have counted, be placed on a hook above or alongside the desk.
and no branch of the trade is more closely looked A postal card to the Hohner headquarters in
after than that of musical merchandise. A num- New York, 354 Broadway, will secure one of
ber of buyers have been in market, and still these convenient appliances.
Advices received on Monday from the Hohner
others are expected to be on hand within the
coming fortnight in all the principal distributing agency a t Cape Town, South Africa, announce
that a gold medal has been awarded to the
centers.
Next week about all the leading import houses Hohner firm for harmonicas and accordeons
will have their road men out, and in fact, some shown at the South African Exposition held in
are already calling on the trade, and with re- that city.
sults quite up to expectations. Prices are being
held up, and there is no likelihood of a change,
BUEGELEISEN & JACOBSON BUY
except it be for higher figures. Violin goods of
Part of Stock of J. Thibouville-Lamy & Co.—
all kinds are particularly strong, and in some of
Includes Violins, Reed Instruments and
the specialties the advance has been marked.
Other Choice Specialties—Many New Cus-
The outlook and general conditions were thus
tomers Added to Buegeleisen & Jacobson's
detailed to The Review, Tuesday: "Much to our
Books
surprise and satisfaction trade has kept up won-
derfully well, and promises to improve right
With characteristic enterprise Buegeleisen &
along. To be sure, there is heard reports of dull Jacobson, 113-115 University Place, New York,
business in some lines, but this must soon pass have bought the greater part of the stock of
away and the natural tendency of affairs hold Jerome Thibouville-Lamy & Co., who are closing
sway. The country is on a sound basis from out their American business. The purchase in-
every view point, and the holding off will eventu- cludes all their high-grade violins, reed instru-
ally result in a rush before spring. With me ments and other desirable goods, which Buegel-
January was far beyond my calculations, although eisen & Jacobson will proceed to place on the
I hear other houses have done well—remarkably market at unusually attractive prices.
so, considering everything. Some big orders have
Since the mailing of their spring catalogue
been landed, I hear on good authority, and others the results have be?n very satisfactory. New ac-
are about being closed. I t is peculiar, I may counts of desirable firms have been opened, and
add, what a difference there is in the class of
goods sold in different sections of the country.
—THE —
South, the cheaper grades of everything are in
demand, while the West is a different proposi-
tion altogether. The East is the same, but the
bulk of the best descriptions are called for by
11 East 22nd St., New York City,
our progressive western dealers."
WM. R. GRATZ IMPORT CO.,
HOUSES
Sole Agents for
HANDLE THEM
HOHNER SECURES GOLD MEDAL.
Another stroke of Hohner enterprise, just per-
fected, is a simple yet clever and extremely use-
ful publicity device in the shape of a small wire
clamp to hold papers. It can be kept on any
table or desk without inconvenience, or it can
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