Music Trade Review -- © mbsi.org, arcade-museum.com -- digitized with support from namm.org
THE
flUJIC TFADE
VOL. XLN.
No. 1 3 . Published Every Saturday by Edward Lyman Bill at 1 Madison Ave., New York, March 31, 1906.
SEYBOLD REED PIPE ORGAN CO.
Sales Work Will Hereafter be Handled at
Elgin—H. E. Weisert Will Continue to Rep-
resent Company, With Warerooms at 732
Republic Building.
ritory is being more exhaustively worked and de-
veloped.
THAT MARTIIS FAILURE.
Assignment Follows Sale of Martin Business
to A. B. Smith of Akron.
(Special to The Review.)
Chicago, 111., March 26, 1906.
The business which the Seybold Reed Pipe
Organ Co., of Elgin, 111., are transacting these
days affords ample proof that good organs are in
as great demand as ever, and that there is a
splendid market for them.
The Seybold organ is an instrument of excep-
tional worth, however, and is being taken up
by leading dealers throughout the country. The
demand is 'such that they are now preparing to
put an additional wing to their factory which
will be 45 feet wide and 165 feet long, three
stories high. The local sales of these instru-
ments will hereafter be handled at Elgin, al-
though H. E. Weisert will continue to represent
the company here and will have on display
samples in the sales rooms of the Strohber Piano
Co., 732 Republic Building.
The extraordinary growth of the Strohber
Piano Co. for the past few years has compelled
Mr. Mudge to relinquish his arrangement with
the Seybold Reed Pipe Organ Co. to handle their
sales work. He has been forced to devote his
entire efforts to the interests of the Strohber
Piano Co., and has taken the step just referred
to through necessity, but with regret. Mean-
while the Seybold interests are in good hands,
and business will not suffer in the least.
GOOD REPORTS FROM NEW ORLEANS.
Leading Piano Dealers Report Great Increase
in Business Since Opening of Year.
Business in New Orleans is exceptionally good,
the leading stores reporting a decided increase
in business since the beginning of the year.
The Hackenjos Co. state that there has been an
average increase in their business during the
past three years of twenty-seven per cent., while
Philip Werlein reports an increase of fifty per
cent, in his business since the first of the year.
The Grunewald establishment also report an
excellent advance in trade volume for the past
few months, while the local branch of the
Cable Company and the Junius Hart establish-
ment likewise express satisfaction with the gen-
eral condition of business. The Louis Blake
Piano Co., a new concern recently opened In con-
junction with the Ashton Music House, are hand-
ling the Kimball line.
SIDNEY N. MAYER VISITING THE TRADE.
Sidney N. Mayer, who has been calling on the
trade throughout New England in the interests
of Hardman, Peck & Co., is making a very excel-
lent record for his house, and is highly spoken of
by every one with whom he comes in contact.
The Hardman line is destined to have an in-
creased output throughout New England this
year, not only by reason of the splendid values
which they are putting forth, but because the ter-
(Special to The Review.)
Akron, 0., March 24, 1906.
C. H. Martin, the piano dealer of this city, who
early last week sold his business to A. B. Smith,
one of our prominent piano dealers, for approxi-
mately $5,000 has just made an assignment for
the benefit of his creditors, naming Attorney
Burch as assignee. It is generally rumored that
the creditors are dissatisfied with this action and
intend to place Mr. Martin in involuntary bank-
ruptcy for the purpose of invalidating the sale to
Mr. Smith under the four months' clause of the
bankruptcy law. Meanwhile, Mr. Martin an-
nounces that he will pay his creditors what he
owes them. The line of pianos carried by Mr.
Martin included the Henry & S. G. Lindeman,
Pease, Behr Bros., Jacob Doll, Spies and Becker
Bros.
PACKARD PIANO POPULARITY.
Has Been Stimulated by the Packard Master
Grand—Business Is Excellent.
The Packard Master grand has proved to be
one of the successes of the many to the credit of
the Packard Co., of Ft. Wayne, Ind., in the realm
of piano making. Its size and general scheme
of architecture as well as finish and superb tonal
attributes have been acclaimed by renowned crit-
ics. A. S. Bond, secretary and manager of the
Packard Co., is quite enthusiastic over the pros-
pects for the first quarter of the present year,
which closes to-day, and everything indicates that
records will be broken before December 31. It
will be difficult to discriminate as to which of
the Packard styles are the most popular, but it
may be said that style R and style H have a
large clientele of admirers, which is destined to
he augmented.
F. D. BL00MFIELD CLOSES OUT.
Fred D. Bloomfleld, who has been engaged in
the piano business in Buffalo for the past five
years, has arranged to close out his business on
Main street, that city, on April 1. He states that
this step has become necessary, owing to the con-
dition of his health, but that he will reopen in
the fall, handling the same line as before.
SECURE CHASE-HACKLEY AGENCY.
The Abernathy Piano Co., of Kansas City, Mo.,
have secured the representation of the Chase-
Hackley line for their territory. They expect to
do a big business with these instruments.
The four carloads of Hamilton pianos shipped
to W. W. Warner, the enterprising dealer of
Madison, Wis., were photographed by Manager
Dickinson, of the Hamilton piano factory at Chi-
cago Heights, previous to being forwarded to
Mr. Warner.
SUBJECTS TO BE
At the Business Sessions of the National PianV
Manufacturers' Convention, to be Held in
Washington, D. C , May 11-12.
The following subjects are to be presented
for discussion at the business session of the con-
vention of the National Piano Manufacturers' As-
sociation, to be held May 11 and 12:
"Is it advisable to hold a general musical in-
dustry exhibit at the Madison Square Garden in
New York, or elsewhere, conducted upon lines
similar to the automobile and kindred trade ex-
hibits?"
"Should not the manufacturer establish a uni-
form selling price for his instruments?"
"The art or dull finish and checking of varnish
and veneers—what advances have been made dur-
ing the past year? Would not the dull finish
overcome a number of our troubles and minimize
the complaints of our customers, and cannot our
Association suggest or advise on this subject?"
"What can be done to bring the members of
our Association closer together in order to make
the Association a stronger working body for the
benefit of each member and the trad* at large?
We have now the majority of all the manufactur-
ers with us, either as members, or in sympathy
with the work of the Association, and should we
not use our united strength to better advantage?"
"What shall be done in reference to the traffic
bureau? Should it be continued on the present
lines?"
In sending out a letter containing the above
to members, Herbert W. Hill, assistant secretary,
says: "Will you not give these matters your
earnest thought, in order that each member may
come to the convention fully prepared to discuss
them?"
CHAS. S. WARREN TO MAKE PIPE ORGANS.
Chas. S. Warren, who for a number of years
was superintendent of the pipe organ department
of the D. W. Karn Co., of Woodstock, Ont., has
resigned, it is said, for the purpose of organizing
a company in Toronto, which will manufacture
the Warren pipe organ. Mr. Warren is a brother
of Geo. Warren, who for many years previous
to his death was connected as organist with the
leading churches in New York.
PIANO DEPARTMENT IN BALTIMORE.
L. Rosenstein & Sons, who conduct "The
Big Store" at Nos. 501-503 South Broadway, Bal-
timore, Md., are completing plans for the open-
ing of a piano department in that city. I. C.
Rosenstein, of the firm, was In New York during
the past week visiting the various manufacturers
for the purpose of completing his line. This will
be formally announced within the next ten days.
THE BALDWIN IN KNOXVILLE, TENN.
The Baldwin Piano Co. have opened an estab-
lishment at 317 North Gay street, Knoxville,
Tenn., which they selected as their headquarters
for eastern Tennessee. The store is in charge of
C. F. Welsh, of Cincinnati. A fine line of pianos
and organs are on exhibition at the new store.