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THE MUSIC TRADE! REVIEW
KNABE FOR GOVERNOR OF MARYLAND
VOUGH CHANGEABLE PITCH PIANO.
Handsome Instrument Specially Built for Gov-
ernor Warfield for Executive Mansion—De-
mand for High Grade Pianos in Baltimore—
Stieff Pianos for Colleges—Shipping Pianos
to Jamestown—Rosenthal's Recital.
Increasing Demand for These Instruments for
Public Institutions of All Kinds as Well as
for the Home—Possess Special Advantages.
(Special to The Review.)
Baltimore, Md., March 25, 1907.
While business in this city during the Lenten
season has been unusually brisk the real spurt
does not begin until after the Easter holidays,
and the dealers feel confident that the spring
sales this year will far exceed those of previous
seasons. The increased demand for high grade
pianos and the slump in the demand for inferior
grades are matters over which the local men are
jubilant. This has been a noticeable feature of
the sales at several of the establishments during
the last week.
William Knabe & Co. issue the same encourag-
ing edict that business continues good. Charles
Keidel, Jr., the local representative of the firm,
sold among other things a magnificent Knabe
upright piano to Governor Edwin Warfield. This
instrument was built especially for Maryland's
chief executive. It has a beautiful mahogany
case and will be used in the executive mansion
at Annapolis.
Mr. Keidel returned yesterday from Norfolk,
where he spent two days on business for the
firm. He reports that the piano business is
booming in that locality.
The demand for high grade pianos has been
especially large during the week at the Stieff
warerooms, many of which have been disposed
of. This house has had little or no call for
cheap instruments. A large shipment of Stieff
pianos has been sent to colleges in Michigan,
Illinois and Pennsylvania. Business at the fac-
tory continues up to the standard and a full force
of workmen is kept continually at work.
A Stieff concert grand was sold to a Philadel-
phian in consequence of the excellent recital
given in that city last week at the Music Fund
Hall, when the Stieff piano was used.
The Jamestown Exposition plans keep J. H.
Williams, the local manager, and a large force
of hands on the go. The arrangements now are
in pretty good shape. Mr. Williams will leave
to-morrow for Norfolk to hurry matters along
there. His particular efforts now are in the di-
rection of obtaining different artists each week
during the busy season of the Exposition.
The past week has been a busy one for the
Lumpkin Piano Co., especially in the piano line.
This line of trade, in so far as this particular
firm are concerned, has increased at a rapid rate
recently. The organ trade, however, has de-
clined so as to make it difficult for the firm to
get rid of the few that they still have in stock.
A«* soon as these organs are sold the house will
give up its several agencies for OTgans and en-
gage exclusively in the piano business.
Robert Lertz & Co. have had a good week, but
expect a better run in business after the Easter
holidays.
G. Wright Nicols, manager for the Sanders &
Stayman Piano Co., returned last week from At-
lantic City, where he spent two weeks partly on
business for the firm and also for a little recrea-
tion.
Much interest has been manifested by the firm
over the announcement that Moriz Rosenthal,
who uses the Weber piano, for which the house
has the agency, will appear in this city again on
the night of April 17, at the Lyric. He is travel-
ing under the management of Henry Wolfsohn.
Already a heavy demand for tickets for the re-
cital has been received and a record breaking
attendance is expected. Rosenthal made a most
favorable impression on the occasion of his last
visit in Baltimore.
The Kranz-Smith Co. have been in line with
the others engaged in the trade and report a good
sale of pianos. They have recently taken the
agency for the Mansfield piano.
Mrs. H. Brandt has dpened a music store in
Bisbee, Ariz.
The Vough Piano Co. report that never before
has there been such a demand for the Vough
changeable pitch piano as since the first of the
year. Not only for theaters, churches, halls,
lodge rooms and vaudeville houses has the Vough
become popular, but for the home the piano is
winning an enviable reputation, both because of
the advantages of changeable pitch and for the
tone and durability of the instrument.
The company are over two months behind or-
ders for the Vough changeable pitch piano, and
not since September last have the company been
less than one month behind. Efforts are being
made to catch up again, and it is hoped that
within a short time all orders will receive prompt
attention.
During the last week the following sales of the
changeable pitch piano to public institutions have
been reported: Hillsdale College Y. M. C. A.,
Hillsdale, Mich.; Christian Church, Latham, 111.;
United Brethren Church, Fort Wayne, Ind.;
David Church, Dayton, O.; Buckeye Lodge,
I. O. O. F., Dayton, O.; City Hall, Union City,
Pa.; the Library Theater, Warren, Pa.
MORRIS STEINERT'S 76th BIRTHDAY.
Morris Steinert celebrated his seventy-sixth
birthday recently, and the local press of New
Haven, Conn., took occasion to publish several
flattering notices of the occasion. Mr. Steinert
holds a prominent position in his home city, hav-
ing founded the New Haven Symphony Orchestra,
endowed Yale University with several scholar-
ships and also presented it with a valuable col-
lection of keyed and stringed instruments.
TO INSPECT ORGAN PLANT.
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) is expected to
be one of the party of thirty prominent organists
who will go to Elmira, N. Y., April 3, to inspect
the new organ in the Park Church, built by the
Hope Jones Organ Co., of that city. Mr. Clem-
ens is a large stockholder in the organ company.
A special Pullman will be provided to bring the
organists, and they will be received by Mayor
Brockway, of Elmira.
GRINNELL BROS. IN WINDSOR, ONT.
Grinnell Bros., the prominent piano dealers of
Detroit, Mich., have completed arrangements for
opening a branch store in Windsor, Ont, just
across the river from Detroit, making the six-
teenth store operated by that company outside
of Detroit, where they have two stores and a fac-
tory. The business was started by Ira L. Grin-
nell in a small way over forty years ago. The
Windsor branch will be fully stocked with several
lines of pianos and musical merchandise of all
descriptions.
DEATH OF MRS. MARY B. DAVISON BAKER.
The death is announced of Mary Brockett Davi-
son Baker, mother of T. G. Davison Baker, of
Sohmer & Co., New York, which occurred in
Toronto, Canada, on March 24, 1907. Mrs. Baker
possessed many charming traits of character
which endeared her to a host of friends and was
highly respected in the community. Born April
24, 1836, she lived to a ripe old age, yet was ever
alert and keenly interested in the world's prog-
ress. Mr. Baker left for Canada on receipt of a
wire apprising him of his mother's death.
S. M. Sutherland & Son, Toledo, O., have taken
over the plant of the Hollerbach Piano Co. and
will make the Hollerbach piano, as L. Holler-
bach, formerly of the company of that name, is
now with the Sutherland people. The Holler-
bach Co. have opened retail warerooms, and it is
said will bring suit against the Sutherland con-
cern for making a piano under their name.
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