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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
BROOKLYN'S TRADE DOINGS.
Business Fairly Satisfactory
Despite Bad
Weather—Supply Men Report a Falling Off
in Orders, But State It Is Only Temporary—
Bradbury Branch Opened at 1110 Bedford
Avenue—F. C. Moulthrop Banquetted Pre-
vious to Leaving for the Coast—Preszberg
No Longer With Wissner—William Wiss
ner's Western Trip.
(Special to The Review.)
Brooklyn, N. Y., May 22, 1907.
All things considered, business has been very
good in this borough. The bad weather seems to
have been the greatest factor against the making
of any large sales records; but, aside from this,
dealers seem very well satisfied with results and
are confident as to the near future.
The local supply manufacturers report a slight
falling off of orders, which is merely a result
of conditions among the trade. They are not
put out in the least by the slight slump, how-
ever; for a long time they have been far
behind, their orders and are glad of an opportu-
nity to partially "catch up with themselves," such
as is afforded at present. Of course, a prolonged
slump would be viewed very seriously by them,
but in the present case, with the existing pros-
pects for betterment, they are very well pleased
with the turn affairs have taken.
F. G. Smith, 774 Fulton street, has opened a
branch store at 1110 Bedford avenue, where a
line of pianos and accessories will be handled.
F. G. Smith, Jr., is expected home from Califor-
nia, where he has been for some time, at an
early date.
F. C. Moulthrop, well known as the retail sales
manager for the house of Wissner, has been com-
pelled to leave Brooklyn on account of ill-health,
and has moved to Los Angeles. Just before his
departure for his new home he was tendered a
farewell banquet at the Brooklyn Germania by
Mr. Wissner. Among the guests were the heads
of departments connected with the various
branch houses of the firm.
R. Preszburg, former traveling representa-
tive for O. Wissner, is no longer in their em-
ploy.
William Wissner, eldest son of O. Wissner, will
leave some day next week on a short trip
through the West.
OUR FOREIGN^CUSTOMERS.
Pianos and Other Musical Instruments Shipped
from the Port of New York for the Week.
(Special to The Review.)
Washington, D. C, May 21, 1907.
The following were the exports of musical in-
struments and kindred lines from the Port of
New York for the week just ended:
Auckland—2 pkgs. talking machines and ma-
terial, $313.
Barbados—3 cases pianos and material, $330.
Barcelona—1 case pianos and material, $225;
3 cases piano players and material, $411.
Berlin—212 pkgs. talking machines and ma-
terial, $1,221.
Buenos Ayres—3 cases piano players and ma-
terial, $525; 1 case pianos and material, $440.
Calcutta—8 pkgs. talking machines and ma-
terial, $456.
Cape Town—61 cases organ material, $2,926.
Curacao—1 case piano material, $130.
Colon—8 pkgs. talking machines and material,
$120.
Corinto—1 case piano material, $170.
Genoa—2 cases pianos and material, $400.
Hamburg—5 cases music, $375; 7 cases pianos
and material, $328; 13 cases pianos and material,
$6,300; 2 cases music rolls, $204.
Havana—24 pkgs. talking machines and ma-
terial, $1,990; 4 cases pianos and material, $478.
Liverpool—3 cases organs and material, $122;
1 case music, $143; 2 cases organs and material,
$125; 10 cases piano players and material, $701;
6 cases organs, $300.
London—6 cases organs, $5,190; 64 cases piano
players and material, $16,390; 57 pkgs. talking
machines and material, $2,957; 5 pkgs. talking;
machines and material, $284; 8 cases music rolls,
$841; 4 cases piano players and material, $948;
2 pkgs. talking machines and material, $114.
Marauhao—3 pkgs. talking machines and ma-
terial, $229.
Melbourne—6 cases piano material, $657; 52
cases musical instruments, $562.
Milan—2 cases piano players and material,
$350. '
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Montevideo—2 pkgs. talking machines and ma-
terial, $300.
Moscow—2 cases organs and material, $162.
Naples—1 case pianos, $250; 8 cases pianos
and material, $1,000; 2 cases piano players and
material, $241.
Rio de Janeiro—17 pkgs. talking machines and
material, $1,907; 1 case pianos and material,
$216; 2 cases pianos and material, $392.
Santiago—7 pkgs. talking machines and ma-
terial, $139.
Tampico—1 case piano players and material,
$550; 4 cases pianos and material, $440; 7 pkgs.
talking machines and material, $252.
Vienna—12 pkgs. talking machines and ma-
terial, $194.
Warsaw—2 cases organs and material, $165.
9
Reg. U. S. Pat. Off.
The Fable of the Victor
and the Wise Guy
A Wise Guy who knew all
about the Piano Business said
that he wouldn't lower the tone
of his establishment by selling
Victors.
GROWTH OFj\RT PIANO IDEA.
The Subject of Some Remarks by J. Burr Tif-
fany—Says We Have Formed a School for
the World and Outstripped All Nations.
J. Burr Tiffany, the celebrated artist, who has
given so much study to development of the piano,
owing to his connection with the art department
of Steinway & Sons, has had something interest-
ing to say, on the question of pianos, in the Ar-
chitectural Record of recent date:
"We are now in a century which we like to call
America's age, the age of which we have made
ourselves a great nation and, as we proudly
think, solved many problems that the Old World
passed on to us. As we survey our triumphs of
government, art, science and industrial inven-
tion, among them is certainly our own art of
piano-making, in which we have outstripped all
other nations and formed a school for the world.
"No product of human ingenuity has been the
outcome of a steady and systematic growth from
age to age by more demonstrable stages than our
present-day piano. I t is the most remarkable
of all musical instruments, in that it can take
the place of an entire orchestra in manifold ef-
fects of tone, and has reached the highest form
of perfection, both in art and science, through
the patient labor and life devotion of Theodore
Steinway.
"At the Steinway studios are gathered many
examples of art pianos from various periods of
French, Italian, Gothic and Colonial design.
Tnese are specimens of the oest work in this
country. It is here that any one can come to
know what is simple and true and beautiful in
form and coloring.
"Once having seen harmony attained, let us not
forget the advantage these beautiful instruments
are to our surroundings and the necessity for
architects to lend their talents in design. Stein-
way & Sons will embody their ideas in the mak-
ing of these art pianos, seeing that the true
acoustic qualities of their instruments are per-
fectly preserved."
HAINES BROS. PIANO AS PRIZE.
Eilers Music Co., Oakland, Cal., offer a new
Haines Bros, piano for the oldest piano in San
Francisco and the Bay Cities, including Berkeley,
Alameda and Oakland. Separate prizes are of-
fered for the oldest foreign piano and also the
oldest square of American manufacture. Numer-
ous replies are being received as a result of the
liberal advertising of the contest and a number
of good prospects secured.
Gus D. Brigham, of Brigham & Dickinson, who
recently took over the Strohber branch on Bast
Sixty-third street, Chicago, has disposed of his
interests in the firm to Dr. Dickinson, brother of
the partner of that name. The firm name is now
Dickinson & Dickinson, and they handle Haines
Bros., Brewster and J. B. Cook pianos.
So, while the Swift One in
the next block was Salting the
Shekels he had made by selling
the
Victor
and Victor Records
and also by taking a hunch in
Pianofortes at the same time,
the Wise Guy allowed the Spiders
to spin a Web across his door.
" S a y ! " said the Swift One,
as he stopped to look through
the Web one day in Summer and
woke the Wise Guy up. "Say,
why do you hand out all this
Talk about keeping up tone and
Dignity ? Does it pay ? The
Victor tone is Good Enough for me.
The Victor's the real Caruso; it's
Sousa for keeps, all right all
right! People have tumbled that
the Victor's the genuine tabasco as
a Musical Instrument. After they
hear a few records they are
Johnny-on-the-spot w i t h t h e
casers—and it's a quick -come-
back -on -your- in vest merit for
mine.
"The Victor people are all there
with the profits, too ; and I do a
lemonade-at-the-circus business
in Records afterward. You ought
to get next!''
But the Wise Guy had Fallen
asleep again.
Soon after, while passing in
his 5000 plunk-power gas 'bus,
the Swift One noticed a To Let
sign on the Wise Guy's fortner
place of business, and a little
later he heard that the Wise Guy
was helping to Maintain the Tone
of a Dry-goods Counter.
Moral—Don't be a Wise Guy.
Victor Talking Machine
Company,
Camden, N. J.