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V O L . XLVI. N o . 14.
Published Every Saturday by Edward Lyman BUI at I Madison Avc, New York, April 4, 1908.
LYON & HEALYJTELL A SECRET.
EYLES' 2STHj\NNIYERSARY.
The List of Objections to the Steinway Made
by Interested People Put in Print by Lyon
& Healy—Forms an Interesting Study for
Some of Their Competitors.
The Well Known Piano Man to Celebrate Next
Month His 39th Birthday and His 25th An-
niversary in the Piano Business.
(Special to The Review.)
Lyon & Healy have been carrying some very
clever advertisements in the Chicago papers
bearing on the Steinway piano which tells its
own story and makes excellent reading matter:
"A lady seeking to purchase a piano made a
careful study of the subject. Finally she came
to us and told us that the Steinway piano was
mentioned by everyone to whom she talked on
the subject of piano buying. Being of a humor-
ous turn of mind, she made a list of the objec-
tions to the Steinway advanced by various
people. They are really too good to keep secret,
=o we publish them:
"1. The Steinway grands are very fine, but
the uprights are quite ordinary. (Need-
less to say the lady was looking for an
upright piano.)
"2. The Steinway Upright is built according
to the 'grand' method, hence is not a good
upright. (We wonder if this gentleman
would claim under pressure that the
Steinway Grand is built according to the
'upright' method.)
"3. The Steinways charge several hundred
dollars merely for the name. (As a Stein-
way Upright is only $550 this is a pretty
severe indictment.)
"4. The Steinway Uprights were very fine in-
deed when they used to charge a high
price, but now they are selling a cheap
Steinway Upright.
"5. The Steinway tone is very brilliant, of
course, but lacking in real musical
quality.
"6. While the Steinway tone is very mellow
and musical, it lacks brilliancy and
power.
"7. The Steinways have made no real im-
provements worth mentioning for thirty
or forty years.
"8. The Steinways have made so many
changes in the last thirty or forty years
that the piano is not as good as it used
to be.
"9. Mr. Steinway is dead. (There are seven
very live Steinways in the business to-
day, however.)
"In every case the subject of the Steinway
was introduced not by the lady but by the other
party to the conversation. Abraham Lincoln
used to say that you would always find the most
clubs under the best apple tree. So we feel that
in reply to the above "objections" we can only
say what we said to this lady, and that is: "Per-
haps now you would like to see the Steinway
itself."
"We hope the reader will make the same reply
and reach the same conclusion that the lady did.
For the result of her decision is that a Steinway
piano now graces her home."
Lyon & Healy, by the way, are compiling a list
of recent Chicago purchasers of Steinway pianos
and it reads like a section of the Blue Book.
SINGLE COPIES, 10 CENTS.
$2.00 PER YEAR.
against Janke Music Co. It was shown to the
satisfaction of the court that the concern had not
committed an act of bankruptcy within the mean-
ing of the act and the ruling of the court will
have the effect of dismissing the proceedings.
REARDON WITH STARCK CO.
St. Louis, Mo., March 30, 1908.
Charles A. Eyles will this month celebrate his Well Known Piano Man Becomes Wholesale
25th anniversary in the piano business, and
Representative of the Chicago Manufacturers.
next month his 39th birthday. As a boy he
J. H. Reardon, formerly manager of the
was apprenticed in all the branches of the piano
business, not being 14 years of age at that time. wholesale department of the Steger & Sons'
He was then associated with his father, Anton Piano Mfg. Co., has identified himself with the
Eyles. who at that time was known as one of the P. A. Starck Piano Co., the well-known piano
manufacturers of Chicago, as wholesale repre-
sentative, and he is now on his initial trip for
this institution. Mr. Reardon is well known in
the trade and he should find little difficulty in
augmenting the business of the company with
which he is now associated.
KIMBALLS FORJSELMONT COLLEGE.
Three Concert Grands and Forty Uprights
Ordered for This Great Musical College.
The W. W. Kimball Co. received an order last
week from their branch in Nashville, Tenn., call-
ing for three concert grand and forty upright
Kimball pianos for the Belmont College of Music
in that city. The deal was consummated by the
local manager, F. A. Leatherman, after meeting
with considerable competition, and is among the
largest single orders ever placed by a southern
college.
CRAFTS PIANO CO. INCORPORATED.
CHARLES A. KYM5S.
most expert tuners and all around piano men in
the country. He was located at Pittsburg, Pa.
Later on, Anton Eyles formed the firm of A.
Eyles & Sons Piano Co., taking his sons in as
partners. They manufactured about 200 pianos,
but on account of lack of capital they discon-
tinued business. "Charlie" Eyles, as he is famil-.
iarly known, then entered the employ of Mellor,
Hoehne & Hendrichs in Pittsburg in 1882, with
whom he remained about six years, afterward
going to Kansas City, Mo., to accept employment
with the F. G. Smith Piano Co. of that city, with
whom he spent 15 years. For the last fdur years
he has been connected with the Bollman Bros.
Piano Co. of St. Louis.
Mr. Eyles possesses a very genial disposition,
is very popular with all who know him, and has
made many friends by his high-class business in-
tegrity. He has a record of selling 200 pianos in
one year, which averaged $399 per piano.
NOT COMMITTED ACT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Special to The Review.)
Houston, Tex., March 28, 1908.
Judge W. T. Burns made orders in the United
States Court Monday morning sustaining the de-
murrers in the bankruptcy proceedings filed
The Crafts Piano Co., Richmond, Va., who were
incorporated last week with $15,000 capital, rep-
resent the outgrowth of the Crafts Piano Co.,
which was started last spring by Arthur J.
Crafts, now president of the corporation. The
business grew to such an extent that more capi-
tal was needed, hence the new concern. The
Crafts Co. have approved of plans for a new
building at the corner of Fifth and Grace streets,
where they will handle pianos and all kinds of
musical instruments. At present they have the
agencies for the Starr, Ludwig, Haddorff and
other pianos.
WOOD SUFFERS LOSS TR0M FIRE.
The entire stock of pianos and organs of T. H.
Wood, Middleville, Mich., was destroyed by a
$100,000 fire that swept through the business
section of that town last week.
HENRY P. BUTLER APPOINTED RECEIVER.
Judge Holt has appointed Henry
ceiver in bankruptcy for the Spies
facturing Co., 3489 Third avenue,
of $1,500. The assets are estimated
P. Butler re-
Piano Manu-
with a bond
at $2,500.
C. W. Scammon has been appointed manager
of Bailey's Music Rooms, Burlington, Vt, to suc-
ceed Col. H. W. Hall, who was forced to retire
through ill-health.