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ANNA HELD'S $12,000 PIANO.
Secures Famous Piano Made for the Late King
Leopold of Belgium, Which She is Bringing
to This Country—Will Exhibit It at the
Panama Fair in San Francisco.
Anna Held, who sailed for New York from
France, September 6, is bringing with her one of
the most marvelous pianos ever brought into the
United States. It comes from the estate of the late
King Leopold, of Belgium, who had it made to
order for his palace of Laeken. Its original cost
was $12,000.
The piano is inlaid outside and inside with rose-
wood and on the feet are twelve angels of solid
bronze. All the mountings are of solid bronze and
on the lid is a dazzling sunburst worked in the
same material.
Its bronze ornamentation makes it so heavy that
twelve men were required to carry it to Mine.
Held's apartment. The piano will be exhibited at
the Panama Fair at San Francisco in 1915.
CHUTE & BUTLER ADDITION.
Compelled to Build Three-Story Building to
Meet Growing Demands for Their Pianos—
New Style Soon Ready—G. J . Biers Joins
Wholesale Department of the Business.
(Special to the Review.)
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worthy the traditions of this establishment. A
recent addition to the wholesale staff of the Chute
& Butler Co. is C. J. Biers, who will represent them
in Illinois and Iowa.
continue his store in Stillwater and will divide his
time between the two cities.
EILERS IN NEW SPOKANE HOUSE.
Operating Small Plant in Detroit, but Expects
to Expand During the Coming Winter.
Take Possession of New Six-Story Building—
Great Line of Pianos, Players, Small Goods,
Sheet Music and Talking Machines Displayed
—Equipment of New Quarters Most Satis-
factory—Special Rooms for Demonstration
Purposes a Feature of the Building.
(Special to The Review.)
Spokane, Wash., Sept. 2, 1911.
The Eilers Music House this week took pos-
session of its spacious and beautifully equipped
new building, corner Sprague and Post streets, this
city. The very extensive line carried by this con-
cern is admirably represented on each floor. There
is no crowding, everything being arranged in the
most artistic and complete manner.
The first or main floor contains the office of the
A. E. NOBLE MANUFACTURING PIANOS.
(Special to The Review.)
Detroit, Mich., Sept. 4, 1911.
A. E. Noble, who has a large piano store on
Grand River avenue, where he sells the J. & C.
Fischer line, the Henry and S. G. Lindeman, the
Ivers & Pond and the Radle, has become a manu-
facturer. He has erected a small factory on his
Grand River avenue property and is putting through
about twenty-live pianos which he has already
sold. He has named the new piano the Noble. If
business keeps up in a manner forecast by the quick
sale of the first batch of his pianos, he will double
his factory this winter and start traveling men
on the read for wholesale business. Mr. Noble
also will establish new retail stores, one in the east
end and another on the west side.
DEATH OF ROBERT F. DENNISTON.
Robt. F. Denniston, president of the Biddle Piano
Co., 24 West 125th street, New York, died Satur-
day last at his summer home at Point Pleasant,
N. J., aged fifty-four years. His city home was at
19 West 121st street, Manhattan.
Peru, Inch, Sept. 4, 1911.
STEINWAY GRAND FOR NORMAL SCHOOL.
To meet the growing demands of their business
the Chute & Butler Co., of this city, have had
The Normal School of the State of Denver,
plans drawn and placed in the hands of con-
Colo., have just purchased through the Knight-
tractors for the erection of a substantial addition,
Campbell Music Co., of Denver, a magnificent
in the form of an I., to the present Chute & Butler
Steinway grand of special design. The instrument
factory in this city. The ground dimensions of
has excited the greatest praise from the school
the new addition will be 96x30 feet, three stories
authorities and musicians, and is a highly appreci-
high, of brick and mill construction. When com-
ated addition to the equipment of this progressive
pleted it will enable the Chute & Butler Co. to
school.
turn out forty pianos a week.
EILERS NEW HOME IN SPOKANE.
A new Chute & Butler piano (style 19) will be
John L. McGinley has joined the sales forces of
ready for the trade about the middle of this month. salesmanager, and cleverly arranged sheet music
It will be Colonial in design and like all the and talking machine departments. In the latter Hartmann & Lanshe, the piano dealers of Allen-
Chute & Butler creations, admirably finished and they are displaying Victor talking machines and town, Pa.
Edison phonographs and records. There are a
number of sound proof rooms fitted up in the
latest style, so that it is possible to hear all the
latest records without disturbing one's neighbor.
The general offices are on the mezzanine floor;
here also is to be found the piano-player library
and the very extensive line of band instruments,
made by J. W. York & Sons, for which the Eilers
House has the agency, as well as small string in-
struments.
The second floor is devoted to grand pianos,
dTf A satisfied customer
player-pianos and a very complete concert hall,
while the third floor is entirely given over to up-
VII is a real profit maker
rights.
In these various floors are shown dickering,
—the best salesman a
Sohmer, Kimball, Decker, Hallet & Davis, Lester,
Haddorff, Marshall & Wendell, Smith & Barnes,
piano dealer can possibly
Steger, Nelson, Pease grands and uprights, and the
Autopiano and the Krell Auto-Grand player-pianos.
have
In the basement is to be found a very complete
repair factory and tuning department; here also is
Every Packard owner is a Packard
carried surplus stock as well as used pianos.
booster. He is more than satis-
The building has been constructed strictly as a
fied—for he has received more
musical emporium and with this end in view every
than "full value" for his money
possible convenience has been embodied for the
purpose of making it most satisfactory for visitors
THEY'RE
and for all connected with the establishment.
That's the reason Packard pianos
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are easy to sell—and that's the
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reason you will find profit and
pleasure in selling them. Also it's
Piano Dea'er, Small Goods Dealer and a Tuner
To the manufacturer who
the reason why we are finding it
Join Hands to Carry on Retail Business.
values his reputation, and to
easy to get the better dealers
the dealer who wants his cus-
A. C. Cameron, a small goods dealer, and M.
tomer's confidence, demand
everywhere to handle them. Write
them in the pianos you han-
Couchois, a tuner, of St. Paul, Minn., and E. F.
The Packard Company, Fort
dle—especially in the players
Huhner, a piano dealer of Stillwater, Minn., have
Wayne, Indiana—to-day. If we
—made of superior German
formed a company in the former city for the pur-
felt.
are not already represented in
pose of handling the Cable-Nelson, Bush & Lane,
your territory, we may be glad
Kroeger and other makes of pianos and player-
to make agency arrangements
pianos, with a store at the corner of St. Peter and
401-424 E. 163d St., New York
with you—and it may mean for
Seventh streets. The new company will also have
Chicago
Office: Republic Bldg.
you the one big opportunity.
a small goods department in charge of Mr.
Cameron, and will handle Victor and Edison talk-
ing machines and sheet music. Mr. Huhner will
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