Music Trade Review -- © mbsi.org, arcade-museum.com -- digitized with support from namm.org
46
THE
MUSIC
TRADE
REVIEW
ment stretched across the wider end, which when
BUILDING UP A GOOD BUSINESS.
struck with the fingers makes an unexpectedly
Business for the Opening Month of the New loud sound. Then there are the "harp and lute,"
(Special to The Review.)
Year in the Musical Field Has Proven Sat- so often mentioned in the Psalms and the Songs
Philadelphia, Pa., Jan. 29, 1912.
isfactory Judging from Latest Reports.
of Solomon. There is also a drum used in the
Hafiifr & Sutphin, who opened a general whole-
East from time immemorial, and a stone inscribed sale jobbing and importing business in small musi-
January, 1912, with the musical merchandise with musical signs. No man can tell the age of cal merchandise in this city last April, are well
houses has proven entirely satisfactory, according these relics, which were brought from the East pleased with the progress made. They are steadily
by travelers so long ago that the date is lost.
to the personal opinions of the heads of the repre-
adding new customers to their line.
sentative firms conducting business in New York.
Both members of the firm are practical, John P.
In summing up a series of interviews The Review
Hafner
having started in 1875 with the old firm of
ORDERS FOR LYON & HEALY
finds the situation in trade circles, as compared to
Klemm & Bro. on Market street. From there he
last January, of much higher tone. Orders are From the U. S. Government for Band Instru- went with C. F. Zimmermann in 1877 and helped
coming in in goodly quantities, with no apparent
ments—Military Organization of Girard Col- him to make his first auto'harps. In 1887 he joined
signs of the prophesied election year slump.
the forces of Robt. C. Kretschmer, remaining there
lege Also Supplied.
Another encouraging feature is the fact that in all
until he started in business for himself. Mr. Sut-
sections of the country the same brisk, healthy up-
Lyon & Healy, Chicago, recently shipped to the phin was also with the Kretschmer house for over
lift prevails. The South, which, owing to the low Quartermaster's Department, Washington, D. C, nineteen years.
price offered in the cotton market has been sort for the United States Government, a band equip-
of a thorn in the side of really good times, has at ment costing $2,000, for use in the government
E. B. Holmes, manager of the music department
last begun to pick up and the volume of shipments service. Several other government orders have of Jordan, Marsh Co., Boston, sails Feb. 13 for a trip
to that part of the country are steadily increasing, been received at Lyon & Healy's band department through the musical merchandise spots of Europe,
with indications of normal conditions at an early
where he will seek new novelties. Mr. Holmes is
within the past month.
date. The Western coast and Northwest generally
The military organization of Girard College, one of the very few buyers of department stores
are maintaining the same progressive boom as char-
Philadelphia, has also placed an order with Lyon who go abroad every year.
acterized those sections throughout 1911. New Eng- & Healy comprising twelve American professional
land and the East are certainly not backsliding; cornets and six Lyon & Healy cornets.
if anything, there is a tendency toward better busi-
ness. Boston and all of Massachusetts, in fact,
la our best advertisement and musi-
HOHNER ACCORDEONS
cians using YORK Instruments are
have produced substantial gains for January.
—satisfied. YORK instruments bare
been tested in the grind of experience,
Now, with the abolishment of political strife
with the fire of a public musical opin-
Have Proven Exceedingly Popular as Selling
ion, and have not been found wanting.
and petty labor troubles, there is great promise of
This test has covered a period of 80
Factors with Prominent Musical Merchandise
years and each year has made YORK
an unprecedented year's business. Presidential
Houses Throughout the Country.
a greater success. Does this mean
anything to you? If you are on the
election is bound to hurt some, but the general
anxious seat we want you to
opinion seems to be that it will not have its usual
One of the various popular lines manufactured
"LET US PROVE I T "
effect this year. Anyway, it is better to accept
by M. Hohner, Trossingen, Germany, and enjoy-
by sending our catalogue and dealers' proposition. Do
January's good showing at its face value and build
ing an unusual volume of popularity in America
It today or some live one may do you out of your
chance.
the hopes of a lively eleven months to come on the through the efforts of the sales force of the New
J. W. York & Sons, Grand Rapids, Mich.
solid foundation already established.
York headquarters, 114-U6 East 16th street, is the
Hohner accordeons and blow-accordeons. Although
the above line has been on the market but a com-
SELLS OUT HIS INTERESTS.
paratively short time the goods have established for
Max Schemmeyer, formerly of the firm of themselves a splendid reputation, and their quality
and value have gained for them much appreciation.
Sweetland-Schcmmeyer Co., Chicago, engaged in
The material, workmanship and other accessories
the manufacture of harps, has sold his interest in
are fully in accordance with the high Hohner
that firm and gone with one of the retail stores of
standard. They are the product of a factory
a Chicago manufacturer.
specially built, wherein all parts of the instrument
SOME ANCIENT MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. are made. This fact is the best assurance of the '
uniform quality of Hohner accordeons. The cata-
log containing colored illustrations and full par-
Among the relics preserved in the London Scrip-
ticulars of the many styles comprising the Hohner
tural Museum and considered by some as the most
line of accordeons is well worth having on file, for,
precious relics of that institute are a number of
as this publication states: "Hohner accordeons are
timbrels, or drums, of historic lineage. They are
as necessary to a small goods business to-day as
all ticketed with a verse in Scripture which men-
salt is to a dinner table. You can do without
tions each instrument. There is the "loud tim-
brel," made of potter's clay, with ancient parch- both, but it's miditv inconvenient."
REVIEW OF TRADE CONDITIONS.
A Satisfied Customer
Black Diamond
Strings
THE WORLD'S BEST
CH. WEISS on a Harmonica stands for Highest Quality
Manufacturers of the
National Musical String Co.
New Brunswick, N. J .
"BRASS BAND" AND OTHER FAMOUS BRANDS
' Factories at TROSSINGEN, GERMANY.
UEGELEISEN
& JACOBSON
113-115 University Place
NEW YORK
Y///////7Z&
V//Y/////A
NEW YORK. 393 BROADWAY
Largest Jobbers in America of
-
-ODERN
USICAL
ERCHANDISE
WRITE FOR NEW CATALOG
A PROBLEM
SOLVED!
Warranted that itflthir Bow Strew Rings nor Caps ein fall oft on Bow Screws as above Illustrated.
H% advanoo In prioo If Violin Bows art purehasod having tho Patented Scrow Attached to tho Frog.
WM.
R. G R A T Z I M P O R T C O . ,
35-37 Wost 31st Street, lew York City
M US I CAL
Merchandise
Chicago
Cincinnati
THE PATON-PERRY CO.
Leominster, Mass.
Manufacturers of
"Made In America Quality'*
MUSICAL MERCHANDISE
Ebony Pegs—Shell Picks, etc.
Send for samples & prices