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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
BAND INSTRUMENTS IN DEMAND.
ENTERPRISING QUAKER CITY DEALER.
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CUSTOMS CASE APPEAL.
Prominent in the musical merchandise line of Decision Emphasizes Wtoen and How an Im-
porter's Right to Appeal Is Absolute.
Philadelphia and vicinity for a great many years,
Robt. C. Kretschmar has been representing C.
The Board of General Appraisers held Monday
Bruno & Son, Inc., for some time past, as an-
that where the Collector accepts an invoice and en-
Buegeleisen & Jacobson, 113 University Place, nounced recently in these columns.
New York, report a surprisingly heavy demand
Mr. Kretschmar is extremely active in and about try and forwards the t same to the appraiser who
for band instruments from all parts of the coun- that market, and he made the remark to one of his makes an appraisement of the merchandise, the
right of the importer to appeal to reappraisement
try. All classes and grades are selling quickly,
is absolute. The Collector, it is held, may refuse
and Samuel Buegeleisen, head of the house, states
entry upon such an invoice, but he cannot after its
that it seems as though war was raging in this
acceptance and appraisement of the merchandisse
country instead of on the other side of the At-
covered thereby contend that the importer has not
lantic.
a statutory right to demand a reappraisement.
"All of our band instrument lines are meeting
When the case came up for hearing before the
with a ready sale throughout the country," said
Board, a representative of Assistant Attorney Gen-
Mr. Buegeleisen, "although the sales of Franz
eral Hanson's office made a motion for the dismis-
Weber and Gonet & Co.'s instruments, for which
sal of the protest on the ground that the importer
we have the exclusive agency in this country, are
failed to set forth in his invoice "a true and full
breaking all previous records. This demand
statement of the time when, the place where, the
would of course be still more gratifying if it
person from whom the same (the merchandise in-
were not for the tremendous scarcity of musical
volved) was purchased or agreed to be purchased,"
merchandise of all classes, although we are exer-
as required by the administrative law. Judge
cising every possible effort to give our dealers
Fischer refused to dismiss the protest, and pro-
the best valuable service and co-operation.
ceeded
to determine the proper market value of
"General business is very satisfactory just now,
the goods in dispute.
but the demand is so far in advance of the sup-
Robt. C. Kretschmar.
ply that those dealers who are placing their holi-
IMPROVEMENT JN_CORNET VALVE.
day orders now are to be congratulated upon using friends in the trade that he was glad to be asso-
ciated with a line of musical merchandise that
excellent business judgment and foresight."
(Special to The Review.)
gave him the greatest competition when he con-
WASHINGTON, D. C, October 6.—A cornet valve
ducted a jobbing company. He is a very enthusi- is the invention of Chas. G. Conn., Elkhart, Ind.,
SPANISH CASTANETS IN FAVOR.
astic man on Bruno goods, the house and the Patent No. 1,112,120. This invention consists in
H. L. Hunt, manager of the musical merchan-
service, and through his aggressive work the busi- relieving the bearing surface of such parts of the
dise department of Charles H. Ditson & Co., 8
ness in Philadelphia has greatly increased.
valve piston from frictional contact with the valve
East Thirty-fourth street, New York, reports a
casing as are not absolutely necessary to prevent
noticeable demand for Spanish castanets. A large
CONDITIONS SHOW BETTERMENT. the valve from leaking, and this is done by dimin-
shipment of these instruments was received last
The William R. Gratz Import Co., 35 West ishing the cross sectional area of the piston at all
week and already heavy inroads have been made
Thirty-first
street, New York, received a number points except through the bearing areas around
on this supply. Spanish castanets find favor with
theater companies, professional and amateur danc- of letters this week from manufacturers abroad the ports and at the ends of the piston.
ers and dancing schools. With the advent of the whose products they handle in this country, stat-
IN DANGER OF DESTRUCTION.
fall season this class of trade has naturally in- ing that their factories were working regular an 1
creased, not only with Spanish castanets, but with that they were receiving and filling orders from
When Paganini died he left his famous violin,
different parts of the world. These letters state
similar products.
further that transportation facilities have improved a Guarnerius, to the city of Genoa, to be preserved
and that it is now possible to ship with safety by for all time. It has been kept in a glass case, un-
way of Holland, Denmark, Sweden and Italy. The touched by anyone. But recently it has been dis-
Win. R. Gratz Co. has received a cablegram ad- covered that it is in danger of destruction by a
vising it of a large shipment of merchandise now kind of worm, and the city fathers do not know
what to do about it. They should get in touch
en route which is fully covered by insurance.
with Gemunder.
John R. Speer, of Paterson, N. J., has just been
granted patent No. 1,110,654, for an improvement
in the violin in which he employs auxiliary sym-
pathetic metal strings with supplementary sound-
boards, bridges and soundposts in the interior of
the violin body.
Buegeleisen & Jacobson Report Increased Ac-
tivity in This Line—Dealers Placing Orders
Now Getting Preference in Filling of Orders.
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