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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
GROWS IN POPULARITY.
SECURES IMPORTANT PATENT.
The Constantly Increasing Demand for the
Various Weiss Harmonica Assortments Tells
the Story—Attractively Boxed for Trade.
The National Musical String Co., New Bruns-
wick, N. J., Now Owns a Machine Which
Will Greatly Facilitate the Making of Wire
Strings for Piano and Other Musical Instru-
ments—Embodies Distinctive Features.
Ch. Weiss, the prominent harmonica and Fluta
manufacturer of Trossingen, Germany, with Amer-
ican offices at 393 Broadway, New York, is exper-
iencing a constantly increasing demand for the
various Weiss harmonica assortments which have
achieved marked popularity both here and abroad.
These assortments contain various brands of Weiss
harmonicas and are so designed that they present
a very attractive appearance.
The assortment shown in the illustration here-
Weiss Harmonica Assortment No. 1.
with is designated as Weiss hamonica assortment
No. 1, and contains twelve Weiss harmonicas, with
10 single holes, 20 reeds, solid brass plates and
heavy nickeled covers. All of these mouth organs
are of the Richter style, and were chosen because
of their many merits which make for their ready
sale. These harmonicas retail for 25 cents each,
and include the following well-known Weiss brands:
"World's Triumph, Brass Band, Brass Band
Clarion and American Favorite."
WILL THEY LISTER TO THE BAND?
A certain silk-printing concern, hoping to en-
tertain both its employes and the workers in the
mills near its plant, has organized a brass band
from the male members of its organization. To
make sure that the music will be sweet, the con-
cern has permitted a committee of the employes to
petition the silk trade, on the firm's letterhead,
for the wherewithal to buy the instruments. These
pleas have aroused no small amount of unfavor-
able criticism, and one prominent manufacturer asks
if sabotage must be faced if no contributions are
sent. It is intimated that the firm in question is
going to lose some business because of the letters
that have been sent out. There have been any
number of pleas for contributions of various sorts
by store organizations of the wholesale houses
from which they buy, but this is thought to be
the first time on record that a concern with some-
thing to sell has permitted its possible customers to
be canvassed for aid.—New York Times.
ENJOYING SUMMER OUTING.
August M. Gemiinder, of Gemvinder & Sons,
New York, is spending his vacation in developing
his golfing ability at the Great Neck Golf Club,
Long Island, of which he is a member. Mean-
while his brothers, Oscar and Rudolph Gemiinder,
are endeavoring to breast the demand for the
much-sought Gemiinder Art violins of the firm.
MUSICAL BRUSHES.
The latest articles devised for the benefit of the
modern woman are musical clothes brushes, scent
bottles, sprays and powder puff boxes for her
dressing table. The musical clothes brush is now
being sold throughout Europe. Two tunes can be
played on the brush while it is being used. The
little button which starts the mechanism is placed
just where the hand is certain to press it.
The National Musical String Co., maker of the
famous Black Diamond strings, at New Brunswick,
N. J., has just secured an important patent, the
invention of Louis Biava, of New York, on a ma-
chine which, it is claimed, will greatly facilitate
the making of wire strings for piano.s and other
musical instruments. This new machine will be
also utilized in the manufacture of the products
of the National Musical String Co., which have a
large market and have won a wide appreciation
among musicians in this country as well as abroad.
Among the claims of the invento.r for this patent,
No. 1,102,233, is the following:
"In a machine for making wound-wire strings
for musical instruments, a main frame provided at
its opposite ends with vertical stationary supports
having longitudinal sleeve bearings arranged one
abo.ve another, a shaft mounted in two of said
bearings, rotatable spindles mounted in the bot-
tom sleeve .bearings, and means for rotating said
spindles, said shaft being also provided between
the bearings in which it is mounted with cross
heads provided in their opposite ends with rotata-
ble spindles having inwardly directed hooks, means
whereby said spindles may be engaged by the spin-
dles in the stationary supports, the spindles in one
of the cross heads connected with said shaft being
longitudinally movable and being provided with
springs whereby they are normally held at the
limit of their outward movement, and means for
forcing said spindles inwardly in different posi-
tions of said shaft."
FALL TRADE OUTLOOK BRIGHT
With the W m . R. Gratz Import Co.—Sales
Totals of Trade for the First Six Months of
the Year Somewhat Ahead of Last Y e a r —
Movements of Messrs. Mock and Gratz.
Joseph Mock, secretary of the Wm. R. Gratz
Import Co., 35 West Thirty-first street, New York,
the well known musical merchandise house, will
leave to-day for Haines Falls in the Catskill
Mountains for a well-deserved two weeks' sum-
mer vacation. Mr. Mock will be accompanied by
his family.
Wm. R. Gratz, president of the company, will
arrive in New York to-morrow after a few weeks'
vacation at Lenox, Mass., on which he was accom
panied by his family, including his son-m-law,
Victor H. Starrak, who has been a member of
the Gratz sales staff for the past few months.
"Our business is keeping up remarkably well for
this time of the year," remarked Mr. Mock, "and,
as a matter of fact, our sales totals are somewhat
ahead of last year, which is encouraging in view
of the generally depressed condition of all lines
of business. Our shipments from abroad are ar
riving with regularity, and the outlook as a whole
for fall trade is very bright."
TUNING W00D=WIND INSTRUMENTS.
(.Special to The Keview.)
WASHINGTON, D. C, July 20.—Patent No. 1,103,-
o5f> was last week granted to Nicholas Alberti,
Chicago, TIL, for a wood-wind instrument, and the
object of the invention is to provide means for
tuning wind instruments such as flutes, clarinets
and the like. A further object is to provide means
for simultaneously changing the pitch of the notes
produced by the opening of the different valves.
A further object of the invention is to provide
a practicable device which is comparatively simple
in its construction for accomplishing the first-
named objects, and which is not liable to get out
of order.
If you are a salesman, tuner or traveler, and
desire a position, forward your wants in an ad-
vertisement to The Review in space not to ex-
ceed four lines and it will be inserted free of
charge and replies sent to you.
The
Case oi Sartory
vs. Schmidt
Eugene Sartory, a well-known
maker of violin bows in Paris,
France, obtained on the 19th of
March last a judgment against the
firm of Alban O. Schmidt, of Mark-
neukirchen, Germany, also a manu-
facturer of bows, whom he alleged
in the suit stamped the name of
"Sartory" on the frog of his manu-
factured articles and sold them as
"Sartory" bows.
There was another manufacturer
who was charged with the same
practice who was also made a party
to this suit, but he having appealed
the case the final result as to that
defendant has not yet been deter-
mined.
Below is a copy of the judgment:
IN THE NAME OF THE KING
In the case of the manu-
turer of bows
Eugene Sartory
of Paris (13 Faubourg Pois-
sonniere), the suit being de-
fended by the lawyers Dr. Von
Petrikowsky, Counsellor at
law, and Ernst Schumann of
Plauen
Plaintiff
against
1. The firm Alban O. Schmidt, of Mark-
neukirchen (sole proprietor: Alban O.
Schmidt, merchant in that town).
2.
Defendants
For unfair competition the second Cham-
ber for Commercial Affairs of the Royal
Court of Plauen, assisted by the Counsellor
at law of the Schluckwerder State Court
and by the judges dealing with commercial
matters: Fischer and Lange, adjudges:
I.—The defendants 1
arc
ordered to pay a fine of fifteen hundred
marks or are condemned to six months' im-
prisonment in case of violation of the fol-
lowing prohibitions :
(a) The Defendant I is prohibited from
having manufactured and putting into cir-
culation bows which he offers to his clients
by catalogue, by letter or verbally, as Sar-
tory bows, and which he stamps with the
name of the plaintiff in the same manner as
the said Sartory bows.
(b)
II.—It is ordered that the Defendant I
indemnify the Plaintiff for the prejudice
suffered by the latter and which he may
still suffer, by the acts mentioned in para-
graph I. a).
III.—The Plaintiff has been granted the
right to publish, at the Defendants' ex-
pense, the essential part of the decree with-
in one month from the date when the
judgment becomes enforceable.
(a) In Germany, in the "Markneukirch-
ner Anzeiger."
(b) In France, in the "Journal."
(c) In America, in "The Music Trade
Review."
IV.—As far as the other claims are con-
cerned the complaint is unfounded.
V.—The costs of the trial are to be borne
by the Defendants.