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Music Trade Review.
The Only Music Trade Paper in America, and the Organ of the Music Trade of this Country.
1879.
Founded
VOL. IX. No. 9.
NEW YORK, DECEMBER 5 TO DECEMBER 20, i885.
WEST AND SOUTH.
Mayor of Nashville, but haven't learned whether he
secured him as an agent.
ANOTHER OF THE MUSIC TRADE RE-
VIEW'S GREAT TOURS.
THE MARSHALL & WENDELL PIANO MANUFACTURING
COMPANY
PUBLISHED * TWICE * EACH * MONTH.
CHARLES AVERY WELLES..
EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
JEFF. DAVIS BILL,
NUMBER I.
MANAGER.
ALBANY, TROY, BUFFALO, ERIE. CLEVE-
LAND, TOLEDO, DETROIT AND
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FORT WAYNE.
22 EAST 17th STREET, NEW YORK,
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Entered at the New York Post Office at Second Class Matter.
CONGRATULATIONS IN THE REED
BUSINESS.
W
E came across the following letter the other
day, it having been mislaid by us for a
couple of months. It is in Mr. Newell's
peculiar style. The Messrs. Brand thought that Mr.
Newell intended to be sarcastic, but we think not.
It would be just like Mr. Newell to congratulate a
competitor, if there was anything to congratulate
him for. He is not a jealous man:
CHICAGO, September 4, 1885.
MESSRS. F. AND J. BRAND, of the Brand Manufactur-
ing Co., New Britain, Conn.
GENTLEMEN—The receipt of your neat circular,
" To the Trade," informing me of your removal, etc.,
is hereby made the occasion of our congratulations
and expression of our best wishes for your prosperity,
and especially do we welcome you to the pleasures
and vexations of the reed business, which you
voluntarily invite to yourselves. The former will
come with fine work and profits (if any). The
latter—well, you will require grace and good cheer
when you encounter them. Yours truly,
AUGUSTUS NEWELL & Co.
BELIEVE that there is an unusual activity in
almost every branch of business throughout the
country. It is my opinion that the long spell
of depression in business circles is at last broken.
Money seems to me to be circulating to a much
greater extent than at any time for several years;
business men are gaining the confidence they have
been so sadly in need of for a long time, and they
are now branching out and extending their pursuits
into wider fields; manufactories are being opened
up anew all over the country, and paying good
wages, which will enable the laboring class not only
to purchase the necessaries of life, but also to
indulge in a moderate amount of luxuries. As an
instance of the reopening of factories, let me note
that of the Columbus rolling mills, which will be
opened on the 1st of December. These mills have
been idle for three years, but when started again
will furnish work for hundreds of workmen. It is
my belief that there is an era of prosperity opening
for this country. It is owing partly to this belief
that I am now taking my trip through the West and
South. I intend during this trip not only to give
the news of the piano and organ trade, but also,
whenever possible, to obtain the views of represen-
tative men in other bracnhes of business, and as
nearly as possible present a true statement of the
condition of the country from New York to Texas.
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ALBANY.
In Albany, my first stopping place, I find that
there is a steady increase of business.
R. W. TANNER & BON
THE WHITNEY & HOLMES ORGAN CO.
T
HROUGH the enterprise of the Whitney &
Holmes Organ Company Quincy has one of
the largest and most elegant assortments of
strictly first class pianos in the West. Having the
general Western agency for several of the most
prominent piano manufacturers, this company con-
ducts an extensive wholesale trade in these instru-
ments, and their warerooms on South Fifth street
contain at all times a stock of pianos which in extent
and variety is unsurpassed anywhere. During the
past ten days three car loads of pianos have been re-
reived, this shipment embracing many new and very
elegant styles. It is a genuine pleasure to visit this
establishment, and to see and hear these matchless
pianos. They are square grands, cabinet grands,
parlor grands and concert grands, in magnificent
French burl, rosewood, American burl and ebonized
cases, and every instrument is perfect in tone as well
as beautiful to look at. As already stated, the Whit-
ney & Holmes Organ Company conducts an extensive
wholesale trade in pianos, and is therefore enabled
to offer standard instruments at exceeding low prices.
They sell only the best known pianos, those which
they can fully recommend to their patrons, and the
fact that a piano is sent out from their warerooms is
a guarantee that it is perfect in tone and finish. A
good piano will last a life time, and too much care
cannot be taken in selecting it. There is economy
in buying a good one, and good judgment in buying
it from a reputable dealer.
For the holiday trade other large shipments of the
finest instruments will be received, and those who
expect to make purchases for Christmas or New
Year's will do well to give the matter their early
attention. — Tht Whig, Quincy 111., NOT. 8.
S0.00 PER YEAR.
SINGLE COPIES, 10 CENTS.
are doing all the business their factory will allow
them to do. Their new patent pedal guard is a very
handsome affair and seems to suit the entire piano
trade that have tried it. One New York firm sent
them an order for 2,000 of these pedals. This con-
cern has just got out a new music-desk hinge which
I have little doubt will meet with favor among manu-
facturers. They also manufacture a new water filter
which ought to make the patentee a rich man. The
most muddy water placed in this filterer will come
out perfectly pure and as clear as crystal. It seems
to me that there is a fortune in it in the city of New
Orleans alone.
BOARDMAN & GRAY
have taken the whole of the building at No. 547
Broadway, which will give them ample facilities for
some time to come. As soon as they can find a
suitable location they will erect a factory of their
own.
E. MC CAMMON
state that their October trade was the largest they
ever had for that month, and their November busi-
ness so far is equal to last month. They predict a
good steady trade for some time to come.
A. H. SIMMONS
successor to Haines & Co., says that his small goods
and music business is rnshing, and that his piano and
organ trade is all that he can expect. He has just
contracted with Henry Benary's Sons, of New York,
for a large number of banjos per year. I noticed a
great improvement in the appearance of Mr. Sim-
mon's wererooms. The offices are moved to the front
on one side and the sheet music on the other. This
leaves the back part for pianos and organs, which
gives the rooms a much pleasanter appearance. At
C. E. WENDELL & CO.,
I saw Mr. Wendell make a sale of one of their highest
priced Marshall & Wendell pianos. I can tell you
that as a salesman Mr. Wendell cannot be beat. He
informs me that they are getting in a large stock of
pianos and organs, preparatory for a very large
holiday trade.
TROY.
I was fortunate in Tracy to find Mr. Fred Cluett of
CDUETT & SONS.
He assures me that business is better with them
than it has been for years and their cash sales are
much greater than heretofore, which he claims is
indicative of more prosperous time. Mr. Cluett,
when I called, was making arrangements to go to
New York, to select a $1200 Chickering piano, which
he had sold that day by catalogue, not having one in
the warerooms, they being all sold out.
BUFFALO.
In Buffalo, I found but very few of the gentlemen
in the music trade.
C. KURTZMANN,
seems to keep right along and has his usual good
trade. He is generally the most contented manu-
facturer I ever met. I never yet heard him find fault
with his business. He says if business is quiet there
is always a cause for it, and grumbling will not help
it one particle. This is undoubtedly true but, how
few there are who look at it in this way ! Mr. Kurtz-
mann has an excellent display of his different styles
of pianos at the Buffalo Exposition, which is now at
its height and well attended.
c. KUHN & co.
also have a fine display. They have on exhibition
two Sohmer, style seven, uprights, and a Sohmer-
Bijou Grand; four New England Pianos, three fin-
ished in rosewood and one ebonized; also three New
England Organs, one of which has a very pretty
cherry case. Mr. Euhn tells me that he has made a
great many sales here, besides giving him an enor-
mous amount of advertising at a very low cost.
There is no doubt but that
F. KNOLL
was out west when I called, but Mr. Cox, his book-
keeper and head man, told me that business was in is having his full share of the Buffalo trade. He has
excellent shape and they were having plenty to do as made many costly improvements in his warerooms
is always the case when McCamnion goes on the during the past year, and now they present as attrac-
road. It seemed rather desolate in the warerooms tive an appearance as any in the city. His piano and
without the smiling countenance of Flinn. However, organ department is entirely separate from the offices
Mr. Cox says that he understands that Flinn is doing and sheet music rooms, which he claims is a great
well with the New England Piano Company, and at improvement. It certainly has the advantage of pro-
present making a very successful trip through the curing absolute quiet when a party desires to exam-
South. I also hear that he recently dined with the ine and test the instruments. Mr. Knoll is fairly