Music Trade Review
Issue: 1887 Vol. 10 N. 18 - Page 2
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274
THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW,
Communications of interest to the music trade are so- Mr. Merrill was the head of the firm. His son Henry
licited. All Western correspondence will receive prompt is now, and has been for a number of years, with
Lyon & Healy.
attention by addressing Lock Box 492, Chicago, III.
H. E. Twiford, musical instiuments, Burlington,
la.; stock in hands of a receiver.
Alex Orr, Kendallville, Ind., organ dealer, died las
week.
Mr. Aug. Newell, manufacturer of organ reeds, has
PROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.
gone to San Francisco and other points in California,
on a trip for his health.
W. W. Kimball Co. branch house at Des Moines,
Lock Box 492. TRADERS' BUILDING, CHICAGO,
la
, have moved into new warerooms.
April 15th, 1887.
Howes & Adams, piano and organ dealers, Bloom-
ington, 111., failed April 3. Liabilities about $5,000.
There are live music houses in Sioux City, la.
April has not brought forth many showers so far,
J. M. Ingold, Cedar Rapids, la., has sold out.
hut it has brought forth a good trade for the retail
Smith & Meyer, Cedar Rapids, la., piano and or-
and wholesale dealers. The following have had the
gan dealers; firm has been dissolved. H. L. Myers
oream of the trade :
Lyon & Healy have had a good run with the Stein- will carry on the business in the future.
way and have sold a great many of the Fischer.
Their musical merchandise trade has been immense.
Iteed & Sons have done more than usual with the
THIS
popular Knabe, on account of their generous outlny
in advertising of late.
B. Shoninger Co. are constantly increasing their
sales in both the retail and wholesale. Their instru-
ments always give perfect satisfaction.
Estey & Camp are well pleased with their move to
their new and commodious store. It is in all points
the finest in Chicago; a fitting home for the magnifi-
cent Decker B: others pianos^that they so well repre-
MANUFACTURERS OP
sent.
W. W. Kimball Co. are in their new store, corner
State and Jackson streets. It is a fine store, but it
doe3 not impress one as the old store did, with its big
square space of 80 by 80 feet, with its big columns
&c The old store surpassed any piano wareroom in
the United States and showed the stock off to great
advantage-
On Wabash avenue, the Weber house is moving
right along. The retail business is improving since
Mr. Drummond has been on the Moor.
John V. Church & Co. are doing a good retail busi-
ness with the Hardman & Everett pianos.
The other dealers on Wabash avenue do not seem
to be rushed at present.
Bush & Co. and C. A. Smith & Co. are justas busy
as they can be; also the Story & Ciark Organ Co. are
working night and day to keep up with their orders.
Mr. Hawkhurst, manager F. G. Smith, has gone
on a trip to St. Paul and Minneapolis to put in some
Bradbury pianos.
Mr. P. J. Healy, of Lyon & Healy, has gone to
California.
George E. Ambuhl, late salesman of the Sterling
Co., opens a new store on West Madison street, with Best of Workmanship and Quality of
a stock of Sterling pianos.
George Schletffarth, late of Brainard Sons, has gone
Goods Guaranteed.
to the Sterling Co.'s warerooms as head salesman.
Brainard Sons are closing out their stock of pianos
Correspondence Solicited.
and organs. Will run straight sheet music, books, and
their own publications in future.
G. E. Van Syckle, Bay City, Mich., has sold out
ADDRESS,
to W. D. Richardson, his interest in the musical
merchandise business.
W. W. Balcom, Storm Lake, Iowa, has given a
mortgage for $55.
Mr. James Shoninger has gone East to see his
brother Simon, who sails for Europe May 4th with
his family, on a three months trip. Mr. A. de An-
guera will take charge of the wholesale in Mr. Shon-
inger's absence. Mr. Anguera is good for it, as he is
just as much at home in wholesale as he is at retail.
Henry S. Mackey, piano dealer, Rochester, N. Y.,
visited Chicago some days ago, as did John Church,
of Cincinnati, Ohio.
A. Meinberg & Co., Omaha, Neb., a new piano
M. C. Christy & Co., Des Moines, In., are doing a
and organ house just opened. Mr. Meinberg was fine trade with the Story & Clark organ.
salesman for. Horace Waters years ago. Of late years
M. A. Paulsen, of the Century Piano & Organ Co.,
he has been with Max Meyers it Hro., Omaha. His St. Paul and Minneapolis, has just gone East, with
partner is W. W. McBride. They are both enterpris- his pockets full of cash, to make arrangements for a
ing men and quite popular, and no doubt they will good medium piano. As he says, cash talks.
build up a fine business.
The following dealers and manufacturers have
Mr. C. C. Colby, of Colby, Duncan & Co., is here, been in town since we last wrote you :
having just returned from atrip to St. Paul and Min-
L. Connor, Braidwood, 111.; S. H. Daniels, of
neapolis.
firm of Benedict & Daniels, Pontico, Mich.; G. E.
L. Cavalli, of Alfred Dolge, New York, has been in Cook, Bryan, Ohio ; H. T. Kyser, Wenona, 111. ; John
Summers, Joliet, 111.; Mark Ament, Peoria, 111. ; G.
town, as handsome and enterprising as ever.
Charles Anderson, Eldora, la., piano and organ N. Pollard, Sioux City, la. ; C. A. Elemdorf, Creston,
la. ; I. D. N. Osborne, Benton Harbor, Mich.; L. E.
dealer, closed out.
H. T. Merrill died April 5th, of pneumonia. Some Thayer, of the Fort Wayne Organ Co., Ind.; M. A,
twenty years ago one of the most popular piano Paulson, of Century Piano Co., St Paul, Minn.; C. C.
houses in Chicago was the firm of Merrill &Brennan. Colby, of Colby, Duncan & Co., New York; John
Church, Cincinnati, Ohio ; H. S. Mackey, Rochester,
N. Y., &c.
Yours,
OWEN.
CHICAGO CORRESPONDENCE.
HIGHEST GRADE
ST. PAUL AND MINNEAPOLIS.
The following firms are in the music business in
St. Paul and Minneapolis, Minn. :
W. J. Dyer & Bro., the largest and most promi-
nent in the Northwest, have two large warerooms,
one in St. Paul and one in Minneapolis. They sell
the Steinway, Weber, Gabler and Shoninger pianos,
and the Shoninger organs. They do a very extensive
business in the above makes of pianos and organs
throughout Minnesota and Dakota.
R. C. Munger, St. Paul, has been the largest in the
music trade; sells the Haines Bros, pianos and Wes-
tern Cottage organ.
A. E. Whitney, St. Paul, sells only the Kimball line
of goods; Hallet & Davis, Emerson, and Kimball
pianos and organs.
Peterson & Blaikie have a store in St. Paul and
Minneapolis; they are a new house, and are agents
for Chickering, Colby & Duncan pianos, and Wilcox
& White organs.
Nathan Ford, St. Paul, sells the Knabe and Decker
Brothers pianos, and the Estey and Clough & War-
ren organs. This is a very enterprising house and
does a fine business.
The Century Co., Minneapolis, sell the Steck,
Sterling, Vo«e, and Hallet & Cumston pianos and
Story & Clark organs.
I. M. Root & Co., Minneapolis, Behning pianos and
Farrand & Votey organs.
Castle & Brooks, Minneapolis, Haines Brothers
and Everett pianos and Estey organs.
Mrs. S A. Pentield, Minneapolis, H;illot & Davis,
Emerson and Kimball pianos and Kimball organs.
Foster Bros & Whitcomb, Minneapolis, Wheelock,
Sturvesant, and A. B. Chase pianos and Miller or-
gans.
S. P. Saborn, Minneapolis, sells Newman Bros, or-
gans. The above are the principal dealers.
PARLOR AND CHAPEL
A.+B.+CHASE+COMPANY,
19 Whittlesey Ave.,
NORWALK, OHIO.
FANCY STEINWAY PIANOS.
MONG the many fancy-case pianos recently
completed by Messrs. Steinway & Sons, the
following examples of artistic workmanship
may be mentioned : A large concert grand made for
Sir Donald Smith, president of the Canadian Pacific
Railway, whose residence is at Montreal. This su-
perb instrument is finished in satinwood, with satin-
wood figures in relief, making a procession of artistic
figures in groups around the sides of the piano. The
top and fall-board are inlaid with mother-of-pearl.
Two additional uprights for the Sultan of Turkey
were shipped to Constantinople, both handsomely en-
graved in gilt and silver. These instruments were
forwarded last week, making a total of seven Stein-
way pianos sold to His Majesty the Sultan in two
years.
A magnificent upright of solid mahogany, with
imported gilt ornaments, for W. K. Vanderbilt's
steam yacht "Alva."
Also an upright grand made of satinwood, the dec-
orations of which consist of musical and musical al-
legorical subjects and designs, all painted in oil by
hand.
Two fancy maple upright grands for Lyon & Healy,
of Chicago, the one of birdseye, the other of curled
maple, both with solid carved maple ornaments, the
designs being followed according to the wishes of the
parties who ordered these instruments.
These instruments are absolutely gorgeous in ap
pearance and always made with the purpose of ad-
hering to the highest artistic form of the cabinet-
maker's art. Having a soul o la Steinway, the body
of the piano must nocessarily be a la Steinway, and
we all know what that signifies.—Musical Courier.
A
MUSICAL UNION TROUBLES.
ARL HAMM has obtained an injunction from
Judge Donohue in Supreme Court Chambers
restraining the Musical Mutual Protective
Union, of which he is a member, from proceeding
against him on any charges, or trying, or expelling,
or doing anything to interfere with him in his privi-
leges. —Evenivg Post.
C
274
THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW,
Communications of interest to the music trade are so- Mr. Merrill was the head of the firm. His son Henry
licited. All Western correspondence will receive prompt is now, and has been for a number of years, with
Lyon & Healy.
attention by addressing Lock Box 492, Chicago, III.
H. E. Twiford, musical instiuments, Burlington,
la.; stock in hands of a receiver.
Alex Orr, Kendallville, Ind., organ dealer, died las
week.
Mr. Aug. Newell, manufacturer of organ reeds, has
PROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.
gone to San Francisco and other points in California,
on a trip for his health.
W. W. Kimball Co. branch house at Des Moines,
Lock Box 492. TRADERS' BUILDING, CHICAGO,
la
, have moved into new warerooms.
April 15th, 1887.
Howes & Adams, piano and organ dealers, Bloom-
ington, 111., failed April 3. Liabilities about $5,000.
There are live music houses in Sioux City, la.
April has not brought forth many showers so far,
J. M. Ingold, Cedar Rapids, la., has sold out.
hut it has brought forth a good trade for the retail
Smith & Meyer, Cedar Rapids, la., piano and or-
and wholesale dealers. The following have had the
gan dealers; firm has been dissolved. H. L. Myers
oream of the trade :
Lyon & Healy have had a good run with the Stein- will carry on the business in the future.
way and have sold a great many of the Fischer.
Their musical merchandise trade has been immense.
Iteed & Sons have done more than usual with the
THIS
popular Knabe, on account of their generous outlny
in advertising of late.
B. Shoninger Co. are constantly increasing their
sales in both the retail and wholesale. Their instru-
ments always give perfect satisfaction.
Estey & Camp are well pleased with their move to
their new and commodious store. It is in all points
the finest in Chicago; a fitting home for the magnifi-
cent Decker B: others pianos^that they so well repre-
MANUFACTURERS OP
sent.
W. W. Kimball Co. are in their new store, corner
State and Jackson streets. It is a fine store, but it
doe3 not impress one as the old store did, with its big
square space of 80 by 80 feet, with its big columns
&c The old store surpassed any piano wareroom in
the United States and showed the stock off to great
advantage-
On Wabash avenue, the Weber house is moving
right along. The retail business is improving since
Mr. Drummond has been on the Moor.
John V. Church & Co. are doing a good retail busi-
ness with the Hardman & Everett pianos.
The other dealers on Wabash avenue do not seem
to be rushed at present.
Bush & Co. and C. A. Smith & Co. are justas busy
as they can be; also the Story & Ciark Organ Co. are
working night and day to keep up with their orders.
Mr. Hawkhurst, manager F. G. Smith, has gone
on a trip to St. Paul and Minneapolis to put in some
Bradbury pianos.
Mr. P. J. Healy, of Lyon & Healy, has gone to
California.
George E. Ambuhl, late salesman of the Sterling
Co., opens a new store on West Madison street, with Best of Workmanship and Quality of
a stock of Sterling pianos.
George Schletffarth, late of Brainard Sons, has gone
Goods Guaranteed.
to the Sterling Co.'s warerooms as head salesman.
Brainard Sons are closing out their stock of pianos
Correspondence Solicited.
and organs. Will run straight sheet music, books, and
their own publications in future.
G. E. Van Syckle, Bay City, Mich., has sold out
ADDRESS,
to W. D. Richardson, his interest in the musical
merchandise business.
W. W. Balcom, Storm Lake, Iowa, has given a
mortgage for $55.
Mr. James Shoninger has gone East to see his
brother Simon, who sails for Europe May 4th with
his family, on a three months trip. Mr. A. de An-
guera will take charge of the wholesale in Mr. Shon-
inger's absence. Mr. Anguera is good for it, as he is
just as much at home in wholesale as he is at retail.
Henry S. Mackey, piano dealer, Rochester, N. Y.,
visited Chicago some days ago, as did John Church,
of Cincinnati, Ohio.
A. Meinberg & Co., Omaha, Neb., a new piano
M. C. Christy & Co., Des Moines, In., are doing a
and organ house just opened. Mr. Meinberg was fine trade with the Story & Clark organ.
salesman for. Horace Waters years ago. Of late years
M. A. Paulsen, of the Century Piano & Organ Co.,
he has been with Max Meyers it Hro., Omaha. His St. Paul and Minneapolis, has just gone East, with
partner is W. W. McBride. They are both enterpris- his pockets full of cash, to make arrangements for a
ing men and quite popular, and no doubt they will good medium piano. As he says, cash talks.
build up a fine business.
The following dealers and manufacturers have
Mr. C. C. Colby, of Colby, Duncan & Co., is here, been in town since we last wrote you :
having just returned from atrip to St. Paul and Min-
L. Connor, Braidwood, 111.; S. H. Daniels, of
neapolis.
firm of Benedict & Daniels, Pontico, Mich.; G. E.
L. Cavalli, of Alfred Dolge, New York, has been in Cook, Bryan, Ohio ; H. T. Kyser, Wenona, 111. ; John
Summers, Joliet, 111.; Mark Ament, Peoria, 111. ; G.
town, as handsome and enterprising as ever.
Charles Anderson, Eldora, la., piano and organ N. Pollard, Sioux City, la. ; C. A. Elemdorf, Creston,
la. ; I. D. N. Osborne, Benton Harbor, Mich.; L. E.
dealer, closed out.
H. T. Merrill died April 5th, of pneumonia. Some Thayer, of the Fort Wayne Organ Co., Ind.; M. A,
twenty years ago one of the most popular piano Paulson, of Century Piano Co., St Paul, Minn.; C. C.
houses in Chicago was the firm of Merrill &Brennan. Colby, of Colby, Duncan & Co., New York; John
Church, Cincinnati, Ohio ; H. S. Mackey, Rochester,
N. Y., &c.
Yours,
OWEN.
CHICAGO CORRESPONDENCE.
HIGHEST GRADE
ST. PAUL AND MINNEAPOLIS.
The following firms are in the music business in
St. Paul and Minneapolis, Minn. :
W. J. Dyer & Bro., the largest and most promi-
nent in the Northwest, have two large warerooms,
one in St. Paul and one in Minneapolis. They sell
the Steinway, Weber, Gabler and Shoninger pianos,
and the Shoninger organs. They do a very extensive
business in the above makes of pianos and organs
throughout Minnesota and Dakota.
R. C. Munger, St. Paul, has been the largest in the
music trade; sells the Haines Bros, pianos and Wes-
tern Cottage organ.
A. E. Whitney, St. Paul, sells only the Kimball line
of goods; Hallet & Davis, Emerson, and Kimball
pianos and organs.
Peterson & Blaikie have a store in St. Paul and
Minneapolis; they are a new house, and are agents
for Chickering, Colby & Duncan pianos, and Wilcox
& White organs.
Nathan Ford, St. Paul, sells the Knabe and Decker
Brothers pianos, and the Estey and Clough & War-
ren organs. This is a very enterprising house and
does a fine business.
The Century Co., Minneapolis, sell the Steck,
Sterling, Vo«e, and Hallet & Cumston pianos and
Story & Clark organs.
I. M. Root & Co., Minneapolis, Behning pianos and
Farrand & Votey organs.
Castle & Brooks, Minneapolis, Haines Brothers
and Everett pianos and Estey organs.
Mrs. S A. Pentield, Minneapolis, H;illot & Davis,
Emerson and Kimball pianos and Kimball organs.
Foster Bros & Whitcomb, Minneapolis, Wheelock,
Sturvesant, and A. B. Chase pianos and Miller or-
gans.
S. P. Saborn, Minneapolis, sells Newman Bros, or-
gans. The above are the principal dealers.
PARLOR AND CHAPEL
A.+B.+CHASE+COMPANY,
19 Whittlesey Ave.,
NORWALK, OHIO.
FANCY STEINWAY PIANOS.
MONG the many fancy-case pianos recently
completed by Messrs. Steinway & Sons, the
following examples of artistic workmanship
may be mentioned : A large concert grand made for
Sir Donald Smith, president of the Canadian Pacific
Railway, whose residence is at Montreal. This su-
perb instrument is finished in satinwood, with satin-
wood figures in relief, making a procession of artistic
figures in groups around the sides of the piano. The
top and fall-board are inlaid with mother-of-pearl.
Two additional uprights for the Sultan of Turkey
were shipped to Constantinople, both handsomely en-
graved in gilt and silver. These instruments were
forwarded last week, making a total of seven Stein-
way pianos sold to His Majesty the Sultan in two
years.
A magnificent upright of solid mahogany, with
imported gilt ornaments, for W. K. Vanderbilt's
steam yacht "Alva."
Also an upright grand made of satinwood, the dec-
orations of which consist of musical and musical al-
legorical subjects and designs, all painted in oil by
hand.
Two fancy maple upright grands for Lyon & Healy,
of Chicago, the one of birdseye, the other of curled
maple, both with solid carved maple ornaments, the
designs being followed according to the wishes of the
parties who ordered these instruments.
These instruments are absolutely gorgeous in ap
pearance and always made with the purpose of ad-
hering to the highest artistic form of the cabinet-
maker's art. Having a soul o la Steinway, the body
of the piano must nocessarily be a la Steinway, and
we all know what that signifies.—Musical Courier.
A
MUSICAL UNION TROUBLES.
ARL HAMM has obtained an injunction from
Judge Donohue in Supreme Court Chambers
restraining the Musical Mutual Protective
Union, of which he is a member, from proceeding
against him on any charges, or trying, or expelling,
or doing anything to interfere with him in his privi-
leges. —Evenivg Post.
C
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