Music Trade Review
Issue: 1889 Vol. 12 N. 11 - Page 10
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PIANO AND ORGAN
FELTINGS
method of engraving on pewter plates, being about
three times as rapid, has superseded type. I am the
only one in St. Louis, Mo., beside my son—whom I
taught—who can set music type. Yes, it is slow work, and
for that reason does not pay well. It is so unlike set-
ting letter type that a compositor can not estimate the
amount of labor and patience required to set up a piece
of music. Every job varies. Thus, to-day on a musi-
cal manuscript I might be able to set up a page, while
to set up a page of copy given me to-morrow might re-
quire three to four days. Besides, one must have a
musical education to be able to handle copy. It is ab-
surd to suppose that a man could be a successful music
compositor and not be able to read music. I had to un-
derstand what I was reading before I could set it up ac-
curately and with any degree of rapidity. But music
type has almost become obsolete, and there is no longer
any inducement to learn how to handle it. Only men
of the former generation will set it. I have been at it
fifty years, but my son, whom, as I mentioned before, I
taught, has abandoned it, because it is too slow work."
C. M. Hobson is the good natured drummer who does
the musical merchandise act for Montelius. That his
path is not always strewn with roses is evident from
the following letter:
OF EVERY
A. B. CROCKER & CO.,
DESCRIPTION.
3 1
A
3 7
-A.VOX1 Street,
BOSTON.
dicious experiment—as a bold venture against the law
and logic of American mercantile development—its
wisdom was very clearly justified by a success that has
A PRESENT ENCOURAGING OUTLOOK—VISIT TO THE W.
•been, to the music trade, one of the business surprises
W. KIMBALL COMPANY'S GREAT PLANT—FORE-
of the century.
CASTS OF THE FUTURE.
The interest of local piano manufacturing, however,
HE two intimately related industries of piano and has had a longer postponement, the Western wholesale
organ manufacturing underwent in Chicago what trade being, even now, almost wholly dependent on the
may be termed an era of protracted incipiency. East. The situation in this respect is one of the anom-
For over a quarter of a century there was intermittent alies of commercial history, in view of the fact that, in
and sporadic effort to raise it to the dignity of a manu- all other manufactured products, Chicago now competes
facturing interest, but, even in the matter of organs, the with New York for the patronage of the nation. There
supply for Chicago and the West continued to come are present indications, however, of an approaching
from New York and New England till less than six change in this anomalous situation as great, as com-
years ago, when W. W. Kimball Company erected and plete, as decisive, and as final as that already witnessed
in organ-making, and that, too, under the efforts of the
equipped a factory which soon brought that state of
discreditable dependence forever to an end, and which same great company. On Thursday afternoon last, a
has since come to supply not only the larger part of the party of gentlemen, including, among others, a well-
Western, Southern and Northwestern trade, but a very known New York press correspondent and a represen-
large proportion of the best traffic of South America, tative of the Herald, visited the plant of the W. W.
Australia, New Zealand *and Europe. For, though the Kimball Company, of whose preparations for piano-
enterprise was at first contemplated abroad as an inju- making on an extended scale there has' been more or
less of intimation and rumor, and the results of a pretty
thorough inspection were certainly such as to lend
strong color to the belief that Chicago at no distant day
TIEIIE
will be making herself felt in the piano trade of the
"Hollyhawk, Col., Deer. 19th, 1S8S. Sirs, W. W.
world
in a manner worthy of her reputation for energy.
Montelus in my absents your agent or a thing in the
The Kimball factory was found to be located quite a
shape of a man left an organ at my Plac and i want too
distance out—corner Blue Island avenue and Twenty-
know what you want dun with it for i dont want it atal
sixth street—the whole big plant covering a tract of
and no man of any Busness atal wuld have left it and
seven acres, or two full blocks of ground, with the river
had i wanted ann Organ he could have waited untill i
on one side and a switch railway, owned by the com-
wass att home Butt that was not his way of doing and
pany, on the other—the significance of these two lateral
if i gett too See the Dam Brut i will tell him my Opin-
boundaries, connecting the premises directly with the
ion of him for no man of anny Buusnesse wuld half left
rail system of the continent and the shipping waters of
STYLE 14.
Ann Oregon in sutch a Case and the Oregon iS yurs and
the globe, being instantly and intuitively recognized by
i want you tOO CuM and take it away for i dont wont
the entire party. The two great main structures which,
it. and whin i do i think i now my own Buisness and 1
with the system of sheds, store rooms, dry kilns, etc.,
will ship it too you in Io ten days if i dont hear from
cover the wide tract, are the organ factory and the pi-
you
ano factory, proper, seen side by side, the latter a
with all de'w Respict to the Co But now too that Dam
slate.lv and shapely edifice 250x80 feet ground dimen-
hown that is doing that Kind of Buisness i will close
sions, five stories in height, its architecture and propor-
hoping too hear from you Bye Return male
tions harmonizing with those of the former, and both
yur Friend
deriving heat and power from the same engines and
J. B. SNITZER."
boilers, both equipped wilh the same line of new and
Over a week passed, and still Mr. Snitzer did not re-
improved appliances for heating, ventilating, automatic
ceive a reply, owing to the fact that the firm sold the
sprinkling, etc., and both under the same superintend-
organ to his wife, who was perfectly satisfied with it.
ent. One of the features to first engage attention was
This evidently did not suit Snitzer, as will be noticed in
that of the stupendous quantities of cabinet lumber—
his second letter, just received by Montelius, and of
from
the company's own mills—seen in the various
which the following is a copy:
processes of unloading into the yards, transfer to the
" Hollyhawk Col I2-27-S8—Sirs i rote you ten daes
mammoth dry kilns of a capacity of 15,000 feet dried
ago in regord to ann Oregon that one of your agents
lumber a day, and the transfer thence to the great
had left at or Sold to my deer wife in my Absone and
storage sheds from which the supplies of the machine
requested yu too See too the matther and you have not
room are drawn direct. In this vast machine room,
dun as i have requisted you too du and no\V iColl your Is A MARVEL OP SWEETNESS AND POWER. OP GRACE measured by 20,000 feet of Moorage, is seen perhaps the
BEAUTY AND BRILLIANCY.
tention too it one mor for i will not Kep the atall and
most splendid system of modern mechanical appliances
want yu too tell me person what you wont dun with it
ever brought to bear upon this delicate industry—the
at one i will give yu my resence for not Keping the EVERY NOTE IS CLEAE AS A BELL.
grand plant of machinery that cuts and prepares the
oregoN the furst one is that it Cost tu mutch for that
lumber of 240 organs per week aside from pianos. In
EVERY CHORD IS PERFECT HARMONY.
kind of an instrument and the Second is the manor in
reply to questions put to a number of intelligent work-
whitch you and yur agent half acted ine the mater your
- EVERY PART EVENLY BALANCED. men, it was ascertained that the power and superb re-
Agent Come Here In My absents and insisted on Sell-
sources of the plant can be available now and in the
ing it too my deer wif whitch is neathr Sharp norGentel
future for a proportionate output of pianos and that
THE ACTION IS LIGHT. FIRM. ELASTIC RESPONSIVE.
for no Jentelmann will go too amans hous and insist
preparations for the indefinite expansion of that inter-
and Prosist ine the Sale of an Oregan too a Ladee in the
est are already far advanced. " We are not yet fully
absense of her deer husband that kind of work wold do THE SCALE IS SCIENTIFICALLY CORRECT AND MUSICALLY running OP pianos," said the superintendent, " only
PERFECT
for a Pack pdler or Bible agant and in my Judment
thirty a week. The number will be increased very soon,
your agent wold Bee Better for that ihon any things
however, to fifty a week."
Else that you ("old sett him att and had i had any in- THE WORKMENSHIP THE HIGHEST SKILL CAN MAKE THEM
A great deal of interest was manifested by the visit-
tention two bye ane Oregon i shold like too Bye it and not
AND MATERIALS ARE THE BEST.
ing party in an examination of instruments already in
had the Diim thing shoved on mee and i think that that
the finished state, those of the number versed in piano
is mv Privlege too Bye for myself and deer wify and
structure, including a known expert in the mechanics
THIS WONDERFUL PIANO IS- MEETING WITH A PHENOMENAL
not no on Else Say that i must take and if you dont
of music, being decidedly impressed by their general
SUCCESS WHEREVER IT HAS GONE
ansor this i shall But the mater in the hands of my
high character. They found only the very highest
atorney R. W, Cokell by the 5 of Janary and i hop too
grade of action, only the best ivory keyboards, only the
THE
AGENCY
FOR
THIS
PIANO
IS
A
BONANZA
TO
ANY
ONE
hear from you.
God Bye
first quality of felt, and a style of workmanship—speak-
J. B. SNITZEK.
ing comprehensively or in the minutest details—that
For Prices, Terms and Territory, address,
The Knight McClure Music Company, as well as the
has already given them a splendid rank with the trade,
King Piano Company, are doing a nice business and a
and which in the future will be very sure to give them
brilliant season promises to be in store for one and all.
a world-wide fame. On the whole, it may be confi-
For the present let this suffice.
dently asserted that there is a new outlook for the pi-
JACOB S. HIRSH.
ano-making industry of Chicago.— Chicago Herald,
NORWALK, OHIO.
PIANO-MAKING IN CHICAGO.
T
A. B. CHASE C O S
Upright grand Piano,
Music Trade Review -- © mbsi.org,
-- digitized with support from namm.org
THE arcade-museum.com
MUSIC /TRADE REVIEW.
PIANO AND ORGAN
FELTINGS
method of engraving on pewter plates, being about
three times as rapid, has superseded type. I am the
only one in St. Louis, Mo., beside my son—whom I
taught—who can set music type. Yes, it is slow work, and
for that reason does not pay well. It is so unlike set-
ting letter type that a compositor can not estimate the
amount of labor and patience required to set up a piece
of music. Every job varies. Thus, to-day on a musi-
cal manuscript I might be able to set up a page, while
to set up a page of copy given me to-morrow might re-
quire three to four days. Besides, one must have a
musical education to be able to handle copy. It is ab-
surd to suppose that a man could be a successful music
compositor and not be able to read music. I had to un-
derstand what I was reading before I could set it up ac-
curately and with any degree of rapidity. But music
type has almost become obsolete, and there is no longer
any inducement to learn how to handle it. Only men
of the former generation will set it. I have been at it
fifty years, but my son, whom, as I mentioned before, I
taught, has abandoned it, because it is too slow work."
C. M. Hobson is the good natured drummer who does
the musical merchandise act for Montelius. That his
path is not always strewn with roses is evident from
the following letter:
OF EVERY
A. B. CROCKER & CO.,
DESCRIPTION.
3 1
A
3 7
-A.VOX1 Street,
BOSTON.
dicious experiment—as a bold venture against the law
and logic of American mercantile development—its
wisdom was very clearly justified by a success that has
A PRESENT ENCOURAGING OUTLOOK—VISIT TO THE W.
•been, to the music trade, one of the business surprises
W. KIMBALL COMPANY'S GREAT PLANT—FORE-
of the century.
CASTS OF THE FUTURE.
The interest of local piano manufacturing, however,
HE two intimately related industries of piano and has had a longer postponement, the Western wholesale
organ manufacturing underwent in Chicago what trade being, even now, almost wholly dependent on the
may be termed an era of protracted incipiency. East. The situation in this respect is one of the anom-
For over a quarter of a century there was intermittent alies of commercial history, in view of the fact that, in
and sporadic effort to raise it to the dignity of a manu- all other manufactured products, Chicago now competes
facturing interest, but, even in the matter of organs, the with New York for the patronage of the nation. There
supply for Chicago and the West continued to come are present indications, however, of an approaching
from New York and New England till less than six change in this anomalous situation as great, as com-
years ago, when W. W. Kimball Company erected and plete, as decisive, and as final as that already witnessed
in organ-making, and that, too, under the efforts of the
equipped a factory which soon brought that state of
discreditable dependence forever to an end, and which same great company. On Thursday afternoon last, a
has since come to supply not only the larger part of the party of gentlemen, including, among others, a well-
Western, Southern and Northwestern trade, but a very known New York press correspondent and a represen-
large proportion of the best traffic of South America, tative of the Herald, visited the plant of the W. W.
Australia, New Zealand *and Europe. For, though the Kimball Company, of whose preparations for piano-
enterprise was at first contemplated abroad as an inju- making on an extended scale there has' been more or
less of intimation and rumor, and the results of a pretty
thorough inspection were certainly such as to lend
strong color to the belief that Chicago at no distant day
TIEIIE
will be making herself felt in the piano trade of the
"Hollyhawk, Col., Deer. 19th, 1S8S. Sirs, W. W.
world
in a manner worthy of her reputation for energy.
Montelus in my absents your agent or a thing in the
The Kimball factory was found to be located quite a
shape of a man left an organ at my Plac and i want too
distance out—corner Blue Island avenue and Twenty-
know what you want dun with it for i dont want it atal
sixth street—the whole big plant covering a tract of
and no man of any Busness atal wuld have left it and
seven acres, or two full blocks of ground, with the river
had i wanted ann Organ he could have waited untill i
on one side and a switch railway, owned by the com-
wass att home Butt that was not his way of doing and
pany, on the other—the significance of these two lateral
if i gett too See the Dam Brut i will tell him my Opin-
boundaries, connecting the premises directly with the
ion of him for no man of anny Buusnesse wuld half left
rail system of the continent and the shipping waters of
STYLE 14.
Ann Oregon in sutch a Case and the Oregon iS yurs and
the globe, being instantly and intuitively recognized by
i want you tOO CuM and take it away for i dont wont
the entire party. The two great main structures which,
it. and whin i do i think i now my own Buisness and 1
with the system of sheds, store rooms, dry kilns, etc.,
will ship it too you in Io ten days if i dont hear from
cover the wide tract, are the organ factory and the pi-
you
ano factory, proper, seen side by side, the latter a
with all de'w Respict to the Co But now too that Dam
slate.lv and shapely edifice 250x80 feet ground dimen-
hown that is doing that Kind of Buisness i will close
sions, five stories in height, its architecture and propor-
hoping too hear from you Bye Return male
tions harmonizing with those of the former, and both
yur Friend
deriving heat and power from the same engines and
J. B. SNITZER."
boilers, both equipped wilh the same line of new and
Over a week passed, and still Mr. Snitzer did not re-
improved appliances for heating, ventilating, automatic
ceive a reply, owing to the fact that the firm sold the
sprinkling, etc., and both under the same superintend-
organ to his wife, who was perfectly satisfied with it.
ent. One of the features to first engage attention was
This evidently did not suit Snitzer, as will be noticed in
that of the stupendous quantities of cabinet lumber—
his second letter, just received by Montelius, and of
from
the company's own mills—seen in the various
which the following is a copy:
processes of unloading into the yards, transfer to the
" Hollyhawk Col I2-27-S8—Sirs i rote you ten daes
mammoth dry kilns of a capacity of 15,000 feet dried
ago in regord to ann Oregon that one of your agents
lumber a day, and the transfer thence to the great
had left at or Sold to my deer wife in my Absone and
storage sheds from which the supplies of the machine
requested yu too See too the matther and you have not
room are drawn direct. In this vast machine room,
dun as i have requisted you too du and no\V iColl your Is A MARVEL OP SWEETNESS AND POWER. OP GRACE measured by 20,000 feet of Moorage, is seen perhaps the
BEAUTY AND BRILLIANCY.
tention too it one mor for i will not Kep the atall and
most splendid system of modern mechanical appliances
want yu too tell me person what you wont dun with it
ever brought to bear upon this delicate industry—the
at one i will give yu my resence for not Keping the EVERY NOTE IS CLEAE AS A BELL.
grand plant of machinery that cuts and prepares the
oregoN the furst one is that it Cost tu mutch for that
lumber of 240 organs per week aside from pianos. In
EVERY CHORD IS PERFECT HARMONY.
kind of an instrument and the Second is the manor in
reply to questions put to a number of intelligent work-
whitch you and yur agent half acted ine the mater your
- EVERY PART EVENLY BALANCED. men, it was ascertained that the power and superb re-
Agent Come Here In My absents and insisted on Sell-
sources of the plant can be available now and in the
ing it too my deer wif whitch is neathr Sharp norGentel
future for a proportionate output of pianos and that
THE ACTION IS LIGHT. FIRM. ELASTIC RESPONSIVE.
for no Jentelmann will go too amans hous and insist
preparations for the indefinite expansion of that inter-
and Prosist ine the Sale of an Oregan too a Ladee in the
est are already far advanced. " We are not yet fully
absense of her deer husband that kind of work wold do THE SCALE IS SCIENTIFICALLY CORRECT AND MUSICALLY running OP pianos," said the superintendent, " only
PERFECT
for a Pack pdler or Bible agant and in my Judment
thirty a week. The number will be increased very soon,
your agent wold Bee Better for that ihon any things
however, to fifty a week."
Else that you ("old sett him att and had i had any in- THE WORKMENSHIP THE HIGHEST SKILL CAN MAKE THEM
A great deal of interest was manifested by the visit-
tention two bye ane Oregon i shold like too Bye it and not
AND MATERIALS ARE THE BEST.
ing party in an examination of instruments already in
had the Diim thing shoved on mee and i think that that
the finished state, those of the number versed in piano
is mv Privlege too Bye for myself and deer wify and
structure, including a known expert in the mechanics
THIS WONDERFUL PIANO IS- MEETING WITH A PHENOMENAL
not no on Else Say that i must take and if you dont
of music, being decidedly impressed by their general
SUCCESS WHEREVER IT HAS GONE
ansor this i shall But the mater in the hands of my
high character. They found only the very highest
atorney R. W, Cokell by the 5 of Janary and i hop too
grade of action, only the best ivory keyboards, only the
THE
AGENCY
FOR
THIS
PIANO
IS
A
BONANZA
TO
ANY
ONE
hear from you.
God Bye
first quality of felt, and a style of workmanship—speak-
J. B. SNITZEK.
ing comprehensively or in the minutest details—that
For Prices, Terms and Territory, address,
The Knight McClure Music Company, as well as the
has already given them a splendid rank with the trade,
King Piano Company, are doing a nice business and a
and which in the future will be very sure to give them
brilliant season promises to be in store for one and all.
a world-wide fame. On the whole, it may be confi-
For the present let this suffice.
dently asserted that there is a new outlook for the pi-
JACOB S. HIRSH.
ano-making industry of Chicago.— Chicago Herald,
NORWALK, OHIO.
PIANO-MAKING IN CHICAGO.
T
A. B. CHASE C O S
Upright grand Piano,
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