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E. P. CARPENTER GO.
Manufacturers of the Highest Grade
of Reed Organ.
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BRATTLEBORO, VERMONT.
ESTABLISHED
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1850.
BURLS, used in making veneers with remarkable ec-
centricities of grain, are excrescences that grow upon
various trees, such as the w.ilnut, rosewood, mahogany,
oak, and ash. .They weigh from 1,000 to hooo pounds,
and the laigesl and best come from Persia and Circas-
sia, and cost in the rough from 15 to 40 cents a pound.
—-Scientific American,
INCORPORATED 1884
MR. METZGKR, of Gallup & Metzger, of Hartford,
Conn., made a very pleasant call at the office of T H E
THE
Sterling Company,
MUSIC TRADE REVIEW on Tuesday of last week.
He
reported that the operations of his firm were of a joy-
inspiring character. While in New York Mr. Metzger
visited the new piano factory of Haines Brothers,
where he left a gooJly order.
LETTERS patent of the United States were granted
on the 17th ult. to C. G. Conn, of Elkhart, Ind., in res-
pect of inventions relating to the cornet. The number
of the patent is 402,721.
FRANCIS J. BIRD, formerly with the firm of Behning
& Son. will henceforth assist Mr. William Leigh in the
new and palatial warerooms of J & C. Fischer, Judge
building, corner of Fifth avenue and Sixteenth street.N.Y.
A T the annual convention of The Music Teachers'
National Association, to be held in Philadelphia, Pa.,
early next month, the Checkering piano will be played
by Miss Adele Lewing and Miss Emma Hahr; the
Decker Brothers piano by Mr. H. G. Andres and Mr.
Armin Doerner; the Hallet & Davis piano by Mr.
AugLSt Hyllested; the Knabe piano by Mrs. Dory Bur--
meister-Petersen; ihe Miller piano by Miss Neally
Stevens and Mr. E. R. Kroeger; and the Steinway
piano by Miss Lucie Manson and Miss Louise Veling.
MR. HOENR, of Mellor & Hoene, Piitsburg, Pa., sailed
for Europe on the 22d ult., on the ship Augusta Vic-
toria. It is his intention to remain abroad several
months.
MANUFACTURERS O F
MR. ZUKKAL, representing Ernest G?bler & Brother,
N, Y., is traveling in the far West. He has had excel-
lent successs so far, and reports that trade with the
dealers in the sections through which he has passed is
perfectly satisfactory to them.
MK. GEORGE BLAKF. has retired from The Century
Piano & Organ Company of Minneapolis, Minn., and
Mr. A. M. Shuey, a profound musician and brilliant
man of business, has been admitted thereto. Mr. M. A.
Paulson's management of this company's business has
been highly successful. Among the goods handled by
this eminent house are the Sterling and Story & Clark
organs, and the Steck, Miller, Sterling and Wheelock
pianos.
DURING the month of May ult. Jack Haynes sold
directly from his warerooms at No. 24 Union Square,
N. Y., considerably over a hundred of Newman Bro-
FAOTOKY:
thers' celebrated organs. Mr. Haynes is proud of this,
record, achieved as it was without any aid from drum-
DERBY, CONN.
mers or others, and in fact without any aid whatever
It is admitted by all that no piano ever put upon excepting that afforded by the meriis of the organs
the market has met with such success as THE themselves and the tact and energy of hustling Haynes
STERLING, and thousands will testify to their supeii-
and his small though admirable staff.
T H E majority of the leading piano-makers of the
United States purchase their plates, and a good quantity
of their piano hardware, from the Davenport & Treacy
Company of this city, whose trade has reached stupend-
ous proportions.
WM. TONK, of the firm of Wm. Tonk & Brother,
N. Y., has returned from a trip through the Canadas
and as far West as Chicago, and is well satisfied with
THE STERLING ORGAN has always taken the lead,
and the improvements made this year puts it far the results of his journeyings.
IT is mooted that the Chicago Cottage Organ Com-
pany, Chicago, 111., may accept the agency in that city
of the Ernest Gabler & Brother pianos.
T H E present business of the Wilcox & White Organ
Co. is very satisfactory. It is booming so much in fact
that it has been found necessary to increase their office
facilities, which is at present being done by the erection
of an elegant brick office just West of their present one,
the old one to be used for a wareroom for their pneu-
matic goods
J. H. ^ F I T E , s e c r e t a r y " * ^ * H ^ ^ V h i t e Organ Co.
together with President Wilcox a n u ^ H i ^ ^ h i t e of
sarfl^concern, are at Moosehead Lake, fishing.
ority of workmanship and durability. Why? Be
cause they are made just as perfect as a piano can be
made.
ahead of all others. $^- Send for Catalogue.
ACTIVITV and bustle prevail at the new factory of
Haines Brothers, Harlem, N. Y. The work of manu-
facturing proceeds without interruption, though many
S. D. SMITH, President.
details of adjustment and arrangement have yet to be
H. W. SMITH, Vice-President.
E. W. SMITH, Treasurer. perfected. When this splendid edifice shall have been
made absolutely complete in every detail it will stand
unrivalled, as a piano factory, on the American conti-
BOSTON, MASS.
LONDON, ENG.
nent. The equipment is wondrous in thoroughness and
KANSAS CITY, MO.
eminently worthy of its splendid environment. It is
" evident that the keenest foresight and the most com-
prehensive and exact ideas were brought to bear in the
projection of these noble works.
BOSTON. MASS.
NUFACTURERS OF
MR. WILLIAM DECKER, of Decker Hros M JffT., who
returned recently from a Western trip, reports that
is firm's numerous agents anticipate a large fall trade.
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traveling throug
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Co., Derby, Conn., is
tates of New York and Penn-
T H E marriage of Rosalie, daughter of Mr. R. Lertz,
music dealer, Baltimore Md., to Louis C. Wittenberg,
occurred on the 5th inst. at the First English Lutheran
Church ot that city.
H O O K & HASTINGS, the celebrated manufacturers of
pipe organs, have removed their factory from Boston,
Mass., to West on, Mass.
NEW CATALOGUES NOW READY.
CORRESPONDENCE
SOLICITED.
THE SMITH AMERICAN
ORGAN & PIANO CO,,
BOSTON, MASS.
W E have received from Mr. William Barton Stone,
manager of the piano warerooms of Mr. Richard Wal-
ters, University Place, N. Y., a fine photograph of the
first-named gentleman as he appeared on horseback,
attired in the costume of a marshal of the piano trade
parade, on the occasion of the recent Centennial cele-
brations. The picture was taken in Washington Square,
on the South side of the triumphal arch, and is a very
pleasant souvenir both of Mr. Walters and of the Cen-
tennial festivities.
T H E business of F. L. Raymond, manufacturer of tha
United States organs, Cleveland, O., is doubly as large
as a year ago. He supplies the leading dealers, whose
orders come upon him so thickly that even his great
ability to fill orders promptly is severely tested all the
time.
T H E prosperity of the firm of J. W. Greene & Co.,
Toledo, O., continues without hitch or cessation. They
now occupy the whole of the building on Summit and
Madison streets of which they recently used a part only.
T H E Chase Brothers Piano Company, Grand Rapids,
Mich., have secured the services of Mr. George Bolt-
wood, formerly with the Whitney Music House of
Detroit, Mich.
GRAND, SQUARE AND UPRIGHT.
Hallet & Davis Pianos
Indorsed by Liazt, Gottschalk, Wehli, Bendel Straus, Soro Abt
Paulus, Titen.3, Heilbron and Germany's Greatest Masters.
Established Over Halt a Century.
BOSTON, MASS.