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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
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PIANO AND ORGAN
FELTINGS
ISAAC I. COLE & SON, the great veneer manufacturers
of Eighth street, New York (near East River), have in
stock a large quantity of fine blistered walnut for ven-
eering purposes. Piano-makers will doubtless find it to
their interest to call at Messrs. Cole & Sons' factory
and inspect this scarce commodity.
MRS. GROVER CLEVELAND is a diligent student of the
violin. She is ambitious to be able to play " See the
Conquering Hero Comes " by the beginning of 1892.
GEORGE W. SEAVERNS & SON, Cambridgeport, Mass.,
have organized a stock company, with a capital of
$50,000. George W. Seaverns is the president of the
new concern. The business of this house is in a splen-
didly prosperous condition.
THE T. M. Antisell Piano Co., of San Francisco, Cal.,
Were awarded the gold medal for best tuning device at
the international exposition recently held in Melbourne,
Australia. The Antisell firm are acquiring national
fame as introducers of improved tuning devices.
OF EVERY
DESCRIPTION.
A. B. CROCKEE & CO.,
Kingston, Essex & Edinboro Streets,
BOSTON, MASS.
DAVIS BROTHERS, the music dealers of Savannah, Ga.,
have issued, or are about to issue, the first number of
their new twenty-page monthly magazine, " The Old
Homestead," which will be devoted to the advancement
of the South generally, the welfare of Savannah in par-
ticular, and " to a cultivation of literature in the South
by offering premiums for stories, as well as articles on
science, the fine arts, music and the home and farm."
The subscription fee will be fifty cents per annum.
THEE
A. B. CHASE COS
Upright grand Piano,
STYLE 14.
THE T. M. Antisell Piano Co., San Francisco, Cal.,
won the gold medal offered for the best styles and
makes of pianos at the California State Fair, held a
Short time ago at Sacramento, Cal., over all other ex-
hibitors.
MR. H. PAUL MEHLIN, of the great piano-manufac-
turing firm of Mehlin & Sons, New York, completed his
twenty-fifth year on Tuesday of last week. On the
evening of that day Mr. Mehlin was honored by the
congratulations of the Liederkranz Society, at their hall,
on which occasion he was also the recipient of several
valuable birthday presents.
T. M. ANTISELL, head of the T. M. Antisell Piano Co.,
San Francisco, Cal., gave us a pleasant call on Friday
last. Mr. Antisell is looking remarkably well, and re-
ports that the business of his firm was never in a more
prosperous condition. He is seeking a good, medium-
priced piano, suitable for the Pacific Coast.
MR. BLUMENBERG publishes most flattering testi-
monials as to the new Kimball piano from Camilla
Hoffman, Emil Fischer, Max Alvary, Paul Kalisch, and
Lilli Lehmann. About a year ago Mr. Blumenberg
described these pianos in somewhat deprecatory terms.
Probably the instruments have been greatly improved
of late. The noble, generous Marc always hails with
joy the turning of a sinner from his evil ways. How
encouraged in his newly-trodden paths of virtue must
Deacon W. W. Kimball feel after this little pat on the
back by the godly trade editor of the Musical Courier!
ON June 4th inst., at the Holy Trinity Church, Shaw-
mut Avenue, Boston. Mass., Miss Louise Mary Ecker,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Leopold Ecker, was united in
marriage to C. Edward Gramer, a regulator in the fac-
tory of the Emerson Piano Company.
MR. GEORGE W. CARTER, manager of the Boston
Piano Company, Boston, Mass., has been making a
very successful trip throughout the West.
THE Electric Piano, so successfully completed and
brought out by the ^Eolian Organ & Music Company,
831 Broadway, N. Y., has been exhibited by Mr. F. W-
Bailey, of that Company, at the warerooms of Messrs.
Lyon & Healy, Chicago, 111., where its wonderful per-
formances caused great excitement.
MRS. CLARA E. THOMS will play the Behr grand
piano at her piano recital to be held in connection with
the New York State Music Teachers' Convention at
Hudson, on the evening of Thursday the 27th June in-
stant. A highly classical programme has been arranged
for this interesting occasion.
OTTO SUTRO'S piano department in Baltimore, Md.,
will be in the charge of Harry T. Stevenson during Mr.
Sutro's absence in Europe.
H. P. MOWRY, of the A. B. Chase Co., Norwalk, O.,
is, we greatly reget to say, still dangerously ill. Judg-
ing from a recent communication received by us from
Mr. L. L. Dowd, the secretary of the company, we fear
that Mr. Mowry's recovery is hardly expected by some
of his friends.
THE air-circulating reed cell arrangement invented by
Mr. G. R. Newman, of Newman Bros., organ munufac-
turers, Chicago, 111., and some time ago patented in this
country, has been patented in England. By this most
ingenious invention the tone of the reed organ is di-
vested of its reedy quality, and made to approximate
very closely to a •fine pipe organ tone. Famous as the
• Newman Brothers organs were prior to this discovery,
their renown has now become more wide-spread than
ever throughout Europe and America.
AT the demand of Thos. F. G. Foisy & Co., of Mon-
treal, the Herr Piano Company of that city have assign-
ed, their liabilities being estimated at about $4,500.
MRS. LYDIA KUNZ-VENTH, Mr. Otto Hackh, Miss
Florence Black, Miss Lena Sittig, Miss Hattie Sternfield
and Miss Jennie Schulting played upon the Behr grand
at a concert given in Brooklyn, N. Y., by Otto Hackh,
on June 6th.
THE C. C. McEwen piano gives signs of being a fav-
orite. During last week Mr. McEwen shipped seven
uprights to Albuquerque, N. M., and sold three to W. E
McCormic of Port Jervis, N. Y.; two to J. A. Eldridge
of B. A. Atkinson & Co., Boston, Mass.; four to Bar-
rett Brothers of Binghampton, N. Y., and two to Frank
W. Thomas of Albany, N. Y.
O. WISSNER, of Brooklyn, N. Y. reports an excellent
business with the Sturz Brothers (N. Y.) piano, an instru-
ment which appears to be becoming very popular in many
classes of Society. The production of this piano is de-
cidedly on the increase.
I S A MARVEL OP SWEETNESS AND POWER; OF GRACE
BEAUTY AND BRILLIANCY.
EVEEY NOTE IS CLEAR AS A BELL.
EVERY CHORD IS PERFECT HARMONY.
EVERY PART EVENLY BALANCED.
THE ACTION IS LIGHT, FIRM, ELASTIC, RESPONSIVE.
THE famous Herrburger-Schwander firm, of piano-
action renown, who are represented in New York by
Wm. Tonk & Brother, 26 Warren-street, have issued a
very tastefully gotten-up card, upon which is printed an
invitation to the piano trade of America to visit their
factory at No. 16, Rue de l'Evangile, Paris, during the
continuance of the International Exhibition in that city,
for the purpose of inspecting their collection of im-
proved pianoforte actions, On the reverse of the card
is a map, by a study of which the stranger in Paris will
find his progress through the French capital materially
expedited.
THH SCALE IS SCIENTIFICALLY CORRECT AND MUSICALLY
PERFECT.
MR. TABER, the head of the Taber Organ Company,
Worcester, Mass., is still in California, hugely enjoying
his pleasure trip. The business of this company is good.
THE WORKMENSHIP THE HIGHEST SKILL CAN MAKE THEM,
AND MATERIALS ARE THE BEST
MRS. R. F. BRANDON, wife of the well-known music
dealer of Springfield, O., conducted a very successful
series of operettas performed by children in Black's
opera house of that city on the 21st ult. The fair direc-
tress is the recipient of many and hearty congratula-
tions upon her tact, ability, and perseverance.
THIS WONDERFUL PIANO IS MEETING WITH A PHENOMENAL
SUCCESS WHEREVER IT HAS GONE.
THE AGENCY FOR THIS PIANO IS A BONANZA TO ANY ONE
A MUSIC store has been opened by Mrs. Marie Rossi
at San Diego, Cal.
For Prices, Terms and Territory, address,
n. B. CJWE Oft,*
NORWALK. OHIO.
LOMBARD'S Conservatory of Music in Utica, N. Y., is
in a prosperous way. The $10,000 considered necessary
for the enterprise has been subscribed, and the prepara-
tory work has so far progressed that the new conserva-
tory will open on the second of September next. There
have already been entered the names of a sufficient
number of pupils to pay the current expenses of the in-
stitution aside from the $10,000 guaranteed. As Mr.
Lombard unites to hif- musical ta ents an aptitude for
business which few in his profession possess, his friends
express no doubt as to the success of his latest under-
taking.
DECKER BROTHERS' (N. Y.) reputation, great as it is,
is destined to become much greater. Their close and
practical attention to the details of the construction of
their pianos has resulted in their winning high prestige.
The latest exploit in respect of which fame holds a
laurel for them consists of the perfecting of their new
Upright grand piano, style 28. This magnificent instru-
ment is of new and exquisitely chaste design; is calcu-
lated to wear until doomsday, and possibly afterwards;
and possesses a rich, refined, and truly musical tone
that enthrals and subdues the listener.
THE B. Shoninger Company, New Haven, Conn.,
report a considerable increase in their trade during the
present year. The merits of their pianos are recognized
wherever they are placed. The firm's New York branch
has, even at this early period, more than vindicated the
wisdom of its founders.