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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
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ipJOHMER & CO. are doing the largest whole'
CeP sale business in the history of the firm-
Many Western houses are pushing the Sohmer
piano as their leader. Aside from the enormous
wholesale business conducted by this prominent
company, a magnificent retail business is carried
on daily at their 14th street warerooms.
3 EAST 14th STREET, NEW YORK.
SUBSCRIPTION (including postage) United States and
Canada, $3.00 per year, in advance; Foreign Countries,
$4 00.
ADVERTISEMENTS, $2.00 per inch, single column, per
insertion; unless inserted upon rates made by special
contract.
JjdpjHE Malcolm L/Ove piano is constantly gain-
st 3 ing popularity in the estimation of the
public and the dealers. The instrument is con-
structed under the careful supervision of ex-
perienced hands, and is made of the very best
materials. It is, therefore, no wonder that the
firm are pushed to the utmost to supply the
orders pouring in upon them.
agency for the Chickering piano in
Cleveland, Ohio, has been placed with the
firm of H. M. Brainard Co.
Entered at the Neiv York Post Office as Second Class Matter.
For (Iji mug tfeji seeds 1 ' rasis
For IU future w
would call t h e special a t t e n t i o n of o u r
readers to t h e a r t s u p p l e m e n t of Messrs.
Peek & Sons in this issue. Original and artis-
tic methods in advertising always produce good
results. Should you desire something in this
line write us at once.
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all parts of the country we receive
encouraging reports relative to the vol-
ume of business transacted in the various sec-
tions of the Union. The piano manufacturers
and dealers of to-day are thoroughly alive to
the situation, are always ready to meet the
demands made upon them and to advance their
business interests to the utmost point, when
season and crops favor commercial enterprises.
The business man of to-day may not be a col-
lege graduate, an expert in any system of
philosophy, nor a self-appointed expounder of
moral principles, but through his varied ex-
perience he has come to know that the man
who is equal to the varying demands of business
is the successful man of to-day.
The piano trade furnishes many examples of
this kind ; men who have not only helped to
make their surroundings, but have been quick
to avail themselves of the situation they have
helped to create. In the music trades of Ameri-
ca we can name many individuals who began
life in a modest way, but have steadily ascend-
ed the ladder of fame, until to-day they occupy
positions of prominence and wealth. The lives
of such men furnish shining examples to the
young generation coming on of what it is pos-
sible to attain in America.
HE Bourne piano has been before the trade
and the public for over fifty years, and
during that long period of time has won the de-
this issue we commence a series of articles
served appreciation of thousands of people whose
on some of the British pianoforte inven-
homes have been brightened by the influence of tions. It will include the study of some of the
this melodious instrument. Dealers who have old British pianoforte patents, and we think the
not examined the merits of the Bourne piano series will be perused with much interest by
will find it to their interest to do so. The firm piano manufacturers.
are about to issue a new catalogue, some of the
proof sheets of which we have seen and predict
that it will be an unusually interesting volume.
THE NEW YORK SYMPHONY STRING
QUARTET.
f NDER the direction of Mr. Adolph Brod-
O. HILIvSTROM&CO., Chesterton, Ind.,
sky, first violin, the Quartet will, this
• are manufacturing organs which find a
ready sale among the dealers in every section. season, give a subscription series of six cham-
They have also a large export business. This ber music concerts at Chamber Music Hall. The
year they are getting out some especially attrac- members of the Quartet are all distinguished in-
tive cases in lighter woods which are great strumentalists, and will, no doubt, add to the
laurels they won last season.
favorites with the trade.
THE "TRIBUNE'S" ATTACK UPON
STEINWAY.
following article, which may be charac-
terized as an atrocious libel upon Mr.
Steinway, appeared in the New York Tribune
on November 8th :
MR. STEINWAY'S MEN ARE FOR HAR-
RISON.
HE HAS TRIED TO GET THEM TO VOTE FOR
CLEVELAND, BUT THEY FAVOR PROTECTION.
William Steinway, the piano manufacturer,
who has been doing his level best to get his men
to vote for Cleveland, learned yesterday after-
noon, much to his disgust, that most of them
were going to vote for Harrison and Protection.
Previous to the passage of the McKinley bill,
Mr. Steinway imported from Germany piano
cases, on which he made a great saving after
putting the American made action into them.
Now, however, he has to employ men to make
these cases, and they have had steady and well-
paid work for nearly two years, something un-
known to them before the passage of that bill.
The men say that while Mr. Steinway has not
raised their wages, they are getting steady work
and frequently are asked to work overtime, for
which they get extra pay, to keep up with the
orders that are pouring in on Mr. Steinway.
They have made up their minds to vote to con-
tinue this state of affairs, in spite of the fact
that their employer is doing all that he can to
elect Cleveland, having in view, in case Cleve-
land wins, the appointment as Minister to Ger-
many.—N. Y. Tribune, November 8th, 1892.
It will be seen by reading this article that it
is entirely personal, which, in itself, shows the
malicious intent towards the founder of the
great corporation of Steinway & Sons. In the
first place, William Steinway, although one of
the original members of Steinway & Sons, and
one of the largest stockholders in that corpora-
tion, is not Steinway & Sons. The stock of
that concern is held by a number of stockhold-
ers, and the firm of Steinway & Sons may be
designated in a mercantile sense a close corpor-
ation. In this connection it may be well to
state that two of the stockholders are as ardent
Republicans as Mr. Steinway is a sterling
Democrat.
Mr. Steinway, years ago, formed an acquaint-
ance with Grover Cleveland in Buffalo, when
they were both young men. That acquaintance
has been kept up, but Mr. Steinway has never
resorted in any way to any attempts to intimi-
date his workmen as to which way they should
cast their ballots. On the contrary, he has
allowed them every scope to gratify their in-
dividual wishes in this respect. To quote Mr,
Steinway's own words in an interview, he said :
" I believe that every man should exercise his
own judgment in this matter, and should vote
according to the dictates of his own conscience.''
As to the statement that Steinway & Sons
imported piano cases from Germany previous to
the passage of the McKinley bill, it is absolutely
false in every particular. Steinway & Sons,
during their forty years' existence, have not
imported one single part of a piano from Ger-
many, as every portion of the instruments bear-
ing the name of Steinway & Sons is manu-
factured at their various plants in New York
City and at Steinway, Long Island. It will be