Music Trade Review

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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
Monday evening a meeting of the
Music Trade Salesmen's Association will
be held. A full attendance of the committee is
expected, and a plan of organization will then
be perfected.
<*|ZHE reports from Chicago are not calculated
5T» to enthuse Blumenberg ; on the contrary,
as he reads and notes the descent of the mercury
it must even slightly effect his nerves, or nerve.
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AYS the Washington Evening News ; '' Mr.
Freeborn G. Smith, of Brooklyn, N. Y.,
manufacturer of the Bradbury piano, is in the city
looking after his different business interests,
and is stopping with Mr. W. P. Van Wickle, of
No. 1757 Q Street, Northwest.
GT» the highest award for musical instruments
should in no way be prejudicial to the masterly
and creditable exhibits made by all the other
firms who have . contributed in such a graceful
manner to make the World's Fair a success.
The people who have attended the Fair take off
their hats to Section I in its entirety.
a Commissioner stands up in open
Court and denounces the editor of a
musical paper '' as known all over the country as
a blackmailer," it must indeed be a pleasant
subject for the accused to dwell on. It is stated
that Marc is looking for a large sized knot hole
in which to ensconce himself. A member of
the trade states that it would be quite a proper
thing for him to do, to close the opening
after he has hidden himself.
SOHMER.
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HE OFFICIAL REPORT OF THE JUDGES OF
AWARDS IN THE MUSICAL SECTION OF THE
WORLDS FAIR HAS NOT YET BEEN HANDED
IN.
THE INJUNCTION PLACED UPON THEM WAS
REMOVED LAST MONDAY.
ACCORDING TO ALL
is from the Bridgeport Standard of
recent date; '' The Keller Brothers &
Blight Company received an order to-day from
the Hotel Waldorf, in New York, for one of their
style H San Domingo mahogany pianos. The
company can feel highly complimented upon
their piano being chosen by this great metro-
politan hotel.'' This certainly is a great com-
pliment for the Keller Brothers & Blight
Company.
REPORTS SOHMER & CO. HAVE SECURED THE
FIRST PRIZE.
ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORTS HAVE
ALL CREDITED SOHMER & CO. WITH SECURING
THE FIRST POSITION.
air has been surcharged with vaporous
rumors concerning the awards at Chicago.
SHE prize of to-day is not worth as much by
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considerable as it was a month ago.
famous band is to be congratu-
lated upon having secured such an able
and popular conductor as Mr. Victor Herbert.
injunction placed upon the judges of
awards in the musical section of the
World's Fair has been removed.
STONE god that has been lost for half a
ceutury has been found in Madison,
Conn. It is described as " a roughly hewn
stone image of a human being, dark brown
with age and weather stains and slightly
spotted with lichens. It is dumpish in figure,
like a Dorlon Point fat man, with a massive
body and neck, and weighs a ton. A Yankee
humorist propounds the question : '' Why does
this stone god resemble Blumenberg ? '' He
answers by saying, because it is a relic of the
past.
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HE last trace of the recent fire was obliter-
ated in Jack Haynes' warerooms last week.
Mr. Haynes' headquarters have undergone
many changes and are now re-decorated in an
artistic manner. Writing of Jack Haynes—it
is always a pleasure to do that, because invari-
ably it means recording further progress of
"Hustling Jack." .He never sits down and
waits for trade to come, but he develops it.
This week he had a handsome line of orders
from different parts of the country, also a large
order for Newman Bros.' organs for shipment
to Australia. This order was obtained by means
of the handsome exhibit of Newman Bros.'
organs at the World's Fair, which attracted the
attention of Australian purchasers.
current issue of the Cosmopolitan Maga-
zine is devoted to an exhaustive study of
the World's Fair. Every department of activity
is treated by a specialist, Art receiving a large
share of notice. What surprises us is that
musical instruments, which represent so elo-
quently the progress we have made in musical
culture during the last century, should have
been so completely ignored. We know that Mr.
Brisbin Walker is deeply interested in music,
and we are consequently astonished that such
an important department of American industry
should have been overlooked.
Henry F. Miller Co. have reason to
be thankful that the reputation and stand-
ing of the Henry F. Miller pianofortes are not
now, nor have they ever been, dependent upon
awards, medals, or anything of the kind, from
fairs. They fully appreciate that in times past
medals and awards have been skillfully adver-
tised so as to create in some instances a very
favorable prejudice in favor of such pianofortes
as have taken advantage of such opportunities,
but they personally feel—with a large degree of
justification—that with the better class of people
to-day, too much stress placed upon medals and
awards will prejudice them against those pianos
that are advertised too much in that way. They
consider that the arrangements for displaying
pianofortes at the World's Fair have not been
artistic, and in many ways they are extremely
bad ; in some respects it is a reflection on the
ability of the trade to show to the world what
they, as an industry, can do artistically. How-
ever, for the opportunity given the Henry F.
Miller house to show some of the pianos which
represent their everyday production they have
reason to be extremely thankful. As they re-
cently wrote: "We have one of the largest
spaces, we feel that in many respects we have
one of the best locations at the Fair, and we
are having a constant call from intelligent music-
lovers and musicians who do not fail to express
their high appreciation of the character and
substantial display which we are making. We
are so much pleased with the expression of good
will and the compliments which come from com-
petitors as well as others, that we cannot help
feeling that any award which under present cir-
cumstances could have been given us would
have been of but little help to us.
The Henry F. Miller Co. are quite anxious
that the manufacturers, dealers, and the public
should be well informed of the fact that, while
they aie pleased for those who have striven
hard to receive awards, and who get them ;