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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
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CATALOGUE
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HE Weaver Organ and Piano Co. have
issued their new catalogue, and in this,
as in everything recently done by them, they
have gone far ahead of previous attempts. They
are always progressing. The printing, press
work, paper, illustrations and text of this hand-
some catalogue all represent an obvious desire
to excel, and the Weaver Co. have done excel-
lently. After remarking in the well written
introductory that they have been successful in
winning the favor of a large number of the best
dealers in the country through the qualities of
the instruments they manufacture, they attri-
bute the success of their organs to the following
characteristics :
POINTS OF EXCELLENCE.
OUR CASES are artistic and attractive, com-
mending themselves to the purchaser as models
of elegance and good taste, in cheaper styles as
well as the most expensive.
They are framed, doweled, glued and screwed
together, and are well braced to avoid warping,
swelling and splitting caused by the various
changes of temperature.
THE ACTIONS are constructed in our works
entirely under our personal supervision, and
are built up in a solid and substantial manner
to give years of service. They embrace all the
improvements of value known to the art of
organ building, including our Patent Noiseless
Stop Action, Patent Fan Vox Humana, Patent
Metalic Coupler, Improved Heavy Brass Reeds,
together with a number of other improvements
of our own invention.
The white stop plates are securely fastened
on the ebonized knobs by a doweled shank, pre-
senting a neat and tasty appearance, besides
rendering it impossible for them to come off, or
break out, as is the case with many other or-
gans.
BASE OF OPERATING.—The pleasure of
ren-
dering music is greatly enhanced by having the
mechanism work as easily as possible. In the
pedal action, stop action, and the touch of the
keys, the exertion required for operating has
been reduced to the minimum in our organs.
MATERIALS AND MECHANICS.—We use
the
most carefully selected lumber for our cases and
actions, also the very best rubber for bellows,
the finest felts obtainable, and in fact spare no
expense in the selection of any of our materials
when quality is at stake, as quality is our first
and great consideration.
Good materials, however, will not create a
fine organ except when in the hands of skilled
artisans, in charge of competent superintend-
ents. We pride ourselves on having as skill-
ful, intelligent and conscientious a corps of
mechanics as any factory in the country.
THE TONE.—Our improved reed board is
made of the finest straight-grained pine or
spruce. The reeds are manufactured of heavy
rolled brass, of the finest quality, these com-
bined, produce a pure quality of tone. The full
rich varied tone of our organs is also greatly
enhanced by the peculiar bend used only in our
reeds, the result of many years' experimenting
by one head tuner.
OUR MANUFACTURING FACILITIES.
Our factory is situated in the Eastern section
of the City of York, one of the largest manu-
facturing centres in the State of Pennsylvania—
within close proximity to the various lines of
railroads which lead to all parts of the country.
The buildings are substantially built of brick
to which are attached large and commodious
dry kilns, warerooms, etc.
The whole, including the large lumber sheds
and lumber yard in which the various kinds of
lumber are piled to season for years, covers an
entire block of ground between Walnut and
Philadelphia streets, with a frontage of over
two hundred feet on Broad street, within one
square of the City Street Railway.
The factory is equipped with new and modern
machinery for the most perfect and rapid con-
struction of organs from the rough material.
Each department is under the control of a fore-
man who understands every detail of the work
entrusted to his care. Only men of known abil-
ity are given employment and they must be
skilled in their particular branch of work and
temperate in their habits. The entire works are
under the personal supervision of the officers of
the company and the instruments are rigidly
examined by them before being shipped.
Possessing these unsurpassed facilities we
are enabled to fill our orders with promptness
and dispatch, and shall take special pains to
give our patrons instruments of the highest
grade of excellence, unsurpassed by any now
before the public.
f\ Contemporary 09 tl? /^SUR esteemed contemporary, The Musical
c^ Score, ' 'published frequently'' by the enter-
prising Needham Piano-Organ Co., not to be
outdone by its rivals, recently sent a commis-
sioner of its own to look over the Fair, and in-
cidentally Chicago. The current issue of the
Score gives the result of its representative's ob-
servations, which cannot fail to provoke wide
comment. Here is an extract from his cor-
respondence :
" A day of weariness on the train and a night
of agon}-on the so-called sleeping cars brings
you to the great exhibition. It is a difficult
scene to describe, but, from a child, I have been
methodical, and, therefore, made careful mem-
oranda of the various statistics which I gathered
from time to time ; but as I put these figures
down in a list and sometimes forgot to note to
what they referred, I have had no little trouble
in properly sorting them for publication.
" It is possible that even now they maybe oc-
casionally mixed, but whenever I am doubtful
I have kept on the safe side, and in general my
figures may be considered accurate.
"The Manufacturers' Building is the largest
on the ground. It is very long and quite wide,
and measures from end to end an unusual num-
ber of feet.
" I was also informed that the building con-
tains a large number of square feet, but I did
not see them myself, I merely give the state-
ment here for what it is worth.
" In point of architecture the Agricultural
Building merits a careful examination : It is
very pretty and cost, exclusive of its contents,
which is also valuable, a good deal of money.
" This information I obtained from one of the
Columbian guards and it is reliable.
"One of the most interesting buildings is the
Casino, a very well managed restaurant. You
can get a fair leather sandwich there for a
dollar, if you have time to wait.
" A beautiful lagoon winds in and out among
A robin attempted to sing
the buildings and makes a convenient mode of
A sweet little lay about spring,
travel by means of the electric launches, which
But ere he had uttered a note
ply constantly in all directions.
An infantile blizzard
'' Each launch is manned by an admiral and a
Contracted his gizzard
rear-admiral selected with great care from our
And the melody froze in his throat.
excellent navy.
The hand-organ has often been voted a
" The admiral sits in front and steers, and the
nuisance, but never before, probably, for the
rear-
admiral stands behind and collects the fares
reason that it set up too high a standard.
and calls the names of the various landings in
Edith has been to church for the first time.
a classic but unknown tongue.
'' And what do you think of it ?" asked
1
' Gazing into their weather-beaten faces, you
her mother.
may
read many a tale of courage, endurance and
" I didn't like the organ very well."
adventure.
"Why not?"
" Often has that cry so terrible to the sailor of
" 'Tause there was'nt any monkey with it."
'
hat
overboard ' rung in their ears, but with
—Harvard Lampoon.
calmness and unflinching courage they have
Ma (after a few days' absence): " Where did gone to the rescue, and as the lost one has been
you learn that new piece, Emily ? "
dragged by strong and willing hands into the
" I t isn't a new piece, ma. The piano has boat, mothers with streaming eyes and quiver-
been tuned."
ing lips have blessed them.
" A trip on an electric launch should not be
Bertha : "So Maud is going to have her play
missed."
produced. What a lucky girl ! She has had
The Score man visited the Midway Plaisance,
such a hard time getting any manager to look
of course, but, excepting a few remarks on
at it. Did she pay him finally to do it ?" Ger- Anthony Comstock, and some of the attractions
trude : " No ; she is going to marry him."
in evidence there, he dallies lightly with the
subject. Leaving the Fair he next explored
He practiced the scales for months,
the Virgin City, about which he has the follow-
But never could play an air,
ing to say in his wind up : " One of the minor
attractions of the Fair is the city of Chicago,
And the trouble he found was this :
which is located outside the grounds, a little
He had recentty cut his hair.
to the North of them. It is greatly admired by
Said one : '' The greatest misfortune that can the natives, one of whom told me confidentially,
and with a voice trembling with emotion, that
happen to an actor is to lose his voice.''
To which an actor replied : '' No, sir; our there was not another such city in the universe.
" I asked him how he thought it would com-
greatest misfortune comes in when we have to pare with the ' New Jerusalem.' He said, 'he
play the part of a king or an emperor on the had never been there, but that Chicago was
good enough for him.' "
stage and go to bed without supper. "