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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
TRAD£ HAPPENINGS.
OEFINGEN & LAUTER, of Greenfield, Mass.,
will begin the manufacture of an improved har-
monica, patented by John Oefingen and Benj.
Butler.
H. W. WALKER, the able and successful man-
ager of the Estey Co. 's branch house at Atlanta,
Ga., who has sold as high as 1,000 organs and
300 pianos for the company, has resigned his
position. He will take an extended vacation
before starting anything new.
A MUSICAL journal has been started in New
Zealand, to be called The Triad.
THE United Piano Makers' Union celebrated
its anniversary September 3d, at Brommer's
Union Park, 133d street and Willis avenue.
The proceeds will go to the Union's relief fund
for unemployed members.
D. R. STAUDT has opened a musical instru-
ment store at 932X Penn street, Reading, Pa.,
and has a fine stock in display.
F. D. GILBERT, agent for the W. W. Kimball
Piano Co., at Madison, S. D., has been stricken
with paralysis and is not expected to live.
JOHNSUMMERVILLE. alias John Clark, Quincy,
N. Y., traveling agent for Mr. Taylor, musical
dealer, of Huntsville, has been arrested on a
charge of attempting to burn the O. K. depot,
it containing at the time a piano over which he
had had some trouble.
T H E F. H. OWEN PIANO COMPANY, Rockford,
111., will open up a piano store in the Staplin
block, South Rockford. Mr. Kennedy, of the
defunct firm of Trow & Kennedy, will be em-
ployed by the company.
I. ?, CARPENTER CO.
Extracts prcm Jl?eir Catest Catalogue.
J#f£PPENDED are a few excerpts from the new
C^D Carpenter catalogue, which has just
reached us. It is handsomely gotten up. The
contents are admirably arranged, and paper,
printing, and illustrations are first-class in
every respect.
" The Carpenter Organ to-day stands higher
in the opinion of musicians, the trade, and the
general public, and is known better in America
and foreign lands than at any time in its his-
tory of forty-three odd years. This fact is at-
tested by the ever increasing demand for our
product from all sources, and must be accepted
as proof positive of the increasing popularity
of an instrument built upon honor and designed
to withstand as successfully the effects of time
and use, as may reasonably be expected of any
honestly constructed piece of mechanism. It
is the aim of the makers to manufacture an in-
strument that is absoluttly of the first class in
every detail of materials, workmanship, tone
and finish, and we respectfully solicit sample
orders from dealers in unoccupied territory, and
invite an unprejudiced inspection and compari-
son of the Carpenter with the product of other
makers.
SUPERIOR POINTS IN THE CARPENTER
ORGAN.
Simplicity and durability of action ; all wires
nickel plated; dummy or unnecessary stops
never used ; thoroughly felted and black leaded
wherever any friction ; stops pull easily ; key
action light and tone immediately responsive to
slightest touch ; valves always in place ; keys
never drop down ; bellows of extra large size,
far above the average organ in power to sustain
tone; ease of pedalling; a child readily ex-
hausts the bellows without fatigue; highest
maximum quantity of tone with retention of fine
quality; action absolutely mouse-proof, vital
parts amply protected ; nickel or carpet pedals
as preferred (anti-squeak) ; elegant designs and
all cases hand polished ; solid black walnut or
three-ply walnut stock used exclusively in the
construction of cases, except where styles are
catalogued in oak also; removable front panels
in all styles ; swinging fall boards and hinged
backs ; the very best possible action put into all
styles of cases alike."
The Carpenter Co. lately introduced several
new styles, of which they say : "We submit
herewith three of our new styles, to which we
respectfully call your attention. All our cases,
including the cheapest lines, are heavily coated
and polished by hand, attaining a degree of
finish heretofore never furnished the trade. The
designs are fresh and attractive, and the line
we offer embodies, as a whole, the very latest
ideas of advanced thought in practical organ-
building within the limits of the single bank
instrument, and is calculated to give the market
a valuable representative agency of the highest
class with a variety of actions and designs suffi-
cient to please the most particular.
" I n novelties we call especial attention to
actions No. 33, containing the fascinating
' Zithertone ' solo stop, and No. 60, designed
for chapel use, capable of very heavy orchestral
effects. Our 7 1-3 octave, Style K, piano case
design, we believe to be the very best of its kind
in tone, finish, perfection of mechanical details
and elegant appearance."
Mr. Ebersole, of Crawford, Ebersole & Smith,
who own several factories out of this state, was
also non-committal. We wrote to the author
of the scheme that we would consider it, and
asked him to send us the details of the plan.
So far it is all wind and no figures. The
promoter says: "We have all the largest
houses of the East pledged to the scheme, etc."
Well, you know that is all talk. I want to
see the names and figures first. As a rule, we
believe in attending to our own interests with-
out troubling ourselves about our neighbor^,
but we are always willing to look into any good
plan.
" Then you have no objection to the trust
idea?" asked the Times-Star man.
" I t is too early to say anything about the
plan,"said Mr. Ebersole, evasively.
Baldwin & Co. have apparently not been ap-
proached as yet.
igigg tr;^ System of
^ H A I R M A N THACHER, of the Committee
«7-> on Awards, Saturday, told 200 American
exhibitors how his system works and answered
questions. He said there would be probably
another system of awards beside those granted
for specific points of excellence. That is, after
the awards proper have been made on the ex-
hibits Mr. Thacher proposes to give awards on
the excellence of the collected displays. This
information was a surprise. He said under his
award system the judge assigned to pass upon
an exhibit must report his findings to the entire
department committee, in some cases eighty ex-
perts. It is upon their vote that an award is
granted, and not upon the wish of the examin-
ing judge. About one-half the awards had been
"["rust.
made, but that in some departments it will re-
quire ninety days more to complete the work.
GETTING CINCINNATI IN LINE.
When asked how exhibitors were to learn the
result of the finding of the judges he said the
WO more " trust " fiends are casting their matter had not been fully determined, but it
bait in the neighborhood of the city, says was his wish to publish the information shortly
the Cincinnati Times-Star. Chicago has already after it had been submitted, although he did
not know yet whether that would be done.
been " sized up," and now it is Cincinnati's
Thus far, he said, less than one-half of 1 per
turn. Two hopeful New Yorkers expect to
cent, of the number of complaints made at prev-
organize all the piano-making firms into one
ious Expositions had been made here on account
big company, after the manner ot "Whisky,"
of the workings of the plan. He said the use of
"Cordage," and other little combinations.
the word " best " in writing the points of excel-
Several circulars have been sent to local manu- lence of an exhibit had been forbidden. When
facturers, setting forth the advantages and asked who passed upon the competency of the
probability of success of the intended company. expert selected he evaded the reply by saying
A national piano company is to be organized he had communicated with 2,600 publishers of
with a capital of $50,000,000, embracing all the technical journals asking them to name experts,
prominent firms in the United States and as and in most instances the editor recommended
many smaller concerns as may be deemed himself.—Chicago Tribune.
worthy of a place in the association.
The advantages usually claimed for trade
combinations are placed most temptingly before
piar;o
the piano men. The promoters endeavor to
show how this unification of interests will
greatly lessen the enormous expenses now in-
appended circular has been sent out to
curred. Instead of each manufacturer being
the creditors of the business by Mr. H.
obliged to maintain an agency in every import- A. Starr, the assignee of the Anderson Piano
ant city, there could be established one central Co., of Rockford, 111. " You are hereby notified
agent, who would carry all makes of pianos. that on August 21, 1893, the Anderson Piano
Inordinate commissions, such as are paid to Company, a corporation with its principal office
teachers and " friends " who claim to influence in the City of Rockland, 111., by its deed of as-
a sale, will be abolished. The "paid artist" signment of that date, duly recorded in the
who certifies that the piano he plays upon is the office of the clerk of said county, assigned and
best in the world, and that he will play on no transferred to me, as assignee, all its property,
other while the money holds out, is to be a relic real and personal, for the benefit of its creditors,
of the past. Whether these smooth-talking and you are further notified and requested to
Wall street men have made much headway in present your claim or claims, if you have any,
this city is a question.
against said Anderson Piano Company, under
Mr. Albert Krell acknowledged having re- oath or affirmation, to me at Rockford, 111., in
ceived the circular, but would not express an said county, whether due or not, within three
opinion.
months from this date.''
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