Music Trade Review
Issue: 1894 Vol. 18 N. 32 - Page 4
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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
The First Violin.
m, DISCUSSION has recently been
®^s carried on in the French papers
as to the claims of Duiffoprugcar to
be considered, if not the inventor of
tne violin, at any rate the oldest of the
great school of violin makers. Accord-
ing to the historians he was a native of
the Italian Tyrol, who established him-
self at Bologna, where he became so
highly celebrated that Francis I. took
him to Paris in 1515. Dr. Contaigne,
of Lyons, has, however, been investigat-
ing the matter, and he finds that, ac-
cording to the archives preserved in
that city, Duiffoprugcar was not born
until 1514, at Freising, in Bavaria. He
settled at Lyons in 1553, was natural-
ized six years later, and died in 1572.
This, if true, is of course fatal to the
claims of several violins dated between
1510 and 1520, which he was supposed
to have made, and according to one
authority the instruments are merely
wrongly dated copies made early in the
present century. The age and authen-
ticity of an old violin, unless, of course,
it has a pedigree, seem almost as diffi-
cult to determine as those of a picture.
JOHN SUMMERS.
\T-~E are pleased to learn that Mr. John Sutn-
mers has been engaged by the celebrated
house of Lyon, Potter & Co , Chicago, and com-
menced active work with that firm March ist.
Mr. Summers is one of the best known and
popular piano salesmen on the road. Wherever
John goes his pleasant smile and hearty hand-
shake are always welcome. Mr. Summers has
had a wide experience as piano salesman both in
a retail and wholesale way. The wide range of
country in which he has been employed has given
him a thorough acquaintance with the trade both
in the East and West. Mr. Summers is known
everywhere as a man of restless energy, and in
the vernacular of the country is a " hustler."
Mr. Summers was born in Springfield, Mass.,
in 1857, and his boyhood and early manhood
life was not particularly different from that of
others whose home surroundings are pleasant.
He received a good college and business educa-
tion, but his tastes being musical he early
engaged with Chickering & Sons, and was with
them for four years, with R. W. Steward, of
Lafayette, Ind., two years, with the Emerson
Piano Co. in their New York store two years,
with Julius Bauer & Co., of Chicago, and for
the past two years has been with Messrs. Chase
& Smith, of Syracuse, N. Y. It will be seen
from the above that Mr. Summers is amply
qualified to fill any position in any department of
the piano trade, and in his new field we are sure
that his services will prove eminently satisfac-
tory.
THE adjustment of insurance relative to the
fire at the Roth & Engelhardt factory, has been
effected and work was resumed last Monday.
They will be fully prepared to fill orders for the
spring trade.
MR. JOHN N. MERRILL, of the Merrill Piano
Co., Boston, reports an increasing demand for
his instruments. The newest styles of the
Merrill are securing a large circle of friends and
admirers.
RUFUS W. BLAKE, the popular president o*
the Sterling Piano Co., is on a visit to the South
with his wife.
THE; music store of H. W. Bates & Co., at
72 Pearl street, has been damaged to extent of
$5,000 by fire.
A BURGLAR broke a pane of glass in Jacob
Schlenker's music store at 126 William street,
Buffalo, N. Y., and stole an accordion a few days
ago.
traveling man for the Lyon &
Healy music House in Chicago, was presented
to Miss Grace Washburn a few days ago, called
on her in the evening, proposed marriage and
was accepted and married her the following day
which was February 25th. Hiler's home is in
Grand Haven, Mich.
JOHN HILER,
THE Knight Music Co. has been incorporated
by W. W. Knight, K. W. Knight, M. H. Knight,
M. G. Knight and S. E. Gillette, to do business
in Denver, Col. Capital stock, $25,000.
GOVERNOR FULLER has left for the Midwinter
Fair, San Francisco. It is his intention to be
present Vermont Day, on March 3d.
GKO. C. ADAMS, road representative of the
McCammon Piano Co., Oneonta, N. Y., was
married Monday last to a charming young
Buffalo lady.
F. R. GIRARD, who handles the Wheelock,
Lindeman and Stuyvesant pianos in Oakland,
Cal., finding his present quarters too limited,
has secured a larger wareroorn in the Central
Bank Building, that city.
THE W. W. Kimball Co.'s branch house in
DesMoines, la., will be under the management
of Mr. William Reinhard.
ADAM SCHAAF'S handsome wareroonis on
Madison street, Chicago, were destroyed by fire
on the morning of February 26th. The damage
to stock amounts to about $12,000.
J. P. SIMMONS & Co., have succeeded the well
known firm of Buck & Simmons, Louisville,
Ky.
HARLEM, the piano manufacturing stronghold
of the city, is to have another addition to the
many factories already in evidence. Mr. Geo.
Abendschein, of the Staib Piano Action Co.,
will shortly begin the erection of a new building
corner 134th street and Brooks avenue. The
building will be six stories high, 50 x 100 feet,
and when completed will be occupied by the
Staib Piano Action Co.
A. E. WHITNEY, well known music dealer of
97 East 3d street, St. Paul, Minn., has sold out
his entire business to W. W. Kimball Company,
for whom he has been the St. Paul representa-
tive for the last ten years. This change was
brought about at the urgent request of the Kim-
ball Co. for Mr. Whitney to accept a wholesale
position representing them on the road. The
Kimball Co. have their factory in Chicago.
PROF. JOS. H. HUBER, formerly a dealer in
musical instruments at Greensburg, Pa., died
of heart disease a few days ago at the age of 56.
He leaves a wife and five children.
THE music store of H. Hullings, Clarion, Pa.,
has been damaged to the extent of $4,000 by
fire. Insurance $3,000.
F. H. COWEN'S latest song, " The Promise of
Life,'' is destined to become as largely popular as
Stephen Adams' '' The Holy City." It is all the
rage in London, and in this city a third edition
has already been placed on the market. The ap-
preciation and popularity of the many high class
songs published by Boosey & Co. is an excellent
evidence of the evolution of public taste in this
direction. Dealers and singers should make it
a point to write Mr. Geo. Maxwell, Boosey &
Co. 's New York representative, at 3 E. 14th
street, for catalogue of their latest songs.
A MOTION to no longer maintain its relief
fund has been voted down by a large majority
of the Piano Makers' Union, New York, and the
death benefit will be paid in full as usual.
THE K. P. Band of Arapahoe (Neb.) has been
incorporated with $1,500 capital. Clint O.
Smith, H. Mooney, S. C. Scott and others in-
terested.
I. N. RICE of the Schaeffer Piano Co., Oregon,
111., has completed arrangements whereby he
will handle the Chicago Cottage Organ Co.'s
goods. The deal will be of mutual advantage.
AUTOMATIC MUSIC TURNER CO., Detroit,
Mich., incorporated to manufacture a patent
device for turning music, capital $3,000. Jas.
Miller, Harry A. Clapp and Eugene Gregory,
incorporators.
MRS. GEO. W. LYON has written a warm letter
of thanks and appreciation to the committee
MR. CARL BRONSON, who has had quite some of gentlemen appointed by the Chicago Music
experience as a salesman in Chicago, has been Trade to prepare memorial resolutions on the
engaged by the Chicago Cottage Organ Co. in death of her lamented husband.
a like capacity.
R. S. HOWARD, the road representative of J.
THE Chicago Cottage Organ Co. report that & C. Fischer, is making a Western trip in the
their present business is fully up to the stand- interests of this house. It is not unlikely that
ard, if not excelling the business of previous Mr. Howard will take in the California Mid-
years. This is indeed satisfactory.
winter Fair before we see him again.
THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
The First Violin.
m, DISCUSSION has recently been
®^s carried on in the French papers
as to the claims of Duiffoprugcar to
be considered, if not the inventor of
tne violin, at any rate the oldest of the
great school of violin makers. Accord-
ing to the historians he was a native of
the Italian Tyrol, who established him-
self at Bologna, where he became so
highly celebrated that Francis I. took
him to Paris in 1515. Dr. Contaigne,
of Lyons, has, however, been investigat-
ing the matter, and he finds that, ac-
cording to the archives preserved in
that city, Duiffoprugcar was not born
until 1514, at Freising, in Bavaria. He
settled at Lyons in 1553, was natural-
ized six years later, and died in 1572.
This, if true, is of course fatal to the
claims of several violins dated between
1510 and 1520, which he was supposed
to have made, and according to one
authority the instruments are merely
wrongly dated copies made early in the
present century. The age and authen-
ticity of an old violin, unless, of course,
it has a pedigree, seem almost as diffi-
cult to determine as those of a picture.
JOHN SUMMERS.
\T-~E are pleased to learn that Mr. John Sutn-
mers has been engaged by the celebrated
house of Lyon, Potter & Co , Chicago, and com-
menced active work with that firm March ist.
Mr. Summers is one of the best known and
popular piano salesmen on the road. Wherever
John goes his pleasant smile and hearty hand-
shake are always welcome. Mr. Summers has
had a wide experience as piano salesman both in
a retail and wholesale way. The wide range of
country in which he has been employed has given
him a thorough acquaintance with the trade both
in the East and West. Mr. Summers is known
everywhere as a man of restless energy, and in
the vernacular of the country is a " hustler."
Mr. Summers was born in Springfield, Mass.,
in 1857, and his boyhood and early manhood
life was not particularly different from that of
others whose home surroundings are pleasant.
He received a good college and business educa-
tion, but his tastes being musical he early
engaged with Chickering & Sons, and was with
them for four years, with R. W. Steward, of
Lafayette, Ind., two years, with the Emerson
Piano Co. in their New York store two years,
with Julius Bauer & Co., of Chicago, and for
the past two years has been with Messrs. Chase
& Smith, of Syracuse, N. Y. It will be seen
from the above that Mr. Summers is amply
qualified to fill any position in any department of
the piano trade, and in his new field we are sure
that his services will prove eminently satisfac-
tory.
THE adjustment of insurance relative to the
fire at the Roth & Engelhardt factory, has been
effected and work was resumed last Monday.
They will be fully prepared to fill orders for the
spring trade.
MR. JOHN N. MERRILL, of the Merrill Piano
Co., Boston, reports an increasing demand for
his instruments. The newest styles of the
Merrill are securing a large circle of friends and
admirers.
RUFUS W. BLAKE, the popular president o*
the Sterling Piano Co., is on a visit to the South
with his wife.
THE; music store of H. W. Bates & Co., at
72 Pearl street, has been damaged to extent of
$5,000 by fire.
A BURGLAR broke a pane of glass in Jacob
Schlenker's music store at 126 William street,
Buffalo, N. Y., and stole an accordion a few days
ago.
traveling man for the Lyon &
Healy music House in Chicago, was presented
to Miss Grace Washburn a few days ago, called
on her in the evening, proposed marriage and
was accepted and married her the following day
which was February 25th. Hiler's home is in
Grand Haven, Mich.
JOHN HILER,
THE Knight Music Co. has been incorporated
by W. W. Knight, K. W. Knight, M. H. Knight,
M. G. Knight and S. E. Gillette, to do business
in Denver, Col. Capital stock, $25,000.
GOVERNOR FULLER has left for the Midwinter
Fair, San Francisco. It is his intention to be
present Vermont Day, on March 3d.
GKO. C. ADAMS, road representative of the
McCammon Piano Co., Oneonta, N. Y., was
married Monday last to a charming young
Buffalo lady.
F. R. GIRARD, who handles the Wheelock,
Lindeman and Stuyvesant pianos in Oakland,
Cal., finding his present quarters too limited,
has secured a larger wareroorn in the Central
Bank Building, that city.
THE W. W. Kimball Co.'s branch house in
DesMoines, la., will be under the management
of Mr. William Reinhard.
ADAM SCHAAF'S handsome wareroonis on
Madison street, Chicago, were destroyed by fire
on the morning of February 26th. The damage
to stock amounts to about $12,000.
J. P. SIMMONS & Co., have succeeded the well
known firm of Buck & Simmons, Louisville,
Ky.
HARLEM, the piano manufacturing stronghold
of the city, is to have another addition to the
many factories already in evidence. Mr. Geo.
Abendschein, of the Staib Piano Action Co.,
will shortly begin the erection of a new building
corner 134th street and Brooks avenue. The
building will be six stories high, 50 x 100 feet,
and when completed will be occupied by the
Staib Piano Action Co.
A. E. WHITNEY, well known music dealer of
97 East 3d street, St. Paul, Minn., has sold out
his entire business to W. W. Kimball Company,
for whom he has been the St. Paul representa-
tive for the last ten years. This change was
brought about at the urgent request of the Kim-
ball Co. for Mr. Whitney to accept a wholesale
position representing them on the road. The
Kimball Co. have their factory in Chicago.
PROF. JOS. H. HUBER, formerly a dealer in
musical instruments at Greensburg, Pa., died
of heart disease a few days ago at the age of 56.
He leaves a wife and five children.
THE music store of H. Hullings, Clarion, Pa.,
has been damaged to the extent of $4,000 by
fire. Insurance $3,000.
F. H. COWEN'S latest song, " The Promise of
Life,'' is destined to become as largely popular as
Stephen Adams' '' The Holy City." It is all the
rage in London, and in this city a third edition
has already been placed on the market. The ap-
preciation and popularity of the many high class
songs published by Boosey & Co. is an excellent
evidence of the evolution of public taste in this
direction. Dealers and singers should make it
a point to write Mr. Geo. Maxwell, Boosey &
Co. 's New York representative, at 3 E. 14th
street, for catalogue of their latest songs.
A MOTION to no longer maintain its relief
fund has been voted down by a large majority
of the Piano Makers' Union, New York, and the
death benefit will be paid in full as usual.
THE K. P. Band of Arapahoe (Neb.) has been
incorporated with $1,500 capital. Clint O.
Smith, H. Mooney, S. C. Scott and others in-
terested.
I. N. RICE of the Schaeffer Piano Co., Oregon,
111., has completed arrangements whereby he
will handle the Chicago Cottage Organ Co.'s
goods. The deal will be of mutual advantage.
AUTOMATIC MUSIC TURNER CO., Detroit,
Mich., incorporated to manufacture a patent
device for turning music, capital $3,000. Jas.
Miller, Harry A. Clapp and Eugene Gregory,
incorporators.
MRS. GEO. W. LYON has written a warm letter
of thanks and appreciation to the committee
MR. CARL BRONSON, who has had quite some of gentlemen appointed by the Chicago Music
experience as a salesman in Chicago, has been Trade to prepare memorial resolutions on the
engaged by the Chicago Cottage Organ Co. in death of her lamented husband.
a like capacity.
R. S. HOWARD, the road representative of J.
THE Chicago Cottage Organ Co. report that & C. Fischer, is making a Western trip in the
their present business is fully up to the stand- interests of this house. It is not unlikely that
ard, if not excelling the business of previous Mr. Howard will take in the California Mid-
years. This is indeed satisfactory.
winter Fair before we see him again.
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