Music Trade Review
Issue: 1894 Vol. 18 N. 35 - Page 1
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VOL. XVIII. No. 35.
published Every Saturday.
Interesting Figures on
flusical Instruments.
[PREPARED FOR THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.]
WASHINGTON, D. C , March 12th, 1894.
Through the courtesy of the Treasury Depart-
ment officials the following figures relating to
the trade between this and foreign countries in
musical instruments have been obtained from
the latest corrected statements for January :
During this month there were dutiable imports
of musical instruments to the value of $55,607
as compared with $52,546 for the same month of
1893. This shows an increase for the one month,
but for the period of seven months ending with
January 31st the value was only $456,843, falling
far short of the $644,709 for the same period of
1893.
During this month the value of exported mu-
sical instruments amounted to $65 245 against
$167 232 for the corresponding month of 1893,
and for the seven months period these amounted
to $595-71 2 against $1,278,254 for a similar
period of 1893.
Of this amount there were 556 organs valued
at
$34 972, against 1,191 organs, worth $84,679,
for the same month of the previous year. For
the seven months period there were 5,409 organs
worth $333,107, against 8369 organs, worth
$597,543, for the corresponding period of the
year before.
There were 44 exported pianofortes during
January, valued at $12,723 against 195 worth
$72,116 for the same month of 1893, and for the
seven months period there were 372, worth
$108,759, against 1,546, worth $585,542 for the
same period in 1893.
All other exported instruments and parts of
the same were valued at $69,743 as compared
with $39,392 of the same month of 1893, and for
the seven months period these values were placed
at $467,195 as compared with $348,418 of the
same period of 1893.
Re-exports of musical instruments amounted
only to $153 against $200 for the same month of
1893, and for the seven months period there
were values amounting to $4 046 as compared
with $1,595 for the same period of 1893.
A comparative summary of the imports of
musical instruments for a period of seven months
during each year for the five years from 1889 to
1893, inclusive, together with their average and
a comparison with later figures, is as follows:
During the year 1893 there were imported
*
\iew YorK, fflarel? 24, 1894.
goods in this line amounting to $1,145,941. In
1890, $1,107,149. In 1891, $987,757. In 1892,
$646,933. In 1893, $644,709, these five periods
averaging $906,498. The corresponding period
for 1894, ending January 31st, shows $456,843,
giving a decrease of $449,655, as compared with
the foregoing average, as well as a decrease of
$187,866 as compared with the same period of
1893.
A comparative summary of exports is similar-
ly stated :
During 1889 these exports amounted to
$594,884. In 1890, $616,042. In 1891, $884,808.
In 1892, $726,984. In 1893, $1,278,254, showing
an average of these five periods amounting to
$812,194. For the seven months period ending
January 31st, 1894, these are valued at $595,712,
showing a decrease of $216,482, when compared
with the foregoing average, and a decrease of
$682,542 when compared with the corresponding
period of 1893.
Jansen Sings Praises.
NEW YORK, March 17th, 1894.
MY DEAR BILL :
Shake ! old man, shake ! Here, waiter, a
bottle, please—have it frappee. I'm celebrating
St. Patrick and congratulating you to-day—fair
as the sun that lightens and gladdens an Irish-
man's heart
Come, Bill, let's have another—I'm doing it,
you've done your part. Now let us continue-
" as fair as the sun that lightens and gladdens
—I've only begun ; don't hie thee away, Bill,
but list to this song—of you I am singing. It
won't be too long. My song is of thee and
thine efforts to-day—of this week's REVIEW
that I've just laid away. It's great, its im-
mense, out of sight, and all that, full of news
bright and crisp, not a thing in it flat. Have
another—well, a smoke; waiter, Garcias,
please. You're a wonder, Bill ! honest—in
your efforts to please. Not a word but the
truth, naught of scandal, you know, only news,
never blackmail, your columns will show. Yes,
I know that it pays, and I'm glad, very glad ;
just one more, Brother Bill, just to show you're
not mad.
Here's success, then, to you,
To THE MUSIC TRADK REVIEW,
To the organ of the glorious Music Trade.
May its purpose and its aim
• • • -
Never change, but be the same,
May its banner never lower, never fade.
For the cause that lacks assistance,
- : -•-•'•
For the wrong that needs resistance,
For the future in the distance,
And the good that you can do.
For the standard, that's your own,
Yours, and only yours alone,
For the seed that you have sown,
May success weave fottune's garland now for
you.
Sincerely, BEN. H. JAXSEN.
$3 00 PER YEAR.
SINGLE COPIES, 10 CENTS.
A Business Change.
Frank A. Stratton & Co. Con-
tinue the Business of
Stratton & Scribner.
dissolution of the new firm of Stratton
& Scribner, manufacturers' representa-
tives of musical instruments, with headquarters
at No. 37 Howard street, New York, occurred
early this week. Mr. Frank A. Stratton has
purchased the interest of Mr. Scribner, who, by
the way, will travel for A. E. Benary, the musical
instrument importer of this city. With Mr.
Stratton will be associated Mr. Chas. Quenzer,
a wealthy manufacturer of leather goods in this
city, and the firm name will be Frank A. Strat-
ton & Co. They will be backed by ample capi-
tal. Without doubt the business of this firm
will be successful, as Mr. Stratton has a wide
circle of acquaintances, a thorough knowledge
of the musical importing business, and is a man
of progressive ideas. The firm will retain the
agencies made by them, which include the fol-
lowing well-known manufacturing firms : Trau-
gott Schneider & Co., accordeons, Magdeburg!
C. H. Meinel, harmonicas, Klingenthal ; Curt
Schuster & Otto, musical merchandise, Aug.
Heinel, Jr., band instruments, A. W. Eschen-
bach & Sons, band instruments, Markneukirc-
hen, Saxony; Standard Musical String Co.,
steel and wound strings, Andover, N. J.
Before the War.
Odd Place for a Piano Factory.
f
HERE was a piano factory at Wartburg.
Tenn., before the war. The singular
thing about it is that Wartburg was about one
hundred miles from the nearest railroad and in
the heart of the Cumberland mountains. The
wood of which the instruments were made, says
the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, had to be brought
fioni New York and then hauled one hundred
miles over the mountains to Wartburg, which
was a German colony. The pianos were made
by a practical musician, and when an instrument
was ordered he would finish up the different
parts at Wartburg and then haul them to the
home of his customer, generally many miles
away, and put up the piano there. One of them
is now at Wartburg, and the building where
they were made still stands, although no longer
used as a piano manufactory. The town, which
consists of about two hundred people, is away
from the railroad and has not grown since the
war. The home-made instruments of over
thirty years ago is still in good order and in
constant use.
ROBERT HARRY, who has been manager for
the past few years for the music house of Phillip
Werlein, New Orleans, has resigned his position.
VOL. XVIII. No. 35.
published Every Saturday.
Interesting Figures on
flusical Instruments.
[PREPARED FOR THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.]
WASHINGTON, D. C , March 12th, 1894.
Through the courtesy of the Treasury Depart-
ment officials the following figures relating to
the trade between this and foreign countries in
musical instruments have been obtained from
the latest corrected statements for January :
During this month there were dutiable imports
of musical instruments to the value of $55,607
as compared with $52,546 for the same month of
1893. This shows an increase for the one month,
but for the period of seven months ending with
January 31st the value was only $456,843, falling
far short of the $644,709 for the same period of
1893.
During this month the value of exported mu-
sical instruments amounted to $65 245 against
$167 232 for the corresponding month of 1893,
and for the seven months period these amounted
to $595-71 2 against $1,278,254 for a similar
period of 1893.
Of this amount there were 556 organs valued
at
$34 972, against 1,191 organs, worth $84,679,
for the same month of the previous year. For
the seven months period there were 5,409 organs
worth $333,107, against 8369 organs, worth
$597,543, for the corresponding period of the
year before.
There were 44 exported pianofortes during
January, valued at $12,723 against 195 worth
$72,116 for the same month of 1893, and for the
seven months period there were 372, worth
$108,759, against 1,546, worth $585,542 for the
same period in 1893.
All other exported instruments and parts of
the same were valued at $69,743 as compared
with $39,392 of the same month of 1893, and for
the seven months period these values were placed
at $467,195 as compared with $348,418 of the
same period of 1893.
Re-exports of musical instruments amounted
only to $153 against $200 for the same month of
1893, and for the seven months period there
were values amounting to $4 046 as compared
with $1,595 for the same period of 1893.
A comparative summary of the imports of
musical instruments for a period of seven months
during each year for the five years from 1889 to
1893, inclusive, together with their average and
a comparison with later figures, is as follows:
During the year 1893 there were imported
*
\iew YorK, fflarel? 24, 1894.
goods in this line amounting to $1,145,941. In
1890, $1,107,149. In 1891, $987,757. In 1892,
$646,933. In 1893, $644,709, these five periods
averaging $906,498. The corresponding period
for 1894, ending January 31st, shows $456,843,
giving a decrease of $449,655, as compared with
the foregoing average, as well as a decrease of
$187,866 as compared with the same period of
1893.
A comparative summary of exports is similar-
ly stated :
During 1889 these exports amounted to
$594,884. In 1890, $616,042. In 1891, $884,808.
In 1892, $726,984. In 1893, $1,278,254, showing
an average of these five periods amounting to
$812,194. For the seven months period ending
January 31st, 1894, these are valued at $595,712,
showing a decrease of $216,482, when compared
with the foregoing average, and a decrease of
$682,542 when compared with the corresponding
period of 1893.
Jansen Sings Praises.
NEW YORK, March 17th, 1894.
MY DEAR BILL :
Shake ! old man, shake ! Here, waiter, a
bottle, please—have it frappee. I'm celebrating
St. Patrick and congratulating you to-day—fair
as the sun that lightens and gladdens an Irish-
man's heart
Come, Bill, let's have another—I'm doing it,
you've done your part. Now let us continue-
" as fair as the sun that lightens and gladdens
—I've only begun ; don't hie thee away, Bill,
but list to this song—of you I am singing. It
won't be too long. My song is of thee and
thine efforts to-day—of this week's REVIEW
that I've just laid away. It's great, its im-
mense, out of sight, and all that, full of news
bright and crisp, not a thing in it flat. Have
another—well, a smoke; waiter, Garcias,
please. You're a wonder, Bill ! honest—in
your efforts to please. Not a word but the
truth, naught of scandal, you know, only news,
never blackmail, your columns will show. Yes,
I know that it pays, and I'm glad, very glad ;
just one more, Brother Bill, just to show you're
not mad.
Here's success, then, to you,
To THE MUSIC TRADK REVIEW,
To the organ of the glorious Music Trade.
May its purpose and its aim
• • • -
Never change, but be the same,
May its banner never lower, never fade.
For the cause that lacks assistance,
- : -•-•'•
For the wrong that needs resistance,
For the future in the distance,
And the good that you can do.
For the standard, that's your own,
Yours, and only yours alone,
For the seed that you have sown,
May success weave fottune's garland now for
you.
Sincerely, BEN. H. JAXSEN.
$3 00 PER YEAR.
SINGLE COPIES, 10 CENTS.
A Business Change.
Frank A. Stratton & Co. Con-
tinue the Business of
Stratton & Scribner.
dissolution of the new firm of Stratton
& Scribner, manufacturers' representa-
tives of musical instruments, with headquarters
at No. 37 Howard street, New York, occurred
early this week. Mr. Frank A. Stratton has
purchased the interest of Mr. Scribner, who, by
the way, will travel for A. E. Benary, the musical
instrument importer of this city. With Mr.
Stratton will be associated Mr. Chas. Quenzer,
a wealthy manufacturer of leather goods in this
city, and the firm name will be Frank A. Strat-
ton & Co. They will be backed by ample capi-
tal. Without doubt the business of this firm
will be successful, as Mr. Stratton has a wide
circle of acquaintances, a thorough knowledge
of the musical importing business, and is a man
of progressive ideas. The firm will retain the
agencies made by them, which include the fol-
lowing well-known manufacturing firms : Trau-
gott Schneider & Co., accordeons, Magdeburg!
C. H. Meinel, harmonicas, Klingenthal ; Curt
Schuster & Otto, musical merchandise, Aug.
Heinel, Jr., band instruments, A. W. Eschen-
bach & Sons, band instruments, Markneukirc-
hen, Saxony; Standard Musical String Co.,
steel and wound strings, Andover, N. J.
Before the War.
Odd Place for a Piano Factory.
f
HERE was a piano factory at Wartburg.
Tenn., before the war. The singular
thing about it is that Wartburg was about one
hundred miles from the nearest railroad and in
the heart of the Cumberland mountains. The
wood of which the instruments were made, says
the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, had to be brought
fioni New York and then hauled one hundred
miles over the mountains to Wartburg, which
was a German colony. The pianos were made
by a practical musician, and when an instrument
was ordered he would finish up the different
parts at Wartburg and then haul them to the
home of his customer, generally many miles
away, and put up the piano there. One of them
is now at Wartburg, and the building where
they were made still stands, although no longer
used as a piano manufactory. The town, which
consists of about two hundred people, is away
from the railroad and has not grown since the
war. The home-made instruments of over
thirty years ago is still in good order and in
constant use.
ROBERT HARRY, who has been manager for
the past few years for the music house of Phillip
Werlein, New Orleans, has resigned his position.
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