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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
PIANISTIC PUNS.
jjE are favored with a copy of a " Handy
Music-Lexicon " based upon Professor
Kalauer's very humorous and famous work. It
is an Americanized and thoroughly up to-date
edition, and comes to us from sedate and classic
Boston. It blends information with a high
moral entertainment. We doubt if this "Lexi-
con '' will supplant the authoritative and solid
work of Grove, but it certainly will raise a smile
among some of our sober and settled musicians,
who rarely find time to crack a joke. The author
and editor seem to have solved the problem ot
how to convey the medicine of knowledge in the
sugar coat of amusement.
Speaking of the '' pianoforte '' it says:
" Pianos are of different shapes and "makes."
Some makers, though not themselves upright,
produce upright pianos. Other makers, though
not themselves square, produce square pianos.
There is a grand piano and a baby grand. The
square piano is usually a quadruped. The grand
stands on three legs or limbs. Some people are
so modest that they put pantlets on the 1. 's of
their pianos. Pianists may "paw the ivories,"
but all pianists are not Pauers. There are more
than a hundred piano-makers, and each firm al-
ways advertise itself as having received the
highest prizes at Industrial Expositions. This
is confusing.''
CHANGES IN THE WEST.
HE W. W. Kimball Company, of Chicago,
who have had charge of the wholesale
handling of the Hallet & Davis piano for the
States of Illinois, Wisconsin, Missouri, Iowa,
Minnesota, Kansas and Nebraska have relin-
quished that position, and this territory will in
future come under the direct control of the Hallet
& Davis Company. This move will undoubt-
edly make quite a change in the representation
of these instruments in the States mentioned,
and plans are already under way in that con-
nection. There is no doubt that dealers will
take advantage to the fullest extent of this
change, for the Hallet & Davis piano has a
valuable reputation from a commercial and
musical point of view, and dealers handling it
will find it a decided aid to increase business.
It is announced that the Hallet & Davis Com-
pany will not establish a branch in Chicago, but
will take charge of the wholesale handling of
instruments from their Boston house.
Undoubtedly the evolution of the business of
the W. W. Kimball Company has rendered this
change necessary, and the large recognition
which their instruments have attained has com-
pelled them to confine themselves more or less
to their own line of goods. However, for the
present they will continue to sell the Hallet &
Davis pianos locally.
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NOT TO BE TRIED BY THE PRESS.
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HE course adopted by Hardman, Peck &
Co., in refusing to furnish the press with
copies of the complaint and affidavits in their
action against Hardman & La Grassa for using
a name which they claim is their exclusive
property, is, in our opinion, an eminently proper
one.
It only savors of cheap advertising, and no-
toriety to follow a course frequently pursued by
many going into litigation, namely, that of try-
ing the case in the public press. There is a
proper tribunal for such purposes, and everyone
must agree with Hardman, Peck & Co. in their
opinion that the matter is a private one until it
arrives there. It is to this court that they look
for redress, and not to the papers—some of them
being only too anxious to distort and make cap-
ital out of the matter before the case is officially
decided.
Hardman, Peck & Co. 's determination to leave
this matter entirely in the hands of their counsel
—to enable them to conduct the case in a pro-
fessional manner—is a course that reflects the
astuteness and business acumen of Mr. Leopold
Peck. The publication of these papers could
only serve one end, and that would be to adver-
tise an insignificant firm, and put them on a
plane with a concern which has won an inter-
national reputation.
The injunction papers were served on Messrs.
Hardman & La Grassa last week and it is ex-
pected the case will come up before the Supreme
Court March 26th.
THE Russian section of the California Mid-
winter Exposition has been beautified by the
addition of the pianos which were on exhibition
in the Russian section at Chicago.
It Speaks Well.
f
T speaks well for the general prosperity of
the piano, organ and kindred trades to
see an extra number of a trade paper, such as
that of THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW, published
on the 17th by Mr. Edward Lyman Bill. It
speaks well for Mr. Bill, too, to be able to pub-
lish such an issue, showing, as we have always
maintained, that hard work, close application
and a strict attention to one's own business are
elements which will win success in the trade
paper business, as they will in any other voca-
tion.— The Musical Courier.
MR. W. N. WATSON, of Cedar Rapids, has
opened a branch music store in the McDaniel
Building, Vinton, la.
A MAN, known asjas. L. Gordon, alias Oliver
Adams, alias N. L. Daily, is said to have rented
a piano from Bollman-Bros., 1100 Olive street,
St. Louis, Mo., and also one from Koerber Bros.,
1108 Olive street, both piano dealers, had the
pianos shipped to his residence and sold them.
The police are looking for him on charges of
selling mortgaged chattels and obtaining money
under false pretenses.
THE case of W. W. Kimball Co. vs. W. T.
Clark, Joplin, Mo., to replevin a piano was tried
by a jury before Squire J. W. Napier at Blende-
ville and decided in favor of the defendant. The
case was appealed to the circuit court.
A REED & SON'S piano factory is a new in-
dustry just added to Dixon, 111.
AT the first meeting of the newly incorporated
Tway Piano Co., of New York, the following
officers were chosen : William F. Tway, presi-
dent and treasurer; and A. H. Wray, secretary.
Wm. F. Tway, A. H. Wray and E. N. Kimball
were chosen directors. It is expected that this
incorporation will aid materially in enabling Mr.
Tway to enlarge the sphere of his business. As
it is there are few branches of the Hallet &
Davis Co. worked on such a safe and eminently
successful basis as this house. The present
indications are that the strong line of instru-
ments carried by Wm. F. Tway will be energetic-
ally pushed this spring.
A. REED & SONS, of Chicago, will soon be
established in handsome warerooms at 13 East
Adams street, that city. The Reed & Sons
piano has lately been growing in favor and this
move is one in the right direction.
MR. CHAS.
BECHT,
the popular traveling
representative of the Popular Pease Piano Co.,
is doing the West and South, and sending in
good news day after day to headquarters. He
finds a lively demand for the Popular Pease
Piano, and the prospects are brightening all
along the line.
GEO. G. ENDICOTT has purchased the stock
of Herinon Day & Co., Baltimore, Md., the
agents of Chickering & Sons in that city.
THE action factory of Roth & Engelhardt,
which recently suffered through fire, is now in
running order.
THE Steinerts will celebrate their 25th anni-
versary of their connection with the house of
Steinway & Sons this year.
A TRIBUTE to the general popularity of the
autoharp is the numerous imitations which have
cropped up in this country and largely in Europe.
It is, however, not an honorable or straight-
forward course to undermine a prestige that has
been honorably and justifiably won. And while
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' imitation is the sincerest flattery,'' the pro-
duction of an inferior instrument cannot fail to
work injuiy to the genuine autoharp.
E. A. LE FEBRE, the world-renowned saxo-
phone soloist, has been appointed agent for the
C. G. Conn celebrated wonder and American
model valve band instruments. Mr. Le Febre
has opened an office at 44 East 12th street, New
York city.
MR. FLORENCE J. HEPPE, the junior member
of the firm of C. J. Heppe & Son, piano
dealers, Philadelphia, will be married to Miss
Frances McDowell, at the Spruce Street Presby-
terian Church, Philadelphia, on March 28th.
Miss McDowell is very wealthy.
ARTHUR LEWIS, who embezzled quite a sum
of
money from the Fisher & Boyd Piano Co., of
IT is said that A. H. Rintelmann, who recently
connected himself with A. H. Revell & Co., Los Angeles, was sentenced to five years' im-
Chicago, will start in business for himself prisonment in that city February 27th.
again. He has recently been in the city talking
THE firm of C. Kurtzmann & Co., Buffalo,
the matter over with several concerns whose will soon be incorporated as a stock company.
pianos he would like to represent, but so far no This has been rendered necessary to enable a
definite understanding has been arrived at.
larger development of the business.