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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
" IT has now been discovered that pianos get
sick just the same as other human beings," says
an exchange. " They get taken with the grip
and ' that tired feeling ' and have to be treated
for lack of exercise, overwork, etc. However a
piano is a tough animal. I know of one that
had pleura-pneumonia for two years and fell
down an elevater shaft. It is now working
eight hours a day and does not mind the male-
IT IS expected that the affairs of Geo. W. dictions heaped upon it one bit."
Chatterton of Springfield, 111., will soon be in
THE electro bronze art panels for pianos and
such a condition as to permit of the discharge of
organs, manufactured by the Homer D. Bronson
the assignee.
Company, Beacon Falls, Conn., are being used
AMONG the church organs recently shipped by very generally throughout the trade. They
the Hook & Hastings Co., Boston, are one to help considerably to beautify these instruments,
St. Matthew's Church, Fall River, Mass., one to and they produce a very artistic effect.
the First Baptist Church, Meridian, Miss., one
to the Second Baptist Church of Little Rock,
HERRBURGER, SCHWANDER & SON, have se-
Arkansas, and one to the new First Congrega- cured letters patent for the Schwander grand
tional Church, Rockland, Mass.
action which has won and is winning praises
A STOCKHOLM paper says : A Swedish elec- from all piano makers who have examined it.
trician and musician has succeeded, after many
IT is said that R. M. Hutchinson, superin-
years' trying, in making a new and it is re-
ported, a most successful musical instrument, tendent of the Boston Piano Co., is about to
which is played with keys like a piano. It has organize a company to manufacture pianos in
a frame on which are strung a score of tuned that city. He expects to secure plenty of
bells, a series of steel bars are struck by metalic financial backing.
hammers, a row of steel strings of proper ten-
THAT is a clever idea inaugurated by the
sion, a xylophone and a fraudulent bagpipe Starr Piano Co. to name the new styles of
made of a bar of steel and an electric current. pianos produced, from time to time, by letters
The music from the new instrument is said to spelling the name of " L,umsden," the president
be very pleasing.
of the company.
AT the concerts given by Sousa's Band at the
Madison Square Garden, Decker Bros, pianos
are used exclusively.
CHIEF COBURN, of Anderson Ind., has arrested
a man who gives his name as Joseph Quick, of
Chicago, on suspicion of being connected with
the recent piano swindling scheme in this county.
About two weeks ago two men representing
themselves as agents for a Chicago music house
left pianos at the homes of Amos Garretson and
Ashby Swindell, farmers, saying that, should a
sale be effected by the exhibition of the instru-
ments, the farmers should receive a commission.
They required receipts .for the pianos, which
receipts turned out to be notes for $450. Quick
could not be held, and immediately on being
released he was recognized by Cory Shaw, a
Chicago hotel man, as a confederate of Ed. Rice
in his Bohemian oats swindle.—Chicago Herald.
MESSRS. KNABE AND KEIDEL, the junior
members of the firm of Wm. Knabe & Co., paid
a visit to the trade in Chicago last week. They
received a very warm welcome from the numer-
ous friends of that distinguished house in the
West.
MESSRS. A. G. CRANE AND B. M. ROBINSON,
traveling representatives of the Chicago branch
of the Pease Piano Company, are making a trip
through Kansas and Missouri, and they are
sending a goodly number of orders. Business,
East and West, with the Pease Piano Company
is good—times considered.
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