Music Trade Review
Issue: 1894 Vol. 18 N. 46 - Page 5
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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
Exports for the same period (ten months) in
1889 amounted to $850,490. In 1890, $927,501.
In 1891, $1,169,838. In 1892, $991,365. In
1893, $1,664,938, the average for the five periods
being $1,120,826. For the ten months ending
April 30th, 1894, these exports were valued at
$833,234, showing a decrease of $287,592 below
the given average and a fall of $831,704 below
the values same period of 1893.
THE Emerson piano will be represented at
Richmond, Va., by Thomas G. Burton, a pro-^
gressive dealer.
J. W. HAWD, formerly of Gloversville, N. Y., v
has opened a music store at Ilion, N. Y.
Important Figures
Relating to
Musical Instruments,
THE first two baby grands made by James &
Holmstrom have been sold. One going to
Groton, Mass., and the other to Omaha, Neb.
James & Holmstrom have met with such suc-
cess with their baby grands that they intend to
continue their manufacture and will have several
more on the market in a very short time.
[SPECIALLY COMPILED FOR THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.]
WASHINGTON, D. C , June 12th, 1894.
There has been a decided decrease in the
valuation of musical instruments, imported,
dutiable, into this country during the past
month. The total valuation has amounted to
only $29,443 against $65 473 for the same month
of 1893. For a period of ten months, ending
April 30th, 1894, there was a valuation of $564,-
711 against $846,325 for the same period of 1893.
The decrease in the total value of exports has
been quite as notable, except in some special
cases, these reaching $80,878 for April against
$90,949 for the corresponding month of 1893,
and for the ten months period there were $833,-
234 against $1,664,938 for the same period of
1893.
Of this amount there were of organs 713,
worth $46,167 for April, as compared with 664,
worth $46,979 for the same month in 1893, and
for the ten months period there were 7,417,
worth $464,782 against 11,328, worth $816,199
for the same period of the year previous.
Of the piano fortes there were 44, worth $12,-
721 against 81, worth $26,362 for April 1893.
For the ten mouths there were 510 only, worth
$148,153 against 1,909, worth $713,934 for the
corresponding period of the year previous.
All other instruments and parts of the same,
exported during April amounted to $21,990 as
compared with $17,608 for the same month of
1893, and for the ten months there were ship-
ments amounting to $220,299 as compared with
$134,805 for the same month of 1893, this latter
being one of the few instances of increase, and
even this does not prevent the total falling con-
siderably below that for former periods.
Dutiable re-exports of musical instruments
amounted to only $37 in April against $318 for
the same month for 1893, and for the ten months
period there were values amounting to $4,549 as
compared with $1,913 for the corresponding
period of 1893.
At the end of April 1894, there were remain-
ing in the warehouse $119,387 worth of imported
instruments as compared with $86,988 worth for
the same month of 1893. These figures have
increased at an astonishing rate, and the depres-
sion of trade, due to the uncertainty of financial
conditions and business relations, only can ex-
plain the present status.
The following summary statement of the
valuation of imports shows a corresponding
decrease when compared with the foregoing
figures. For the ten months ending April 30th,
1889, there were dutiable imports of musi-
cal instruments amounting $1,462,942. In 1890,
$1,446,541. In 1891, $1,272,985. In 1892,
$851,294. In 1893, $846,325, the average of
these five periods showing $1,176,017. For the
corresponding ten months ending April 30th,
1894, these valuations reached only $564,711,
falling $611,306 below the average foregoing,
and $281,614 below the amount for th.e same
period of 1893.
THE Hardman pianos will be carried by the
J. Dewing Company, San Francisco, Cal., as a
leader. They will also act as agents for the
Pacific Coast. Mr. Dewing was in New York
recently purchasing stock. He honored this
office with a visit.
AMES & BURK, music dealers, Norfolk, Va.,
will handle the A. B. Chase piano as leader focT
their house. They will also assume the agency* •
for the territory.
MESSRS. HOLLEY & BLAINK have opened a
music store at Elyria, O.
MR. J. POLUKANIS, of Bloomfield, N. J , has
recently recorded an invention in connection
with organs, which is described as " a n im-
provement upon a formerly patented invention
by the same inventor, in which is employed a
pneumatic valve having a casing and a sliding
leak piston, while, according to the improve-
ment, a self-acting pneumatic valve is pro-
vided with a swinging leak piston pivoted in a
casing attached to the wind-box, containing the
pallets connecting the wind-box with the wind-
chest, connected in the usual manner with the
pipes to be sounded. The improvement is de-
signed to facilitate the quick sounding of the
pipes to permit the performer to execute any
desired passage of music in the proper time, the
pallets responding instantaneously to the action
of the air pressure on the manipulation of the
keys."
THE builders' edition of the ScienlificAmerican
for June has an extended notice, with views and
diagrams, of the residence of Mr. H. D. Cable,
President of the Chicago Cottage Organ Com-
pany.
J. D. EDWARDS & SON, Youngstown, O., have
opened a fine music store at 30 Federal street.
He handles the Steinway, Colby, and Smith &
Nixon instruments.
C. E. NEWCOMER is about to open a new
music house at Richmond, Ind. A full line of
Kimball goods will be carried.
MESSRS. BLUNT & KLINGENSMITH, the well-
known piano dealers of Greensburg, Pa., have
been doing effective advertising work for the A.
B. Chase pianos. They recently engaged a well-
known pianist to give a recital showing off the
numerous effects produced by the "octavo
pedal," and the musicians of that city voted it
as one of the greatest inventions they had ever
seen. The A. B. Chase piano, apart from this
popular invention, came in for complimentary
notices from the local press.
HASTINGS & SON have opened a business at
39 West 125th street, this city, where, in ad-
dition to pianos, small musical instruments,
sheet music, etc., they carry for sale scales,
patterns and patents connected with piano manu-
facturing. Mr. Hastings, Sr., is a well-known
scale draughtsman, and has had a life experience
in the business. His son is also a practical
pianomaker. Hastings & Son also purpose tak-
ing charge of the tuning and repairing of rented
pianos for firms who have a large renting busi-
ness.
THE NEW YORK COLLEGE OP MUSIC, of which
Alexander Lambert is director, will use Stein-
way pianos exclusively in the future. Arrange-
ments have been made to furnish seventeen
Steinway's to the College next week ; more will
be added during the season.
THE S. D. LAUTER CO., of Newark, N. J., are
about to make extensive additions to their
building on Broad Street that city. The exten-
sion when completed will be devoted almost
exclusively to grand pianos.
THE office of treasurer of the McPhail Piano
Company of Boston, formerly filled by Mr. Wm.
Barry Owen, who has connected himself with
the firm of Alfred Dolge & Son, is now occu-
pied by Mr. Richard D. Knight of Providence.
Mr. Knight is well known through the New
England States, being connected with the litho-
graphic and engraving firm of Liverrnore &
Knight.
THE annual picnic of the employees of Stein-
way & Sons will take place at Silver Spring,
North Beach, on July 21st.
A NEW music store has been opened at 210
North Warren street, Trenton, N. J., by Mr. H.
Monroe Brown. Lester pianos, Wilcox & White
organs, and other musical instruments will be
carried.
MR. J. G. EBERSOLE, of Crawford, Ebersole
and Smith (Smith & Nixon), Cincinnati, was in
town last week.
MR. OTTO SUTRO, of Baltimore, left for
Europe by the " Fuerst Bismarck," last Thurs-
day, on his yearly vacation.
H. L- GREVWACK, of Troy, N. Y., has invented
a new separable upright which will probably be
placed on the market during the fall season. A
model of the instrument was exhibited in this
city last week.
J. LEONARD & SON have established a music
store at Pardue Block, Saratoga Springs, N. Y.
W. B. WILSON, who has just returned from an
extended trip in the interest of the house of Wm.
Tonk & Bro., reports a general improvement in
business over the past few months.
THE York (Pa.) Age says: "The Weaver
Organ & Piano Company yesterday shipped ten
of their fine organs to Oakland, New Zealand.''
CARLIN & LENNOX, of Indianapolis, are now
located in their handsome new warerooms at 31
East Market street,
£»
THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
Exports for the same period (ten months) in
1889 amounted to $850,490. In 1890, $927,501.
In 1891, $1,169,838. In 1892, $991,365. In
1893, $1,664,938, the average for the five periods
being $1,120,826. For the ten months ending
April 30th, 1894, these exports were valued at
$833,234, showing a decrease of $287,592 below
the given average and a fall of $831,704 below
the values same period of 1893.
THE Emerson piano will be represented at
Richmond, Va., by Thomas G. Burton, a pro-^
gressive dealer.
J. W. HAWD, formerly of Gloversville, N. Y., v
has opened a music store at Ilion, N. Y.
Important Figures
Relating to
Musical Instruments,
THE first two baby grands made by James &
Holmstrom have been sold. One going to
Groton, Mass., and the other to Omaha, Neb.
James & Holmstrom have met with such suc-
cess with their baby grands that they intend to
continue their manufacture and will have several
more on the market in a very short time.
[SPECIALLY COMPILED FOR THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.]
WASHINGTON, D. C , June 12th, 1894.
There has been a decided decrease in the
valuation of musical instruments, imported,
dutiable, into this country during the past
month. The total valuation has amounted to
only $29,443 against $65 473 for the same month
of 1893. For a period of ten months, ending
April 30th, 1894, there was a valuation of $564,-
711 against $846,325 for the same period of 1893.
The decrease in the total value of exports has
been quite as notable, except in some special
cases, these reaching $80,878 for April against
$90,949 for the corresponding month of 1893,
and for the ten months period there were $833,-
234 against $1,664,938 for the same period of
1893.
Of this amount there were of organs 713,
worth $46,167 for April, as compared with 664,
worth $46,979 for the same month in 1893, and
for the ten months period there were 7,417,
worth $464,782 against 11,328, worth $816,199
for the same period of the year previous.
Of the piano fortes there were 44, worth $12,-
721 against 81, worth $26,362 for April 1893.
For the ten mouths there were 510 only, worth
$148,153 against 1,909, worth $713,934 for the
corresponding period of the year previous.
All other instruments and parts of the same,
exported during April amounted to $21,990 as
compared with $17,608 for the same month of
1893, and for the ten months there were ship-
ments amounting to $220,299 as compared with
$134,805 for the same month of 1893, this latter
being one of the few instances of increase, and
even this does not prevent the total falling con-
siderably below that for former periods.
Dutiable re-exports of musical instruments
amounted to only $37 in April against $318 for
the same month for 1893, and for the ten months
period there were values amounting to $4,549 as
compared with $1,913 for the corresponding
period of 1893.
At the end of April 1894, there were remain-
ing in the warehouse $119,387 worth of imported
instruments as compared with $86,988 worth for
the same month of 1893. These figures have
increased at an astonishing rate, and the depres-
sion of trade, due to the uncertainty of financial
conditions and business relations, only can ex-
plain the present status.
The following summary statement of the
valuation of imports shows a corresponding
decrease when compared with the foregoing
figures. For the ten months ending April 30th,
1889, there were dutiable imports of musi-
cal instruments amounting $1,462,942. In 1890,
$1,446,541. In 1891, $1,272,985. In 1892,
$851,294. In 1893, $846,325, the average of
these five periods showing $1,176,017. For the
corresponding ten months ending April 30th,
1894, these valuations reached only $564,711,
falling $611,306 below the average foregoing,
and $281,614 below the amount for th.e same
period of 1893.
THE Hardman pianos will be carried by the
J. Dewing Company, San Francisco, Cal., as a
leader. They will also act as agents for the
Pacific Coast. Mr. Dewing was in New York
recently purchasing stock. He honored this
office with a visit.
AMES & BURK, music dealers, Norfolk, Va.,
will handle the A. B. Chase piano as leader focT
their house. They will also assume the agency* •
for the territory.
MESSRS. HOLLEY & BLAINK have opened a
music store at Elyria, O.
MR. J. POLUKANIS, of Bloomfield, N. J , has
recently recorded an invention in connection
with organs, which is described as " a n im-
provement upon a formerly patented invention
by the same inventor, in which is employed a
pneumatic valve having a casing and a sliding
leak piston, while, according to the improve-
ment, a self-acting pneumatic valve is pro-
vided with a swinging leak piston pivoted in a
casing attached to the wind-box, containing the
pallets connecting the wind-box with the wind-
chest, connected in the usual manner with the
pipes to be sounded. The improvement is de-
signed to facilitate the quick sounding of the
pipes to permit the performer to execute any
desired passage of music in the proper time, the
pallets responding instantaneously to the action
of the air pressure on the manipulation of the
keys."
THE builders' edition of the ScienlificAmerican
for June has an extended notice, with views and
diagrams, of the residence of Mr. H. D. Cable,
President of the Chicago Cottage Organ Com-
pany.
J. D. EDWARDS & SON, Youngstown, O., have
opened a fine music store at 30 Federal street.
He handles the Steinway, Colby, and Smith &
Nixon instruments.
C. E. NEWCOMER is about to open a new
music house at Richmond, Ind. A full line of
Kimball goods will be carried.
MESSRS. BLUNT & KLINGENSMITH, the well-
known piano dealers of Greensburg, Pa., have
been doing effective advertising work for the A.
B. Chase pianos. They recently engaged a well-
known pianist to give a recital showing off the
numerous effects produced by the "octavo
pedal," and the musicians of that city voted it
as one of the greatest inventions they had ever
seen. The A. B. Chase piano, apart from this
popular invention, came in for complimentary
notices from the local press.
HASTINGS & SON have opened a business at
39 West 125th street, this city, where, in ad-
dition to pianos, small musical instruments,
sheet music, etc., they carry for sale scales,
patterns and patents connected with piano manu-
facturing. Mr. Hastings, Sr., is a well-known
scale draughtsman, and has had a life experience
in the business. His son is also a practical
pianomaker. Hastings & Son also purpose tak-
ing charge of the tuning and repairing of rented
pianos for firms who have a large renting busi-
ness.
THE NEW YORK COLLEGE OP MUSIC, of which
Alexander Lambert is director, will use Stein-
way pianos exclusively in the future. Arrange-
ments have been made to furnish seventeen
Steinway's to the College next week ; more will
be added during the season.
THE S. D. LAUTER CO., of Newark, N. J., are
about to make extensive additions to their
building on Broad Street that city. The exten-
sion when completed will be devoted almost
exclusively to grand pianos.
THE office of treasurer of the McPhail Piano
Company of Boston, formerly filled by Mr. Wm.
Barry Owen, who has connected himself with
the firm of Alfred Dolge & Son, is now occu-
pied by Mr. Richard D. Knight of Providence.
Mr. Knight is well known through the New
England States, being connected with the litho-
graphic and engraving firm of Liverrnore &
Knight.
THE annual picnic of the employees of Stein-
way & Sons will take place at Silver Spring,
North Beach, on July 21st.
A NEW music store has been opened at 210
North Warren street, Trenton, N. J., by Mr. H.
Monroe Brown. Lester pianos, Wilcox & White
organs, and other musical instruments will be
carried.
MR. J. G. EBERSOLE, of Crawford, Ebersole
and Smith (Smith & Nixon), Cincinnati, was in
town last week.
MR. OTTO SUTRO, of Baltimore, left for
Europe by the " Fuerst Bismarck," last Thurs-
day, on his yearly vacation.
H. L- GREVWACK, of Troy, N. Y., has invented
a new separable upright which will probably be
placed on the market during the fall season. A
model of the instrument was exhibited in this
city last week.
J. LEONARD & SON have established a music
store at Pardue Block, Saratoga Springs, N. Y.
W. B. WILSON, who has just returned from an
extended trip in the interest of the house of Wm.
Tonk & Bro., reports a general improvement in
business over the past few months.
THE York (Pa.) Age says: "The Weaver
Organ & Piano Company yesterday shipped ten
of their fine organs to Oakland, New Zealand.''
CARLIN & LENNOX, of Indianapolis, are now
located in their handsome new warerooms at 31
East Market street,
£»
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