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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
growth in advertising patronage, notwithstand-
ing dull times, Is the best possible recognition
of its worth as a paying medium for advertisers.
Chevrel marquetry for which Wm.
Tonk & Bro., of this city, are the agents,
has been awarded the grand prize at the Antwerp
Exposition. The use of marquetry for pianos is
growing in favor in this country, and many of
the high-class manufacturers use it very general-
ly. It is a highly artistic product, and its
success at the Antwerp Exposition could hardly
be unexpected when we know that it commanded
the gold medal at the Paris Exposition.
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Winterroth & Co., report a very satisfying sale
of Steger pianos at their warerooms. They re-
port that the " Steger " gives the utmost satis-
faction to purchasers, and are ready " sellers."
Steger & Co. report general business as ex-
cellent. Within the past two weeks their sales
in Chicago have been way above the average.
This is hardly surprising to those who have a
knowledge of the Steger instruments, for they
possess all those attributes, musically and archi-
tecturally, which make a piano popular.
jS can be judged from the very able and
thorough report of music trade conditions
in the '' Hub,'' which appears in another part of
this paper, manufacturers in that section of the
have to return thanks to the editors of
country are not complaining. It is gratifying
the leading newspapers of Montreal,
to state that the roseate outlook '' down East''
Quebec, Toronto and other cities and towns in
is duplicated in the piano manufacturing
Canada for their very kindly notices of the
field in this city. There is a marked and steady
" Canadian Special " of THE MUSIC TRADE R E -
improvement, and this is perceptible not alone
VIEW. We also extend our thanks to the mem-
in
the wholesale trade, but in the retail line as
bers of the music trade '' over the border '' who
endeavored to excel their literary brethren by well. It is true, there is no " boom," but trade
their flattering recognition of our modest efforts. is slowly, but surely, picking up. The indus-
trial body is gaining good, sound muscle-making
flesh, as it were, and in a short time will have
HE firm of Dyer & Hughes, which have forgotten how attenuated and '' run down '' it
been established at Foxcroft, Me., as was through want of proper nourishment.
manufacturers of organs and later of pianos, for Manufacturers and dealers with whom we have
the past twenty-eight years, will hereafter be spoken during the past week were never more
known as J. F. Hughes & Son, Mr. Dyer having sanguine of the future, and they feel that busi-
retired from the business. The new firm will ness is bound to "increase and multiply" on
continue to manufacture the Dyer & Hughes healthy lines.
piano, and hope by increased capital and close
application to business to increase their output,
must be merit in a piano when the
and add to the reputation of their instruments.
demand for it keeps a factory working not
only with full force and full time, but also nights
°R. RUDOIyF GIESE, the celebrated wire to fill the orders on hand. That is the situation,
manufacturer, of Germany, has arrived however, with the Marshall & Wendall Piano
in Dolgeville, says the Herald, to make arrange- Manufacturing Co., of Albany, N. Y. The past
ments for starting up the wire factory that was month has been an unusually busy one with
built in the northern end of the village and fully them, and the. outlook for the present month is
equipped with machinery two years ago.
just as bright.
The Giese piano wire has been celebrated
The Marshall & Wendall piano is selling it-
throughout Europe and America for generations. self. It possesses these '' talking '' points which
Mr. Glese intends to make the same grade of are more potent with the purchaser than any
wire that made the great reputation for his firm praise which might be bestowed on it by a
in Germany, with the addition of many other seller. Attractively cased, with superior tone
varieties of music wire.
quality and careful workmanship throughout, it
is an instrument that dealers should keep in
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will never issue any of these ' special' mind when looking for a "seller."
The
Marshall
&
Wendall
Company
are
rapidly
numbers that bore the manufacturers
and fill up the waste-basket," says the Chicago extending their business, and they have under
Musical Times. Commenting on this, the contemplation at the present time some changes
Indicator says : " I n this instance we believe which will give them a much larger representa-
the editors tell the truth out of sheer necessity. tion East and West.
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JtjajHK sympathy of THE; MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
<»T» is extended to the brothers Newman of
Chicago on the death of their esteemed and
talented brother John A. Newman.
regret to learn that Mr. Henry Wegman,
President of the Wegman Piano Co.,
Auburn, N. Y., is again very seriously ill,
chiefly the result of a tracheotomical operation
which was performed recently.
is becoming more and more evident, says
the Press, that John Boyd Thacher was the
only man who wanted the Democratic nomina-
tion for Governor, and he only wanted it to get
even with Chicago.
Well, yes, it looks that way !
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It takes both brains and patronage to get out a
'special' issue."
Yes, esteemed Indicator, it does. And the
Music TRADE REVIEW has given modest but
ample proofs of possessing both these essentials,
judging from the success and widespread popu-
larity of the three special numbers issued within
KEYNOTE for October is now on the
the past six months.
news-stands, and it must be conceded that it
is an excellent number from cover to cover. From
a literary standpoint, it gives evidence of the
HE Steger piano seems to be surely growing
continued efforts made by its staff to make each
in popular favor not alone in Chicago but
number better than the last, and its marvelous in this city. The local representatives, E. J.
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JR. STEINWAY has given many proofs of
his generosity by thoughtful gifts in a
public and private way, but we venture to say
not one of them reflects so much credit, or more
truly shows the man, as an item of news which
has just come to light.
A few of the older school of piano makers will
remember Thomas H. Chambers, of the firm of
Dubois, Bacon & Chambers, who carried on
business at 385 Broadway back in the forties.
Later Mr. Chambers moved to the Bible House,