Music Trade Review
Issue: 1894 Vol. 19 N. 14 - Page 3
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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
they have learnt to construct admirable instru •
ments at a moderate price. Indeed, many pro-
minent members of the American trade who have
visited Europe this summer do not hesitate to
declare that price for price the European piano
could not hold Its own against the native article,
and that so far from fearing any invasion by
European makers, they are persuaded that there
is a big field for American pianos in Europe.
Be this as it may, it is doubtful whether our
leading makers will think it worth their while
to push for business in the United States while
there is an ad valorem duty of 25 per cent. If
there is any demand in the United States for
pianos costing about as much as a goodish chest
of drawers—our American friends tell us there is
not—there may be an opening for some of the
garret makers on the other side of the North
Sea, but they are the only people who are at all
likely to profit by the 10 per cent, reduction.
However, as Mr. Wilson said at the dinner given
in his honor, the Tariff Bill is the first and most
difficult step in the evolution which will go for-
ward from this time by its own impetus. And
the United States Secretary of Agriculture said
that the people of the United States had said
adieu finally to the protective system. We shall
see.
44
Jus' a=Listen.'
White-Smith Music Publishing Com-
pany, Boston, send us one of their latest
publications, entitled "Jus' a-Listen," a planta-
tion song, the music of which is by Banks M.
Davison, the popular manager of White-Smith's
establishment in Boston. The melody is pretty
and extremely '' catchy,'' and the song cannot
fail to become one of the great popular successes
of the day. It has been sung by several of the
specialty artists, and is dedicated to Miss May
Irwin.
M. T. S. S. of A.
business-like letter has reached this
§ VERY
office from Mr. Albert G. Wigand, Sec-
retary of the Music Trades Salesmen's Society
of America, notifying us that the above society
has been permanently organized under a charter
of the State of New York, adopted a constitution
and elected a board of officers and trustees for
the ensuing year. Membership blanks accom-
panied the letter, which has been forwarded to
all interested.
Kim ball Pipe Organs.
'The Last of
The Danvers."
{j^
WORDS regarding '' The Last of the
-
Press notices from almost every section of the
Union also cheer the heart of the author. Then
again, there is solid comfort in the fact that
orders for the book are coming steadily in from
the various news companies and book stores in
many widely separated cities.
Albert G. Cone : " l a m sure I will find it very
entertaining, as I am very fond of the West and
everything that pertains to it.''
Geo. D. B. Prescott: " As yet I have not had
time to stop to read it, but hope to do so very
soon. My wife, however, has begun it, and has
expressed herself pleased with its 'easy ' style."
Braton S. Chase: " I was very much pleased
to receive a copy of your new novel, and followed
the fortunes of Captain Danvers with great
interest."
George W. Peek : " I read it with interest and
certainly enjoyed its peculiar and novel style. I
trust its sale and profit resulting therefrom will
be as pleasing and interesting to you as the con-
tents were to me."
Charlie C. Russell: " The book is interesting
and will peruse it later with much pleasure."
W. E. Dodge : " l a m sure I will take great
pleasure in reading it, and more than usual in-
terest, because it comes from your pen."
Here is a letter from Frank J. Smith, one of
the best known newspapermen in the Northwest,
editor and publisher of Fort Abercrombie (Dak.)
Scout and Breckinbridge Telegram This letter
will show the interest which the novel has
aroused in the Northwest regarding historical
events. Mr. Smith, writing from Breckinbridge,
Minn., says : " In the Fargo, N. D., Daily Forum
of the 20th instant, I see an extensive mention
of Mr. Bill's book, " The Last of the Danvers,
The Story of a Fatalist," and it relating several
instances of which I am personally cognizant
would suggest in the interest of the sale of said
book in the locality to which it so greatly re-
lates that you forward me two copies of same at
once for reasons I give below. As secretary of
the Old Settlers Association of the Red River
Valley I would show the same and recommend
it to the members, taking orders if consistent.
Our next meeting is at Fargo, December 6th,
1894. One volume I will present to Mr. James
Nolan, of Kent, Minn., president of our Associ-
ation. Please do me the favor of withholding
the agency until you have time to consider this
proposition."
The Hupfeld Automatic Piano.
P
LASIUS & SONS are meeting with a very
large sale for the Hupfeld mechanical
have received a very handsome cata- pianos, for which they hold the agency for the
logue of the Kimball pipe organs from United States. It is said that the Automaton
the W. W. Kimball Co., Chicago, which con- Piano Co., of which Mr. Emile Klaber is mana-
tains some very handsome designs of their port- ger, are about to take legal action for the pur-
able organs which are designed to fill the de- pose of restraining Blasius & Sons from selling
mand that exists for a genuine pipe organ on a these instruments, claiming that they hold the
plane between the largest size reed and a American rights for the patents used in the
stationary pipe organ. A very handsome cut of Hupfeld instruments. In the meantime Blasius
Kimball Hall and the Kimball factories, official and Sons are leaving no stone unturned to push
ribbons awarded the Kimball portable and reed the sale of the Hupfeld automatic instruments.
organs and pianos, with a proof of the award on General business with the Blasius concern is
pipe organs showing their specific points of unusually good, and their factory is running
merit, and a number of interesting testimonials full time.
from eminent artists and extracts from the press,
also appear. The work is artistically conceived,
MR. FRANK X. BOUCHER, with E. F. Droop
well gotten up all through, and a credit to this & Sons, Washington, D. C , was in town during
progressive house.
the week making purchases for his house.
MR. EMIL E. GABLER, son of the late Ernst
Gabler, has entered the Gabler factory for the
purpose of getting a knowledge of his father's
business.
A DISPATCH from Washington says that, in
consequence of the action of the United States
in terminating without notice the reciprocity
treaty in Brazil, a number of suits are likely to
be brought by importers against the United
States.
THE Krell piano took the first prize at the re-
cent Mount Holly, N. J., Fair.
THE thirtieth anniversary of the well-known
house of Lyon & Healy was celebrated by a din-
ner at the Union League Club, Chicago, on the
evening of October 17th. Mr. Healy presided,
and his guests were the directors and share-
holders of the concern.
H. W. HALL, the well-known music trade
dealer of Burlington, Vt., is held very high in
the estimation of his fellow citizens, being at
present an Alderman of the city. Gov. Wood-
bury has recently honored him by appointing
him colonel of his staff. Vermont has evidently
a strong regard for members of the music trade.
LUXTON & BLACK is the name of a new firm
which will open piano warerooms in Buffalo, N.
Y. Mr. Luxton was formerly with the Colby
Chicago house. The new firm will make the
Colby piano their leader.
THE stock of G. R. Hanford, a music dealer of
Watertown, N. Y., was purchased by Mrs. Han-
ford at the sheriff's sale for $2,160.
THE Newman Bros, organ will be represented
in Kankakee, 111., by Robinson & Weber, who
have opened a new store on the Fortin Block.
A NEW music store has been opened in the
Kibbler-Seaver building, St. Joseph, Mich., by
Geo. Sakrewski.
MR. C. SUESSER, of C. Suesser & Sons, Den-
ver, Col., has in contemplation the opening oi
new music stores in Moorehead, Minn., and
Fargo, N. D.
F. J. WOODBURY, of the Jewett Piano Co., is
highly gratified at the success which he met
with during his Western trip. He says that
dealers find the Jewett a ready and popular seller
MR.
E. DEVEREAUX, representative of the
Smith & Nixon house, Cincinnati, O., paid a
visit to the metropolis during the week.
MR. HARRY COLEMAN, the band instrument
manufacturer of Philadelphia, has been quite ill.
We are pleased to say that a marked improve-
ment is now evident.
AMONG those who made purchases at Stein-
way Hall last week were the Cluetts, of Tioy,
N. Y., and Mr. Moak of Utica, N. Y.
FERDINAND LAUX, a piano maker, employed
in the Stieff piano factory, Baltimore, was killed
by falling down an elevator shaft in the factory
building last week.
THIRTY thousand dollars is the value of a
grand piano which Steinway & Sons have just
finished for Cornelius Vanderbilt.
THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
they have learnt to construct admirable instru •
ments at a moderate price. Indeed, many pro-
minent members of the American trade who have
visited Europe this summer do not hesitate to
declare that price for price the European piano
could not hold Its own against the native article,
and that so far from fearing any invasion by
European makers, they are persuaded that there
is a big field for American pianos in Europe.
Be this as it may, it is doubtful whether our
leading makers will think it worth their while
to push for business in the United States while
there is an ad valorem duty of 25 per cent. If
there is any demand in the United States for
pianos costing about as much as a goodish chest
of drawers—our American friends tell us there is
not—there may be an opening for some of the
garret makers on the other side of the North
Sea, but they are the only people who are at all
likely to profit by the 10 per cent, reduction.
However, as Mr. Wilson said at the dinner given
in his honor, the Tariff Bill is the first and most
difficult step in the evolution which will go for-
ward from this time by its own impetus. And
the United States Secretary of Agriculture said
that the people of the United States had said
adieu finally to the protective system. We shall
see.
44
Jus' a=Listen.'
White-Smith Music Publishing Com-
pany, Boston, send us one of their latest
publications, entitled "Jus' a-Listen," a planta-
tion song, the music of which is by Banks M.
Davison, the popular manager of White-Smith's
establishment in Boston. The melody is pretty
and extremely '' catchy,'' and the song cannot
fail to become one of the great popular successes
of the day. It has been sung by several of the
specialty artists, and is dedicated to Miss May
Irwin.
M. T. S. S. of A.
business-like letter has reached this
§ VERY
office from Mr. Albert G. Wigand, Sec-
retary of the Music Trades Salesmen's Society
of America, notifying us that the above society
has been permanently organized under a charter
of the State of New York, adopted a constitution
and elected a board of officers and trustees for
the ensuing year. Membership blanks accom-
panied the letter, which has been forwarded to
all interested.
Kim ball Pipe Organs.
'The Last of
The Danvers."
{j^
WORDS regarding '' The Last of the
-
Press notices from almost every section of the
Union also cheer the heart of the author. Then
again, there is solid comfort in the fact that
orders for the book are coming steadily in from
the various news companies and book stores in
many widely separated cities.
Albert G. Cone : " l a m sure I will find it very
entertaining, as I am very fond of the West and
everything that pertains to it.''
Geo. D. B. Prescott: " As yet I have not had
time to stop to read it, but hope to do so very
soon. My wife, however, has begun it, and has
expressed herself pleased with its 'easy ' style."
Braton S. Chase: " I was very much pleased
to receive a copy of your new novel, and followed
the fortunes of Captain Danvers with great
interest."
George W. Peek : " I read it with interest and
certainly enjoyed its peculiar and novel style. I
trust its sale and profit resulting therefrom will
be as pleasing and interesting to you as the con-
tents were to me."
Charlie C. Russell: " The book is interesting
and will peruse it later with much pleasure."
W. E. Dodge : " l a m sure I will take great
pleasure in reading it, and more than usual in-
terest, because it comes from your pen."
Here is a letter from Frank J. Smith, one of
the best known newspapermen in the Northwest,
editor and publisher of Fort Abercrombie (Dak.)
Scout and Breckinbridge Telegram This letter
will show the interest which the novel has
aroused in the Northwest regarding historical
events. Mr. Smith, writing from Breckinbridge,
Minn., says : " In the Fargo, N. D., Daily Forum
of the 20th instant, I see an extensive mention
of Mr. Bill's book, " The Last of the Danvers,
The Story of a Fatalist," and it relating several
instances of which I am personally cognizant
would suggest in the interest of the sale of said
book in the locality to which it so greatly re-
lates that you forward me two copies of same at
once for reasons I give below. As secretary of
the Old Settlers Association of the Red River
Valley I would show the same and recommend
it to the members, taking orders if consistent.
Our next meeting is at Fargo, December 6th,
1894. One volume I will present to Mr. James
Nolan, of Kent, Minn., president of our Associ-
ation. Please do me the favor of withholding
the agency until you have time to consider this
proposition."
The Hupfeld Automatic Piano.
P
LASIUS & SONS are meeting with a very
large sale for the Hupfeld mechanical
have received a very handsome cata- pianos, for which they hold the agency for the
logue of the Kimball pipe organs from United States. It is said that the Automaton
the W. W. Kimball Co., Chicago, which con- Piano Co., of which Mr. Emile Klaber is mana-
tains some very handsome designs of their port- ger, are about to take legal action for the pur-
able organs which are designed to fill the de- pose of restraining Blasius & Sons from selling
mand that exists for a genuine pipe organ on a these instruments, claiming that they hold the
plane between the largest size reed and a American rights for the patents used in the
stationary pipe organ. A very handsome cut of Hupfeld instruments. In the meantime Blasius
Kimball Hall and the Kimball factories, official and Sons are leaving no stone unturned to push
ribbons awarded the Kimball portable and reed the sale of the Hupfeld automatic instruments.
organs and pianos, with a proof of the award on General business with the Blasius concern is
pipe organs showing their specific points of unusually good, and their factory is running
merit, and a number of interesting testimonials full time.
from eminent artists and extracts from the press,
also appear. The work is artistically conceived,
MR. FRANK X. BOUCHER, with E. F. Droop
well gotten up all through, and a credit to this & Sons, Washington, D. C , was in town during
progressive house.
the week making purchases for his house.
MR. EMIL E. GABLER, son of the late Ernst
Gabler, has entered the Gabler factory for the
purpose of getting a knowledge of his father's
business.
A DISPATCH from Washington says that, in
consequence of the action of the United States
in terminating without notice the reciprocity
treaty in Brazil, a number of suits are likely to
be brought by importers against the United
States.
THE Krell piano took the first prize at the re-
cent Mount Holly, N. J., Fair.
THE thirtieth anniversary of the well-known
house of Lyon & Healy was celebrated by a din-
ner at the Union League Club, Chicago, on the
evening of October 17th. Mr. Healy presided,
and his guests were the directors and share-
holders of the concern.
H. W. HALL, the well-known music trade
dealer of Burlington, Vt., is held very high in
the estimation of his fellow citizens, being at
present an Alderman of the city. Gov. Wood-
bury has recently honored him by appointing
him colonel of his staff. Vermont has evidently
a strong regard for members of the music trade.
LUXTON & BLACK is the name of a new firm
which will open piano warerooms in Buffalo, N.
Y. Mr. Luxton was formerly with the Colby
Chicago house. The new firm will make the
Colby piano their leader.
THE stock of G. R. Hanford, a music dealer of
Watertown, N. Y., was purchased by Mrs. Han-
ford at the sheriff's sale for $2,160.
THE Newman Bros, organ will be represented
in Kankakee, 111., by Robinson & Weber, who
have opened a new store on the Fortin Block.
A NEW music store has been opened in the
Kibbler-Seaver building, St. Joseph, Mich., by
Geo. Sakrewski.
MR. C. SUESSER, of C. Suesser & Sons, Den-
ver, Col., has in contemplation the opening oi
new music stores in Moorehead, Minn., and
Fargo, N. D.
F. J. WOODBURY, of the Jewett Piano Co., is
highly gratified at the success which he met
with during his Western trip. He says that
dealers find the Jewett a ready and popular seller
MR.
E. DEVEREAUX, representative of the
Smith & Nixon house, Cincinnati, O., paid a
visit to the metropolis during the week.
MR. HARRY COLEMAN, the band instrument
manufacturer of Philadelphia, has been quite ill.
We are pleased to say that a marked improve-
ment is now evident.
AMONG those who made purchases at Stein-
way Hall last week were the Cluetts, of Tioy,
N. Y., and Mr. Moak of Utica, N. Y.
FERDINAND LAUX, a piano maker, employed
in the Stieff piano factory, Baltimore, was killed
by falling down an elevator shaft in the factory
building last week.
THIRTY thousand dollars is the value of a
grand piano which Steinway & Sons have just
finished for Cornelius Vanderbilt.
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