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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
WELLS S. TRUMBULL, of Lowell, Mass., has
taken the agency for the '' Crown '' piano with
the new orchestral attachment.
IT is said that Mr. C. H. Compton, lately with
the Salt Lake City Music Company, and formerly
with the Chicago branch of the Pease Piano
Company, will shortly resume his connection
with the latter house.
THIS week will witness the breaking ot ground
for the new '' Crown '' factory to be erected by
Geo. P. Bent, Chicago. Mr. Bent is extremely
anxious to have the foundation laid before Win-
ter comes along.
FRANK BAIRD, JR., Canton, O., has made an
assignment to W. O. Werntz. The assets are
about $1,000, and the liabilities are so far un-
known.
M. K. BECKER has opened a music store at
330 East North avenue, Chicago. Mr. Win.
Becker, of Becker & Mack, who recently failed,
will act as manager.
WM. TONK & BRO. report an unusually good
business for the month of October, their sales
being fifty per cent, larger than any previous
month this year.
THE Chicago Cottage Organ Company's line
of goods will be handled by W. N. Van Metre &
Co., a new firm juet opened at Rockford, 111.
The members of the company are L. Phillips and
W. N. Van Metre, formerly an employee of the
Chicago Cottage Organ Co.
C. H. MACDONALD, vice president of the
Pease Piano Company, has returned to Chicago
from his Eastern trip. He is quite enthusiastic
over the new Pease grand piano which, he says,
far surpasses his expectations. The popular
Pease piano is worthy of the success which it
has won, and it will undoubtedly win as many
supporters and admirers in the West as it has in
the East.
MR. H. LEONARD, road representative for
Alfred Dolge & Son, is in the West, and is
highly pleased with the condition of business.
MR.
HARVEY WENDELL, of the Marshall &
Wendell Piano Co., Albany, N. Y., is traveling
in the West.
MRS. H. TL,. SUMNER, who has represented the
Hallet & Davis pianos in Washington for almost
a quarter of a century, is about to retire from
business. She intends disposing of her stock,
and intends devoting the rest of her life to a
repose which is well earned. This will be her
first vacation since she entered the business.
IT is said that Mr. Victor Flechter has for sale
the celebrated collection of old musical instru-
ments belonging to Paul DeWitt, of Leipsic.
of Steinway & Sons,
has accepted the invitation to attend the next
banquet of the Chicago Music Trades Associa-
tion, which will be held at the Auditorium
Hotel on the evening of November 17th.
MR.
MR. FRED. LOHR, with Hardman, Peck & Co.,
is visiting agents of the house in the West.
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ANOTHER attempt will be made to dispose of
the old Burdett organ plant, Erie, Pa., on the
20th of this month. The trustees of this estate
have apparently an " elephant on their hands."
AN instrument of the mandolin type, with an
attachment whereby the instrument may be play-
ed after the manner of the violin, has been in-
vented by John Connery, of Long Island City.
The strings are arranged over a convex bridge,
by which they are held concentred with a slotted
convex guide secured to the top of the instru-
ment, the bow being adapted to move on the
guide and having pins or teeth which project
through its slot to engage the strings.
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3JjrHE largest harp ever built, so far as is known,
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Veritau, provost of Burkli, near Basle. It was
known as the gigantic meteorological Aeolian
harp. It was 320 feet in length, and was erected
in the garden of its Inventor in 1787. This harp
consisted of fifteen iron wires, 320 feet in length,
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Unquestionable durability.
Very tempting prices are of-
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Gave Him 155,000.
MR.
NAHUM STETSON,
D. F. DUNBAR, road representative for Muehl-
feld & Co., left last Thursday for a six-weeks'
trip through Ohio, Indiana and Michigan.
stretched between two poles. The wires were
from two to three inches apart, the largest being
one-sixth of an inch in thickness and the small-
est one-twelfth of an inch. They were placed in
the direction of north and south, and inclined in
such a manner as to form an angle of from
twenty to thirty degrees with the horizon, being
stretched by means of rollers properly disposed
for the purpose. Whenever the weather changed
the wires sounded with such loudness that it
was impossible to go on with a concert in the
house. The sound sometimes represented the
hissing noise of water in rapid ebullition, some-
times that of a harmonicon, and sometimes that
of distant chimes or an organ.—Brooklyn Eagle.
MILLION'S
FRENCH FELT5 N
COOPER. HEWITT &0
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MUSKEGON, MICH., I I , 5, '84.
MUSIC TRADE REVIEW,
New York.
: My attention has just been call-
ed to an article in your paper of November 3d,
saying 3,000 Bradbury pianos was a splendid
record for me in seven years. I am of the opin-
ion that your proofreader Js off his feet, '' no
doubt on account of excitement on election."
Three hundred Bradbury pianos is my record.
Would write you more fully, but we are to-day
doing the greatest work of our lives, and that is
knocking the socks out of the Democratic party.
I trust you will be successful in giving Morton
at least 100,000.
Very respectfully yours,
GENTLEMEN
H. A. WOLFF.
They'll Do the Rest.
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HE EDNA ORGAN CO., Monroeville, O.,
send us the following on a postal card, to
which a button is attached :
Here is a button as all can see,
A useful thing as all agree.
The Edna Organ is useful too,
'Twill make you money as none else can do.
Your customers want them
And will have no other;
Show them* an Edna,
They will look no further.
Send us an order for one of the best.
You touch the button, we'll do the rest.