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HE agency for the Steinway piano In Wor-
cester, Mass., which has been held by C. L,.
Gorham & Co. for the past ten years, has been
transferred toM. Steinert & Sons' Company, and
it is expected the new establishment will open its
doors in that city January ist. This agency will
give the Steinert house absolute control of the
Steinway product in the New England States
with one exception—the house of Wm. Wander
& Sons, Hartford, Conn. C. L. Gorham & Co.
have taken the agency for the Knabe piano and
will make it their leader.
MESSRS. HARDMAN, PECK & co. are
Indefatigable advertisers. At the en-
trance to all the " L, " stations and in all the
surface cars in this city may be seen the taste-
:$ EAST 141h STREET, NEW YORK.
fully designed business announcements of this
SUBSCRIPTION (including postage) United States and
Canada, $3.00 per year, in .'vanee; Foreign Countries, firm. They are also large patronizers of the
$4 00.
daily press. We have noted in the principal
ADVERTISEMENTS, $2.00 per inch, single column, per papers of New York recently extended notices
insertion ; unless inserted upon rates made by special
of the Hardman piano. Such enterprise natur-
contract.
Entered at the New York Post Office as Second Class Matter. ally merits good returns, and Hardman, Peck &
Co. are evidently receiving them if we may be
permitted to judge from the activity which pre-
vails in their handsome warerooms on Fifth
avenue.
AfcZHOUSANDS of poor people in Chicago en-
ST» joyed a good Thanksgiving dinner through
the generosity of J. V. Steger. An extended
account of Mr. Steger's generous gift is referred
to at length in another portion of this paper.
are certainly appreciative of the kind
words said anent the New England
Number published last week. It certainly
warms the cockles of one's heart to receive
such commendation from readers, and it is
most gratifying after having labored to pro-
duce an artistic volume, to have the result of
our efforts so heartily endorsed. Thanks again,
gentlemen, thanks.
Weber Piano Company are now '' at
home '' in their beautiful new warerooms,
108 Fifth avenue. While not exactly ready for
public inspection, yet quite a number of our lead-
ing society and musical people visited the ware-
rooms during the past week. They expressed
themselves delighted at the transformation
effected. The Weber piano has truly a fitting
and deserving home at last.
fail to distinguish honorable journalistic
intent in a paper endeavoring to
foment jealousy between members of any firm.
Men are associated together for the extension of
business and commercial enterprises. If one
member of a firm achieves personal notoriety it
redounds to the benefit of all the members of
the firm whether they are piano makers or piano
action makers. They are interested in the
general prosperity of the institution of which
they are a part, and it is hardly within the pro-
vince of a paper to assume that it is unjust or
unfair to have one member of the firm mentioned
more frequently than are the others. Affairs of
this nature seem to us personal affairs and not
the affairs of a trade paper, and not within the
legitimate functions of that paper to criticise.
W. W. Kimball Company, of Chicago,
have become agents for the Wilcox &
White '' Symphony '' in Chicago. They will
also handle these popular instruments not only
in that city, but in all their many branches
throughout the West. This arrangement was
consummated during the visit to Chicago, last
week, of Mr. James H. White, of the Wilcox &
White Organ Co., Meriden, Conn. It is the
intention of the big Western concern to make
the "Symphony" a special feature of their
business, and they intend fitting up attractive
quarters, showing off the instrument on the
second floor of the Kimball building. They will
also give '' Symphony '' concerts quite often
during the musical season. This deal will be of
mutual advantage to both parties concerned, as
undoubtedly the W. W. Kimball Company will
give the '' Symphony '' a wider market than it
has had before, and extend its popularity.
THE HUNTINGTON PIANO COMPANY.
T is evident that the number of piano manu-
facturing concerns is steadily on the in-
crease. We have recently noted in these
columns the incorporation of several new com-
panies which have started out with the intention
of making pianos on a large scale. The latest
accession to the ranks is the Huntington Piano
Company, which concern was incorporated last
week, in Connecticut, for the purpose of making
pianos. The president of this company is Mr.
A. J. Brooks, widely known as a traveler for the
Sterling Company, Derby, Conn. The general
manager is Mr. Robt. Brooks, who also has been
connected with the Sterling Company for many
years in a responsible position. The Hunting-
ton Piano Company have leased a large factory
in the town of Sheldon, just across from Derby.
It is understood that wealthy parties are in-
terested in this concern, and that they have
formed this company with the intention of mak-
ing pianos on a large scale. The Huntington
piano will be an instrument of medium grade,
and in the very near future instruments will be
ready for shipment.
of the pleasant surprises at the dinner
DAILY newspaper chronicled the fact a
of the Chicago Music Trades Association
few years ago that one of New York's
last Saturday was the address delivered by Mr. millionaires had bought a magnificent piano,
Geo. B. Armstrong, associate editor of The for which he had paid a princely sum. During
Indicator. From such a distinguished and ex- the following ten days it would have taken a
perienced orator as Hon. Levi K. Fuller, the piano warehouse to have supplied the demands
very eloquent address delivered might be ex- made upon him, says the Herald. Every pre-
pected ; but Mr. Armstrong has devoted his text under the sun seemed exhausted in the re-
talents heretofore to other fields than those of quests for instruments. Some were cringingly
oratory, and that is where' the surprise comes in. pleading, others insolently demanding, still
His address was a masterly analysis of men and ' others ludicrous in their absurdity, and in al-
things which came under his "eagle e y e " most every instance the Almighty was referred
during his recent Eastern trip, and an earnest to as if His special interest had been evoked for
and hearty tribute to the metropolis of the West the request.
—one we might expect from a man full of admira-
" I f you expect God's blessing," " A s you
tion for his native city and its achievements. hope to be remembered by the Lord," " May God
We feel proud of having as co-laborer in the bless you," " We will pray to God for you "and
vineyard of music trade journalism such an able similar expressions were lavishly interspersed.
and eloquent gentleman as Mr. Armstrong, and One that closed with a reminder that the Scrip-
now that he has revealed his post-prandial ability ture said the camel could go through a needle's
we can venture to say he will be much in demand eye easier than the rich man could enter heaven,
at future affairs of this nature, ' ( East and West.'' at the same time showed an evident desire to