Music Trade Review
Issue: 1894 Vol. 19 N. 2 - Page 4
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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
CHAS. F. HANSON, the well-known " Sohmer "
agent at Worcester, Mass., contemplates opening
a branch at Boston in the Fall, with the " Soh-
mer " as leader.
A LARGE order of Mason & Hamlin organs and
pianos are being forwarded to Buenos Ayres, the
result of the recent visit to Boston of Mr. Joseph
Hodsall, their representative in that country.
MR. STEPHEN BRAMRACH, of the Estey Piano
Company, expects to leave within a short time
for a Californian trip.
THK CHICKERING and Sterling pianos will be
handled by the new Hockett Bros.-Puntenney
Co. branch at Cincinnati as leaders. O. W.
Williams, the manager, expects to do a rushing
business with these instruments.
THE BRADBURY and other pianos manufactured
by Mr. F. G. Smith are very popular in Eau
Claire, Wis. This is largely due to the efforts
of Mr. Allen, the energetic representative of
these instruments. Mr. Allen left for Europe
this week on a short vacation.
CHAS. H. PARSONS, President of the Needham
Piano-Organ Co., who recently returned from a
Co., Chicago, returned last week from a five trip to Europe, is fully impressed with the belief
weeks' trip to the Pacific Coast. Mr. Con- that a fruitful field exists abroad for the Ameri-
way reports a fairly good and improving busi- can organ—especially the Needham. The Euro-
pean trade of this house is being constantly aug-
ness with Kimball agents in the far West.
mented.
GEN. JULIUS J. ESTEY, of the Estey Organ
JAMES & HOLMSTROM reports an excellent
Co., Brattleboro, in a recent talk with an Indi-
South
American trade.
cator representative, said: "We have been at
work on new styles for a year past. Indeed we
MR. C. S. PAGE, formerly business manager
are always endeavoring' to make Improvements National Library Co. Books and Music, Louis-
in our instruments. Just when we will have ville, Ky., has severed his connection with that
these organs ready for the trade I cannot say. establishment, and has opened up a new store—
Last May we put upon the market the largest music exclusively—in that city, under the firm
number of organs that we have made in a year name of National Music House. He sold out
past. It was full three-quarters of the regular his interest in the former concern last week.
product. The June output was not quite so
MR. JAMES W. LANE, the popular secretary of
large, and from the present outlook July will be
the
A. B. Campbell Co., Jacksonville, Fla., is
considerably smaller."
spending several weeks in this city. He is
G. L. SPENCE, of Marietta, O., has sold his making his headquarters with Wm, Tonk & Bro.
stock and good-will to Doan & Kaufmann.
THE contemplated improvements in the Hotel
IT is said that N. P. Curtice Co. of Lincoln, Grunewald, New Orleans, are now taking form
Neb., will open a large branch store at Omaha.
and will be an accomplished fact in a short time.
The addition now under way will make this
MR. J. A. NORRIS, road representative for the
hostelry, so popular with music trade travelers,
Mason & Hamlin Organ and Piano Co., was in
one of the most complete in every detail in that
town during the week.
section of the country.
W E are in receipt of S. S. Stewart's "Banjo
IT is said that the Metzerott Music Co., of
and Guitar Journal " for August and September.
Washington, D. C , will materialize some time
It is, as usual, full of news interesting to devotes
next month. Strenuous efforts are being made
of the banjo and guitar.
to arrange financial matters to that end. They
will probably handle the Kimball line of goods.
MR. KNABE is rusticating at Cape May.
MR. E. S. CONWAY, of the W. W. Kimball
W E notice in foreign exchanges that Herr-
burger-Schwander & Son are enlarging their
great action factory. They recently purchased a
lot of land outside of Paris, France, amounting
to five acres, and will erect thereon a large saw-
mill and lumber yard. In this connection Wm.
Tonk & Bro. have been commissioned to pur-
chase the latest improved machinery of Amer-
ican invention and manufacture for the saw-mill.
Truly a marked compliment to our country.
JOHN H. SOLE, formerly of Reading, Mass., is
about to commence the manufacture of pipe
organs in Freemont, Ohio. He has secured a
building which is at present being altered for
that purpose.
THE MASON & RISCH COMPANY are under
contract to supply a vocalion to the Empire
Theatre, this city. The instrument will not be
in sight of the audience; the keyboard, how-
ever, will be exposed to view and will be placed
directly near the director of the orchestra, and
will be played by him in conjunction with the
orchestra. This will prove an innovation from
a musical and architectural standpoint.
THE SHERMAN BANK, 18th street and Broad-
way, this city, of which Mr. Peter Duffy, presi-
dent of the Schubert Piano Co., is director, has
gone into voluntary liquidation.
WM. BERRYHILL will open a store at Shenan-
doah, la. He will carry pianos and a stock of
musical merchandise.
THE Richmond (Ind.) Register says that the
Starr factory has been rebuilt on modern plans.
The latest improved machinery has been put in
and all the equipments seem absolutely com-
plete. Much labor-saving machinery has been
put in and the capacity of the factory consider-
ably increased. Thirty-two pianos were turned
out last week. The quality of work being
turned out is very excellent, some of the most
beautiful pianos we have ever seen being in the
course of construction at the time of our visit.
They are crowded to their fullest capacity and
say they were never busier. Nearly one hun-
dred orders are now on the books, one order for
sixty-eight pianos. Business is very brisk, in
fact, far beyond their expectations. They have
only one man on the road now, and if business
increases after they send out their usual number,
they will probably have to build more this fall.
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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
CHAS. F. HANSON, the well-known " Sohmer "
agent at Worcester, Mass., contemplates opening
a branch at Boston in the Fall, with the " Soh-
mer " as leader.
A LARGE order of Mason & Hamlin organs and
pianos are being forwarded to Buenos Ayres, the
result of the recent visit to Boston of Mr. Joseph
Hodsall, their representative in that country.
MR. STEPHEN BRAMRACH, of the Estey Piano
Company, expects to leave within a short time
for a Californian trip.
THK CHICKERING and Sterling pianos will be
handled by the new Hockett Bros.-Puntenney
Co. branch at Cincinnati as leaders. O. W.
Williams, the manager, expects to do a rushing
business with these instruments.
THE BRADBURY and other pianos manufactured
by Mr. F. G. Smith are very popular in Eau
Claire, Wis. This is largely due to the efforts
of Mr. Allen, the energetic representative of
these instruments. Mr. Allen left for Europe
this week on a short vacation.
CHAS. H. PARSONS, President of the Needham
Piano-Organ Co., who recently returned from a
Co., Chicago, returned last week from a five trip to Europe, is fully impressed with the belief
weeks' trip to the Pacific Coast. Mr. Con- that a fruitful field exists abroad for the Ameri-
way reports a fairly good and improving busi- can organ—especially the Needham. The Euro-
pean trade of this house is being constantly aug-
ness with Kimball agents in the far West.
mented.
GEN. JULIUS J. ESTEY, of the Estey Organ
JAMES & HOLMSTROM reports an excellent
Co., Brattleboro, in a recent talk with an Indi-
South
American trade.
cator representative, said: "We have been at
work on new styles for a year past. Indeed we
MR. C. S. PAGE, formerly business manager
are always endeavoring' to make Improvements National Library Co. Books and Music, Louis-
in our instruments. Just when we will have ville, Ky., has severed his connection with that
these organs ready for the trade I cannot say. establishment, and has opened up a new store—
Last May we put upon the market the largest music exclusively—in that city, under the firm
number of organs that we have made in a year name of National Music House. He sold out
past. It was full three-quarters of the regular his interest in the former concern last week.
product. The June output was not quite so
MR. JAMES W. LANE, the popular secretary of
large, and from the present outlook July will be
the
A. B. Campbell Co., Jacksonville, Fla., is
considerably smaller."
spending several weeks in this city. He is
G. L. SPENCE, of Marietta, O., has sold his making his headquarters with Wm, Tonk & Bro.
stock and good-will to Doan & Kaufmann.
THE contemplated improvements in the Hotel
IT is said that N. P. Curtice Co. of Lincoln, Grunewald, New Orleans, are now taking form
Neb., will open a large branch store at Omaha.
and will be an accomplished fact in a short time.
The addition now under way will make this
MR. J. A. NORRIS, road representative for the
hostelry, so popular with music trade travelers,
Mason & Hamlin Organ and Piano Co., was in
one of the most complete in every detail in that
town during the week.
section of the country.
W E are in receipt of S. S. Stewart's "Banjo
IT is said that the Metzerott Music Co., of
and Guitar Journal " for August and September.
Washington, D. C , will materialize some time
It is, as usual, full of news interesting to devotes
next month. Strenuous efforts are being made
of the banjo and guitar.
to arrange financial matters to that end. They
will probably handle the Kimball line of goods.
MR. KNABE is rusticating at Cape May.
MR. E. S. CONWAY, of the W. W. Kimball
W E notice in foreign exchanges that Herr-
burger-Schwander & Son are enlarging their
great action factory. They recently purchased a
lot of land outside of Paris, France, amounting
to five acres, and will erect thereon a large saw-
mill and lumber yard. In this connection Wm.
Tonk & Bro. have been commissioned to pur-
chase the latest improved machinery of Amer-
ican invention and manufacture for the saw-mill.
Truly a marked compliment to our country.
JOHN H. SOLE, formerly of Reading, Mass., is
about to commence the manufacture of pipe
organs in Freemont, Ohio. He has secured a
building which is at present being altered for
that purpose.
THE MASON & RISCH COMPANY are under
contract to supply a vocalion to the Empire
Theatre, this city. The instrument will not be
in sight of the audience; the keyboard, how-
ever, will be exposed to view and will be placed
directly near the director of the orchestra, and
will be played by him in conjunction with the
orchestra. This will prove an innovation from
a musical and architectural standpoint.
THE SHERMAN BANK, 18th street and Broad-
way, this city, of which Mr. Peter Duffy, presi-
dent of the Schubert Piano Co., is director, has
gone into voluntary liquidation.
WM. BERRYHILL will open a store at Shenan-
doah, la. He will carry pianos and a stock of
musical merchandise.
THE Richmond (Ind.) Register says that the
Starr factory has been rebuilt on modern plans.
The latest improved machinery has been put in
and all the equipments seem absolutely com-
plete. Much labor-saving machinery has been
put in and the capacity of the factory consider-
ably increased. Thirty-two pianos were turned
out last week. The quality of work being
turned out is very excellent, some of the most
beautiful pianos we have ever seen being in the
course of construction at the time of our visit.
They are crowded to their fullest capacity and
say they were never busier. Nearly one hun-
dred orders are now on the books, one order for
sixty-eight pianos. Business is very brisk, in
fact, far beyond their expectations. They have
only one man on the road now, and if business
increases after they send out their usual number,
they will probably have to build more this fall.
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