Music Trade Review

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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
the trade an optimistic feeling prevails, and
business is bound to continue on the road to
improvement when all are unanimous to that
end.
gVUHE best possible proof of the marked stimu-
ST* lus in the business world is the number of
buyers booked at the hotels in this city. The
Hotel Reporter says that the number of country
buyers at present in town was never equalled.
A very significant statement truly. And not a
few of these buyers are piano men who are help-
ing to make manufacturers feel that the country
is not yet gone to the " bow-wows."
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^ACTORY running on full time and orders,
both domestic and foreign, flowing in
with an old-time rush, are the latest reports
from The Needham Piano-Organ Co. Satisfac-
tory news, indeed. This company will add sev-
eral new styles of instruments to their general
stock in a short time, which they expect will
meet with favor from the trade. It is also their
intention to issue a very handsome catalogue of
their pianos in week or two.
are glad to notice that our suggestion
anent the erection of a statue to the late
Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore has been taken up so
warmly by the public at large, The Daily
Mercury has started the ball rolling with a gen-
erous donation of $100 and by receiving sub-
scriptions for the fund. Kind words and offers
of services have been received at the office of
that paper from theatrical managers and musi-
cal artists, and it is safe to say that the Gilmore
statue fund will not only become popular, but in
every respect successful.
J j | Y O N & HEAIyY, Chicago, made a formal
(stss announcement that in accordance with
the reduction of duties on imported musical in-
struments they have made a reduction in price
A-EZHAT bright little Journal for advertisers, of from 5 to \2%. per cent, in this line of goods.
^t» Printer's Ink, hits a bull's eye when it They also make the following significant state-
says : The advertiser who curtails his advertis- ment in respect to goods of their own manufact-
ing expenditure too much in dull times is likely ure : '' While the new tariff does not directly
to find the dullness has come to stay.
affect the prices of goods of American manu-
facture, we are making important reductions in
I. FREEBORN G. SMITH returned from the price of goods produced in our own factories,
his sojourn in the Adirondacks during and have added a large number of new and at-
the past week. Mr. Smith is looking consider- tractive styles of guitars, mandolins, etc., at
ably improved, and all traces of his recent in- unusually low figures.''
disposition have disappeared.
is the age of veneers in piano case
work, and there are few better houses to
look up anything in that line than the old
established house of Isaac I. Cole & Son, 425-
427 East 8th street, this city. They make a
specialty of the finest lines of veneers, and their
stock is well worthy of inspection.
is satisfactory to record that retail and
wholesale business in this city continues
to show an improvement. The past month was
far in excess of the same month last year, both
as to retail and wholesale trade. All through
only needs an examination of the many
special points of excellence embodied in
the pianos |tnanufactured by Decker & Son to
realize that they are instruments worthy of a
high place in the estimation of musicians. In-
deed, the Decker & Son's uprights and baby
grands are conceded to be instruments that in
touch, tone and evenness of scale cannot fail to
please the most exacting critics. That accounts
largely for the growing demand for their re-
markable baby grand. Orders for this instru-
ment are coming in pretty lively just now ; in
fact their general trade for the past few weeks
has shown a marked improvement, and they feel
that the so-called " hard times " are a thing of
the past.
LARGE number of the music trade men
who honored Europe with their pres-
ence this summer have returned to their old
posts. Among those who arrived in town dur-
ing the past week were Mr. Geo. W. Tewkes-
bury, Treasurer of the Chicago Cottage Organ
Co. ; Mr. H D. Cable, its popular president; Mr.
John N. Merrill, of the Merrill Piano Co., Bos-
ton ; Mr. I Arbor Organ Co., Ann Arbor, Michigan, and
Mr. Fred. W. Baunier, Wheeling, W. Va.
These gentlemen report having had a very en-
joyable time, and if appearances are to be taken
as a basis of judgment, they are well primed
with European ozone, and fully equipped to
enter the Fall campaign for good business.
election day comes nearer available can-
didates who stand a chance of success for
municipal offices on the Democratic ticket are
apparently "few and far between." Notwith-
standing Mr. ^William Steinway's explicit re-
fusals on several occasions to serve in any capa-
city of a political nature, the New York Herald
of last Tuesday put him forward again as one
who may be named as candidate for Mayor of
New York this Fall. In this connection an ex-
cellent likeness together with a sketch of Mr.
Steinway's career appeared. It is only too well
known that there are few men who would stand
as good a chance of success as Mr. Steinway,
but the duties of his rapidly growing business
will not permit him, should he even feel inclined,
to fill the office of Mayor of New York.
product of a house which is under the
personal supervision of a practical piano
maker—a man who has a thorough knowledge
of his business, and who has sufficient pride in
an instrument bearing his name to turn out an
instrument of a high standard—dealers who
wish to procure such a piano and do business
with such a manufacturer should write to the
Brambach Piano Company, of Dolgeville, N. Y.
The instrument turned out by this house,
although but a short time before the trade, is
making rapid progress in the esteem of dealers
who can discriminate between a bad and good
instrument. The Brambach piano has many
" talking points," and dealers who have not yet
secured territory for this instrument should not
fail to do so now.
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TRAUCH BROTHERS are just now ready
for an enlarged production of piano actions
and keys. The machinery is all placed in their
new factory addition, and their facilities will
enable them to fill all demands with satisfaction
to themselves and customers. The new fac-
tory is replete with every mechanical essential
to enable them to turn out a superior class of
work. A novel arrangement in this factory isr
its division into three parts by fire walls. By
this means a complete destruction of the factory