Music Trade Review
Issue: 1895 Vol. 20 N. 2 - Page 1
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CDV/ARD LYMANBILU
X
VOL. XX. No. 2.
published Every Saturday.
Ill t h e East.
Trade in Boston —Geo. H. Washburn in
New Quarters —The Estey's New Move
—Mason & Hamlin—Tower is All
Right—Karl Fink and that
Cut in the H. C—Other
Matters.
5JTHINGS are looking pretty fair in Boston for
-c) the opening of the year. The members of
the Boston trade are well satisfied with the result
of the holiday trade. The last month of the
year helped to raise the average of business con-
siderably.
Geo. H. Washburn, the Boston manager for
Dyer & Hughes, is comfortably fixed in his new
rooms at 37 Boylston street. Mr. Washburn is
an all-round piano man, and has had mighty
good success with the Dyer & Hughes piano.
There probably will not be as many wareroom
changes in '95 as there were last year.
The Estey Company will move down a bit on
Tremont street, to the store now occupied by
Wm. Bourne & Son.
The Mason & Hamlin grand continues to re-
ceive hearty encores at the concerts of the Bos-
ton Symphony Orchestra.
The Emerson Piano Company report an excel-
lent business.
I met Sylvester Tower the other day. You
know Sylvester always speaks in the most en-
couraging manner of the condition of trade. He
tells me that his big factories at Cambridgeport
are turning out actions—well, really I forget
just what number he did say per week, but it
was very large. Mr. Tower looked happy and
contented while he said this.
You know that little cut which appeared in
the Musical Courier last week, representing
Karl Fink as having unusual abdominal capa-
city, underneath which was " A Happy New
Year.'' Well, the joke of it is this : That cut is
a regular thing in the Boston Globe, only instead
of the label, " Karl Fink Blue Felt," it has the
following inscription: "Largest circulation in
New England." Now, I don't know but there
is a truth about this. Karl certainly has the
largest circulation in New England—the largest
circulation in Boston, for he has circulated here
a great number of years, but it does seem a little
tough on him to have a second hand cut taken
from the Globe and labeled the " Genial Karl."
Vo3e & Sons are doing a big business. Mr.
Drew, their traveler, starts out soon on a long
Western trip.
•
NAHUM STETSON, of Steinway & Sons, left on
a flying trip West, last Tuesday night. He ex-
pects to visit Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Louis
and other important trade centres before his re-
turn.
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fie\u VorK, January 12, 1895.
$3 00 PBR YEAR.
SINGLE COPIES, 10 CENTS.
Stavenhagen to Knabe. In t h e W e s t .
NEW YORK, January 5th, 1895.
DEAR SIRS : It affords me special pleasure to
express to you my great satisfaction with your
instruments. The same fully justify the dis-
tinguished renown which they enjoy, and I can
only concur in the verdict of Messrs. von Bulow
and D'Albert in emphasizing that the Knabe
pianos, before all in regard to mellow and slng-
i°g (gesangvollen) tone combined with power,
respond to the highest demands. These quali-
ties, united with a perfect mechanism, place
"The Knabe Piano" at the head of the best
American instruments, and I again teg to ex-
press my satisfaction that I have the use of the
same for my entire American tour. With high-
est esteem, yours truly,
Chicago Chat.
O. P. BENT is on a flying trip East. No
doubt he will tarry a day or two in your
city.
Chas. H. MacDonald, vice-president of the
Pease Piano Company, is also booked for Gotham
for the next ten days.
Retail business in Chicago has been rather
quiet during the past week. This w^s expected,
as it takes a little while to balance up and ad-
just things preparatory for business for the new
year.
C. H. W. Foster, of Chickering & Sons, is
out here on a flying trip.
BERNHARD STAVENHAGEN.
J. O. Twichell has been confined to his resi-
dence for a few days by reason of thiea'ened
Piano Manufacturers'
pneumonia.
Association of New York
J. W. Gill, the newly appointed manager of
Elect Officers. the Mason & Hamlin branch, is here ready for
business.
James T. Eonis, lately with the Chicago Cot-
N last Tuesday a meeting of the Piano Manu-
facturers' Association of New York was tage Organ Company, is now engaged in a
held at the Union Square Hotel for the annual capacity as retail salesman with Steger & Co.
Wm. F. Boothe, the general manager of the
election of officers. Those elected for official
Sebastian
Sommer Piano Company, has been
positions during the present year were : President,
Robt. Proddow; first vice president, A. H. Fischer; visiting principal points in the West. Mr.
second vice-president, Wm. F. Decker; secre- Boothe carries a double header in the shape of
tary, Louis P. Bach ; treasurer, Samuel Hazel- the Sebastian Sommer and Gibson pianos.
C. H. O. Houghton, the road correspondent of
ton. The executive committee are : Wm. Stein-
way, Helmuth Kranlch, B. F. Fischer, Wm. the Musical Times, is expected West soon.
W. B. Price, who has had charge of the W. W.
Foster, F. G. Smith, Jr., Peter Duffy, Robt.
Kammerer, John Evans. The dinner c >uimittee Kimball branch at Washington, D. C , will as-
report the advisability of holding the annual sume the charge of the retail business of the
dinner on March 28th, which will be in a sense Chicago Cottage Organ Company early in the
a public affair. A definite location has not as spring.
yet been decided upon, but it is believed that it
Manager Northrup, of the Emerson branch,
will occur at The Waldorf.
reports a good business.
The boys are looking for Theodore Pfafflin to
come up to Chicago and see that new watch
$1,000 in Prizes.
which was given him by his fellow salesmen as
a Christmas gift.
\jjj*HE offer of Alfred Dolge ZL Son of one thou
I. N. Rice is feeling in a contented state of
* the best pictures designed for advertising the He has recently made new contracts which in-
autoharp, ought to raise one of the most in- sure a large output for '95.
teresting contests we have seen in years. It
surely will make the autoharp talked about all
STEGER & Co. have been giving further evi-
over the country, as the announcement of the dences of their poetical talents. A Chicago
offer will appeir in the leading magazines lor newspaper recently to hand contains a New
February.
Year's greeting in poesy which would lead one
to belitve that J. V. Steger had mistaken his
A New Piano Factory at Easton, vocation ; but on reflection, what better vocation
Pa.
than tuning his lyre in praise of the Steger
piano, for who can deny that it is not worthy of
piano factory will shortly be started the highest praise, express it, as you please, in
at E iston, Pa., by Liwrence Brothers. poesy or prose.
GEO. P. BENT, of Chicago,- paid a hurried
The Lawrence organ factory at Bulltr and Penn
streets has been purchas-d, and a new plant will visit to this city last Tuesday, and honored us
be put in. The latt;r concern will move to a with 1 visit. He left for home Thursday morn-
new three story building.
ing-
#
CDV/ARD LYMANBILU
X
VOL. XX. No. 2.
published Every Saturday.
Ill t h e East.
Trade in Boston —Geo. H. Washburn in
New Quarters —The Estey's New Move
—Mason & Hamlin—Tower is All
Right—Karl Fink and that
Cut in the H. C—Other
Matters.
5JTHINGS are looking pretty fair in Boston for
-c) the opening of the year. The members of
the Boston trade are well satisfied with the result
of the holiday trade. The last month of the
year helped to raise the average of business con-
siderably.
Geo. H. Washburn, the Boston manager for
Dyer & Hughes, is comfortably fixed in his new
rooms at 37 Boylston street. Mr. Washburn is
an all-round piano man, and has had mighty
good success with the Dyer & Hughes piano.
There probably will not be as many wareroom
changes in '95 as there were last year.
The Estey Company will move down a bit on
Tremont street, to the store now occupied by
Wm. Bourne & Son.
The Mason & Hamlin grand continues to re-
ceive hearty encores at the concerts of the Bos-
ton Symphony Orchestra.
The Emerson Piano Company report an excel-
lent business.
I met Sylvester Tower the other day. You
know Sylvester always speaks in the most en-
couraging manner of the condition of trade. He
tells me that his big factories at Cambridgeport
are turning out actions—well, really I forget
just what number he did say per week, but it
was very large. Mr. Tower looked happy and
contented while he said this.
You know that little cut which appeared in
the Musical Courier last week, representing
Karl Fink as having unusual abdominal capa-
city, underneath which was " A Happy New
Year.'' Well, the joke of it is this : That cut is
a regular thing in the Boston Globe, only instead
of the label, " Karl Fink Blue Felt," it has the
following inscription: "Largest circulation in
New England." Now, I don't know but there
is a truth about this. Karl certainly has the
largest circulation in New England—the largest
circulation in Boston, for he has circulated here
a great number of years, but it does seem a little
tough on him to have a second hand cut taken
from the Globe and labeled the " Genial Karl."
Vo3e & Sons are doing a big business. Mr.
Drew, their traveler, starts out soon on a long
Western trip.
•
NAHUM STETSON, of Steinway & Sons, left on
a flying trip West, last Tuesday night. He ex-
pects to visit Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Louis
and other important trade centres before his re-
turn.
+
fie\u VorK, January 12, 1895.
$3 00 PBR YEAR.
SINGLE COPIES, 10 CENTS.
Stavenhagen to Knabe. In t h e W e s t .
NEW YORK, January 5th, 1895.
DEAR SIRS : It affords me special pleasure to
express to you my great satisfaction with your
instruments. The same fully justify the dis-
tinguished renown which they enjoy, and I can
only concur in the verdict of Messrs. von Bulow
and D'Albert in emphasizing that the Knabe
pianos, before all in regard to mellow and slng-
i°g (gesangvollen) tone combined with power,
respond to the highest demands. These quali-
ties, united with a perfect mechanism, place
"The Knabe Piano" at the head of the best
American instruments, and I again teg to ex-
press my satisfaction that I have the use of the
same for my entire American tour. With high-
est esteem, yours truly,
Chicago Chat.
O. P. BENT is on a flying trip East. No
doubt he will tarry a day or two in your
city.
Chas. H. MacDonald, vice-president of the
Pease Piano Company, is also booked for Gotham
for the next ten days.
Retail business in Chicago has been rather
quiet during the past week. This w^s expected,
as it takes a little while to balance up and ad-
just things preparatory for business for the new
year.
C. H. W. Foster, of Chickering & Sons, is
out here on a flying trip.
BERNHARD STAVENHAGEN.
J. O. Twichell has been confined to his resi-
dence for a few days by reason of thiea'ened
Piano Manufacturers'
pneumonia.
Association of New York
J. W. Gill, the newly appointed manager of
Elect Officers. the Mason & Hamlin branch, is here ready for
business.
James T. Eonis, lately with the Chicago Cot-
N last Tuesday a meeting of the Piano Manu-
facturers' Association of New York was tage Organ Company, is now engaged in a
held at the Union Square Hotel for the annual capacity as retail salesman with Steger & Co.
Wm. F. Boothe, the general manager of the
election of officers. Those elected for official
Sebastian
Sommer Piano Company, has been
positions during the present year were : President,
Robt. Proddow; first vice president, A. H. Fischer; visiting principal points in the West. Mr.
second vice-president, Wm. F. Decker; secre- Boothe carries a double header in the shape of
tary, Louis P. Bach ; treasurer, Samuel Hazel- the Sebastian Sommer and Gibson pianos.
C. H. O. Houghton, the road correspondent of
ton. The executive committee are : Wm. Stein-
way, Helmuth Kranlch, B. F. Fischer, Wm. the Musical Times, is expected West soon.
W. B. Price, who has had charge of the W. W.
Foster, F. G. Smith, Jr., Peter Duffy, Robt.
Kammerer, John Evans. The dinner c >uimittee Kimball branch at Washington, D. C , will as-
report the advisability of holding the annual sume the charge of the retail business of the
dinner on March 28th, which will be in a sense Chicago Cottage Organ Company early in the
a public affair. A definite location has not as spring.
yet been decided upon, but it is believed that it
Manager Northrup, of the Emerson branch,
will occur at The Waldorf.
reports a good business.
The boys are looking for Theodore Pfafflin to
come up to Chicago and see that new watch
$1,000 in Prizes.
which was given him by his fellow salesmen as
a Christmas gift.
\jjj*HE offer of Alfred Dolge ZL Son of one thou
I. N. Rice is feeling in a contented state of
* the best pictures designed for advertising the He has recently made new contracts which in-
autoharp, ought to raise one of the most in- sure a large output for '95.
teresting contests we have seen in years. It
surely will make the autoharp talked about all
STEGER & Co. have been giving further evi-
over the country, as the announcement of the dences of their poetical talents. A Chicago
offer will appeir in the leading magazines lor newspaper recently to hand contains a New
February.
Year's greeting in poesy which would lead one
to belitve that J. V. Steger had mistaken his
A New Piano Factory at Easton, vocation ; but on reflection, what better vocation
Pa.
than tuning his lyre in praise of the Steger
piano, for who can deny that it is not worthy of
piano factory will shortly be started the highest praise, express it, as you please, in
at E iston, Pa., by Liwrence Brothers. poesy or prose.
GEO. P. BENT, of Chicago,- paid a hurried
The Lawrence organ factory at Bulltr and Penn
streets has been purchas-d, and a new plant will visit to this city last Tuesday, and honored us
be put in. The latt;r concern will move to a with 1 visit. He left for home Thursday morn-
new three story building.
ing-
#
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