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Music Trade Review

Issue: 1895 Vol. 20 N. 26 - Page 19

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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
The Clifford Piano.
HE products of the Clifford Piano Co.
seem to be fast gaining in popular
favor. The expected output has so far been
doubled, and if this gratifying progress
continues they will have to enlarge their
facilities next fall. Much of the success of
the new concern is due to the indefatigable
secretary and manager, Lew H. Clement.
T
Alloys of Aluminium.
J. B. WOODIORD, the manager of the es-
tablishment of N. Stetson & Co., Philadel-
phia, was in town this week.
HARTWKLI. R. MOORE, superintendent of
the factories of the A. B. Chase Co., Nor-
walk, O., was one of the visitors in Gotham
during the past week.
THE Indicate)? says: There seems to be
quite a lively competition among the agents
of the different freight companies in Chi-
cago to get business from the piano mak-
ers. This has already resulted in the cut-
ting of rates on freight from the East, and
the outlook is that there will be more cut-
ting before the end is reached.
N. W. BRYANT, manager of the Evans-
ville, Ind., branch house of the W. W.
Kim ball Co., was formerly head of the
well-known firm of N. W. Bryant & Co.,
Indianapolis.
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Yes,
that is the word;
it expresses just what
the player can do
while playing on
FTER numerous experiments upon
alloys of aluminium it has been found,
as reported in Dingler's Polytechnic
Journal, that one composed of from 92 to
IT is said that Harry Lowell Mason will
96 per cent, of the latter metal and 4 to 8
become a permanent resident of New York
per cent, of nickel, is particularly valuable,
in the early fall, and that the advertising
since it possesses greater hardness than the
department of the Mason & Hamlin Co.
pure metal, without being brittle. It is
will be transferred to this city.
found to be well adapted to the manufac-
ture of small articles of jewelry, etc. These
alloys of aluminium, copper and nickel
L. W. P. Norris, Pres.
are remarkable for their beautiful color, the
N. S. Kin£, Vice Pres.
ease with which they may be polished,
S. G. Lindeman, Sec'y and Treas.
and their excellent degree of hardness, and
Henry Lindeman, Supt.
in order to restore their metallic aspect it
suffices to simply immerse them for a few
FACTORY= 7 2 7 =737 East 147th St.
seconds in a 10-per cent, solution of caustic
w
soda, wash them and then immerse them
vYoRK, AREROOriS=ii6 West 125th St.
in a mixture composed of three parts of
nitric acid and two of sulphuric. A solder
Send for prices on
our latest New
for use with aluminium or aluminium al-
A
Resonant
Style B
loys is also proposed—viz., by mixing sil-
The
finest, most
ver, nickel, aluminium, tin and zinc in the and Singing
convenient and
best Piano iu
following proportions: Two per cent, sil- Quality of
every particular
ver, 5 per cent, nickel, 9 per cent, alumin- Tone with
on the market.
ium, 34 per cent, tin, and 50 per cent, Perfectly
Factory and Ware
zinc. No flux is necessary, and an ordin- Even Scale
rooms over Arcade
to Union Depot,
ary soldering iron or tool can be used.
A
OARDMAN
6 RAY
ft
6 RAY
THE Wright Music Co. is the name of a
new concern recently formed in Spring,
field, Mo. The firm is composed of J. C.
Wright, of Des Moines, la., and A. S.
Wright, of Marshall, O. They have opened
up business in a handsome new building
on South street, and are handling the
Weber, Wheelock and Stuyvesant pianos
and Farrand & Votey organs.
A. L. PKCK has returned from an ex-
tended trip through the North Atlantic
States and Canada in the interest of Hard-
man, Peck & Co. Mr. Peck found the
Hardman as popular "o\er the border" as
in the States, and booked quite a number
of orders.
IANOS
is Found Onlv
in the Old
Reliable
543 to 549
BROADWAY
ESTABLISHED—IN—1837
CONNOR PIANOS.
Dealers desiring instruments Carefully Constructed, Elegant in
Appearance, possessing a Superior Tone Quality, for a
Moderate Price, should communicate with
FRANCIS CONNOR, - Manufacturer,
134th Street and Trinity Avenue, Southern Boulevard,
MERRILL PIANOS
TORE.
118 BOYLSTON ST.
Seaverns Piano Action Co
ESTABLISHED 1851.
ZBOSTOIN".
MANUFACTURERS OF

Nos. 113-125 BROADWAY,
CAMBBIDUEPOKT, MASS.

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