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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
he was greeted by the waving of handker-
chiefs by the ladies, cheers and the burning
of colored fires and bursting of roman
A ROYAL WELCOME HIS IMPRESSIONS OF EU-
candles
and other pyrotechnical display.
ROPE AND EUROPEAN PIANOS.
Arriving at his home he was greeted by
UFUS W. BLAKE, president of the Mrs. Blake and other close friends, and
Sterling Co., Derby, Conn., received then stepping to the front of the veranda,
Krell pianos—great instruments are these
he returned thanks for the generous wel-
new style Krells. That is what everyone a royal welcome from his employees and come that had been accorded to him. He
says. No wonder that Geo. C. Crane is the citizens of Derby last Saturday night said he was glad to get home, and that he
pleased---pleased with the way his hand- on his return from Europe. The local had found no place abroad like it. After
papers say that it is doubtful if ever in the
some pianos are "catching on."
history of the Naugatuck Valley was there the reception Mr. Blake's friends and em-
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ployees were invited to a collation, which
witnessed such a demonstration.
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The tribute paid Mr. Blake was indeed a was served by Wise.
X. Y. Z.—No, the advice given in
In an interview Mr. Blake said that cap-
magazine, "to paint the hammer felts with well deserved one—deserved not only be-
ital,
with improved facilities, can compete
iodine jn order to produce a softer tone in cause his enterprise, genius and money in
successfully
in the foreign market, not,
an old piano," is not a safe one to follow. ten years' time has built up an industry
perhaps,
in
cheapness,
but in the offering
You should take out the action and immerse which covers acres of ground, and whose
of
a
better
article
which
will grow in de-
it in tepid water, using a large quantity of products are unsurpassed and are winning
mand,
as
foreign
music-loving
people are
washing soda. This will prove much more their way into the markets of the world on
quick
to
detect
the
superiority
of
the tone.
merit alone; deserved, because his sympa-
effective.
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The Sterling piano was placed in many
thies,
his
fellowship
and
his
desires
are
for
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the well-being of those with whom he is of the best stores, where it was greatly ad-
It seems to me that papers, at least trade associated; deserved, because all the fruits mired. In one store in Berlin it was sur-
papers, should refrain from insinuations or
rounded by three hundred instruments of
details about the private or family affairs
the best foreign make, but it more than
of any individual—even if he be a member
held its own and commanded the admira-
of the industry of which that paper poses as
tion of all who heard and tried it. Mr.
an exponent. It is neither clean nor good
Blake thinks the trip has been a success as
journalism.
a business venture, and looks forward to
the establishment of a large trade with the
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countries
he visited.
If you want to come across a busy piano
He
had
traveled through portions of
warerooms and a busy man, visit the Need-
Holland,
Germany,
France and England,
ham Piano and Organ Co., 36 East Four-
and
had
visited
piano
factories in Berlin,
teenth street, and have a chat with Chas.
Hamburg
and
Paris,
and
studied the mode
H. Parsons, the popular president of the
of
construction.
He
says
the workmanship
company. The retail trade with this house
is very crude, the factories having none of
io immense, and they are adding customers
the improved labor-saving machinery of
to their books day and night—for they are
our American manufactories, and when
now open late evenings.
the instrument is completed it cannot com-
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pare either in workmanship, tone or finish
Our esteemed Chicago contemporaries
with our home product.
are just "gone" on each other, judging
Mr. Blake was accompanied on his trip
from the expressions of endearment (?)
by his nephe'w, Lewis Dexter, and at the
noticeable in their columns of late.
concert held on the steamship the last
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night out he scored the greatest hit of the
We wish to assure some of our readers of genius, energy and capital are in touch program, a flute solo, which was heartily
that there is no truth in the rumor that with the mercantile, social and business in- tncored. The homeward trip of the "Ger-
Oscar Hammerstein is about to engage in terests which tend to the prosperity and manic" was probably the stormiest on re-
piano manufacturing on a gigantic scale, perpetuity of the city of Derby and its in- cord—in fact, the captain said that in all
now that he has finished his new theatre stitutions, and deserved, because he is fore- his experience he never saw anything like
it. Mr. Blake is home safe and sound,
which he is running on the department most in the hearts of his fellow-men.
store plan.
Mr. Blake left New York Oct. 26, partly however, and we join with his fellow citi-
for pleasure and with a view of extending zens in their greetings.
The varnish manufactured in this coun the market for the Sterling pianos and
The Wegman Piano.
try is now leading the world. The exports organs in Europe. He returned on the
from this city within the last few weeks "Germanic" last Saturday morning,
HE Wegman Piano Co., Auburn, N. Y.,
are unprecedented, and prove conclusively twenty-four hours behind schedule time
have no complaints to make about
that this specialty, particularly in piano owing to an unusually stormy passage.
manufacturing, is superior to anything He was met by J. R. Mason, secretary and business. They are simply "rushing."
treasurer of the Sterling Co., and A. J. Last week heavy shipments were made to
made abroad.
Brooks, president of the Huntington Piano Chicago, Reading, Pa., and several other
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Co., and, accompanied by Daniel F. Treacy, business centers. They also shipped four
Victor Herbert must have been sur- John Davenport, C. H. O. Houghton and
handsome instruments to the Southwest
prised at his "counterfeit" in last week's Harry Freund, he left for home later in the
Institute at Bristol, Tenn., which were
Presto, and Bandmaster Innes flattered at day. On his arrival at Derby at six
selected by that Institute some time ago
being credited as the composer of several o'clock, he was greeted by an enormous
after a good deal of competition.
operas and a native of the "ould sod."
crowd of friends, who tendered him a wel-
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come which amounted to an ovation.
IT is said that the Metzerott Music Co.,
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Headed by a platoon of police and the Washington, D. C, have closed a;contract
The Baldwin Piano Co. are commencing Ansonia Band, Mr. Blake was escorted to
with the Brown & Simpson Co., of Wor
to manufacture in their new factory, which his home by 500 men in charge of Major E.
cester, Mass., for the handling of the piano
is not yet quite out of the hands of the C. Johnson as marshal. All along the line
manufactured by that company.
contractors.
or German manufacturer; the Yankee piano
or Yankee manufacturer, is past. They are
all merged into the American piano and
the American manufacturer, and that is the
keynote of the present and the future.
Rufus W. Blake Returns.
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