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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
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To Manufacture Musical Instru=
ments of Aluminum.
C
HAvS. W. HUTCHINS, of Springfield,
Mass., is organizing a company for
the purpose of manufacturing new and use-
ful improvements in musical instruments,
for which he has recently obtained letters
patent.
These improvements relate to
metallic instruments, or the class in which
cords are stretched over necks, supporting
finger boards, and comprising mandolins,
guitars, banjos and violins. The improve-
ments have for their objects an increase in
the resonance of the instrument, and pro-
vision is also made for the adjustment of
the finger board relative to the strings.
Patents for the invention have been se-
cured in Great Britain, France, Germany,
Austria, Belgium, Switzerland and Canada.
A. H. Goetting, Springfield, is to be the
wholesale agent for the United States, and
negotiations are now pending with a music
house in Berlin, for the European sale. A
specialty is to be made at present of the
manufacture of mandolins and guitars, and
the machinery is now being made in
Brooklyn for this purpose. The instru-
ments will be made of aluminum, and will
therefore be much lighter, and at the same
time stronger, in that they will not warp,
or the parts get out of place.
The claim is made for the instrument,
that it is three times as powerful as one
made out of wood, and possesses exactly
the same quality. It is expected that it
will neither crack nor get out of shape, as
it is made of but two pieces. These are
burnished together by a special process.
These instruments are expected to retail
at $18. A neat catalogue is soon to be
issued and is quite a novelty in itself.
This will be made of aluminum, making it
very lasting as a souvenir.
The "Popular Pease" Pianos.
HE popularity of the Pease pianos is
an axiom which is founded on a solid
and legitimate basis. It has obtained be-
cause the manufacturers of the Pease piano
possess a thorough knowledge of trade con-
ditions, and are manufacturing a modern
and carefully constructed instrument, both
as to design of case, finish and quality of
tone. As a natural result of these progres-
sive methods, the Pease Piano Co. have
built up a large market for their wares in
all sections of the Union -a market which
is being augmented week after week.
The management of the business could
not be in better hands than that of John D.
Pease, who is not only a thorough master
of his craft, but a profound thinker, and a
business man who has demonstrated his
ability in the development of his business
in the past and the shaping of its course for
the future. In the West Vice-President
MacDonald is another general of the Pease
forces who is doing heroic work for the
Pease piano.
Few pianos can boast of such an imme-
diate success in the trade as the new style
Cut of
"Grand Action,"
of
Wessell
Nickel &
Gross
Wessell, Nickel & Gross.
T
HE newspapers have devoted consider-
able attention recently to an analysis
of Paclerewski's playing.
They have
dilated upon the quality of his touch, his
uniform musical tone, his technique and
all-round versatility.
They have appar-
ently overlooked that the great Paderewski,
as we know him, would be an impossibility
without the great piano and the great piano
action.
In the tributes paid by critics to the work
of the great pianists, the important part
which the action plays toward their success
is somewhat overlooked. It would be a
manifest impossibility for Paderewski or
any other great pianist to produce such a
variety of effects—tone color, clarity, per-
fection#of touch—upon the piano as they
do without a grand action such as that
manufactured by Wessell, Nickel & Gross,
a cut of which we show herewith.
Pease uprights and Pease parlor grands.
Dealers everywhere speak in favorable
terms of these instruments. They are
great "sellers," and can be handled on
their merits. The Pease pianos have good
reason to be "popular," for their popularity
is truly based on their excellence.
T
C. A. Zoebisch & Sons.
T
HE old reliable Martin guitars have
been before the public for over sixty
years, and time has only served to make
them more popular than ever with artists.
C. A. Zoebisch & Sons, 19 Murray street, sell
these instruments, and report a great de-
mand for them. Dealers anxious to handle
a standard, and in every respect first-class
instrument, should investigate the Martin
guitars. C. A. Zoebisch & Sons' catalogue
contains a full line of small musical instru-
ments and strings, any of which are profit-
able to handle.
Alleged Theft of a Piano.
MRS.
GOODWIN
PAID $ 7 ON IT AND THEN
TRIED TO SELL IT.
M
RS. MARY GOODWIN, of No. 340
East Eighty-second street, was
charged in the Harlem Court last Saturday
with the larceny of a $220 piano from Hor-
This piano action is the culmination of a
series of improvements which reflect the
American characteristics for invention and
ingenuity. The Wessell, Nickel & Gross
action is the essential of a good piano. It
is as perfect and improved in a technical
way as it is possible to make an action that
will satisfy the virtuosi of to-day, and it is
admittedly of the highest grade, judged
from any standpoint.
The strong award which Wessell, Nickel
& Gross received at the World's Fair, and
the testimony of piano makers in this
country and abroad, testify to this.
Were critics better acquainted with the
technical essentials of a piano, we would
find as many encomiums of the action as of
the pianist. The same perfection which
distinguishes the Wessell, Nickel & Gross
grand action is apparent in their upright
actions, and musicians and dealers invari-
ably expect a Wessell, Nickel & Gross
action in a high-priced instrument.
ace Waters & Co., No. 134 Fifth avenue.
She bought the piano Nov. 21, on the in-
stallment plan, paying $7 down, and agree-
ing to pay $5 a month until the balance
was made up.
Five days later the piano was found in an
auction room, and Mrs. Goodwin was ar-
rested. She was identified as the person
who had tried to sell the piano, and who
had given the name of Miss Welsh. In
court she declared that she intended to
turn over the proceeds of the sale to Waters
& Co. She was held in $2,500 bail for ex-
amination.
S. S. STEWART'S Banjo and Guitar Jour-
nal for December and January, contains
much of value to all interested in the in-
struments of which this journal is an ex-
ponent. It contains four musical numbers
and a continuation of Geo. W. Gregory's
"Practical Fingering for the Banjo."
IT is rumored in Philadelphia that anew
piano factory will make its appearance in a
very short time with which A. J. Painter,
now connected with Geo. R. Fleming &
Co., and one or two others will be pro-
prietors.
THE Trowbridge Piano Co., Franklin,
Mass., are about to build an addition to
their factory.