Music Trade Review
Issue: 1896 Vol. 21 N. 25 - Page 6
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to
A Behning Special.
Newman Bros. Co. in 1896.
HE Behning- Piano Co. shipped last
week a magnificent specimen of the
piano maker's art in antique oak. It was a
piano especially designed for the Hudson
Lodge I. O. O. F., Hudson, Mass. It was
splendidly carved and handsomely orna-
mented, and was greatly admired by those
who saw it before its shipment. It was
through the efforts of Mr. Chas. H. Per-
sons, Maynard, Mass., that the order was
secured. The Behning boys have closed
a very satisfactory year's business, and pro-
pose to make the trade and public better
acquainted with their pianos for '96. Gus-
tave Behning will take a run down East
next week, after which he will be on his
spring" jaunt West.
HE Newman Bros. Organ Co., Chicago,
have closed a very successful year,
and started the new year at a "lively gait. "
They are shipping some large orders to
Europe, where their instruments are grow-
ing in popularity each season.
Their
domestic trade is very satisfying" indeed,
the several improvements embodied in the
Newman Bros, instruments being highly
appreciated. The year 1896 is destined to
witness great prosperity for this house and
a big increase in business. These are the
concomitants of progressive methods and a
constant desire to improve their instru-
ments both in tone and appearance. •
T
Henry Behr on the Road.
H
ENRY BEHR, of Behr Bros. & Co.,
will start on a long business trip on
the 20th of this month. He will visit the
old friends of this house, as well as the
trade in general. Some very important
deals which will tend to advance the inter-
est of this instrument in different parts of
the country, can be expected as a result of
Mr. Behr's tour. Business with the Behr
house is in every respect satisfactory, and
a number of handsome new styles are now
under way for the spring trade.
T
Foreign Exports for the Past
Three Months.
N the quarterly reports issued by the U.
S. Consuls in foreign countries of the
value of exports sent to this country, we
find the following figures which include
musical instruments, merchandise, ivory,
etc.: Germany, $336,128.88; France, $45,-
336.45; Switzerland, $44,733.07, and Aus-
tria, $19,588.77. Of the sum credited to
Germany, Markneukirchen contributed
$190,862.00, with Berlin a good second, to
the amount of $34,616.38.
I
The Stevens 5even=0ctave Or-
gans.
The Kimball Co. in Ft. Wayne,
A MODEL STORE.
T
MAKE A RESOLUTION.
'T'HIS is the month for good resolutions,
1^ and one of the best that can be made
by dealers desiring organs which they can
conscientiously recommend, both for neat-
ness of design and special quality of tone,
is to communicate with the Stevens Organ
Co., Marietta, O. The latest styles of
seven-octave.piano-cased organs manufac-
tured by this house are going to make a
big "hit" during 1896, and the dealer will
be serving his own interests by looking
them up.
HE Kimball Piano Co., formerly known
as the Arcade Music Co., have re-
moved to 109 Calhoun street, one of the
finest buildings in Fort Wayne, Ind. Its
five large floors are stocked with a splendid
display of instruments, and a passenger
elevator conveys prospective buyers and
callers to all departments. Mr. I. H. Case
is manager, and much credit is due him for
obtaining for the Kimball Co. the proud
position they hold in the musical realm of
Northern Indiana.
The Boardman & Gray Catalogue.
Grinnell Bros. Entertain Their
Employees.
O
N New Year's Day Grinnell Bros.,
Detroit, Mich., entertained their em-
ployees, including those throughout the
State, to an elaborate dinner at the Cadillac
Hotel, after which they adjourned to a
matinee performance at the Lyceum
Theatre. Fifty of the fifty-seven employ-
ees of the house were present. As a token
of their appreciation of their employers'
thoughtfnlness and kindness, several sub-
stantial gifts were presented, the presenta-
tion speech being made by A. H. Howes,
and responded to by the Messrs. Grinnell,
in appropriate words. The day throughout
was an highly enjoyable one.
POINTS ABOUT THE INSTRUMENTS MADE BY
THIS FIRM.
B
OARDMAN & GRAY, the well-known
manufacturers, of A1 bany, N. Y.,
have sent us their latest catalogue, which
is worthy of all possible praise from a liter-
ary and typographical standpoint. It is
right to the point, and there is an absence
of verbosity or self-praise. The wording
of the award which they received at the
World's Fair appears on the title page,
the second page is devoted to general re-
marks on the products of their house, and
on the following pages appear cuts of styles
B, C, and D uprights, style E parlor grand,
and style F concert grand, which are really
beautiful instruments. Cuts of the pin
block and sounding-board bridge are shown,
illustrating the special system of construc-
tion of the Boardman & Gray piano. We
make the following quotations from the
introductory of this catalogue, which we
would advise readers to look up and read
in detail:
The Boardman & Gray piano is not a
new candidate for public favor. Compe-
tent judges called it a first-class instrument
more than half a century ago. Times have
changed, men have changed, standards
have changed since then; but the policy es-
tablished by Boardman & Gray in 1837, re-
mains unaltered and unabated at the present
time, namely: To employ the best work-
men, upon the best material, after the best
plans, in accordance with the best methods,
irrespective of cost in any particular. The
result has always been, the best piano pos-
sible at the time that particular piano was
made.
It is one thing to make pianos; it is an-
other to hire them made. It is one thing
to have a practical knowledge of their man-
ufacture from key-board to pin-block; and
another to be dependent upon the skill and
judgment of employees. The firm of Board-
man & Gray have always been piano men,
apprenticed to the trade, skilled in its va-
rious branches, conversant with every de-
partment; able to direct, to perform and
to improve, bringing always to the business
the interest of the owner, combined with
the capability of a master workman.
For fifty-nine years the high-water mark
of excellence in pianoforte manufacture
has been recorded by the instruments bear-
ing the imprint of Boardman & Gray. This
does not necessarily mean the highest-
priced piano. * * *
You can buy pianos for less money—
lots of them. Boardman & Gray have
never dreamed of making a "cheap" piano.
They have never sought to cheapen their
product in any way or by any method.
On the contrary, whenever a real im-
provement was discovered, it was adopted.
Whenever experience demonstrated the
superiority of one kind of material over
another, it was used; if one workman was
better than another, he was substituted.
In this way the Boardman & Gray has kept
pace with the times, and stands to-day the
peer of any piano manufactured in Europe
or America. * * *
The advantage to the dealer in selling a
Boardman & Gray piano does not lie in
the disproportionate profit such as he
could make out of the sale of an inferior
instrument, but in the more substantial
benefit of a customer growing better and
better pleased with his purchase as the
years go by. * * *
THE Needham Piano and Organ Co. have
presented us with an intelligent elephant—
a sacred one at that—who keeps us well
informed about the days of the month of
the year.
AFTER a short recess of three days for
stock-taking, Geo. Bothner's factory force
resumed work last Monday, and is now
busy turning out large numbers of the pop-
ular Bothner piano actions.
IHE MUSIC TRADfc KtVlfcVv.
to
A Behning Special.
Newman Bros. Co. in 1896.
HE Behning- Piano Co. shipped last
week a magnificent specimen of the
piano maker's art in antique oak. It was a
piano especially designed for the Hudson
Lodge I. O. O. F., Hudson, Mass. It was
splendidly carved and handsomely orna-
mented, and was greatly admired by those
who saw it before its shipment. It was
through the efforts of Mr. Chas. H. Per-
sons, Maynard, Mass., that the order was
secured. The Behning boys have closed
a very satisfactory year's business, and pro-
pose to make the trade and public better
acquainted with their pianos for '96. Gus-
tave Behning will take a run down East
next week, after which he will be on his
spring" jaunt West.
HE Newman Bros. Organ Co., Chicago,
have closed a very successful year,
and started the new year at a "lively gait. "
They are shipping some large orders to
Europe, where their instruments are grow-
ing in popularity each season.
Their
domestic trade is very satisfying" indeed,
the several improvements embodied in the
Newman Bros, instruments being highly
appreciated. The year 1896 is destined to
witness great prosperity for this house and
a big increase in business. These are the
concomitants of progressive methods and a
constant desire to improve their instru-
ments both in tone and appearance. •
T
Henry Behr on the Road.
H
ENRY BEHR, of Behr Bros. & Co.,
will start on a long business trip on
the 20th of this month. He will visit the
old friends of this house, as well as the
trade in general. Some very important
deals which will tend to advance the inter-
est of this instrument in different parts of
the country, can be expected as a result of
Mr. Behr's tour. Business with the Behr
house is in every respect satisfactory, and
a number of handsome new styles are now
under way for the spring trade.
T
Foreign Exports for the Past
Three Months.
N the quarterly reports issued by the U.
S. Consuls in foreign countries of the
value of exports sent to this country, we
find the following figures which include
musical instruments, merchandise, ivory,
etc.: Germany, $336,128.88; France, $45,-
336.45; Switzerland, $44,733.07, and Aus-
tria, $19,588.77. Of the sum credited to
Germany, Markneukirchen contributed
$190,862.00, with Berlin a good second, to
the amount of $34,616.38.
I
The Stevens 5even=0ctave Or-
gans.
The Kimball Co. in Ft. Wayne,
A MODEL STORE.
T
MAKE A RESOLUTION.
'T'HIS is the month for good resolutions,
1^ and one of the best that can be made
by dealers desiring organs which they can
conscientiously recommend, both for neat-
ness of design and special quality of tone,
is to communicate with the Stevens Organ
Co., Marietta, O. The latest styles of
seven-octave.piano-cased organs manufac-
tured by this house are going to make a
big "hit" during 1896, and the dealer will
be serving his own interests by looking
them up.
HE Kimball Piano Co., formerly known
as the Arcade Music Co., have re-
moved to 109 Calhoun street, one of the
finest buildings in Fort Wayne, Ind. Its
five large floors are stocked with a splendid
display of instruments, and a passenger
elevator conveys prospective buyers and
callers to all departments. Mr. I. H. Case
is manager, and much credit is due him for
obtaining for the Kimball Co. the proud
position they hold in the musical realm of
Northern Indiana.
The Boardman & Gray Catalogue.
Grinnell Bros. Entertain Their
Employees.
O
N New Year's Day Grinnell Bros.,
Detroit, Mich., entertained their em-
ployees, including those throughout the
State, to an elaborate dinner at the Cadillac
Hotel, after which they adjourned to a
matinee performance at the Lyceum
Theatre. Fifty of the fifty-seven employ-
ees of the house were present. As a token
of their appreciation of their employers'
thoughtfnlness and kindness, several sub-
stantial gifts were presented, the presenta-
tion speech being made by A. H. Howes,
and responded to by the Messrs. Grinnell,
in appropriate words. The day throughout
was an highly enjoyable one.
POINTS ABOUT THE INSTRUMENTS MADE BY
THIS FIRM.
B
OARDMAN & GRAY, the well-known
manufacturers, of A1 bany, N. Y.,
have sent us their latest catalogue, which
is worthy of all possible praise from a liter-
ary and typographical standpoint. It is
right to the point, and there is an absence
of verbosity or self-praise. The wording
of the award which they received at the
World's Fair appears on the title page,
the second page is devoted to general re-
marks on the products of their house, and
on the following pages appear cuts of styles
B, C, and D uprights, style E parlor grand,
and style F concert grand, which are really
beautiful instruments. Cuts of the pin
block and sounding-board bridge are shown,
illustrating the special system of construc-
tion of the Boardman & Gray piano. We
make the following quotations from the
introductory of this catalogue, which we
would advise readers to look up and read
in detail:
The Boardman & Gray piano is not a
new candidate for public favor. Compe-
tent judges called it a first-class instrument
more than half a century ago. Times have
changed, men have changed, standards
have changed since then; but the policy es-
tablished by Boardman & Gray in 1837, re-
mains unaltered and unabated at the present
time, namely: To employ the best work-
men, upon the best material, after the best
plans, in accordance with the best methods,
irrespective of cost in any particular. The
result has always been, the best piano pos-
sible at the time that particular piano was
made.
It is one thing to make pianos; it is an-
other to hire them made. It is one thing
to have a practical knowledge of their man-
ufacture from key-board to pin-block; and
another to be dependent upon the skill and
judgment of employees. The firm of Board-
man & Gray have always been piano men,
apprenticed to the trade, skilled in its va-
rious branches, conversant with every de-
partment; able to direct, to perform and
to improve, bringing always to the business
the interest of the owner, combined with
the capability of a master workman.
For fifty-nine years the high-water mark
of excellence in pianoforte manufacture
has been recorded by the instruments bear-
ing the imprint of Boardman & Gray. This
does not necessarily mean the highest-
priced piano. * * *
You can buy pianos for less money—
lots of them. Boardman & Gray have
never dreamed of making a "cheap" piano.
They have never sought to cheapen their
product in any way or by any method.
On the contrary, whenever a real im-
provement was discovered, it was adopted.
Whenever experience demonstrated the
superiority of one kind of material over
another, it was used; if one workman was
better than another, he was substituted.
In this way the Boardman & Gray has kept
pace with the times, and stands to-day the
peer of any piano manufactured in Europe
or America. * * *
The advantage to the dealer in selling a
Boardman & Gray piano does not lie in
the disproportionate profit such as he
could make out of the sale of an inferior
instrument, but in the more substantial
benefit of a customer growing better and
better pleased with his purchase as the
years go by. * * *
THE Needham Piano and Organ Co. have
presented us with an intelligent elephant—
a sacred one at that—who keeps us well
informed about the days of the month of
the year.
AFTER a short recess of three days for
stock-taking, Geo. Bothner's factory force
resumed work last Monday, and is now
busy turning out large numbers of the pop-
ular Bothner piano actions.
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