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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
F. G. Smith in Washington.
FREEBORN G. SMITH, the
manufacturer of the Bradbury piano,
left New York this week for a short run
down to Washington, to witness the com-
pletion of his newly remodeled Bradbury
Building.
W. P. Van Wickle, his manager, has
been carrying out some of Mr. Smith's
ideas and plans, and the Washington ware-
rooms, re-painted and decorated, with a
handsome new electric passenger elevator,
running the five stories of the building,
new white maple floors, covered with rich
Oriental rugs, beautiful and enlarged of-
fices, to say nothing of the fine stock of
Bradbury grand and upright pianos, in all
woods and styles of cases, make these
warerooms the finest in Washington, and
the equal of any in the country.
Mr. Smith called on his old friend, Dr.
T. De Witt Talmage, paicThis respects to
the President and Mis. Cleveland, and in
company with ex-Gov. Claflin, of Massa-
chusetts, attended the reception and dinner
given at the Arlington by the Board of
Trade.
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PATENTS ISSUED JAN. 17,
1896.
552,555- Violin. E. A. Thompson,
Minneapolis, Minn. Provides the front
and back plates with outwardly projecting the feet. The pedals are connected by
lugs at the C-bouts, and independent posts cords with hammers in series so that when
a pedal is depressed certain hammers are
thrown against strings and a chord pro.
duced.
THE Kimball piano is being played at the
Sunday popular concerts in St. Louis, Mo.,
by Chas. Kunkel, the well known pianist.
THIEYES effected an entrance into the
new building of the Huntington Piano Co.,
Shelton, Conn., one night last week and
stole valuable tools belonging to the va.
rious mechanics working there.
Busy Boothe.
MAN much talked about,—Wm. F.
Boothe. There are excellent rea-
sons why. Less than two j^ears ago, when
Mr. Boothe came to New York, there were
many who referred to him in an indifferent
manner. To-day all that is changed. W.
F. Boothe has given incontrovertible evi-
dence that he possesses an executive ability
of a high order. If Edison succeeds in
photographing brains with cathode rays,
and should take Mr. Boothe as a subject, he
would find a remarkable cranial develop-
ment.
Is he making pianos?
This week we happened to meet Mr.
Boothe in the vicinity of his factory. He
courteously invited us to examine his order
book and other data in order to verify and
make clear to all that he was not exagger-
ating in some statements he had made as to
the number of pianos he was sending out.
We complied with his request, and in check-
ing up found that 274 pianos were ordered
and shipped during December, while from
February 3d to 8th, Ihe date of our visit, he
bad shipped 65 pianos. In looking over the
books, we noted among his customers
many of the best known names in the piano
trade.
This showing is a remarkable one. To
work up such a big trade in a limited time
and in the face of innumerable obstacles
displays ability of no mean order. It shows
hard work and persistence, and these are
the secrets of his success.
A
DIAMOND Hard Oil Polish is a precious
preparation, for all careful housekeepers;
cleans in a marvelous way furniture, pianos,
organs, etc., and gives them a new glitter.
Manufactured by The Hartford Diamond
Polish Co., 118 Asylum Street, Hartford,
Conn.
A. MERRIAM & Co. have purchased the
old
Heyvvood mill property and water
between said lugs serve as levers to keep
privilege
at South Acton, Mass. They in-
the two plates at the same distan-ce apart at
tend
to
erect
a building soon and begin the
all times, thus causing equal vibration and
manufacture
of
piano stools once more.
producing a tone of great smoothness.
PROF. GEO. GRAFF, bandmaster, who dis-
552,612. Resonant Musical Instrument
appeared
from Milwaukee, Wis., last week
or Toy. W, H. Frost, Chicago, 111. A
taking
with
him $400 worth of instruments
tube having a loose flexible inelastic
belonging
to
a band there, has been arrested
diaphragm arranged across the passage at
in
Chicago,
where he had organized an-
an intermediate point. Notes uttered into
other
band.
the tube are reproduced in a vibratory tone.
FRED. ECKHARDT, the piano manufacturer
552,796. Mechanical Musical Instru-
is
preparing to wind up his business in
ment. W. B. Tremaine and R. W. Pain,
Racine,
Wis., with the intention of remov-
New York, N. Y. To secure synchronous
ing
to
Bloomington,
111., where his wife re-
operation of instruments operated by two
sides.
If a piano you would buy,
Of worth and reputation high—
One that will last you till you die—
BUY AN EMEKSON.
Then when you really come to die,
And take your golden harp on high,
You'll trade it off without a sigh
FOR AN EMERSON.
Superintendent Wanted.
or more perforated music sheets. Consists
of auxiliary beilows on the sounding cham-
bers and intermediate lever connections so
that should one sheet travel faster than
the other the bellows of the slower sheet
will be operated, and the motion of said
sheet accelerated.
552,862. Musical Instrument. Samuel
Blacketer, Gowrie, la. For the use of
violin players to play accompaniments with
LARGE factory located outside of
New York, manufacturing from
twelve to eighteen pianos a week, is desir-
ous of obtaining a superintendent or fore-
man of mill room who is competent to take
full charge of men, and also to take full
charge of getting out the lumber from the
rough for a complete case room. None need
apply unless he has had experience as fore-
man in that line.
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