Music Trade Review
Issue: 1897 Vol. 24 N. 16 - Page 11
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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
A Slick Game.
had gone. It is estimated that the amount
of damage done to valuable instruments by
SHREWD SWINDLERS CLAIM TO REPRESENT the gang already amounts to several thou-
LEADING FIRMS.
sand dollars, in addition to the money col-
lected for the bogus tuning.
A number of leading music dealers on
The music firms whose names are being
Chestnut street, Philadelphia, are up in fraudulently used are considering the ad-
arms against a petty swindling game which visability of employing detectives to run
is apparently being worked in nearly every down the swindlers.
part of that city. The swindle is a sort of
two-edged affair. That is, the music dealers
A Chat with James E. Healy.
and the people upon whom the game is
James E. Healy, of Wm. Knabe & Co.,
worked are victimized.
was
a visitor to the Metropolis this week.
There is evidently a gang of the swind-
In
the
course of a pleasant chat with The
lers, and they work upon a system. The
Review
he reported a steady improvement,
business of a part of the gang is to act as
and
busy
condition of business at the fac-
scouts. One of these scouts drops into a
tory
in
Baltimore.
house and asks if the occupants have a
" One feature of our business most no-
piano. If answered in the affirmative, the
ticeable
and indeed encouraging," said Mr.
scout will request permission to look at
Healy,
"
is the demand for high priced
it, his excuse being that he is engaged in
pianos,
and
especially the call for grands.
compiling statistics relating to musical in-
Our
recent
output
of grands was unusually
struments. Permission is invariably grant-
large.
It
would
be
absurd to deny that
ed, and after finding out the name of the
we
are
flattered
at
this
marked appreciation
maker and the party from whom the piano
of
our
new
scale
instruments."
was purchased, he departs.
Mr. Healy also remarked that they were
A week or so later, after the entire mat-
now preparing some new scale uprights,
ter is forgotten by the people in the house,
which will be ready for the Fall trade—
a second member of the gang comes along
" instruments which,"said Mr. Healy, "we
and after informing the party addressed
feel confident will become favorites."
that "you purchased a piano from So-and-
Mr. Healy left for home by the late train
So, didn't you?" states that he was asked
on
Thursday.
to examine it; that the party from whom
it was purchased had directed him to call.
floving Steadily Ahead.
The piano is examined and claimed to be
badly out of tune and after informing the
The Pease Piano Co. are not only well
people of the house to that effect, he is
entitled to use the alliteration "Popular
told to go ahead and tune it, and after
Pease Pianos," but also might add the word
spending a little time at the instrument,
"progressive," for constant improvement
the fee is collected and he makes his exit.
both in architecture and tonal quality of
When some one attempts to play the piano,
their products is the order of the day.
a series of discords compared to which the
Dealers are quite enthusiastic anent the ex-
sound of an able bodied boiler shop is mel-
cellence of the Pease baby grand, as well as
ody itself, is the result. Then there is
their uprights. Style " M," particularly,
trouble, but the piano tuner is too far away
is one of the best sellers on the market to-
to have any share in it.
day. The Pease piano is moving steadily
One firm, that of Wm. G. Fischer & Co., ahead.
1221 Chestnut street, has had no less than
ten complaints in the last four or five
A Great Record.
weeks from people who have been victim-
ized by men who represented themselves
Business with the Starr Piano Co., Rich-
as having been sent by the firm. Another mond, Ind., is very gratifying. The in-
well-known music house has received an ventory for the past six months and for
even greater number of complaints, while the fiscal year has just been closed, and
there is not a firm of any prominence on they have found that their sales have been
"Music Row" whose patrons have not been larger during that time than at any time in
victimized. In several instances the the history of the company. This is a
pseudo piano tuners knew so little about great record, in the face of the then exist-
the instrument they were tinkering with ing depression, and it is significant of what
they were unable to get certain parts they will be accomplished during the coming
had taken out back again, and they were year. The annual meeting of the company
^ound lying on the floor after the swindlers was held last Wednesday.
The Piano that Wins
The Piano that draws Trade
The Piano that makes Friends
Another Attachment Suit.
The John Church Co., Cincinnati, O.,
filed a suit in the U. S. District Court last
Monday against C. F. Goepel & Co., of this
city, alleging infringements of their plec-
trophone patents.
J. W. Stevens is the patentee of the at-
tachment manufactured and sold by Goepel
& Co., and Mr. Goepel's belief in the
validity of this patent may be surmised from
the notice which he issued immediately
after the John Church Co. won their suit
against Geo. P. Bent, notifying all sellers
of the Stevens attachment that their inter-
ests will be protected. Goepel & Co., with
all others, were warned by the John Church
Co., but they refused to recognize the John
Church Co. 's claims, and the suit just begun
is the result.
Geo. C. Crane Co.
At a meeting of the Geo. C. Crane Co.,
Eastern representatives of the Krell Piano
Co., held in this city last Saturday, the
following officers were elected: Herman
Krell, president and treasurer; Geo. C.
Crane, vice-president; Abe Smith, secre-
tary. Mr. Albert Krell, formerly vice-
president of the company, is now one of
the directors.
Wm. Foster Locates in Cali-
fornia.
Wm. Foster, well known through his
connection with the Weber interests, hav-
ing been appointed assignee when the com-
pany failed, has sold his residence in
Brooklyn and will leave this week for
Glendora, which is situated about sixteen
or eighteen miles from Los Angeles, Cal.,
where he has purchased considerable prop-
erty and which will be his future home.
Admires the Boardman & Gray.
Boardman & Gray, of Albany, N. Y.,
are constantly receiving letters testifying
to the excellence of their products. The
latest is from Lucy A. Plympton, principal
of the Albany, N. Y., Female Academy,
under date of March 31st. She says:
" We have used the Boardman & Gray
upright pianos in our school for three
years, and it gives me pleasure to express
my satisfaction with them. The tone
quality is full, rich and musical, and the
carrying power is exceptionally good,
which, combined with many other excellen-
ces, render your pianos an instrument that
cannot fail to secure appreciation and favor-
able attention."
Don't hesitate to look it up at once
The " Braumuller" is a money maker
THE BRAUMULLER
A combination of Architectural Beauty—
of Artistic Excellence—of Moderate Price
BRAUMULLER CO.
402-410 W. 14th St., New York
THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
A Slick Game.
had gone. It is estimated that the amount
of damage done to valuable instruments by
SHREWD SWINDLERS CLAIM TO REPRESENT the gang already amounts to several thou-
LEADING FIRMS.
sand dollars, in addition to the money col-
lected for the bogus tuning.
A number of leading music dealers on
The music firms whose names are being
Chestnut street, Philadelphia, are up in fraudulently used are considering the ad-
arms against a petty swindling game which visability of employing detectives to run
is apparently being worked in nearly every down the swindlers.
part of that city. The swindle is a sort of
two-edged affair. That is, the music dealers
A Chat with James E. Healy.
and the people upon whom the game is
James E. Healy, of Wm. Knabe & Co.,
worked are victimized.
was
a visitor to the Metropolis this week.
There is evidently a gang of the swind-
In
the
course of a pleasant chat with The
lers, and they work upon a system. The
Review
he reported a steady improvement,
business of a part of the gang is to act as
and
busy
condition of business at the fac-
scouts. One of these scouts drops into a
tory
in
Baltimore.
house and asks if the occupants have a
" One feature of our business most no-
piano. If answered in the affirmative, the
ticeable
and indeed encouraging," said Mr.
scout will request permission to look at
Healy,
"
is the demand for high priced
it, his excuse being that he is engaged in
pianos,
and
especially the call for grands.
compiling statistics relating to musical in-
Our
recent
output
of grands was unusually
struments. Permission is invariably grant-
large.
It
would
be
absurd to deny that
ed, and after finding out the name of the
we
are
flattered
at
this
marked appreciation
maker and the party from whom the piano
of
our
new
scale
instruments."
was purchased, he departs.
Mr. Healy also remarked that they were
A week or so later, after the entire mat-
now preparing some new scale uprights,
ter is forgotten by the people in the house,
which will be ready for the Fall trade—
a second member of the gang comes along
" instruments which,"said Mr. Healy, "we
and after informing the party addressed
feel confident will become favorites."
that "you purchased a piano from So-and-
Mr. Healy left for home by the late train
So, didn't you?" states that he was asked
on
Thursday.
to examine it; that the party from whom
it was purchased had directed him to call.
floving Steadily Ahead.
The piano is examined and claimed to be
badly out of tune and after informing the
The Pease Piano Co. are not only well
people of the house to that effect, he is
entitled to use the alliteration "Popular
told to go ahead and tune it, and after
Pease Pianos," but also might add the word
spending a little time at the instrument,
"progressive," for constant improvement
the fee is collected and he makes his exit.
both in architecture and tonal quality of
When some one attempts to play the piano,
their products is the order of the day.
a series of discords compared to which the
Dealers are quite enthusiastic anent the ex-
sound of an able bodied boiler shop is mel-
cellence of the Pease baby grand, as well as
ody itself, is the result. Then there is
their uprights. Style " M," particularly,
trouble, but the piano tuner is too far away
is one of the best sellers on the market to-
to have any share in it.
day. The Pease piano is moving steadily
One firm, that of Wm. G. Fischer & Co., ahead.
1221 Chestnut street, has had no less than
ten complaints in the last four or five
A Great Record.
weeks from people who have been victim-
ized by men who represented themselves
Business with the Starr Piano Co., Rich-
as having been sent by the firm. Another mond, Ind., is very gratifying. The in-
well-known music house has received an ventory for the past six months and for
even greater number of complaints, while the fiscal year has just been closed, and
there is not a firm of any prominence on they have found that their sales have been
"Music Row" whose patrons have not been larger during that time than at any time in
victimized. In several instances the the history of the company. This is a
pseudo piano tuners knew so little about great record, in the face of the then exist-
the instrument they were tinkering with ing depression, and it is significant of what
they were unable to get certain parts they will be accomplished during the coming
had taken out back again, and they were year. The annual meeting of the company
^ound lying on the floor after the swindlers was held last Wednesday.
The Piano that Wins
The Piano that draws Trade
The Piano that makes Friends
Another Attachment Suit.
The John Church Co., Cincinnati, O.,
filed a suit in the U. S. District Court last
Monday against C. F. Goepel & Co., of this
city, alleging infringements of their plec-
trophone patents.
J. W. Stevens is the patentee of the at-
tachment manufactured and sold by Goepel
& Co., and Mr. Goepel's belief in the
validity of this patent may be surmised from
the notice which he issued immediately
after the John Church Co. won their suit
against Geo. P. Bent, notifying all sellers
of the Stevens attachment that their inter-
ests will be protected. Goepel & Co., with
all others, were warned by the John Church
Co., but they refused to recognize the John
Church Co. 's claims, and the suit just begun
is the result.
Geo. C. Crane Co.
At a meeting of the Geo. C. Crane Co.,
Eastern representatives of the Krell Piano
Co., held in this city last Saturday, the
following officers were elected: Herman
Krell, president and treasurer; Geo. C.
Crane, vice-president; Abe Smith, secre-
tary. Mr. Albert Krell, formerly vice-
president of the company, is now one of
the directors.
Wm. Foster Locates in Cali-
fornia.
Wm. Foster, well known through his
connection with the Weber interests, hav-
ing been appointed assignee when the com-
pany failed, has sold his residence in
Brooklyn and will leave this week for
Glendora, which is situated about sixteen
or eighteen miles from Los Angeles, Cal.,
where he has purchased considerable prop-
erty and which will be his future home.
Admires the Boardman & Gray.
Boardman & Gray, of Albany, N. Y.,
are constantly receiving letters testifying
to the excellence of their products. The
latest is from Lucy A. Plympton, principal
of the Albany, N. Y., Female Academy,
under date of March 31st. She says:
" We have used the Boardman & Gray
upright pianos in our school for three
years, and it gives me pleasure to express
my satisfaction with them. The tone
quality is full, rich and musical, and the
carrying power is exceptionally good,
which, combined with many other excellen-
ces, render your pianos an instrument that
cannot fail to secure appreciation and favor-
able attention."
Don't hesitate to look it up at once
The " Braumuller" is a money maker
THE BRAUMULLER
A combination of Architectural Beauty—
of Artistic Excellence—of Moderate Price
BRAUMULLER CO.
402-410 W. 14th St., New York
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