Music Trade Review

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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
The Kranich & Bach grand pianos are
being played throughout
Mexico by
Ignacio Cervantes, a Cuban pianist, who
is very popular in the land of the Monte-
zumas.
Robt. C. Krammerer, that hard-working
and exceedingly popular member of the
industry, returned this week from his va-
cation which was spent in Centre Mori-
ches, L. I. His tanned face and bright
eyes indicate that he spent the most of his
time inhaling the finest brand of ozone.
Business is booming at the McPhail
piano factory, Boston. Orders, large in
size, are coming in by every mail, and the
outlook for a busy McPhail fall season
was never brighter. The orders thus far
in September are larger and more impor-
tant than anything received for the same
period in the history of the house.
The Shaw Piano Co., of Erie, are feel-
ing the improving times. Frank Meckel,
the president of the company, is making a
Western trip, which is proving very suc-
cessful.
J. M. Hawxhurst, manager of the Brad-
bury interests in Chicago, is mingling
pleasure with business up in Wisconsin
where he has been sojourning for a couple
of weeks.
The property belonging to the Dolge-
ville Piano Case Co., including office
furniture and factory equipment, was
scheduled to be sold by public auction at
the front door of the Brambach piano fac-
tory last Thursday afternoon.
Horace F. Brown, lately with Geo. P.
Bent, of Chicago, will assume charge as
head salesman of the floor forces of the
Chandler W. Smith Co., Boston, on Sept.
15th. Mr. Brown is an able and conscien-
tious piano man, who should have no diffi-
culty in making his way ahead no matter
where he locates.
The Montana Automatic Music Co. has
been incorporated by Arthur W. Harring-
ton, Louis Frank and Chas. B. Lowelson,
of Butte, Mont. They propose to carry
on a general manufacturing and retail
musical business.
The capital stock is
$15,000.
A new concern which some time since
bought out the interests of the Hillstrom
Organ Co., at Chesterton, Ind., has decid-
ed to retain the old name.
They will
soon be ready with a line of styles for the
trade.
Bailey's music house, Burlington, Vt.,
was handsomely represented at the thirty-
third annual Franklin County Fair which
opened at Sheldon Junction, Vt., the
closing days of last week.
Chas. P. Collins, music dealer of Glen
Falls, N. Y., has taken his nephew, Chas.
D. Hollbrook, of Chicago, into partner-
ship, and the firm will hereafter be known
as Collins & Hollbrook. They are mak-
ing a display of musical instruments at
the Washington County Fair this week.
The Sherman, Clay & Co. house in Seat-
tle, Wash., have moved to new quarters at
514 Second avenue.
W. B. Williams, the Sterling traveler, is
touring the West on one of his regular
business trips.
The Syracuse, N. Y., papers contain
many words of praise for the splendid ex-
hibition of Steinway, Vose and "Crown"
pianos made by Leiter Bros., at the
Syracuse Fair.
Geo. J. Dowling, of the Vose & Sons
Piano Co., is giving a good account of
himself on his initial fall trip.
J. Elliott Trowbridge, the well-known
organist and composer, will hereafter have
charge of the organ department of the
Chandler W. Smith Co., Boston.
D. W. Torgerson has opened a piano,
organ and music house at 148 Whitaker
street, Savannah, Ga. The members of
the firm are experienced and progressive
business men.
H. A. Vosseller, of Cleveland, Ohio, has
rejoined the Dreher firm having given up
his store in that city. He will have
charge of the ./Eolian department.
I. A. Nutting, of Brainard, Minn.,
proprietor of a general store in that city,
has decided to add a full line of musical
instruments to his stock.
T. J. Barnes is a recent acquisition to
the piano-selling forces of R. A. Blair's
music house, of Wellsville, ().
J. L. Mahan, music dealer of Clinton,
la., is represented by a fine line of instru-
ments at the Clinton Fair.
A. C. Franklin this week opened a piano
and organ business in Fowler, Ind.
The Lertz house, of Baltimore, is now
handling the Emerson piano.
J. F. Powers, of the Emerson Piano Co.,
Boston, was a visitor to the city during the
week.
Strich & Zeidler.
The circular issued some two weeks ago
by Strich & Zeidler has been very cor-
dially received by the trade. Dealers are
coming to appreciate more and more the
fact that there is a marked difference be-
tween pianos of musical and architectural
worth, and the very "cheap " instruments
which are foisted upon the public under
the name of "pianos." To manufacture
pianos and conduct a business of the
Strich & Zeidler character a certain policy
is necessary in order to win success, and
this has been enunciated in the circular
just referred to.
The Strich & Zeidler campaign this fall
will be an active and a vigorous one.
They are manufacturing instruments of
undoubted worth that have deservedly
won the highest encomiums from musi-
cians and dealers in all parts of the coun-
try, and it is perfectly safe to predict an
immense augmentation of appreciation for
the Strich & Zeidler pianos the present
and coming seasons.
Rene Grunewald Forging Ahead.
PLANNING FOR A IHG TRADE THIS FALL
WILL INVADE OUR NEW POSSESSIONS—
HAS READY A FINE LINE OF HARP-
GU1TARS AND MANDOLINS.
Rene Grunewald, the enterprising manu-
facturer of mandolins and the now famous
harp-guitar, is preparing for an active fall
campaign. He intends not only to invest
all parts of the United States, but he will
give considerable attention to developing
trade in our new possessions, namely,
Cuba and Porto Rico.
In this connection he is in possession of
many advantages. Manufacturing in New
Orleans, from where there are innumer-
able modes of connections with these coun-
tries, he is able to send goods there in as
short a time as they would take to reach
the north or western parts of the States.
Another important fact is that Mr.
Grunewald is manufacturing instruments
which have won the highest encomiums
from leading teachers—instruments that
can command support from critical per-
formers, no matter whether in Porto Rico
or New York.
The Grunewald harp-guitar with ten
strings, is in every respect what its name
implies, a dual instrument which when
played upon sounds like a harp and a
guitar; one carries the air and the other
the accompaniment.
As a solo instru-
ment it is a complete success. The scope
of this instrument is so largely increased
as compared with the guitar proper that
its possibilities are unique.
The Grunewald mandolin has won an
established reputation by reason of its
magnificent tonal quality and its careful
finish and reliability of manufacture.
Among the notable teachers in the Cres-
cent City who have praised the merits of
the Grunewald mandolin are Henry C.
Blackmar, who considers them to be
"beautiful specimens of the mechanics'
a r t ; " Henry Wehrmann says that "the
Grunewald mandolin is the best I have
used; for variety of tone as well as per-
fect intonation it excels all I have tried."
S. Hernandez finds that after a careful ex-
amination "the Grunewald mandolin is
unsurpassed."
Other teachers who have spoken in as
complimentary terms are:
Prof. E. J.
Henderson, W. F. Morton, Jr., G. S.
Gomparts, M. Montalbrano, W. J. Nicker-
son and Mr. and Mrs. Bartlett Mesmer.
A magnificent line of styles which vary
in price and finish in harp-guitars and
mandolins is now ready for the inspec-
tion of the trade.
Behr Bros. <& Co.
Substantial proofs of the appreciation in
which the Behr pianos are held are now
reaching the factory daily in the form of
orders. Indeed it is safe to assert that never
in the history of Behr Bros. & Co. have the
prospects been so bright for an unusually
large trade as at the present time. The
members of the firm are working quietly
but effectively to that end.