Music Trade Review
Issue: 1898 Vol. 27 N. 18 - Page 8
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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
(From the Chicago Times-Herald, October 23, 1898.)
A Great Piano and Organ Plant
Gives Chicago the First Place in That Industry.
The Six Great Piano and Organ Factories and Warerooms of W. W. Kimball Company cover eighteen
acres of floor space, flore than double the size of any similar factories in existence.
A daily output of 55 Pianos and 60 Organs. Indorsed by the greatest
artists of both Hemispheres.
D E C E N T visits of the Pan-
*^ American Congress, the
Press and the Illinois Music
Teachers' Association, called
attention more generally to the
fact that in Chicago are located
a group of Piano and Organ
Factories more than double the
size and output of any similar
institution in the world—those
of the W. W. Kimball Company
at Twenty-sixth and Rockwell
streets.
To the five great factories of
the company, which even then
fully entitled it to this distinc-
tion, a sixth is now being com-
pleted. This gives a grand
total of eighteen acres of floor
space in this immense estab-
lishment. The company, with
these great facilities, will have
a daily output of fifty-five pi-
anos, sixty reed organs and a
number of pipe organs—more
than double the capacity of any
other piano and organ factories
in existence.
The entire system of factory
buildings, while erected and
constructed in strict adaptation
to the separate requirements of
a three-fold industry—pianos,
reed organs and pipe organs—
are all connected in purpose,
all run by the same general
equipment, under one manage-
ment and one line of operating
expenses.
With such great facilities,
and with ample capital to buy
raw materials in large quanti-
ties, the greatest economy is
obtained.
The most modern machinery
and appliances, including a
number of inventions, the ex-
clusive property of this com-
pany, are utilized in the manu-
facture of the Kimball instru-
ments, every separate portion
of which is made in its own
factories under the direction of
eminent experts secured in this
country and abroad.
According to authoritative
statements ' 'these new factories
with new machinery and new
methods, are producing larger
quantities of pianos with greater
promptness and greater exact-
ness, because they have more
modern machinery. This must
be so unless we deny the effec-
tiveness of modern machinery
altogether."
The Kimball Pianos, Reed
Organs and Pipe Organs each
received World's Fair Awards
entitling them to the distinction
of "Highest Honors." This is
significant in itself, but of great-
er significance is the fact that
the World's Fair Judges of
pianos and organs accorded but and Moody's churches in Chi-
one sweeping award for gene- cago.
ral superiority and that was
A late improvement in this
given W. W. Kimball Company, department is an ingenious
as follows: '' This firm deserves device which may be placed on
the greatest commendation for their pipe or reed organs, ren-
superlative merit and variety of dering them self-playing, with-
exhibits and also for having at- out interfering with the regular
tained the highest standard of use of the instruments.
excellence in all branches of their
A strong point of the Kim-
manufacture."
ball plan in the direction of
The Kimball instruments are general economy is that of
recognized by the world's great- commanding location.
The
est musicians as having no su- shipping equipment, including
perior, and the purchase of private tracks and a dockage of
them for their own use by such 600 feet, gives it immediate
artists as Patti, who has two in connection with the markets of
her castle in Wales, Eames, the world.
Nordica, the De Reszkes and
The scope of this vast plant
other eminent artists, is a prac- is clearly demonstrated by the
tical commendation more elo- fact that the demands of its
quent than words.
representatives are so great, and
The Kimball reed organs the arrangements for meeting
are in use in every part of those demands so complete, that
this country and are shipped most of the shipments are made
to the four quarters of the by the car load direct from the
globe.
factories to its various distri-
Kimball pipe organs are in buting points in all parts of the
use in many of the largest Union.
churches, auditoriums and resi-
The ability of this house to
dences throughout the country. produce superior instruments
They have also been recently and supply them direct to the
placed in the two concert halls buyer anywhere in the country
of the Fine Arts Building in at manufacturers' prices, shows
this city, in the Studebaker the genuine spirit of successful
Opera House at South Bend, rivalry distinguishing our great
Ind., and in St. Chrysostom's western institutions.
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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
(From the Chicago Times-Herald, October 23, 1898.)
A Great Piano and Organ Plant
Gives Chicago the First Place in That Industry.
The Six Great Piano and Organ Factories and Warerooms of W. W. Kimball Company cover eighteen
acres of floor space, flore than double the size of any similar factories in existence.
A daily output of 55 Pianos and 60 Organs. Indorsed by the greatest
artists of both Hemispheres.
D E C E N T visits of the Pan-
*^ American Congress, the
Press and the Illinois Music
Teachers' Association, called
attention more generally to the
fact that in Chicago are located
a group of Piano and Organ
Factories more than double the
size and output of any similar
institution in the world—those
of the W. W. Kimball Company
at Twenty-sixth and Rockwell
streets.
To the five great factories of
the company, which even then
fully entitled it to this distinc-
tion, a sixth is now being com-
pleted. This gives a grand
total of eighteen acres of floor
space in this immense estab-
lishment. The company, with
these great facilities, will have
a daily output of fifty-five pi-
anos, sixty reed organs and a
number of pipe organs—more
than double the capacity of any
other piano and organ factories
in existence.
The entire system of factory
buildings, while erected and
constructed in strict adaptation
to the separate requirements of
a three-fold industry—pianos,
reed organs and pipe organs—
are all connected in purpose,
all run by the same general
equipment, under one manage-
ment and one line of operating
expenses.
With such great facilities,
and with ample capital to buy
raw materials in large quanti-
ties, the greatest economy is
obtained.
The most modern machinery
and appliances, including a
number of inventions, the ex-
clusive property of this com-
pany, are utilized in the manu-
facture of the Kimball instru-
ments, every separate portion
of which is made in its own
factories under the direction of
eminent experts secured in this
country and abroad.
According to authoritative
statements ' 'these new factories
with new machinery and new
methods, are producing larger
quantities of pianos with greater
promptness and greater exact-
ness, because they have more
modern machinery. This must
be so unless we deny the effec-
tiveness of modern machinery
altogether."
The Kimball Pianos, Reed
Organs and Pipe Organs each
received World's Fair Awards
entitling them to the distinction
of "Highest Honors." This is
significant in itself, but of great-
er significance is the fact that
the World's Fair Judges of
pianos and organs accorded but and Moody's churches in Chi-
one sweeping award for gene- cago.
ral superiority and that was
A late improvement in this
given W. W. Kimball Company, department is an ingenious
as follows: '' This firm deserves device which may be placed on
the greatest commendation for their pipe or reed organs, ren-
superlative merit and variety of dering them self-playing, with-
exhibits and also for having at- out interfering with the regular
tained the highest standard of use of the instruments.
excellence in all branches of their
A strong point of the Kim-
manufacture."
ball plan in the direction of
The Kimball instruments are general economy is that of
recognized by the world's great- commanding location.
The
est musicians as having no su- shipping equipment, including
perior, and the purchase of private tracks and a dockage of
them for their own use by such 600 feet, gives it immediate
artists as Patti, who has two in connection with the markets of
her castle in Wales, Eames, the world.
Nordica, the De Reszkes and
The scope of this vast plant
other eminent artists, is a prac- is clearly demonstrated by the
tical commendation more elo- fact that the demands of its
quent than words.
representatives are so great, and
The Kimball reed organs the arrangements for meeting
are in use in every part of those demands so complete, that
this country and are shipped most of the shipments are made
to the four quarters of the by the car load direct from the
globe.
factories to its various distri-
Kimball pipe organs are in buting points in all parts of the
use in many of the largest Union.
churches, auditoriums and resi-
The ability of this house to
dences throughout the country. produce superior instruments
They have also been recently and supply them direct to the
placed in the two concert halls buyer anywhere in the country
of the Fine Arts Building in at manufacturers' prices, shows
this city, in the Studebaker the genuine spirit of successful
Opera House at South Bend, rivalry distinguishing our great
Ind., and in St. Chrysostom's western institutions.
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