Music Trade Review
Issue: 1899 Vol. 28 N. 2 - Page 3
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HEII
VOL.
XXVIII. No. 2.
Published Every Saturday at 3 East Fourteenth Street, New York, Jan. 14,1899.
McPhail Co.'s Superintendent,
C. J. Blinn, a thoroughly experienced
and competent piano man, has become
superintendent of the finishing and regu-
lating departments of the McPhail piano
factory of Boston, and in due time will as-
sume charge of the entire plant.
The
step has resulted from the retirement on
January ist of B. Frank Dunbar, who has
been associated with the A. M. McPhail
Piano Co. as superintendent almost since
the concern was founded.
Mr. Dunbar
will remain as one of the directors of the
company, age and ill health alone com-
pelling his relinquishment of the active
supervision of the factory.
Fortunately
he has been succeeded by a man who has
had a varied and successful career in ex-
ecutive and mechanical branches of piano
manufacturing. With such a progressive
institution as the McPhail Piano Co., Mr.
Blinn will have an opportunity of display-
ing his marked abilities.
Remarkable Achievement This.
WHAT THE KNIGHT-CAMPBELL MUSIC COM-
PANY HAS DONE IN EIGHTEEN MONTHS.
A record that stands without a parallel
in the West, if not in the United States,
by any other retail house in the same line
of business, is that which has just been
made by the Knight-Campbell Music Com-
pany of this city. The marvelous achieve-
ment to which reference is made is the
sale, by this company, of 1,114 pianos and
organs during the eighteen months past,
and in a striking display advertisement
published recently in this paper the names
and addresses of these 1,114 purchasers of
high-grade musical instruments were given
in their alphabetical order.
Never before in the history of the music
business in this city has such a stupendous
array of indisputable facts been presented
as is contained in the simple statement
therein detailed, and from none but a
strictly first-class, up-to-date, enterprising
and fair dealing establishment could such
a proof of its popularity be expected. Few
people have heretofore had any definite
idea of the proportions to which the piano
trade of the West has grown, and to most
persons it would seem almost incredible
that so vast a number of instruments could
have been sold by all the dealers combined
in that short period of time. Yet, when
one considers the honorable business career
of the Knight-Campbell Music Company,
extending over a period of thirty years, and
remembers that this company deals only
in really high-grade instruments, such as
Steinway, Everett, Kimball and Smith &
Barnes pianos, and an equally meritorious
line of organs, that, notwithstanding the
superiority of these instruments, they are
sold at prices as low as are usually asked
for inferior goods, while the terms of pay-
ment are so easy that anyone can buy and
pay for a first-class instrument, the mystery
disappears, and the reason is plain enough.
Eleven hundred and fourteen pianos and
organs sold in 18 months by one house is
a record to be proud of, and the Knight-
Campbell Music Co. is to be congratulated
upon these favorable influences and con-
ditions, all of its own creation, which con-
stitute the facilities that enable it to make
a showing as gratifying as it is astonishing.
—Denver, Col., Republican.
Sterling Boom is On.
FACTORIES OF ALL KINDS IN CONNECTICUT
ARE WORKING OVERTIME.
Ansonia, Ct, Jan. 6, 1899.
A canvass of the manufacturing in-
dustries of the cities of Ansonia and
Derby, shows that the year 1899 has been
started with a marked revival of business
in almost every line. The volume is
greater than that in January of any year
since 1893. Many of the factories are on
fourteen and eighteen hour schedules,
while the pay rolls of only six were found
to be smaller than they were in 1893.
In the piano line the Sterling Co. is
having a large addition built, and six new
styles of pianos of a more costly design
than those formerly turned out will be
manufactured. An order is also being
filled for sixty-three pianos for the Port of
Adelaide, Australia.
The
Huntington
Piano Co. reports the busiest season since
it was organized four years ago.
How Delays Occur.
Mr. C. H. Wagener seems to have been
" writ in sour misfortune's book " of late.
He had a dozen Orpheus organs on the way
—all sold to a firm in the North of Eng-
land.
While entering the Albert Docks,
the vessel—one of the Atlantic Transport
steamships—sank its tug-boat and a couple
of barges, and thereby blocked the entrance
to the Albert Docks. These had to be
raised before the vessel could come into
dock.—Music, London.
$2.00 PER YEAR.
SINGLE COPIES 10 CENTS
Restraining Order Granted.
[Special to The Review.]
Jacksonville, Va., Jan. 9, 1899.
A suit has been entered by Fred W.
Howard against the iManier & Lane Music
Co., to recover on a note for $1,039.39.
The note was secured by the assignment
to the complainant of several contracts for
the sale and rent of musical instruments,
and of other property. The defendant, so
the bill alleges, is now collecting money on
these securities, and the plaintiff asks a re-
straining order to prevent such collection;
also for the appointment of a master to as-
certain the amounts now due. The order
prayed for was granted by Judge Call
yesterday.
Optimistic Mr. Fahr.
Chas. Fahr, of Sohmer & Co., is never
indefinite as to his views upon any subject.
He is a clean-cut, logical man both in ac-
tion and in argument. In conversation
he said this week: " Biisiness during the
last month of '98 was of that character to
cause us to believe that a change for the
better has surely taken place on a satisfac-
tory basis. The outlook for the new year
is most encouraging and we feel that there
is a tremendous future for an artistic prod-
uct like the Sohmer piano. As far as the
department store competition goes, all of
the agitation only brings into stronger re-
lief the difference in real worth between
the goods usually sold in department stores
and in exclusively high-grade piano ware-
rooms."
Sales of Ivory in Antwerp.
LSpecial to The Review.]
Washington, D. C., Jan. 9, 1899.
Consul-General Lincoln writes from Ant-
werp to the Bureau of Foreign Commerce,
Department of State, as follows:
" The fourth quarterly sale of the year
was held on October 31. The ivory offered
and sold was as follows: Kongo hard,
68,587 pounds; Kongo soft, 9,240 pounds;
Angola, 19,448 pounds; Ambrize, 7,770
pounds; Gabon, 2,244 pounds; Abyssinia,
1,018 pounds; Gold Coast, 528 pounds;
Benguela and Angola, 470 pounds; total,
109,300 pounds—as compared with 165,000
pounds in 1897, 132,000 pounds in 1896,
and 156,200 pounds in 1895.
The market was very active and the
prices strong. There was a rise in price of
from 9 to 19 cents per 2.20 pounds for the
medium tusks and the scrivailles. Stock
on hand this day is about 176,000 pounds."
HEII
VOL.
XXVIII. No. 2.
Published Every Saturday at 3 East Fourteenth Street, New York, Jan. 14,1899.
McPhail Co.'s Superintendent,
C. J. Blinn, a thoroughly experienced
and competent piano man, has become
superintendent of the finishing and regu-
lating departments of the McPhail piano
factory of Boston, and in due time will as-
sume charge of the entire plant.
The
step has resulted from the retirement on
January ist of B. Frank Dunbar, who has
been associated with the A. M. McPhail
Piano Co. as superintendent almost since
the concern was founded.
Mr. Dunbar
will remain as one of the directors of the
company, age and ill health alone com-
pelling his relinquishment of the active
supervision of the factory.
Fortunately
he has been succeeded by a man who has
had a varied and successful career in ex-
ecutive and mechanical branches of piano
manufacturing. With such a progressive
institution as the McPhail Piano Co., Mr.
Blinn will have an opportunity of display-
ing his marked abilities.
Remarkable Achievement This.
WHAT THE KNIGHT-CAMPBELL MUSIC COM-
PANY HAS DONE IN EIGHTEEN MONTHS.
A record that stands without a parallel
in the West, if not in the United States,
by any other retail house in the same line
of business, is that which has just been
made by the Knight-Campbell Music Com-
pany of this city. The marvelous achieve-
ment to which reference is made is the
sale, by this company, of 1,114 pianos and
organs during the eighteen months past,
and in a striking display advertisement
published recently in this paper the names
and addresses of these 1,114 purchasers of
high-grade musical instruments were given
in their alphabetical order.
Never before in the history of the music
business in this city has such a stupendous
array of indisputable facts been presented
as is contained in the simple statement
therein detailed, and from none but a
strictly first-class, up-to-date, enterprising
and fair dealing establishment could such
a proof of its popularity be expected. Few
people have heretofore had any definite
idea of the proportions to which the piano
trade of the West has grown, and to most
persons it would seem almost incredible
that so vast a number of instruments could
have been sold by all the dealers combined
in that short period of time. Yet, when
one considers the honorable business career
of the Knight-Campbell Music Company,
extending over a period of thirty years, and
remembers that this company deals only
in really high-grade instruments, such as
Steinway, Everett, Kimball and Smith &
Barnes pianos, and an equally meritorious
line of organs, that, notwithstanding the
superiority of these instruments, they are
sold at prices as low as are usually asked
for inferior goods, while the terms of pay-
ment are so easy that anyone can buy and
pay for a first-class instrument, the mystery
disappears, and the reason is plain enough.
Eleven hundred and fourteen pianos and
organs sold in 18 months by one house is
a record to be proud of, and the Knight-
Campbell Music Co. is to be congratulated
upon these favorable influences and con-
ditions, all of its own creation, which con-
stitute the facilities that enable it to make
a showing as gratifying as it is astonishing.
—Denver, Col., Republican.
Sterling Boom is On.
FACTORIES OF ALL KINDS IN CONNECTICUT
ARE WORKING OVERTIME.
Ansonia, Ct, Jan. 6, 1899.
A canvass of the manufacturing in-
dustries of the cities of Ansonia and
Derby, shows that the year 1899 has been
started with a marked revival of business
in almost every line. The volume is
greater than that in January of any year
since 1893. Many of the factories are on
fourteen and eighteen hour schedules,
while the pay rolls of only six were found
to be smaller than they were in 1893.
In the piano line the Sterling Co. is
having a large addition built, and six new
styles of pianos of a more costly design
than those formerly turned out will be
manufactured. An order is also being
filled for sixty-three pianos for the Port of
Adelaide, Australia.
The
Huntington
Piano Co. reports the busiest season since
it was organized four years ago.
How Delays Occur.
Mr. C. H. Wagener seems to have been
" writ in sour misfortune's book " of late.
He had a dozen Orpheus organs on the way
—all sold to a firm in the North of Eng-
land.
While entering the Albert Docks,
the vessel—one of the Atlantic Transport
steamships—sank its tug-boat and a couple
of barges, and thereby blocked the entrance
to the Albert Docks. These had to be
raised before the vessel could come into
dock.—Music, London.
$2.00 PER YEAR.
SINGLE COPIES 10 CENTS
Restraining Order Granted.
[Special to The Review.]
Jacksonville, Va., Jan. 9, 1899.
A suit has been entered by Fred W.
Howard against the iManier & Lane Music
Co., to recover on a note for $1,039.39.
The note was secured by the assignment
to the complainant of several contracts for
the sale and rent of musical instruments,
and of other property. The defendant, so
the bill alleges, is now collecting money on
these securities, and the plaintiff asks a re-
straining order to prevent such collection;
also for the appointment of a master to as-
certain the amounts now due. The order
prayed for was granted by Judge Call
yesterday.
Optimistic Mr. Fahr.
Chas. Fahr, of Sohmer & Co., is never
indefinite as to his views upon any subject.
He is a clean-cut, logical man both in ac-
tion and in argument. In conversation
he said this week: " Biisiness during the
last month of '98 was of that character to
cause us to believe that a change for the
better has surely taken place on a satisfac-
tory basis. The outlook for the new year
is most encouraging and we feel that there
is a tremendous future for an artistic prod-
uct like the Sohmer piano. As far as the
department store competition goes, all of
the agitation only brings into stronger re-
lief the difference in real worth between
the goods usually sold in department stores
and in exclusively high-grade piano ware-
rooms."
Sales of Ivory in Antwerp.
LSpecial to The Review.]
Washington, D. C., Jan. 9, 1899.
Consul-General Lincoln writes from Ant-
werp to the Bureau of Foreign Commerce,
Department of State, as follows:
" The fourth quarterly sale of the year
was held on October 31. The ivory offered
and sold was as follows: Kongo hard,
68,587 pounds; Kongo soft, 9,240 pounds;
Angola, 19,448 pounds; Ambrize, 7,770
pounds; Gabon, 2,244 pounds; Abyssinia,
1,018 pounds; Gold Coast, 528 pounds;
Benguela and Angola, 470 pounds; total,
109,300 pounds—as compared with 165,000
pounds in 1897, 132,000 pounds in 1896,
and 156,200 pounds in 1895.
The market was very active and the
prices strong. There was a rise in price of
from 9 to 19 cents per 2.20 pounds for the
medium tusks and the scrivailles. Stock
on hand this day is about 176,000 pounds."
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