Music Trade Review
Issue: 1901 Vol. 32 N. 10 - Page 27
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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
An Artistic Merrill Creation the Puritan Model.
The Merrill Piano Manufacturing Co. have won a distinct position in the trade for
the originality and tasteful architecture of their designs which are distinguished by
a high standard of tone quality and conscientious manufacture. The piano pictured here-
with may afford an idea of what the Merrill Co. are doing along the lines of artistic work
in piano building. This is the Merrill Puritan model which has deservedly won praise, not
only from the trade at large but from lovers of correct and tasteful proportions
in piano casings. It is made in fancy figured mahogany, burled walnut or quartered
oak and other woods to order. It is four feet six inches high, five feet four inches wide
and two feet four and one-half inches deep. The case is double veneered inside and
out; hand carved upper panels, consoles and pilasters. Continuous hinges on top and
rolling fall-board. Hinges, pedals and pedal-guards heavily plated and polished. Back
frame finished and protected by plated packing thimbles. Keys, ivory and solid ebony.
The scale is seven and one-third octaves; overstrung, three strings to each note, except
in wound copper bass strings. Full metal frame. Plated metal depression bar. Three
pedals, viz. : loud, soft and sostenuto, as in grands. Rock maple end-wood bushings
around tuning-pins. Patent non-squeaking pedals and pedal action.
The latest Merrill catalogue contains illustrations and descriptions of six other
syles all different in design, but each a worthy effort in itself. Dealers would do well
to know more about the Merrill.
N. Y. Co-operative
Piano String Co.
MANUFACTURERS OF
GRAND, SQUARE AND UPRIGHT
PIANO STRINGS
312, 316 East 95th Street.
NEW YORK.
The
Hobart M. Cable
JUST A WORD
ABOUT PIANOS
The New Century
COLBY
Is a Winner
Look it up
Surprising Value
COLBY PIANO CO.
Erie, Pa.
Pease Paragraphs.
John D. Pease, of the Pease Piano Co.,
is still on the road. Recent advices were
dated from New Orleans. Pease business
is active all along the line.
Walter E. Hall, Pease traveler, is cover-
ing a big area of Pease territory.
The new Pease warerooms on Forty-
second street are rapidly approaching
completion. The move from the present
premises will probably be made on or be-
fore March 20.
Co.
Manufacturers of High-grade
AND
PIANOS
ORGANS
HAVE RESERVED THIS SPACE
THEIR FIRST PIANOS
Will Appear About APRIL 1st.
Sellin
Prices
*
DECISION IN A SUIT WHICH IS OF INTEREST TO
MEMBERS OF THE MUSIC TRADE INDUSTRY.
The question as to how far and under
what circumstances a bad purpose will
render an act unlawful which would have
been lawful if the bad motive were ab-
sent was recently presented before the
United States Circuit Court of Appeals,
on the complaint of the Passaic Print
Works against the Ely-Walker Dry Gocds
Co.
The complainant alleged that it was a
manufacturer of calicoes of certain styles,
which it sold at stated prices to jobbers in
St. Louis; that the defendants, who were
jobbers in that city, having on hand a lim-
ited quantity of such calicoes, issued cir-
culars to retail dealers offering to sell the
same at prices below those asked and re-
ceived from jobbers by the plaintiff; and
that such action was taken by the defend-
ants for the purpose of injuring the busi-
ness of the plaintiff and not for any legiti-
mate trade purpose of their own.
The Court held that the complaint did
not state a cause of action; that the owner
of property has an undoubted right to sell
it at whatever price he deems proper, al-
though the effect of such offer may be to
depreciate the market value of the com-
modity which he thus offers; and that
whatever the secret purpose may be is im-
material, since the outward visible act is
lawful.
This sets a precedent which is of impor-
tance to all members of the music trade
industry.
High Praise for the "Behr,"
Elmer E. Clark, Behr agent at Johns-
town, N. Y., has just sold a handsome ex-
ample of the Behr Bros, uprights to Caya-
dutta Lodge, No. 218, I. O. O. F., one of
the oldest fraternal organizations of the
city. Mr. Clark feels rightfully proud of
the selection made, as a number of makes
were examined and thoroughly tested be-
fore the order was given. The purchasing
committee, in giving the order, declared
to Mr. Clark that the Behr piano chosen
was ''unsurpassed in quality and tone."
A New Danger.
The recent disappearance of an em-
ployee of a store in Wilmington, Del., is
attributed, in part, to anxiety as to his em-
ployers' business because they did not ad-
vertise. A new danger for the backward
merchant. Not only does he jeopardize
his business by neglect of printer's ink,
but he may be responsible for crowded
asylums, husbandless wives and fatherless
children.
Their London Quarters.
The London, Eng., showrooms of the
Farrand & Votey Organ Co., have been re-
moved from 56 Berners street, Oxford
street, W., to more commodious premises,
at 24 Denman street, London Bridge Sta-
tion, S. E., where they are showing a com-
plete line of organs as well as the new piano
player, the Cecilian,
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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
An Artistic Merrill Creation the Puritan Model.
The Merrill Piano Manufacturing Co. have won a distinct position in the trade for
the originality and tasteful architecture of their designs which are distinguished by
a high standard of tone quality and conscientious manufacture. The piano pictured here-
with may afford an idea of what the Merrill Co. are doing along the lines of artistic work
in piano building. This is the Merrill Puritan model which has deservedly won praise, not
only from the trade at large but from lovers of correct and tasteful proportions
in piano casings. It is made in fancy figured mahogany, burled walnut or quartered
oak and other woods to order. It is four feet six inches high, five feet four inches wide
and two feet four and one-half inches deep. The case is double veneered inside and
out; hand carved upper panels, consoles and pilasters. Continuous hinges on top and
rolling fall-board. Hinges, pedals and pedal-guards heavily plated and polished. Back
frame finished and protected by plated packing thimbles. Keys, ivory and solid ebony.
The scale is seven and one-third octaves; overstrung, three strings to each note, except
in wound copper bass strings. Full metal frame. Plated metal depression bar. Three
pedals, viz. : loud, soft and sostenuto, as in grands. Rock maple end-wood bushings
around tuning-pins. Patent non-squeaking pedals and pedal action.
The latest Merrill catalogue contains illustrations and descriptions of six other
syles all different in design, but each a worthy effort in itself. Dealers would do well
to know more about the Merrill.
N. Y. Co-operative
Piano String Co.
MANUFACTURERS OF
GRAND, SQUARE AND UPRIGHT
PIANO STRINGS
312, 316 East 95th Street.
NEW YORK.
The
Hobart M. Cable
JUST A WORD
ABOUT PIANOS
The New Century
COLBY
Is a Winner
Look it up
Surprising Value
COLBY PIANO CO.
Erie, Pa.
Pease Paragraphs.
John D. Pease, of the Pease Piano Co.,
is still on the road. Recent advices were
dated from New Orleans. Pease business
is active all along the line.
Walter E. Hall, Pease traveler, is cover-
ing a big area of Pease territory.
The new Pease warerooms on Forty-
second street are rapidly approaching
completion. The move from the present
premises will probably be made on or be-
fore March 20.
Co.
Manufacturers of High-grade
AND
PIANOS
ORGANS
HAVE RESERVED THIS SPACE
THEIR FIRST PIANOS
Will Appear About APRIL 1st.
Sellin
Prices
*
DECISION IN A SUIT WHICH IS OF INTEREST TO
MEMBERS OF THE MUSIC TRADE INDUSTRY.
The question as to how far and under
what circumstances a bad purpose will
render an act unlawful which would have
been lawful if the bad motive were ab-
sent was recently presented before the
United States Circuit Court of Appeals,
on the complaint of the Passaic Print
Works against the Ely-Walker Dry Gocds
Co.
The complainant alleged that it was a
manufacturer of calicoes of certain styles,
which it sold at stated prices to jobbers in
St. Louis; that the defendants, who were
jobbers in that city, having on hand a lim-
ited quantity of such calicoes, issued cir-
culars to retail dealers offering to sell the
same at prices below those asked and re-
ceived from jobbers by the plaintiff; and
that such action was taken by the defend-
ants for the purpose of injuring the busi-
ness of the plaintiff and not for any legiti-
mate trade purpose of their own.
The Court held that the complaint did
not state a cause of action; that the owner
of property has an undoubted right to sell
it at whatever price he deems proper, al-
though the effect of such offer may be to
depreciate the market value of the com-
modity which he thus offers; and that
whatever the secret purpose may be is im-
material, since the outward visible act is
lawful.
This sets a precedent which is of impor-
tance to all members of the music trade
industry.
High Praise for the "Behr,"
Elmer E. Clark, Behr agent at Johns-
town, N. Y., has just sold a handsome ex-
ample of the Behr Bros, uprights to Caya-
dutta Lodge, No. 218, I. O. O. F., one of
the oldest fraternal organizations of the
city. Mr. Clark feels rightfully proud of
the selection made, as a number of makes
were examined and thoroughly tested be-
fore the order was given. The purchasing
committee, in giving the order, declared
to Mr. Clark that the Behr piano chosen
was ''unsurpassed in quality and tone."
A New Danger.
The recent disappearance of an em-
ployee of a store in Wilmington, Del., is
attributed, in part, to anxiety as to his em-
ployers' business because they did not ad-
vertise. A new danger for the backward
merchant. Not only does he jeopardize
his business by neglect of printer's ink,
but he may be responsible for crowded
asylums, husbandless wives and fatherless
children.
Their London Quarters.
The London, Eng., showrooms of the
Farrand & Votey Organ Co., have been re-
moved from 56 Berners street, Oxford
street, W., to more commodious premises,
at 24 Denman street, London Bridge Sta-
tion, S. E., where they are showing a com-
plete line of organs as well as the new piano
player, the Cecilian,
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