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Wilcox & White have just received a
cable from their London agency announc-
ing the sale of an Angelus to the King of
Portugal.
Edward Behr, of Behr Bros. & Co., is
strongly of the opinion that American pi-
ano manufacturers can secure much busi-
ness to foreign countries provided the
the matter is properly handled.
There is some talk thatKaufmann Bros.,
proprietors of a department store in
Pittsburg, will soon inaugurate a piano
department, handling some well-known
makes of pianos.
H. L. Goodrow, the enterprising music
dealer of Grand Rapids, la., has leased
much larger quarters than at present oc-
cupied by him in the new Jim Block, in
that city, to which he will remove at an
early date.
The Story & Clark and Newman Bros,
pianos, and Newman Bros, organs, are
carried by the Burnes Music Co., of
Aberdeen, S. D., who have recently taken
over the business of the Aberdeen Imple-
ment and Transfer Co.
Van R. Livingston, the A. B. Chase am-
bassador, reports a splendid business out-
look for his firm in the West. Spring
trade has opened up in good shape, and
every indication points to an unusually
active demand for the famous A. B. Chase.
Trade conditions at the Kroeger factory
are very satisfactory, all facilities being
brought into play for the carrying out of
current work. Thos. La M. Couch is still
traveling in the West. J. C. Amie started
East on Tuesday.
While retail trade in Providence, R. I.,
has not been up to the usual standard, yet
Joseph M. Mann, the modern dealer, is
having an exceedingly brisk spring trade.
That this go-ahead piano man is highly
esteemed in musical circles is evident from
the appreciation shown his wares and the
support vouchsafed him.
Charles Kiedel, manager of the Knabe
interests in Washington, D. C., was one of
the distinguished party who accompanied
the Hon. Grover Cleveland on his recent
duck-shooting expedition.
C. H. Wood, who for the past fifteen
years has been superintendent of the piano
and organ keyboard department of Pratt,
Read & Co., Deep River, Conn., has ten-
dered his resignation.
Edward H. Droop of Washington, D. C,
was in town this week. He will probably
take a short sea voyage to Cuba for the
benefit of his health.
W. O. Crippen has been re-engaged as
manager of the Krell Piano Co.'s retail
store on Fourth street, Cincinnati, O.
The premises occupied by H. Stratton,
at 409 Decatur street, New Orleans, was
damaged by fire last week.
THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
The Lester Piano Co., whose enlarge-
ment of factory plant at Lester, Pa., was
announced in last week's Review, will also
increase their working force of 150 to 200.
This speaks eloquently of Lester pros-
perity.
The Bailey Piano Co., with factory at
15 7-159 East 128th street, have been organ-
ized to manufacture a serviceable and at-
tractive instrument. The first shipment
will probably be made early in April.
The Teachers' Club of San Francisco,
Cal., have selected a Hallet & Davis grand
for their quarters in that city through the
Heine Piano Co., the local agents.
In Town.
Rufus W. Blake, of the Sterling Co.,
Derby, Conn. ; E. W. Karn, Fort Wayne,
Ind. ; Chandler W. Smith, Boston; Braton
S. Chase, Muskegon, Mich. ; Geo. Bolt-
wood, Chicago; Louis F. Geissler, San
Francisco, Cal. ; E. H. Droop, Washing-
ton, D. C. ; Mr. Jones, of the Baldwin re-
tail forces, Cincinnati; P. J. Healy, Chi-
cago; Geo. W. Thompson, of the Montelius
Piano Co., Pueblo, Col.; J. Harry Estey,
Brattleboro, Vt. ; Albert Krell, Cincinnati,
O. ; M. P. Conway, Holyoke, Mass. ; John
Anderson, Superintendent of the Everett
Piano Co.
Callers at the Weber warerooms this
M. de Zouche, formerly with the Knabe week included Harry Leiter, of Leiter
house in New York and Washington, will Bros., Syracuse; G. Wright-Nichols, presi-
be hereafter connected with the Baltimore dent of the firm of Sanders & Stayman;
establishment.
Perry Foster, manager of the Sanders
There is a great demand for Knabe and & Stayman Washington branch, and S. A.
Fischer pianos on the Pacific Coast. Koh- Ward, of Newark, N. J.
ler & Chase report an especially active
Some Queer Fiddles.
business just now.
There are quite a number of people who
Louis F. Geissler, of Sherman, Clay &
collect
musical instruments. Men have
Co., San Francisco, is in town and will
been
known
to pay tremendous prices for
shortly leave on his regular European
violins
of
rare
make, merely to place these
trip for purchases abroad.
instruments in collections they were mak-
Ludden & Bates, who for some years ing of such things.
have controlled the sales of the Mathushek
One of the greatest fiddles that ever
(New Haven) pianos, at 137 Fifth avenue,
were
known was to be seen at the
will, it is said, give up their New York
French
court in the time of Charles
warerooms on May 1.
IX. This was a viol so large that
The wholesale traveling forces of the several boys could be placed inside of
Vose & Sons Piano Co., Chicago, have it. These boys used to sit inside this queer
been reinforced by the addition of D. D. instrument and sing the airs that the man
Luxton, a well-known man in the trade.
who handled the bow was playing on the
The new firm of Baker & Chase, Buffalo, viol outside. The effect, is said to have
N. Y., expect to have their new self-player been very beautiful, though it would seem
as if the presence of the lads in its interior
on the market around the first of April.
A permanent agency for the Smith & would seriously interfere with the tone of
Barnes pianos has been established in Lis. the "Great Fiddle," as it was called.
Many years after, another huge instru-
bon, O.
ment of this kind was used at concerts in
The Holler Organs.
Boston. It was so large that to play it the
M. P. Moller, the celebrated organ manu- fiddler had to stand on a table to use his
facturer of Hagerstown, Md., is now en- bow at the proper point on the strings.
gaged in building an organ for the South This instrument was called "The Grand-
Carolina Interstate Exposition to be held father of Fiddles."
at Charlestown. Among the large number
flathushek Progress.
of pipe organs which Mr. Moller has al-
ready built are the large three-manual
This season has been an excellent one
instruments which were exhibited at for the Mathushek & Son products. The
the Trans-Mississippi Exposition held in current styles in grands and uprights are
Omaha, Neb., in 1898, and afterwards exactly suited to the demand. Agents for
sold to the University of Nebraska in the Mathushek & Son pianos in every sec-
Lincoln, Neb., and the National Export tion of the country find a ready sale for
Exposition held in Philadelphia, Pa., in each style.
1899, and sold to Beacon Presbyterian
Hoffman Officers.
Church, Philadelphia, both of which were
awarded the highest honors.
The officers of the Carl Hoffman Music
Mr. Moller last year built forty-nine Co., of Kansas City, whose reorganization
pipe organs, and has on hand at this time was recently referred to in The Review,
orders for twenty-eight two-manual and are: President, Carl Hoffman; vice-presi-
three-manual instruments, the last two re- dent, John W. Northrop; secretary and
ceived being a fine $3,000 tubular pneu- treasurer, John W. Hoffman. The direc-
matic organ for the Chester Hill M. E. tors are: Carl Hoffman, John W. Hoffman,
Church, Mt. Vernon, N. Y., and a $3,500 Ida W. Hoffman, John W. Northrop, of
tubular pneumatic organ for the Fourth the Emerson Piano Co., E. S. Payson, J.
Reformed Church, Philadelphia, both of R. Mason, of the Sterling Co., and Charles
which orders were received the same day. H. Eddy, of the Chickering & Sons.
This is sufficient proof of the popularity
Adam Schaaf, the well-known manufac-
of the Moller pipe organs and the satisfac- turer of Chicago, is, according to latest re-
tion they are giving.
ports, very ill,