Music Trade Review
Issue: 1901 Vol. 33 N. 5 - Page 36
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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
WANTS COBBLERS TO TEACH MUSIC
[Special to The Review.]
Washington, D. C, July 30, 1901.
The Civil Service Commission has cast its
grappling hooks out over the country at large
for the shoe and harness makers. The ex-
aminations for the positions will be held on
September 14. One man is wanted at the
Chamberlain School, South Dakota, and the
other is needed at the Salem, Oregon, Indian
School.
The shoe and harness maker who gets the
South Dakota place must "be competent to
teach band music," the civil service circular
of instruction says. He will get $560 a year
for making the shoes of all the little Indians
at the school, for building the harness for all
the horses in the stables, and for putting in
his spare time teaching the young aboriginal
idea how to shoot painful sounds from the
mouths of tortured instruments.
When this matter gets noised around Uncle
Sam will have a boycott on his hands. The
Musical Federation or some other body will
make the Civil Service Dep't learn something
about musicians around election time, or I
am much mistaken.
STARR PIANOS
Embody generous artistic values and have
*
been found most desirable instruments for
the dealers to handle.
J*
WONDER THEY DON'T MELT.
In last* week's Review we announced the
decision of the board of classification of
United States general appraisers to the effect
that phonograph cylinders with the French
songs indented in them should have been as-
sessed at 25 per cent, ad valorem as a "manu-
facture of wax," reversing thereby a pre-
vious ruling of the collector of the port of
New Orleans who taxed them as "musical in-
struments" at 45 per cent.
Commenting on this decision, the Chicago
Record-Herald says: Of course these "rec-
ords" are not, strictly speaking, "manufac-
tures of wax." Most people who are familar
with the character of the French songs that
come through the funnel of a phonograph will
be inclined to support the position of the col-
lector of the port in so far as it favored the
highest tax.
THE EVERETT DELIGHTED.
The Everett piano which was used at the
Sixth Annual Convention of the Iowa Society
of Music Teachers held at Waterloo, has been
the subject of some very complimentary re-
marks in the local papers. For instance the
Dubuque Journal says: "The Everett piano
has been the favorite during the meetings
just held, and was selected by all of the heavi-
est artists on the program. The quality of
tone, the volume and the touch of the instru-
ment has delighted the people who have given
it the trial that it deserves."
.., . .,. .„
•*
Factories: RICHMOND,
IND.
Simplex flMano
I THE
THEODORE P. BROWN
WORCESTER, MASS.
Writ* for territory and terms.
You want an easy seller
THEN
SECURE T H E AGENCY
FOR T H E
5TULTZ <& BAUER
cA Leader And a. Seller as
RUMORS AND ONLY RUMORS.
. The statement made that the importers of
musical merchandise contemplate forming a
trust or combination has been vigorously de-
nied by every house in the trade. The story
is not only untrue, but it seems to have been
manufactured out of the whole cloth, purely
as a space-filler.
The dissemination of such statements,
when entirely unfounded, should be heartily
condemned.
•*
FACTORIES AND WAREROOMS:
NEW YORK
338-340 EAST 3Jst STREET
Smitb & UBarnee (Marios
Most Profitable for th<
Dealer to Handle & j
Factory, 477 to 481 Clybourn Avenue,
CHICAGO, ILL.
HALXET
DAVIS
Endorsed by Leading Artists
for more than Half a Century
...BOSTON. MASS.
THE HAGEN & RUEFER PIANOS
RE MADE to satisfy the desire of
the buying public. Honest in
construction, tasteful in design;
touch, light and elastic, and
musical quality unsurpassed. The
prices are low, making them just the right
instrument for dealers who wish to make
money, while building up a good reputation.
WRITE FOR PARTICULARS AND
TERRITORY TO THE FACTORY AT
PETERBORO,
(7hmiman Pianos
N. H.
A PIANO AiADE FOR
MUSICAL PEOPLE.
RICH IN VALUE
FOR THE DEALER.
GHRISTMAN & SON,
RADLE
PIANOS
Office and Ware rooms: 21 East 14th St., New Yor-.
Factory: 665-667 Hudson Street* New York.
are built to wear, of the best
material and sold at a remark-
ably low price. A money-making
instrument for the dealer.
Factory, 611 & 613 West 36th Street, NEW YORK.
THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
WANTS COBBLERS TO TEACH MUSIC
[Special to The Review.]
Washington, D. C, July 30, 1901.
The Civil Service Commission has cast its
grappling hooks out over the country at large
for the shoe and harness makers. The ex-
aminations for the positions will be held on
September 14. One man is wanted at the
Chamberlain School, South Dakota, and the
other is needed at the Salem, Oregon, Indian
School.
The shoe and harness maker who gets the
South Dakota place must "be competent to
teach band music," the civil service circular
of instruction says. He will get $560 a year
for making the shoes of all the little Indians
at the school, for building the harness for all
the horses in the stables, and for putting in
his spare time teaching the young aboriginal
idea how to shoot painful sounds from the
mouths of tortured instruments.
When this matter gets noised around Uncle
Sam will have a boycott on his hands. The
Musical Federation or some other body will
make the Civil Service Dep't learn something
about musicians around election time, or I
am much mistaken.
STARR PIANOS
Embody generous artistic values and have
*
been found most desirable instruments for
the dealers to handle.
J*
WONDER THEY DON'T MELT.
In last* week's Review we announced the
decision of the board of classification of
United States general appraisers to the effect
that phonograph cylinders with the French
songs indented in them should have been as-
sessed at 25 per cent, ad valorem as a "manu-
facture of wax," reversing thereby a pre-
vious ruling of the collector of the port of
New Orleans who taxed them as "musical in-
struments" at 45 per cent.
Commenting on this decision, the Chicago
Record-Herald says: Of course these "rec-
ords" are not, strictly speaking, "manufac-
tures of wax." Most people who are familar
with the character of the French songs that
come through the funnel of a phonograph will
be inclined to support the position of the col-
lector of the port in so far as it favored the
highest tax.
THE EVERETT DELIGHTED.
The Everett piano which was used at the
Sixth Annual Convention of the Iowa Society
of Music Teachers held at Waterloo, has been
the subject of some very complimentary re-
marks in the local papers. For instance the
Dubuque Journal says: "The Everett piano
has been the favorite during the meetings
just held, and was selected by all of the heavi-
est artists on the program. The quality of
tone, the volume and the touch of the instru-
ment has delighted the people who have given
it the trial that it deserves."
.., . .,. .„
•*
Factories: RICHMOND,
IND.
Simplex flMano
I THE
THEODORE P. BROWN
WORCESTER, MASS.
Writ* for territory and terms.
You want an easy seller
THEN
SECURE T H E AGENCY
FOR T H E
5TULTZ <& BAUER
cA Leader And a. Seller as
RUMORS AND ONLY RUMORS.
. The statement made that the importers of
musical merchandise contemplate forming a
trust or combination has been vigorously de-
nied by every house in the trade. The story
is not only untrue, but it seems to have been
manufactured out of the whole cloth, purely
as a space-filler.
The dissemination of such statements,
when entirely unfounded, should be heartily
condemned.
•*
FACTORIES AND WAREROOMS:
NEW YORK
338-340 EAST 3Jst STREET
Smitb & UBarnee (Marios
Most Profitable for th<
Dealer to Handle & j
Factory, 477 to 481 Clybourn Avenue,
CHICAGO, ILL.
HALXET
DAVIS
Endorsed by Leading Artists
for more than Half a Century
...BOSTON. MASS.
THE HAGEN & RUEFER PIANOS
RE MADE to satisfy the desire of
the buying public. Honest in
construction, tasteful in design;
touch, light and elastic, and
musical quality unsurpassed. The
prices are low, making them just the right
instrument for dealers who wish to make
money, while building up a good reputation.
WRITE FOR PARTICULARS AND
TERRITORY TO THE FACTORY AT
PETERBORO,
(7hmiman Pianos
N. H.
A PIANO AiADE FOR
MUSICAL PEOPLE.
RICH IN VALUE
FOR THE DEALER.
GHRISTMAN & SON,
RADLE
PIANOS
Office and Ware rooms: 21 East 14th St., New Yor-.
Factory: 665-667 Hudson Street* New York.
are built to wear, of the best
material and sold at a remark-
ably low price. A money-making
instrument for the dealer.
Factory, 611 & 613 West 36th Street, NEW YORK.
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