Music Trade Review
Issue: 1902 Vol. 34 N. 10 - Page 10
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THE MUSIC TRADE
FURBUSH ON THE PACIFIC COAST.
E. W. Furbush is missing the snow storms
of early spring in the sunshine of California,
where he is visiting the Vose agencies. Mr.
Furbush dropped in upon Benj. Curtaz &
Son this week in San Francisco. Curtaz has
done a very large Vose business this season,
as all of the dealers who handle this piano
have done. The Yose piano has broken its
own record and that of a great many others
—but the dealers know why. Ask them
about it.
EASY TO TELL A GOOD PIANO.
It is not a difficult matter to tell when a
piano is good and when it is cheap. In a
cheap piano what strikes the eye at first is
the roughness and the incompleteness of the
finish in the details. The piano looks as if
it were actually thrown together. The tone
is woodeny and stubby, or hard and metallic,
or what some people would call "tin-panny."
It is as easy to tell one of these worthless
pianos as it is. to tell a man who is afflicted
with a bad case of the small-pox. Take a
good
piano, a piano like the Hobart M. Cable
SPECIAL CECILIAN ROOMS.
for instance, and see how nicely finished
As previously referred to in The Review every phase of the instrument is: how care-
the Henry F. Miller & Sons Piano Co., of fully all the details are smoothed off, and how
Boston, are preparing very handsome quar- scrupulously every good feature is elaborated
ters for the Cecilian self-player, of which so as to win the commendation of the buyer.
they secured the agency a short time since. Then hear the tone, how sound and musical
In addition to handsome display parlors there and sympathetic it is! That is because the
will be a library room where several thou- Hobart M. Cable piano scale is skilfully
sand pieces of music will be carried. It is drawn. The whole piano shows that the
the intention of the Miller Company to give intent of the manufacturers is honest and
a series of musicales at their warerooms, in conscientious.
which the merits of the Cecilian player and
When one sees a Hobart M. Cable piano
the beautiful Miller pianos will be exploited
one realizes that it's worth every dollar that
in a most artistic wav.
is asked for it. It is a piano that wears its
EILERS AND JOHNSTON RETURN WEST. character on the outside. That is the kind
Henry ). Eilers returned to his home on of an instrument that the progressive dealer
the Pacific coast after a short visit to New should handle and the careful purchaser
York, Boston and Chicago. D. S. Johnston, should buv.
of Tacoma. who came East with Mr. Eilers
Roardman & Gray, the well-known manu-
returned at the same time. Both gentlemen
facturers
of Albany, N. Y., are advertising
will stop at Cincinnati and other points be-
fore reaching their respective homes.
a removal sale.
P. J.GILDEMEESTER WESTWARD BOUND
Mr. Giklemeester left on Wednesday for
the West, going from here to Boston where
he will visit the Oliver Ditson piano depart-
ment. After that Mr. Gildetneester will take
a rapid trip through the country to greet
the numerous Knabe dealers, and incidentally
to take a few orders, notwithstanding the
fact that the Knabe facton- is still a great
many pianos behind on orders already in.
The outlook for the future is that they will
not "catch up" for a long time, because when
Mr. Giklemeester goes out he does not come
back empty-handed.
A PUBLICATION OF INTEREST.
The Music Trades Co. have forwarded us
a copy of The Piano and Organ Purchasers'
Guide for 1902. It has a handsomely illumin-
ated title page, and between its covers con-
tains the usual amount of information, with
substantial additions, which has appeared in
previous editions of this annual. The first
Guide was issued in "97, and from its annual
appearance and steadily growing advertis-
ing patronage it has won a place in the music
trade literature of our times.
Governor Murray Crane, Governor of Mas-
sachusetts has just appointed Frank L. Gib-
son, of the Henry F. Miller & Sons Piano
Co., to be second lieutenant of the Massachu-
setts Ambulance Corps, M. B. M. Mr. Gib-
son is a veteran of the Spanish-American
war, and will do justice to himself and the
State in the position to which he has been
appointed.
This Steamship contains the largest single shipment of pianos
ever made to the Pacific Coast.
Shipped by HENRY & S G. LINDEMAN to the GIRARD PIANO
CO,, of Oakland, Cal, who have secured the agency of this
piano as a LEADER and this is their first order.
to
THE MUSIC TRADE
FURBUSH ON THE PACIFIC COAST.
E. W. Furbush is missing the snow storms
of early spring in the sunshine of California,
where he is visiting the Vose agencies. Mr.
Furbush dropped in upon Benj. Curtaz &
Son this week in San Francisco. Curtaz has
done a very large Vose business this season,
as all of the dealers who handle this piano
have done. The Yose piano has broken its
own record and that of a great many others
—but the dealers know why. Ask them
about it.
EASY TO TELL A GOOD PIANO.
It is not a difficult matter to tell when a
piano is good and when it is cheap. In a
cheap piano what strikes the eye at first is
the roughness and the incompleteness of the
finish in the details. The piano looks as if
it were actually thrown together. The tone
is woodeny and stubby, or hard and metallic,
or what some people would call "tin-panny."
It is as easy to tell one of these worthless
pianos as it is. to tell a man who is afflicted
with a bad case of the small-pox. Take a
good
piano, a piano like the Hobart M. Cable
SPECIAL CECILIAN ROOMS.
for instance, and see how nicely finished
As previously referred to in The Review every phase of the instrument is: how care-
the Henry F. Miller & Sons Piano Co., of fully all the details are smoothed off, and how
Boston, are preparing very handsome quar- scrupulously every good feature is elaborated
ters for the Cecilian self-player, of which so as to win the commendation of the buyer.
they secured the agency a short time since. Then hear the tone, how sound and musical
In addition to handsome display parlors there and sympathetic it is! That is because the
will be a library room where several thou- Hobart M. Cable piano scale is skilfully
sand pieces of music will be carried. It is drawn. The whole piano shows that the
the intention of the Miller Company to give intent of the manufacturers is honest and
a series of musicales at their warerooms, in conscientious.
which the merits of the Cecilian player and
When one sees a Hobart M. Cable piano
the beautiful Miller pianos will be exploited
one realizes that it's worth every dollar that
in a most artistic wav.
is asked for it. It is a piano that wears its
EILERS AND JOHNSTON RETURN WEST. character on the outside. That is the kind
Henry ). Eilers returned to his home on of an instrument that the progressive dealer
the Pacific coast after a short visit to New should handle and the careful purchaser
York, Boston and Chicago. D. S. Johnston, should buv.
of Tacoma. who came East with Mr. Eilers
Roardman & Gray, the well-known manu-
returned at the same time. Both gentlemen
facturers
of Albany, N. Y., are advertising
will stop at Cincinnati and other points be-
fore reaching their respective homes.
a removal sale.
P. J.GILDEMEESTER WESTWARD BOUND
Mr. Giklemeester left on Wednesday for
the West, going from here to Boston where
he will visit the Oliver Ditson piano depart-
ment. After that Mr. Gildetneester will take
a rapid trip through the country to greet
the numerous Knabe dealers, and incidentally
to take a few orders, notwithstanding the
fact that the Knabe facton- is still a great
many pianos behind on orders already in.
The outlook for the future is that they will
not "catch up" for a long time, because when
Mr. Giklemeester goes out he does not come
back empty-handed.
A PUBLICATION OF INTEREST.
The Music Trades Co. have forwarded us
a copy of The Piano and Organ Purchasers'
Guide for 1902. It has a handsomely illumin-
ated title page, and between its covers con-
tains the usual amount of information, with
substantial additions, which has appeared in
previous editions of this annual. The first
Guide was issued in "97, and from its annual
appearance and steadily growing advertis-
ing patronage it has won a place in the music
trade literature of our times.
Governor Murray Crane, Governor of Mas-
sachusetts has just appointed Frank L. Gib-
son, of the Henry F. Miller & Sons Piano
Co., to be second lieutenant of the Massachu-
setts Ambulance Corps, M. B. M. Mr. Gib-
son is a veteran of the Spanish-American
war, and will do justice to himself and the
State in the position to which he has been
appointed.
This Steamship contains the largest single shipment of pianos
ever made to the Pacific Coast.
Shipped by HENRY & S G. LINDEMAN to the GIRARD PIANO
CO,, of Oakland, Cal, who have secured the agency of this
piano as a LEADER and this is their first order.
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