Music Trade Review
Issue: 1904 Vol. 38 N. 2 - Page 39
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THE MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
In tKe Musical Merchandise Domain
NOW FOR THE SPRING BUSINESS.
Stock-Taking Over and Prospects Look Bright—
No Advance in Prices—Gut Strings Scarce—
Import Trade Quiet—The Coming Leipsic Fair
Will Attract.
ceased, and therefore stocks in staple lines
will tend to accumulate.
Foreign factors
are now looking forward to the Leipsic fair
in April as the next important trade event
and at which will be shown the new patterns
and novelties. It is stated a delegation of
American jobbers and heavy buyers will visit
Leipsic at that time, so as to get a line on the
musical merchandise market at close range.
Wholesalers are preparing for an active
selling season, though current conditions are
devoid of interest. Stocks have been inven-
toried, put in order and strengthened, and the
odds and ends are being sold off at attractive
DEATH OF GUSTAV OTTO.
figures. No general advance in prices has
In the early morning of Jan. 4, after a lin-
been announced, and with the exception of
gering
illness, the death of Gustav Otto oc-
gut strings it seems likely the discounts pre-
curred
at his residence, 91 Sherman place,
vailing for the past season will remain un-
Jersey
City
Heights, N. J. While his death
altered.
did
not
come
in the nature of a surprise to his
On low grade gut strings stocks are low
many
friends,
for he had been suffering for a
and goods are scarce and hard to get. It is
reported that in some sections of Russia the long time from a complication of diseases, it
sheep are diseased and the gut therefore un- was nevertheless a great shock.
fit for musical strings. Then again the use Gustav Otto was born in Hoboken in 1852.
of gut for certain purposes has largely in- As a youth he learned the engravers' art and
creased in the German army, and therefore was considered one of the best wood engrav-
the supply of material has decreased rapidly; ers in New York. At this trade he received a
and this is having its effect on the string mar- large salary. Later on he entered the busi-
ket. The finer grades are quoted as in nor- ness of his father, who was a manufacturer
mal condition.
of surgical instruments in Jersey City. Since
Business with the German small goods then his entire life has been passed in manu-
manufacturers is slow, according to advices facturing and marketing the product of F. G.
received this week. The holiday pressure has Otto & Sons.
It was many years ago that he added the
manufacture of musical boxes to the regular
Otto line, and through his energetic business
management the Otto wares became widely
known throughout America. Mr. Otto was
president and manager of the company for
many years. He traveled quite extensively in
the interest of his concern and enjoyed a large
ARTISTIC AND ELEGANT
personal acquaintance among dealers and job-
OUR CATALOGUES WILL
bers throughout the United States.
INTEREST YOU '
Mr. Otto was a man of imposing appear-
ance and possessed a personality which im-
MANDOLINS, 6UITARS
BANJEAUX
WALDO MANUFACTURING CO.
SACINAW,
MICHIGAN
She EUPHONIA
A new departure in flandolln Construction
The Mandolin with the Violin Tone
PRICE, $40.00
Terms on application.
Affenclts allowed to reliable dealers and teachers.
C. L. PARTEE MUSIC CO., 5 E. 14th St., New York City
Send for catalogue of latest publications.
MUSICAL BOX
WITH PIANO SOUND BOARD
MOST ARTISTIC CASES!
RICHEST TONE!
FASTEST SELLER!
This is the money-maker among musical boxes.
Send for catalogue giving "talking points."
HARPS, HARPS
Double actions by Erard, Brtt, Grot jean and
all London makers. Good as new. Largest
stock of second-hands in Europe.
Prices reasonable. Correspondence solicited.
J.
MILLER,
BRISTOL,
pressed itself on all with whom he came in
contact. He was a man of genial disposition
and formed many friends, who will learn with
great regret of his demise. He is survived by
a widow, two sons and two daughters and a
brother, Edmund Otto, who has been asso-
ciated with him for many years in his busi-
ness enterprise. The funeral services oc-
curred at his late residence on Jersey City
Heights on last Thursday at 2 p. m.
UNIVERSAL CO.'S NEW QUARTERS.
Will Remove About Feb. 1 to 28 Warren S t r e e t -
Four Floors Will Be Occupied—Growth of
Business Necessitates Move.
After February I the Universal Talking
Machine Mfg. Co. will remove to 28 Warren
street, where they have taken a three years'
lease. The new premises will quadruple the
space occupied by the company at 24 E.
Twenty-second street, New York, and the re-
moval to that" section of the city where the
phonograph people most do congregate is in
obedience to the remarkable increase of busi-
ness. On Warren street four floors will be
occupied—the first for offices, the second as
the record department, the third will be given
over to shipping and the fourth will be used
for storage.
Wednesday the Zon-o-phone Co. was in-
corporated and will succeed the Universal
Talking Machine Mfg. Co., of New York.
The capital and officers remain the same,
viz.: Henry B. Babson, president; J. A.
MacNabb, vice-president and general man-
ager; F. A. Crandall, secretary.
C. MEISEL'S GREAT YEAR.
Ambassador Flower Now Opening Up a Vigorous
Campaign on Behalf of the Meisel House.
After several weeks' stay in New York, O.
E. Flower, Western representative of C.
Meisel, returned to Chicago this week, pre-
pared to open up a vigorous onslaught for
orders at the hands of enterprising dealers.
His firm during 1903 enjoyed the heaviest
business in their career, with promise of a still
further increase in 1904. While one of the
leaders in accordeons, with sales beyond pre-
cedent, they could have added materially to
last year's total but for an unexpected short-
age in goods. This, they say, will be guarded
against in the future, and all their lines will
be ample to honor any draught.
ERNEST KOCH ON SHORT TRIP.
HARP MAKER,
Wm.ba.Bh Av«,
A4«Lins St.,
Chicago
ENGLAND
THE
VICTOR
PLACE TO BUY
TALKING MACHINES, RECORDS
AND ACCESSORIES
G O O D S Shipped within 24 hours
The largest and most complete stock in the United States.
THE VICTOR DISTRIBUTING AND EXPORT CO.,
77 Chambers Street, New York.
Ernest Koch left New York for a short
trip on Wednesday, and will show the trade
his latest harmonica styles, recently received
from Ands. Koch, Trossingen. He is due
home on the 18th, to relieve Mr. Rapalyea,
his manager, who has been elected for jury
service for the usual term from that date.
Wednesday M. E. Schoening left New
York on his annual import trip. As he goes
to the Pacific coast, several months will elapse
before his return.
THE MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
In tKe Musical Merchandise Domain
NOW FOR THE SPRING BUSINESS.
Stock-Taking Over and Prospects Look Bright—
No Advance in Prices—Gut Strings Scarce—
Import Trade Quiet—The Coming Leipsic Fair
Will Attract.
ceased, and therefore stocks in staple lines
will tend to accumulate.
Foreign factors
are now looking forward to the Leipsic fair
in April as the next important trade event
and at which will be shown the new patterns
and novelties. It is stated a delegation of
American jobbers and heavy buyers will visit
Leipsic at that time, so as to get a line on the
musical merchandise market at close range.
Wholesalers are preparing for an active
selling season, though current conditions are
devoid of interest. Stocks have been inven-
toried, put in order and strengthened, and the
odds and ends are being sold off at attractive
DEATH OF GUSTAV OTTO.
figures. No general advance in prices has
In the early morning of Jan. 4, after a lin-
been announced, and with the exception of
gering
illness, the death of Gustav Otto oc-
gut strings it seems likely the discounts pre-
curred
at his residence, 91 Sherman place,
vailing for the past season will remain un-
Jersey
City
Heights, N. J. While his death
altered.
did
not
come
in the nature of a surprise to his
On low grade gut strings stocks are low
many
friends,
for he had been suffering for a
and goods are scarce and hard to get. It is
reported that in some sections of Russia the long time from a complication of diseases, it
sheep are diseased and the gut therefore un- was nevertheless a great shock.
fit for musical strings. Then again the use Gustav Otto was born in Hoboken in 1852.
of gut for certain purposes has largely in- As a youth he learned the engravers' art and
creased in the German army, and therefore was considered one of the best wood engrav-
the supply of material has decreased rapidly; ers in New York. At this trade he received a
and this is having its effect on the string mar- large salary. Later on he entered the busi-
ket. The finer grades are quoted as in nor- ness of his father, who was a manufacturer
mal condition.
of surgical instruments in Jersey City. Since
Business with the German small goods then his entire life has been passed in manu-
manufacturers is slow, according to advices facturing and marketing the product of F. G.
received this week. The holiday pressure has Otto & Sons.
It was many years ago that he added the
manufacture of musical boxes to the regular
Otto line, and through his energetic business
management the Otto wares became widely
known throughout America. Mr. Otto was
president and manager of the company for
many years. He traveled quite extensively in
the interest of his concern and enjoyed a large
ARTISTIC AND ELEGANT
personal acquaintance among dealers and job-
OUR CATALOGUES WILL
bers throughout the United States.
INTEREST YOU '
Mr. Otto was a man of imposing appear-
ance and possessed a personality which im-
MANDOLINS, 6UITARS
BANJEAUX
WALDO MANUFACTURING CO.
SACINAW,
MICHIGAN
She EUPHONIA
A new departure in flandolln Construction
The Mandolin with the Violin Tone
PRICE, $40.00
Terms on application.
Affenclts allowed to reliable dealers and teachers.
C. L. PARTEE MUSIC CO., 5 E. 14th St., New York City
Send for catalogue of latest publications.
MUSICAL BOX
WITH PIANO SOUND BOARD
MOST ARTISTIC CASES!
RICHEST TONE!
FASTEST SELLER!
This is the money-maker among musical boxes.
Send for catalogue giving "talking points."
HARPS, HARPS
Double actions by Erard, Brtt, Grot jean and
all London makers. Good as new. Largest
stock of second-hands in Europe.
Prices reasonable. Correspondence solicited.
J.
MILLER,
BRISTOL,
pressed itself on all with whom he came in
contact. He was a man of genial disposition
and formed many friends, who will learn with
great regret of his demise. He is survived by
a widow, two sons and two daughters and a
brother, Edmund Otto, who has been asso-
ciated with him for many years in his busi-
ness enterprise. The funeral services oc-
curred at his late residence on Jersey City
Heights on last Thursday at 2 p. m.
UNIVERSAL CO.'S NEW QUARTERS.
Will Remove About Feb. 1 to 28 Warren S t r e e t -
Four Floors Will Be Occupied—Growth of
Business Necessitates Move.
After February I the Universal Talking
Machine Mfg. Co. will remove to 28 Warren
street, where they have taken a three years'
lease. The new premises will quadruple the
space occupied by the company at 24 E.
Twenty-second street, New York, and the re-
moval to that" section of the city where the
phonograph people most do congregate is in
obedience to the remarkable increase of busi-
ness. On Warren street four floors will be
occupied—the first for offices, the second as
the record department, the third will be given
over to shipping and the fourth will be used
for storage.
Wednesday the Zon-o-phone Co. was in-
corporated and will succeed the Universal
Talking Machine Mfg. Co., of New York.
The capital and officers remain the same,
viz.: Henry B. Babson, president; J. A.
MacNabb, vice-president and general man-
ager; F. A. Crandall, secretary.
C. MEISEL'S GREAT YEAR.
Ambassador Flower Now Opening Up a Vigorous
Campaign on Behalf of the Meisel House.
After several weeks' stay in New York, O.
E. Flower, Western representative of C.
Meisel, returned to Chicago this week, pre-
pared to open up a vigorous onslaught for
orders at the hands of enterprising dealers.
His firm during 1903 enjoyed the heaviest
business in their career, with promise of a still
further increase in 1904. While one of the
leaders in accordeons, with sales beyond pre-
cedent, they could have added materially to
last year's total but for an unexpected short-
age in goods. This, they say, will be guarded
against in the future, and all their lines will
be ample to honor any draught.
ERNEST KOCH ON SHORT TRIP.
HARP MAKER,
Wm.ba.Bh Av«,
A4«Lins St.,
Chicago
ENGLAND
THE
VICTOR
PLACE TO BUY
TALKING MACHINES, RECORDS
AND ACCESSORIES
G O O D S Shipped within 24 hours
The largest and most complete stock in the United States.
THE VICTOR DISTRIBUTING AND EXPORT CO.,
77 Chambers Street, New York.
Ernest Koch left New York for a short
trip on Wednesday, and will show the trade
his latest harmonica styles, recently received
from Ands. Koch, Trossingen. He is due
home on the 18th, to relieve Mr. Rapalyea,
his manager, who has been elected for jury
service for the usual term from that date.
Wednesday M. E. Schoening left New
York on his annual import trip. As he goes
to the Pacific coast, several months will elapse
before his return.
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