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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
TWO GRAND PRIZES FOR BALDWIN.
VOSE WITH BOLLMAN BROS.
Remarkable Tribute Paid the Products of the
Baldwin Co. by the Jury of Awards at the
World's Fair—Has Caused Great Rejoicing
Among Representatives Everywhere.
Secure Representation of This Celebrated Piano
—S.
R. Harcourt Joins Bollman Forces.
(Special to The Review.)
Indianapolis, Ind., Oct. 25, 1904.
The Superior Jury at the World's Fair have
awarded two Grand Prizes to the Baldwin Co.,
one for pianos and piano players and one for the
model factory exhibit.
A telegram to this effect was received on Sat-
urday by D. H. Baldwin & Co., of this city, and
caused great rejoicing throughout the entire or-
ganization. The telegram was duplicated to all
agencies throughout the United States and cabled
to a number of foreign countries.
The pianos manufactured by the Baldwin Co.,
as well as the piano players, successfully ran
the gauntlet of the Group Jury of eight members,
the Department Jury of thirty-two members, and
the Superior Jury, composed of the president of
the Exposition, directors of exhibits, chiefs of
departments and foreign commissioners from
each nation.
These two grand prizes confirm in the strong-
est possible manner the recognition attained
abroad when the Grand Prix was awarded at
Paris in 1900, thus giving the Baldwin Co. the
highest honors of the world.
PURCHASED EXPENSIVE KNABE.
Brown, Page & Hillman Sell This Magnificent
Instrument to Mrs. J. W. Van Sant.
(Special to The Review.)
Peoria, 111., Oct. 25, 1904.
There arrived in Peoria last Friday afternoon
by freight one of the handsomest and most ex-
pensive concert grand pianos that has come to
the city as a purchase in many moons. There
are only a half dozen or so of pianos this size
in the city, and Mrs. J. W. Van Sant is the
proud possessor of this one. She purchased it
through the firm of Brown, Page & Hillman, and
planned that it should arrive on the day of her
son Ralph's birthday, which was yesterday. The
young doctor was radiant when it was set up in
the reception room at their home in the Van
Sant building, and well he might be, for it is a
beautiful Beethoven concert grand from the
Knabe factory. The case is rosewood and tne
style rich and plain, patterned after colonial
lines. The tone is exquisitely sweet and the
immense length of string makes equal volume
possible.
This firm has had the agency for the Knabe
piano for less than two months, and this is prob-
ably the largest sale made here for years, for in
addition to the grand it includes an Apollo piano
player, full size, and an upright piano to which
that will be attached. The grand to be reserved
for solo use. Thus the Knabe makes its initial
bow to the people of Peoria through the hustling
firm of Brown, Page & Hillman.
SAVED
CUNNINGHAM FACTORY
FIRE.
FROM
(Special to The Review.)
Philadelphia, Pa., Oct. 25, 1904.
By prompt response the fire brigade of the
Mantua Transfer, Pennsylvania Railroad, pre-
vented the destruction of the Cunningham piano
factory, at Forty-ninth street and Parkside ave-
nue, early this morning.
A watchman saw smoke pouring from the
cellar at 3.30 o'clock. He telephoned immediately
to the nearest engine company, but before the
city apparatus arrived the railway men re-
sponded with their hose and chemical and had
the flames subdued. The loss was but a few
hundred dollars, but the origin is unknown.
A. B. Clinton, Krakauer agent at New Haven,
was a visitor at the Krakauer headquarters last
week. He left an order,
(Special to The Review.)
St. Louis, Mo., Oct. 26, 1904.
The most important trade item of the week in
this city is that the Bollman Bros. Co. have se-
cured the representation of the Vose piano for
this city and vicinity. It is also announced that
is. R. Harcourt will take charge of the retail de-
partment of the Bollman Bros. Co. on November
1st.
A DUBUQUE INCORPORATION.
Messrs. Harger, Blish and Deckert Organize
Company for the Manufacture and Sale of
Pianos—Capital Stock, $75,000.
(Special to The Review.)
Dubuque, la., Oct. 24, 1904.
A company composed of Messrs. Harger &
Blish and A. A. Deckert filed articles of incor-
poration this morning in the office of the county
recorder. The object of the company is to manu-
facture, buy and sell pianos, organs and other
merchandise.
The capital stock is placed at $75,000, di-
vided into shares of flOO each; and $60,000 must
be subscribed and fully paid in, in cash, when
business shall be commenced. The remainder is
to be open to subscription only on a two-thirds
vote of a majority of the stockholders, and to be
paid in as the stockholders may determine.
The affairs of the company are to be con-
ducted by a president, vice-president, secretary
and treasurer, and a board of directors of not
less than three nor more than five. B. M. Har-
ger, A. A. Deckert and H. H. Blish shall be such
board for one year. The articles also provide
that B. M. Harger shall be president and treas-
urer; A. A. Deckert, vice-president, and H. H.
Blish, secretary. The articles are signed by the
three gentlemen named in the foregoing.
FORBES CO. GAIN 52 PER CENT.
In
Year's Business—McArthur Joins Sales
Managerial Forces—A Progressive House.
(Special to The Review.)
Birmingham, Ala., Oct. 25, 1904.
During the twelve months, ending October 1,
1904, the E. B. Forbes Piano & Organ Co. gained
in their city sales department 52 per cent, over
the same period ending October 1, 1903. While
several changes have taken place this year and
advanced methods have constantly been put into
force in this establishment, nevertheless Mr.
Forbes attributes a great part of the increased
business to the fact that the house has a better
location than ever before.
The continually growing business of this com-
pany has necessitated the help of a larger force,
and they have secured the services of W. R. Mc-
Arthur, of Savannah, as city sales manager, who
is one of the best-known piano men in the South.
Mr. Chamberlain, vice-president of the company,
so popular throughout this territory, will assume
charge of the traveling salesmen and out of town
agencies. Mr. Forbes will, as formerly, have a
general oversight of the Forbes stores at different
points.
The company are sole agents for the famous
Chickering, Mathushek, Everett and Krell-French
instruments, as well as for the Eptey pipe and
reed organs.
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A NEW CHICKERINQ CATALOGUE.
A
Beautiful Publication Just Issued
Merits the Highest Praise.
Which
(Special to The Review.)
Boston, Mass., Oct. 26, 1904.
The making of a pianoforte catalogue has
come to be almost as much of an art as the mak-
ing of a pianoforte. For more than 80 years
Chickering & Sons have made pianofortes—and
catalogues—but this week there was issued from
this great house the finest catalogue of all, 1h
conjunction with the new Baby Grand Piano-
forte. It is not ornate, or filled with gay-colored
pages. It is, rather, Chickeringesque in Its ele-
gant simplicity. The cover, of cream paper, with
a delicate gilt and dark-blue border, contains
merely the words, "Chickering & Sons, Piano-
forte Makers, Boston, U. S. A.," and in the center
a reproduction of the medal of the Legion of
Honor. Upon each page is given, in modest form,
a reproduction of one of the many other medals
of honor given the company.
In a faint, delicate and attractive symbolic
border is a foreword which is well worthy of
study. It is "Multum in Parvo." It states that:
"After a career of more than eighty years, a career in
manifold directions, embracing art, industry and com-
merce, the house of Chickering & Sons, in presenting its
latest catalogue, believes itself entitled to eschew many
of the descriptive details essential to younger piano-
makers, for it has been more than once said the name
needs no superlatives to emphasize Its greatness.
"In every sense of the word, the piano, as It is known
to-day, is, relatively speaking, a modern art product, Its
age being limited to the enclave of a century. Before
the last century had advanced one-fourth of its course,
the founder of the house of Chickering had already
placed before the musical world the product of his skill
and genius, for Jonas Chickering had entered upon his
work as the leading intellect and force in piano con-
struction In America as early as 1823, having experi-
mented considerably during the preceding years. He
represented in his personality at that time all that was
known in the realm of his art, plus the inherent capac-
ity to develop his knowledge practically in the creation
of the Chickering piano and its development as the years
of his potency and ascendency progressed.
"In the early years of his activity, the square piano—
a successor of the sJd clavichord and kindred Instru-
ments—was chiefly held in esteem, but as early as 1830
Jonas Chickering made upright pianos, thus anticipating
by many years the manufacture of this class of instru-
ments.
"Following rapidly upon the upright came the grand
piano, of which the very first of its kind with a full iron
plate or frame (such as are used at the present moment
in the construction of these Instruments in Europe and
America) was made by Jonas Chickering, in 1840, and
he consequently endowed his pianos with a new and dis-
tinct tonal quality that has gradually been accepted and
adopted as the modern piano tone, or tone of the modern
parlor and concert piano. Not only has this quality be-
come the characteristically predominant one in America,
it has been adopted as the only consistent quality of
piano tune by all the leading makers who aspire to
musical pre-eminence."
The descriptions of the various styles are as
brief and concise as they can be made. The
illustrations are fine specimens of the engraver's
art. Style R, the new Baby Grand, has the posi-
tion of honor and deservedly so. Following this
is the famous quarter grand, and then the small
semi-grand, and concert grands, and the uprights
in styles B, O and N.
The back cover contains merely the fall-board
inscription used by the house, but this is all that
is necessary, for the name Chickering & Sons
tells the story.
:
NEW FACTORY FOR SCHENCKE CO.
Ludwig F. D. Schutle, representing the
Schencke Piano Co., this week purchased a new
factory at 271-275 Rider avenue, on a plot 80x
125x43x150.
BEHR BROS. & CO.
PIANOS,
29th Street and I Ith Ave., NEW YORK.
HIGHEST STANDARD OF EXCELLENCE.