Music Trade Review
Issue: 1904 Vol. 39 N. 4 - Page 7
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REVIEW
THE
fflJJIC TIRADE
VOL. XXXIX.
No. 4.
Ptiriidul Every Sat, ty Edwarfl Lymap Bill at 1 Maflison Aye., New Tort, Jnly 23,1904.
SINGLE COPIES. 10 CENTS.
$2.00 PER YEAR.
GREATEST YEAR IN OUR HISTORY.
LATE EUROPEAN INVENTIONS.
All Records Broken in Our Export and Import
Trade—A Splendid Demonstration of the
Wealth and Health of the Country.
Something of the Streich-Clavier—Another In-
strument to Record Improvisations.
A new musical instrument has been invented
by Herr Kilhmeyer, of Pressburg, Hungary. It
is called a Streich-Clavier, and has the usual key-
board of the piano; in place of the hammers, how-
ever there are prepared leather strips which are
set in motion by machinery; these so pass over
the strings that by strong pressure on the keys
a, crescendo can be produced on each note; the
tone also lasts as long as the key is held down.
The tone of the instrument is somewhat similar
to that of the harmonium.
Another musical novelty in Europe is an ap-
paratus on which American inventors, too, have
been successfully at work for some years. It is an
apparatus for recording notes, and it can be at-
tached to any pianoforte near to an electric cur-
rent. The notes are recorded on five-line staves,
in longer or shorter cross-strokes, after the man-
ner of telegraphy. It is intended especially to
note down improvisations. The inventor is named
Kromar, and the instrument is called a Kromaro-
graph.
r Special to The Review.)
Washington, D. C, July 18, 1904.
The foreign commerce of the United States in
the fiscal year 1904 is the largest in its history;
the exports of manufactures are larger than in
any preceding year, and the exports of domestic
products exceed those of any other country.
This is the substance in a single sentence, of
the record of the year's commerce just announced
by the Department of Commerce and Labor
through its Bureau of Statistics. It shows, taking
up the figures in detail, that the total exports
during the year ending June 30, 1904, are $1,460,-
829,539, against $1,420,141,679 in the fiscal year
1903, an increase of $40,687,860; that the imports
for the year are $990,745,084, against $1,025,71.9,-
237 in 1903, a decrease of $34,974,153; and that
the excess of exports over imports is $470,084.-
455, against $394,422,442 in 1903, an increase of
$75,662,013 in the excess of exports over im-
ports.
Comparing the figures of 190i -with those of ear-
lier years, it may be said that the total exports
are larger than in any preceding year except 1901,
that the imports are greater than in any preced-
ing year except 1903; and that the total com-
merce—the imports and exports combined—in
1904 is greater than that of any preceding year.
PRAISE FOR MOLLER PIPE ORGAN
From Eminent Organists and Others—Moller
at the World's Fair.
SALESMANSHIP TAUGHT.
A New Educational Notion Being Tried in
Chicago.
ALFRED L. PECK.
A novel institution has just been organized in
Chicago. Its motto is "Sure, Solid Success." Its
purpose is to turn out, after a course of twenty
weeks' study, full fledged salesmen whose compre-
hensive knowledge is calculated to adapt them to
any line of trade.
Object lessons in salesmanship are given by
successful business men, including John V. Far-
well, a leading merchant. The moral welfare of
students is supervised by Bishop Samuel Fallows.
Experiences in the commercial world are related
by a department chief of Marshall Field & Co.
Young men taking instructions are intellect-
ually equipped by a triple series of examples, side-
lights and lectures, all in booklet form. Written
examinations must be passed to qualify.
R. 0. BURGESS' REPORT.
R. O. Burgess, of the Wegman Piano Co., who
has been making an extended trip through the
West and Northwest, states that the outlook for
business in that section, while uneven, is on tlv
whole satisfactory. There are sections such as
Colorado where the outlook is not encouraging,
but crops generally are good, and dealers are op-
timistic.
E. D. Ackerman. of the Pianotist Co., reached
London on Saturday last by the steamship Una-
bria, alter a most enjoyable voyage,
Alfred L. Peck, head of the Hardman, Peck &
Co. enterprise, is a young man of ability of an
unusual order, which has been manifested in va-
rious ways throughout his business career. Mr.
Peck is splendidly fitted for the practical side of
the piano business, having served a term of three
and one-half years in the Hardman factory,
where he graduated in every department.
For the past few years he has assumed an
active part in the general management of the
business, having had entire charge during the an-
nual absence, in Europe- for several months, of
his father, the late Leopold Peck. He therefore
is in thorough harmony with the Hardman,
Peck & Co. system, and proposes that there will
be no radical departure in the management of
the business. He will conduct it along the same
lines laid down by his father.
Alfred L. Peck is now in his thirty-third year,
just in full flush of young manhood, and it is
assured that he will be heard from in no un-
certain way in the further expansion of the busi-
ness of Hardman, Peck & Co.
UNION CONTRACTS VOID.
Judge Ludwig, sitting in the Circuit Court, Mil-
waukee, Wis., has ruled in a local case that union
contracts are void inasmuch as they have a tend-
ency to create monopolies.
M. P. Moller, the progressive pipe organ
manufacturer, Hagerstown, Md., has just issued
a book of testimonials in which the merits of the
M. P. Moller pipe organs are extolled by eminent
organists, musicians and pastors of leading
churches. The volume opens with letters from
Clarence Eddy, Wm. C. Carl, Dr. Gerrit Smith,
president of the American Guild of Organists;
J. Warren Andrews, and a host of others. A peru-
sal of this volume will enable one to comprehend
why over six hundred Moller pipe organs are now
in use and why they have given such general
satisfaction.
M. P. Moller has sent out an invitation, asking
visitors to the St. Louis Exposition to call at the
Iowa State building, and examine the large Mol-
ler pipe organ which was purchased by Gov. Wm.
Larrabee, of Iowa, and loaned to the Iowa State
building. This is the third Moller organ which
Gov. Larrabee has purchased for presentation to
prominent institutions in his State.
NOW VICE-PRESIDENT
HOLMES.
At a meeting of the directors of the Perforated
Music Roll Co., held at the office of the company
on Thursday, July 14th, James S. Holmes, Jr.,
gersral manager, was elected vice-president of the
company and Messrs. J. R. Lovejoy and J. H. Da-
vis were elected board of directors.
The promotion of Mr. Holmes will meet with
general approbation. He has been a tireless and
effective worker for his house, and his record is
a magnificent one. Under his management this
business has grown to formidable dimensions, as
can be noted by a visit to their factory at Schen-
ectady, or to the headquarters at 10 W. 23rd
street, this city.
REVIEW
THE
fflJJIC TIRADE
VOL. XXXIX.
No. 4.
Ptiriidul Every Sat, ty Edwarfl Lymap Bill at 1 Maflison Aye., New Tort, Jnly 23,1904.
SINGLE COPIES. 10 CENTS.
$2.00 PER YEAR.
GREATEST YEAR IN OUR HISTORY.
LATE EUROPEAN INVENTIONS.
All Records Broken in Our Export and Import
Trade—A Splendid Demonstration of the
Wealth and Health of the Country.
Something of the Streich-Clavier—Another In-
strument to Record Improvisations.
A new musical instrument has been invented
by Herr Kilhmeyer, of Pressburg, Hungary. It
is called a Streich-Clavier, and has the usual key-
board of the piano; in place of the hammers, how-
ever there are prepared leather strips which are
set in motion by machinery; these so pass over
the strings that by strong pressure on the keys
a, crescendo can be produced on each note; the
tone also lasts as long as the key is held down.
The tone of the instrument is somewhat similar
to that of the harmonium.
Another musical novelty in Europe is an ap-
paratus on which American inventors, too, have
been successfully at work for some years. It is an
apparatus for recording notes, and it can be at-
tached to any pianoforte near to an electric cur-
rent. The notes are recorded on five-line staves,
in longer or shorter cross-strokes, after the man-
ner of telegraphy. It is intended especially to
note down improvisations. The inventor is named
Kromar, and the instrument is called a Kromaro-
graph.
r Special to The Review.)
Washington, D. C, July 18, 1904.
The foreign commerce of the United States in
the fiscal year 1904 is the largest in its history;
the exports of manufactures are larger than in
any preceding year, and the exports of domestic
products exceed those of any other country.
This is the substance in a single sentence, of
the record of the year's commerce just announced
by the Department of Commerce and Labor
through its Bureau of Statistics. It shows, taking
up the figures in detail, that the total exports
during the year ending June 30, 1904, are $1,460,-
829,539, against $1,420,141,679 in the fiscal year
1903, an increase of $40,687,860; that the imports
for the year are $990,745,084, against $1,025,71.9,-
237 in 1903, a decrease of $34,974,153; and that
the excess of exports over imports is $470,084.-
455, against $394,422,442 in 1903, an increase of
$75,662,013 in the excess of exports over im-
ports.
Comparing the figures of 190i -with those of ear-
lier years, it may be said that the total exports
are larger than in any preceding year except 1901,
that the imports are greater than in any preced-
ing year except 1903; and that the total com-
merce—the imports and exports combined—in
1904 is greater than that of any preceding year.
PRAISE FOR MOLLER PIPE ORGAN
From Eminent Organists and Others—Moller
at the World's Fair.
SALESMANSHIP TAUGHT.
A New Educational Notion Being Tried in
Chicago.
ALFRED L. PECK.
A novel institution has just been organized in
Chicago. Its motto is "Sure, Solid Success." Its
purpose is to turn out, after a course of twenty
weeks' study, full fledged salesmen whose compre-
hensive knowledge is calculated to adapt them to
any line of trade.
Object lessons in salesmanship are given by
successful business men, including John V. Far-
well, a leading merchant. The moral welfare of
students is supervised by Bishop Samuel Fallows.
Experiences in the commercial world are related
by a department chief of Marshall Field & Co.
Young men taking instructions are intellect-
ually equipped by a triple series of examples, side-
lights and lectures, all in booklet form. Written
examinations must be passed to qualify.
R. 0. BURGESS' REPORT.
R. O. Burgess, of the Wegman Piano Co., who
has been making an extended trip through the
West and Northwest, states that the outlook for
business in that section, while uneven, is on tlv
whole satisfactory. There are sections such as
Colorado where the outlook is not encouraging,
but crops generally are good, and dealers are op-
timistic.
E. D. Ackerman. of the Pianotist Co., reached
London on Saturday last by the steamship Una-
bria, alter a most enjoyable voyage,
Alfred L. Peck, head of the Hardman, Peck &
Co. enterprise, is a young man of ability of an
unusual order, which has been manifested in va-
rious ways throughout his business career. Mr.
Peck is splendidly fitted for the practical side of
the piano business, having served a term of three
and one-half years in the Hardman factory,
where he graduated in every department.
For the past few years he has assumed an
active part in the general management of the
business, having had entire charge during the an-
nual absence, in Europe- for several months, of
his father, the late Leopold Peck. He therefore
is in thorough harmony with the Hardman,
Peck & Co. system, and proposes that there will
be no radical departure in the management of
the business. He will conduct it along the same
lines laid down by his father.
Alfred L. Peck is now in his thirty-third year,
just in full flush of young manhood, and it is
assured that he will be heard from in no un-
certain way in the further expansion of the busi-
ness of Hardman, Peck & Co.
UNION CONTRACTS VOID.
Judge Ludwig, sitting in the Circuit Court, Mil-
waukee, Wis., has ruled in a local case that union
contracts are void inasmuch as they have a tend-
ency to create monopolies.
M. P. Moller, the progressive pipe organ
manufacturer, Hagerstown, Md., has just issued
a book of testimonials in which the merits of the
M. P. Moller pipe organs are extolled by eminent
organists, musicians and pastors of leading
churches. The volume opens with letters from
Clarence Eddy, Wm. C. Carl, Dr. Gerrit Smith,
president of the American Guild of Organists;
J. Warren Andrews, and a host of others. A peru-
sal of this volume will enable one to comprehend
why over six hundred Moller pipe organs are now
in use and why they have given such general
satisfaction.
M. P. Moller has sent out an invitation, asking
visitors to the St. Louis Exposition to call at the
Iowa State building, and examine the large Mol-
ler pipe organ which was purchased by Gov. Wm.
Larrabee, of Iowa, and loaned to the Iowa State
building. This is the third Moller organ which
Gov. Larrabee has purchased for presentation to
prominent institutions in his State.
NOW VICE-PRESIDENT
HOLMES.
At a meeting of the directors of the Perforated
Music Roll Co., held at the office of the company
on Thursday, July 14th, James S. Holmes, Jr.,
gersral manager, was elected vice-president of the
company and Messrs. J. R. Lovejoy and J. H. Da-
vis were elected board of directors.
The promotion of Mr. Holmes will meet with
general approbation. He has been a tireless and
effective worker for his house, and his record is
a magnificent one. Under his management this
business has grown to formidable dimensions, as
can be noted by a visit to their factory at Schen-
ectady, or to the headquarters at 10 W. 23rd
street, this city.
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