Music Trade Review
Issue: 1905 Vol. 40 N. 1 - Page 41
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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
HOHNER'S BRIGHTEST YEAR.
The Year Just Opened Is Destined to Witness
A Big Advance of This Business.
The Hohner year promises to be the brightest
in all of the bright Hohner new years which
have occurred since the establishment of the
firm. The aggressive publicity methods of the
firm, supported as they are by sterling merit in
manufacture of the Hohner product will be con-
tinued with unabated zeal. The general man-
agement of the firm's affairs, in the hands of the
founder's several sons, is certain to be even
more successful in the future than it has been in
the past. The programme for 1905 includes many
new styles and novelties in the Hohner accorde-
ons and harmonicas.
41
of selections from famous living singers. The
most recent additions to the record list, includ-
ing the Melba and Sembrich records, are truly
marvelous.
as to automatically play a different tune every
hour or every half hour. The clock is of the
most reliable make.
THE REGINA HALL CLOCK.
Incorporated This Week, With a Capital Stock
of $100,000—New Move Discussed.
Regina No. 2 Hall Clock, shown in the illus-
tration, and described in The Review of Decem-
ber 17, has been one of the favorite holiday nov-
elties and is certain to remain a standard pre-
sentation piece for birthdays and other occasions.
The automatic tune-changing device plays six
different tunes and is so adjusted with the clock
RULING BY BOARD OF APPRAISERS.
(Special to The Review.)
Washington, D. C, Jan. 3, 1905.
In a protest against the assessment of duty by
surveyor of customs of St. Louis Mo., the import-
er's contention was sustained by the General
Board of Appraisers in an opinion written by
Fischer, G. A., delivered December 20, as fol-
lows: "The board sustains the importers' con-
tention that, certain cheap sheets of decalco-
mania, suitable only for the amusement of chil-
dren, should have been classified as toys under
paragraph 418, tariff act of 1897, and not as
lithographic prints under paragraph 400."
WM.
R. QRATZ IMPORT CO.
The Wm. R. Gratz Co., 11 East 22d street, has
been re-incorporated as the Wm. R. Gratz Import
Co., with capital of $100,000, fully paid in. Wm.
R. Gratz remains president and treasurer, Joseph
Mock, retains his post as secretary, and Mrs.
Gratz continues as vice-president. Mr. Gratz, in
referring to the change of title and increase of
capital during a talk with The Review, on Tues-
day, said: "The increase in our business has
made this change and increased capital neces-
sary. Our business policy will also be changed
to some extent. We will import direct, never-
theless, to a large extent, instead of having goods
sent direct- from the factory to the customer.
Many of our customers prefer that we should do
this.
"Our policy will be, if possible, more aggress-
ive than ever before. There will be an advance
movement all along the line. In this connection
we have engaged a special buyer who will at-
tend to the placing of orders to the Markneu-
kirchen factories and see that they are prop-
erly filled."
Joseph Mock, secretary of the company, left in
the last day of the year for a business trip in
the South. He will be away about three weeks.
JACOT'S BIJOU MUSIC BOX.
VICTOR RECORDS GREATLY ADMIRED.
The Jacot Music Box Co., of Union Square,
New York, are destined to have a big demand
for their Bijou miniature music box, which they
recently placed on the market. Style 28 is made
with six tunes, in polished wood case, the tune
sheets being four and one-half inches in diam-
eter. The largest style, entitled No. 30, has
twelve tunes. They are operated by a spring
motor, and have a number of contrivances which
insure some remarkable musical effects.
The headquarters of the Victor Distributing &
Export Co., 77 Chambers street, has become a
favorite rendezvous for Victor admirers in this
city and for all those who have heard or read
of the wonderful work done by the Victor and
desire to note its performance for themselves.
Any morning or afternoon may be seen there a
group of interested and surprised listeners who
hear with evident delight the perfect rendition
SOUSA TALK-0-PHONE
AT $40.00 EQUALS OTHERS
AT $75.00 SELLS B E T T E R
=
IS BETTER.
=
THE SOUSA
PRICE, $40.00
THE
GET SOME
DISCOUNTS ON
INFORMATION
OVR
ON THAT
MACHINES
NEW
WILL
FIFTY
SURPRISE
CENT
YOU
RECORD
THE
TALK-O-PHONE
THE TALft-O-PHONE COMPANY
TOLEDO,
NEW YORK
CHICAGO
OHIO
SAN
FRANCISCO
THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
HOHNER'S BRIGHTEST YEAR.
The Year Just Opened Is Destined to Witness
A Big Advance of This Business.
The Hohner year promises to be the brightest
in all of the bright Hohner new years which
have occurred since the establishment of the
firm. The aggressive publicity methods of the
firm, supported as they are by sterling merit in
manufacture of the Hohner product will be con-
tinued with unabated zeal. The general man-
agement of the firm's affairs, in the hands of the
founder's several sons, is certain to be even
more successful in the future than it has been in
the past. The programme for 1905 includes many
new styles and novelties in the Hohner accorde-
ons and harmonicas.
41
of selections from famous living singers. The
most recent additions to the record list, includ-
ing the Melba and Sembrich records, are truly
marvelous.
as to automatically play a different tune every
hour or every half hour. The clock is of the
most reliable make.
THE REGINA HALL CLOCK.
Incorporated This Week, With a Capital Stock
of $100,000—New Move Discussed.
Regina No. 2 Hall Clock, shown in the illus-
tration, and described in The Review of Decem-
ber 17, has been one of the favorite holiday nov-
elties and is certain to remain a standard pre-
sentation piece for birthdays and other occasions.
The automatic tune-changing device plays six
different tunes and is so adjusted with the clock
RULING BY BOARD OF APPRAISERS.
(Special to The Review.)
Washington, D. C, Jan. 3, 1905.
In a protest against the assessment of duty by
surveyor of customs of St. Louis Mo., the import-
er's contention was sustained by the General
Board of Appraisers in an opinion written by
Fischer, G. A., delivered December 20, as fol-
lows: "The board sustains the importers' con-
tention that, certain cheap sheets of decalco-
mania, suitable only for the amusement of chil-
dren, should have been classified as toys under
paragraph 418, tariff act of 1897, and not as
lithographic prints under paragraph 400."
WM.
R. QRATZ IMPORT CO.
The Wm. R. Gratz Co., 11 East 22d street, has
been re-incorporated as the Wm. R. Gratz Import
Co., with capital of $100,000, fully paid in. Wm.
R. Gratz remains president and treasurer, Joseph
Mock, retains his post as secretary, and Mrs.
Gratz continues as vice-president. Mr. Gratz, in
referring to the change of title and increase of
capital during a talk with The Review, on Tues-
day, said: "The increase in our business has
made this change and increased capital neces-
sary. Our business policy will also be changed
to some extent. We will import direct, never-
theless, to a large extent, instead of having goods
sent direct- from the factory to the customer.
Many of our customers prefer that we should do
this.
"Our policy will be, if possible, more aggress-
ive than ever before. There will be an advance
movement all along the line. In this connection
we have engaged a special buyer who will at-
tend to the placing of orders to the Markneu-
kirchen factories and see that they are prop-
erly filled."
Joseph Mock, secretary of the company, left in
the last day of the year for a business trip in
the South. He will be away about three weeks.
JACOT'S BIJOU MUSIC BOX.
VICTOR RECORDS GREATLY ADMIRED.
The Jacot Music Box Co., of Union Square,
New York, are destined to have a big demand
for their Bijou miniature music box, which they
recently placed on the market. Style 28 is made
with six tunes, in polished wood case, the tune
sheets being four and one-half inches in diam-
eter. The largest style, entitled No. 30, has
twelve tunes. They are operated by a spring
motor, and have a number of contrivances which
insure some remarkable musical effects.
The headquarters of the Victor Distributing &
Export Co., 77 Chambers street, has become a
favorite rendezvous for Victor admirers in this
city and for all those who have heard or read
of the wonderful work done by the Victor and
desire to note its performance for themselves.
Any morning or afternoon may be seen there a
group of interested and surprised listeners who
hear with evident delight the perfect rendition
SOUSA TALK-0-PHONE
AT $40.00 EQUALS OTHERS
AT $75.00 SELLS B E T T E R
=
IS BETTER.
=
THE SOUSA
PRICE, $40.00
THE
GET SOME
DISCOUNTS ON
INFORMATION
OVR
ON THAT
MACHINES
NEW
WILL
FIFTY
SURPRISE
CENT
YOU
RECORD
THE
TALK-O-PHONE
THE TALft-O-PHONE COMPANY
TOLEDO,
NEW YORK
CHICAGO
OHIO
SAN
FRANCISCO
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