Music Trade Review
Issue: 1905 Vol. 40 N. 16 - Page 39
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THE:
If you desire anything in the
line of
SMALL GOODS
Something entirely up-to-date, it
will pay you to write
The Thiebes-Stierlin Musical
Instrument Co.,
ST.
LOUIS,
BLACK
MO.
DIAMOND
STRINGS
NEW
PROCESS
N.
J.
—THE-
WM. R. GRATZ IMPORT CO.,
11 East 22nd St., New York City,
Sole Agents for
ANTOINE COURTOIS AND BOHLAND & FUCHS'
Band Instruments and Saxophones;
LEFEVRE, LECOMTE AND MERCADIER
Clarionets;
Friedrich August Helmerding, Chad wick, J. Strauss,
Koschat, E. Bausch, Hammig and Bauer & Durr-
sctimidt's Violins and Bows; Oustav Bernadel and
Koschat Rosin; Imperial, Empress, (J. S., and Grand
Solo Accordeons, and Concertinas; Empress Mouth
Harmonicas.
Catalogs forwarded on request free of charge.
Entire Stock of
REGAL
MANDOLINS, GUITARS,
and BANJOS
Selling out, while they last,
at HALF PRICE.
Write to-day for bargain list.
LYON & HEALY
CHICAGO, ILL.
—YORK—
Band Instruments
SEND FOR MEIV
ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE
J.W.YOR.K
Ba.nd Instruments
GRAND KAPIDS
MICH a ^ T
A Dispatch from Stuttgart States That the
United States Imports More of These Instru-
ments Than Any Other Nation.
A dispatch from Stuttgart, Wurtemberg, under
date of April 15, states that "Americans love
music better than any people in the world. At
least, the United States buys more mouth-organs
annually than any country. Being a younger
nation its ears are less sensitive than those of
the old world.
"The principal factories of the mouth-organ,
or mouth harmonica, as it is called more prop-
erly, are at Trossingen, in the Black Forest.
There one firm (M. Hohner) alone has fifteen
branch factories, employs two thousand hands,
and turns out t>,000,000 mouth harmonicas every
year.
"A great deal of work is also done by work
people at their homes, sometimes a whole family
being found busy making these instruments.
They are shipped in enormous quantities from
this city to all parts of the globe."
Sails With His Family on May 4—Will Bring
Home Many Novelties for Fall Trade.
National Musical String Co.
BRUNSWICK,
IMPORTS OF HARMONICAS.
ERNEST KOCH TO EUROPE.
Are the finest manu-
factured. Used by all
prominent artists.
PSJEW
MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
BUSY TIMES WITH D1TSON & CO.
Big Call for Harps—Praise for Lyon & Healy
New Ditson Catalogue Forthcoming.
The small goods department of Chas. H. Ditson
& Co., 867 Broadway, N. Y., under the energetic-
management of H. L. Hunt, is always in a pro-
gressive stage. Their sales of harps during the
past six months has been surprising, but as the
manager believes they have the only goods in the
line worth dwelling upon, it is simply a sur-
vival of the fittest. Mr. Hunt, speaking of their
harp business, said to The Review: "The Lyon
& Healy harp is the best in the world, without
the slightest question of doubt. Its scientific
construction and superb finish are unequaled.
The sounding board is a wonder, and we have a
number of customers who want this part substi-
tuted in their instruments of other makes. The
cost of this is from ?125 to $150, for the harp
must be sent to Chicago, and four orders of this
kind have been booked during the past 30 days.
"The Ditson Co. are now at work on a new
trade catalogue, in which every cut is being
specially engraved, and it will be a beauty when
finished. We have also commenced to compile
a retail catalogue, in which net prices are quoted.
It is more or less confusing and misleading to
use our regular trade catalogue for this purpose,
in which long prices are made and the discount
has to be figured. Our experience is that retail
selling prices should be net and be as stated."
Ernest Koch, of the firm of Ands. Koch, the
well-known importer of musical instruments, at
296 Broadway, New York, accompanied by his
family, will sail for Europe on May 4. While on
DRUM AND BANJO HEADS
the other side, Mr. Koch will select styles for the
fall trade, and on his return will bring with him Made by Rene Grunewald, of New Orleans,
what he thinks will be the finest display
Widely Esteemed b> the Trade.
of harmonicas ever issued to the American trade.
Mr. Koch will return the end of June, and his
Rene Grunewald, the enterprising manufac-
family will stay until the first of September.
turer of skins for drum and banjo heads, 818-824
Conti street, New Orleans, La., is receiving
MECHANICAL HARPS IN DEMAND.
many complimentary letters from leading manu-
facturers and dealers in musical merchandise
(Special to The Review.)
regarding the quality of his products. It is the
Parkersburg, W. Va., April 17, 1905.
opinion of all that they are first-class, and as a
A mechanical harp is the most novel musical consequence Mr. Grunewald is steadily increas-
instrument in the city. There is just one, and ing his output. He has recently published a
it is in the possession of Proprietor Rau, of number of letters received from such well-
the Jackson. It was placed by Myer Newber & known firms as F. A. Howe, Jr., Huntsville,
Co., and is one of the most novel, as well as the Ala.; Jno. Hubman, St. Louis, Mo.; Jno. A. Jones
most expensive, musical instruments ever placed Music Co., Huntington, W. Va.; Balmer & Weber
in the city.
Music House Co., St. Louis, Mo.; F. Bechtel,
The harp is mechanically played and has de- Pittsburg, Pa.; the Janke Music Co., Galveston,
lighted hundreds in the last two or three days Tex.; Henry Schaeffer, Lexington, Ky.; J. Placht
at the bar of the Jackson. It is said that it re- & Son, St. Louis, Mo.; Oliver T. Knode, Rich-
quired the inventor of the instrument seven mond, Ind.; Samuel G. Parker, Dyersburg,
years to perfect it. Myer Newber & Co. expect Tenn.; the Southern Music Co., Chattanooga,
Tenn.; Joseph Bohman, Chicago, 111.; Philip
to place several of the machines in the city.
Werlein, Ltd., New Orleans, La.; C. Grunewald,
HOHNER LYRE ASSORTMENT POPULAR. Houston, Tex.; the L. Grunewald Co., Ltd.; Jos.
Flanner, Milwaukee, Wis., and the testimony
Notwithstanding the lateness of the season, furnished regarding the superior qualities of the
trade conditions with M. Hohner are keeping Grunewald skins is of the most convincing kind.
their warerooms at 354 Broadway, New York, in
a state of continued activity. The demand for
THE MANDOLIN NOW IN VOGUE.
his high-grade harmonicas continues undimin-
ished, and the Lyre Harmonica assortment, which
According to a prominent musician in the West
he has been advertising so extensively, has won the mandolin is the most popular instrument,
deserved popularity among the trade. Dealers not oniy in that section, but throughout the en-
from all sections are sending in re-orders for this tire United States. "And let me tell you fur-
combination.
ther," he proceeded. "The mandolin has become
a fad with both ladies and gentlemen from Bos-
EVERY MAN HIS OWN BRASS BAND.
ton to San Francisco, and from Minneapolis to
New Orleans. Mandolin clubs are in evidence
Prof. Heinrich Schebel, of Bucharest, has in- wherever one goes, and the membership ordi-
vented an apparatus which enables one person narily represents the very best element of so-
to reproduce the effect of an entire military band. ciety."
His system is that of an ordinary organ key-
board electrically controlling 226 instruments.
MESSNER HARMONICAS WELL LIKED.
The inventor intends to exhibit the apparatus in
the capitals of the world, and says the days of
Adolph Strauss & Co., of 412 Broadway, New
bands are numbered.
York, the American representatives for the Mess-
ner harmonicas, have been meeting with consid-
0. D. WEAVER CO. OPENS IN CHICAGO.
erable success in the sale of the curved mouth-
O. D. Weaver, formerly with H. D. Bentley at piece instruments. They have found the past
Freeport, 111., has established a store at 195 season remarkably good, their imports exceeding
Wabash avenue, Chicago, under the title of the those of former years. They intend to push their
O. D. Weaver Co., where he is handling stools, harmonicas more extensively when the fall trade
opens.
scarfs, etc.
THE:
If you desire anything in the
line of
SMALL GOODS
Something entirely up-to-date, it
will pay you to write
The Thiebes-Stierlin Musical
Instrument Co.,
ST.
LOUIS,
BLACK
MO.
DIAMOND
STRINGS
NEW
PROCESS
N.
J.
—THE-
WM. R. GRATZ IMPORT CO.,
11 East 22nd St., New York City,
Sole Agents for
ANTOINE COURTOIS AND BOHLAND & FUCHS'
Band Instruments and Saxophones;
LEFEVRE, LECOMTE AND MERCADIER
Clarionets;
Friedrich August Helmerding, Chad wick, J. Strauss,
Koschat, E. Bausch, Hammig and Bauer & Durr-
sctimidt's Violins and Bows; Oustav Bernadel and
Koschat Rosin; Imperial, Empress, (J. S., and Grand
Solo Accordeons, and Concertinas; Empress Mouth
Harmonicas.
Catalogs forwarded on request free of charge.
Entire Stock of
REGAL
MANDOLINS, GUITARS,
and BANJOS
Selling out, while they last,
at HALF PRICE.
Write to-day for bargain list.
LYON & HEALY
CHICAGO, ILL.
—YORK—
Band Instruments
SEND FOR MEIV
ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE
J.W.YOR.K
Ba.nd Instruments
GRAND KAPIDS
MICH a ^ T
A Dispatch from Stuttgart States That the
United States Imports More of These Instru-
ments Than Any Other Nation.
A dispatch from Stuttgart, Wurtemberg, under
date of April 15, states that "Americans love
music better than any people in the world. At
least, the United States buys more mouth-organs
annually than any country. Being a younger
nation its ears are less sensitive than those of
the old world.
"The principal factories of the mouth-organ,
or mouth harmonica, as it is called more prop-
erly, are at Trossingen, in the Black Forest.
There one firm (M. Hohner) alone has fifteen
branch factories, employs two thousand hands,
and turns out t>,000,000 mouth harmonicas every
year.
"A great deal of work is also done by work
people at their homes, sometimes a whole family
being found busy making these instruments.
They are shipped in enormous quantities from
this city to all parts of the globe."
Sails With His Family on May 4—Will Bring
Home Many Novelties for Fall Trade.
National Musical String Co.
BRUNSWICK,
IMPORTS OF HARMONICAS.
ERNEST KOCH TO EUROPE.
Are the finest manu-
factured. Used by all
prominent artists.
PSJEW
MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
BUSY TIMES WITH D1TSON & CO.
Big Call for Harps—Praise for Lyon & Healy
New Ditson Catalogue Forthcoming.
The small goods department of Chas. H. Ditson
& Co., 867 Broadway, N. Y., under the energetic-
management of H. L. Hunt, is always in a pro-
gressive stage. Their sales of harps during the
past six months has been surprising, but as the
manager believes they have the only goods in the
line worth dwelling upon, it is simply a sur-
vival of the fittest. Mr. Hunt, speaking of their
harp business, said to The Review: "The Lyon
& Healy harp is the best in the world, without
the slightest question of doubt. Its scientific
construction and superb finish are unequaled.
The sounding board is a wonder, and we have a
number of customers who want this part substi-
tuted in their instruments of other makes. The
cost of this is from ?125 to $150, for the harp
must be sent to Chicago, and four orders of this
kind have been booked during the past 30 days.
"The Ditson Co. are now at work on a new
trade catalogue, in which every cut is being
specially engraved, and it will be a beauty when
finished. We have also commenced to compile
a retail catalogue, in which net prices are quoted.
It is more or less confusing and misleading to
use our regular trade catalogue for this purpose,
in which long prices are made and the discount
has to be figured. Our experience is that retail
selling prices should be net and be as stated."
Ernest Koch, of the firm of Ands. Koch, the
well-known importer of musical instruments, at
296 Broadway, New York, accompanied by his
family, will sail for Europe on May 4. While on
DRUM AND BANJO HEADS
the other side, Mr. Koch will select styles for the
fall trade, and on his return will bring with him Made by Rene Grunewald, of New Orleans,
what he thinks will be the finest display
Widely Esteemed b> the Trade.
of harmonicas ever issued to the American trade.
Mr. Koch will return the end of June, and his
Rene Grunewald, the enterprising manufac-
family will stay until the first of September.
turer of skins for drum and banjo heads, 818-824
Conti street, New Orleans, La., is receiving
MECHANICAL HARPS IN DEMAND.
many complimentary letters from leading manu-
facturers and dealers in musical merchandise
(Special to The Review.)
regarding the quality of his products. It is the
Parkersburg, W. Va., April 17, 1905.
opinion of all that they are first-class, and as a
A mechanical harp is the most novel musical consequence Mr. Grunewald is steadily increas-
instrument in the city. There is just one, and ing his output. He has recently published a
it is in the possession of Proprietor Rau, of number of letters received from such well-
the Jackson. It was placed by Myer Newber & known firms as F. A. Howe, Jr., Huntsville,
Co., and is one of the most novel, as well as the Ala.; Jno. Hubman, St. Louis, Mo.; Jno. A. Jones
most expensive, musical instruments ever placed Music Co., Huntington, W. Va.; Balmer & Weber
in the city.
Music House Co., St. Louis, Mo.; F. Bechtel,
The harp is mechanically played and has de- Pittsburg, Pa.; the Janke Music Co., Galveston,
lighted hundreds in the last two or three days Tex.; Henry Schaeffer, Lexington, Ky.; J. Placht
at the bar of the Jackson. It is said that it re- & Son, St. Louis, Mo.; Oliver T. Knode, Rich-
quired the inventor of the instrument seven mond, Ind.; Samuel G. Parker, Dyersburg,
years to perfect it. Myer Newber & Co. expect Tenn.; the Southern Music Co., Chattanooga,
Tenn.; Joseph Bohman, Chicago, 111.; Philip
to place several of the machines in the city.
Werlein, Ltd., New Orleans, La.; C. Grunewald,
HOHNER LYRE ASSORTMENT POPULAR. Houston, Tex.; the L. Grunewald Co., Ltd.; Jos.
Flanner, Milwaukee, Wis., and the testimony
Notwithstanding the lateness of the season, furnished regarding the superior qualities of the
trade conditions with M. Hohner are keeping Grunewald skins is of the most convincing kind.
their warerooms at 354 Broadway, New York, in
a state of continued activity. The demand for
THE MANDOLIN NOW IN VOGUE.
his high-grade harmonicas continues undimin-
ished, and the Lyre Harmonica assortment, which
According to a prominent musician in the West
he has been advertising so extensively, has won the mandolin is the most popular instrument,
deserved popularity among the trade. Dealers not oniy in that section, but throughout the en-
from all sections are sending in re-orders for this tire United States. "And let me tell you fur-
combination.
ther," he proceeded. "The mandolin has become
a fad with both ladies and gentlemen from Bos-
EVERY MAN HIS OWN BRASS BAND.
ton to San Francisco, and from Minneapolis to
New Orleans. Mandolin clubs are in evidence
Prof. Heinrich Schebel, of Bucharest, has in- wherever one goes, and the membership ordi-
vented an apparatus which enables one person narily represents the very best element of so-
to reproduce the effect of an entire military band. ciety."
His system is that of an ordinary organ key-
board electrically controlling 226 instruments.
MESSNER HARMONICAS WELL LIKED.
The inventor intends to exhibit the apparatus in
the capitals of the world, and says the days of
Adolph Strauss & Co., of 412 Broadway, New
bands are numbered.
York, the American representatives for the Mess-
ner harmonicas, have been meeting with consid-
0. D. WEAVER CO. OPENS IN CHICAGO.
erable success in the sale of the curved mouth-
O. D. Weaver, formerly with H. D. Bentley at piece instruments. They have found the past
Freeport, 111., has established a store at 195 season remarkably good, their imports exceeding
Wabash avenue, Chicago, under the title of the those of former years. They intend to push their
O. D. Weaver Co., where he is handling stools, harmonicas more extensively when the fall trade
opens.
scarfs, etc.
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