Music Trade Review
Issue: 1907 Vol. 44 N. 20 - Page 8
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THE
TRADE IN THE CRESCENT CITY.
Business for the Spring Not Up to Expectations
—Special Sales in Vogue—Werlein's Prize
Contest—M usical Attractions Prove Profit-
able—Boisfontaine Retires.
MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
STYLE 44 PRICE & TEEPLE.
A WONDERFUL PIANO IN COMPETITIVE WORK.
(Special to The Review.)
New Orleans, La., May 14, 1907.
The spring trade in this city has net come up
to the expectations of the dealers based upon a
good business immediately after the first of the
year. In an effort to boom piano sal:s the vari-
ous dealers have been carrying on a very liberal
and trade attracting advertising campaign.
First, the CaLle Company advertised thirty six
$400 pianos at $245 each, with stool and cover
thrown in, and incidentally called attention to
their complete line of Mason & Hamlin, Conover,
Cable, Kingsbury and other pianos, and invited
inspection. Their copy was well written and ef-
fectively displayed. The Junius Hart piano took
the opportunity to hold a sale of "rente;!" pianos
and also brought in a talk about their regular
line of new pianos—Kimball, Emsrson, Estey,
Crown, Kroeger and other pianos.
During a recent cloudburst the water leaked
through the roof of the Hakenjos Piano Co.'s
building and slightly damaged several pianos—
result: another sale advertised with the regular
iline of Smith & Barnes, Stoiy & Clark and Mar-
shall & Wendell pianos brought to public notice
in conjunction with the damaged bargains.
To cap the climax, Philip Werlein, Ltd., came
cut in yesterday's papers with a half-page an-
nouncement cf a $25,000 priz3 contest on the
word forming principle. An ad. containing over
400 words is given as a tasis for the contestants
to work from, and a special feature of the con-
test is the number of valuable prizes offered, the
list being as follows:
First Prize—Haines Bros, piano, worth $350.
Second Prize—Werlein Club piano, $292.
Third Prize—Two deposits of cash in People's
Bank of $50 each.
Fourth Prize—Two trips to Jamestown Exposi-
tion and return.
Write PRICE & TEEPLE PIANO CO., Chicago, for particulars.
Fifth Prize—Five six-months' scholarships of
music lessons under best instructors in this
Co. contains over five acres of floor space, and substituted along entirely different lines, so that
section.
Sixth Prize—Five Victor talking machine out- offers employment to over four hundred skilled there cannot be over fifty of one design through-
men. The equipment throughout is absolutely out the entire country."
fits, worth $40 each.
modern,
while the environment of the workers is
Seventh Prize—Five violin, guitar, banjo or
unexcelled. The railroad connections are of the
STATE EXAMINATION FOR TUNERS.
mandolin outfits, worth $25 each.
Eighth prizes, amounting to $22,500 in best.
A.
A. Clinkscales, a piano tuner, of Kansas
bonds, in denominations of from $25 to $75, The plan on which the business is operated, as City, Mo., is covering that State in an effort to
which may be used at their face value in pur- well as the high standing of the officers of the get signatures to a petition that a law be passed
chasing any new piano or player-piano in their company, was referred to while there also ap- making piano timers and repair men submit to a
house. The bonds will be limited as to time and peared the names of the leading piano dealers State examination before being permitted to ply
who hold stock in the Krell-French Co., and who
negotiable upon application to our. office.
their trade. At present prospects the bill will
Sidney Boisfontaine, formerly head salesman are retailing these instruments at their respect- at least be put before the Legislature.
ive
establishments.
Speaking
of
a
recent
and
with the Junius Hart Piano Co., has gone to
Louisville to engage in another line of business. special feature of their business, which has been GEO. E. MANSFIELD ELECTED SECRETARY.
The White City has opened for the season on referred to before in The Review, namely, the
At the annual meeting of the Briggs Piano
Saturday, and the Olympic Opera Co. gave an manufacture of special piano styles, this article
says:
Co., recently held in Boston, Mass., George E.
excellent performance there.
"The recent development of the artistic tem- Mansfield for some time retail manager for the
The Philharmonic Society met last Wednes-
day, and it was announced that there was a perament of the American has induced the Krell- company was elected secretary. Mr. Mansfield is
good balance in the treasury, and that the sea- French Piano Co. to create an art department, so an experienced piano man, having before com-
son had proven successful in every way. The that their products may not lack the taste and in- ing with the Briggs people been connected with
attractions offered during the winter were Dam- dividuality characteristic of the American home. the Wood Piano Co. and the Freeman Piano Co.
rosch's New York Symphony Orchestra, the Special case designs, meeting the requirements of The other officers of the Briggs Piano Co. are
Adamowski Trio and Ganz. The society now the hypercritical, are furnished to correspond C. C. Briggs, president and treasurer, and A. L.
has 500 members, and hopes soon to have over a with the decorative plan of any music room, as- Jewett, vice-president.
thousand enrolled. Some special attractions of suring the desired architectural effect as well as
the finest musical equipment.
MORRIS STEINERT THE HOST.
unusual interest are looked for next season.
"For those who cannot afford to invest in an
Morris Steinert, of New Haven, Conn., re-
exclusive set of patterns, three high art types,
KRELL=FRENCH EXPANSION.
cently
gave a banquet to the New Haven Sym-
Corinthian, Griffin and Egyptian art, have been
phony
Orchestra,
the Second Regiment Band and
provided. These cases are manufactured of the
The Great Plant of This Company at New
the Dorscht Lodge and its orchestra. It was
most
elaborately
figured
woods,
and
the
strictest
Castle, Ind., as Well as Their Creations the
regard is paid to every detail of style and finish. strictly a musicians evening. Mr. Steinert ex-
Subject of an Interesting Appreciation.
In order to get the full value of the patterns plained that they had been invited because he
loved musicians and their work, and in response
In a recent issue of the Indianapolis Sunday and to avoid making an individual instrument to his address several of the guests said much
bear
their
entire
cost,
orders
are
accepted
for
Star there appeared quite an extended story bear-
to his honor.
ing on the Krell-French piano factory in New fifty of each style, reducing the cost of the in-
Mr. Steinert led the orchestra present in a se-
Castle, Ind. Their enormous plant, which pro- struments at least a third, and at the same time lection both before and after dinner.
duces five thousand instruments yearly, was pic- providing a correct and exclusive design. In ad-
tured and described in detail with some five of dition to the regular number each piano bears
The Brooklyn Auditorium and Temple of Mu-
their most popular styles, while the success of a silver plate with its serial number engraved sic, Brooklyn, N. Y., has been incorporated with
the institution was detailed at length. It was thereon, and as soon as No. 50 has been reached a capital of $100,000. Directors: A. S. Brook, C.
noted that the plant of the Krell-French Piano the patterns are destroyed and another art type L. Briggs and E. V. Brewster.
THE
TRADE IN THE CRESCENT CITY.
Business for the Spring Not Up to Expectations
—Special Sales in Vogue—Werlein's Prize
Contest—M usical Attractions Prove Profit-
able—Boisfontaine Retires.
MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
STYLE 44 PRICE & TEEPLE.
A WONDERFUL PIANO IN COMPETITIVE WORK.
(Special to The Review.)
New Orleans, La., May 14, 1907.
The spring trade in this city has net come up
to the expectations of the dealers based upon a
good business immediately after the first of the
year. In an effort to boom piano sal:s the vari-
ous dealers have been carrying on a very liberal
and trade attracting advertising campaign.
First, the CaLle Company advertised thirty six
$400 pianos at $245 each, with stool and cover
thrown in, and incidentally called attention to
their complete line of Mason & Hamlin, Conover,
Cable, Kingsbury and other pianos, and invited
inspection. Their copy was well written and ef-
fectively displayed. The Junius Hart piano took
the opportunity to hold a sale of "rente;!" pianos
and also brought in a talk about their regular
line of new pianos—Kimball, Emsrson, Estey,
Crown, Kroeger and other pianos.
During a recent cloudburst the water leaked
through the roof of the Hakenjos Piano Co.'s
building and slightly damaged several pianos—
result: another sale advertised with the regular
iline of Smith & Barnes, Stoiy & Clark and Mar-
shall & Wendell pianos brought to public notice
in conjunction with the damaged bargains.
To cap the climax, Philip Werlein, Ltd., came
cut in yesterday's papers with a half-page an-
nouncement cf a $25,000 priz3 contest on the
word forming principle. An ad. containing over
400 words is given as a tasis for the contestants
to work from, and a special feature of the con-
test is the number of valuable prizes offered, the
list being as follows:
First Prize—Haines Bros, piano, worth $350.
Second Prize—Werlein Club piano, $292.
Third Prize—Two deposits of cash in People's
Bank of $50 each.
Fourth Prize—Two trips to Jamestown Exposi-
tion and return.
Write PRICE & TEEPLE PIANO CO., Chicago, for particulars.
Fifth Prize—Five six-months' scholarships of
music lessons under best instructors in this
Co. contains over five acres of floor space, and substituted along entirely different lines, so that
section.
Sixth Prize—Five Victor talking machine out- offers employment to over four hundred skilled there cannot be over fifty of one design through-
men. The equipment throughout is absolutely out the entire country."
fits, worth $40 each.
modern,
while the environment of the workers is
Seventh Prize—Five violin, guitar, banjo or
unexcelled. The railroad connections are of the
STATE EXAMINATION FOR TUNERS.
mandolin outfits, worth $25 each.
Eighth prizes, amounting to $22,500 in best.
A.
A. Clinkscales, a piano tuner, of Kansas
bonds, in denominations of from $25 to $75, The plan on which the business is operated, as City, Mo., is covering that State in an effort to
which may be used at their face value in pur- well as the high standing of the officers of the get signatures to a petition that a law be passed
chasing any new piano or player-piano in their company, was referred to while there also ap- making piano timers and repair men submit to a
house. The bonds will be limited as to time and peared the names of the leading piano dealers State examination before being permitted to ply
who hold stock in the Krell-French Co., and who
negotiable upon application to our. office.
their trade. At present prospects the bill will
Sidney Boisfontaine, formerly head salesman are retailing these instruments at their respect- at least be put before the Legislature.
ive
establishments.
Speaking
of
a
recent
and
with the Junius Hart Piano Co., has gone to
Louisville to engage in another line of business. special feature of their business, which has been GEO. E. MANSFIELD ELECTED SECRETARY.
The White City has opened for the season on referred to before in The Review, namely, the
At the annual meeting of the Briggs Piano
Saturday, and the Olympic Opera Co. gave an manufacture of special piano styles, this article
says:
Co., recently held in Boston, Mass., George E.
excellent performance there.
"The recent development of the artistic tem- Mansfield for some time retail manager for the
The Philharmonic Society met last Wednes-
day, and it was announced that there was a perament of the American has induced the Krell- company was elected secretary. Mr. Mansfield is
good balance in the treasury, and that the sea- French Piano Co. to create an art department, so an experienced piano man, having before com-
son had proven successful in every way. The that their products may not lack the taste and in- ing with the Briggs people been connected with
attractions offered during the winter were Dam- dividuality characteristic of the American home. the Wood Piano Co. and the Freeman Piano Co.
rosch's New York Symphony Orchestra, the Special case designs, meeting the requirements of The other officers of the Briggs Piano Co. are
Adamowski Trio and Ganz. The society now the hypercritical, are furnished to correspond C. C. Briggs, president and treasurer, and A. L.
has 500 members, and hopes soon to have over a with the decorative plan of any music room, as- Jewett, vice-president.
thousand enrolled. Some special attractions of suring the desired architectural effect as well as
the finest musical equipment.
MORRIS STEINERT THE HOST.
unusual interest are looked for next season.
"For those who cannot afford to invest in an
Morris Steinert, of New Haven, Conn., re-
exclusive set of patterns, three high art types,
KRELL=FRENCH EXPANSION.
cently
gave a banquet to the New Haven Sym-
Corinthian, Griffin and Egyptian art, have been
phony
Orchestra,
the Second Regiment Band and
provided. These cases are manufactured of the
The Great Plant of This Company at New
the Dorscht Lodge and its orchestra. It was
most
elaborately
figured
woods,
and
the
strictest
Castle, Ind., as Well as Their Creations the
regard is paid to every detail of style and finish. strictly a musicians evening. Mr. Steinert ex-
Subject of an Interesting Appreciation.
In order to get the full value of the patterns plained that they had been invited because he
loved musicians and their work, and in response
In a recent issue of the Indianapolis Sunday and to avoid making an individual instrument to his address several of the guests said much
bear
their
entire
cost,
orders
are
accepted
for
Star there appeared quite an extended story bear-
to his honor.
ing on the Krell-French piano factory in New fifty of each style, reducing the cost of the in-
Mr. Steinert led the orchestra present in a se-
Castle, Ind. Their enormous plant, which pro- struments at least a third, and at the same time lection both before and after dinner.
duces five thousand instruments yearly, was pic- providing a correct and exclusive design. In ad-
tured and described in detail with some five of dition to the regular number each piano bears
The Brooklyn Auditorium and Temple of Mu-
their most popular styles, while the success of a silver plate with its serial number engraved sic, Brooklyn, N. Y., has been incorporated with
the institution was detailed at length. It was thereon, and as soon as No. 50 has been reached a capital of $100,000. Directors: A. S. Brook, C.
noted that the plant of the Krell-French Piano the patterns are destroyed and another art type L. Briggs and E. V. Brewster.
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