Music Trade Review
Issue: 1908 Vol. 46 N. 17 - Page 11
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THE
ENGELHARPT AMBASSADORS
Leave on Extended Trips Covering as Far North
as Canada and as Far South as Florida—Rep-
resent Strong Line.
Ben C. Peck and 0. L. Wright, the two hust-
ling salesmen for F. Engelhardt & Sons, Wind-
sor Arcade, Fifth avenue and 47th street, left
Sunday night for extensive trips in quest of
business, and primed for big game, are sure to
return with filled order books. The former will
visit Florida, Havana (new territory added to
his usual itinerary), from thence to Galveston
and other leading cities in Texas, returning
home June 1 in time for the national conven-
tion. Mr. Wright will make all the important
points in New England, and from Boston will
take in Portland and Bangor, Me.; thence to
Montreal, Quebec, Ottawa, Toronto, returning
home after a tour of the Middle West, on or
about June 3. F. Engelhardt, senior member of
the firm, was a caller at the local warerooms
prior to their departure, and went over business
details (a general conference) with the heads
of the sales department to map out a general
campaign. How few business houses follow such
a plan and one that is sure to bring success!
MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
largely waiting to be sold. Present crops, how-
ever, are looking better than ever before and
the inhabitants are taking a most optimistic
view of the situation. I never saw more comfort
and good cheer, or experienced a finer sense of
hospitality than I did during this trip. 1 should
say, emphatically, that the South is all right, and
that business is picking up in promising fashion."
CABLE BRANCH TO BE REMODELED.
(Special to The Review.)
New Orleans, La., April 20, 1908.
Arrangements have been completed for tiie
entire remodeling of the Cable Company's build
ing at 914 Canal street, with a view to increas
ing the available wareroom space for the dis-
play of pianos. The company recently closed out
their entire stock of small goods and are now
holding a clearing sale of pianos, offering special
inducements in the way of free music lessons,
etc., which is proving very successful.
F. S. Shaw, president of the Cable Company,
and E. P. McPherson, vice-president, were in the
city recently to confer with local manager J. V.
Dugan regarding the contemplated improve-
ments, which are expected to cost several thou-
sand dollars, and include among other things an
entire new front.
UTAH PIANO TUNERS ORGANIZE.
The piano tuners of Utah recently met in Salt
Lake City and formed the Piano Tuners' Asso-
ciation of Utah, which body will endeavor to
drive out fake tuners and establish a set rate of
$3.50 for guaranteed tuning. Tuners from all
sections of the State have joined the association,
and the following officers have been elected:
President, J. A. Lechsteter, of Salt Lake City;
vice-president, Henry Blair, of Ogden; secretary,
John Taggart, of Salt Lake City; treasurer,
George H. Vine, of Salt Lake City.
BENT ON SOUTHERN PROSPECTS.
Charles A. Bent, vice-president and treasurer
of the George P. Bent Co., who recently returned
from a tour of the South from Kentucky to
Florida, largely for pleasure, had some pertinent
observations to make regarding conditions in that
section. Mr. Bent said: "Of course, I did not
expect a business boom in the South. I found
that the tobacco war was interfering with business
in Kentucky and Tennessee, and in Georgia and
Florida the cotton crop of last year was still
"DISTINCTIVELY HIGH GRADE*
Gf>e CHRISTMAN
STUDIO GRAND
is the greatest success of the day.
It possesses a scale of rare even-
ness, a tone of remarkable sonority
and richness, with a quality that
is highly orchestral. Our latest
styles of Grands and Uprights
mark a decided advance in the art
of piano-making. We court inves-
tigation. Some territory still open.
CHRISTNAN SONS, Manufacturer,
FACTORY AND OFFICE!
WAREROOMS-
S49-S73 E**t 137th Si.
35 W«a« 14th St.
VBW YOR.K
CLOUaH & WARREN CO.'S NEW CATALOG.
The Clough & Warren Co., Detroit, Mich., have
issued" a very handsome catalog devoted to their
combination organs and showing four of the
latest styles illustrated in natural colors. The
Clough & Warren organs are backed by nearly
three-score years of practical experience, the
firm having been established in 1850, and a
dozen testimonials from prominent organists from
all over the world, chosen from among thousands
received by the company are ample evidence that
the organs possess qualities thoroughly appre-
ciated by musicians.
The new booklet contains much practical in-
formation regarding Clough & Warren combina-
tion organs, and its typographical appearance
is excellent. The artistic value of the whole is
considerably enhanced by a rich tan cover em-
bossed in brown, green and gold.
CHICAGOANS ENTERTAIN JAPANESE.
Several members of the piano trade were
among the four hundred prominent members of
the Chicago Association of Commerce and guests
who entertained at luncheon the sixty Japanese
merchants who visited that city on their tour of
the world. George W. Sheldon, chairman of the
Foreign Trade Committee, introduced the speak-
ers.
The list of piano men present at the
luncheon was as follows: Howard B. Morenus,
H. L. Draper, Geo. Grosvenor, E. L. Lapham,
E. V. Church, T. E. Dougherty, and J. P. Byrne,
it is also stated that two hundred members of the
Illinois Manufacturers' Association, in a prac-
tical effort to extend their trade with the Orient,
will shortly visit Japan, China and other Orien-
tal countries for the study of conditions and to
interview rulers and prominent officials. To
avoid fracturing the highly ceremonial etiquette
which prevails in the Far East, the delegation
will be accompanied by diplomats from the De
partment of State familiar with the court and
official ideas prevailing in the Orient.
COMPLAIN OF RAILROAD.
Piano dealers of Nashville, Tenn., are com-
plaining bitterly against the manner in which
the Louisville & Nashville Railroad handle piano
shipments sent over their line. A month from
Chicago to Nashville is a common occurrence,
the Weatherholt Piano Co. having received only
six of a shipment of eighteen Steger pianos three
weeks after they had been advised that the ship-
ment had been made.
11
Do You Wish
To Know
Something
About Player
Mechanism?
tj We have a book that will
tell you how to regulate, re-
pair; explains to you in detail
the functions of the different
parts including control and
technique. In this volume the
leading piano player systems
are described in detail.
€]f Do you wish to have all
player problems easily solved
and made perfectly clear? Do
you wish all this information
in a neat, compact volume,
illustrated and printed in an
artistic ^nanner with an attrac-
tive binding?
Ifl We have precisely such a
volume and it is the result of
long and careful study and
examination of the principal
player products in this country.
€]J We have established quite
a reputation for technical litera-
ture and we feel confident
that our new book, which is
entitled "A Technical Treatise
On Piano Player Mechanism,"
will enhance our reputation
along these lines.
Every
player, tuner, repairer, dealer
and salesman should own a
copy. It will cost but $1.50
delivered to any part of this
country.
EDWARD LYMAN BILL
Publisher
The new $3,000 Estey pipe organ erected in
the Scottish Rite Temple, Kansas City, Mo., was
played recently for the first time in that church,
and was conceded to be a decided success,
No. 1 Madisoa Avenue, New York
THE
ENGELHARPT AMBASSADORS
Leave on Extended Trips Covering as Far North
as Canada and as Far South as Florida—Rep-
resent Strong Line.
Ben C. Peck and 0. L. Wright, the two hust-
ling salesmen for F. Engelhardt & Sons, Wind-
sor Arcade, Fifth avenue and 47th street, left
Sunday night for extensive trips in quest of
business, and primed for big game, are sure to
return with filled order books. The former will
visit Florida, Havana (new territory added to
his usual itinerary), from thence to Galveston
and other leading cities in Texas, returning
home June 1 in time for the national conven-
tion. Mr. Wright will make all the important
points in New England, and from Boston will
take in Portland and Bangor, Me.; thence to
Montreal, Quebec, Ottawa, Toronto, returning
home after a tour of the Middle West, on or
about June 3. F. Engelhardt, senior member of
the firm, was a caller at the local warerooms
prior to their departure, and went over business
details (a general conference) with the heads
of the sales department to map out a general
campaign. How few business houses follow such
a plan and one that is sure to bring success!
MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
largely waiting to be sold. Present crops, how-
ever, are looking better than ever before and
the inhabitants are taking a most optimistic
view of the situation. I never saw more comfort
and good cheer, or experienced a finer sense of
hospitality than I did during this trip. 1 should
say, emphatically, that the South is all right, and
that business is picking up in promising fashion."
CABLE BRANCH TO BE REMODELED.
(Special to The Review.)
New Orleans, La., April 20, 1908.
Arrangements have been completed for tiie
entire remodeling of the Cable Company's build
ing at 914 Canal street, with a view to increas
ing the available wareroom space for the dis-
play of pianos. The company recently closed out
their entire stock of small goods and are now
holding a clearing sale of pianos, offering special
inducements in the way of free music lessons,
etc., which is proving very successful.
F. S. Shaw, president of the Cable Company,
and E. P. McPherson, vice-president, were in the
city recently to confer with local manager J. V.
Dugan regarding the contemplated improve-
ments, which are expected to cost several thou-
sand dollars, and include among other things an
entire new front.
UTAH PIANO TUNERS ORGANIZE.
The piano tuners of Utah recently met in Salt
Lake City and formed the Piano Tuners' Asso-
ciation of Utah, which body will endeavor to
drive out fake tuners and establish a set rate of
$3.50 for guaranteed tuning. Tuners from all
sections of the State have joined the association,
and the following officers have been elected:
President, J. A. Lechsteter, of Salt Lake City;
vice-president, Henry Blair, of Ogden; secretary,
John Taggart, of Salt Lake City; treasurer,
George H. Vine, of Salt Lake City.
BENT ON SOUTHERN PROSPECTS.
Charles A. Bent, vice-president and treasurer
of the George P. Bent Co., who recently returned
from a tour of the South from Kentucky to
Florida, largely for pleasure, had some pertinent
observations to make regarding conditions in that
section. Mr. Bent said: "Of course, I did not
expect a business boom in the South. I found
that the tobacco war was interfering with business
in Kentucky and Tennessee, and in Georgia and
Florida the cotton crop of last year was still
"DISTINCTIVELY HIGH GRADE*
Gf>e CHRISTMAN
STUDIO GRAND
is the greatest success of the day.
It possesses a scale of rare even-
ness, a tone of remarkable sonority
and richness, with a quality that
is highly orchestral. Our latest
styles of Grands and Uprights
mark a decided advance in the art
of piano-making. We court inves-
tigation. Some territory still open.
CHRISTNAN SONS, Manufacturer,
FACTORY AND OFFICE!
WAREROOMS-
S49-S73 E**t 137th Si.
35 W«a« 14th St.
VBW YOR.K
CLOUaH & WARREN CO.'S NEW CATALOG.
The Clough & Warren Co., Detroit, Mich., have
issued" a very handsome catalog devoted to their
combination organs and showing four of the
latest styles illustrated in natural colors. The
Clough & Warren organs are backed by nearly
three-score years of practical experience, the
firm having been established in 1850, and a
dozen testimonials from prominent organists from
all over the world, chosen from among thousands
received by the company are ample evidence that
the organs possess qualities thoroughly appre-
ciated by musicians.
The new booklet contains much practical in-
formation regarding Clough & Warren combina-
tion organs, and its typographical appearance
is excellent. The artistic value of the whole is
considerably enhanced by a rich tan cover em-
bossed in brown, green and gold.
CHICAGOANS ENTERTAIN JAPANESE.
Several members of the piano trade were
among the four hundred prominent members of
the Chicago Association of Commerce and guests
who entertained at luncheon the sixty Japanese
merchants who visited that city on their tour of
the world. George W. Sheldon, chairman of the
Foreign Trade Committee, introduced the speak-
ers.
The list of piano men present at the
luncheon was as follows: Howard B. Morenus,
H. L. Draper, Geo. Grosvenor, E. L. Lapham,
E. V. Church, T. E. Dougherty, and J. P. Byrne,
it is also stated that two hundred members of the
Illinois Manufacturers' Association, in a prac-
tical effort to extend their trade with the Orient,
will shortly visit Japan, China and other Orien-
tal countries for the study of conditions and to
interview rulers and prominent officials. To
avoid fracturing the highly ceremonial etiquette
which prevails in the Far East, the delegation
will be accompanied by diplomats from the De
partment of State familiar with the court and
official ideas prevailing in the Orient.
COMPLAIN OF RAILROAD.
Piano dealers of Nashville, Tenn., are com-
plaining bitterly against the manner in which
the Louisville & Nashville Railroad handle piano
shipments sent over their line. A month from
Chicago to Nashville is a common occurrence,
the Weatherholt Piano Co. having received only
six of a shipment of eighteen Steger pianos three
weeks after they had been advised that the ship-
ment had been made.
11
Do You Wish
To Know
Something
About Player
Mechanism?
tj We have a book that will
tell you how to regulate, re-
pair; explains to you in detail
the functions of the different
parts including control and
technique. In this volume the
leading piano player systems
are described in detail.
€]f Do you wish to have all
player problems easily solved
and made perfectly clear? Do
you wish all this information
in a neat, compact volume,
illustrated and printed in an
artistic ^nanner with an attrac-
tive binding?
Ifl We have precisely such a
volume and it is the result of
long and careful study and
examination of the principal
player products in this country.
€]J We have established quite
a reputation for technical litera-
ture and we feel confident
that our new book, which is
entitled "A Technical Treatise
On Piano Player Mechanism,"
will enhance our reputation
along these lines.
Every
player, tuner, repairer, dealer
and salesman should own a
copy. It will cost but $1.50
delivered to any part of this
country.
EDWARD LYMAN BILL
Publisher
The new $3,000 Estey pipe organ erected in
the Scottish Rite Temple, Kansas City, Mo., was
played recently for the first time in that church,
and was conceded to be a decided success,
No. 1 Madisoa Avenue, New York
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