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THE
GOOD NEWS FROM^ INDIANAPOLIS.
The Pearson House Make Some Excellent Sales
the Past Few Weeks—Autopianos in Demand
at Carlin & Lennox—Starr Piano Makes
Great Hit at Saengerfest—C. B. Chilton on
Lecture Tour—W. H. Alfring Married—
Some Recent Visitors.
(Special to Tbe lie view.)
Indianapolis, Ind., July 2, 1908.
By an unusual lot of hustling and a few spe-
cial inducements which are not common to the
piano business of Indianapolis, piano merchants
closed up the books of June with a fairly good
record for the month.
"We were really surprised at our volume of
business for the month," said Mr. Secord, of the
Pearson store. "Of course we did a good lot of
hustling and we thought we were entitled to a
pretty good business." The Pearson house did a
good business with Krakauers, Hazletons, Kurtz-
manns and Steinways as well as other pianos
handled. During the month a Krakauer was
sold to W. E. Rauch, director of music in the
Kokomo schools. A Kurtzmann was sold to the
.Bertha Ballard homes. The Pearson house has
been making a special sale of used and shop-
worn pianos and stools and scarfs.
"We had a good business during the month,"
said a representative of Carlin & Lennox. "In
the second week we had six autopianos in stock.
Before the end of the week we had sold all of
them and were unable to get instruments from
the factory to fill the demand. The last two
weeks of June, however, were not so good."
Mr. Keeley, of the Autopiano Co., was a caller
at the Carlin & Lennox store. He took an order
for a good shipment.
Fuller & Curren have been doing a good busi-
ness in Kimballs. Mr. Curren says, however,
that the dull season is on, and the only way to
get the business from now on is to hustle for it.
This he will do. Mr. Garrison, of Bush & Lane,
was a caller at the Puller & Curren store.
Herman T. Spain, of the Starr Piano Co., is
well pleased with business and prospects. He
has just received orders from a number of his
dealers out in the State, he says, and they de-
clare that recent rainfalls have encouraged the
farmers and that prospects for business are
good. Mr. Spain was well pleased with his ad-
vertising venture during the week of the Saen-
gerfest of the North American Saengerbund.
"DISTINCTIVELY HIGH GRADE"
She 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.
CHRISTMAN SONS, M»nuf,ic FACTORY AND OFFtOE:
M9-I73 E&at 137th St.
KEW
WARBROOMS'
35 Weat 14th S(.
YORK
MUSIC TRADE
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The Saengerfest was attended by thousands of
people. Mr. Spain printed the programs, each
program bearing the following at the bottom of
each page: "The pianoforte is a Starr." On the
stage in full view of the audience was the Starr
grand bearing a large placard with the name
Starr. After the Saengerfest Mr. Spain placed
in the front display window of his store a large
picture of the interior of the Coliseum where the
Saengerfest was held.
The King Piano Co. have been running a manu-
facturers' sale.
C. B. Chilton, who uses the Pianola in connec-
tion with his lecture tour, was a caller at the
Aeolian store. He is arranging for a lecture
course here. Miss Annabelle Gilchrist and Will-
iam H. Alfring were wedded and have just re-
turned from their wedding trip. They went to
the northern lakes and later to New York. Mr.
Alfring is manager of the Aeolian Co. here. G.
P. Benjamin, whom Mr. Alfring succeeded as
manager, was one of the guests. Mr. Benjamin
is now located at St. Louis for the Aeolian Co.
A large picture of the Kimball factory sur-
mounting a small Kimball grand is the attraction
in one of the windows of the Fuller & Curren
store.
E. G. Hereth, of the Baldwin Co., is well
pleased with business, taking into consideration
that it is the summer season. His wholesale
business especially, he says, is encouraging.
Frank Burns, of New York, who sells piano
scarfs, was a caller this week at the Carlin &
Lennox store.
Frank Carlin, of Carlin & Lennox, has gone to
Lake Wawasee for a fishing expedition.
Miss Edna Brown, of the Pearson Piano house,
has gone for her summer vacation. She is now
at Denver but will spend much of her time at
Colorado Springs.
C. H. Mallee, who is with the Smith & Nixon
Piano Co., at Louisville, was a caller at the store
of Fuller & Curren. He was going to the mineral
springs at Martinsville to spend a few days.
OUR FOREI(jlNj;USTOMERS.
Pianos and Other Musical Instruments Shipped
Abroad from the Port of New York for the
Week Just Ended—An Interesting Array of
Musical Specialties for Foreign Countries.
(Special to The Review.)
Washington, D. C, July 6, 1908.
The following were the exports of musical in-
struments and kindred lines from the port of
New York for the week just ended:
Algoa Bay—10 cases organs, $405; 13 pkgs.
talking machines and material, $469.
Bombay—9 pkgs. talking machines and mate-
rial, $240.
Buenos Ayres—13 pkgs. talking machines and
material, $250; 3 cases pianos and material, $1,-
478; 10 cases piano players and material, $640.
Coatzacoalcas—26 pkgs. talking machines and
material, $691.
Colon—4 cases musical instruments, $390; 1
case pianos and material, $350; 12 cases phono-
graph machines, $581.
Guayaquil—3 cases phonograph material, $109.
Hamburg—3 cases pianos and material, $162.
Havana—2 pkgs. talking machines and mate-
rial, $210.
Havre—1 case pianos and material, $325; 1
case musical instruments, $112.
Hull—27 cases organs and material, $4,000.
La Plata—6 cases pianos and material, $704.
Liverpool—7 cases organs and material, $428;
1 case pianos and material, $189; 1 case pianos and
material, $180; 2 cases organs and material, $161.
London—34 pkgs. talking machines and mate-
rial, $1,133; 65 cases piano players and material,
$845; 6 cases pianos and material, $3,080; 11
cases music, $680; 2 cases music strings, $130;
10 pkgs. talking machines and material, $270;
24 cases organs and material, $471.
Macoris—2 cases musical instruments, $144.
Matanzas—1 case piano material, $125.
Manchester—12 cases piano players and mate-
rial, $675.
Melbourne—4 cases organs and material, $1,-
080; 64 cases phonographic goods, $3,700.
Milan—2 pkgs. talking machines and material,
$200.
Naples—1 case pianos, $550.
Odessa—6 cases organs and material, $225.
Palermo—1 case pianos and material, $200.
Santos—1 case pianos and material, $250.
. Smyrna—5 cases organs and material, $200.
Sydney—522 pkgs. talking machines and mate-
rial, $15,168; 77 cases organs and material, $3,-
601; 6 cases pianos and material, $1,000.
Tampico—9 cases music, $597; 4 cases pianos
and material, $863.
THE GREAT POLITICAL PIANIST.
A
Musical Word Painting of Our Strenuous
President—Why Piano Men Should Cheer
Him.
Commenting upon the enthusiastic reception
given the name of Roosevelt at the recent dinner
of the National Association of Piano Dealers at
the Hotel Astor, the Evening Post, which is by
no means the greatest admirer of our strenuous
President, comments upon this happening in a
somewhat humorous vein, as follows:
"Why shouldn't the National Association of
Piano Dealers rally with uproar to Roosevelt?
Look at what is now going on in Chicago, and
say what other master of the queen of instru-
ments has succeeded in compelling such con-
vincing harmony from a mere complex of wires,
hammers, pedals and keys. Not to Chopin's
touch, not to Rubinstein's or Paderewski's, has
the piano answered as this country answers to
the supple hands of the master. He lets his fin-
gers wander dreamily over the board, and Amer-
ica sings in minor key of the virtues of home
and good citizenship. The hands fall with a
crash and the country thunders out its wrath
against the wealthy malefactor and the undesira-
ble citizen. Now the mood rises to a mocking
scherzo, in which the ear almost discerns the
nature-faker hiding his blushing head beneath
piles of rustling leaves and the patter of the mol-
lycoddle's tears into the waves of the loud-sound-
ing ocean. Again a swirl of the fingers, and in
a crescendo of noise we hear the muckraker filing
the teeth of his rake, the impact of soft hands
against hard faces, the stroke of millions of ham-
mers on thousands of battleships, the aged sen-
ator moaning with pain as the 20,000 words of
the latest message reverberate through his poor
sweet-breads. And then the final andante of a
nation that has reached the .millennium, every
good citizen under his own conserved hemlock
tree and by his own waterway, while in the
White House there is Taft and silence, and from
the banks of the Zambesi comes the occasional
sharp crack of a rifle."
TO INSTALL MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS.
Mosler, liowen & Cook, Mexico City, Mex., a
large furniture house, have installed a musical
instrument department and have arranged to
handle the R. Wurlitzer Co.'s line of automatic
instruments. The first shipment is already being
shown in the large music hall in the company's
building. Dr. J. H. T. Stempel, well known in
the South American music trade, is manager of
the new department. He states that a line of
pianos and player-pianos of American make will
shortly be added and requests catalogs from
manufacturers in this country. George W. Cook,
head of the Mosler, Bowen & Cook, is an Ameri-
can, hailing from Syracuse, N. Y., and has been
in Mexico for eighteen years.
PROTEST AGAINST ASSESSMENT.
The various piano houses in Omaha, Neb., who
own their own buildings are with other mer-
chants protesting against the increased assess-
ment on their property for taxation, the increase
ranging from 10 to 33 Vfj per cent. Among those
who suffered were Hayden Bros., whose assess-
ment was increased from $155,000 to $160,000;
Curtice-Baum Co., $274,000 to $288,000; A. Hospe
& Co., and the Schmoller & Mueller Music Co.