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THE.
MUSiC
TRADE
ALFRED BEHREND & CO.
HOHNER HARMONICAS IN IRELAND.
Acquire the Musical Merchandise Department
of Jos. W. Stern & Co., New York.
How an Irish Dealer Took Occasion to Feature
This Creation at a Recent Bicycle Parade.
cf Bauer & DuerrschmidU Markneukirchen,
Germany, arrived in New York Thursday.
The orders booked for direct importation were
fully 25 per cent., and in some instances more
than were taken last year.
Alfred Behrend & Co. have acquired the mu-
Bicycle parades are still popular in Great Brit-
sical merchandise department of Jos. W. Stern &
ain,
and somehow they are managed for the Frank Scribner, the American agent for the
Co., music publishers, 102-104 West 38th street,
Weiss harmonica, lingers in Chicago for the
New York, and it will remain at the same ad-
week, but is expected in New York again Mon-
dress. Mr. Behrend, with his brother David,
day or Tuesday next. Mr. Scribner also did a
managed the department for the firm for many
fine business, exceeding his last year's totals by
years and is well and favorably known in the
a comfortable figure.
trade, as he did the major part of the traveling.
The new concern took over all the foreign
agencies, as well as the lines of domestic man-
SELF=PLAY1NG MANDOLIN
ufacture. The business will be conducted on
Patented by Cincinnati Man—A Description of
progressive, up-to-date methods. Mr. Behrend
the New Instrument.
has the good wishes of The Review and con-
gratulates him on branching out for himself.
A Cincinnati man has secured a patent upon
a self-playing mandolin which is described as
DITSON VIOLIN WINDOW.
follows: "A self-playing musical instrument
The expert window dresser of Chas. H. Eit-
having In combination a series of fingers over 1 ;
Fon & Co., New York, has achieved another
hanging the neck ahd provided with means f8r
triumph in the display that has been made for
contacting with the strings, nieahs ft»r individ-
the past week. The exhibit is entitled "The
ually actuating the fingers, a bar extending
Violin and All Its Relations," and includes all
transversely of the instrument ih frOiit Of the
sizes of instruments from the one eight inches
strings, means for imparting transverse recip-
long, perfect in every part and inclosed in a
l'ocation to said bar continuously during the
plush-lined miniature case, through the grades
Operation of the device, a plectrum for each
up to tne 'cello. Grouped around the instru-
string pivbtally mOuhted in the bar, a slide for
ments in an artistic arrangement and filling the
each plectrum adapted to be reciprocated at an
window are the various parts, such as souni
angle to the line of reciprocation of the bar
post setters, bass bars, neck grafting, linings,
whereby it may engage with its respective plec-
sides, tops and backs in the rough, necks, gradu-
trum to depress it and engage it with the string
ating scale, graduating soraper, planes, "F" back
or whereby it may disengage from the plectrum,
pattern, "F" back cutter, practice rules, Strad
and means for individually reciprocating the
pattern "fake" violin (imitation old), finger
slides."
boards, pins, saddles, heads, posts, nuts, etc., be-
sides books on the violin. The beautiful dis-
J. E. Agnew, a piano dealer of Des Moines, la.,
play attracts no end of attention.
has moved to new quarters at 316 West Seventh
street, that city.
Standard of ttie World
Th« Original S. S. STEWART Banjo
Ask ybur Jobber, or send di-
rect to us for catalogue.
THE BAUER CO., 726-730 Girard Ave., Philadelphia, Pa.
YORK BAND INSTRUMENTS
ARE GOOD SELLERS
The dealer who handles food sellers b the one
who has a good profit to snow at the end of the
year York Band Instruments are of the highest
postible quality—they couldn't be better and per-
formers all over the country know it. That's
why they sell so well. The line comprises
Band Instruments, Drums and Cases
Our interest does not end when we sell the
dealer—we do all we can to boost the aale of
the instruments. Plenty of advertising matter is
furnished free of cost. Better write us to-day
for our catalog and proposition.
J. W. YORK & SONS, Grand Rapids, Mloh.
benefit of asylums or other public benevolent In-
Burr's Music House, Roseburg, Ore., has been
stitutions, and which are witnessed by great bought out by the Bush & Lane Piano Co.
crowds. The accompanying picture is that of a
rider In an affair of this kind in Ballymena, Ire-
Silver, Nickel,
land, at the close of the season, and who had
and other
decorated his wheel with one of M. Hohner's
harmonica show cards, conspicuously displayed.
Band instrument work handled with
The idea—a good one—was suggested by Wm. M.
dispatch, to your entire satisfaction,
Ferguson, an enthusiastic Hohner dealer in the
and at INTERESTING prices.
town.
Gold,
Plating
Chicago
RETURNING FROM THE WEST.
After an absence of a month Wm. R. Gratz, of
the Wm. R. Gratz Import Co., and Richard Bauer.
For
Platers to the Trade.
Our Combination
H I G H A N D L O W PITCH CLARIONET
THE NEWLY PATENTED BOW SCREWS
VIENNA WONDER AND MILANO ORGAHETTO ACCORDEONS
Prof. Hup Heermann
TO
WM. R. GRATZ IMPORT CO., 35-37 West 31st St., New York
The Eminent Violinist and
BLACK DIAMOND Strings
GENTLEMEN :—
I am sailing to Australia next week, and shall
PMSS through New York between the 5th and
bth of May ("Blucher," Hamburg-Amerlka Line).
Will you send enclosed order for Violin (J
ptrings BLACK DIAMOND to address given be-
|nw, or do you have a Dealer's shop In New
York where I might find your strings? If so,
please let me know at the same address.
The strings are most excellent.
Yours sincerely,
H. HEERMANN.
Frankfort o/M., April, 1905.
NATIONAL MUSICAL STRING COMPANY
New Brunswick, New Jersey
113-115 University Place
Largest Jobbers in America of
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USICAL
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