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OUR FOREIGN CUSTOMERS.
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 Abroad.
(Special to The Review.)
Washington, D. C, March 28, 1910.
The following were the exports of musical in-
struments and kindred lines from the port of
New York for the week just ended:
Abo.—3 cases pianos and material, $385.
Bergen.—3 cases pianos and material, $295.
Berlin.—5 cases music, $500; 15 pkgs. phono-
graphic goods and material, $809.
Bombay.—3 pkgs. talking machines and mate-
rial, $115; 2 cases organs and material, $328.
Bremen.—11 cases piano players and material,
$1,275.
Buenos Ayres.—3 cases organs and material,
$215; 3 cases pianos and material, $363; 13 cases
piano players and material, $4,835; 1 case music
rolls, $163; 29 cases organs and material, $2,500;
166 pkgs. phonographic goods and material,
$3,264.
Buenaventura.—9 pkgs. phonographic goods and
material, $414.
Callao.—11 pkgs. phonographic goods and mate-
rial, $1,350.
Cape Town.—4 cases music, $154; 108 pkgs.
talking machines and material, $1,947; 6 cases
organs and material, $214.
Cartagena.—18 pkgs. phonographic goods and
material, $973.
Catania.—1 case pianos and material, $200.
Delagoa Bay.—30 pkgs. talking machines and
material, $897.
Glasgow.—1 case organs and material, $100.
Geneva.—1 case pianos and material, $405.
Genoa.—1 case piano players and material,
$425.
Guayaquil.—3 pkgs. talking machines and mate-
rial, $141; 5 pkgs. phonographic goods and mate-
rial, $476.
Hamburg.—10 cases pianos and material, $487;
3 cases music rolls, $230; 10 cases organs and
material, $275.
Hamilton.—2 cases pianos and material, $224.
Havana.—6 pkga. phonographic goods and
material, $294; 1 case pianos and material, $150;
4 pkgs. phonographic goods and material, $201.
Havre.—1 case pianos and material, $250. -
Kingston.—1 case piano players and material,
$225; 37 pkgs. phonographic goods and material,
$617.
Limon.—1 case piano players and material,
$150.
Liverpool.—2 cases music, $270; 3 pkgs. talking
machines and material, $238; 3 cases organs and
material, $2,500; 2 cases piano players and mate-
rial, $127; 3 cases organs and material, $170.
London.—43 pkgs. talking machines and mate-
rial, $3,460; 4 cases music, $605; 11 cases pianos
and material, $967; 7 pkgs. talking machines and
material, $541.
Matanzas.—11 pkgs. phonographic goods and
material, $301.
Melbourne.—19 cases piano players and mate-
rial, $1,210; 655 pkgs. phonographic goods and
material, $8,636.
Palermo.—2 cases pianos and material, $400.
Parta.—2 cases pianos and material, $715; 2
cases music rolls, $109.
Rio de Janeiro.—18 pkgs. phonographic goods
and material, $2,600; 1 case piano players and
material, $481; 3 cases pianos and material, $1,-
107.
Santiago.—3 cases pianos and material, $253.
Shanghai.—3 pkgs. talking machines and mate-
rial, $244.
Smyrna.—3 pkgs. phonographic goods and
material, $260.
Stockholm.—40 cases organs and material, $2,-
597.
St. Petersburg.—17 pkgs. phonographic goods
and material, $271.
Sydney.—5 pkgs. talking machines and mate-
rial, $213; 14 cases pianos and material, $1,919.
Tampico.—2 cases pianos and material, $556;
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4 cases pianos and material, $405; 138 pkgs. talk-
ing machines and material, $5,137.
Tenerife.—2 pkgs. phonographic goods and
material, $108.
Turin.—1 case pianos and material, $400.
Vera Cruz.-—94 pkgs. phonographic goods and
material, $4,100; 1 case pianos and material, $100.
Valparaiso.—555 pkgs. phonographic goods and
material, $4,726.
Yokohama.—5 cases pianos and material, $825;
8 pkgs. phonographic goods and material, $407.
GET KROEGER AGENCY.
Hartford Piano & Music Co. Also Enlarge
Warerooms
to
Accommodate
Increased
Stock—Handle Good Line.
his many friends prophesy a bright future for
him in his chosen field.
WHO MUST PAY TAX?
Efforts of Indiana Tax Collectors to Make
Possessors of Instalment Pianos Pay Assess-
ment Cause Trouble.
Piano dealers of Indiana are much interested
in the question that has just come up in that
State as to the taxation of pianos bought on the
instalment plan, and which have not been fully
paid for by the purchasers. The tax officers claim
that the tax should be paid by those in possession
ot the instruments, but they have met with de-
cided opposition wherever they have tried to
enforce their ruling. The matter has been refer-
red to the State Tax Board for final settlement.
The Hartford Piano & Music Co., Hartford,
Conn., who have had considerable success in
CONTEST PIANO CAUSES TROUBLE.
handling the Henry & S. G. Lindeman, Stultz &
Bauer, Schaeffer, Janssen and other makes of
The success of a school in Racine, Wis., in
pianos have recently secured the agency for the
Kroeger piano for that territory and have con- securing a piano offered as a prize in a contest
siderably enlarged their wareroom space to ac- has spelt trouble for the authorities. The principal
of the school sold the piano, and when called to
commodate their increased stock.
account by the school board he stated that he
had a claim of $85 against the instrument, it
having cost him that amount to win the instru-
ment in the contest run by the Chicago Ameri-
Association Starts Bureau of Information and
can. A local dealer bought the piano.
Will
Blacklist Deadbeats—To Drive Out
DENVER DEALERS AFTER FRAUDS.
Commission Fiend.
REARRANGING FACTORY SHOWROOMS.
At a recent meeting of the Denver (Col.) Piano
Dealers' Association a bureau of information was
established by the association, consisting of three
members appointed by the president, who will
keep the members at large in touch with all
matters of trade interest. One of the duties of
the new bureau will be to secure the names of
those people who make a specialty of securing
pianos on the instalment plan and keeping them
until they are repossessed, then working the
same game with other piano stores, thus having
the use of a piano almost continuously with prac-
tically no expense. The bureau will also endeavor
to rid the trade of the commission fiend.
The A. B. Chase Co., the well known piano
manufacturers of Norwalk, O., are having their
factory warerooms rearranged and redecorated
with the object of offering first-class quarters in
which their customers may inspect sample instru-
ments when they visit the plant. No expense has
been spared in the refitting of the. warerooms,
and the results are most satisfying.
SCRANTON DEALERS STILL ACTIVE.
The Scranton (Pa.) Music Trades Association
are still keeping up their fight on the alleged
misleading advertising of one piano house in that
city, and a number of the dealers have written to
STIEFF GRAND FOR LEGATION.
the manufacturers of the lines they handle for
the purpose of taking the matter before the con-
United States Minister to Denmark Selects
ventions at Richmond as a political issue in the
Stieff Petite Grand for Use in Denmark.
trade, the head of the offending house being
Maurice Francis Egan, United States Minister named as possible candidate for a high office in
to Denmark, before leaving Washington for his the manufacturers' association.
post purchased two Stieff pianos, one an upright,
PIANO FACTORY HAS CLOSE SHAVE.
as a present to his daughter, and the other a Pet-
ite grand, to be shipped to the legation in Copen-
The new Keller-Dunham Piano Co. factory in
hagen for his personal use. The staff of the Stieff
branch in Washington were much pleased at the Scranton, Pa., recently had a narrow escape from
fire and serious damage when one side of the
sale.
building was struck by lightning. The roof was
badly torn up and a number of bricks on the side
OPEN WHOLESALE BRANCHES.
wall knocked out, as was a window frame on
the
third floor. Work in the factory was not
Schmoller & Mueller Music Co. Announce Ap-
hindered in the least however, and they expect
pointment of a Dozen New Agencies in
to begin shipping pianos early in April.
South Dakota.
Following the closing of a number of their
branch stores the Schmoller & Mueller Music Co.,
Ornaha, Neb., have announced the appointment of
about a dozen wholesale agencies in South Dakota
following the recent trip of Wholesale Manager
Redline through that territory. With the new
distributing agencies in South Dakota and Ne-
braska and eastern Iowa well covered the Schmoll-
er & Mueller occupy a decidedly strong position
in their territory. At present they are featuring
the Hardman piano in a very convincing manner
at the headquarters store.
NOW WITH MASON & HAMLIN CO.
Charles A. Meeker, an experienced piano man,
who has been connected with several New York
State piano houses as sales manager, has taken a
position with the Mason & Hamlin Co., as man-
ager of one of their outside territories with head-
quarters in Plainfield, N. J.
OMAHA DEALERS REDUCE INTEREST.
In view of the easier money market in the
West, the piano dealers of Omaha, Neb., have re-
duced the interest charged by them on instalment
accounts from ten to eight per cent. The legal
CLARENCE CAMPBELL TO WED.
rate of interest in Nebraska is seven per cent.,
The engagement has been announced of Clar- but interest up to ten per cent, may be charged
ence Campbell, vice-president of the Knight-Camp- by written agreement.
bell Music Co., Denver, Col., and son of Mrs.
Frank O. Evans, the piano dealer of Des
George H. Campbell, to Miss Leonore O'Brien, a
young society girl of that city. Mr. Campbell, Moines, la., recently presented a grand piano to
since becoming connected with the Knight-Camp- the Coliseum in that city for use in the dance
bell Music Co., has made an excellent record, and hall. The gift was very much appreciated.