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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
SHERMAN, CLAY'S WHOLESALE SMALL GOODS BUILDING
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Pacific Coast Music House Now Has One of the Largest Wholesale Musical Merchandise Estab-
lishments in the Country—Extensive Facilities for the Repairing of Instruments
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL., July 14.—The occupancy
general offices, Hanked on either end by private
of new wholesale small goods and talking ma- offices and completely equipped small goods and
chine departments by Sherman, Clay & Co., on
Mission street, between Third and Fourth
street^, this city, gives this establishment one of
the largest and best equipped wholesale supply
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DURRO
AND
STEWART
Largest Wholesale
Musical Merchandise
House in America
Buegeleisen & Jacobson
113 University Place
NEW YORK
BAND INSTRUMENTS IN DEMAND
Ditson & Co. Report Great Activity in Their
Brass Band Department
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Exterior Sherman, Clay & Co.'s Wholesale Depot
houses in the United States. In this new build-
ing, which was recently opened, a floor space of
22,000 square feet is occupied, and every bit of
Band Instrument Repair Department
it is utilized to splendid advantage. Extending
across the front of the building, which has a
frontage 100 feet on Mission street, are the
RUN0
T H E OLDEST AND
LARGEST MUSICAL
MERCHANDISE HOUSE
IN AMERICA
Exclusively Wholesale
351-53 FOURTH AVE. NEWYORKCITY
Vxc tor Dis trihu tors
H. L. Hunt, manager of the musical merchan-
dise department of C. H. Ditson & Co., 8 East
Thirty-fourth street, reports a continued tre-
A View of One of the Display Rooms
mendous demand for band instruments not only
talking machine departments designed as models from the Government, but also from Home De-
for dealers. In fact, there are a number of in- fense Leagues, the Roy Scouts and kindred or-
dividual ideas incorporated in this establishment ganizations.
that will appeal to dealers.
A $65 set of Deagan Song Bells was recently
A feature of the building is the extensive re- sold at these warerooms for a four-year-old
pair departments for brass instruments, and also child who, when visiting in New York with her
for all instruments of the plectra family. No mother, showed remarkable aptitude in picking
one visiting this establishment can get away out various pieces on this instrument.
from the fact that the small goods business
can be made one of the big factors in the trade
CORNET PATENT GRANTED
of music dealers, if properly pushed, and there
WASHINGTON, D. C, July 16.—Patent No. 1,-
are abundant ideas to be had in this connection 232,069 was last week granted to Carl W. Nel-
son, Boston, Mass., for a cornet and the like.
The present invention pertains to cornets,
trumpets, trombones and instruments of a
similar character played from a mouthpiece.
The object of the invention is to provide a
mechanical means or device by which the voic-
ing, intonation, power and vocal or tone quality
may be changed to suit the performer.
JOHNFRIEDRICH&BRO.
Sherman, Clay & Co.'s Parcel Post Room
throughout the wholesale quarters of Sherman,
Clay & Co.'s new establishment, which may be
termed a Pacific Coast clearing house in a musi-
cal instrument way.
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