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BOSTON AND NEW ENGLAND
John H. Wilson, Representative, 324 Washington St., Boston, Mass. t
B
OSTON, MASS., June 1.—A holiday out,
and therefore a short week, which means
that loss to business. The end of the week
will see an exodus—perhaps it should scarcely
be called that in the case of Boston—for New
York and as there is no disposition to go over
in any ensemble fashion the Boston manufac-
turers and dealers will wend their way thither
to the convention singly for the most part.
New Henry F. Miller Grand Desk
The Henry F. Miller Co. is announcing a new
protecting grand desk, which announcement,
Kranich & Bach Period Styles Unite
Fidelity of Style with Musical Worth
Five Styles Produced by New York Piano Manufacturer Marked by Purity of Design Com-
bined With Tonal Beauty of This Well-known, Old, New York Piano Name
T N developing the line of period piano cases
which have attracted wide and favorable at-
tention throughout the country, Kranich &
Bach, New York, builded on a sound founda-
tion, for it was realized at the outset that purity
of design is the outstanding essential in any
period case work that is to be considered worth
but are the result of long and careful study, con-
structive work carried on with a thoroughness
that insured the success of the models when
finally offered to the public because of the
authenticity that was apparent in their entire
decorative treatment.
Much may be said and written about period
Kranich &
Bach
Queen Anne
Period Grand
Kranich & Bach
Cordovan
Period Grand
while. It is true that a number of the recog-
nized schools of design permit of a certain lati-
tude in the adaptation of the characteristics of
the period to piano case decoration, but the
secret lies in making proper use of this lati-
tude rather than in abusing it by failing to ad-
here to essential details.
The period cases as produced by Kranich &
Bach have not been the work of the moment,
models, but the final test lies in observing the
instruments themselves and thereby gaining a
proper conception of their design.
In certain of the period models offered by
Kranich & Bach, and five of the most attractive
are illustrated and described in a special
brochure issued recently by the company, there
has been incorporated in the case work an
originality of treatment that from the stand-
n
through the medium of a leaflet, will be dis-
tributed at the convention. The new protecting
desk is described as now standard in the Miller
grand and the Miller lyric grand and it is being
given careful recognition by those who realize
the value of something of this sort.
Billy Parks Back at Desk
It is good news that our old friend Billy
Parks, New England manager of the Columbia,
has left the hospital and is at home, and that
this week he will begin to come into his office a
couple of hours each and every day. There
certainly will be a good reception awaiting him
the day he first puts in an appearance, for he is
very popular among his business personnel.
Circus Tickets at Stieff's
The big circus is on the way, and the public
as last year may purchase tickets at the down-
town office, located at the Charles M. Stieff,
Inc., warerooms, 114 Boylston street. For a
number of years a while ago the downtown
office for the circus were the Hallet & Davis
warerooms and it is a foregone conclusion that
it is a good advertisement for any wareroom
that can get the crowds coming even to pur-
chase circus privileges.
Daughter of W. A. Harvey to Wed
Winthrop A. Harvey, of the C. C. Harvey Co.,
is going to have another wedding in his family
for his second daughter, Miss Gertrude Harvey,
to Edmund Rice, of Dover and Quincy. Miss
Harvey is a graduate of a Boston private school
and Mr. Rice is a member of the class of '27,
Harvard, preparing for college at Milton
academy.
Tribute to Payson Appreciated
Boston friends of Colonel Edward S. Payson
are glad to learn that at the meeting of the
new board of directors of the United Piano
Corp. held at Norwalk, O., a resolution was
passed to continue him as a salaried member of
the organization on the same basis as has been
in force since the formation of the Corpora-
tion. It will be recalled that Colonel Payson
was president of the old Emerson Piano Co.,
which was absorbed into the United Piano
Corp. several years ago.
These are the days when department stores
in particular are featuring pianos as wedding
gifts (this is the month of weddings), and
among those to come conspicuously forward is
the R. H. White Co., which has been making a
good display of Francis Bacon instruments.
Recent Trade Visitors
Visitors here just lately have been W. E.
Baldwin, wholesale representative of Gulbran-
sen, and Mark P. Campbell, president and treas-
urer of the Brambach Piano Co.
The Phonograph Publishing Co., of this city,
put down as publishers, has just been incor-
porated under the laws of Massachusetts with a
capital of $25,000. The incorporators are Frank
B. Forrest, of Medford; Axel B. Johnson, of
Hyde Park, and Charles H. Gilmore, of Melrose.
Ava W. Poole, of the Poole Piano Co., re-
turned on Saturday from his Maine trip and
this week he is visiting the trade around the
city and at the end of the week will hie him-
self over to the great Metropolis. H. L. Davis,
the Poole factory superintendent, also is going
over to the convention and there's going to be
a Poole exhibit, too.
point of the average piano man would appear
to be almost radical and yet the ensemble effect
is not only attractive but carries out most suc-
cessfully the spirit of the period represented.
One of these unusual models is the Cordovan,
of Spanish design, very thoroughly conveys the
expression of delicacy, and another is after the
very popular Queen Anne period, and quite in
contrast to some instruments that have been
offered as representative of that style.