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Musical Courier 1891-11-11: Vol 23 Iss 612, 1891
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1Black Piano Ornaments.
2THE factory of Messrs. Max Gottschalk & Co., successors to Weile & Co., at Prinzenstrasse 31, Berlin, was founded in 1871, and is the oldest one of its kind in existence in Germany. They manufacture ornaments for pianos and furniture made of pure pressed wood without any other adjunct except the gluing material.
3The models are designed and executed by eminent artists, so that in conjunction with faultlessly neat and correct workmanship the single pieces are always so evenly matched that a like careful preparation by hand could only be secured at the expense of much time and cost.
4To this must be added that the wood in consequence of this treatment becomes as hard as iron, and thus breaking, which occurs quite frequently in thin places of hand sculptured ornaments, is almost entirely out of the question with Weile & Co.'s work when handled by practiced artisans. Such is the hardness of these goods that changes on them have to be effected with instruments used in the handling of iron instead of those sufficient to carve ordinary wood. To these advantages must be added the great cheapness of price of these ornaments, which are especially adapted for use on piano cases, and export for which has since a number of years increased to all portions of the globe. Illustrated catalogues, with prices, can be had free of cost on application. It must also be mentioned that these goods are mostly manufactured in black so as to match the natural color of the Jacaranda wood or of the American polish on pianos.
5See advertisement in this number, which illustrates the designs.
7About the Dyer Company.
8ST. PAUL industries are rapidly advancing and entering into competition with the East. Every few days the "Pioneer-Press" has occasion to record the advent of a new factory or the enlargement of old ones in order to handle a largely increased business.
9Yesterday one of the oldest firms in the city was merged into a corporation to be known as the W. J. Dyer & Brother Company. The papers of incorporation are of a general nature to permit of the manufacture of all kinds of musical instruments, though adapted especially for an organ factory. At present the Dyers have a factory at North St. Paul that has been running a year. Last night W. J. Dyer, president of the corporation, said:
10During the past year our business has had a large increase in all branches, but especially in the sale of our organs. To enable us to handle the business properly and compete with Eastern manufacturers we have become incorporated, taking into the new organization Mr. Lambert, who has been our confidential man for 16 years. At present our factory is located in North St. Paul, but we are negotiating for a place in the city, where we shall erect a large factory and give employment to about 50 skilled mechanics. It is impossible to speak further in the matter, as our plans are not yet perfected.—St. Paul "Pioneer-Press."
12W. J. Dyer & Brother's Organ Factory.
13ST. PAUL, October 27.—To the Editor: It is evident that your reporter shared the present widespread interest in the extension of St. Paul manufactures, for with a laudable desire to comment entertainingly on this important subject the interview quoted in your Sunday paper considerably enlarged the statements made by me and built an extensive enterprise somewhat prematurely and without sufficient foundation. The failure to quote me literally would be of small consequence but for the fact that it does injustice to ourselves and Mr. Earhuff as well as to North St. Paul interests, all of which was far from my intentions.
14Certainly nothing was designed or said at all inconsistent with the facts concerning the Dyer Brothers organs and the demand created for them, which it was stated would require at the present time 50 workmen to supply.
15We have been for more than a year stockholders in the North St. Paul factory, our sign is upon the building, and we have been during that time manufacturing organs there from our own patterns and for our exclusive use, with such satisfactory growth in the business that, as stated by Mr. Morton, we have been ready to take the entire output of the factory.
16The necessity for an early enlargement of our manufacturing facilities was all that was intended to be conveyed to the reporter who called on me.
17It is hardly necessary to say that, having the interest and business connections above stated in the North St. Paul organ factory, we should not be likely to say or do anything detrimental to it or to Mr. Earhuff, whom we personally esteem, and whose good work and success is a matter of satisfaction to us and a great credit to him; nor is any removal from North St. Paul contemplated.
18We share with other citizens the interest in the growth of St. Paul industries, and are doing our part toward the enlargement of them. We feel that North St. Paul is in some sense a part of us, and is to be included in the enumeration of St. Paul enterprises. As such we are not in the least intending to do it injustice. W. J. DYER.—St. Paul "Pioneer-Press."
20New Corporations.
21Articles of incorporation were filed in the county clerk's office at Camden, N. J., November 2 by the Subers Piano Manufacturing Company. The object of the corporation is to manufacture pianos, organs and other musical instruments. The capital stock of the company is $250,000, and the amount paid in is said to be $1,000. The incorporators are Lawrence A. Subers, Chesapeake City; Samuel B. Coughlin, of Burlington, and George C. Coughlin, of Norristown, Pa. Mr. Subers is the inventor of a twisted string, and is of the opinion that this will improve the tone of the piano and save waste of the hammer.
23Cornett Piano Company, of New York—To manufacture and sell pianos. Capital, $10,000; directors, Henry N. Cornett, Edmund P. Hawkins, John Ruefer, Charles Stahl and Sebastian Rueber. The news of this incorporation has already been published, but this is the first official notice.
25Strope's "Ad." in the Kansas City "Times."
26G. W. STROPE & CO., the old reliable music firm, will open up again at their old quarters in the Strope Building, at 206 and 208 West Ninth street, with the grandest lot of pianos ever in Kansas City and prices that will make you smile. No fancy rents to pay; buys for close spot cash; don't rely on the piano business for a living; we are in it for fun and to have some fun with the boys and look and be pleasant with everybody. All of old customers are our references. The only one price piano house in this country. Something new Will be ready for business November 4. Be wise and call on Strope sure and see advantages in the one price system. No fancy prices asked. Our personal guaranty with every piano sold, and you will not have to worry thinking you paid $100 to $300 more than some other fellow. Come in and see us and be happy, look wise and be wise. Come and see us and you will feel at home in our warerooms. Remember our old quarters, 206 and 208 West Ninth street, Strope Building.
28—The death is announced of Mr. Johann Gustav Malmsjö, the largest and most eminent piano manufacturer in Sweden. He was born in 1814, and was originally intended for the church, but he preferred a mechanical life, and was apprenticed to a cabinet maker in the town of Lund. He afterward worked in the factory of Marschall in Copenhagen, there learning piano manufacturing, and in 1843 he set up for himself as a piano maker in Gothenburg. His business increased, and at the period of his death he was a man of large wealth.
29—Nearly a month ago the firm of W. J. Curtiss & Co., piano dealers, of this city, bought out the Keller Piano Company, of Bridgeport, Conn., and preparations are now being made to remove the industry to this city. The shop will be located at 119 South Centre street, in the building now occupied by the firm. Mr. Curtiss, when seen by a "Star" reporter this morning, said he could not tell how many men he would employ, but the present capacity of the works is 18 pianos a week, requiring between 35 and 40 employees. The name of the instrument manufactured will be the Curtiss instead of the Keller, as formerly. Mr. Curtiss expects to have a part of the shop in this city in operation at an early date.—Schenectady "Star."
31The Trade.
32—J. H. Henry has opened a music house at Victoria, Tex.
33—Frank Meader is the name of a new dealer at Sibley, Ia.
34—F. W. McKenney, musical instrument dealer, Boston, has assigned.
35—We mention Karl Fink's name this week, but not on the front page.
36—It is now reported that a piano factory is to be established at Rockford, Ill.
37—Peter Hein has charge of Julius Bauer & Co.'s new branch house at Marquette, Mich.
38—A. C. Cline, musical merchandise dealer, St. Cloud, Minn., has sold out to F. Zabel & Co.
39—Mears & Pitcher, music dealers, Belfast, Me., have added pianos and organs to their line.
40—J. G. Mernin, East Las Vegas, N. M., is now selling the Knight-Campbell line of goods.
41—Mr. E. H. White, of Wilcox & White, and Mr. Wm. Parker have invented a pneumatic piano.
42—J. W. Tillinghast, of Charleston, S. C., has opened a piano and organ wareroom at La Grange, S. C.
43—T. P. Bumgardner, dealer in musical instruments at Wooster, Ohio, has been closed by his creditors.
44—Hazleton & Dozier, at Athens, Ga., are working like beavers throughout their section and never say booh.
45—We learn that Morrell & Shaffenberg, of Cumberland and Meyersdale, are doing a great big boom business.
46—The La Crosse Music Company, of La Crosse, Wis., are said to be beating everything out in their section.
47—Robert J. Stephens, music dealer, Rome City, Ind., has gone out of business and expects to travel for an Eastern house.
48—G. W. Jackson, of Helena, Mon., has entirely recovered from the effects of the recent fire and is pushing his business along in great shape. We believe in Jackson.
49—Mr. Poole, traveling for C. C. Briggs & Co., of Boston, was in St. Louis last week and took a handsome order from the Jesse French Piano and Organ Company.
50—Mr. Daniel F. Treacy, of Messrs. Davenport & Treacy, he of the genial smile and many oft told stories, has left New York for a trip through the State and through the West.
51—The new manager of the Little Rock branch of the Jesse French Piano and Organ Company is Henry Genett. Mr. Lumsden, president of the company, went to Little Rock to instal him.
52—Eight Emerson pianos from the wrecked steamer El Dorado, which had been submerged for some time, were sold in Burling slip last week at auction. They had been shipped from Boston, intended for Thomas Goggan & Brother.
53—Rob't M. Webb, the maker of paper piano covers and small piano supplies, has moved from 915 and 917 Marcy avenue to 1352 Fulton street, Brooklyn, where he will have increased facilities. His telephone call is Bedford 442. Ring him up.
54—Mr. W. H. Guernsey, who for some time past has been located in Denver, has rejoined the forces of Messrs. Jacob Brothers, by whom he was employed several years ago, and is now representing them on the road, being this week in Chicago.
55—Mr. O. C. Klock, traveling for the Braumuller Company, and now in the West, is doing an excellent business for them, and what with his orders and those that come in from the dealers who have seen the new styles and want more of them the factory is kept running full time.
56—Miss Janotha played before Her Majesty the Queen at Balmoral, and used a new Steinway piano sent from London for the occasion. The royal circle was so delighted with Miss Janotha's skill that the performance was prolonged for nearly three hours.—London " Magazine of Music."
57—The New Haven, Conn., "Register" says: "A man named Saunders, representing himself as business manager for the Mathushek Piano Company, has disappeared from Bridgeport, leaving many unpaid bills."
58—This must be the firm in New Haven doing business under the name of Mathushek Piano Company, and having no connection with the original Mathushek & Son Piano Company, of New York.
59—This beautiful and happy combination, so fittingly appropriate, is effected by the Levassor Piano Company, the well-known and successful dealers in pianos and organs, and Gardner, the florist, occupying jointly the beautiful rooms at No. 11 West Fourth street, which they have fitted up elegantly, and to which all lovers of both music and flowers are cordially invited.—Cincinnati "Times-Star."
61MALCOLM LOVE PIANOS.
62A High Grade Piano, equal to any!
63MANUFACTURED BY
64WATERLOO ORGAN CO., Waterloo, N. Y.
65We invite correspondence from Dealers in localities where we are not represented.
67MAX GOTTSCHALK & CO., Successors to WEILE & CO.,
68BERLIN S. (GERMANY). PRINZENSTR. 31.
69FACTORY OF
70BLACK PIANO ORNAMENTS.
71ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE FREE ON APPLICATION.
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