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Musical Courier 1892-09-07: Vol 25 Iss 654, 1892
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1CARPENTER ORGAN COMPANY.
3CERTAIN internecine changes in the government of the E. P. Carpenter Company, of Brattleboro, Vt., have been effected recently which will enable that house to enlarge its output and increase its trade generally. Mr. W. C. Carpenter will continue to represent the company on the road, and a simplification of title will also take place by the dropping and lopping off of the letters E. P., the company hereafter to be known as the plain and simple Carpenter Organ Company, a very good name and an improvement on the old title. An initialed title for a stock company is a little burdensome, but when the party whose initials are used is not associated with the company there is no reason for the perpetuation of the name.
5A Neat Point.
7A N inquiry from North Carolina, somewhat original, making a neat point, is of interest. It reads:
9Editors Musical Courier:
101. Will you tell the readers of your valuable paper what grade of pianos and organs are those that are sold under stenciled names?
112. What is their musical value?
123. Are the warranties from such dealers who sell them any good?
13A full explanation will be valuable information to purchasers of pianos and organs.
14Yours truly, * * * * * Co.
16We shall reply to these questions seriatim.
171. The grade of pianos and organs sold under a stencil is the lowest grade produced, unless the manufacturers can make them still lower. As the manufacturers' names are not on these stencil instruments there is no reason why they should not make them as cheap as possible in order rapidly to coin the profit—for the whole scheme is transitory BECAUSE the stenciler can drop the manufacturer at any time and go to the next manufacturer who may be willing to turn lower grade trash loose upon the community for so many dollars less a dozen or a hundred. It would be suicidal for a manufacturer to make a good article for stencil purpose. It would not be appreciated and there is no earthly reason for it. In fact if manufacturers of stencil instruments were to raise the quality they would kill the business.
182. There is no musical value attached to a stencil instrument. It is not made to be musical. Musical people do not purchase stencil pianos.
193. A dealer's warranty on a piano or organ which does not publish its maker's name, but is paraded before the community with a false name—such a warranty is as worthless as the piano or organ itself. How does a dealer warrant, if he warrants? By indorsing the maker's warrant. The maker, let us say, is not known by the purchaser, but the dealer says: "I will indorse this warranty of the manufacturer."
20He cannot do that with a stencil instrument, because he dare not tell who the maker is. That would at once grade the piano down to its place, while simultaneously it would unfold before the customer the fact of the stencil.
21In addition this must be observed: A stencil piano or organ cannot be warranted. There is nothing to warrant. There is no tone; hence tone cannot be warranted. There is no touch; hence touch cannot be warranted. There is no finish or beauty; hence these cannot be warranted. There is fraud, and the fraud can be warranted, but that the dealer will not offer to do. The warrant should read:
23FRAUD WARRANT.
24I ……………….. dealer at ……….. hereby warrant Stencil Piano No. ……, not made by the party whose name is on it, for the term of 50 years. If it should turn out not to have any tone or touch; if it should not possess any attributes of a musical instrument, I agree not to take it back. It is a stencil and these things are not expected of a stencil instrument.
26This is about the idea.
27The stencil is a moral defect in the music trade, and for that one reason, if for no other, it is doomed.
29IMPORTANT CHANGE.
31MR. THEODORE PFAFFLIN, traveling representative of Messrs. Chickering & Sons, has resigned and accepted a position of importance with Messrs. Wm. Knabe & Co., at the New York branch of the latter house.
33MALCOLM LOVE PIANOS.
34A High Grade Piano, equal to any!
35MANUFACTURED BY
36WATERLOO ORGAN CO., Waterloo, N. Y.
37We invite correspondence from Dealers in localities where we are not represented.
39NEW! NEW! NEW!
41POLYPHONE,
42HYMNOPHONE,
43SYMPHONION.
45These are the latest Changeable Disk Music Boxes, which play an UNLIMITED number of airs.
47ADVANTAGES:
48VERY FINE TONE, DURABLE, SIMPLE, LOW PRICE.
49Dealers can sell them with better profit than Cylinder Music Boxes and more of them.
50NEW DESIGNS IN CASES.
51Send for Catalogue.
52FRED. H. SANDER,
53Importer and Manufacturer,
54146 Franklin St., Boston, Mass.
56THE WEHLE PIANO,
57HONEST, GOOD TONED AND HANDSOME.
58There is money for the Dealer in this Piano. Send for Catalogue.
59OSCAR WEHLE,
60282 NINTH AVE., near 27th St., NEW YORK CITY.
62WISSNER
63296 Fulton St.,
64BROOKLYN, N. Y.
65HIGH GRADE, MODERATE PRICE.
66PIANOS.
68The JNO. ALBERT Grand Concert Model SOLO VIOLINS
69Are indorsed by the leading Artists throughout the world. Send for our New Illustrated and Descriptive Price List, just issued. Old Violins repaired and reboxed. All bows and Cases. Purest Italian Solo Strings. The Albert "G" Strings. The Albert Rosin and Patented Specialties.
70E. J. ALBERT, 124 S. Ninth St., Philadelphia, Pa.
71N. B.—Have you seen the E. J. ALBERT Patented Tailpiece for the Violin? Send for descriptive circular.
73TO THE
74PIANO TRADE.
75LURCH PIANO COMPANY,
76WE HAVE A LARGE STOCK OF Square Pianos of all Prominent Makers, IN FIRST-CLASS CONDITION, On hand for the Trade at low figures. Also a large stock of Carved Legs ready for use. Should you require anything of this kind it will pay you to call.
77FOURTH AVE., Cor. 25th ST., NEW YORK.
79HIGHEST AWARDS AT NEW ORLEANS EXPOSITION, 1885, AND MELBOURNE, 1889,
81BEHR BROS.
82Grand and Upright
83PIANOS.
84BEHR BROS. & CO.
85PHILADELPHIA,
861229 Chestnut Street.
87ST. PAUL,
88114 East Third Street.
89Warerooms: BEHR BROS. HALL,
9081 Fifth Ave., New York.
91FACTORY: Corner of 11th Ave. and West 29th St., New York.
93BOOSEY & CO.,
94NEW YORK AND LONDON.
95WRITE FOR CATALOGUES.
963 EAST FOURTEENTH ST.,
97NEW YORK.
99LOUIS CEHLERT,
100IMPORTER OF AND DEALER IN
101Piano Felts, Action Cloths, Buckskins, Etc.,
102SOLE AGENT FOR DITTERSDORFER GERMAN HAMMER AND DAMPER FELTS.
103—MULHOUSE FINE PIANO KEY CLOTHS.—
104204 East 18th Street,
105New York.
107HERSCHEL FENTON,
108—DEALER IN—
109Old Violins, Guitars, Mandolins, ELECTRIC BANJOS, Banjourines, Banjorettes, Florentine Strings, Bows, Cases, &c.,
110No. 61 NASSAU STREET, NEW YORK.
111OLD INSTRUMENTS BOUGHT, SOLD OR EXCHANGED, REPAIRED, &c.
113CORNISH & CO.
114ESTABLISHED 25 YEARS.
115—MANUFACTURERS OF—
116Upright Cabinet Grand Pianos and Church, School, Lodge and Parlor Organs.
117FACTORIES AND OFFICES: WASHINGTON, N. J.
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