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Musical Courier 1892-12-21: Vol 25 Iss 668, 1892
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1THE WONDERFUL A. B. CHASE PIANO.
3We have made it our special business for months to closely investigate the several high-grade pianos on the market with the purpose of securing an instrument that would meet the approval of the most critical and cultured musical people of Boston.
5We have selected THE A. B. CHASE from the many fine pianos offered us as the one most fully meeting our ideal of a perfect instrument. We speak advisedly when we characterize it as a WONDERFUL PIANO.
7The scales of THE A. B. CHASE PIANOS are scientifically and musically correct, evenly balanced throughout, not a weak spot in them.
9They are WONDERFUL in musical tone, which is rich, deep and full, with remarkable singing quality, and in this respect they have captivated the finest musicians in the great cities both East and West.
11THE A. B. CHASE PIANOS have the best actions made, and they are "action regulated" by the most skillful men to be found. In this respect they delight everybody and are truly WONDERFUL.
13A complete stock of these wonderful A. B. CHASE PIANOS may be seen at the warerooms of OLIVER DITSON COMPANY, 453 to 463 Washington Street, Boston.
15Materials.
16Only the choicest materials are used that the experience of the world has proven best adapted to the various parts of the piano in its present high state of perfection.
18Durability.
19The lumber is prepared by a process of acclimatizing used in no other piano factory. They are GUARANTEED to withstand any climate in the world, where any piano will stand. There is not a single point where durability is at stake that has not been carefully studied and provided for in the most perfect manner.
21The Finest Made.
22They are wonderful in the position and success they have attained in the short period of ten years, and are known to the music trade and profession from the Atlantic to the Pacific as one of the finest pianos made in the world.
24In Conclusion.
25If you are thinking of buying a Piano, you should visit our warerooms and examine these beautiful instruments before concluding any purchase.
27Warranty.
28WE GUARANTEE them to be as Represented in EVERY RESPECT.
30N. STETSON & CO.
31Philadelphia, Pa.
33BEFORE entering upon details THE MUSICAL COURIER desires to extend its congratulations to the new Philadelphia firm of N. Stetson & Co. in securing as manager of the house Mr. J. B. Woodford. Mr. Woodford, who for some years past has been the secretary of the Hallet & Davis Company, of Boston, and who formerly controlled the Loring & Blake Organ Company, is unquestionably one of the very best equipped men in the ranks of the piano and organ trade of this country to-day, a man whose experiences and knowledge of the trade are fortified with mature judgment and the choicest kind of intellectual grasp. Mr. Woodford is adapted only for duties that require individual freedom of action and the unlimited scope of work that is centered in the duties of a managerial position such as he will occupy in Philadelphia. He has followed with keen pleasure the various kaleidoscopic revolutions that characterize the history of the music trade in this country since the days of the Centennial, and has drawn from his observations such lessons as will be of vast benefit to him in his new and enlarged sphere. A great future awaits him and the new Stetson Company in Philadelphia. There will be business done.
35The executive force of N. Stetson & Co. are J. B. Woodford, manager; August von Bernuth, who was formerly Mr. Stetson's assistant and who has just returned from Europe, cashier, and C. W. Moss, with Blasius & Sons, chief salesman.
37The territory covered by N. Stetson & Co. for the instruments the firm will control consists of two-thirds of Pennsylvania, virtually all of the State east of the Alleghenies and to the State lines of Maryland and New York; Southern Jersey and the State of Delaware. For the present the Steinway, Bradbury and Webster pianos will be handled and prospectively a few additional brands. Organs have as yet not been decided upon.
39The officers of the company are William Steinway, president; F. G. Smith, Sr., vice-president; Nahum Stetson, treasurer, and F. G. Smith, Jr., secretary. The warerooms, at 1418 Chestnut street, in the Hazle-
41tine Building, are adapted thoroughly for the purposes of the business, and will be in readiness for occupancy by the new year. They will be fitted up and decorated in a style worthy of the claims of the institution that is destined to develop within their walls.
43The officers and others were in Philadelphia on Saturday, when final details for the conduct of affairs were completed.
45Chase, Roberts & Co.
46THE business of Chase, Roberts & Co., varnish manufacturers, of 173 North street, Brooklyn, was established in 1840 by Mr. Wm. D. Chase.
48Mr. E. M. Roberts and Mr. S. W. North, gentlemen familiar with the varnish business, brought into the firm some two years ago, and since then their trade has extended among the piano manufacturers, and they have been remarkably successful in acquiring new customers and retaining them.
50They make a specialty of the superior grades of gum, and their varnish is now being used successfully by some 20 odd piano makers.
52Lester, Pa.
53The Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company—Reading Division.
54SUPERINTENDENT'S OFFICE, Reading, November 28, 1892.
55CIRCULAR, NO. 27.
56Taking effect Thursday, December 1, 1892, the name of "Corbindale" station on Philadelphia and Chester Branch will be changed to "Lester."
57C. D. WHITCOMB, Superintendent.
58Approved,
59M. F. BONZANO, General Superintendent.
61—Orton Brothers, of Butte, Mon., have been obliged to move into a larger store.
62—Dr. Alfred Stelzner will remove his establishment for the manufacture of stringed instruments on his principles from Wiesbaden to Dresden.
63—Mr. William Freidrich, of the firm of John Freidrich & Brother, who has been appointed agent in this country for E. R. Schmidt & Co., of Markneukirchen, Saxony, has received his samples, and on January 1 will actually engage in soliciting orders for the product of this firm's factory, consisting of violins, violas, violoncellos and double basses, guitars and mandolins, bows, cases, &c. Mr. Freidrich will take the road about January 15 for an extended trip.
65The Prize Piano.
66Burlington "Hawkeye" Contest.
67THE $500 Shaw piano selected by the Burlington "Hawkeye" to be given to the most popular Iowa traveling man has been presented to J. H. Coulter, of Burlington, Ia. Out of a total of 136,522 votes sent in Coulter got 83,855.
69The Award.
70BURLINGTON, Ia., December 15, 1892.
71We, the judges, after making a careful count of the ballot cast in the Burlington "Hawkeye's" Popular Traveling Men's contest for the $500 Shaw piano, find that Mr. J. H. Coulter, of Burlington, has received the largest number of votes according to the rules governing said contest, the total number of votes for Mr Coulter being 83,855. We therefore award the piano to Mr. J. H. Coulter.
72Signed.
73CHRIS. MATHEIS,
74PETER FAWCETT,
75C. WHIT SMITH.
77Mr. J. H. Coulter the winner, is a standard bred traveling man by all the rules and standards that can be devised. He has been a resident of Burlington for more than twenty years. He represents the house of Forbes Brothers, of St. Louis, jobbers in teas, coffees and spices. His fifty-two years sit lightly upon him and he is a hustler upon the road. The new prize piano will be a splendid ornament in the tidy home at No. 328 Garfield avenue.
79On the evening of December 15 a banquet took place in Burlington in honor of the event and many speeches were made, Mr. Harry J. Raymore, of the Shaw Piano Company, Erie, was one of the prominent speakers. Lange & Minton, the Shaw agents at Burlington, are to be congratulated on the success of this contest and their business in general.
81The Shaw is booming in Iowa and other States.
83The Miller Organ Company.
84IT may not be generally known in the trade that the Miller Organ Company, of Lebanon, Pa., are doing an excellent retail piano business, having a well stocked store directly in the business centre of the town. They carry in stock the Decker Brothers, Krakauer and other makes.
86—W. A. Guillett has started a piano store at New Hampshire, Ohio.
88—Arnold Harnes, a bookkeeper 22 years old, has been arrested by Specials McCabe and Notter of the Third Precinct on the charge of petit larceny. Carl O. Schenglus, a boarder at the same place where Harnes boards, is the complainant. It is alleged that Harnes has been doing a business of obtaining musical instruments and sheet music on the pretense that he was a German nobleman.—Buffalo 'News.'
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