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Musical instruments at the World's Columbian Exposition : a review of musical instruments, publications and musical instrument supplies of all kinds, exhibited at the World's Columbian Exposition held in Chicago, May 1 to October 31, 1893, and the awards given for these exhibits (from all nations) w, 1895
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1received numerous orders. Being dissatisfied however, with the general outlook, and feeling that America would afford him a wider field of activity, he left the old country with his wife and possessions and came to the United States in 1867, bringing with him a valuable stock of old violin wood and a famous collection of some sixty genuine old violins, many of them being very costly and valuable. After six years' practical experience of the requirements of the American musical market, Mr. Lowenthal returned with his family to Europe and began making a collection of old Italian violins on a large scale, visiting the United States at stated intervals, where he continued to find a ready and profitable sale for his instruments. He has since visited New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Cincinnati and Chicago, and secured much business, and has made several visits to England doing an excellent business.
3Mr. Lowenthal continued to visit America annually, holding periodical auction sales in New York and Boston and some of the western cities. In 1878 he met Ole Bull at St. Louis, who was charmed with Mr. Lowenthal's splendid collection of instruments and graciously permitted a model to be taken of the famous concert violin that he was then using.
5Associated with Mr. Lowenthal in the Lowenthal Star Works, is his son Louis Lowenthal Jr., the pride of his father, and who, for the last two or three years, in fact, since the close of his service in the German army in 1892, has done most of the outside work of the house, making trips to the principal cities of continental Europe and Great Britain and annual visits to America. He has visited all the large cities of the United States and has many warm friends here. His customers are the most prominent music houses of the various large cities extending from Boston and New York in the east, to Atlanta and New Orleans to the southward, to San Francisco and Portland on the Pacific Coast, St. Paul, Chicago, back to St. Paul, Chicago, etc.
7Mr. Lowenthal, Jr., was an interested attendant at the World's Fair and saw the exhibit of his house put in shape at the opening of the Exposition. Mr. Lowenthal Jr., is now in his 28th year, and is a worthy scion of a worthy sire. He is a finely educated and polished young man and speaks English as fluently as he does his mother tongue, and with his thorough knowledge of the business he represents, he is well fitted to extend the interests of his house in this country.
9PAUL STARK, MARKNEUKIRCHEN, SAXONY.
11THE exhibit of Paul Stark, of Markneukirchen, Saxony, was one of the most admirable in the German Section. Among the instruments there displayed, were several which were marked by novelty of design as well as unsurpassed excellence of construction. Indeed, it was in the main this spirit of novelty, this genius of invention, that prompted Mr. Stark's participation in the World's Fair. And the award granted to his display demonstrates clearly that its chief object was attained. For although the house of Paul Stark is extensively engaged in the export trade in large lines of musical goods, one of its specialties was pushed forward in the competitive display to the exclusion of others.
13When Mr. Paul Stark, the head of the great exporting house at Markneukirchen, Saxony, entered the musical instrument business, the house had already become well established and was being conducted by his father and brother. The brothers soon separated and Mr. Paul Stark continued independently. He proved to possess great adaptability for the business and, by hard work and judicious management, his trade rapidly assumed very large proportions, until to-day he carries one of the largest and most carefully assorted stocks of musical instruments in Germany. All goods handled by Mr. Stark are either manufactured by himself
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