New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-12-19
PIANOS.
STEINWAY.

STEINwAY.
The holiday demand for pianos has called
out activity with the great piano producing
firm OF Steinwav & Sons Employing more than q thon-
sand workncn. and through the year turning out be-
tween seventy and eighty pianos per week. their trade
has envened with the near approach of Christ
mas that their mandatory is busy In the evening
hours and has turned out as many as 100 pianos In
week The reputation OF the Stenway instruments
Ia almost worldwide, and brisk demand FOR
them has sprung up IN the countries OF Europe
and In other foreign lands The shipping OF American
pianos to Europe and the praises avished upon them
are gratifying evidences OF what the New World can
accomplish in departments In which transatlantic
countries have long Wanted their superiority The
steinway warerooms are at Nos 100 and Ill East Four
teenth-st The new patent one-producing pedal which
has been put In this piano claimed TO be very vaina
bic invention. much increasing the capacity OF tile IN
strument for musical effects.
WEBER.
The Weber pianos have pidIy risen to lofty posi-
ton In the esteem OF cOnnoisseurs and III the favor OF
the public. Parepa, Nilsson, Kellogg, Lucca. Patti.
Strauss and wehli have all spoken highly OF hem and
the favor with which they regarded In this city Is
shown by the fact that one-haf of all that
made are readily sold in New-York and its
suburbs. During tho past year Mr. Weber has
manufactured about 40 pianos per week, on the
average Several instruments which he has made for
Christmas sale maryels OF elegance the beauty OF
flush and quality OF tone being admirable. Hardly
any more acceptable gift from wealthy gyer could be
found than one OF webers finest pianos, and while the
costly material put them and the labor ayished upon
them place them Of the reach of those Of narrow
means they cannot be considered highprced for their
worth.
CnICKERING.
Tho great New-Engand piano manufactorv at Boston.
OF which the firm Of Chickering & Sons at No II East
Fourteenth.st, is branch, is enjoying prosperous
Winter and the capacity OF its immense works In the
Bay State metropolis Is tried to tho utmost. Producing
over pianos weekly and often three score
and ten, maintains and adds TO all the merits which
have made the reputation OF these Instruments,
while the honest, thorough work that Is pu into them.
and the eagerncss of the makers to discover or accept
and embody every improvement that can be made.
sustain popularity Of the Chickering pianos and the
favor with which they are looked upon by the dscrmi
mating. One-fourh Of their instruments sold in this
city vicinity and the sales III the South and South
west increasing while their expectations o. nsru
ments TO South America are extensive
KNABE
The Baltimore piano firm OF william Kuabe Co. is
of the Oldest in the country and has had much to
do with raising the reputation Of American pianos
compared with those of foreign make. Tne
branch house in this city, at No. III Fifth
ave-, has drawn fair share OF local busi.
ness, and the fine wareroOms contain some exception
ally elegant instruments made for holiday purchasers
Making from 40 to 50 pianos per week, the Knsbe
factory sends instruments to divers quarters OF the
United States and fluids valuable patrons In South Amer
ca the West Indies, and In Europe Their trade in the
Southern States has been extending largely OF late
years. with the improvement of business in that section
The Knabe pianos have been the most popular of any in
the South, and they certainly leave room for COM
plant wherever they are tested.
DECKER.
The excellent pianos Of the Decker Brothers are much
sought after in the West and not few go to the New
England States while the visits of buyers from this vi
cinty to the attractive salesro0ms at No. SO Union
square are frequent. Some spleudid instruments
have been made expressly for the holiday
trade, and sales are so encouraging that the
Decker mandatory Is working time. This
firm makes all styles, the concert grand, paror grand up
right and square, and the demand for all three OF ,he
latter styles good while the uprghts coming mole
prominently into favor with every year. Their oonve
nience OF form and their excellence OF tone and thor
0ughness OF workmanship make their success easv
Decker Bros. manufacture about 90 pianos per week
and onethird OF them sold In this city and neghbor
hood.
George Steck & Co. send many pianos to the West and
the demand for them through the Middle States ia brt
Their grand pianos, to which the judgment of those
competent to discriminate assigns very high place
and upon which the utmost care In construction ia he
especially at this season, and uprghts more freely
than class OF instruments sold formerly The sc
saestooms at No. 25 East FOurteenthst and ths,r
city business Is liberal its proportions For five wears
the sales Of the Steck pianos in have be.n
increasing. until now they have reached very sa,is
factory proportions.
sCIIIRMER.
Purchasers Of pianos and those who have them al.
ready, 10 speak OF those who soace their losnre
with other musical instruments. ought to be provided
piled at G. schrmer's No 7Ol Broadway, importer and
publisher Of music Classic and modern music I'm the
most elegant editions, and the cheaper as we'll can n.
found there and the circulating library 10 worthy
OF attention.
LINDEMAN SONS
East Fourteenth-st. has the great musical cep
ter Of the city, and the space between Fnh.aye. and
Unon-square is taken with piano warerooms that
other business Is rather shouldered aside. AT No IA
East Fourtecnthst are the warerooms OF Lindeman a.
Sons who prepared TO furnish the househoders OF
Fnha,e or tho less wealthy residents OF other parts
OF tho city, with Instruments OF approved merit.
BACON KARR.
Any who desire appropriate holiday presents which
shall be treasures of sweet sonnd aud at same
time shall DO elegant enough to ornament "a handsome
drawing room will not be disappointed going to
al level which does not conne the purchase Of excel
lent instruments 10 the very wealthy alone.
WATERS
The new scale pianos OF Horace Waters * Son al No.
lsi Broadway have peculiar merits and are sold ut OK
tremeiy low prices during the holiday season. Tho