The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1877-09-12
BOGUS PIAN0FORTES AGAIN.
OTHER MIXERS THAN JOSEPH r. HALE
ENGIGED IN THE BUSINESS.
Dealers Throughout the Country Assisting In
the Fraud Interesting Facts brought to
Light by the burning OF usic's Factory

dealers Ihrouxhout inc country AsststtuR IN
the Fraud Interesting Facts brought to
Light by the burning OF h"ie's Factory.
Joseph p. Hale has been the head and
front Of the offending in the bogus piano bust
ness. but has by no means had monopoly of
H. At one time. little over n year ago. there
were eight factories in New York turning out
;us, snrh i,s,r,,r,c,,s no bis of .nuollv worth
less material and wrctchcd workmanship, Ia
bclIinr them with any fraudulent names that
Ill ,, =, ali ,,,n,,, nn1 ,ons,i,,,in,, ,ho,,
would help to sell them. ana constituting them-
selves mo curse OF the honest 'rnue. Many
OF that evil clique have passed out Of existence.
md the o,bora have ,ui, uniting an tho ,,lar
anu ,nc o'n'iS nay uu,' puu,nk oi' '''c ,'lsc
stencils, now combining themselves to marking
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some cases 'heir own mus huHh hartmann
Nendelssohn Piano Co." the New York
Piano Co. =" md somc loon, dnalcrs md tbn
name of this Arm is no longer mentioned ON" ' in
immedintc connection with tina "Inz,lrun
co op 0 vo ",n"r " w ,no Hr,. I mi"nn
fortes that once Hooded the market. Prob
ably seventy I've or even eighty rcr cont Of the
bear the firm name Of Hardmann 4 Co. one of
,no p", ms = u" oil''V' VI ,lo ".n,'ss''''
flano Company ana II Is claimed that piano
fortes are made especially for that kind. They
claim to ,urr ont ,w,ntv +, t,ynntv.nvr instru.
','i " W. '"' W., " w Nv ~
menus week. Jphh ". 1ouhE hs"u 10
make many pianofortcs bcaring the name of
ph.,,,a - ~ uro,li,., orI L,s - ia,,
'"''p7 SUI W p,"VAP"' "nu mas VI '"'o
one city dealer with instruments bear
in, HE ,n,,o IIr,co V,,.ra 4, snr
Of Union square are said by people in the BUSH
and at 'lcnst de- rot dcnv II, sinre Mr Wni"rs
angrily informed Il SUN reporter that he
il il moi Known tIu; wg,"r4 4 son hnyn INV fa,.
~ al . - q. (.
panoforios for N. United Si.trs Piano Conn
pany but that corporation now las factory of
are seen in the market bearing their name
GrovestccnS Fuller now make pianolorrs lcar-
MAXI 'SYT S%e n Geans ie name r OF sSry
Kemp Chicago Tn. Manhattan Piano Conn
pany. ia addition t. instruments bearing their
dealer othors stcnciilcd win his
The followu. il u list OF pianoforte manu-
facturers IN Now York WHO put their names
upon their wares: Slrinwiiy Il Sous, Drrker
Brothers. Geo. Stock 4 Co.. An. Weber, HAZEL
Kranich 4 Bach Batnu 4 Knrr MARTINS Il
Son. Gutenberg Vaup-l Il Do, Durham 4 Son.
tivh,ec ~ rrn.t ,o IT, j'oG,n'i' NIX
Sons; Simpson ( Co., E.nst Cali B.lln-- K
A Holnistrom, William Sohn.flrr Nni.hntun
Pnno Con,rnny nnl United St,,irs Piano Com
pany. Some II tn smaller Manufacturers
of a large contract when offered with the con =
ditiop that tnUy shall stencil on n drnlcrs nauIo
Instead oil their own. lut. luuenuel tlNy
make piauoiorics hcaring their own names
they have been included in the list II this
leniency were, carried siill further in thu same
direction. one might also add Jacob Christie,
Robert Gable n Son Gruvcstcen 4 Fuller and
Two or three others OF small extent. TIE rrin.
cpal reputable makers cut Of the city repre-
scented here are: Chi.Scrins 4 Sons of II sion
Hallett DAVIS of Boston, Vim. knnhc& Co.
New HaVon. and niied States Piano NaSnss oi
Williamson
In disuisstnr This suhe. I II spurious piano-
lao In nix t to 10.
PUZZLE. VIZ ii-'rust always instruments ncar-
Ing the names 81 local dealers VINO nrc not man
uiattur.r- When n llnk,r mt. his own name
IN he must for hl- own credit and self pfuirr-
HDn make ~ good an instrument IL he can
son cnn expect to get from one maker us good
npinuoioris for, 5000 can be bough, OF an,
other for 500. Low prices will only oommanl
pstly to approXi nnto tho value nut on them
sponsiblc shield of a lOral n..ldleman. The
reputable piano trade has suffered vast in
jury in two years by reason Of these
throughout the land have lrrn found
who had not sufficient honesty TO con-
Tine their operations to the sale ul frst-oiass
nstruments-lorwhich they wrr,' the n~'rrdit-
ell agrnis-when sal0s AZ necessarily high
sustomrts tbe b,ai, ir"h h., bi' ,i iui,
lnrgrr pruiiis I'm r.i,i'tv md a. which INV
rould NM ontet .Si in I'M I'M. II,
seoms strange that they should thus snct Il "a
their reputation amou. their CUSTOMERS b, scll-
ing insrum MS known 20 tlicn To- hr worihl0s -.
10.
Aside from injury to the TRADE. and swim
ding tho public. tho US plunofur,, hns
had Wick,dly drnoraliYin.. ailtl often "a ruin
Gus eff.ct ON previously honest u,.ohani,s =.
The way in which Halo gut much Of as siu.f 80
cheupy may be- c.tsa ~ an i.u-tratI on. IT,
would agprQI'h IN "a tion-uaker, Tor example
and BAY. Il want vou 10 furnish NO lorly uc-
hons per wrrn.' ltying thr Regular uNrke
price for them. Soon after he would inrreise
his order t. sixty; th"n To- eighty. lh'u sud-
denly he would ~ To- the man and say. " | can
get actions as good a. your, io. twenty-five
per cent. l,--. II You cannot Ito bnu r
lhnn nat, DO not want my NOR from
you. Meantime ih,' man would probably have
doubled or trnll'l his ior-'' Of employ D''-, and
got in u lnr-r sto h ui material on the strength
pi anticipated and even promised orders from
Hale. Tho nnrrse ties Tor cash would press
him sorely. and-ior the men .rlorted for ia :
operation were not keen and cal ulaiing husi-
ness men-he would say 10 himself II my
rival can under-e N" % per cent. | must h.
able To do ~ ma h at lpn-t' PERHAPS in his
anxiety he would even uuderbld n rival who
actually Rad no existence. He would illus bo
edged INTO "a Iulnously losing contract and in n
khort time -so To- swell the number 81 bankruuls
ii wns in th.s way that Michael Howe. a cOvtrci
to,h Il ,onlIHrall .'Y inu,pnhWht pr-iion; s.
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