Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-01-14
MUSIC
And It's Benefits. Both in an Educational
and a Material Sense.

And Its Benefits. Both In an Educational
and q Material Sense.
Music profits individuals in an educa-
tional sense by elevating and refining, and
it profits communities in the same way. II
also profits communities in "a material
sense as factor in trade. The piano and
organ business of Richmond hos since the
close of the war assumed vast proportions.
and now the city Is the piano and organ
depot of supply for an enormous area Of
territory. Among the Richmond houses in
this line of business which stands in the
front rank and than which none is more
widely known is that of Hume, Minor & Co.
THREE HOUSES.
The firm has houses in three cities
Norfolk. Portsmouth. and Richmond-and
is one of the oldest in the piano and organ
trade in Virginia. Its members are John
H. Hume, of Portsmouth; George A.
Minor, of Richmond, and +. N. Wilcox. of
Norfolk. The commodious Richmond
warehouse and sales-rooms are located on
Ninth street opposite the Capitol Square.
and the store was established about four
years ago. since which time it has rendered
most valuable service TO Richmond in en-
hancing her reputation as piano and or
gan market. TO which Mr.. Minor contri-
buted so much during his long experience
and indefatigable labors as a travelling
piano-salesman.
AN EXPERT.
Mr.. Minor entered the concern and es-
tablished the Richmond house with
thorough knowledge of the different
makes of instruments, to which was added
q musical culture that enabled him 20 dis
criminate as TO the tone and other quail
ties of an organ or piano. He is an ex-
pert. Further, he has the confidence of
all with whom he has been thrown in con-
tact and enjoys O wide reputation for
good judgment. The Richmond house,
therefore, started business with an en-
viable prestige, and that prestige has been
more than sustained to the advantage Of
the firm and of the general business of the
city.
THE loRcE,
The home force Of the Richmond house
in addition TO the partner, Mr.. Minor. con-
sIsts of Messrs. A. $. Peticolas, w. A. Gray.
A. Acre, and Professor George ID. Meares.
all of whom have had valuable experience
in the business. Outside of the city the
house is represented by travelling statesmen
and branch offices in various portions of
Virginia and North Carolina.
CLASS OF INSTRUMENTS.
The firm will not allow their names to be
associated with anything but frst-cass in
truments-instrumen that have been
thoroughly tested-and what they recon-
mend can be safely relied upon. To trust
their judgment and representations in buy
ing is TO secure q sweet-toned. durable,
beautiful instrument, as numberless per-
sons can testify, and as ID shown by the
premiums they have secured upon the
makes they handle. These makes are of
pianos, the Weber, the Wheelock, the
Chickering, and the Stuyvesant; and of
organs, the Wilcox & White, the Mason d
the Self-Playing Pnuematic Symphony.
The firm caXnot be excelled in low
prices for frst-class instruments nor
in the promptness with which they
fill orders. Mr.. Minors standing as q mu-
sician and perfect acquaintance with pia~
nos and organs renders it safe TO order
from the house by mail or telegraph, and
even were he not engaged in the trade no
better man could be found with whom to
consult. Families and educational insti-
tutions contemplating purchasing an in
strument will find it advantageous TO cor
respond with the house.
MUSICAL ATMOSPHERE
Strangers in Richmond. hs well as our
own people. will find the warehouse of
Hume, Minor j. Co. most pleasant place
about the establishment. The employees
of the house are deyotees OF the art, and
though. as the success Of the house attests,
the concern is pushing, active, and en-
ergetic. one almost forgets that he is in
business establishment. He realizes at
once that he is welcome and there is de-
sire TO make him at home. and if he thinks
OF buying he is not long in percelving that
he is in the best of hands. He may be the
yeriest tyro as regards music. but Mr.
Minor or his assistants eau make him
understand the requisites Of good
instrument and if he purchases he may
feel secure that the musical members of
the family will be pleased. When these
facts are considered it is not TO be won-
dered at that the house has had o most
successful career and that its promise is
brighter than ever before. Nor is il q
matter of surprise that it is recognized as
an important factor in building up the
citv's general trade. The establishment
has in effect brought the large piano and
organ-factories of the Nortl to the very
doors of our people and furnishes them
with the very best that these factories
afford
DESERVES PATRONAGE.
Such houses deserve and should receive
extensive patronage. They stimulate the
aesthetic, they bying money into the city.
and they popularize city. thy have sn
influence upon O community that incul-
Gates O taste for refined pleasures and
amusements. Whatever stimulates the
musical perception of the public has ten
dency to make the home circle attractive
and improve the social conditions. Since
such houses as Hume, Minor 4 Co. have
been in operation they have been the
means of introducing pianos and organs
into thousands of houses where the pos
session of these instruments was looked
upon as shope never to be realized, how
ever muchit might have been cherished.