Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-06-05
Large Retail Sales
In Cleveland.

The B. Dreher's Sons Co. of Cleveland published
more than haf-page advertisement in the Cleveland
Plain Dealer of last Sunday with affidavit and names
of purchasers showing instruments having been sold
by the house in four months past The firm in the
advertisements 'The list comprises sales of Steinways
Dreher and other pianos
What are Dreher pianos?
Where are Dreher Pianos made?
Where is the Dreher piano factory?
Probably the Dreher Sons Co. have been reading
and have known of agitation going in The Courier
Trade Extra the subject of stencil pianos and they also
may have heard that within few months past the New
York local Piano Manufacturers Association and the
National Piano Manufacturers Association have been dis
cussng the question ostencils pianos If the Dreher
Sons Co has heard of these things during the past
the other dealers in Cleveland have, and
even if they have not this paper justified in asking
where is the Dreher factory?
We have before list of SAID instruments sold by
the Drehers Sons Co. in January, February March and
April of this year. and if overstep the functions
of newspaper and go into the journalistic field we
night write these people Individually and ask them how
that they bought piano called the Dreher and
der what representation sold to them Did they buy
Dreher pianos under the impression that there
Dreher piano factory and that the Dreher in
Cleveland had advantage the other that
city by having factory? II
The Brainards have no factory Wamelink has no
factory other there have factories although
represent factories like the Haet Davis branch
Were these people told that there Dreher piano
factory?
Now the question of the stencil is merely al
question pertaining Individually to the piano trade it isl
an ethical question in The other lines of in
dusy that have stencil goods for sale just badly off
las the piano trade with its stencils with this difference
That the stencil hat the stencil knife the stencil
pocketbook all small matters compared to the perman
ent domestic article in the homes of families called piano
We do not want to go into any discussion of the
stencil We only wish to call attention again to the fact
that the stencils living lies transferred from the
of the dealer the home of the purchaser where it
Stands for years cynical protest against piano methods
Those who handle the stencil are the Intermediates in the
transaction, and considered responsible, bel
proved Should send each person the Dreher list
published in the Cleveland Plain Dealer Musical Courier
Trade Extra containing article the stencil and in
vovng the question of the Dreher piano would
revolution in the Dreher business and why? Simply be-
cause it stencil and because the stencil wrong If
were OF the other pianos that Deher sells nothing
could be done interfere with it but with stencil piano
simple article calling attention it will upset of
and that alone should prove the Dreher
Sons Co. that is precarious and vulnerable transaction
this dealing in stencil goods, when it fathered byI
the house itself which advertises the piano boldly the
Drehers do.
After ALL is there anything in handling stencil
goods Would it not be better for the Drehers drop the
Dreher piano and boldly against the stencil?
Would that give them great strength in the COM
munity?
We astonished at the whole situation after all.
We astonsed that merchants should subject them
selves to the weakness which their business
when susceptible such exposure 1t ism good bust
all the through and later it has got
stop -(Iusical Courier, May 6, 1899
Conover Pianos made by the Conover Piano Co.
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their being sold by any dealer earth under any other
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