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THE
MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
The Wulschner-Stewart Co. are showing an at-
tractive window of Apollo players and small
goods.
Dealers Enjoy Satisfactory Holiday Business—
The Pearson piano house is showing a new
Demand for Player Pianos a Special Feature
Style V. Kurtzmann. It is in walnut, and the
—Asher Gray Candidate for County Clerk
management of the store is well pleased with it.
—Kimball
Prize
Winners—Starr
Player
The Pearson house has sold a handsome Stein-
Piano for Traction Magnate—Aeolian Con-
way piano to Mr. Stalcup, a well-known whole-
certs Popular—Weber Grands in Demand—
sale merchant.
New Style Kurtzmann a Favorite—Rollin
Succeeds Morrison at Carlin & Lennox's
The bursting of a water pipe at the store of
Store—Other Items of Interest.
the Aeolian Co. recently, caused a loss of several
hundred dollars. The cases of three or four
(Special to The Review.j
pianos were damaged, but the instruments were
Indianapolis, Ind., Jan. 1, 1910.
not ruined.
The books of 1909 in the piano stores of In-
Richard Morrison, who has been in charge of
dianapolis have been closed and the dealers are the small goods department of the Carlin &
satisfied. This does not mean that the business Lennox store for nine years, has resigned, owing
of the year or the holiday business was up to to his health, and has gone to Spokane, Wash.
the mark of previous banner years. But it was He has been succeeded by Carrol Rollin, who has
satisfactory and the piano dealers believe that been in the small goods department of the store
it will be even better next year.
for nine years.
One of the remarkable features of the Christ
mas business was the lively trade in player-
pianos. W. H. Alfring, of the Aeolian Co., said
that their business in December was better than Import Trade of Musical Instruments Shows
that of any previous month, in the history of the
Increase—Exports for the Month Are Much
store, and that much of it was made up of
Larger—Player Shipments Make Fine Rec-
pianola piano sales. So great was the propor-
ord—The Figures in Detail Regarding the
tion of the player business with the Fuller-Cur-
Various Instruments Furnish Some Interest-
rens Piano Co. that Mr. Currens, of this firm, was ing Particulars to Our Readers.
led to say that he believed that within two or
three years the greater part of his business would
(Special to The Review.)
be in players. Players, he says, are getting
Washington, D. C, Jan. 3, 1910.
down to a reasonable price and everybody is
The summary of exports and imports of the
buying them.
commerce of the United States for the month of
One day a short time before Christmas a couple November, 1909', the latest period for which it
strolled into the King store in the Traction Ter- has been compiled, has just been issued by the
minal station about 6 o'clock in the evening, de- Bureau of Statistics of the Department of Com-
claring that they wished to get married. A large merce and Labor. The figures relating to musi-
crowd gathered, and Mr. Duckworth, who was cal merchandise, including pianos, organs, piano
in charge of the store at that hour, played the players and miscellaneous "small goods" in the
wedding march. The bridegroom promised to musical field, are as follows:
return and buy a piano. In one of the weeks of
The dutiable imports of musical instruments
December the. King Piano Co. made 18 sales. during November amounted to $100,190, as com-
Business has been good with this house.
pared with $121,590 worth which were imported
Asher Gray, of Gray, Gribben & Gray, handlers the same month of 1908. The eleven months'
of Starck pianos, has announced that he will be total ending November shows importations valued
a candidate for the Republican nomination for at $1,219,939, as against $1,092,332 worth of musi-
county clerk in Indianapolis County.
cal instruments imported during the same period
The following prize-winners have been an- of 1908. This gives an increase in imports for
nounced in the Kimball contest: A. F. St.amm. the eleven months ending November of $127,607.
first, Kimball piano; J. C. Crim, second, Rem-
The import figures for the eleven months'
brandt piano; Mrs. Mary Gregg, third, $150. The period for the three years are as follows: 1907,
contest was to see how many times the name of
$1,476,901; 1908, $1,092,332; 1909, $1,219,939.
the Fuller-Currens Piano Co., which handles
The total domestic exports of musical instru-
Kimballs, could be written on a card of given ments for November, 1909, amounted to $294,504,
dimensions. The Fuller-Currens Co. was well as compared with $203,052 for the same month of
pleased with the holiday business.
the previous year. The eleven months' exporta-
Carlin & Lennox did a good holiday business tion of musical instruments amounted to $2,673,-
in Auto-pianos, Wegmans, Kohler & Campbells. 059, as against $2,570,972 for the same period in
J. P. Mullally, a well-known Indianapolis jeweler 1908. This shows an increase in exports for the
and head of the Liberal League, was among the eleven months ending November of $102,087.
purchasers of Auto-pianos at this store. Mr. Mc-
The export figures for the eleven months'
Connville, of the Schaeffer Piano Co., was a period for the three years are as follows: 1907,
caller at this store.
$3,097,851; 1908, $2,570,972; 1909, $2,673,059.
H. T. Spain, of the Starr Piano Co., reported
Of the aggregate exportations in November
an unusually good wholesale business. One of
there were 1,023 organs, valued at $73,035, as
the most attractive piano holiday windows in compared with 620 organs in 1908, valued at
the city was that designed at this store by Harry $60,908. The eleven months' total shows that we
Pomeroy. It represented Santa Claus carrying a exported 8,638 organs, valued a t $642,863, as
Starr piano to a little cottage in the snow.
against 8,915 organs, valued at $624,377, for the
E. W. Exley, in charge of the retail depart- same period in 1908, and li,309, valued at $770,-
ment of the Starr Go. store, visited his parents 969, for the same period in 1907.
In November, 1909, we exported 502 pianos,
in West Virginia over Christmas. He also stopped
valued at $123,549, as against 258 pianos, valued
at several Eastern cities and visited the trade.
The Starr Piano CQ. have sold an 88-note at $64,032, in November, 1908. The eleven
player to Hugh J. McGowan, the prominent trac- months' total exports show 4,001 pianos, valued
tion magnate and builder of the Indianapolis at $943,873, as compared with 3,201, valued at
$754,844, exported in the same period of 1908,
Traction and Terminal station.
Carlin & Lennox sold a Knabe grand to the and 3,719, valued at $911,925, for the same period
Catholic school, St. Mary's of the Woods, near in 1907.
Of the aggregate exportations in November
Terre Haute.
The Saturday afternoon concerts at Aeolian there were 244 piano players, valued at $62,023.
Hall are,continuing to be popular. Recently Mrs. For the eleven months' period 2,233 of these in-
T. C. Whallon was the soloist. She is the wife struments, valued at $569,707, were sent abroad.
The value of "all other instruments and parts
of Judge Whallon, of the Municipal Court, and
thereof" sent abroad during November, 1909,
is a well-known vocalist.
The Aeolian Co. have had a nice business in amounted to $35,897; in the same month of 1908
Weber grands. Three of these instruments were the value was estimated at $52,007.
The total exports for the eleven months under
sold in a few days shortly before Christmas.
INDIANAPOLIS TRADE GLEANINGS.
OUR EXPORT AND IMPORT TRADE.
this heading foot up $516,616, aB against $560,502
exported during the same period of 1908, and
$790,526 exported during the same period in
1907. This shows a decrease of $43,886.
. SEGERSTROM EXPANSION.
New Site for Piano Factory Will Be Selected
Before Feb. 1—Business Steadily Expanding.
(Special to The Review.)
Minneapolis, Minn., Dec. 29, 1909.
V. E. Segerstrom, president of the Segerstrom
Piano Mfg. Co., says that a site for the new fac-
tory will be selected before February 1, as the
company want to get to work on the foundation
even before the frost is out of the ground. The
choice has narrowed down to four or five sites,
not all of which are in the Twin Cities. Mr.
Segerstrom, however, expects to keep the factory
either in the Twin Cities or near-by.
Mr. Segerstrom is doing a splendid business,
and the present plans would indicate that he has
chosen the psychological moment for the erection
of a piano factory in this great center of pros-
perity, for it must De remembered that the farm-
ers of the Northwest to-day are the greatest pur-
chasers of pianos, and the dealers throughout
this great section of the country must neces-
sarily benefit from the increased wealth in the
farming communities. Mr. Segerstrom is in Chi-
cago this week to close a deal for pianos which
will keep the factory working overtime if he
lands it. He will also buy supplies.
GREETINGS FROM THE A. B. CHASE CO.
Tells the Story of the Closing of the Greatest
Year in Their History—Some Interesting
Facts.
The following greeting, printed in very attrac-
tive style in honor of the holiday season and the
birth of the new year, has been sent out by the
A. B. Chase Co., of Norwalk, O.:
NEW YEAR'S GREETINGS.
To make and market a strictly high-grade
piano is no small responsibility. It requires the
combined thought and skill of executive forces,
mechanics, supply men, salesman, the public
prints, and the public approval.
In making the A. B. Chase piano the company
have ever kept in view the fact that the public
is the court of final decision, and that it has not
only to do with the public in general, but with
that part of it in particular which is the most
critical and the most competent to judge.
Our clientele is largely drawn from homes of
the highest culture and refinement.
The A. B. Chase piano, therefore, fills a most
unique place in the judgment of the public
which purchases and criticizes it.
Notwithstanding the hindrances and discour-
agements that always confront the manufacture
of a high-grade product—the apparent lack of
discrimination which precludes ofttimes the abil-
ity to judge between the ordinary and truly ar-
tistic in tone and finish, and the decided ad-
vantages of the latter—the A. B. Chase piano has
won for itself this year laurels in greater meas-
rre than ever before.
At no time in the history of the company has
the institution been manned by a more compe-
tent and enthusiastic corps of workmen than it
has this year. At no time have the factory fa-
cilities contributed in as great a degree toward
that still greater perfection always sought by
the management as they have this year, and at
the close of no year in the history of the com-
pany have we been able to look retrospectively
with as great delight at the improvements per-
fected, and the public appreciation of the same
as shown by the order book, shipping receipts
and collections, as at the close of this year nine-
teen hundred and nine.
It has been the greatest year in our history.
With sincere gratitude to our friends who have
helped to make it so, and with an eager antici-
pation of the successes of the year to come, we
wish one and all a happy and prosperous New
Year.
THE A. B. CHASE CO.