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THE: MUSIC TRADE:
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are members of the association. Leon C. Steele,
manager of the Chas. M. Stieff Co. store in Nor-
folk, was spoken of as president of the associa-
tion but declined the honor.
Interesting
Review of Trade Conditions of To- day and for the Past Month—Estey Co. Doing
a Large Trade in Pipe Organs i—Vacations Well Under Way.
PIANO DEALERS BOOMING
(Special to the Review.)
gone to High Point, N. J., where he has his
Philadelphia, Pa., Aug., 1, 1911.
family" for the summer, and the following are The Panama-Pacific Exposition Movement—
California Piano Men Doing Good Work.
When the first two weeks of July had passed, away in the mechanical force : J. S. Stewart, Mr.
with a temperature well up into the hundred, and Field, Nathan P. Holman, and J. McAnally.
The piano dealers of San Francisco and the
with business down below freezing point, the piano
As to business at the Estey house, Manager
Pacific coast generally are among the most enthu-
dealers of Philadelphia threw up their hands in Woolley says that July has been as all July's
siastic "boomers" for the Panama-Pacific Exposi-
horror. They were expecting the worst month have been, but if anything, it has been a little
tion.
From the very start they have been promi-
in the history of, the piano business here. The better than last July.
weather changed and so did the business, and
D. C. Conlen, of the Heppe selling force, is at nent in the movement, and now that the site has
been secured and other preliminaries arranged they
July, instead of being the worst month in the present away on vacation. He is spending his
are taking pains to advise their respective friends
history of the trade, was a better month than the time in New York.
of the importance of the Pacific coast and its
July of last year; in fact, it was not at all bad,
Frank Butler who was home ill for several,
and compares very favorably with the summer weeks, has returned to the management of the important relation to the Panama Canal. The
splendid spirit of progress and optimism displayed
months of any year.
piano department at the Strawbridge & Clothier
by our friends on the coast is bound to insure the
store.
And thus we find that the weather vane of
Panama-Pacific Exposition being one of the great-
business veers about as regularly, and with as lit-
est and most successful ever held on this continent.
tle announcement before hand, as the weather-
TO OPEN PIANO DEPARTMENT.
cock controlled by nature, and just as it is very
OUR FOREIGN CUSTOMERS.
hard for the weatherman to predict more than
Messrs. Hagar & Bro., Lancaster, Pa., to Branch
twenty-four hours ahead what kind of weather we
Out Into the Piano Business—Will Handle
Pianos and Other Musical Instruments Shipped
may expect, so it has come to pass that the piano
the Fu \ Aeolian-Pianola
Line—Attractive
Abroad from the Port of New York for
man is equally uncertain, and all predictions are
Quarters Being Prepared—The New Man-
Week Just Ended—An Interesting Array of
apt to go awry.
ager—Will Handle'the Victor Line Also.
Musical Specilaties for Foreign Countries.
There used to be a time in the piano business
when a dealer could calculate from month to
Messrs. Hagar & Bro., the foremost depart-
(Special to the Review.)
month just what business he was going to have, ment store of Lancaster, Pa., which was tounded
Washington,
D. C, August 1, 1911.
for it varied little from month to month and year eighty-eighty years ago, have decided to launch
The following were the exports of musical in-
to year. More strenuous efforts brought out big- into the piano business, and will leave nothing un-
struments and kindred lines from the port of New
ger results. To-day is uncertain. There is not the done to make it a big feature of their store. Be-
York for the week just ended:
stability about business there was once, for there sides the large amount of space that will be given
Kingston—1 case pianos and material, $225.
are so many more sources to be reckoned with, to musical instruments, there will be a big music
Manila—5 cases piano-players and material,
and while effort still counts for something, some- hall on the fourth floor, which will occupy at
times the greatest amount of work will bring no least two-thirds of that floor. The hall will be $1,093; 7-1 pkgs. talking machines and material,
$3,561.
results whatever.
provided with a stage, and work is being pushed
Macoris—6 pkgs. phonographic goods and ma-
In the manufacturing business there is slightly rapidly, in order that the department can be opened
lerini, $152.
different conditions, and for that reason the man- on the first of September.
Melbourne—15 pkgs. talking machines and ma-
ufacturer can better calculate as to the amount of
In considering the opening of such a department
terial,
$1-15.
stock he will need, and may be almost sure of a in their big store they sought the Aeolian-Pianola
Havre—1 case pianos and material, $250.
stable number of orders coming in, The Philadel- line as bring the products that were necessary to
London—I pkgs. music rolls and material, $198;
phia manufacturers have been going ahead for the high ideals of their house. In this idea there
12 cases organs, $36G.
some years and increasing their output regular as was only one obstacle to overcome, and that wan
Copenhagen—1 case pianos and material, $225.
these orders may warrant, and he is practically to get the consent of the Heppes' in Philadelphia,
Cape Town—5?} cases organs and material, $2,100.
sure of a clean-up at the time when he anticipates who controlled this territory. This was secured,
Genoa—1 case pianos and material, $250.
such a thing.
and Hagar & Bro. will have the entire Aeolian-
Guayaquil—G pkgs. talking machines and mate-
During July and August the Philadelphia manu-
Pianola line, from the Steinway Pianola piano
rial.
$605; 12 pkgs. phonographic goods and mate-
facturer expects to pile up some stock, and has down to the Steck and Weber; and still more, the
rial, $338.
now on hand a number of pianos finished and
Heppes, who at present have a branch in the Y.
Colombo—1 case pianos and material, $350.
nearly so, and he expects to add to these still M. C. A. building, will close that branch and give
Buenos Ayres—2 cases pianos and material, $955;
more instruments during August, but he has the to Hagar Bros, their own entire line, including
100
pkgs. talking machines and material, $2,811.
assurance that the biggest part of this product, the Heppe, the Marcellus and Jules, and also the
Rin dc Janeiro—15 cases pianos and material,
worked up during these three months, will go agency for the H. C. Schomacker piano.
$1,906.
out during the next three, and, therefore, he will
Walter Wellman, who is at present the Heppe
Vera Cruz—19 pkgs. talking machines and mate-
wind up the year with the usual amount of stock representative in Lancaster, will be in charge for
rial, $1,695.
on hand—nothing. How much better it is to be some time. He will, so to speak, inaugurate the
Havana—2 cases pianos and material, $174; 17
a manufacturer than a retailer—that is, unless you department in the new store. The firm will also
are in the manufacturing class, and yet are con- handle the Victor talking machine. Hagar & pkgs. talking machines and material, $253.
Trinidad—9 pkgs. phonographic goods and ma-
ducting financially the retailers' business to whom
Bro.'s store is one of the largest and most sub-
terial, $491.
you have sent your goods.
stantial in the State, outside of Philadelphia and
Manzavilla—1 pkg. phonographic goods and ma-
To show the far-reaching extent of the Estey Pittsburg, find in acquiring the lines referred to,
Co. as pipe organ builders, this week the Philadel- their object was to only get instruments sold, and terial, $13«J.
Glasgow—1 case organs and material, $400.
phia firm started one of their men for Mexico strictly so, on the one-price system, as that is the
Athens—1 case pianos and material, $293.
City to set up a pipe organ there in the chapel of
only way the Hagars do business. With their
Montevideo—24 cases pianos and material, $2,90S.
the British Cemetery Association. The firm have reputation in Lancaster and vicinity they are as-
Hamburg—12 cases pianos and material, $2,137.
just taken a contract for the building of a pipe sured of success from the start.
Berlin—8 pkgs. talking machines and material,
organ in the St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church of
$355.
Catasauqua, and they have also taken the con-
ANT1=CERTIFICATE RESOLUTION.
St. Johns—31 pkgs. phonograph -supplies, $135.
tract to build a pipe organ in the First Methodist
Church, of Huntingdon, Pa.
Passed by the Retail Merchants' Association
TO SELL CORL PIANO PLANT.
The men from the Estey house now on vacation
of Virginia.
are : F. Nevin Wiest, who is taking a well earned
The plant and equipment of the John F. Corl
rest up the State; Frank B. Riggin, who win
The Retail Merchants' Association of Virginra. Piano Co., of Battle Creek, Mich., will be sold by
spend his time in New York and New Jersey, which met in convention at Ocean View, near
the Detroit Trust Co., the trustee in bankruptcy
William H. Parker, who will sojourn at the sea- Norfolk, recently, passed a resolution condemning at auction on August 24. As reported in The Re-
shore ; Miss Edith Harrison, of the stenographic
the use of certificates and discount checks in all view last week, the Corl stock and manufacturing
force, who is at Asbury Park, N. J.; R. E. Wa-
lines of retail business. The resolution was es- material was sold to the Cote Piano Mfg. Co. for
trous, who is in charge of the tuning force, has
pccially interesting to the several piano men who $15,000.
WINTER & CO.
220 SOUTHERN BOULEVARD, NEW YORK
Manufacturers of
Superior Pianos
and Player Pianos