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THE
MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
EILERS' SPOKANE STORE CELEBRATES 12TH ANNIVERSARY.
DEATH OF GEORGE P. WARREN.
The Business in Spokane Under the Management of George A. Heidinger Has Made Remarkable
Progress Within Recent Years—Handling a Strong Line of Pianos and Players.
One of the Founders of the Clough & Warren
Co. Passes Away in Siasconsett, Mass.—
Retired from Business Ten Years Ago.
(Special to The Review.)
Spokane, Wash., Dec. 6, 1912.
To-morrow marks the twelfth anniversary of the
establishment of the branch store of Eilers Music
House in this city under the management of
George A. Heidinger, who, with a competent and
enthusiastic staff back of him, has succeeded in
building up one of the largest, if not the largest,
piano clienteles in the State. The branch was
first established when Mr. Heidinger took over a
stock of about a dozen and a half pianos occupy-
ing a section of a millinery store. The best evi-
dence of the progress that 'has been made by the
local staff lies in the fact that fourteen months
ago there was completed a handsome seven-story
building, of which three floors are now occupied
by the Eilers business.
The present quarters of the house are modern
h. 1 every particular and offer excellent facilities for
the conduct of the piano and music business. The
staff of the store numbers thirty-eight—a large
number when it is considered that the total popu-
lation of the city is about 110,000. The success of
the branch has been won against the strongest kind
of competition offered by numerous stores, among
them branches of some of the largest piano houses
in the United States.
The complete Eilers line, including the Chicker-
ing, Sohmer, Kimball, Hazelton, H. P. Nelson and
other prominent pianos; the Welte-Mignon, Auto-
piano, Krell Autogrand, Peerless automiatic pianos
and orchestrions, and the Victor, Edison and Co-
lumbia talking machines and records, as well as
small goods, sheet music, etc., is handled at the
local branch.
In speaking of business conditions, Manager
Heidinger said to The Review:
"The year 1912 has been somewhat peculiar.
There has been seemingly a lack of interest with
the buying public in musical instruments, as ap-
parently all other commodities, compared with the
previous six. or eight years, requiring, greater appli-
LAUTER
The LAUTER SMALL
GRAND PIANO is in such de-
mand that we have found it im-
possible to fill more than a third
of the orders thai have been
offered us during the last few
months.
The superb quality of this
little grand makes it a favorite
w i t h t h o s e who appreciate
wonderful clarity and power of
tone in a small instrument.
The length is but 5 ft. 4 in.
Let us tell you more about it.
LAUTER CO
NEWARK, NEW JERSEY
cation of hard work and greater efficiency-in sales-
men to get results. However, owing to the fact
that we have had abundant crops in the Inland Em-
pire and the mining industry is greater than ever,
the past few months have shown a great improve-
ment in business conditions in this section, and
(Special to The Review.)
Detroit, Mich., Dec. 10, 1912.
Word has been received here of the death in
Siasconsett, Mass., of George P. Warren, formerly
of Clough & Warren, and who retired from ac-
tive business about ten years ago.
Mr. Warren came to Detroit in 1871 and en-
gaged with Mr. Clough in piano manufacturing.
When he retired his brother, H. A. Warren, ac-
quired his interests in the factory. About a year
and a half ago he purchased a home in Grosse
Pointe, Detroit's wealthy suburb on Lake St. Clair.
His summer home was in Siasconsett. He has
been in poor health for the last six months, being
affected by a form of paralysis.
Mr. Warren is survived by a son, Benjamin S.
Warren, president of the Hutchins Car Roofing
Co., of Detroit; S. B. Warren of Detroit; H. A.
Warren, of Adrian, nd C. D. Warren, of Pitts-
burgh, brothers, and one sister, Gilbert Davis, of
Worcester, Mass.
GETTING CURTATHOUSE IN SHAPE.
Trustee Making Good Progress with Assistance
of Harry Curtaz.
(Special to The Review.)
The Eilers Home in Spokane.
with December, one of the best months in tb,e year,
still before us, we shall undoubtedly equal any of
our banner years, if not show an increased busi-
ness, though this will mean the hardest work and
application to the business."
PRESENTING THE MASON & HAMLIN.
Robert L. Loud Strongly Emphasizes the Tone
and General Artistic Quality of That Instru-
ment in His Advertising.
(Special to The Review.)
San Francisco, Cal., Dec. 6, 1912.
Representatives of (the creditors of Benj. Curtaz
& Son report that the trustees have made good
progress in getting the affairs of the house into
shape and that it now looks as though the business
would be turned over to Harry Curtaz in the early
part of January. Mr. Curtaz has given the trustees
valuable assistance and has done his best to bring
the trusteeship to a successful termination.
Walter B. Miles, an expert piano tuner, who for
the past 20 years was connected with the branch
store of the W. W. Kimball Co. in Grand Rapids,
Mich., died recently in that city from a stroke of
apoplexy. He was sixty-two years old.
Buffalo, N. Y., Dec. 9, 1912.
The local trade is much interested in the open-
ing campaign in connection with the exploitation
lodally of the Mason & Hamlin piano, for which
Robert L. Loud recently secured the agency. The
instrument is being presented to the public of
Buffalo in a manner that is thoroughly dignified
and which should prove effective among the better
class of piano prospects.
In one of the. opening announcements Mr. Loud
said: "Everybody has heard of the Stradivarius
violins. The few left in the world are simply
priceless. The Mason & Hamlin piano, like a
Stradivarius violin, says the last word in beauty
of tone. In fact, the Mason & Hamlin piano is
known and advertised over the world as the Strad-
ivarius of pianos."
Such matter is certainly calculated to impress
the public with Mason & Hamlin prestige and
quality.
H. D. GRIFFITH A BENEDICT.
Harry D. Griffith, the well-known representative
cf the Simplex Player Action Co., on Thanksgiv-
ing night .married Miss Lena R. Donovan, daugh-
ter of Mr. and Mrs. T. Donovan, Athens, Pa. The
ceremony took place at the famous Little Church
Around the Corner, in New York. Mr. Griffith
is one of five sons of T. P. Griffith, a veteran piano
dealer in West Union, la., all of whom are in the
piano business.
STRANBURG BUYS TENTH STORE.
Oscar Stranburg, a -prominent piano dealer of
Jamestown, N. Y., who already operates a chain
of nine retail piano stores, has recently bought out
the Venango Music Co., in Franklin, Pa., of which
E. A. Wilson is the proprietor. The business has
been established in Franklin for over thirty years
and has a large following.
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