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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
PACIFIC COAST HEADQUARTERS OF AMERICAN PIANO CO.
Spacious and Well Arranged Quarters Devoted to Development of This Company's Trade on
Pacific Coast Under Management of Geo. J. Jackson—Extensive Music Roll Department.
SAN
(Special to The Review.)
FRANCISCO, CAL., July 24.—Notwithstand-
ing the common complaint of dull times, the West-
some outside warehouse space used, and Mr. Jack-
son has associated with him eight people as an
office and warehouse force. The music roll de-
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Piano Co. does a large business in its very ex-
tensive line of grand and upright pianos, various
styles of players and music rolls.
PUSHING CHASE=HACKLEY LINE.
Harry R. Ewing, of Chicago, Developing a
Good Business with the Pianos and Players
Made by the Muskegon Manufacturers.
A Chase-Hackley dealer who is building up an
excellent business with the Chase Bros, and other
instruments made by the prominent Muskegon,
Mich., piano manufacturers is Harry R. Ewing, who
opened a piano store at 1(510 West Madison street,
Chicago, a liltlc over three months ago. Mr. Ewing is
fully aware of the sterling qualities of the Chase-
llackley products, for before going into business for
himself he traveled for nine years for the com-
pany. His enthusiasm for the line has undoubtedly
reached prospective purchasers, for despite the re-
cent strike in Chicago he made some excellent
sales, and looks forward with a great deal of con-
fidence to a big business in the fall.
PIANOS FAVORED IN CUBA?
The Chamber of Commerce Journal, which we
may say is an English publication, notes that
medium-size upright pianos, which are sold for
$.'350 or $100 each, are most in demand in Cuba.
The frames are of iron and the cases should be
of hardwood, preferably mahogany, as soft woods
are rapidly
are made for India would be suitable also for the
damp climate of Cuba. As most pianos are sold
on the instalment plan, from six to twelve months'
credit is usually required.
Offices of the American Piano Co. in San Francisco.
ern branch of the American Piano Co., at 985
Market street, San Francisco, has been a very busy
partment, under the personal supervision of Frank
Atkin, has developed into an important adjunct to
A PROGRESSIVE SOUTHERN DEALER.
S. I. Till, who represents the Hallet & Davis line
at Sumter, S. C, is making some excellent sales
of Hallet & Davis pianos and Virtuolo players in
his territory. A recent sale of a Virtuolo was to
H. L. Scarborough, a clerk of the court of Sumter,
who has written Mr. Till a letter expressing the
satisfaction of himself and Mrs. Scarborough with
the Hallet & Davis Virtuolo, in which he says:
"The case is a thing of beauty; its mechanism
simple; the action easy and its tone most pleasing.
In fact, the best we 'have yet heard in any player-
piano." Mr. Till has been most successful in plac-
ing Hallet & Davis and Conway pianos in the
schools and colleges in the live or six counties
which he controls.
A. B. CHASE GRAND FOR TOLEDO CLUB
The Music Roll Department of the Company.
place all season, both in the piano and music roll
departments. Not a day passes without large
shipments of instruments and music rolls from this
convenient warehouse to various dealers in the
Western territory, which, by the way, comprises
everything from British Columbia to Mexico, in-
clusive, and as far East as Denver. The estab-
lishing of this branch on the Pacific Coast has
proved an immense accommodation to the dealers
as a stock to sort up from, goods from this ware-
house being delivered at carload rates at the Coast,
which makes it possible for the dealer to buy in
small lots at the regular carload rate of freight.
George J. Jackson, manager of this branch, has
handled the business in this territory since the
formation of the American Piano Co, and repre-
sented the Foster-Armstrong Co. here for some
time before that. In the success that has been
made of this business he has disproved the general
opinion of the trade that a distributing branch
could not be handled with profit on this coast.
This office was opened by Mr. Jackson after the
fire of 1906 with deskroom in a small office in
Oakland. The present office, warehouse and sales-
room occupies about 8,000 square feet, aside from
the piano department
and one greatly appre-
ciated by dealers, as the
music can be had from
this w a r e h o u s e on
short notice, saving the
dealer the delay, trou-
ble and expense of buy-
ing East in large lots.
The entire music roll
trade of the American
Piano Co. on the Coast
is now supplied from
this warehouse. The
d i s t r i b u t i n g busi-
ness from this branch,
indeed, is not confined
to the mainland; ship-
ments have lately been
made to t h e F i j i
Islands and a large
s h i p m e n t of instru-
ment and rolls has just
left for H o n o l u l u ,
where the American
One of the most prominent and exclusive organi-
zations in Toledo, O., the Toledo Club, last week
purchased a very expensive A. B. Chase grand
piano through the J. W. Greene Co., of that city.
The A. B. Chase grand is in great demand these
days in all parts of the country.
Storage Rooms of American Piano Co.