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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
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STEADY IMPROVEMENT SHOWN IN SAN FRANCISCO TRADE
Dealers Preparing for Good Holiday Business—Shortage of Certain Lines Causes Slight Draw-
back—Regret Passing of George J. Jackson—Symphony Orchestra Well Patronized
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL., October 26.—Very favor-
able reports have come in this week from vari-
ous business centers on the Pacific Coast in
regard to the piano trade. Business is seeing
much improvement in most quarters, and the
dealers are encouraged to prepare for a good
holiday trade. The shortage of certain pianos
in this market is causing some embarrassment
and delays in shipments are frequent still. The
nearing election does not seem to make any
particular difference to the music business with
the exception that some few firms are having
a quiet month on electric players and other
instruments, which they sell largely to resorts
where liquor is sold. These latter dealers are
affected by the extensive Prohibition propa-
ganda, which makes for uncertainty. The de-
mand for high-priced pianos, players and talk-
ing machines shows material improvement, and
several firms are short on these lines.
Growth in Musical Interest
Musical interest in San Francisco appears to
be on the increase, judging by the large advance
sale of season tickets for the series of con-
certs of the San Francisco Symphony Orches-
tra. This year $10,000 more was raised in ad-
vance of the concerts than last year.
This
year also the popular Sunday concerts will be
featured more prominently, and season tickets
for these will be placed on sale also. The or-
chestra is now placed beyond financial embar-
rassment for a term of five years, and by
reason of the members receiving more pay it
is expected that they will be able to devote
practically their whole time to the orchestra
work, thus insuring the highest merit in the
concerts.
Death of Geo. J. Jackson Causes Deep Regret
The San Francisco music trade was grieved
last week to learn of the sudden death of
George J. Jackson, who until a few weeks ago,
was the Pacific Coast manager for the American
Piano Co., and made his headquarters in San
Francisco. Mr. Jackson died of apoplexy on
the evening of October 21, while sitting in his
apartments in the Hotel Washington Annex in
Seattle, at the age of fifty-seven years. He
had just gone to Seattle to act as manager of
the Montelius Music Co., the concern which
Mr. Jackson and W. W. Montelius recently or-
ganized to succeed the Eilers Music House.
Smith,
Barnes
and
Strohber
Company
CHICAGO
Over 145,000 Pianos
in American Homes and
All Giving Satisfaction
MONEY MAKERS FOR THE DEALER
Write for Catalogues and Prices
Smith, Barnes & Strohber Go.
1872 Clybourn Avenue
CHICAGO
Mr. Jackson had formerly an extended experi-
ence in the retail piano business, and he was
himself the vice-president of the new concern
and a part owner. He left a wife and two chil-
dren to mourn his loss.
Mr. Jackson had been in the piano business
since a young man, most of the time in the
retail line.
His early experiences were ac-
quired in Canada, where he had a business of
his own.
Later he was superintendent of
agencies for Kohler & Chase, holding this posi-
tion until the fire of 1906. Later he was re-
tail manager for the firm of Mason & Risch at
Toronto. Two years after this he accepted the
Pacific Coast managership for the Foster-
Armstrong Co., and continued in a similar post
when the American Piano C9. took over the
concern. Mr. Jackson had* considerable prop-
erty interests in California. 'He was a mem-
ber of the Berkeley lodge of Elks.
Baldwin Grand for Music School
Mr. Thompson, Pacific Coast manager for the
Baldwin Piano Co., says business on grand
pianos has picked up encouragingly the last
month, though stocks in this line are still
short on the Coast. A concert grand has just
been sold to the McDowell School of Music in
Oakland through the Oakland Baldwin agency,
the Fox Music Co.
Install New Music Roll Filing System
The local store of the Baldwin Piano Co. has
inaugurated a new system of filing player rolls
in their roll department.
Instead of storing
the rolls according to the catalog order, they
now have them kept under different heads in
separate sections captioned "Dance Music,"
"Operas," "Medleys," etc. Under this arrange-
ment greater convenience and efficiency is pro-
moted in the department.
Music roll sales
have been rather heavy of late. The Electric
Manualo is in steady demand here, and the chief
difficulty is in getting stock from the factory.
News of the Travelers
George. A. Heidinger, the Pacific Coast rep-
resentative of the Steger & Sons Piano Mfg.
Co., who has been in the Northwest on a short
trip, came back to San Francisco this week.
He will make his headquarters here.
Warren C. Whitney, vice-president and gen-
eral manager of the A. B. Chase Co., has just
arrived in San Francisco.
Fred Sherman, of Sherman, Clay & Co., has
left for a trip to the East to make arrange-
ments for hurry-up shipments of Steinway
pianos, player-pianos and other stock on which
the Coast stores are short. The company is
entirely out of Steinways at the present time.
Maurice Richmond, representing the Enter-
prise Music Supply Co., of New York, is in
San Francisco this week calling on the trade
in the course of a Coast trip.
Clark Wise says he has received ten thousand
responses from the hundred thousand circulars
he distributed in San Francisco and Oakland
recently in his latest piano contest. This is a
better result than he ever attained through
newspaper advertising for a similar purpose.
The present contest is also very successful in
the matter of piano sales.
H. C. Hanson, proprietor of the Hauschildt
small goods department, is having a run of
Marimbaphone sales this month.
Several
large instruments have been sold for use in
local cafes.
MAKE ADDITIONS TO SALES STAFF
The Stultz & Bauer warerooms, 63 Flatbush
avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y., report the following
additions to the sales staff: J. R. Richards, for-
merly with Chandler & Abel, of Brooklyn, and
J. G. Wilson, besides increasing their staff of
canvassers. L. A. Durra, manager of the above
warerooms, is quite pleased with the volume of
business during the past few weeks, as the de-
mand for Stultz & Bauer players and grands
has been a pleasing feature of the business.
Tone results
of the best
combined with
durability
are distinctive
features
of D. H.
SCHMIDT
Piano
HAMMERS
which have
won high
praise from
experts.
David H. Schmidt Co.
Poughkeepsie, N. Y.