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JULY 5,
THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
1919
COOL WEATHER STIMULATES PIANO TRADE IN BUFFALO
Local Retailers Enjoying Exceptional Business for Present Season—Long Sentence for Moes-
singer Robber—A. F. Koenig Buys New Residence—Loud Co. Featuring the Gulbransen
BUFFALO, N. Y., June 30.—Buffalo's piano trade
has been stimulated by the cold wave, which at
this writing continues to make life in the stores
agreeable and gives plenty of vim and vigor
to the sales people. The music dealers are
still receiving keen enjoyment in obsertfijig
the prosperity of local workingmen, for prac-
tically every industrial plant in Buffalo is hum-
ming with activity and some are even working
night shifts.
Thirty-eight years in Auburn prison was the
sentence given Joseph De Pasqualle by Justice
Brown in Supreme Court, Buffalo, recently.
De Pasqualle was convicted of robbery, first
degree, after a felony, for being the "brains" of
the gang that robbed George Moessinger, treas-
turer of C. Kurtzmann & Co., on the afternoon
of March 28 and got about $4,030.
John Barbara and Stephen Caputi, who did the
.actual robbing, were sentenced to terms in
Elmira reformatory. Both turned State's evi-
dence against De Pasqualle. The De Pasqualle
sentence is one of the longest handed down by
a justice in Supreme Court for many years.
The Robert L. Loud Music Co. recently con-
ducted a successful drive on Gulbransen player-
pianos. In connection with the event the Buf-
falo concern spent several hundred dollars in
newspaper advertising.
A Knabe grand, furnished by J. N. Adam &
Co., was used recently at a Belgian relief con-
cert in this city. S. J- Butler, manager of the
firm's piano department, sold to a personal friend
an Estey grand, used and endorsed by Julian
Eltinge, who appeared at the Majestic Theatre
in this city.
There are some good piano customers at
Lackawanna, a Buffalo suburb, where the
Lackawanna Steel plant is located. A local mer-
chant is responsible for this statement. He
reports that his store was recently visited by a
colored workman employed at the steel mill.
Without much "dilly-dallying" the caller picked
out a $500 player and with the air of a man
accustomed to paying his way he tendered a
$500 check to settle the bill on the spot. The
piano man soon learned that the dusky customer
had in a Buffalo bank a satisfactory deposit to
cover the check and the deal was closed forth-
with.
A. F. Koenig, of the Koenig Piano Co., has
bought a beautiful home at 611 Linwood avenue.
Among the other local piano men who reside on
this prominent thoroughfare are William H.
Daniels, of Denton, Cottier & Daniels; Wal-
ter Erion, of the Erion Piano Co., and George
Goold, of Goold Bros.
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Several Models of Madison Pianos and Player-
pianos Displayed in Attractive Volume
The Madison Piano Co., 219 Cypress avenue,
New York, has just issued a new catalog con-
taining reproductions of three models of pianos,
known as style E, style A and style B. Style
E is a small instrument, being four feet three
inches in height, with hinges and pedals of
brass. Style A is four feet six inches in height,
while style B is four, ^eet eight and one-half
inches high. Two models of player-pianos,
styles C and B, are also reproduced. These in-
struments, as shown in the catalog, are equip-
ped with either Standard player action or the
Pratt-Read player action. "Two pages are de-
voted to the Madison reproducing piano, licensed
under the Welte-Mignon patent, and a reproduc-
tion of this is also shown. This instrument is
four feet nine inches high. On the back page
is a pen and ink drawing of the entrance to the
factory of the company in New York.
Seeburg's Style K
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The formal opening of the Dayton Music
Shop, Dayton, O., which recently incorporated
for $25,000, was held recently in that city and a
number of prominent artists gave a continuous
recital. Hewitt Thomas, conductor of the Day-
ton Theatre Orchestra, is president of the new
concern; Walter T. Meritt, secretary and treas-
urer, and Miss Mary Malone, long connected
with the music trade in Dayton, will manage
the sales department.
H. Aldrich, Fortuna, Cal., is planning to open
a piano store in that city in a short time.
a
Midget Orchestrion"
(Coin-Operated)
Sit right down and write
us today. We'll tell you
how others are doing it.
Take our tip, try it over
on your territory.. Not
even a sample instru-
ment necessary. Go in-
to any restaurant, ice
cream parlor or any
other public place and
tell the proprietor you
handle Seeburg's Style
K "MidgetOrchestrion"
(Coin-Operated), the
little ALL-IN-ONE or-
chestra that PAYS FOR
ITSELF and you're sure
to make a sale.
DAYTON MUSIC SHOP OPENS
82 Brown Place
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NEW MADISON CATALOG
publishers at 711 Seventh avenue, New York, is
the full equipment of Estey pianos installed in
the special rooms in
which the new songs
are tried out for the
benefit of vaudeville
singers and others.
Each of the nine
rooms is handsomely
furnished in individual
style and equipped
with an Estey upright
piano,
rnanufactured
by the Estey Piano
Co., New York. E. F.
Bitner, general man-
ager of Leo Feist,
Inc.,
selected
the
Estey pianos person-
ally after inspecting a
v a r i e t y of other
makes. The accom-
panying
illustration
shows one of the
rooms with the Estey
upright in place.
One of the Estey Pianos in the Feist Professional Studios
BEN H. JANSSEN
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They're Easy to Get
If You Handle
A feature of the elaborate new professional
studios of Leo Feist, Tnc, the prominent music
The Most Talked About
Piano in the Trade
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Want Some
ESTEY PIANOS FOR FEIST PROFESSIONAL STUDIOS
JANSSEN
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Leaders in the Automatic Field
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Republic Building, 209 South State Street
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Factories, Seeburg Building, 419 West Erie Street
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