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SEPTEMBER 18, 1920
THE
MUSIC
TRADE
REVIEW
CLEVELAND ASSOCIATIONJIOLDS SPECIAL GATHERING
Local Piano Dealers Addressed by Prominent Speakers—Plans Formulated for Greater Efforts
for the Advancement of Music—Pipe Organ for Museum of Art—Other News
CLEVELAND, O., September 13.—A special come to Cleveland direct from the annual con-
me.eting of the Cleveland Music Trade Associa- vention of the Piano Merchants' Association in
tion at the Mandarin Restaurant the evening of Youngstown, September 14-15. Several dele-
September 16 bas been called by George M. gates to the convention from other Ohio cities
Ott, president, for the purpose of having the are expected to come to Cleveland to listen to
members hear addresses by the following well- Messrs. Pound, Tremaine and Dennis.
known men: George W. Pound, general coun-
Cleveland sent a representative delegation to
sel of the Music Industries Chamber of Com- the Youngstown convention. Nearly all the
merce; C. M. Tremaine, director of the Na- established piano dealers attended as well as
tional Bureau for the Advancement of Music, quite a number of their sales force.
and C. L. Dennis, manager of the Better Busi-
Henry Dreher, head of the B. Dreher's Sons
ness and Trade Service Bureau of the chamber. Co., is back from a visit to New York, where
Floyd E. Waite, director of public property he went to hustle along shipments of stocks
and parks for the city of Cleveland, will also purchased for the Fall trade. He says he in-
be a guest of the meeting, which will include a vited New York dealers and manufacturers to
come to the Ohio State convention and see how
dinner at 6 o'clock.
The primary object of the special meeting is music merchants in the Buckeye State "do
to discuss the advancement of music and bring things."
into closer working relations all the Cleveland
interests now Seeking to stimulate the cause of
TRADE NEWS FROM PITTSBURGH
good music. Mr. Waite has been co-operating
with efforts of musical organizations and sing- Wurlitzer Cup Won by Local Store—Hamilton
ing societies in developing interest in music
Sales Staff Enlarged—Lechner & Schoenber-
for several months.
ger Featuring the Gulbransen Line
Members of the Talking Machine Dealers'
Association of northern Ohio, particularly those
PITTSBURGH, PA., Septembel 14.—Happiness
who are members of the Cleveland Music Trade and keen satisfaction is the keynote this week
Association, or who sell pianos and player-pianos at the local branch of Rudolph Wurlitzer Co.,
and player rolls, will also be welcomed to the due to the fact that the loving cup offered by
Mandarin Restaurant gathering, as it will be Howard E. Wurlitzer, president of the conv
one of the biggest round-ups of music mer- pany, to the branch store producing the largest
chants and professional music people held in volume of piano business during August, was
the city during the Fall and coming Winter. won by the Pittsburgh store, which is under
Mr. Pound has not spoken in Cleveland for the direction of Hal P. Shearer. The month,
nearly a year and will be welcomed by the according to Mr. Shearer and William H.
trade on the eve of Fall business.
Holden, his piano manager, was a very strenu-
Better music recently received a big boost in ous one, more than $48,000 worth of pianos
Cleveland through the gift of $250,000 to the being disposed of. By a margin of some 2,000
Cleveland Museum of Art, $50,000 of which is points the Pittsburgh store won the cup, out-
to be invested in a pipe organ to be used for stripping the New York, Chicago, Detroit and
concerts and recitals in the museum. When Boston stores of the Wurlitzer Co. that had
the handsome gift is in working order the made earnest efforts to land the cup. Like true
museum will offer Cleveland music lovers a sportsmen when they learned that Mr. Shearer
big treat in the way of high-class musical con- and his corps of salesmen had won the cup
certs free. The museum stands in Wade Park, they sent their hearty congratulations by wire.
in the eastern section of the city, amid pictur- Mr. Shearer had a special window display made
esque surroundings and is easily reached from in which the much coveted loving cup was the
center show piece.
all sections of the city and East Cleveland.
Messrs. Pound, Tremaine and Dennis will
Fred Drake, the well known and popular
manager of the Pittsburgh branch of the Story
& Clark Co., has returned from a long automo-
bile trip to the West. Mr. Drake anticipates
a very brisk season in the Story & Clark line.
T. E. Harper, Thomas Brady and E. Mc-
Donough are the latest additions to the piano
sales staff of the S. Hamilton Co. The piano
With 3 sounding boards
sales manager is Burt Hengeveld, who has just
in each (Patented) nave the
returned from a business trip to New York
greatest talking points in
and is very enthusiastic over Ampico month—
the trade.
September. Mr. Hengeveld stated that the
trade outlook was most encouraging.
The Lechner & Schocnberger Co. utilized
considerable space in the Sunday newspapers
calling the attention of the public to "the na-
tionally priced Gulbransen player-piano." It
was pointed out that another carload of the
Gulbransen player-pianos had arrived and were
ready for inspection at the company's ware-
rooms. The Gulbransen baby was one of the
raiuura.
features of the Lechner & Schoenberger win-
tan Sconitn Guana
dow display this week.
W. C. Hamilton, president of the S. Hamil-
ton Co., returned from Atlantic City yesterday
and at once made preparations to attend the
Ohio Piano Merchants' Convention at Youngs-
town, with a view of getting data for the for-
mation of a similar organization in Pennsyl-
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We fix " o n e p r i c e " —
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Reproducing Pianos
"The First Touch Tells"
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Allan E. Schulte has purchased the Mans-
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