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MARCH 11, 1922
THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
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for Hardman, which has now been with Bucking-
ham & Moak and their successors for thirty
Dutton Family Identified With the Music Industry Since 1821—Became Nationally Prominent in years.
William Dalliba Dutton, who at the time of
Connection With Hardman, Peck & Co., of Which Louis Dutton Is Assistant Secretary
his death was treasurer of Hardman, Peck & Co.,
The official celebration of the eightieth anni- becoming Buckingham & Moak, and, while both was one of the notable figures in the piano in-
versary of the establishment of Hardman, Peck partners are long since dead, the business con- dustry of his day. It was he who, banded with
several others who also had the best interests
&• Co. has served to bring to the front the fact tinues as Buckingham & Moak Co.
From Utica William H. Dutton went to Phila-
that the Dutton family, which has been asso
delphia to establish in 1865 a piano business
which was later conducted under the name of
Dutton & Son, the son being the late William
Dalliba Dutton and father of the present Louis
Dutton.
At the outset William H. Dutton handled the
Chickering piano exclusively, but, as previously
mentioned, in 1876 Dutton & Son, as the con-
cern was then styled, took the Hardman agency,
and since that time the Hardman and Dutton
names have become more and more closely inter-
twined.
A further step in this direction was made in
1892, when the late Leopold Peck induced Louis
Dutton's father to come to New York, and in
1896 the business of Dutton & Son in Philadel-
FOUR GENERATIONS IN THE MUSICAL INSTRUMENT WORLD
George Dutton
ciated with that house for a number of years,
is just about commencing its second century of
service in the selling of pianos.
So rare are the cases in the piano industry
when generation after generation of one family
becomes affiliated with the trade that the record
held by the Dutton family is of particular inter-
est and is fittingly associated with the story of
Hardman, Peck & Co., for during the past forty-
six years, from the tune when Dutton & Son.
of Philadelphia, took the agency for the Hardman
piano, in 1876, and up to a year ago, when Louis
Dutton was elected assistant treasurer of Hard-
man, Peck & Co., the names of Dutton and
Hardman have been closely allied.
It was in 1821 when George Dutton, great-
grandfather of L,ouis Dutton and a son of Amasa
William Dalliba Dutton
Dutton, the latter a captain in the Continental
Army of Revolutionary days, founded in Utica, phia, the name of which had since been changed
N. Y., what was probably the first retail piano to William D. Dutton & Co., was sold out.
An interesting incident in this connection,
business in this country. When George Dut-
growing out of the success of Dutton & Son and
William D. Dutton & Co. with the Hardman,
was when Mr. Buckingham, who had bought out
the Dutton interests in Utica, secured the agency
Louis Dutton
of the piano industry at heart, formed in the late
nineties the National Piano Manufacturers' As-
sociation, which has since grown to be one of
the most stable and formidable industrial bodies
in this country. William Dalliba Dutton was, in
turn, chairman of the executive committee, vice-
president and president of the organization which
he did so much to foster and father.
Louis Dutton, present assistant secretary of
Hardman, Peck & Co., commenced his appren-
ticeship in the piano business twenty-five years
ago with the house of M. Steinert & Sons Co.,
of Boston, for whom he became branch manager
for Maine, with headquarters in Portland.
Although Louis Dutton remained with M.
Sleinert & Sons Co. for the next eight years it
may be said that in his twenty-five years in the
piano business he has never been parted from
the Hardman, because he handled the latter as
well as the Steiimay during his connection with
M. Steiuert & Sons Co. During the first five
years of his connection with Hardman, Peck
& Co. the present assistant secretary of the com-
pany served as retail manager.
OLD OHIO FIRM ELECTS OFFICERS
WESER BROS. EXPLOIT STYLE 20
Annual Meeting Marks the Seventy-second
Birthday of the H. D. Munson & Son Co.
Series of Blotters Being Sent Out by This Well-
known Manufacturer
Weser Bros., Inc., 424 West Forty-third street,
New York, are sending out a series of blotters,
one of which features the Weser Bros, player-
piano, Style 20, while under the caption "A Pres-
tige Builder" the text reads: "Every piano mer-
chant should exhibit Weser Player No. 20. It is
the last word in mechanical efficiency and artistic
case construction. Each one sold helps to sell
another. Wonderful profit possibilities."
Regarding this instrument, J. Rossner, secre-
tary of the company, stated this week to a repre-
sentative of The Review: "This is an instrument
every feature of which conforms to present-day
NEW FIRM LOCATES IN SEATTLE artistic preference in case construction and also
William H. Dutton
embodies many mechanical features of our own
SEATTLE, WASH., March 6.—The Simmons Mfg. creation."
ton's son reached an age at which he was able
r
to take an active part in the business the name Co., a concern w ith a capitalization of $50,000,
formed
for
the
purpose
of manufacturing the
of the concern became Dutton & Son. George
Kurtzmann and Starf pianos and player-pianos
Dutton retired from the business in 1850, and Simmons phonograph, has made its headquarters and the Sonora, Puritan and other makes of
after he died, in 1856, the business was carried ii: the Arcade Building, this city. According to phonographs are handled by a new music house
on by his son, William H. Dutton, until 1862, a recent announcement the company is planning which recently opened at Hodgenville, Ky. The
when he sold it to E. D. Buckingham. Mr. Buck- to make Seattle its manufacturing and distribut- store is under the management of Oreville
ingham was joined by Huson Moak, the business ing headquarters.
Wilson.
ZANESVILLE, O., March 6.—The annual meeting of
the H. D. Munson & Son Music Co. here re-
cently marked the seventy-second year of the
existence of the business, and the passing of its
fiftieth milestone in its present location. Charles
Munson was re-elected president.
The following officers were also re-elected:
vice-president and general manager, J. T. Miller;
secretary, Elizabeth A. Oldhum, and Joseph M.
Brelsford, treasurer. Those named above, with
the addition of Mrs. Helen Munson Frys, com-
pose the directorate.
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