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MAY
THE
6, 1922
MUSIC
TRADE
MEHLIN OFFICIAL FESTIVAL PIANO
PIANOS PROVE WHITE ELEPHANTS
Chosen Again by Newark Festival Director—
First Concert on May 5
Disposal of Many Old Square Pianos Used by
Former Generations of New York School
Children Stumps Board of Education
The Big Newark, N. J., Music Festival will
take place May 5, 6, 8, 9. This is an annual event,
attracting hundreds of thousands of persons from
all sections of the country and at which the
greatest artists the world has ever known appear.
It ranks as one of the finest music festivals given
in any section in America.
The more prominent artists engaged for this
coming festival include such world-renowned
names as: Beniamino Gigli, Susanne Keener,
Marie Sundelius, of the Metropolitan Opera
Co.; Phoebe Crosby, Charles Stratton, Mildred
Bryars, Frank Cuthbert, Jerome Swinford, Percy
Grainger, pianist; Edna R. MacNary, pianist, the
winner of the Newark Music Festival pianists'
contest for 1922.
The Mehlin concert grand, made by Paul G.
Mehlin & Sons, West New York, N. J., will
be the official piano of this festival, the same
as it has been for many years in the past, hav-
ing been selected by the conductor, C. Mortimer
Wiske.
A herd of white elephants doubtless would be
embarrassing to its owner, but a flock of square
pianos is worse, according to the board of edu-
cation of New York City. The board has been
forced to call upon the Sinking Fund Com-
mission to help it get rid of a large accumulation
piano dealers have ignored.
One by one the old square pianos that made
music for earlier generations of. New York
school children have been retired until now the
board's warehouse rooms, basements and even
dark passageways are filled with square pianos.
"There must be a hundred of them," declared
Commissioner Arthur S. Somers. "One dealer
wrote us, 'We are paid to remove square
pianos.'"
NEW LIST OF ASSOCIATIONS
Chamber of Commerce of State of New York
Issues New Edition of Classified List of Trade
Associations and Publications
BACON PIANOS FOR SCHOOLS
The Chamber of Commerce of the State of
A. B. Clinton Co. Installs Two Bacon Uprights New York, with headquarters at 65 Liberty
street, New York City, has just issued the
in Hockanum Schools
latest edition of its classified list of trade and
The A. B. Clinton Co., of New Haven and allied associations and publications in the City
Hartford, Conn., recently informed the Bacon of New York. The volume has been carefully
Piano Co., of New York City, that it has installed compiled and includes in its listing the various
a Style 40 mahogany Francis Bacon piano in associations and publications connected with
the different branches of the music industry.
PERCY ORAINGE^S MOTHER DIES
Mother of Prominent Pianist Falls to Her Death
on Sunday
Bumside Qraramer
School
East Hartford.Conn
South Qrammer School
Hock.anum, Conn.,
Two Schools Equipped With Bacon Pianos
both the Burnside grammar school and the South
grammar school at Hockanum, Conn. These
two Francis Bacon instruments were placed in
the school mentioned after a long competitive
comparison of various instruments, which speaks
well both for the Bacon product and the sell-
ing ability of N. C. Strouse, manager of the A. B.
Clinton Co.
MORRIS CANTOR PASSES AWAY
Was Head of Cantor Mfg. Co., Manufacturer of
Piano Covers—Well Known to Trade
Morris Cantor, head of the Cantor Mfg. Co.,
of New York City, manufacturer of piano covers,
passed away recently. Mr. Cantor had been con-
nected with the trade for a number of years and
his many friends in the music business keenly
regret his passing.
The business will be carried on under the direc-
tion of Arthur B. Cantor, son of the deceased, and
J. W. Hennessey.
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P/ANO rfiAV£L£fi—LOSANCBLES
6—THE TALKATIVE TRAVELER
Occasionally we travelers encounter one
of our kind who is a talker. He'll talk
and talk until you begin to think that sure-
ly there can be no more talk in him, and
then to your utter disgust he'll start all
over again.
Life seems always to compensate a man
for the .evils thereof. Certainly in the
case of the talkative traveler a competitor
can compensate himself for the boredom
of listening by really listening and giving
heed to what he hears.
Sooner or later the talker will begin to
tell about his sales and as he waxes deep-
er into the subject he will begin to call
prospects sales and so inform the listener
of some dealers who are in the market for
pianos, but who are new to the listening
salesman.
The talker has been known to brag
about a b'g order he has obtained only to
find that when he went to actually get the
order there was no order to get because
one of his listeners had saved his talk for
the time when it would do the most good
and had landed the dealer in advance.
MANY NEW KRAKAUER AGENCIES
Dealers in Various Parts of the Country Take
on Krakauer Line of Pianos
Mrs. Rose Grainger, mother of Percy A.
Grainger, well-known pianist and Duo-Art art-
ist, was killed on Sunday, April 30, when she-
fell from the eighteenth floor of the Aeolian Hall
Building, West Forty-second street, New York,
where she had been visiting Mrs. Antonia Saw-
yer, manager for Mr. Grainger's concert tours.
Mr. Grainger, who was in Los Angeles, Cal., on
a tour, was notified. He immediately canceled
his engagements and started East.
The death of Mrs. Grainger was a great shock
to thousands of friends who loved and esteemed
her for her many beautiful traits of character.
She was more like a sister than a mother to her
son—they were" great chums—and she always
accompanied Mr. Grainger on his concert tours
—in fact, this was the first time that, owing to
her illness, she was unable to accompany him on
his visit to the Pacific Coast. The Review joins
with an army of friends in the musical world
in extending the deepest sympathy to Mr.
Grainger in the passing of his beloved mother.
That an excellent business is being enjoyed
by Krakauer Bros., New York, is evident from
the fact that a number of new agencies have
been opened during the past few weeks. New
Krakauer dealers, according to A. L. Bretzfelder,
treasurer of the company, are as follows: T. C.
Henderson, Boston, Mass.; S. Davidson & Bros.,
Des Moines, la.; Frank S. Botefuhr, Pittsburg,
Kan.; White Music Shops, Danbury, Conn.; S.
Jacobs & Son, Philadelphia; F. E." Oerth, Haz-
elton. Pa.; George Harms Piano Co., Aberdeen,
S. D.; A. B. Seavcy & Son, Saco; J. N. & I. J.
Smith, Skowhegan, Me.; Howard Music Co.,
Butte, Mont.; Aaron Daniels, Gratz, Pa., and the
Marshall Music Co., of Wyckoff Junction, Vt.
These new deals were made by W. B. Marshall
and Arthur Halm who arc on extensive trips
covering a w'de territory.
RADIO EXPERT FOR CONVENTION
Imports From the United States Lead—Sub-
stantial Increase in Valorem During Year
BRITISH HONDURASJHUSIC IMPORTS
Major-Gen. Geo. O. Squier, Head of U. S. Signal
Corps, to Address Music Merchants
In 1921, imports of musical instruments into
British Honduras were valued at $10,334, of
It is announced that one of the speakers at the which $8,821 came from the United States, $760
convention of the National Association of Music from the United Kingdom, $632 from Spain, $74
Merchants at the Hotel Commodore in June will from Japan, and $47 from Germany, according to
be Major-General George O. Squier, head of the a report to the Department of Commerce by W.
U. S. Signal Corps, and a noted expert on wire- W. Early, American consul, stationed at Belize.
less telephony, who will talk on "The Future of
Musical instruments of foreign manufacture
the Radiophone" for the benefit of the music are subject to a duty of fifteen per cent ad val-
merchants. Another speaker, yet to be an- orem and of British manufacture to ten per
nounced, will follow with an address, "The Mer- cent ad valorem. In the last year the duty on
chandising Possibilities of the Radiophone."
goods of foreign manufacture was advanced to
twenty per cent ad valorem.
E. B. LESTER JOINS ATLANTA FIRM
G. H. RYDER PASSES AWAY
ATLANTA, GA., April 25.—Edgar B. Lester, for
George Horatio Ryder, aged 83, said to have
several years a factory representative of the
Lester Piano Co., of Philadelphia. Pa., has been the oldest church organ builder in the United
joined the sales staff of the Walter Hughes States, died recently at his home in East Wey-
mouth, Mass.
Piano Co., of this city.