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SEPTEMBER 2,
THE MUSIC TRADE
1922
REVIEW
TWIN CITY DEALERS PREPARING FOR GOOD FALL TRADE
Immense Crops Assure Merchants Generally of Prosperous Business During Coming Season
—Music Exhibits to Be a Feature of State Fair—Foster & Waldo Holding Special Sale
MINNEAPOLIS and ST. PAUL, MINN., August 28.—
With September just around the corner to
mark the termination of the vacation season
and other Summer detractions to big business,
the music merchants of the Northwest are
girding for what they expect will be the banner
year since the war. Except in sporadic cases,
there has been no marked increase in actual
business, but the dealers know that they are on
the way to prosperity as soon as the industrial
handicaps are removed and the immense grain
crops are marketed. Falling prices in the grain
markets are making the farmers sore and they
are protesting loudly. As a result of the dis-
content over what they regard as unfair prices
there may be a concerted movement to hold
the grain for a time and in that event the mar-
keting will be delayed more or less. But
everybody is hopeful and optimistic.
The State Fair of Minnesota, opening Sep-
tember 2, is expected to bring upward of 400,-
000 visitors to the Twin Cities during fair week
and the music merchants generally will make
special efforts to attract their attention. Some
music displays will be made at the big show.
W. J. Dyer & Bro. have engaged two booths—
one for pianos and musical merchandise and
another for Victor products. Undoubtedly
several other dealers will show at the fair.
Cable Piano Co. stores note some im-
provement in trade, according to W. S. Collins,
the high chief of the company. The real Fall
trade is on the way, however, which is the main
thing. Manager Hellriegcl, of the St. Paul
store, is closing August with a lake cruise from
Duluth to Buffalo and return.
Foster & Waldo's big special sale, the sec-
ond in seven years, is proving all that was pre-
dicted. Printer's ink is being used extensively
and genuine bargains are being advertised
freely and there are lots of them. Everything
is to go, as Mr. Foster wants a thorough house-
cleaning this time.
S. T. Shoquist, long connected with the piano
trade in the Twin Cities, is the new manager
of the P. A. Starck Piano Co.'s St. Paul store.
Some pianos are being sold by W. J. Dyer
& Bro., but the output is nothing to get enthu-
siastic over, says Vice-president Johnston. The
the music trade for the greater part of their
lives. Both made enviable records at Werlein,
Harris-Loeb Piano Co., of New Orleans, Now Ltd.
Under Control of Harry Brunswick Loeb—
Harry Loeb has just returned from Cincin-
New Quarters Secured—Other News
nati, where he obtained the agency for the
Baldwin pianos, which include the following
makes: Ellington, Hamilton, Howard and
NEW ORLEANS, LA., August 28.—The Harris-
Loeb Piano Co. has been changed to the Monarch. Mr. Loeb expects to move into his
Harry Brunswick Loeb Piano Co. upon the new quarters about September IS.
withdrawal of P. M. Harris from the firm.
The piano business at the D. H. Holmes Co.
The following officers have been elected to has been more active than during July. The
take charge of the affairs of the new firm: repair plant is now running full time and has
Harry Brunswick Loeb, president; W. J. all the business that it can take care of.
Wright, vice-president; Samuel R. Goldberg,
Howard Hill, manager of the music depart-
secretary and treasurer.
ment of the Holmes Co., has just returned
New quarters have been leased at 320 Ba- from a two weeks' business trip to Chicago and
ronne street, where there will be considerably the East.
more space for the increased business whicfl
Clearance sales have been occupying the time
the firm already enjoys. The new home is a of salesmen at Werlcin's and the Gruncwald
three-story building, which is being completely Co. E. L. Voges at Grunewald's reports ex-
renovated in order to provide display rooms cellent results from the sale.
for both pianos and talking machines.
The Werlein House is having nightly con-
The Harry Brunswick Loeb Piano Co. will, certs in its piano department in connection
as before, be the agents for the Lyon & Healy with the clearance sales of player and grand
piano and the Brunswick talking machine. One pianos. Their concerts last from 7.30 to 9 p. m.
of the first sales made by the new firm was of
R. T. Cassell, manager of the piano depart-
a Lyon & Healy grand to the New Orleans ment at Wcrlein's, has been very much en-
School Board for the Sophie Wright Girls' couraged by the results obtained so far. "The
High School.
people are responding to valuers at reasonable
Messrs. Goldberg and Wright have been in prices," he says.
NOW THE LOEB PIANO CO.
Let 'Em Know You're
Sell 'Em! Give 'Em Away!
Fill Up Your Window!
Wherever merchants have filled their win-
dows with our Miniature Grand and Upright
Pianos, increased sales volumes have followed.
It's the greatest little business-building
proposition ever brought to your attention—
at a cost so small as to be ridiculous compared
to other business-building propositions of equal
value.
SACHS & CO.
423 S. Wabash Ave.
conditions now producing unrest and disruption
of business must be disposed of first before any
real prosperity may be attained, he says.
Starr instruments have their own vogue in
the Northwest and are making constant head-
way under the direction of M. L. McGinnis
& Co., Northwestern distributors.
The Stone Piano Co. is driving continuously
with its fine line of pianos and the Vocation
phonographs, not to mention the Vocalion Red
records. Manager Munson states that there
has been a noticeable improvement in that the
persons who have been shopping for some
months are now developing into buyers.
CHICAGO, ILL.
ALIVE!