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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
MARCH 10, 1923
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BUFFALO DEALERS LOOKING FORWARD TO GOOD SPRING
NEW MUSIC MEMORY CONTEST BOOK
Unanimously Foresee Good Demand During the Coming Months—H. B. Haring Tendered Banquet
—George W. Pound to Address Chamber of Commerce—Buffalo Police and Music
Complete Information Regarding the Organiz-
ing and Conducting of Such Contests on a
State-wide Basis Issued by National Bureau
BUFFALO, N. Y., March 5.—Prosperity for music
dealers, jobbers and manufacturers in this
vicinity for the Spring and Summer is an estab-
lished assurance, according to reports gathered
by The Review correspondent in a survey of
the trade this week.
G. H. VerBeck, of the VcrBeck Musical Sales
Co., says they closed a very satisfactory Feb-
ruary, doing a much larger business for the
month, in spite of its shortness, than the month
of January, and larger in comparison with the
corresponding month of last year. Mr. VerBeck
has just returned from a very successful sales
trip to Chicago. The concern recently installed
a Link organ in Keller's Theatre in Northeast,
Pa. The VerBeck Musical Sales Co. has a very
complete musical instrument store and recently
added the Nelson-Wiggin electric piano to its
stock.
Raymond Smith, sales manager of the Hoff-
man Piano Co., reports the largest February
business in the history of the store, a period
of over twenty years. "We are anticipating a
much better March," Mr. Smith says. "We
have planned a piano sale for the month and
are expecting big results." The Hoffman Piano
Co. is featuring the M. Schulz piano in large
advertisements.
E. R. Burley, Victor talking machine dealer
of West Ferry street, is optimistic over the
outlook for Spring and Summer. "We have
just closed a very busy month," Mr. Burley
said. "For March we are preparing a direct
advertising campaign and expect very satisfac-
tory results."
In honor of H. 15. Haring, former manager
of the Columbia branch in Buffalo, a testimonial
dinner was given in the dining room of the Iroquois
Hotel recently. There were about twenty deal-
ers present. In behalf of the dealers, Morris
Turchin presented Mr. Haring with a gold knife
and expressed appreciation for the help and
co-operation they had received from their
former branch manager.
George W. Pound, former general counsel of
the Music Industries Chamber of Commerce,
who was recently elected secretary of the
Rudolph Wurlitzer Co., will speak in the near
future before the Buffalo Chamber of Com-
merce on the topic of "Business To-day."
While a piano was being unloaded from a
truck to the sidewalk in front of the Kurtzmann
Piano Co.'s store in Lockport recently, the
lowering tackle on the truck failed to work
and the piano slipped and struck the wood
between the two plate-glass windows, splinter-
ing them both. No other damage resulted.
A new phonograph factory will be built in
Randolph, N. Y., in the near future by Lafayette
Lipe, who is now looking for a location on
which to build a small factory. He will require
about four acres, he says. He expects to build
additions to the factory as business grows.
Opposition to Mayor Schwab's proposed ordi-
nance requiring that no music be permitted in
any public place without consent of two-thirds
of residents within 200 feet was voiced by
Charles L. Feldman, representing a firm which
leases mechanical musical instruments. He said
the police now have power to prevent dis-
turbances. A petition from the Democratic
committee of the fourth ward favoring the ordi-
nance stated that a mechanical orchestra which
played jazz music in a soft drink place annoyed
the neighborhood with early morning ditties.
"That's a job for the police," said Commissioner
Meahl. "Send a man out and stop it." The
chief said that when the police warned the
proprietor of the place he merely shifted the
music machine to his living quarters upstairs.
The National Bureau for the Advancement of
Music has just issued a new booklet on "The
Organization of County and State Music Mem-
ory Contests," in which valuable advice is of-
fered music supervisors and others regarding
means of organizing county and State contests,
getting the necessary material together and car-
rying them out to successful conclusions.
The material is based on the experiences of
several hundred music memory contests held in
towns, cities, counties and States, and is com-
prehensive and exhaustive. At the present time
a state-wide contest is being held in Ohio under
official auspices. A similar contest is being
carried out in Texas. Indiana and Michigan
have endorsed the plan and North Dakota has
adopted it in modified form, with fifty-seven
high schools already entered.
MAKES GIFTJF LIBRARY
Theodore E. Steinway, of Stcinway & Sons,
New York, has presented the Collectors' Club,
of this city, with his philatelic library, said to
be the most complete collection of books,
periodicals and publications dealing with post-
age stamps and collecting in this or any other
country.
PLANS TO QUITJ^IANO BUSINESS
The Better Business Bureau of the Music In-
dustries Chamber of Commerce reports that ad-
vices have been received to the effect that J.
W. Sprinkle, who most recently came to the at-
tention of the trade as originator of the "New
Selling Plan" of the Churchill Piano Co., Phila-
delphia, has announced his decision to quit the
piano business.
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