THE
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MUSIC
TRADE
REVIEW
MERCHANTS' PRESIDENT APPOINTS SPEAKERS' COMMITTEE
New Body, Under Chairmanship of M . V. DeForeest, to Appear Before State and City Associa
tions, and Other Gatherings of Music Merchants to Carry Message of Organization
the nation a l officers can n ut be l)resent to talk.
Th e inno\ation is an intere sting one and is
expected to have an excell ent dfect in aidin.c:
the officers of the National .'\ssociation of Music
Merchants in th eir campaign to build up the
membership of that organi za tion heyond the
2,000 mark before ll,e next convrnt ion. T he
members of thf' new committee, of which M. V.
DeForeest is chairman, include J. Edwin B utl er,
:Marion, Ind .; E. Paul Hamilton, 422 North
Howarcl. s t reet , Baltimor e; P. E. Conroy, Con
ro y Piano Co. , 11 00 O li ve street, St. Loui s, Mo. ;
Edmund Gram, Edmund Gram , Inc., 414 Mil
wauke e: '-treet, Milwaukee , Wis.; J. A. Turner,
Jr., T urn e r Musi c Co., 604 Franklin street,
T am pa, Fla.; John G. Corl ey, the Corle y Co.,
2 13 East Broad street, Richmond, Va.; P. T
Clay, Sherman , Clay & Co ., Kearney & Sutter
\ppr ecia tin ::; tlte va lue of the s poken word
in the development of interest in the National
.'\s:ioc iation of Mu" ic Merchant s and it s work
and parti c ularly in brin g ing new members into
lhe fold, Rob e rt N. Watkin, president o f that
organi za tion, has ~ppointed a comm itt ee of
"Four :Minute M e n" from among the m ember s
o f the A s sociation to spe ak b efore State and
ci ty associat ions and local ga therin g,; of music
trade men carryin g the message of trad e or
gan ization to all parts of the country.
The app ointment of committee of spcakl'rs
ca m e as a r es ult of the in
n ationa l officers to· accept invitatiuns to ap pea r
before vari ous ga therin gs of music merchants
in various parts of the country, accor din g to
sc hedu les hid out b y the lo ca l body, and the
comm itt eemen will function in tho se case s w here
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Staib-Abendschein
Reproducer Grand
Piano Action
streets, San Francisco, Cal.; O. A. Field, Field,
Li ppman Piano Co., 1120 Olive street, St. Louis,
Mo.; 'IN. H. Daniels, Denton, Cottier & D anie ls,
32 Court street, Buffalo, N. Y.; R O. Foster,
Foster & Waldo, 811 Nicollet ave nue, Minne
apol is, :Minn.; E. H. Droop, E. F. Droop & Sons
Co., 1300 uG" street, N. W ., Washington, D. c.;
C. A. Grinnell, Grinnell Bro s., ISiS Woodward
a ve nu e, Detroit, Mich.; Henry Dreher, Dreher
Piano Co., 1226 Huron Road, Clev(:land, 0.;
F. B. T. Hollenberg-, Holl enberg Music Lo., 415
:YIain street, Little Ro ck, Ark.; Robt. )J. V,at
kin, president, Will \. Watkin Co ., 1207 Elm
street, Dall as, Tex. ; Wm. C. Hamilton, first
vice-president, S. Hamilton Co., 815 Liberty ave
nue, Pitt sburgh , Pa.; Geo . R. Hughes, second
vice-prf'sid(:nt, V,iley B. Allen Co., 135 Kearney
street, San F ran cisco , Cal.; Matt J. Kennedy,
serre t:J.r y, 532 Republic nuildin .g·, Chicago, Ill. ;
W. W. Smith, ]. W. Gre ene Co., 801 Jefferson
avenue, Toledo, 0 . ; Alex. McDonald, Sohmer
& Co., 31 \Vest Fifty-seventh street, New Yo·rk
City; John W. Boothe, Barker Bros., 724 South
B roadwa y, Los A nge.les, Cal.; Henry E. vVeisert,
Rissell- Weissert Co., 26 South Michigan ave
nue , Chicago, Ill.; Rex C. H yre, 929 Society
for Savin gs Building, Cleve land , 0.; A. G. Far
quharson, 317 Homer Lau g hlin Bui lding, Los
A n ge les, Cal.; Otto Grau, Otto Grau Piano Co.,
C in cinnati, 0.; Harry Wun derli ch, Wunderlich
Mus ic Co., Kansas C ity, Mo.; W. L. Mitlin g,
Nashua, N. H.; Fred P. Watso n, Mt. Vernon ,
I II.; Chas. E . Wells, Denver, Colo.; P a rham
Werlein, Philip Werlein, Ltd ., Kew O rle ans;
C ha rl es H . Ya hrlin g, Yahrling-Rayner Co,
Youn gs town, 0.; Lester Gunst, Ft. Worth,
Tex.; Geo. Bea sley, Te xa rkana, Tex.
CRAWFORD GOES TO THE CUSTOMERS
Piano Merchant of Peru, Ind., Averaging a
Player Sale a Day by Taking Instruments
Into Count ry on Trucks
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the Crawford Music Co., of this city, is destined
to close on e of th(' biggest year s in sale s he
has had in the twenty-seven years he has be en
in bu si ness. Mr. Crawford has thr ee trucks
w hich leave the store each morning with in
strU11le nts which find th eir way into farmers'
homes. He has averaged one player-piano sal e
a day for the past two · months, which will brin g
his sales clo se to a fi g ure exceedin g 2S per ce nt
o ve r that of last year. The Crawford Music
Lo. handles th ~ Cab le Compa n y, \Veaver, Hobart
M. Cable and ~vI. Schulz lin es of pianos and
player".
NEW BROOKLYN BRANCH MANAGER
with
M. Allen Placed at Head of Branch Store of the
Story & Clark Piano Co.
Lost Motion Attachment
is the latest development in actions for use in reproduc
ing grand pianos. It can also be used to good advantage
in straight grands.
In the 'reproducing piano it eliminates all lost motion
between the action and mechanism, permits soft pedal
movement adjustment to the lightest pneumatic and
does away with key shifting and key dipping entirely.
iVI. Allen, who was formerly id e ntified witll
lhe Illai 1\ New York branch o f the Slory &
C lark Piano Co. on \V est Thirty--econd street,
has been mad e branch mana~er of the Drooklyn
slore on Fl a thu<;h ;l.venue, suc ce eding Ra y mond
Hodge, who rc,i g ncd recently to take a pos i
tion in Hartford. L. Sch oenewald, mana .c:er of
the New York division for Story & Clark, has
taken on VVilliam S. Daniels as floor sale sman
in place of Mr ..\Ilen . :'vfr. Daniels was lat ely
identified with Homer J.. Kitt, of vVashingt o n.
OPENS IN STEPHENS, ARK.
STEPHENS, ARK., September 22 - A branch mu sIc
store to handle th e Edison line of phonographs
and records has late ly been estab lished here by
G. J. Be ns berg', proprieto r of the Ben,berg Mu
"ic Shop , of Camden. ,M r. Bensberg ha~ the
only Edison agency in thi s part of the State .
Send for illustrated booklet which
explains it in detail and tells
how to install and regulate it
THE STAIB-ABENDSCHEIN CO.
134th St. and Brook Ave.
SEPTEMBER 29, 1923
New York
LIBERTY CO. BEING REMODELED
SEHTLI':, W\srr . Se ptemb('r 24. · ·Fxte nsiv e altera
tion, and addition " :n <: in pro gres s in the (' stab
lishm en t of the Lib c rty Mu s ic Stor e at 1.']6
Fir s t ave nuc.