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DECEMBER 27,
THE
1024
MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
The Past Year in the Music Industries—(Continued from page 7)
Richmond, Va., branch of Chas. M. Stieff, Inc., moves into
new quarters in that city.
Vocalstyle Music Co., Cincinnati, opens branch office in
Chicago.
Gretsch & Brenner, Inc., wholesalers of musical merchan-
dise, open showrooms in New York.
National Association of Sheet Music Dealers holds eleventh
annual convention in New York. E. Grant Ege, Kansas
City, elected president.
Music Publishers' Association of United States holds
thirtieth annual convention at Hotel Astor, New York.
George Fischer, New York, re-elected president.
Welte-Mignon Corp., New York, announces new Welte
Philharmonic organ model.
Victor Talking Machine Co. opens exhibition salons on
Fifth avenue, New York.
Gustav Herzberg, veteran Philadelphia piano dealer, dies in
that city in eighty-eighth year.
Frank L. Grannis appointed sales manager of Southern
California Music Co.
George R. Hughes, secretary of Wiley B. Allen Co., San
Francisco, and recently elected president of National
Association of Music Merchants, dies suddenly in Chi-
cago en route home from the convention.
Louis Grunewald Co., New Orleans, celebrates seventy-
second business anniversary.
July
O. R. Bowman, formerly sales manager of Thos. Goggan
& Bro., Houston, Tex., joins staff of Kohler & Chase,
San Francisco.
Paul Sohmer celebrates fortieth anniversary of his con-
nection with Sohmer & Co., New York.
P. P. Ix>ckhart, well known in the piano trade in New
York, passes away in this city.
Brambach Piano Co. announces purchase of site in New
York for large new factory.
Clark-Atlanta Music Co. organized in Atlanta, Ga.
Jefferson C. Deagan, vice-president of J. C. Deagan, Inc.,
Chicago, dies in Riverside, Gal.
Conn-Atlanta Co., Atlanta, Ga., moves to new location in
that city and changes name to The Conn Co.
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New recording and record-pressing plant of Victor Talking
Machine Co. in Oakland, Cal., put into operation.
Henry F. Miller & Sons Co., Boston, and Smith, Barnes &
Strohber Co.; Chicago, merged into Continental Piano
Co., with Walter N. King as president.
Henry L. Mason succeeds A. M. Wright as president of
the Mason & Hamlin Co., Boston.
Ralph L. Freeman resigns as director of distribution of
Victor Talking Machine Co. to enter the insurance field.
Wood Bros., Pittsfield, Mass., hold formal opening of re-
modeled warerooms in that city.
Continental Piano Co., Boston, chartered under laws of
Massachusetts with a capital stock of $2,500,000.
Victor Talking Machine Co. opens elaborate exhibition
salons on the Boardwalk at Atlantic City, N. J.
Charles Keidel, former president of William Knabe & Co.,
Baltimore, dies in that city in eighty-sixth year.
Erion Piano Co., Buffalo, opens new and enlarged ware-
rooms in that city.
Western Music Trades Association formed at big conven-
tion in San Francisco, with E. A. Geissler as president.
August
American Piano Co. launches ambitious national advertis-
ing campaign with magazine advertisements appearing
every other day.
G. R. Mance appointed manager of warerooms of Chicker-
ing & Sons, New York. Succeeded in Boston by R. C.
Hodginson.
G. W. Armstrong Jr., president of Baldwin Piano Co.,
celebrates fiftieth anniversary of that concern.
J. F. Hartlied elected president of Hallet & Davis Piano
Co. and Conway Securities Co., Boston.
Story & Clark piano selected as official instrument for
English Opera Co.
H. H. Thompson purchases piano department of Seiberling-
Lucas Co., Portland, Ore.
National Association of Piano Bench and Stool Manufac-
turers holds annual conference in South Haven, Mich.
Aeolian Hall, New York, sold to Schulte Cigar Stores
Co. for approximately $6,000,000.
Rexford C. Hyre appointed executive secretary for Ampico
Art Society.
John D. McLean, long manager of Mason & Hamlin ware-
rooms in New York, also takes over management of
Boston warerooms of that company.
National Association of Piano Tuners holds annual conven-
tion in Milwaukee. Chas. Deutschmann re-elected presi-
dent.
Henry F. Miller Stores Co. chartered in Massachusetts to
operate retail music stores.
Edison Phonograph Works and Thos. A. Edison, Inc., con-
solidated in order to promote greater co-ordination in the
manufacturing and selling divisions.
A. W. Johnston resigns as president and director of Stand-
ard Pneumatic Action Co., New York.
September
Major A. G. Forbes, of the Starr Piano Co., Columbia,
S. 1)., dies after a short illness.
Ohio Music Merchants' Association holds fifteenth annual
convention in Cleveland. Otto Grau elected president.
W. W. Smith, of the J. W. Greene Co., Toledo, O., elected
president of National Association of Music Merchants at
executive committee meeting in Cleveland to succeed the
late George R. Hughes.
Walter A. Schaaf, secretary of Adam Schaaf, Inc., Chicago,
dies at home in that city.
Code of Ethics adopted by Band Instrument Manufacturers'
Association endorsed by Federal Trade Commission.
McMahon Piano Co. occupies elaborate fiew quarters in
Youngstown, O.
Edward G. Brown, well-known music dealer of Bayonne,
N. J., and secretary of the Talking Machine & Radio
Men, Inc., New York, dies at Bayonne home.
Schaff Bros. Co., piano manufacturer of Huntington, Ind.,
open Eastern headquarters at 753 Sixth avenue, New
York.
W. A. Mennie, vice-president and treasurer, takes over man-
agement of Standard Player Action Co.
Standard Talking Machine Co., Victor wholesaler in Pitts-
burgh, Pa., buys out wholesale Victor department of
C. C Mellor Co., that city.
Chas. J. Orth, Inc., Milwaukee, announces that it will con-
fine its activities exclusively to the wholesale field, the
retail business being taken over by the Orth Music Co.,
Inc.
A. W. Johnston joins Cornwall & Patterson Mfg. Co.,
Bridgeport, Conn.
October
Chickering Hall, 27 West Fifty-seventh street, New York,
formally opened with appropriate ceremonies.
S. Ernest Philpitt & Sons add a new branch store in St.
Petersburg, Fla., to their chain.
Otto Schulz elected president of Chicago Piano Manufac-
turers' Association at regular meeting.
Illinois Music Merchants' Association holds annual conven-
tion in Springfield, 111., with J. P. Lacey elected presi-
dent.
Howard-Farwell Co., prominent Minneapolis piano house,
moves to fine new quarters in that city.
Work begun on erection of new seven-story factory of
Brambach Piano Co., New York.
Frank L. Wing, for fifty years head of the piano manufac-
turing house of Wing & Son, New York, dies suddenly.
Curran-Wooster Music Co. opens warerooms in Sharon, Pa.
William B. Jacob, son of C. Albert Jacob, New York, killed
in automobile accident.
A. Hospe, prominent music merchant of Omaha, celebrates
fiftieth business anniversary.
Lyon & Healy, Inc., Chicago, celebrates sixtieth business
anniversary.
Walter M. Bacon, vice-president of White-Smith Music
Publishing Co., Boston, dies suddenly.
Cleveland Talking Machine Co., Victor wholesaler, absorbs
Eclipse Musical Co., Cleveland.
John R. A. Lang appointed superintendent of factory of
Weser Bros., New York.
O. K. Houck Piano Co., Memphis, Tenn., celebrates forty-
first business anniversary.
Fayette Piano Co. and Muehlhauser Bros, open branch
stores in Cleveland, O.
Stephen S. Mapes, long prominent in piano supply field
in New York, dies as result of operation.
H. L. Nolder elected president of Southern California
Music Trades' Association.
November
O. E. Klinger made sales manager of the Cleveland branch
of the Starr Piano Co.
Kranich & Bach, New York, issue elaborate brochure in
celebration of the sixtieth business anniversary of the
company.
New Knabe warerooms opened at 1020 Walnut street,
Philadelphia, under direction of S. Jacob & Sons.
Frederick L. Ryder, formerly vice-president of S. E. Moist
Piano Co., Chicago, resigns to become secretary of the
Cable Piano Co.
Death of James H. Hempstead, office manager of Steinway
& Sons, who had been connected with that concern for
fifty-nine years.
Fall meeting of directors of Music Industries Chamber of
Commerce held in New York.
C. C. Harvey Co., Boston, celebrates fiftieth anniversary.
O. S. Boyd appointed wholesale distributor of Starr Piano
Co. in St. Louis territory.
Edmund R. Wanckle, formerly general manager of the
American Felt Co. and well known in the piano supply
trade, dies in Germany.
Fred Foster, head of the Foster Piano Co., Troy, N. Y.,
drops dead at home in that city.
New Mason & Hamlin warerooms opened in Cleveland, O.
F. M. Bowser elected treasurer and Walter A. Carlson
secretary of the Cable-Nelson Piano Co., Chicago, at an-
nual meeting of that concern.
V. B. Webber appointed piano sales manager of Platt Music
Co., Los Angeles.
C. F. Woods joins B. K. Settergren Co., of Bluffton, Ind.,
in capacity of first vice-president.
Twenty-five Starr pianos purchased by the Conservatory of
Music of the College of the Pacific, Stockton.
Strawbridge & Clothier Department Store, Philadelphia,
opens elaborate musical merchandise department.
Wni. Staiger, Jr., of the Staiger Piano Co., Atlantic City,
found dead in his' home.
Pearson Piano Co., Indianapolis, celebrates fifty-first busi-
ness anniversary.
Traugott F. Weber elected president of Chicago Piano &
Organ Association at annual meeting of that body.
J. R. Farmer becomes vice-president and general manager
of Strauch Bros., New York, prominent piano and player
action house.
Edward T. Paull, head of the E. T. Paull Music Co. ami
famous composer of marches, dies at his home in Brook-
lyn, N. Y.
Chase-Hackley Piano Co., Muskegon, Mich., announces a
reorganization.
Charles F. Kienle, treasurer of M. Holmer, Inc., prominent
harmonica house of New York, dies after lengthy illness,
George P. Elbert, formerly vice-president and treasurer of
Smith, Barnes & Strohber Co., Chicago, dies in that city
after brief illness.
December
J. M. Hoffman Co., Pittsburgh, buys four-story building in
which business has been located for a number of years.
Mason & Hamlin piano with the Ampico officially an-
nounced to the trade.
Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co. takes over Vocalion record
business in its entirety from the Aeolian Co., New York.
Connecticut Valley tuners form new association with head-
quarters in Springfield, Mass.
May Co., Cleveland, enlarges and remodels piano depart-
ment.
Ellsworth E. Allen, music dealer of Ithaca, N. Y., for ovci
fifteen years, dies at his home in that city.
Wessell, Nickel & Gross, New York, prominent piano action
house, celebrates fiftieth anniversary of its establishment.
C. G. Conn, Ltd., opens thirteenth branch in Kansas City,
Mo.
Frank V. Goodman appointed sales manager of Sonora
Phonograph Co., New York.
Branch of Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co., Philadelphia,
moved to new quarters.
C. W. Housemann joins Hallet & Davis Piano Co. staff and
will specialize in sales development of Angelus reproduc-
ing pianos.
A. B. Smith, head of the A. B. Smith Piano Co., Akron,
O., announces plans for turning over business to his
son, A. B. Smith, Jr.
Changes at Hahne & Co.
An entirely new floor staff has been created
by W. O. Black, manager of the piano depart-
ment of Hahne & Co., Newark, N. J., who states
that the department has just closed one of the
most successful Fall seasons in its history. A.
G. Love, recently made sales manager and as-
sistant buyer, has set up a new record in the
department for individual sales during Novem-
ber and December. Mr. Love is well known in
the Newark trade, having been for many years
connected with the floor staff of L. Bamberger.
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