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JUNE 27,
THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
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You cant go wtfong with
as a complete stock of the domestic and Red
Seal records. The records are placed in covers
on the shelves, listed numerically and a per-
petual inventory of the stock kept on the in-
dividual wrapper.
S. Ernest Philpitt & Sons' Miami Beach Store
An event of much significance, as much to
the musical and artistic as well as to the com-
mercial life of Miami, Miami Beach and Florida
at large, took place early this year in the
formal opening of the latest Philpitt store on
Lincoln road, at Jefferson avenue. This new
store represents an investment of between $70,-
000 and $75,000. It has foundations that will
stand many more stories and it is likely that
they will build more stories during the Sum-
mer. On the mezzanine floor there are the
executive offices, from which the six other
branches are directed, the bookkeeping office,
Mr. Philpitt's private office and the secretary's
office. The balance of the building is devoted
to the interests of Beach patrons, having ample
facilities with homelike surroundings to make
their selections in comfort. The color scheme
of the interior is in cream enamel. A unique
feature of this store is that the front windows
contain the three largest panes of glass in
the whole of Florida.
During his first season in Miami, the Philpitt
firm organized and conducted the affairs of a
Miami high school orchestra. Mr. Philpitt has
been prominent in association with musical so-
cieties. He is president of the Miami Boys'
Band, actively interested in the Florida Society
of Art and Science, the Florida Art Library,
and general manager of the Musical Festival
(the second of which was held during the past
season.) He is a member of six chambers of
commerce in Florida, four or five credit asso-
ciations and boards of trade. He is a Miami
Shriner, a Miami Rotarian, a member of the
City Club of Washington and of the City Club
of Miami. He is an honorary life member of
the Miami Music Club. His firm organized and
conducted the Orlando Symphony Orchestra.
Mr. Philpitt has served two terms as president
of the National Association of Sheet Music
Dealers and has been a director of the executive
committee throughout the existence of that or-
ganization; he is still one of the three on the
executive board. He is also an original director
of the National Association of Concert Mana-
gers, which takes in Georgia, Alabama and
Florida. He is a member of every known na-
tional organization in the music field.
Mr. Philpitt has watched the unfolding of mu-
sical life and talent in Miami and in other
parts of Florida from a small bud until its full
bloom of to-day, a development the gauge of
which is found in his own business in the
demand for- the better and higher grades of
musical instruments. Mr. Philpitt is proud of
the fact that his chain of stores carry just one
price for each instrument and all figures are
plainly marked. In no city does he regard his
business as successful until the demand is es-
any FEIST
tablished for nothing but the utmost in quality,
even among the lesser-priced grades of instru-
ments. "The lack of musical appreciation as it
existed in Miami," he says, "was primarily due
to lack of opportnuity. Many here and many
growing up in this section had not the oppor-
tunity of hearing good music of the higher type
as rendered by the internationally known artists.
1 felt that bringing in these artists would be
the means of furnishing that opportunity.
There are many others who have labored for
years to the same end—too many to mention."
During my stay at Miami, I was invited to
Sam Philpitt's house for dinner one evening.
Before meeting the fair sex of the family, 1
decided to take a long rest in a barber's chair.
Just as the barber was removing the lather
from under my chin, my neighbor in the next
chair called "Hello Maurie." I had the pres-
ence of mind not to turn my head with the
razor at my throat, but when I did get the
opportunity I recognized my old friend, Pat
Moran, who was formerly with the Kohler In-
dustries, managing the player-roll department
in New York. Pat always was a super-salesman
and since going down South he was connected
with the Silver Bluff Real Estate Co., selling
choice parcels of land, and has now hung out his
own shingle, Crane and Moran, 115 Flagler
street.
As usual, Pat was very cordial and insisted
that I try some of his perfectly good Scotch.
Pat never met Mr. Volstead and don't believe
in his policy. He made me take a bottle to my
room to solace any lonely hours. Not being
particularly fond of the fluid, I contented my-
self with applying my fourth sense to it and
placed the bottle on the shelf. I didn't notice
that I had put it next to my hair tonic. After
several days, I found that I had no more Scotch
in the bottle, but my hair tonic was still in tact.
My hair was never in better condition, so I'll
recommend Pat's Scotch to anybody as a won-
derful hair-tonic.
Turner Music Store
One of the busiest shops in the city is the
Turner Music Co.'s store at 413 Flagler street,
the oldest music house in the city. Here you
can find the famous Ampico reproducing piano,
the Knabe, Marshall-Wendell and Fischer and
the grand and upright pianos of Packard,
Mathushek, Bond, Story & Clark, Brinkerhoff
and the Brambach grand. The line of phonographs
carried includes the Edison, Victor and Bruns-
wick.
Brunswick Radiolas are also carried.
There is no sheet music carried in this store. B.
H. Chase, manager, has had wide experience in
the music business, having started his appren-
ticeship in a piano factory, and is consulted on
piano construction for Florida by the makers.
Mr. Chase is a pioneer in the upbuilding of
Miami's musical culture, having organized the
Miami Symphony orchestra. The Turner Co.'s
business has grown, doubled and then tripled
until it was found necessary to enlarge its prem-
ises and a large new building will soon be com-
plete to house the firm. J. A. Turner, president,
has a chain of music stores throughout Florida.
What a plug Chappell-Harms get down at
Miami Shores—America's Mediterranean. There
are daily concerts held there by the Jackson
Concert Orchestra, under the personal super-
vision of Geo. L. Jackson, virtuoso—and the
opening and closing number of every program
is "On Miami Shores."
Jan Garber and his orchestra were a very
popular attraction at Miami last season. Their
concerts at the Masonic Temple Auditorium
drew large gatherings and were enjoyed by all.
It seems that many of the popular orchestra
directors and band masters spent their Winters
on the Miami Shores. Arthur Pryor and His
Band was among the notables and gav*e two
concerts daily, during the entire season,!
Incidentally, speaking of concerts, I want to
say that S. Ernest Philpitt is the local manager
of the National Concerts, Inc., and has a sub-
scriber's list of two hundred and fifty prominent
residents, who give their full support to Mr.
Philpitt in sponsoring individual concerts, in
order to present to the Miami public the world's
foremost artists.
Last season the most called for musical num-
ber in Miami was "When the Moon Shines on
Coral Gables"—published by Irving Berlin, Inc.
Jan Garber made a Victor record of it and it was
recorded by practically every other mechanical
company. The tune was in the air all the time
and there was a great demand for the records
and copies.
You don't have to commit a murder or rob
a bank to see your name in the newspapers
of Miami. The press pays particular attention
to any music men spending their time there.
According to the paper "Mr. M. D. Swisher,
music publisher and jobber of Philadelphia (one
of the real high ligths of the field), spends
every Winter at Miami Beach with his family.
Maurice Richmond of the Richmond Music Sup-
ply Corp., New York City, finds keen delight
in Miami's eternal Summer. J. Hackenheimer,
of the Kurtzmann Piano Co., Buffalo, has been
coming to the Magic City for several years.
Irving Berlin, popular song writer and pub-
lisher, enjoys his daily swim in the ocean at
Miami or Palm Beach." Almost everything
happens to make you glad you came to Miami.
Chalmers Music Co.
Royce Chalmers is the proprietor of the
Chalmers Music Co., on Flagler street. The
main sales of this company are saxophones,
cornets, trombones ukuleles, harmonicas and
records, but they often have to cater to out-
of-the-way tastes. The Seminoles, for instance,
do not buy instruments, but they are enthusi-
astic purchasers of gramophones and records.
So far, Mr. Chalmers said, he has not been able
to discover what it is in music that appeals to
his Scminole Indian customers, but they buy-
records radically different on every visit. A
Seminole will buy "Celeste Aida" on Tuesday
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