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FEBRUARY 21,
1925
THE MUSIC TRADE
Geoffrey O'Hara With the Duo-Art
Winning Applause in San Francisco
Giving Many Recitals Before Business Men's Organizations—Rachmaninoff Featured in Mason &
Hamlin Ampico Display—Wiley B. Allen Opens Ampico Room in Sacramento Branch
CAN FRANCISCO, CAL., February 12.—The
idea that a piano must match the wood in
the furniture of a room is a fallacy, for a piano
is an individual. It is not necessary to have any
woods in high colors.. The beauty of the lines
in a piano is decoration enough.
It was in words something like the forego-
ing that Harald Pracht, sales manager of the
Wiley 13. Allen Co., explained the striking Rach-
maninoff window just installed by the company.
While featuring the famous Ampico artist and
composer, the window is also designed to show
the blending quality of the ebonized Mason &
Hamlin grand, containing the Ampico. The
ebony-like appearance of the wood in the piano
is not repeated in the beautiful furniture that
makes the big window look like a "period"
room. Antique walnut is featured in the furni-
ture, which is upholstered in costly fabrics of
vivid colors. Rachmaninoff opens his San Fran-
cisco engagement here next Sunday.
Gets the Business Men Going
Geoffrey O'Hara is considered one of the
most successful Duo-Art performers that Sher-
man, Clay & Co. ever brought to the Coast.
The pianist-composer-vocalist has taken the
business men by storm. At the luncheon of the
S:in Francisco Advertising Club yesterday, Neill
C. Wilson, advertising manager for Sherman,
Clay & Co., and O'Hara appeared on the same
program. Mr.. Wilson gave a talk on advertis-
ing, and the advertising experts who listened
considered it an excellent address. The adver-
tising men were also lavish of applause for Mr.
O'Hara, who appeared in conjunction with the
Duo-Art and his own recordings. After this
artist's engagement here closes, with a concert
for the Coast Bankers' Convention, on the eve-
ing of the 14th inst., he will then appear in the
California cities where Sherman, Clay & Co.
have branches, and will later proceed to the
cities of the Pacific Northwest, under the firm's
auspices.
Radio Men on Anxious Seat
There will be a large representation of mem-
bers of the trade interested in radio at the
hearings to be held in the rooms of the State
Railroad Commission, in the State Building
here, regarding proposed advances on freight
rates for radio. The proposed increase of 50
per cent on less than carload lots on rad:o re-
ceiving M'ts, and talking machines and rad'o
sets combined, should have gone into effect on
the lOlh inst. The State Railroad Commission
issued an o"d:r of a stay for 90 days, and the
Commission will conduct hearings on the pro-
posed schedules of rates, under the direction of
Commissioner (
Bates, traffic manager for Sherman, Clay &
Co., and a member of the: traffic committee of
the Music Industries Chamber of Commerce of
America is planning to attend the hearings.
Movements of Men of Muse
C. Alfred Wagner, of the American Piano Co.,
has gone to Los Angeles, en route for the
East. Charles H. Tracy, Pacific Coast repre-
sentative of the Aeolian Co., has left for the
South, en route for New York. Arthur Duclos,
manager of the roll department, Sherman, Clay
& Co., and L. W. Sturdevent, manager of the
radio department, are touring the Pacific North-
west, visiting the company's branches. George
Madison, opera basso, with the piano depart-
ment of the Wiley P>. Allen Co., has returned to
work, after a rather serious illness.
May Have Ex-Queen's Piano for Jubilee
A number of interesting historical events, in
connection with music in San Francisco, have
been looked up by D. J. O'Connell, old-time
newspaperman, who has charge of the publicity
for the Diamond Jubilee of Kohler & Chase, to
be celebrated in April. Mr. O'Connell has just
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written to the Hawaiian Promotion Co., of
Honolulu (T. H.), asking if it is possible to
trace and send over for the jubilee the Fisher
piano installed many years ago in the Royal
Palace by Kohler & Chase. The piano was
especially built on the order of Liliuokalani,
last monarch of the Hawaiian Islands, and very
special care was taken to carry out her require-
ments.
Ampico Room in Sacramento Branch
The new Ampico room in the Sacramento
branch of the Wiley B. Allen Co. has been
thrown open to the public, and Miss Anne
Baggs, who attended to the interior decoration
of this salon, has returned to the home office
here. The room is especially designed as a back-
ground for the Ampico in the Mason & Hamlin.
While less elaborate than some of the other
Ampico salons of the firm, it is very pretty,
with its willow furniture, upholstered in blue
and gold, with vases, etc., to give it a home-like
appearance.
Tom Pletcher, president of the Q R S Music
Co., has left after an unusually long visit here.
G. Gittins, president of the Welte Philhar-
monic Pipe Organ Co., is due here in a few
weeks to supervise the installation of the big
pipe organ that George Q. Chase, president of
Kohler & Chase, is having installed to celebrate
the firm's Diamond Jubilee.
William Tatroc, manager of the retail piano
department here for Kohler & Chase, received
news a few days ago of the sudden death of his
father, F. C. Tatroe, of Monroe, Mich.
mirable detail. The Caen stone walls are
draped with three full-length tapestries, to give
the color the stone walls needed, and in carry-
ing out the Italian idea a large Italian oil jar
of peacock shade has a prominent place and
an Italian table with iron pedestals topped with
large opium bowls adds to the dignity of the
setting. A handsome roll cabinet is on the
opposite side of the room. A davenport and
chairs in soft rose mohair harmonize with the
damask drapes and several mahogany piano
lamps with rose shades are attractively placed,
and blend with the peacock shade of the oil
jar. Miss Baggs deserves great credit for plac-
ing such an atmosphere in a place where music
lovers can go and really enjoy in comfort the
music of the wonderful Mason & Hamlin.
O'Hara and Lieurances at
Tri-City Celebration
Prominent Artists Appear With Duo-Art in
Concerts and Recitals Given in Davenport
Recently
One of the leading features of the Tri-City
Music celebrations held in January by sponsors
of Music in Davenport, Rock Island and Moline
was the series of Duo-Art concerts and after-
noon recitals given by Geoffrey O'Hara, the
well-known composer-pianist, and Mr. and Mrs.
Thurlow Lieurance, under the auspices of the
A. P. Griggs Music Co., Davenport. The con-
certs and recitals attracted capacity audiences
from among the music lovers of the three cities.
At the conclusion of the series Mr. O'Hara
and Mr. and Mrs. Lieurance were the guests of
honor at a banquet at the Hotel Blackhawk
tendered by the Tri-City Musical Association,
on which occasion there were informal talks
and an interesting musical program offered by
the artists present.
Wiley B. Allen Go. Opens
Fine New Ampico Studio Mrs. Frederick Engelhardt
Dies in St. Johnsville, N. Y.
Elaborate Room Fitted Up in Portland Store
for Demonstration of the Mason & Hamlin
With the Ampico—Design in Italian Style
PORTLAND, ORE., February 13.—The Wiley B.
Allen Co. to-day featured the Mason & Hamlin
Ampico in full-page advertisements in the daily
Mother of Alfred D. and Walter E. Engelhardt
and Widow of Well-known Piano Man Suc-
cumbs to Long Illness
ST. JOHNSVIU.K, N. Y., February 14.—Mrs. Fred-
•rick Engelhardt, widow of the late Frederick
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Mason & Hamlin Room
papers, calling attention to the instrument at
their store at 148 Fifth street, and announcing
open house and inviting the public to come in
and hear the wonderful instrument. The center
of the page has a large reproduction of their
Ampico room, which was recently arranged and
decorated by Anna J. Baggs, interior decorator
of the company, who was sent from the head-
quarters of the company at San Francisco fot
this purpose. Miss Baggs is spending several
weeks in Portland decorating the Fifth street
store of the firm. In the Ampico room the
Italian renaissance idea is carried out in ad-
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of Wiley B. Allen Co.
Engelhardt, founder of the Engelhardt business
here, and a daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs.
August Dolge, one of the founders of Dolge-
ville, died at her home here Thursday morning
after a lengthy illness. She was in her eightieth
year.
Mrs. Engelhardt is survived by two sons,
Alfred D., of New Rochelle, N. Y., and Walter
E., who is engaged in the piano business here.
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