Music Trade Review

Issue: 1925 Vol. 81 N. 1

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THE
MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
New Stores and Changes Among Retail
Music Merchants During the Past Month
A Compilation of the New Stores Established and the Changes Among Retail Music Merchants
for the Benefit of the Musical Instrument Manufacturer and Traveler
JULY 4, 1925
New Jersey
Hackensack, N. J.—E. G. Browne, who has oper-
ated Browne's Music Shop here for the past two
years, has taken a new location a t 142 Main street.
Newark, N. J.—The new piano department of the
remodeled Goerke Co. department store has been
opened, featuring Cable & Sons pianos, with Jerome
Sheeley as manager.
New Mexico
Alabama
Illinois
Birmingham, Ala.—Charles Mehr has opened a sec-
ond local store, at 404 North Twentieth street, fea-
turing records, sheet music and small goods.
Tuskegee, Ala.—A. K. Plant, well-known piano
merchant, has secured a new location for his music
store on Main street.
Chicago, 111.—The Marquette Music Co. and the
Lyon Music Co. have been organized as affiliated
companies at 243 South Wabash avenue.
Taylorsville, III.—William Fowler has erected an
addition to his music store at 313 West Market
street.
Pontiac, III.—Richard Reed has succeeded Edward
O'Connor as manager of the Pontiac Music Shop.
Chicago, 111.—C. H. Taylor & Co., 218 South Wa-
bash avenue, have added a radio and phonograph
department, introducing the "Taylor" combination
radio-phonograph.
Arkansas
Walnut Ridge, Ark.—W. J. Beard, proprietor
of Beard's Temple of Music, Paragould, has opened
a branch store here, with Mrs. W. E. Hall as mana-
ger.
California
Woodland, Cal.—H. D. Humphrey has purchased
the music business of H. J. Provost at 428 First
street, which he will operate with his wife in the
future.
San Francisco, Cal.—Sherman, Clay & Co. have
established a new wholesale radio department at
Telegraph avenue and Fifty-flrst street.
Alhambra, Cal.—J. D. Coops, of the Alhambra
Music House, has purchased the business of the
Daynes Music Co., located opposite his store on East
Main street.
Fresno, Cal.—Sherman, Clay & Co. have opened a
complete sheet music section in their store here.
Connecticut
Wallingford, Conn.—Charles Canelli has opened a
new music store at 73 Quinnipiac street, handling
a full line of pianos, phonographs and small goods.
Florida
Fort Myers, Fla.—The new warerooms of the
Menzel Piano Co., located on Dixie Highway at
Northwood avenue, have been formally opened with
a full line of pianos.
Georgia
Atlanta, Ga.—H. Steinichen, Jr., and W. Ritter
have opened a new music store to be known as the
Ritter Music Co., located at 54 Auburn avenue.
Bainbrldge, Ga.—The Driggers Music Store has
been organized, handling a full line of music goods.
Idaho
Sandpoint, Ida.—The R. L. Jones Music House has
taken a lease on the ground floor of the Rowlands
Building on First avenue, its future headquarters.
Indiana
Fort Wayne, Ind.—The Spiegel Music Co. has
added $10,000 to its capitalization, making a total
of $25,000.
South Bend, Ind.—The warerooms of the W. G.
Guiss Music Store, 128 West Division street, have
suffered a fire loss of about $5,000.
Iowa
Davenport, la.—The L. A. Murray Music Co., of
this city, has been granted - a charter of incorpora-
tion with a capital stock of $50,000.
Council Bluffs, la.—W. J. Willoughby has been ap-
pointed general manager of the Schmoller & Muel-
ler store here, having been transferred from the
Lincoln branch.
East Oskaloosa, la.—Ralph Bollinger has opened
a new music store at 220 North High avenue, with
a full stock of music goods.
Maine
Portland, Me.—The Hawes Music Co. has been
granted a charter of incorporation, and will operate
a chain of music stores in this section.
Michigan
Detroit, Mich.—The Victory Music House, 6502
Chene street, has been incorporated with an author-
ized capital of $2,100.
Missouri
Mexico, Mo.—Walter Sannebeck, proprietor of the
Sannebeck Music Co., has taken quarters formerly
occupied by the Mexico Music Co., on the south
side of the square.
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Albuquerque, jf. Mex.—Windsor Munnell, of Okla-
homa City, has been made manager of the New
Mexico Piano Co., North Second street.
New York
New York City.—A petition of involuntary bank-
ruptcy has been filed against the Kimberlin Piano
Co., Inc., 117 East Thirty-fourth street, by John I.
Kimberlin and other creditors.
Olean, N. Y.—The Graf Music Shoppe, 126 West
State street, has been opened by Joseph and George
Graf, with a full line of music goods.
Brooklyn, N. Y.—Morris Klaidman, proprietor of
Klaidman's Music Shop, 338 Flatbush avenue, has
opened a branch store at 18 Willoughby avenue.
Yonkers, N. Y.—Frank Steadman has moved his
music store from 45 Warburton avenue to 24 Main
street.
Pougrhkeepsie, N. Y.—Daniel Weed, proprietor of
the Weed Music Shop, will personally manage his
radio department, his former manager having re-
signed.
Buffalo, N. Y.—Evans & Eiss, music dealers in
Hertel avenue, suffered a severe fire loss.
New York City.—S. L. Curtis has opened new
piano warerooms at 117 West Fifty-seventh street,
handling new and rebuilt instruments.
North Carolina
Greensboro, N. C.—A. C. Cavedo, North Carolina
district manager for the Corley Music Co., has
opened a branch store here on Market street.
North Dakota
Wllllston, N. Dak.—The C. O. Knight Co. has been
granted a charter to deal in pianos, phonographs
and radio, with a capital stock of $25,000.
Ohio
East Liverpool, O.—The complete phonograph
stock of the Lewis Bros. Co. has been purchased by
the Moore Furniture Co.
Canton, O.—The W. S. Custer Music House has
opened a new music store a t 1818 Ninth street, S.
W., featuring Baldwin pianos and phonographs.
Akron, O.—The Superior Music Parlors, for many
years a retail music house at 91 South Howard
street, have announced plans for discontinuing their
business.
Akron, O.—The A. B. Smith Piano Co., formerly
at 11 Buchtel avenue, has moved into its new flve-
story home on East Mill street.
Canton, O.—The Alford-Fryar Piano Co., on
Market avenue, North, has suffered a flre loss of
several hundred dollars.
Oklahoma
Chirkasha, Okla.—R. C. North has succeeded R.
Ellistbn as manager of the W. P. Fowler Music
Co., 419 Chiekasha avenue.
Perry, Okla.—The King Music Store has been
closed temporarily until its new brick building is
completed.

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Oregon
Albany, Ore.—The Woolworth Drug Co. has or-
ganized a music department with Bert Stevens as
manager, and will act as a branch of the Wiley
B. Allen Co., of Portland.
Portland, Ore.—Carl Jones has been appointed
manager of the piano department of the Hyatt Mu-
sic Co., which handles the Baldwin and Kohler &
Campbell pianos.
Portland, Ore.—Palmer Smith, who has had charge
of the small goods department of the Seiberling,
Lucas Music Co., has been made sales manager of
the store.
Portland, Ore.—W. W. LeVanway has been re-
appointed manager of the small goods department
of the McDougall-Conn Music Co. after four years'
absence.
Pennsylvania
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INDIANAPOLIS, IND.
New Castle, Pa.—A branch piano store has been
opened at 24 South Mill street by Bogrgs & Buhl, of
Pittsburgh.
New Castle, Pa.—Prof, and Mrs. A. M. Setter have
organized the New Castle Music Co. here, handling
a general stock.
Lebanon, Pa.—Howard L. James has moved his
music store from Malta Temple to 121 North Eighth
street.
Philadelphia, Pa.—The Story & Clark Piano Co.
has added two stores to its Philadelphia chain at
268 South Fifty-second street, and in Chester, Pa.,
A. F. Stauffer managing.
Altoona, Pa.—A second local store of the F. A.
North Co. has been opened on Chestnut avenue.
Utah
Salt I^ake City, Utah.—The Beesley Music Co. has
completed alterations since its recent fire, and busi-
ness has been resumed with a new stock of musical
instruments.
Ogden, Utah.—The Williams Music Co., of Wash-
ington avenue, has installed demonstration booths
for phonographs and radio.
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JULY 4, 1925
THE
MUSIC
TRADE
REVIEW
St. Louis Music Merchants Forecast
Good Demand During the Fall Months
Indications in Territory Served by Them Are That There Will Be a Spurt in Demand for All
Types of Musical Instruments During September and October of Coming Fall
CT. LOUIS, MO., June 29.—With July right
here piano merchants have quit analyzing
present conditions, or trying to analyze them,
and are frankly looking to the future for a
solvent of their sorrows. If June had been
good there would be reason to expect that the
goodness would carry over into July, but June
wasn't good, so there is nothing to expect on
that score. It comes down, then, to speculation
upon what the early Fall will bring forth. And
here's where the joy comes in. With general
conditions as they are the most observant of
the piano merchants look for such improvement
in September or at the latest in October as will
make ample amends for the lagging business of
the Spring months and the natural depression
of the Summer months.
Circuit Judge Miller, who has been cogitating
the question whether a pipe organ is personal
property or part of the real estate to which
it is attached, as raised in the case of Mrs.
Frances Dencir against S. H. Crowe, will hand
down his decision tomorrow. Mrs. Parsons
claims the organ, valued at $10,000, is hers be-
cause it was given to her by her father-lin-law,
the late C. B. Parsons. Crowe bought the
house in which it had been installed and claims
it is his by virtue of such purchase.
E. A. Kieselhorst is coming as near to a strut
as a modest man like him could be expected to.
Reason? He has gained nine pounds since his
encounter a month ago with the surgeons at the
Cleveland Clinical Hospital. At that he is only
138 now, which is skimpy for a six-footer, but
he expects to take on twenty-five or thirty
pounds more before he goes back early in
September for the second stage of the opera-
tion.
Wallace Kieselhorst, son of Mr. and Mrs. E.
A. Kieselhorst, arrived at home Tuesday mid-
night from Yale, where he graduated recently.
He and two companions made the trip in a
sport model Ford which they had bought for
$75. They left New Haven at 10 a. m. Sun-
day. After giving the old boat a rest, they
started Saturday for Las Vegas, N. M., from
where they will go to Santa Fe, where they
will spend the Summer.
Jack Burke of the Scruggs, Vandervoort &
Barney piano department, after attending the
Chicago convention, finished out his vacation
by spending a week in the East.
C. F. Woods, secretary of the B. F. Setter-
gren Co., Bluffton, Ind., was in St. Louis.
W. J. Eden of the Gulbransen Co., Chicago,
was here last week.
Eastern Division—Rochester, N. Y., June 29.
Springfield, Mass., July 13. Vacation, July 20
to August 1. Detroit Convention, August 3, 4,
5 and 6. Harrisburg, Pa., August 8. Newark,
How the Will A. Watkin Co. Established a N. J., August 24. New Haven, Conn., Septem-
"Home Entertainment Department" for Dis- ber 14. Portland, Maine, September 26. Provi-
dence, R. I., October 12. Albany, N. Y., Oc-
playing Samples of the Full Line
tober 26 and New York, November 9.
Western Division—Indianapolis, Ind., July 13.
DALLAS,. TEX., June 27.—Just because the aver-
age music dealer who uses a small auditorium Detroit, Mich., August 3. Columbus, Ohio,
for concert and recital purposes during the Fall August 24. Cincinnati, Ohio, September 7.
and Winter season discontinues those activities Rockford, 111., September 28. Toledo, Ohio,
in the Spring and Summer offers no good rea- October 12. Omaha, Neb., November 2. Des
son why the space given over to the recital hall Moines, Iowa, November 16. Rock Island, 111.,
should be left idle and non-productive for sev- November 30. Chicago, 111., December 14.
eral months during the year.
Louisville, Ky., January 4, 1926. Springfield,
This was the view held by the Will A. Wat- 111., January 18, and Grand Rapids, Mich., Feb-
kin Co., of this city, when they proceeded to ruary 1.
The school will not visit Davenport, Iowa,
turn the small auditorium in their store seat-
ing 100 people into the "Home Entertainment this year as originally planned. Rock Island,
Department" for want of a better name. It 111., will be substituted, and the Western Di-
was felt that the space offered an opportunity vision will make its visit there on November
for displaying to prospective customers samples 30.
of the full line of instruments without making
necessary the conducting of the customers all
around the large store.
In the Home Entertainment Department
there is displayed an interesting assortment of
instruments, including the Ampico Re-Enacting Volume of Much Historical Interest Just Issued
piano, the Brambach Baby Grand, the Gulbran-
by Well-Known Radio Manufacturers—Illus-
sen Registering piano, the Miessner Small Up-
trates Progress of Industry
right, the Brunswick Radiola, and other types
A. H. Grebe & Co., Inc., Richmond Hill, New
of instruments. The display serves to impress
the visitor with the full extent of the Watkin York, well-known manufacturers of radio appa-
line without in any way narrowing the range ratus, have just issued a combined catalog and
for selection, for the salesman is naturally will- historical booklet, which, in setting forth the
ing to conduct the customer to some other de- progress made by the Grebe concern since the
partment of the store for inspecting the full business was started in 1909, outlines in a large
line of any type of instrument that makes an measure the progress of the radio industry.
The volume has been produced in an elabo-
appeal.
rate manner, gives views of the Grebe plant,
reproduces some of its advertising and, what is
most interesting, devotes several pages to the
showing of radio receiving sets of various pe-
riods, demonstrating by means of pictures the
New Dates Upon Which Eastern and Western great advance that has been made in the pro-
Divisions of Danquard Player Action School duction of such apparatus.
Will Visit Various Important Centers
Utilizing the Recital
Hall During the Summer
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Historical Sketch of Radio
in New Grebe & Go. Booklet
Revised Schedule Issued
for the Danquard School
Bruck Piano Co. Chartered
Changes in the schedule of the Danquard
L J layer Action School have had to be made,
AKRON, O., June 29.—Henry T). Fuerst and
owing to unforeseen circumstances. The pres- Samuel Friedman are incorporators of the
ent schedule is as follows:
Bruck Piano Co., it is annnounced.
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Known Values
Proven Satisfaction
Your territory may be open
Manufactured by
The Operators Piano Co.
715 N. Kedzie Ave.
Chicago
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