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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
11
COINOLAS
Supremacy thru their
Performance
Tiny Coinola
Durability that has
defied the years
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.
Reproduco Player Organ
Known Values
Proven Satisfaction
Your territory may be open
Manufactured by
The Operators Piano Co.
715 N. Kedzie Ave.
Chicago
Illinois