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OCTOBER 16, 1926
The Music Trade Review
11
Wisconsin Dealers to Organize State
Ass'n and to Affiliate with National
a practicing attorney and was prominent in
many local clubs and civic institutions. He is
survived by his widow, three sons and a daugh-
ter. He was fifty-eight years of age.
Meeting Will Be Held in. Milwaukee on October 28 and October 29, with Edmund Gram General
Chairman in Charge of the Committees—Wide Interest Shown in Meeting
Rochester Radio Dealers
Form a New Association
\ y f l LWAUKEE, WIS., October 12.—Music
•'-'•'• dealers of Wisconsin will meet in Mil-
waukee October 28 to 29 to organize a music
trade association which will be affiliated with
the National Association of Music Merchants.
At a conference of Milwaukee dealers, Oc-
tober 1, leading music merchants pledged their
support to the organization and arranged a
program for the convention. C L. Dennis at-
tended the conference representing the national
association. Mr. Dennis will assist in organiz-
ing the body at the state meeting, and several
of the national officers are expected to attend.
Edmund Gram is general chairman of the
committees in charge of the convention. Chair-
men of committees are as follows: Eric S. Haf-
soos, constitution and by-laws; Paul F. Net-
zow, membership committee; I.. M. Kessel-
man, ways and means; Leslie C. Parker, pro-
gram committee; Henry M. Sleussy, arrange-
ment and reception; Joseph Rousselot, hotel;
Hugh W. Randall, golf and entertainment;
H. Holmes, music instrument revue; Fred E.
Yahr, exhibits; W. Otto Meissnei, piano playing
contest and class demonstration; and H. C.
Keinwald, publicity. Awaiting the conclusion of
organization work H. L. Ashworth, 228 Third
street, is temporary secretary.
All music dealers in the state will be invited
to the organization meeting of the association.
Committees are working on plans for the meet-
ing and state that they are nearing completion
of their work. In addition to the program for
organization they plan to stage a music exhibit
similar to the one put on at the Ohio. state
convention. According to present plans, regis-
tration of delegates will take place Thursday
morning, October 28. The afternoon will be
given over to the inspection of exhibits, and
the evening to the musical revue. Organiza-
tion will probably be completed on Friday, the
business program closing with dinner and in-
stallation of officers.
Milwaukee dealers are showing great interest
and co-operation in the work of forming the
new association, and plan on some very good
projects to promote trade. The success of the
radio exposition fostered by the Wisconsin
Radio Trades Association may be helping to
stimulate enthusiasm. Dealers state that they
found business greatly increased during the five
days of the Radio Show, and this is continuing
to affect business volume. Music merchants
state that they intend to co-operate in every
way in forming the Wisconsin association, and
in making the organization a great success.
Milwaukee music merchants are unanimous in
declaring this an exceptionally good season in
music trade. All lines of the trade are showing
good activity, and they find it difficult to select
any one line which is moving very much better
than another.
According to Eric S. Hafsoos of the Flanner-
Hafsoos Music House, Inc., which features the
Kurtzmann, Brinkerhoff, and Behr pianos,
grands are continuing to be especially good.
Several sales of Kurtzmann grands have figured
in this week's business.
Flanner-Hafsoos have recently furnished Billy
Adair and his Nighthawk Frolics with a com-
plete line of C. G. Conn band instruments.
Billy Adair and his orchestra have recently
taken on a two year engagement to play at the
Milwaukee Athletic Club, Milwaukee's exclu-
sive social club. For the past four years this
orchestra has been featured at the Hotel Presi-
dent, in Kansas City, where they broadcast
over WDAF, and were well known as the
Kansas City Nighthawks. They endorse C. G.
Conn band instruments exclusively.
W. F. Riordon with the Mason & Hamlin
studio, which features the Mason & Hamlin with
the Ampico, states that pianos are very active
in all types, but player pianos are most popular.
Payments and accounts are in a very good con-
dition. The Mason & Hamlin studio will start
a heavy newspaper campaign this week.
Elmer G. Netzow of the Milwaukee Piano
Manufacturing Co., retailers of the Waltham
line, states that the Fall Music Festival which
this company has been staging during the past
weeks has been very successful. Piano sales
were very satisfactory and a large number of
people took advantage of the offer of a course
of lessons under Dean Liborius Semmann of
Marquctte University Conservatory of Music.
The Kesselman-O'Driscoll Co is taking en-
tire Walker Hall at the city auditorium for its
exhibit at the Food Show.
"We are going to try and put the idea across
with the public that music is the very funda-
mental way in which their children can be
shown the finer elements of life," said Henry
M. Steussy. "Our display will be a complete
exhibit of all the lines we carry, and we are
going to display them from an educational
standpoint. We will show a complete line of
all the instruments we feature"
A. S. Arnstam, of the Walker Musical Ex-
change, states that their interest at present is
centered in the Food Show. All the musical
talent in the acts at the show will be furnished
by the Exchange. A German band will be a
feature. One of the drawing cards is a saxo-
phone quartet using Elkhart instruments, and
a saxophone soloist, Adolph Suppan, instructor
in the Walker store, who broadcasts over
WSOE. Gibson banjos will be featured as well
as the Leedy drums. Some very fine Elkhart
saxophones are ready for exhibition, and the
display planned for Selmer woodwinds will un-
doubtedly prove very attractive.
Dealers throughout the city are interested in
the exposition and are making elaborate plans
for its success.
Music Dealers and Others Handling Radio
Form New Trade Body to Hold Shows and
Engage in Other Activities
ROCHESTER, N. Y., October 11.—Music and auto-
motive parts dealers here have settled their
differences as to who should handle radio trade
by banding together in the Rochester Radio
Trades Association, Inc., which is incorporated
for $10,000 and embraces practically the entire
radio trade here. While the principal purpose
of the corporation is to hold radio shows, the
second of which opened to-day at Convention
Hall, it also is empowered to manufacture and
distribute radio sets and parts.
Headlining the Radio Show attractions is the
Australian National Band of thirty pieces, on
a round-the-world trip, showing in Rochester
as its premiere in the United States. The mu-
sicians possess 240 medals for championship
playing and are considered the best-dressed
band in the world.
Schools Buy Gulbransens
DALLAS, TEXAS, October 7.—The Dallas public
schools have just purchased six Minuet model
Gulbransen small pianos from the Will A. Wat-
kin Co. The tone of the Minuet model has at-
tracted exceptional interest on the part of school
music supervisors and music teachers.
The Rosquist-Hawk Piano Co., Everett,
Wash., has been incorporated with a capital
stock of $25,000 and has simultaneously filed an
amendment to change its name to the Rosquist
Piano Co.
Tschaikowsky's "1812"
Recorded by Columbia
Impressive Musical Story of Napoleon's Rus-
sian Campaign Recorded on Three Columbia
New Process Records by Sir Henry J. Wood
A particularly interesting recent record re-
lease of the Columbia Phonograph Co. was that
of Tschaikowsky's noted composition, "1812"
Overture Solennelle, commemorative of Napole-
on's Russian campaign and retreat from Moscow.
The composition is recorded in five parts on
three Columbia new process records by Sir
Henry J. Wood and marks the first time that
this remarkable music work has ever been re-
corded in its entirety. The recording presents a
thrilling sound picture, and the terrific finale is
particularly impressive and interesting. The
recording has been highly praised by competent
music critics who have listened to it.
R. T. Gassell Dead
DENVER, COLO., October 8.—Robert T. Cassell,
owner of the Cassell Music Co., this city, died
recently at his home at 1522 Lafayette street as
a result of a sudden heart attack. Mr. Cassell
played a round of golf on the day of his attack
and accompanied his family to a motion picture
theatre in the evening, apparently in the best
of health. When stricken, late in the evening,
he was seated in a chair in the living room,
smoking a cigar. Mr. Cassell was at one time
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