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OCTOBER 23, 1926
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The Music Trade Review
story structure, which the Renier company pur-
Wholesale Volume of Radio Industry
chased recently. The main floor of the new
store will contain several soundproof booths to
used for demonstrating both music rolls and
Reached $170,390,572 in Year of 1925 be phonograph
records. The radio and small goods
Federal Manufacturers' Census Showed Total Increase of 215.5 Per Cent Over 1923—Tube Type
Receiving Sets Showed Total Sales of $88,800,538, 1045.4 Per Cent Increase
\I7ASHINGTON, D. C, October 18.—The
** tremendous progress of the radio industry
during the past few years is demonstrated by
figures just made public by the Census Bureau,
TOTAL VALUE
Loud speakers:
'Number
Value .7
Head sets:
Number
Value
Receiving sets:
Tube type—
Number
Value
Crystal type—
Number
Value
Transmitting sets:
Number
Value
Transformers:
Number
Value
Rheostats:
Number
Value
Lightning arresters:
Number
Value
Radio tubes:
Number
Value
-Miscellaneous parts, value
departments will also be accommodated on this
floor.
The second floor will be given over to the
$170,390,572 (manufacturers' prices), as com- display of pianos, featuring the Ampico. The
front windows on this floor will be arranged
pared with $54,000,470 in 1923.
The greatest advance has been made in the to show special piano models so that they will
production of tube-type receivers, the output of be visible from the street. The third floor will
be used for studios for the pupils of the Renier
Percent of
Music School, and will be equipped with a small
1925
1923
Increase or
Decrease (—
recital hall and stage. Reserve stocks of all
$170,390,572
$54,000,470
215.5
kinds of instruments will be kept on the top
2,606,866
623,146
318.3
floor. Another interesting feature of the Renier
$19,162,591
$5,608,330
241.7
Music House will be the utilization of the base-
1,397,443
1,781,793
—21.6
$2,264,527
$5,345,380
—57.6
ment for the repair department, which will re-
condition pianos, phonographs and radio.
2,180,622
190,374
1045.4
Alterations
on the building are expected to be
$8?, 800,538
$13,326,116
566.4
completed within a few weeks.
112,656
$344,079
223,303
$669,906
—49.6
—48.6
1,076
$1,355,430
1,082
$919,930
—0.6
47.3
3,413,993
$7,457,805
1,571,817
$3,929,581
117.2
£9.8
3.531,871
$2,084,188
1,085,171
$955,396
225.5
118.1
2,971,379
$506,034
1,758,723
$422,036
69.0
19.9
23,934,658
$20,437,283
4,687,400
$9,824,172
410.6
108.0
$27,978,097
$12,999,623
115.2
comparing production of radio apparatus in 1925 which was more than 1,000 per cent greater in
with that in 1923, which shows that, despite the 1925 than two years previous; an increase of
much lower prices which prevailed last year as a 400 per cent is shown in the production of tubes,
result of improvements in quantity production and of 300 per cent in the output of loud speak-
and the development of cheaper apparatus, the ers. The production of crystal sets has de-
value of the 1925 output was more than three creased 50 per cent.
times that of 1923.
Details of the 1925 production as compared
The total production in 1925 was valued at with that of 1923 are given in the table above.
How Smith Tuning Service
Operates Efficiently
Blind Tuner and Wife, of Boyne City, Mich.,
Handle Piano Tuning and Repair Business in
Eighteen Towns
BOYNE CITY, MICH., October 16.—Mr. and Mrs.
of the car are very attractive and are good busi-
ness getters. The lettering is done in gold leaf
and the whole outside surface is finished with
spar varnish which renders it waterproof.
The third member of the party is "Miss
Pepper" who always accompanies Mr. and Mrs.
Smith on their tour and is probably as well
known in the territory as they are, especially
to the children.
E. V. Smith of this city who comprise the Smith
Piano Service, are shown ready to leave on their
fall trip to tune and service pianos in about
eighteen towns in that vicinity ranging from
150 to 10,000 population.
This trip takes from two months to ten weeks Group of Retail Concerns Arranging Special
Radio Displays in Their Own Stores During
the Week
New Type of Radio Show
Held in Alliance, O.
ALLIANCE, O., October 18.—Something different
in the way of a radio show was staged here
this week when fifteen retail firms handling
radio, including four leading music houses, held
a radio show in their respective stores. Each
firm held its own individual show, with the
same hours prevailing each night. The show
was the first ever held here and was a big
success.
Mr. and Mrs. E. V. Smith
time in the fall and about four months in the
Practically every standard make of radio, as
spring and summer. Members of the National well as accessories, was exhibited and demon-
Association of Piano Tuners will recollect many strated. The music concerns taking part in-
interesting incidents connected with the work cluded the Shoch Studio, Vernon Piano Co., J.
of Mr. Smith, blind tuner, and how the wife of H. Johnson's Sons, and the McMahan Music
a tuner may assist her husband in making the Co., in the Alliance Arcade.
work successful by taking an active interest in
the profession, as outlined by Mrs. Smith at
the annual meeting last August in Chicago.
Mrs. Smith accompanies her husband on his
regular trips over this territory and does all
the driving, as well as handling numerous re- Extensive Alterations Will Make This One of
pair jobs. She frequently goes ahead and pre-
the Finest Music Houses in the State
pares the work in order to save time. The
DUBUQUE, IA., October 16.—One of the most
Smith service was highly praised at the annual
convention when Frank W. Hale, head of the elaborate music establishments in this part of
Tuner's Supply Co., Boston, Mass., presented a the State will be maintained by the Renier
tuner's case to the couple in recognition of Music House, when its new home at 531 Main
street is remodeled for its occupancy in the near
their work.
The detachable signs displayed on the doors future. The building at this address is a four-
Renier Music House
Remodeling Warerooms
Burglars Take Player-Piano
From Gable & Sons Factory
Particular and Musical Crooks Leave Office Safe
Untouched, but Drive Away With Selected
Instrument
A new type of burglar—one with musical
propensities and a good judge of pianos—was
at work with one or two accomplices in the
plant of Cable & Sons, 550 West Thirty-eighth
street, New York, during the night of Saturday,
October 9. The thieves evidently had but one
aim in view, to get possession of a Cable &
Sons Style L player-piano, several of which
were stored on the ground floor of the factory.
Louis Roemer, president of Cable & Sons, stated
that the men gained entrance to the factory by
means of a ladder suspended to one of the
rear windows on the second floor. They made
their way to the ground floor, leaving the office
and the safe untouched, and, after unbolting the
front door, loaded the piano on a motor truck
and departed.
Mr. Roemer stated that the popularity of the
Cable & Sons Style L player has been great
during the past season, but added that he had
no idea that its fame had penetrated to the
homes of second-story men. In spite of the
loss, which was regrettable, Mr. Roemer could
not conceal a slight note of pride in telling of
the incident. "These were no ordinary burg-
lars," he said.
Offers to Accept Cotton
in Payment for Pianos
Kaliski Music Co., Monroe, La., Makes Strong
Impression Upon Cotton Growers in Offer
to Accept That Commodity in Lieu of Cash
MONROE, LA., October 16.—The Kaliski Music"
Co., Ltd., this city, attracted considerable atten-
tion recently through advertising to accept cot-
ton on a basis of 15 cents per pound in payment
for any piano or player-piano. In view of the
decline of the cotton market and the general
situation among cotton growers, the offer of the
music company to accept a portion of the crop
in lieu of cash in payment for pianos made a
popular appeal and resulted in a considerable
volume of business. The action of the Kaliski
Co. was cited as an example to other business
men as indicating the confidence of merchants
in the Louisiana agricultural situation.
The Kaliski Music Co. handles the Hobart M.
Cable, Schiller, Schubert, Henry F. Miller and
other lines of pianos and players.
P. P. Kroeker Moves
P. P. Kroeker has moved his music store from
his location on Mill street, Dallas, Ore., to the
Dallas National Bank Building, where he has
larger display facilities.