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JANUARY 28, 1928
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The Music Trade Review
Federated Radio Trades
Annual Meet in Milwaukee
muMcal instruments and materials read thus:
number of establishments 4; value of stock and
materials $157,704; amount of wages paid during
the year $266,590; average number of wage earn-
ers employed 222; and value of products
$630,782. The figures above quoted are consid-
erably below what they were for a period of
>ome years back.
Retail Section of the Radio Industry to Meet in That City Upon
Baldwin Grand Being
February 14 and February 15 — Elaborate Program
Used in Boston Concerts
Covering All Sides of the Radio to Be Heard
BOSTON, MASS., January 21.—The Baldwin piano
was used recently by Frederick Tillotson, the
pianist, at a musical concert given at Newton
Highlands. Also at the Hotel Statler Mrs. Carl
Watson and Mrs. Gulesian had a Baldwin grand
for a concert they gave and on the 24th one was
used by the Prelude Club at the Copley-Plaza,
while Hazel Hallett also had one at a concert
she gave in Brookline on the 25th.
VjlLWAUKEE, W1S., January 22. —Directors of the Federated Radio Trades Association will
meet on the evening of February 13 at eight o'clock for a preliminary discussion of plans
for the third annual convention of the Federated Radio Trades Association, which will be held in
Milwaukee, February 14 and 15.
Michael Ert, president of the Wisconsin Radio Trades Association, will give the address of wel-
come after the meeting is called to order and at 10:45 Harold J. Wraps, of St. Louis, Mo., presi-
dent of the Federated Radio Trades Associa-
tion, will make his address. "The Outlook for comprises fourteen cities and twenty-six towns
Radio Broadcasting" will be discussed at 11:15 within a radius of fifteen miles of the State
New Weaver Co. Branch
by Paul B. Klugh, president of the National house, there were located at the end of that
year (1926) 4,577 manufacturing establishments
Broadcasters' Association.
ALTOONA, PA., January 21.—The Weaver Piano
At the luncheon at noon, Harry J. Bell, execu- representing a capital investment of $851,797,-
Co.,
of York, Pa., has opened a retail store at
589,
while
the
total
value
of
all
products
manu-
tive secretary of the Milwaukee Association of
1620
Eleventh avenue, here, with J. L. Dixon in
factured
in
these
establishments
was
$1,272,-
Commerce, will give another address of wel-
charge
as manager. A complete assortment of
959,199.
come to the delegates.
Weaver pianos, grands, players and uprights, have
Under
the
head
of
musical
instruments,
pianos
C. C. Colby, president of the Radio Manufac-
been placed on display. As an added feature for
turers' Association, will open the afternoon ses- and organs and materials, the number of estab- the opening an Orthophonic Victrola was given
lishments
was
placed
at
17;
value
of
stock
and
sion promptly at 1:40 with a talk on "Stan-
away.
dardization and Stabilization," and Louis G. materials used, $3,910,710; amount of wages paid
Raycraft, chairman of the radio section of the during the year, $3,329,643; average number of
National Electrical Manufacturers' Association, wage earners employed, 2,118; and the value of
Enters Field in Chicago
will give the second address of the afternoon products, $10,972,177.
More specifically for the city of Boston sta-
The Kapp Music Co., Inc., 2308 West Madi-
entitled, "Recommendations to Jobbers and
t : stics are as follows, these for the same year, son street, Chicago, has been incorporated with
Dealers."
At 2:30 o'clock Martin F. Flannigan, execu- 1926: manufacturing establishments in operation a capital stock of $30,000 to engage locally in
tive secretary of the Radio Manufacturers' Asso- 2,567, representing a capital investment of the manufacture and sale of all kinds of musi-
ciation, will speak on the "Annual Trade Show" $361,172,107, with the total value of all products cal instruments. The incorporators are Jacob
question and at three o'clock the Hon. Sam manufactured $590,207,708. Figures touching Kapp. Frieda, Ruth and David Kapp.
Pickard will address the convention on the work
of the Federal Radio Commission. H. C. Wall
of the Indiana Radio Trades Association will
follow with a report of the membership com-
mittee, and then there will be a presentation of
accredited delegates and a discussion until ad-
journment at five-thirty o'clock.
Facts Presented Which Effectually Eliminate Claim That No Members of the Stein-
In the evening the radio men will attend a
way Family Are Connected With the Company at Present Time
theatre party at the Palace Orpheum theatre,
following which there will be an informal dance.
Various committee meetings will also be held • ttrlCTION and Fact," is the title of a new production of the Steinway piano than ever be-
" book that has just been issued by Stein- fore, they being, Theodore E. Steinway, presi-
in the evening, including the trade relations
committee, finance committee, membership com- way & Sons to set at rest various statements dent; Henry Ziegler, grandson of Henry Engel-
mittee, and committee on revision of articles made and rumors circulated among the trade hard Steinway, founder; and vice-president and
and public relative to the company and its director Wm. R. Steinway, general manager of
of incorporation and by-laws.
The sessions on Wednesday morning will be- products. It is felt that the situation has de- the European business; Theodore Cassebeer,
gin at nine o'clock with a breakfast meeting of veloped to a point where definite action was great-grandson of the founder, and general fac-
the board of directors. The various committees, necessary to present the Steinway business and tory manager; Paul H. Schmidt, great-grandson
with the exception of the resolutions committee, the Steinway products as they exist. The object of Henry Engelhardt Steinway and assistant to
will read their reports. The resolutions com- of the booklet is set forth in the introductory the president; Frederick A. Vietor, also great-
paragraphs, the first of which read:
grandson of the founder and assistant factory
mittee will have a special luncheon meeting.
"Traditions have so accumulated about the manager, and Chas. F. M. Steinway, secretary
In the afternoon the trade relations com-
mittee will read its reports, after which a dis- name and fame of Steinway that some of them of the corporation. Messrs. Ziegler, Cassebeer
cussion of its work and plans for the coming have run off into confusing rumor, phrase and and Schmidt are directors in the company. The
year will be taken up. A report of the resolu- fable, while others have been carried by over- listing of these names of the descendants of the
tions committee will then be made and any un- zealous salesmen to the point of dangerous mis- founder of the business at present engaged in
the production of Steinway instruments should
finished business, including the election of di- representation.
"The object of this booklet is to correct the effectively quash any rumors to the contrary.
rectors and officers, will complete the business
program of the convention. The annual dinner fiction that troubles some of the prospective
Other pages of the booklet are given over to
and stag party will be held at six-thirty o'clock. buyers of Steinway pianos.
answering questions regarding the quality of the
"The fact is that for more than seventy years present Steinway instruments, the productions
the Steinway piano has been recognized by of the company in the small grand field, the
Figures on Boston From
musical people everywhere as the dominant in- method of distribution through leading dealers,
in its brarich of the fine arts."
the logic of buying a good piano for child study,
Census of Manufactures fluence
The opening pages give consideration to the the equitable pricing of Steinway products, and
Seventeen Musical Instrument Establishments statements that "no member of the Steinway the fact that they can be bought on terms, and
in Metropolitan Area, but Only Four Listed family is engaged in the production of the other matters that have come up as a result of
Steinway piano; that the business has passed competitive argument. In all some sixteen
as Within City Proper
into the hands of others; that Steinway is but points are handled comprehensively and effec-
BOSTON, MASS, January 21.—Statistics compiled a name." Then emphasis is laid upon the fact tively, in the booklet which should prove of in-
by the department of labor and industries as that there are at present more members of the terest value not only to Steinway dealers but
representing the census of manufactures for the Steinway family actively engaged in the actual to the buying public.
year 1926 both in Metropolitan Boston as well
as the city of Boston proper have just been
issued and are of special interest to the trade.
Under the head of Metropolitan Boston, which
"Fiction and Fact" Issued by Steinway
to Set at Rest Rumors Regarding House
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