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The Music Trade Review
OCTOBER 20, 1928
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Starr Piano Sales Corp., Cincinnati,
Adds Radio Department to Its Store
Biddle Bros. Music Store Moves Brunswick Department to Store in Reading—Dan
F. Summey Returns Frorr: Trip Through the State
/CINCINNATI, O., October 15.—The Starr
^ Piano Sales Corp. has added a radio depart-
ment in its Fourth street store, carrying the
Graybar and the Atwater Kent lines, to which
others may be added later on. This department
occupies space formerly used by the Biddle
Shop, which carried Brunswick talking ma-
chines, RCA Radiola and a line of small goods,
all of which has been moved to the Biddle
Bros. Music Store, which is in Reading, a
suburb. During the past week the Starr has
had an attractive exhibit in Music Hall, showing
pianos, talking machines and radio, on the
occasion of the Golden Jubilee Exposition. G.
E. Hunt, retail manager who was in charge of
the exhibit, reports that it was a gratifying
success, resulting in many spot sales and the
development of a large number of most excel-
lent prospects for the different lines.
Due to an extensively advertised sale of re-
possessed talking machines, radios and com-
binations, the store of the Otto Grau Piano Co.
has been a very busy place the past week. All
of the articles were offered at very attractive
prices, and many of the purchasers were out-of-
town people, who came to visit the Golden
Jubilee Exposition in Music Hall. A feature
of the sale, it was stated, was the fact that
many who came to buy a repossessed article
finally decided to spend more money and buy
new.
Dan F. Summey, who now is offering the
Cable line and the Hardman pianos at wholesale
as well as at retail, has just returned froin a
visit to the trade in central Ohio.
Walter Canfield, head of the Canfield Piano
Co., has just taken a vacation. This would not
be a remarkable thing with most men, but it
is with Mr. Canfield, for he never has taken a
vacation before, and this is the first time he has
gone on a pleasure trip since 1912, in which
year he founded the business that bears his
name. His tour included New Orleans, Cuba
and New York, and after spending a few days
in the latter city he will return home. In the
meantime the business will be in charge of his
son, Walter Canfield, Jr., who has been trained
by his father.
Artist Gives Impressions
of Baldwin Piano Plant
nacle Choir in the Tabernacle on October 5.
Reviews of his appearance in the Desert
News of October 6 and in the Salt Lake City
Telegram of October 7 highly praised the ren-
ditions of this well-known Kimball artist. Mr.
Liebling is to play in Butte, Montana, on Oc-
tober 18 in a hall seating about 800, with the
San Francisco Orchestra on November 8 in the
Dorsey Whittington, Well-Known Pianist, En-
thuses Over Efficient and Careful Manner in
Which Baldwin Instruments Are Produced
An unusual tribute to the official and careful
manner with which Baldwin pianos are manu-
factured was received by the Baldwin Piano
Co. recently from Dorsey Whittington, who,
after a tour of the Baldwin plant in Cincinnati,
indited the following appreciative letter:
"After my recent visit to your factory in
Cincinnati, I deem it my pleasant duty to tell
you of my impressions and reactions.
"A twentieth century miracle! In a factory
with the most modern equipment and of the
highest efficiency, I found artisans unhurriedly
working with the rare craftsmanship and ideal-
istic traditions of the guilds of old. The same
painstaking pride was in evidence in the work
of all—from the making of the smallest part
of the action to the final voicing and tuning of
the finished instrument. Every man was doing
what to him was the most important work, with
a loving care that seems incredible in this day
of quantity production and speed. It is due
to this enthusiasm and tradition (long may it
live!) that the Baldwin pianoforte remains a
work of art and not a product of commercial-
ism.
"Evidently the House of Baldwin is not con-
tent to fest upon its present great achievements
and on the glories of the past. In the undis-
turbed quietude of the laboratories, I found
scientists experimenting with woods, varnishes,
felts and glues, always seeking perfection. In
other rooms, materials were being subjected to
such rigorous tests that it would be impossible
for anything of inferior quality to go into an
Instrument bearing the name of Baldwin.
"No, gentlemen, my impression was not of a
factory, but of. many ateliers in an harmonious
ensemble, realizing the dreams and aspirations
of the founders of the world-renowned House
of Baldwin."
George Liebling Scores
Successes in the West
SALT LAKE
CITY,
UTAH,
October
10.—George
Liebling proved a great attraction in his ap-
pearance in this city as soloist with the Taber-
Civic Auditorium before an audience of about
10,000 to 12,000, and with the Los Angeles Phil-
harmonic Orchestra in a pair of concerts on
December 6 and 7 in the regular series. These
announcements are a portion of the Pacific
Coast tour, which will end in January, 1929.
Modernistic Pianos Have
Strong Appeal in Cleveland
Display of Hardman Instruments by Ott Piano
Co. Results in Two-Column Special Article in
the Cleveland Plain Dealer
That pianos possessed of unusual fea-
tures represent an element of news recognized
by daily newspaper editors was strongly ex-
emplified recently in Cleveland during the dis-
play of the Hardman modernistic pianos in that
city under the auspices of the-Ott Piano Co., the
local Hardman representative.
While the modernistic pianos were on display
the Cleveland Plain Dealer sent a special writer
to view them, and the result was a two-column
illustrated story in the Woman's and Dramatic
Department of that prominent paper. The va-
rious instruments were described in great de-
tail combined with comments as to their de-
sirability in the home.
To Finance Sonora Sales
The Bankers Commercial Security Co., Inc.,
has made an exclusive agreement with the
Acoustic Products Corp., owner of the Sonora
Phonograph Co., Inc., whereby the former com-
pany will finance Sonora instalment sales.
Consult the Universal Want Directory of
The Review.
Let's All Stay Home
By Douglas Malloch
1 Ull you, Dad, what all lct'» dot—
Let's all >Uy borne a night or two.
I know you're a> buiy as can be,
But Ull that man you have to see
Jo come tomorrow. Maybe, Dad, -
He may not get the least bit mad;
Became you cannot tell—he might
Want to stay home himself tonifht.
I tell you, Sister, what's let'i do:
Left both itay home, both me and you.
When be calls up, you tell that sheik
To come around some night next week.
You. play the piano and 1 will •ing,
Melodies that happiness will bring.
And Dad his favorite pipe will light,
And, say, but well k a n fun to-night!
I tell you, Mother, what well do:
Well all stay home to-night with youU-
Brother and Sister, me and Dad,
And, my, I be* that you'll be glad!
For, after all, what do we care
About these strangers everywhere?
Won't things look good, won't home-
look bright,
With our cwn gang all home to-night?
BRAMBACH
BABY GRAND
$
625
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T h e importance
of the piano in the
home circle was
stressed most ef-
fectively recently
in advertising by
the O. K. Houck
P i a n o Co., of
Memphis, Tenn.,
in a large four-
column advertise-
m e n t featuring
the B r a m b a c h
baby grand and
carrying as its
c a p t i o n : "Let's
All Stay Home,"
with the illustra-
tion showing a
family group
about the instru-
ment