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Receivers in Equity Appointed
for Jacob Doll & Sons' Business
T^HE Irving Trust Co., New York, and Harry
•*• Meixell, secretary of the Musical Supply
Association and chairman of the Creditors'
Committee, were appointed equity receivers for
Jacob Doll & Sons, the piano manufacturers
of 100 Southern Boulevard, New York. The
petition for the receiver was presented before
Federal Judge Coxe by David W. Kahn, attor-
ney for Wistar, Underhill & Co., Philadelphia,
and was concurred in by the defendant company
for the purpose of protecting the interest of
the concern and of its creditors
The petition stated that the piano company is
entirely solvent, having assets of $1,193,000 and
pressing liabilities of only $300,000, due to mer-
chandise creditors, but is temporarily short of
cash and credit, owing to the slowing up of
collections on instalment paper as a result of
general business conditions. The assets include
the company's factory listed at $738,000, against
which is a first mortgage of $180,000 and a
second mortgage of $40,000. Raw materials and
finished pianos are listed at $275,000 and ac-
counts receivable at $400,000.
The Doll business has been in the hands of
the Creditors' Committee for some time past
and under a credit extension agreement made
September 18, 1929, has been liquidating credi-
tors' claims. However, the situation reached a
point where the company failed to meet its
credit extension note maturing September 15,
1930, and it was decided that an equity receiver-
ship was the easiest way out. It is hoped that
through this action steps may be taken to
reorganize the company's business.
In a letter to the creditors Mr. Meixell stated
that:
"Meantime, pursuant to the terms of the
credit extension agreement, steps have been
taken to place the Premier Grand Piano Com-
pany, whose assets are pledged as security for
the credit extension notes of Jacob Doll & Sons,
Inc., under the control and direction of the
Creditors' Committee.
"The committee will immediately conduct an
audit of the books of the Premier Grand Piano
Company, make an inventory of its machinery
and equipment, materials and supplies, etc., and
proceed to the economical liquidation of as-
sets, first for the benefit of the creditors of
Premier Grand Piano Company and, second,
for the application of any equities that may be
left to the further liquidation of the Jacob Doll
& Sons, Inc., notes still unpaid."
Cable Company Again to Represent
Mason & Hamlin Piano in Chicago
A N announcement of great importance and
•**• interest during the past month was to the
effect that the Cable Company of Chicago has
taken on the Mason & Hamlin line of pianos
for that city and most of its branches and plans
to present that instrument as its leader in an
energetic sales campaign both through news-
papers and through direct contact with artists
and teachers.
Up to two years ago, when Ampico Hall in
Chicago was opened, the Cable Company had
handled the Mason & Hamlin line most success-
fully for some twenty-five years, and had built
^ip a strong following for that instrument among
the discriminating in Chicago and vicinity.
With this background it is felt that the com-
pany will again be able to give the Mason &
Hamlin unusually fine representation in the ter-
ritory which it serves.
It is significant that this year the Mason &
Hamlin piano is celebrating the seventy-fifth or
diamond anniversary of its establishment, while,
at the same time, the Cable Company is cele-
brating its fiftieth business anniversary. It is
stated that this combination of significant anni-
versaries, representing long establishment and
successful progress, will be brought to public
attention in a forceful manner.
Co. about thirty years ago, and built up
a substantial and far-reaching business. He
was an accomplished musician and was the or-
ganizing director of numerous bands in and
about Indianapolis. He is survived by his
widow, Mrs. Ida L. Carlin, and a brother, Frank
J. Carlin, with whom he was in business.
American Piano Corp.
Announces New Dealers
The American Piano Corp. has announced the
following recent additions to the list of dealers
handling the several lines of pianos manufac-
tured by the corporation. For the Chickering
piano the Anderson-Soward Co., Dayton, O.,
the Isaac Bledsoe Music Co., Austin, Tex., and
the Pearson Piano Co., Indianapolis, Ind. For
the Knabe piano, the Columbia Music Co.,
Columbia, S. C, and the W. F. Frederick Piano
Co., Pittsburgh, Pa.
In every case the retail houses are among
the leaders in their respective territories and
possess the business backgrounds to enable
them to give proper representation to the in-
strument. The increasing number of dealers
who are arranging for Chickering and Knabe
agencies and expressing enthusiasm over these
connections, once established, has proven very
gratifying to the officials of the American Piano
Corp., who state that other new agencies will
be announced at an early date.
Charles Onderdonk
Joins Lyon & Healy Staff
Charles Onderdonk, for some time past in
charge of the Eastern division of the Baldwin
Piano Co. with headquarters in New York, re-
signed recently to go to Chicago to become
manager of the Duo-Art division of Lyon &
Healy, Inc., making his headquarters at the
company's main store at Jackson and Wabash
avenues.
Following Mr. Onderdonk's resignation the
general activities at the Baldwin New York
headquarters have been taken over by Richmond
Harris, who also looks after the promotional
work among Baldwin artists.
J. M. Grolimund Joins
Luncheon of New York
J. B. Bradford Co. Gets
H. & A. Selmer Organization
Piano Associations
Mason & Hamlin Agency
J. B. Bradford Piano
Co., 411 Broadway, has announced its appoint-
ment as exclusive representative here for the
Mason & Hamlin piano, and is displaying its
stock of these pianos in conventional and
period cases against the beautiful background
of its showroom.
Bradford's makes use of continuous promo-
tion effort with the result that new homes
being built in the city are often furnished by
it with grand pianos, some with specially built
cases to harmonize with home surroundings.
The store also features the Steinway Duo-
Art, the Weber, Steck, Stroud and Wheelock
pianos and the Aeolian pipe organ. C. E.
Oerding is vice-president of the company in
charge of sales of the piano department.
MILWAUKEE, WXS.—The
A joint luncheon of the New York Piano
Manufacturers Association and New York
Piano Merchants Association will be held at the
National Republican Club on Thursday, October
2, at 12.30 p.m. The principal speaker will be
Richard W. Lawrence, who will tell of his re-
cent trip to the land of the midnight sun,
Russia and other European countries.
Death of f m . M. Carlin
William M. Carlin, one of the owners of the
Carlin Music Co., 143 East Washington street,
Indianapolis, and for over a half-century an
active factor in music trade and professional
activities in that section, died on September IS,
after a lengthy illness, the funeral being held
The Levis Music Store, Rochester, N. Y., re- on September 18.
cently had an attractive exhibit at the Roches-
Mr. Carlin, who was seventy-four years old,
ter Exposition, featuring the Steinway piano.
with his brother organized the Carlin Music
President George M. Bundy of H. & A.
Selmer announces the appointment of J. M.
Grolimund as Advertising and Sales Promotion
Manager of the company. Mr. Grolimund is
well known and popular throughout the indus-
try and has done much creditable work in the
line of sales promotion for musical instruments.
His technical knowledge not only of musical
instrument manufacture, plus his personal ac-
quaintance among musicians, dealers and dis-
tributors, added to his business abilities, suggest
that his accession to the H. & A. Selmer or-
ganization will be highly useful to those widely
known makers of flutes, clarinets, and other
musical instruments.
Secretary F. P. Whitmore of the W. W. Kim-
ball Co. is back from a European trip, accom-
panied by Mrs. Whitmore, which accomplished
the double purpose of an attractive vacation
and of meeting their son, Philip Whitmore, an
electrical engineer, residing in Spain.