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tz ANTHONY DOLL
OBITUARIES
, Arthur Hahn r Krakauer
President, Passes Away
Arthur Hahn, President of Krakauer
Bros., New York, passed away on July
27th from a heart condition which he
had had for several years.
Mr. Hahn, who would have been 58
Anthony Doll, who for many years
was president of the Wasle & Co., manu-
facturers of piano actions, until he re-
tired several years ago from the piano
business, passed away in the New Ro-
chelle Hospital, New Rochelle, N. Y., on
July 19th, at the age of 71. He had been
in the real estate business for many
years.
He is survived by two daughters, Miss
Doris Ruth Doll and Mrs. H. Maynard
Everett, Jr.
Services were held at the George P.
Davis Memorial Funeral Parlors in New
Rochelle on Saturday, July 21st.
Lamb Address
(Continued from rage IT)
ARTHUR HAHN
years old in September, entered the em-
ploy of Krakauer Bros, when he was
15 years old, and had been actively con-
nected with the company ever since,
succeeding A. L. Bretzfelder as Presi-
dent, who passed away several years
ago.
Mr. Hahn is survived by a widow,
Mrs. Florence Hahn, two daughters, Syl-
via Hershfield and Jean, and a son,
Norden. He is also survived by his sister,
Mrs. Jennie Davison, and a brother,
Morris.
of recreation will remain high in Fall
1951!
Those who throw up their hands in
despair—who weep and wail about the
opportunities there have been or might
have been instead of working on the op-
portunities there are—won't get their
share of the business that is there to be
had.
If you put all the selling power you
can muster behind the goods that will
be available, your sales in Fall 1951 may
not be at the all-time high but they will
be good—darned good!
The Fall 1951 season will be some-
thing of a paradox. We will have in-
flation but we will also have plenty of
almost all civilian goods. Competition
for business will be strong. It will be a
time for aggressive merchandising and
aggressive selling. It will not be a time
for taking it easy.
Defense boom or no defense boom—
HENRY WICKHAM.
Founder
there will be enough goods competing
for the consumer's dollar so that you—
retailers, wholesalers and manufacturers
of musical instruments—cannot let up
in your efforts to put every bit of energy
you can muster into better selling.
Inflation or no inflation—Fall 1951
will be a time for manufacturers and
distributors to give retailers every pro-
motional aid they ever have before—
and more. Business will be good but it
will take real selling to get your share
of the volume that will be there to be
goiten.
Record-high incomes or not—-it will
be a time for retailers to buy as care-
fully and with as much attention to their
customers' desires as ever. It will be a
time to promote with more punch and
more accuracy than ever to get the share
of business you can get.
The minute any business or industry
stops improving its relative position, it
begins to lose position. That's a law as
undebatable as the law of supply and
demand.
Nobody in business has to give his
best to make a living—even a good liv-
ing. But to improve position in relation
to competition takes not only great abil-
ity but doing the best with that ability.
When you get right down to cases, rela-
tive position of a particular business in
a market or of an industry in the econ-
omy, as a whole, is the chief factor de-
termining the security or prosperity of
that business or industry under any
conditions.
Fall 1951 will be a time for hitting
hard—for promoting hard and selling
hard. Good business will be there to be
had—and you will have it if you work
hard and right to get it.
Thank you.
'
ESTABLISHED J885
INCORPORATED 1903
Funeral services were held at the
Riverside Chapel, 76th Street and Am-
sterdam Ave., New York, at 1:15 p.m.,
Sunday, July 29th, and were attended
by a large number of personal friends
as well as members of the piano indus-
try. Cremation was at Ferncliff.
FOR
SALE
8 Audiscopc Silent Practice
Piano Keyboards — 5 Octaves
In
C E L E B R A T E D WICKHAM P L A T E S .
Use Very Short Time
PRICE — $137.50
Brua C. Keefer Co., Williamsport, Pa.
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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW, AUGUST, 1951