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PRESTO
SCHMOLLER & MUELLER TO
BUILD ON OLD LOCATION
Big Omaha Music Company Has Formed Plans to
Make New Store the Last Word in Modernity.
Both the retail and wholesale business of the
Schmoller & Mueller Piano Co., Omaha. Neb., is
being handled from the warehouse of the company.
When the lire destroyed the company's store and
its contents recently the Schmoller & Mueller Piano
Co. was fortunate in possessing a pretty fair reserve
supply of all kinds of instruments in the lines car-
ried. A more suitable location for the retail busi-
ness of the company will be found—possibly this
week.
It will be six months or more before the Schmol-
ler & Mueller Piano Co. can occupy the new build-
ing to be erected on the old site. That the com-
pany will again locate at the old numbers is a fact
already decided. That the new store of the Schmol-
ler & Mueller Piano Co., will embody all the modern-
ities in retail music goods yelling, is another ac-
cepted fact.
TRADE HAPPENINGS
ARE TOLD IN BRIEF
Views and Beliefs of Live Piano Merchants Are
Presented.
T. F. Hinnegan, piano dealer of Wallaceburg,
Ont., has sold his business to W. J. McVairnie,
Frank Glassford and William Kerr.
"The Home of Quality" is the phrase which fol-
lows the firm name of the H. P. Maus Piano House,
Lima, O.
Special playerpiano demonstrations made the piano
department of the Sutton Music Store, Xenia, O., a
well-frequented place last week.
"Music increases the real joy of living," says the
Wilbur Templm Music House, Elkhart, Ind., in ad-
April 3, 1920.
vertising the Packard and Vose piano and players,
this week.
"Terms to Suit You"' is the inviting phrase used
by Armstrong's, Oklahoma City, Okla.
"Tiffin's Musical Center" is the distinguishing
sub-title adopted by the C. J. Schmidt Piano Co..
Tiffin, O.
Its willingness to demonstrate any of its player-
pianos is announced in the newspapers by the Krug
Company, Yonkers, N. Y. A fine line of instru-
ments is the attraction to prospects in the ware-
rooms at 15 Warburton Ave.
About fifty pianos were destroyed last week in a
fire in J. F. Peterson's Piano Repair Shop, 4244 Mil-
waukee avenue, Chicago.
The Optimists" Club of St. Joseph, .Mo., has
elected as its president A. A. Conner, general
manager at the Olney Music Company.
CHANGES FIRM NAME.
The title of the Wentworth Music Co., Coffey-
ville, Kans., has been changed to the Weigel Music
Co. and W. E. Weigel, the proprietor last week
printed an explanatory announcement in the Coffey-
ville newspapers. When he purchased the business
of the Wentworth Music Co. in 1915, he considered
it advisable to retain the old name until he had be-
come acquainted with the clientele of the house.
Now Mr. Weigel says he is satisfied the older
friends of the store are retained and many new
ones added. The public is acquainted with himself
and familiar with the square policies of his business,
so the time has come to call the firm the Weigel
Music Company.
TAX ON INDIANA TRANSIENTS.
Indianapolis has placed a higher tax rate on the
piano sales opportunities. Some dealers say the ante of
$150 a day demanded by the bigger city from the
transient piano salesman before allowed to operate,
is designed to discourage the free lance. They also
say the piker figure of $20 - , > day named by Terre
Haute is because the latter city needs the money.
TONK
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CLAIMS OLD PIANO IS MATE
OF HISTORIC ASTOR ONE
Baker's Music Store, Albany. Recovers Interesting
Exhibit from Cellar Junk Pile.
A piano recently on exhibition in the r.how win-
dow of Baker's Music Store, Albany, N. Y., is said
by Charles F. Baker, the proprietor, to be the mate
to an old instrument imported from England by
John Jacob Astor and now in the possession of Wil-
(iam P. H. Bacon, president of the Bacon Piano
Co., New York, Mr. Baker says the latter instru-
ment was made three years later than the one owned
by Mr. Baker.
Mr. Baker says the piano owned by him was man-
ufactured in 1775 by an unknown firm, but it is
known that only five pianos of its kind were made,
three of which have disappeared. It is made of fine
rosewood mahogany, is well preserved and can be
played. Seven artistically carved legs support the
instrument. The strings are of solid brass and the
piano has only live and one-half octaves.
According to a newspaper account Mr. Baker and
his Albany manager, Roy A. Powers, were attending
the New York music show and were attracted by
the Astor piano on special exhibition in the booth
of the Bacon Piano Co., which recalled the old in-
strument which had been "junked" in the cellar of
the Baker Music Store. Mr. Baker told Mr. Powers
of the incident and Mr. Powers uncovered the in-
strument, brought it out of the cellar and put it
in the show window.
Mr. Baker remembers he got the piano in a busi-
ness transaction with an old Dutch family in the
Catskills, but cannot trace its history beyond its last
owner.
H. C. Dickinson, vice-president of the Baldwin
Piano Company, left his office in Chicago on Mon-
day for a brief business trip to Baldwin headquarters
in Cincinnati.
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