November 4, 1922.
TRADE EVENTS IN
PORTLAND PIANO FIELD
Oregon Music Trades Association Helps to
Make Music Week a Success, and
Other Music Trade News.
The Oregon Music Trades Association at their
weekly meeting in Portland, last week gave their
hearty support to the coming Portland Music Week,
November 5 to 12 and will enter wholeheartedly into
the affair and give the Community Service, under
whose auspices the affair is held, the most cordial and
substantial support.
Mrs. Evelyn McFarland McClusky, the executive
chairman of Music Week has appointed E. J. Meyer,
manager of the small goods department of the Bush
& Lane Piano Company, chairman of the trades com-
mittee, assisted by Arthur Stein, manager of the Vic-
trola department of Sherman, Clay & Co., and Allen
E. McLean of the piano department of the Reed,
French company. The latter gentleman had charge
of Music Week last year at Great Falls, Mont. The
program for the week is now in the hands of the
printer and Portland's Music Week will eclipse the
very successful one put over last year, if the plans of
the committee are carried out.
The Meier & Frank company has installed a broad-
casting station and the first concert was sent out
October 19. The Knabe ampico was featured along
with Earl Fuller and his jazz orchestra, who were
appearing that week in Portland. Daily programs
are broadcasted every day except Sunday between 4
and 5 o'clock and on Saturday a children's hour be-
tween 11 and 12 a. m. The programs are prepared
by Wm. D. Woodward, manager of the piano de-
partment, who alternate with classical and popular
selections.
Wm. D. Woodward, manager of the piano depart-
ment of Meier & Frank Company gave the second
of a series of Knabe Ampico concerts in Symphony
Hall to a large and interested audience on the after-
noon of October 20. The assisting artist was Juanita
Heaton Judge, a pupil of Paul Petri. The Ampico
rolls that were most pleasing to the audience were
"Dance of the Hours" from "Giocondo," played
by Brockway and the Chopin waltz Op. 18 E flat
major, played by Rachmaninoff. Mr. Woodward says
the concerts are very much appreciated and he is
planning to give several more before the holidays in
their spacious and beautiful "Symphony Hall."
E. B. Hyatt, of the Hyatt Talking Machine com-
pany has been elected president of the Greater Port-
land association.
NEW STORE OPENINGS
SHOW TRADE PROGRESS
New Piano Ventures, Ownership Transfers
and Location Changes Are Items
of Interest.
The National Piano Co., Missoula, Mont., has
moved to larger quarters. Ralph L. Pettit is man-
ager.
The Topeka Music Co. has opened a new store at
633 Kansas avenue, Topeka, Kans.
H. H. Prinehouse has opened a music store at 8 6 ^
Broadway, Portland, Ore.
Gillespie Bros, recently opened a music store in
Bloomfield, Neb.
D. M. Hennessy, .2704 Mission street, San Fran-
cisco, has been succeeded by the Union Music Co.,
Inc.
Lauerman Bros., is the successor to the Schroeder
Music House, Marinette, Wis.
More commodious quarters will soon be occupied
by Reinhardt's, 23 South Main street, Memphis,
Tenn.
D. D. Allard, Bakersfield, Calif., has acquired a new
building adjoining his store and will enlarge his
music goods departments.
The Jordan Music Co., Charleston, S. C, is now in
larger quarters at 368 King street.
A new store in Fort Collons, Colo., opened recently
by Frank Brown and W. E. Runge features the
Baldwin Piano Co. line.
The J. H. Peterson Department Store, Davenport,
la., has added a music goods section.
J. W. Martin & Bro., Rochester, N. Y., has de-
cided to open a branch in Ovid, N. Y.
Samuel Kemp, Jr., is proprietor of a new music
store opened in South Manchester, Conn.
The Heneger Music Store is a new concern in
Mitchell, S. D.
The National Piano Company, at Missoula, Mon-
tana, has moved into new and enlarged salesrooms.
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The store is under the management of Ralph L.
Pettit, who has been local representative for the
Baldwin people for the past year. A line carried is
the product of the new Baldwin factory in Cincinnati.
Henry Moran & Sons is the title of a new business
in the Grand Theater Building, Hartford, Conn.
Knhler & Chase moved last week to new and larger
quarters in San Jose, Cal.
The Klein & Harris Music Store, Cheyenne, Wyo.,
has moved to larger quarters.
The Knutson Music Store is now located in the
Bopp Block, West Union, la.
DAVID W. GUION'S SURPRISE,
David W. Guion's arrangement of the old cow-
boy dance, "Turkey in the Straw," was recently added
to the list of Ampico recordings, played by Phillip
Gordon. Mr. Guion, who is a prominent composer
and pianist of Texas, dean of the Fairmount Con-
servatory, tells the Will A. Watkin Company of Dal-
las, that several years ago in Wanamaker's, New
York, he heard what he thought was Leopold
Godowsky playing. "Having studied under him and
being familiar with his interpretation of a certain
Chopin number, I was positive that it was my for-
mer teacher," he said. "I hurried to the group of
people standing around the piano, hoping to see this
great pianist. Imagine my surprise when I learned it
was a demonstration of the Ampico Reproducing
Piano."
SAVES FOTOPLAYER STOCK.
The American Photo Player Co., San Francisco,
whose offices were destroyed in the burning of the
Independent Film Exchange Building, October 18,
has resumed business at 134-146 Golden Gate avenue
in a large building quite adequate to the space re-
quirements of the ambitious organ house. The por-
tion cf the burned building in which the stock of
Fotoplayers was carried was not penetrated by the
fire but water and smoke did considerable damage.
The bravery of Miss Justine Day, the only worker
in the quarters of the American Photo Player Co.,
when the explosion which started the fire occurred,
saved the most valuable of the records and books.
E. H. RIDNOUR'S MISHAP.
E. H. Ridnour, the well known music dealer, of
McCook, Nebraska, suffered painful injuries when
one of the wheels broke on a truck used by E. H.
Ridnour Piano Co., and he was thrown fifteen feet to
the ground. Mr. Ridnour suffered bruised knees,
arms, etc., and was confined to bed, but now is up
and around again, and the lameness occasioned by the
injury is rapidly disappearing. Mr. Ridnour's friends
will be pleased to learn of his lucky escape from more
serious injuries.
BIGGER USES FOR
PIANO LOADERS SEEN
Proposed Extension of National System Means
Greater Opportunities for the Dealers.
Bigger uses for piano loaders are assured by the
ambitious plans of road builders everywhere. The
piano dealer who achieves the most sales is the one
whose salesmen see the greatest number of pros-
pective buyers. When it comes to covering dis-
tances between stores and customers' houses, the
dealer with the piano loader and carrier has the ad-
vantage. The salesman with such equipment over-
comes the disadvantages of rough roads and "eats
up" the miles on the smooth ones.
Construction of 180,000 miles of improved roads
will be completed during the next fifteen years by
the federal government, and an equal mileage of state
and local roads, un.der the program of the federal
aid highway system, presented at the opening of
the second national conference on education for high-
way engineering and highway transport.
A conference held in Washington, D. C., last week,
highway engineering educators, state highway en-
gineers, automotive manufacturers and about 300
others concerned in the development of the coun-
try's highway program along sound lines were in
attendance at the session. Dr. John J. Tigert, United
States commissioner of education and chairman of the
Highway Education Board, presided.
In the scheme outlined there will be main lines of
highway communication between centers, and thou-
sands of miles of feeder roads reaching back into the
more sparsely settled regions and into rich agricul-
tural areas, to tan sections whose population and
products will flow over the new road system.
The bureau of public roads of the Department of
Agriculture is engaged in research work into the
most efficient methods of building, including the
character and wearing power of materials and resist-
ing qualities of various substances.
HEADS NEW ENGLAND ASS'N.
William L. Nutting of Nashua, N. H., was elected
president of New England Music Trade Association
at the annual meeting held last week at the Engi-
neer's Club, Boston. Roger S. Brown, Boston, was
elected first vice-president; Harry L. Spencer, Bos-
ton, second vice-president; William F. Merrill, Bos-
ton, secretary and treasurer. There was a large at-
tendance at the meeting which was preceded by a
luncheon. An interesting address on "What to Do
and What to Avoid This Winter" was made by Mel-
vin L. Morse of the Roger Babson statistical organi-
zation.
FEATURING GRANDS IN TRENTON, N. J.
As advertising is often considered the life of trade,
and as ingenuity is looked upon as an important fac-
tor in advertising, it seems that the well known firm
of G. A. Barlow's Sons Co., in Trenton, N. J., should
do a major business on the beautiful little Bram-
bach baby grand this fall season. One look at the
interesting painted sign, shown with this article, will
prove that, for ingenuity and elegance of display, the
Barlow Company is entitled to rank with the leaders
of ingenious advertising throughout this country.
Notwithstanding that this beautiful colored sign
would have attracted attention on its own merit, the
display has as its chief point of interest an actual
little Brambach baby grand case, as an essential part
of its make-up.
This piano has been especially
treated by waterproof varnishing, so that it will
withstand the ravages of the elements for many
months, and there is no doubt that the actual picture
of the beauty of this little Grand piano is most elo-
quently expressed by showing the instrument itself.
The G. A. Barlow's Sons Co. is to be congratulated
on this novel display, which shows that ingenuity in
advertising is not dead, and that there can always be
something 'new under the sun," provided that the
dealer really analizes his selling problem and applies
them to the best of his ability.
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