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PRESTO
April 28, 1923
STARR PIANO CO. CHANGES
NEW YORK MANAGEMENT
Eastern Branch of the Big Industry at Richmond is
Moving Forward Rapidly.
A change has been made in the New York man-
agement of the Starr Piano Co., of Richmond, Ind.
The new representative in the East is R. Meyer, and
the New York location is at 9 East 37th street. A
full line of Starr instruments, and subsidiary indus-
tries, is carried and both wholesale and retail business
is looked after for the metropolis and vicinity.
The Starr Piano Co. has branches throughout the
country, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, making
it possible for retailers to secure shipments promptly,
wherever they may be located. The gigantic fac-
tories at Richmond are especially active just now, and
it would prove a surprise to any veterans were they
to visit Richmond and put in the time required to
merely walk through the vast group of buildings
operated by the various departments of the industry.
The entire piano is produced there, as well as the
phonograph, including the making of records.
NEW INCORPORATIONS
IN MUSIC GOODS TRADE
New and Old Concerns Secure Charters in Various
Places.
Phillip W. Oetting & Son, New York; to make felts
and piano materials; $50,000; P. R. Oetting, W. M.
Shaller and G. Oetting.
The Krieger-Ayer Music Co., of Long Branch,
Calif.; $50,000.
The Howell Talking Machine Co., Inc.; to sell talk-
ing machines and records; J. Howell, William C. Pree
and Henry Gorshell.
The Radio Auto Light Corp.j Wilmington, Del.;
to deal in radio devices; $300,000.
Newark Music House, Inc., 485 Springfield avenue,
Newark, N. J.; deal in musical instruments; capital,
$125,000.
The Carolina Piano Mfg. Co., Inc., High Point,
N. C; to make pianos, etc.; $100,000; W. J. Manning,
S. W. MILLER PIANO CO.
Makers of
S. W. MILLER
PIANOS and PLAYERS
Dealers who Sell Them an;
Satisfied with Results and
are Profit-makers.
New Catalog Ready
S. W. MILLER PIANO CO.
SHEBOYGAN, WIS.
THE
W. P. HAINES & COMPANY
P I A N O S
THE PIANOS OF QUALITY
Three Generations of Piano Makers
All Styles—Ready Sellers
Attractive Prices
GRANDS
REPRODUCING GRANDS
UPRIGHTS and PLAYERS
AVAILABLE TERRITORY OPEN
W. P. HAINES & CO., Inc.
138th St. and Walton Ave.
New York City
G. H. Smith, George D. Manning and C. W. Von
LATEST TRADE NEWS
Drehle.
The American Radio & Electrical Corp., Wilming-
FROM PORTLAND, ORE.
ton, Del.; $3,000,000; to make radio apparatus.
Albert Piano Corp., Manhattan; $20,000; A. S. Witt-
son, J. M. Edelson, L. Strong. Attorneys, Went- Collection of Interesting Items Shows Activity of
worth, Lowenstein & Stern, 152 West 42d street.
Piano Men in Busy City.
Howell Talking Machine Co., Inc., Boston; talking
Seiberling & Lucas Music Co., Portland, Ore., has
machines and phonographs; G. Howell, William C.
placed A. Davis in charge of the piano department.
Pree and Henry Gorshell, all of Boston.
Dega-Disc Phonograph Co., Waynesboro, Pa.; Mr. Davis was formerly connected with the piano
department of the Meier & Frank Company. He
$500,000 to $1,000,000.
The K. & L. Mfg. Co., Chicago; to make phono- says that business in his department is excellent and
graph record filing devices; $810,000; N. Kolby, Fan- •that the Kranich & Bach pianos are leading in their
nie Lindemann, Adolph Lindemann and Frank sales.
The Austen Music Music Supply House, Portland,
Kolby.
Albert Piano Co., New York City; $20,000; G. S. Ore., has changed its name to the F. R. Austen Music
Co. and has moved from No. 80 West Park street
Wittison, J. M. Edelson and L. Strong.
The Christena-Teague Piano Co., Indianapolis; to the second floor of the new Yamhill building at
$200,000; to sell musical instruments; Herbert J. the corner of Park and Yamhill streets. Mr. Austen
is specializing in octavo music and music teachers
Teague, William Christena and George Kanouse.
supplies. Miss Alice McPherson, assisted by Cecil
Parker will have charge of the new store, while Mr.
Austen will divide his time between this store and
KNABE PIANO SELECTED
his sheet music department located in the G. F. John-
Company on Sixth street.
FOR NEW MEMORIAL HALL son The Piano
Reed-French Piano Co. was visited recently
by James A. Stitt, Pacific Coast representative of
Fine Instrument Sold by Knabe Studios, Baltimore, the Hallett & Davis pianos and phonographs. Mr.
Stitt spent several days with the firm, who are the
Important Aid to Dedication Ceremony.
local representatives of the Hallett & Davis line.
The McDougall-Conn Music Co., Portland, Ore.,
The Knabe Studios, Baltimore, Md., of which Louis
•Dederick is secretary-treasurer, recently supplied a The G. F. Johnson Piano Co., and the Reed-French
Knabe piano for the new Memorial Hall dedicated Piano Co., took advantage of the "Home Beautiful"
last week in Middletown, Md. Elaborate dedication exposition which was held in the Municipal audi-
ceremonies held April 20 were participated in by all torium the week of April 9 to 14, and had artistic
exhibits at the show. The McDougall-Conn fea-
the civic and patriotic organizations of the city.
tured the Conn band instruments and had an eight
The Middletown Memorial Hall building cost 4>iece, exclusive Conn orchestra, that gave concerts
$55,000. This building includes an opera house with every afternoon and evening to packed audiences.
a seating capacity of six hundred, a community room, The orchestra at the McDougall-Conn booth had a
a banquet room, an American Legion room, and a Steinway concert grand, which was furnished through
public library.
the courtesy of the Sherman, Clay & Co.'s house.
J. F. Monte, owner of the Victor Earle Music Co.
Chehalis, Wash., has taken on the Brunswick line, ac-
WHAT IS AN ACTION?
cording to M. Davis the district manager of the
The importance of the action in the piano is para- Brunswick. Mr. Monte is the vice-president of the
mount. That its importance in the manufacture of Music Trades Association of Southwestern Washing-
pianos was admitted from the beginning is shown in ton and has announced that he will attend the con-
the significant fact that the making of piano actions vention in Chicago the first week in June.
was the first auxiliary industry in the piano trade.
Since 1875 the house of Wessell, Nickel & Gross,
New York, has specialized in the manufacture of the NEW VOSE & SONS FACTORY
higest grade of piano actions. But laymen and a
great many musicians as well, who simply take the
NEARING COMPLETION
piano as an established fact, do not always under-
stand the great importance of the piano action, ac-
cording to Wessell, Nickel & Gross, in a treatise Greater Facilities and Truly Modern Efficiency As-
sured in Producing High Grade Instruments.
on the piano action. "What is the piano action?"
is asked. The booklet gives all the information on
The
new factory of the Vose & Sons Piano Co.,
that point.
Boston, in course of erection for some months past
at Watertown, about twenty minutes' ride from the
center of the city, is now nearing completion. The
BOOK FOR TUNERS.
building will fittingly commemorate the three-
Hammacher, Schlemmer & Co., Inc., 4th avenue new
quarters
of a century anniversary of the Vose &
and 13th street, New York City, has issued Circular Sons Piano
and become another cause for pride
No. 578, which is one of prime importance to piano in Boston's Co.,
architectudal group of New England's
tuners, repairmen, dealers and of course to piano thriving industries.
factory workers. It is a complete list of piano mate-
The large building accommodations permit Vose &
rials and tools. But it is specially compiled for tuners Sons
to make more pianos and to take advantage of
and repairmen and in it are set forth the well- up-to-date
facilities, which will insure a future prod-
arranged list of the items most in use and demand uct surpassing
in quality and moderate price any
by them.
effort of the company in the past.
Vose & Sons' representatives are quick to appre-
ciate this fact, for the Vose & Sons pianos and
A SPANISH PROSPECT.
have always been big values and a strength
A mercantile house in Spain is in the market for players
selling power in the lines of instruments handled
pianos, organs, sheet music and musical instruments and
them. It is, therefore, the aim of the Vose &
of .all kinds, according to information received by the by
Sons
Piano Co. to give more value and quality, and
Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, Wash- the new
factory, with its ample floor space and its
ington, D. C. Quotations should be c.i.f. Corunna or splendid facilities
augurs well for Vose representa-
Ferrol. Correspondence, Spanish. Further informa- tives.
tion can be obtained from the Bureau or any of its
Watertown, in which the Vose & Sons Piano Co.'s
district offices by referring to File No. 3744.
factory is being erected, is conveniently located across
the Charles River, about twenty minutes' ride from
the business center of Boston. It faces the Boston,
NEW ZEALAND RULE.
New York Post boulevard, a part of the Metropolitan
The New Zealand Government has announced that Park system. The main railroad lines running to the
pianos are deemed to be goods of a class or kind Great West are directly across the Charles River be-
which, if imported from countries having a depre- yond the Parkway, in front of the Vost plant.
ciated currency, would injuriously, affect an industry Thousands will daily pass the factory, by rail and
established in New Zealand, or some other part of automobile, and the home of the Vose & Sons will,
the British Dominions. The depreciated currency therefore, be prominent before the public. In keep-
duty levied under the customs amendment act, 1922, ing with these splendid buildings it is the plan of the
will, therefore, be levied from January 1, 1923.
company to add to their attractiveness by well-kept
lawns.
BUSY SELLING ORGANS.
The George H. Leathurby Co., 183 Golden Gate
avenue, San Francisco, which ably presents the auto-
matic instruments of the J. P. Seeburg Piano Co.,
Chicago, last week made a number of organ in-
stallations and has more work of this kind on hand
than ever before. The company is installing a unit
organ in the new Hayward Theater at Hayward, Cal.,
and recently furnished the organ for the new Rich-
ards Theater at Modesto, Cal.
NEW WICHITA MANAGER.
The death a few weeks ago of Claude V. Cosgrove,
vice-president and general manager of the Innes-
Cosgrove Music Co., Wichita, Kan., has been fol-
lowed by important changes in the management of
the company. H. H. Kahn, manager of the Black-
ledge Music Co., Coffeyville, Kan., has purchased an
interest in the company and has been appointed
manager.
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