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PRESTO
December 29, 1923.
ACTIVE SALES FOR
STARR PIANO COMPANY
Chicago Store Has Rush of Orders During Holidays,
and Good Days Are Predicted.
The Starr Piano Co., branch store on South Wa-
bash avenue, Chicago, has had an exceptionally busy
fall season and the consistency of orders received is
indicative of a good business during the early part
of the new year.
The demand for Starr instruments has been very
impressive, especially during the holidays preceding
Christmas. However, the holiday trade must be con-
sidered more or less a circumstance, as it will in-
variably increase retail sales, but business with the
Starr Piano Company has been active since the early
fall months.
The factory, at Richmond, Ind., is working at
capacity limit to fill December orders and January
requirements, according to reports received recently
at the Chicago store.
adjoining the Music Hall property, at an estimated
cost of $75,000.
The McFarland Music Co., Middletown, O., after
many years of prosperity on Main street, has removed
to a more central location at 408 East Third street,
A piano department has been added to the John A.
Ryan Furniture Co., 122 Collinsville avenue, East St.
Louis, 111. A line of new players has been given a
special display in the store, and it is expected that
the new department may prove a desirable feature.
HOLDS CHARACTER FOR
ACCURACY IN MANUFACTURE
G. F. Goepel & Co., New York, Widely Known to
Piano Industry for Punchings.
G. F. Goepel & Co., 137 East 13th street, New
York, is a name for many years associated w T ith the
characteristics of accuracy and high quality in its
punchings for the use of the piano manufacturer.
The company makes perfect punchings in all shapes
and all sizes and every piece is always found by the
customers to be clean cut and accurate. "Perfect
Punchings" in the stationery of the G. F. Goepel &
Co. is no mere phrase. The words have a literal
meaning which old customers among the piano manu-
facturers and piano repairmen understand.
Items of General Interest from Correspondents and
Accuracy is a prime essential in piano construc-
Exchanges in Various Sections.
tion. There must be no guess work in measure-
E. A. Geissler, of the George A. Birkel Co., of Los ments of satisfactory work is to be produced. The
Angeles, recently visited the C. Kurtzmann & Co.'s punchings used by the piano manufacturer and the
piano repair man must of necessity be accurate and
plant in Buffalo, N. Y.
that reason the assurance of that desirable re-
Stranburg's Music House in Jamestown, N. Y., is for
quirement in the firm whose specialty is the making
conducting a special sale in celebration of its thirtieth of
punchings is of the highest importance.
anniversary.
LATE TRADE NEWS IN
THE RETAIL DEPARTMENT
The Floyd Piano Co., Memphis, is preparing to
move into new headquarters at 160 Madison avenue,
formerly occupied by the Allan Wellburn Piano Co.
Allen Young, formerly of the sales staff of Kohler
& Chase, San Francisco, has joined the piano sales
force of Sherman, Clay & Co., at San Jose, Cal.
N. H. King, president of the San Antonio, Tex.,
Furniture and Music Dealers' Association, was made
president of the San Antonio Retail Merchants' Asso-
ciation at the annual meeting held recently.
A new electric sign, one of the largest on Liberty
avenue, Pittsburgh, has been erected by the Lechner
& Schoenberger Music Co.
A permit for a business block in City Square has
recently been issued to the Manganaro Music Co.,
Quincy, Mass., to erect a structure on Hancock street,
SECOND FRENCH MUSIC SHOW.
MANUFACTURERS TO INSIST
UPON FAIR DEALING
New York Associations Plan Means by Which Can-
cellations of Orders May Be Stopped.
A large number of New York trade bodies, includ-
ing associations of wholesalers and retailers and man-
ufacturers, have formed an organization for the
avowed purpose of improving business relations with
one another. They want to get rid of trade disputes
and to correct certain evils which have grown up in
recent years.
Such things as cancellation of orders and unwar-
ranted return of goods are among the evils. There
have been only too many instances in which advan-
tage has been taken of the flimsiest of pretexts by
those who sought release from contracts when prices
sagged between the time of giving an order and the
delivery of the goods.
The textile and garment trades are the ones in
which this kind of thing has been mostly attempted.
While there have been occasions when the fault was
clearly on the part of the seller, as, for example,
when goods were not up to sample or delivery was
made too late, the reverse was usually the case. The
piano manufacturers have had little trouble of the
kind, but cancellation evil has not been infrequent.
Separate trade associations have sought to deal
with the problem, and in some instances the seller
has taken drastic action by legal proceedings. While
it is a failing of certain natures to try and dodge the
consequences of their own lack of judgment, it is
manifest that the success of ventures of this kind on
any large scale would give an advantage over more
scrupulous competitors and be well nigh fatal to hon-
est business. It is about time that a concerted effort
be made all along the line to discredit and to make
impossible the disregard of contracts, says the New
York Times. It simply means insistence on persons
being honest.
The National Federation of Music, a French or-
ganization, has decided to make an annual event of
the Salon de la Musique, held early this year. The
NEW BRINKERHOFF PLAYER.
next exhibition will include all forms of French musi-
The BrinkerhofT Piano Co., Republic building, Chi-
cal instrument production and music publishing. The
cago, announces a new player which the company
1924 event is scheduled for May 10 to 25.
has recently put on the market. The player may be
operated by either foot or electric, and the same
JOINS BALDWIN STAFF.
features of tone and construction are embodied in
L. W. Allan and W. M. Crofoot have joined the the new instrument that are in all Brinkerhoff pianos.
sales force of the Baldwin Piano Co.'s San Fran-
cisco store. Mr. Allen was formerly located in the Harold B. Freeman, Providence, L. I., composer
Oregon field and Mr. Crofoot comes from San Jose, of the Remick hit "Lullaby Time," is now recovering
Cal. Both are experienced in all phases of piano from an attack of typhoid fever at the Jane Brown
selling.
Memorial Hospital in that city.
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