PRESTO
BALDWIN BABY GRAND
PLACED IN WHITE HOUSE
Mrs. Coolidge Selects Model in Brown Mahog-
any for Lincoln Room, a Duplicate of One
Selected by Mrs. Harding.
Right before the Christmas holidays, Mrs. Coolidge
installed in the White House a Baldwin Baby Grand
Piano for the person use of her family. The piano
has been placed in the Lincoln Room, now reserved
for the use of the two Coolidge boys. Here, sur-
rounded by the same furniture that was used by
President Lincoln, this Baldwin will afford enjoyment
to the intimate family circle, where the President
and Mrs. Coolidge can be "just home folks."
Mrs. Coolidge is a good musician. One of the boys
plays the banjo, the other the ukulele, and the Christ-
association. At the meeting on the 21st nearly all;
of the local managers were present. •,:
T. M. Pletcher, president of the Q R S Music Co.,
Chicago, was a recent visitor to the Portland, Ore.,
trade.
Mr. Pletcher came to Portland over the
Southern route, and, while in the South, contemplated
a hunting trip in Mexico, which he had to forego
on account of the Mexican revolution.
The Reed, French Piano Co., of Portland, Ore., in
featuring the Hallet & Davis piano, have a large
placard in their window saying, "Look into the Heart
of a Hallet & Davis Piano." A Hallet & Davis is
in the window with the front out. Many are attracted
and enter the store to look further into it.
H. T. Moore has joined the piano department of
the Portland branch of Sherman, Clay & Co., and has
been placed in charge of the Willamette Valley trade
and will have his headquarters at Roseburg, Ore.
Serge Halman, of the Portland piano department,
went to his new headquarters to assist him in being
installed. Mr. Moore was formerly connected with
the Oakland, Cal., branch of the firm.
ALTERATION PLANS FOR
MEMPHIS PIANO STORE
BALDWIN PIANO IN WHITE HOUSE.
The O. K. Houck Piano Co. Will Spend $25,000 in
Improving Various Departments.
A better rearrangement of the various departments
and the allotment of more space for some are ad-
vantages to be accomplished in the remodeling plans
of the O. K. Houck Piano Company, Memphis,
Term., which are now under way. The work will en-
tail an expenditure of about $25,000, according to'
Jesse Houck, president of the company. In the plans
are ambitious schemes for decorating and furnishing
the Duo-Art section on the third floor and the up-
right and grand departments on the second floor of
the Main street store.
On the Main street side of the store a new fast
passenger elevator will be installed, serving from the
basement to the fifth floor. Other plans are the re-
moval of the general offices from the rear of the first
floor to the fifth, in which location the wholesale
offices of the record department will also be located.
The entire basement of the Main street building will
be given over to the record department, formerly on
the first floor of the First street building. The sec-
ond floor of the Front street store will be given up
to the used pianos and the repair shop will also be
located there.
mas holidays witnessed many impromptu concerts ar-
ranged by the mistress of the White House.
This is the third Baldwin Piano which has graced
the White House. Mrs. Taft had an instrument of
special design for her use in the Green Room. Mrs.
Harding preferred the library of the living quarters
on the second floor for her home musical center.
Mrs. Coolidge's Baldwin is a duplicate of Mrs.
Harding's, in size and style, with the exception that
Mrs. Coolidge preferred the dull brown mahogany
finish, while Mrs. Harding's choice was the red ma-
hogany.
At the time Mrs. Coolidge's Baldwin was installed,
she expressed her intention to visit some day the Claude P. Street, For Forty Years Prominent in
Music Trade, Succumbs to Sudden Illness.
great Baldwin factories in Cincinnati and see the
craftsmen at work, building the instruments that have
Claude P. Street, founder and manager of the
thrice been chosen to grace the home of the President Claude P. Street Piano Co., Nashville, Tenn., who
of the United States.
died recently from an attack of acute indigestion, was
prominent in the music business of that city for the
past forty years.
Mr. Street began his business career with a whole-
sale grocery firm in Nashville, but soon switched to
the trade he had served so long when he became a
retail piano salesman for R. Dorman & Co., with
W. C. Heaton, President of the De Luxe Roll Corpo- which firm he remained until it was dissolved.
Thereupon he joined the forces of the Jesse French
ration, Gives Talk on Welte Action.
Piano & Organ Co. in Nashville and in time became
E. B. Bartlett, vice president of the W. W. Kimball district manager for the company. When the Cast-
Co., Chicago, recently returned from New Orleans, ner-Knott Dry Goods Company installed a piano de-
La., where he attended the annual meeting of the partment Mr. Street was named manager, which posi-
Junius Hart Piano Co., Ltd. J. V. Sill, Assistant tion he filled until ten years ago, when he established
Wholesale Manager, is at present visiting dealers in the Claude P. Street Piano Co.
New York and Boston.
W. C. Heaton, president of the De Luxe Roll Cor-
WILL STIMULATE SALES.
poration, gave a short talk last Friday at the noon
Columbus,
music merchants see possibilities
recital in Kimball Hall, on the origination of the of more sales Ohio,
in the definite step recently taken
Welte action.
toward the establishment of a school of music at Ohio
State University recently when the college of educa-
tion voted to include music in the curriculum as a
minor study. Students who study music at the uni-
versity will now be entitled to a state certificate to
teach music in any of the Ohio schools.
February 2, 1924.
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NEWS OF THE TRADE
IN PORTLAND FIELD
Oregon Music Trades Association Meets to Discuss
Tuning Rates—Other Items of Interest.
The Oregon Music Trades Association, E. B.
Hyatt, president, held its first meeting this season at
the Chamber of Commerce, at noon, January 21, at
which time the question of tuning and tuning rates
was discussed and by common consent the price
raised 50 cents for each instrument tuned. The ques-
tion was fully discussed and it was decided that it
were better to have experienced men, rather than
cheaper labor, as at the rates in vogue at present the
dealers had to stand a loss. Mr. Hyatt says that
from now on there will be regular meetings of the
TRADE LOOKS GOOD.
"Whether we look at national or international trade
conditions things look good," H. Archibald Har-
ris, counselor on accounting and taxation for the
Illinois, Indiana and Tennessee Bankers' association,
told the Illinois association at its midwinter tax con-
gress in the Hotel La Salle last week, and added:
"I warn you, as bankers, against tightening up the
reins of credit unnecessarily."
Alterations and the installation of new fixtures have
been completed in the new storeroom of Roth's Music
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