12
November 15, 1924.
PRESTO
did Mrs. Hanna Wick, then owner of the storeroom
at 35 North Phelps street.
Chapter 2.—The first piano, a Baldwin, was sold to
Mrs. Wm. W. Moore for practically all cash. Abo.it
a week later the second piano was sold to Lewis
Stocker, and a few weeks later a third instrument was
sold to Upson C. Greenwood.
Successive Incidents in Growth of the Pro-
Chapter 3.—The partnership of Yahrling and Duns-
paugh was continued for about a year, when Mr.
gressive Youngstown, O., Music House
Yahrling purchased the sheet music and small goods
Told in Newspaper.
business of Sol. Mores, then located in the same store-
room. At this same time he purchased the small
"Yahrling-Rayner's Silver Jubilee Offering" is the goods business of A. Jonas & Sons on West Federal
subject of an announcement of the Yahrling-Rayner
street, confining all of his efforts to this end of the
Music. Co., filling a page in the Youngstown, O., music business, having previously disposed of his in-
newspapers. The company is commemorating the terests in the Mahoning Piano Co. to Upson C. Green-
twenty-fifth anniversary of its formation with a note- wood, who continued in partnership with H. M.
Dunspaugh under the firm name of The Mahoning
worthy offer of twenty-five specially built Brambach
Piano Co. The business was continued under this
grands at an alluring price.
for about three years, when Mr. Duns-
In the anniversary announcement the interesting arrangement
paugh severed his connection.
history of the firm is told in the following brief chap-
Chapter 4.—At this time, the firm of Greenwood-
ters:
Yahrling Music Co. was formed and the business
Chapter 1.—In October, 1899, two young musicians, moved to West Federal street. It was then that
then members of the Mahoning Orchestra, got their Harry E. Greenwood entered the business, taking
heads together and decided to enter the piano busi- charge of the office. Finally the firm was dissolved,
ness. These two musicians were Chas. H. Yahrling, C. H. Yahrling entering business for himself at 120
now president and practically sole owner of The East Federal street under the firm name of C. H.
Yahrling-Rayner Music Co., and Harry M. Duns- Yahrling & Co.
paugh, president of the Musicians' Union.
In 1906, J. Wesley Brown, then general wholesale
Having no capital to speak of, they succeeded in representative of the Smith & Nixon Piano Co. of
getting Mr. Yahrling's father to sign a bond, and Cincinnati, and John R. Radcliffe, a teller in the Dol-
with this guarantee, induced D. H. Baldwin & Co. to lar Savings & Trust Co., were taken into the firm
ship a consignment of instruments to Youngstown. and the Yahrling-Brown Co. was incorporated with
They then formed a partnership under the firm name a capital stock of $50,000.
of Mahoning Piano Co., and while these pianos were
Chapter 5—In 1910 Mr. Brown sold his interest
in transit succeeded in raising sufficient money to pay to H. T. Rayner, then general wholesale representa-
the freight on the shipment, but were unable to pay
tive of Wm. Knabe & Co., Baltimore, and engaged
the draymen who hauled them from the depot.
in the piano business for himself at Canton, Ohio.
The drayman extended credit for the drayage, as The firm name at this time was changed to The
Yahrling-Rayner Music Co. The business grew. In
1912 the firm purchased the entire business and good
will of the Scott & Jones Co., then the oldest piano
house in the Mahoning Valley. The businesses were
consolidated, the firm ever since conducting the larg-
est and only complete music house in the Mahoning
Valley.
ROMANCE IN HISTORY OF
YAHRLING = RAYNER CO.
The Best Yet
Graceful lines, rugged construc-
tion, moderately priced. It's the
very best commercial piano from
every standpoint.
LIVELY ALTERATION SALE
CONCLUDES IN SEATTLE
B.
G. Dawes, Cincinnati, Buys Fine Instrument
Through Ross P. Curtice Co., Lincoln, Nebr.
The Ross P. Curtice Co., aggressive Schiller deal-
ers of Lincoln, Nebr., recently sold a Schiller Super-
Grand to B. G. Dawes, nephew of vice-president elect,
Charles G. Dawes. Mr. Dawes, who is a resident of
Cincinnati, Ohio, is appreciative of good music and
proved to be an excellent judge of fine pianos when
he selected the super-grand, a leader of the Schiller
Piano Co., Oregon, 111.
Never before has the Schiller Super-Grand mack-
such rapid strides in the trade as has been the case
this year and particularly since the piano trade has
been on the upward trend. Reports from all sections
of the country show that the popularity of the Schil-
ler line is expanding and that the public has recog-
nized the musical merits of bo'.h grands and uprights.
The Nebraska firm from which Mr. Dawes made
his purchase is convinced that the Schiller line is a
consistent seller and has acquired a steady trade in
that locality.
OPENS IN LOCKPORT, N. Y.
Alfred J. Newman, who has just opened a new
music store in Lockport, N. Y., is well known in the
music trade there. In a tastefully arranged store at
43 Locust street, he has installed a tine line of pianos,
talking machines, records and Q R S music rolls.
ELKHART FIRM EXPANDS.
Announcement was made last week of the purchase
by the Wilbur Templin Music House on South Main
street, Elkhart, Ind., of the stock and business of the
R. E. Stewart Music store, located in the Haynes
building at Elkhart.
J. A. Ford has opened a new music store at Wills
Point, Tex.
Bush & Lane Piano Co., Practically Cleans Up Stock
in Its Two Stores.
The Bush & Lane Piano Co., Seattle, Wash., has
concluded a special sale which has been a record for
sales of pianos, players and reproducing pianos and
Bush & Lane phonographs. According to the report
from the company both of the stores in Seattle, the
downtown store at 1519-23 Third avenue, and the
University Store at East Forty-fifth street and Brook-
lyn avenue, stocks have been satisfactorily reduced,
providing room for an almost entirely fresh stock for
the holiday business.
"During this great sale we have sold a larger num-
ber of instruments than in any similar period in the
long history of our business," says the company. "By
actual count, hundreds of people have purchased fine
pianos and phonographs, not to mention those who
have purchased in other departments."
Style 32—4 ft. 4 in.
WESER
Pianos and Players
WEBSTER PIANOS
Sell Readily—Stay Sold
Noted for Their Musical Beauty
of Tone and Artistic Style
Gend to-day for catalogue, prices and
details of our liberal financing plan
ATTRACTIVE
Factory
Leominster,
Mats.
Weser Bros., Inc.
520 to 528 W . 43rd St., New York
totet
Grand and
Reproducing
Grand Pianos
are the last word in
musical perfection.
Lester Piano Co.
1306 Chestnut St.
Philadelphia
PRICES
Exeeutir* Offices
138th St. and Walton Ave.
N«w York
Division W. P. HAINES & CO., Inc.
For QUALITY, SATISFACTION and PROFIT
NEWMAN BROTHERS PIANOS
NEWMAN BROS. CO
4*tablished 1870
SCHILLER SUPER=GRAND FOR
NEPHEW OF GEN. DAWES
Factories, 816 DIX ST., Chicago, HI.
A QUALITY PRODUCT
FOR OVER
QUARTER OF A CENTURY
^1"ZZgSjj E St. 1893 \^y^r^r^
Kindler & Collins
Pianos
520-524 W. 48th S
NEW YORK
When In Doubt See Presto Buyers* Guide
POOLE
-BOSTON
GRAND AND UPRIGHT PIANOS
AND
PLAYER PIANOS
Enhanced content © 2008-2009 and presented by MBSI - The Musical Box Society International (www.mbsi.org) and the International Arcade Museum (www.arcade-museum.com).
All Rights Reserved. Digitized from the archives of the MBSI with support from NAMM - The International Music Products Association (www.namm.org).
Additional enhancement, optimization, and distribution by the International Arcade Museum. An extensive collection of Presto can be found online at http://www.arcade-museum.com/library/