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PRESTO
January 10, 1925.
MEN OF PIANO TRADE
WHO DIED DURING 1924
List Is Sad Reminder to Many of Old Com-
panionships and Friendships Interrupted
During Year Just Closed.
A. F. Adams, head of the Wolfsohn Musical Bu-
reau, died January 7..
The piano trade of Atlanta, Ga., lost a genial and
successful member in the death of Walter Hughes,
the second week in January.
On February 1 J. A. Bryan, Jr., representative of
the Steger & Sons Piano Mfg. Co., in Ohio and In-
diana, met death in Indianapolis in an accident.
Thomas F. Green, president of the Silas E. Pear-
sail Co., Victor Jobber, New York, died suddenly at
the Presbyterian Hospital Sunday, March 23.
John A. Coffin died of pneumonia in St. Luke's
Hospital, New York, after a brief illness, March 19.
Mr. Coffin was a former president of both the Na-
tional Piano Manufacturers' Association and the New
York Piano Manufacturers' Association.
Charles Price, eastern representative of Smith,
Barnes & Strohber Co., died suddenly at his home in
Lakewood, Ohio, April 28.
H. P. Nelson, widely known piano manufacturer,
died in Chicago on April 13.
On May 26 death called the famous composer, Vic-
tor Herbert, in New York City.
Col. W. B. Brinkerhoff, one of the pioneer piano
manufacturers of the West, died at his home, 325 N.
Eltnwood avenue, Oak Park, 111., May 24.
Theodore Morse, popular song writer, died May 25.
Peter D. Strauch, founder of the distinguished
American piano Action industry died on June 1 at
his home in Tuckahoe, a suburb of New York City.
On June 16 death took Geo. R. Hughes, president
of the National Association of Music Merchants.
Stanford A. Conklin, a piano salesman with the
Platt Music Co., died at Long Beach, Cal., July 22.
Hayden H. Whitney, twenty-nine, musician and
poet, died at the Hospital of the Good Shepherd at
Syracuse, N. Y.
Edmund R. Wanckel, who died at Leipzig, Ger-
many, Aug. 29, was with Alfred Dolge when that
gentleman started his supply business, including his
felt factory, at what is now Dolgeville, New York.
Clarence E. Owens, for several years connected
with the George H. Sharp Music Co. of Westfield,
ondunnir
lone
Mass., died at his home, 38 Franklin street, West-
field.
Frank J. Larkin, who was engaged in the piano
business at Pittsfield, Mass., for twenty-eight years,
died August 30 of pneumonia. He was seventy-two
years old.
Stephan Brambach, one of the well known piano
makers of the old school, passed away in New York
on September 6. Mr. Brambach was born in Ger-
many about eighty years ago and learned the art of
piano making in all its branches from his father,
Franz Brambach, who was a recognized expert
craftsman.
Edward G. Brown, proprietor of E. G. Brown,
Inc., music dealer of Bayonne, and well known
throughout the music trades, died on September 14
of heart trouble at his home here.
Walter A. Schaaf, secretary of Adam Schaaf, Inc.,
piano manufacturer, died at his home, 2830 Sheridan
Road, Chicago, September 3. Death was due to
pneumonia and followed an illness of a few days.
He was forty-five years of age and had spent all of
his business life in the piano business.
One of the most tragic deaths associated with men
of the piano industry was that of Ernest J. Knabe,
whose body was found in the garage of his home, in
Baltimore, September 27.
P. P. Lockhart, well known in the piano industry
as a manufacturer and traveler, died at his home in
Yonkers, N. Y., late in September.
William B. Jacob met death on October 4, in an
automobile accident near New York City.
Frank L. Wing, head of the piano manufacturing
firm of Wing & Son, New York, died October 6.
Robert J. Monat, for many years in the employ of
Chas. M. Stieff, Inc., Baltimore, died at his home in
Baltimore the first week in October.
Evert R. Francis, thirty-four, member of the R. L.
Francis & Son, music dealers, Newark, Ohio, died
pctober 15 from injuries sustained when his auto-
mobile was struck by an electric car.
Paul J. Healy, of Lyon & Healy, Chicago, died of
ijnfluenza, at Hotel Crillon, Paris, December 9.
'•] H. E. McMillan, senior firm member of the Mc-
Millan Music Store, Cleveland, Ohio, died on De-
cember 9.
William Staiger, Jr., son of the head of the Staiger
Piano Co., of Atlantic City, N. J., aged thirty-seven,
died in that city late.in November.
PROGRESSIVE CHICAGO FIRM
EXPANDS ITS LINE
Schultz Piano Company, Chicago, Adds Musical Mer-
chandise Section to Fine Retail Establishment.
The necessity of the up-to-date music store repre-
senting "everything musical" is realized by the
Schultz Piano Co., 2255 W. Madison street, Chicago,
whose latest addition to its handsome store is a musi-
cal merchandise department in which is shown a fine
line of violins, saxophones and band instruments.
The merchandise is neatly arranged in a conspicu-
ous part of the store and immediately catches the eye
of the customer when he enters.
The sales of this department have been on a level
with that of pianos which have been successfully rep-
resented by the active firm for over thirty years.
SOME VERY LATE OPENINGS
IN THE RETAIL MUSIC TRADE
The Stfardman Jzine
is a complete line
It comprises a range of artisti-
cally worthy instruments to
please practically every purse:
The Hardman, official piano of
the Metropolitan Opera House;
the Harrington and the Hensel
Pianos in which is found that in-
builtdurabilitythatcharacterizes
all Hardman-made instruments;
the wonderful Hardman Repro-
ducing Piano; the Hardman
Autotone (the perfect player-
piano); and the popular Playo-
tone.
A Few of the New Ventures in the Beet Business in
the World.
A new branch of the Bush & Lane Piano Co., Port-
land, Ore., has been opened in Centralia, Wash.
The Cannon Music Co. recently succeeded to C. H.
Lane in Eureka, Kan.
The Summers Piano Co. has opened warerooms in
Ashland, Ky.
A branch store has been opened at 1296 Madison
avenue, Memphis, by O. K. Houck Piano Co.
M. J. Bremness, dealer in music at Sedan, Minn.,
has been succeeded by Michael Dietz.
Chas. M. Stieff, Inc., recently opened a new store
at 414-416 East Grace street, Richmond, Va. E. G.
Rike is manager.
Robert Meikrantz has moved to a new location on
West Broad street, Hazleton, Pa.
Dayton Co., a department store in Minneapolis,
has added a music section.
MUSIC STORE FOR FAIRBURY.
J. T. Gill has opened a music store on West Main
street, Fairbury, 111. Mr. Gill spent part of a week in
Chicago at the Adam Schaaf factory and offices, and
made arrangements to have a full line of that com-
pany's fine instruments put in his new store.
5.
^ardmanfpeck &Co.
WHAT'S THIS NAME?
(See Page 50.)
Take a T to start it well,
And soon you will be "on";
With one more letter it will tell
The name, and you have won.
"Built on Family Pride"
Doll & Sons
Represent the Artistic
in Piano and Player Piano
Construction
JACOB DOLL & SONS
STODART
WELLSMORE
Jacob Doll & Sons, Inc
Southern Boulevard, E. 133rd St.
E. 134th St. and Cypret* Ave.
NEW YORK
Becker Bros.
Manufacturer* of
HIGH GRADE PIANOS
and PLAYER PIANOS
Factory and Warerooms
767-769 Tenth Avenue, New York
STRICH & ZETOLER, Inc.
GRAND, UPRIGHT and PLAYER
AND
HOMER PIANOS
740-742 East 136th Street
NEW YORK
Schumann
PIANOS and PLAYER PIANOS
GRANDS and UPRIGHTS
Have no superiors in appearance, tone
power or other essentials of strictly
leaders in the trade.
Warning to Infringers
This Trade Mark la cast
In the plat* and also ap-
p«ara upon the fall board
of all genuine Schumann
Pianos, and all Infringe™
will be prosecuted. Beware
of Imitation* such as Schu-
mann A Company, Schu-
mann * Son, and also
Shuman, as all stencil
shops, dealers and users of
pianos bearing- a name in
Imitation of the name
Schumann with the Inten-
tion of deceiving; the public
will be prosecuted to the
fullest extent of the law.
New Catalogue on Bequest.
Schumann Piano Co.
W. N. VAN MATRE, President
Rockford, 111.
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