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Issue: 1925 2009

January 24, 1925.
PRESTO
MANY DEALERS
IN NEW LOCATIONS
Unusual Number of Music Merchants Moving
to Larger Quarters Considered Significant
of Marked Revival of Business All
Over the Country.
MANY BUY BUILDINGS
Incidents Told in News Items from Many Places Are
Individual Examples of Ambition
Realized.
The first weeks of the new year resulted in many
removals to larger and better quarters by music deal-
ers. The facts are considered evidences of the am-
bition of the dealers and of the general revival of
business in music goods. In a great many cases the
shrewd dealers made the strenuous act of moving
headquarters an occasion for publicity leading to
sales. The joyous beginning is always a good one.
Opening day is a good one in which to make friends
and to show the neighbors the merits of the music
goods line. Of course, a program of music was a
feature of the events in the greater number of cases
reported by the local papers or reported direct to
Presto by the firms.
Buys in Philadelphia.
A building for a new branch store has been pur-
chased by the Lang Piano Co., Philadelphia, but the
moving from the old store at 2140 Ridge avenue to
the new location a few doors away will not take
place until the latter has been remodeled. Max Lang
is owner of the company, with a main store at 1204
Columbia avenue. He now operates three stores in
which pianos are included in the general stocks.
Steinway Representative Moves.
The movement to the new store of the New Mexico
Piano Co., in Albuquerque, N. M., recently was made
a great occasion for the display and demonstration of
the extensive line of Steinway and other high class
pianos carried by the company. A fine line of phono-
graphs and musical merchandise is also carried by
the enterprising house, the proprietor of which is
H. A. Maisen. Lewis Clark is the active manager of
the handsome store at 114 North Second street.
Moves Next Week.
Next week the East Tennessee Music Company,
Knoxville, Tenn., will move to new quarters, 719-721
South Gay street. The location at 606 South Gay
street has long been considered inadequate for the
growing business of the firm, of which George Brown
is manager. The new store has many facilities for
the better showing of an attractive line of music
goods, including spacious show windows.
Corson, the Music Man of the Dalles, Oregon, re-
cently took newer and larger salesrooms. One of the
teatures of the new store is a hall for recitals, con-
certs and social events.
Prosperous California Firm.
The continuous success of the Crockett Music Com-
pany, Crockett, Cal., since it was established a few
years ago by R. A. McMillan and Mrs. McMillan
long ago resulted in the necessity for more space to
show and store pianos and other music goods. The
necessity is now satisfied, and in the fine, commodious
warerooms in the Peter's Block the line is shown in
the desired attractive manner.
The Cline Music Company, Stanton, Va., has
moved to newer, commodious quarters at 126 W.
Main street.
The Seth Laraway Music Store, Eugene, Ore., has
moved into new quarters at 968 Willamette street.
Grows in St. Louis.
The rapid increase of the business of the Hunleth
Music Company, 516 Locust street, St. Louis, is
shown in the latest development of the company.
Last week the company took over the five-story
building adjoining its present quarters, which will be
occupied when the necessary alterations and im-
provements are made. When the new. building is
occupied a total of 22,000 square feet will be at the
'lisposal of the enterprising firm.
Expands in Miami, Fla.
The S. Ernest Philpitt Music Co , Miami, and other
cities in Florida has purchased a site for a new branch
store at Jefferson and Lincoln avenue in the city
named. The deal involved a consideration of $35,000
and plans for a building to cost $25,000 have been
accepted by Mr. Philpitt. The news is further evi-
dence of the progressive character of the company
headed by a man who is nationally known and who
has done much to raise the standard of music retail-
ing in a wide section.
The P. A. Starck Piano Co., Minneapolis, Minn.,
now located at 800 Nicollet avenue, will move to
larger quarters February 1. The new location will
be in the Yeates Building, at Nicollet avenue and
Ninth street.
The Denver Music Co., 1532-38 Stout street, Den-
ver, Colo., has secured a lease on the house at 1540
Stout street, which it will occupy as soon as exten-
sive alterations have been made. In its new quar-
ters the concern will have 18,000 square feet of floor
MANUFACTURERS' OUTLET
STORES ADD NEW STORE
Third of Chain of Chicago Houses Is Located at 812
West Sixty-third Street.
The Manufacturers' Outlet Piano Stores, Inc., are
now operating a chain of three stores in Chicago,
having just opened the latest branch at 812 West
Sixty-third street.
The new branch store is to be operated under the
supervision of J. J. Ferris as manager. Mr. Ferris
formerly was a floor salesman at the Milwaukee
avenue store and received his promotion as a result
ot his energy, perseverance, executive ability, and
hard work. The showing made by Mr. Ferris at the
Milwaukee avenue store was phenomenal and he ex-
pects to make his new charge the largest branch of
the company's stores.
The corporation was formed a few years ago by
J. H. Sullivan and H. A. Falvey. Their success in
the piano business passed expectations considering
the short time in business. The reason for the suc-
cess is found in the firm's belief that the customer
must get value received for money spent. Service is
their watchword. Complaints are taken care of
almost the day they are received. A policy of this
kind is bound to be successful if carried through to
the letter.
L. G. Reisener, manager of the Lincoln avenue
store, enjoyed a large business during the year 1924
and expects it to be larger during 1925, by at least
$100,000.
The Manufacturers' Outlet Piano Stores carry the
Baldwin line of pianos exclusively, and they are
staunch promoters for the Baldwin pianos, the com-
pany and its officers. Mr. Sullivan, some years ago,
was a retail salesman in the Baldwin organization.
Thinking so much of their pianos, he is naturally
selling them today as a dealer.
space. A feature in the new location will be an at-
tractive salon for the demonstration of pianos.
Peter Bacigalupi, San Francisco music merchant,
recently moved from quarters on upper Market
street to 107 Golden Gate avenue.
The Miller Music Co. of Salem and Boston re-
cently leased one of the stores in the new block on
High street, Salem, Mass.
Reifsynder's Music House of Lebanon, Pa., re-
cently purchased property at 119 North Sixth street,
Reading, Pa., where a music house will be opened.
Hathway Bros , Grantsville, Va., is enlarging its
stock of musical instruments.
TWO NEW MODELS FROM BALDWIN PIANO CO.
BALDWIN GRAND, STYLE K.
ELLINGTON PIANO, STYLE 391.
Two new grands of artistic finish and design pro-
duced by the Baldwin Piano Company, Cincinnati,
?re shown on this page, the Baldwin Grand Style
"K" and Ellington Grand Style "391." Both are made
in brown mahogany, and with the degree of finish
that distinguishes the instruments of the big Cincin-
nati industry.
The length of the Baldwin Grand shown is 6 feet
2 inches, with the individual high character of grands
of that name. Pianos of this model are splendid ex-
amples of the high quality and artistic appearance of
the instruments bearing the Baldwin name.
The Ellington Grand shown in the picture is 5 feet
6 inches long and the model is finished in a veneer of
great richness in the marking, a fact suggested in the
photograph from which the cut was made. The trade
is aware of the durability of Ellington pianos, a
quality possessed by the new model shown.
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January 24, 1925.
PRESTO
NUMBER OF PIANOS
PRODUCED DURING 1924
Chamber of Commerce Estimates that Output
of Instruments Was 254,561, Which
Is a Little High.
every dealer
knew what
successful
SEEBURG
dealers know
about conduct-
ing and oper-
ating auto-
matic piano
businesses,
every dealer
would be en-
gaged in the
business!
Following the same method which was used a year
ago in estimating piano production for 1923, the
Music Industries Chamber of Commerce has secured
reports from manufacturers of'piano plants covering
their output for 1924, and on this has based its esti-
mate of the total piano production for the year.
The figures show that in 1924, 206,907 upright
pianos were manufactured as compared with 323,659
in 1923. Upright production comprised 81.3 per cent
of the total last year as compared with 84.7 per cent
the preceding year.
The production of grand pianos declined from 58,726
in 1923 to 47,654 in 1924 and constituted 18.7 per cent
of the total production in the latter year as compared
with 15.3 per cent in the former.
The total figures show 254,561 pianos manufactured
last year as compared with 382,385 in 1923, represent-
ing a decrease of almost exactly one-third in the total
production for the >ear.
NEW MEMBERS ADDED TO
PIANO CLUB OF CHICAGO
Ray Crancer's "Deep Stuff" Stirs Complimentary
Mention by President of Club.
In a message to members of the Piano Club of
Chicago, Harry Schoenwald, president, gives em-
phasis to this "deep stuff": "A home without music
is like a life without a friend." And to further eluci-
date, Mr. Schoenwald adds:
"Usually deep stuff belongs at the bottom of the
page, but the above sentence greatly impressed the
writer. He thought it more important than this let-
ter, so he placed it where you could read it first.
"We copied this at the Crancer Music Store, in
Lincoln, Nebraska, and assumed that Ray Crancer
wrote it. The sentence tells you that, even though
you are in business solely for profit, you are doing a
great good every time you place a musical instrument
in somebody's home where they can play and hear
music. This sentence should give much pleasure and
satisfaction to men who have been in the music busi-
ness fifty years or more."
The following are new members of the club: Her-
bert J. Hartwick, signed up by Joe Childs; D. L.
Sterling, signed up by Herbert Griffin; Frank B. Dun-
ford, signed up by Harry Schoenwald.
Out-of-town guests who attended last Monday's
meeting were Mr. and Mrs. Rexford C. Hyre, of
Cleveland. Mr. Hyre is a member of the club, is high
in the councils of the trade, and is the leading spirit,
together with Dan Grumbaugh, in the "Music Club
of Cleveland," a new organization patterned after the
Chicago club; Mr. O'Meara, editor of the tuner's
paper from Kansas City; Ed. Matusek, of Racine;
Beeman Sibley, of the Kohler Industries, San Fran-
cisco, and Harlan H. Hart, of the May Co., of
Cleveland.
LATE FACTS GATHERED
IN THE MUSIC TRADE
Brief Items of Activities in the Business Collected
in Many States.
J. P. SEEBURG
PIANO CO.
CHICAGO
"Leaders in the
Automatic Line"
General Offices: 1510 Dayton St.
Factory 1508-16 Dayton St.
Kensberg's Music Shop, Camden, Ark., has been
remodeled to include a large balcony for display pur-
poses.
E. E. Pyke, of Daynes-Beebe Music Co., is the
secretary of the Choral Society which gives the
"Messiah" among other concert numbers.
A new branch of the Bush & Lane Piano Co. has
just been opened here at 510 Washington street, ad-
joining the Liberty Theater, Olympia, Wash.
The Brooks Music House, F. A. Winter Music
House and the Russell & Rigg Music House, all of
Altoona, Pa., are participators in the broadcasting
program from Station WFBG operated by the Al-
toona Tribune and the William F. Gable Co.
.
The Portola Radio Co., Wilmington, Del., was re-
cently incorporated to manufacture cabinets. The
capital stock is listed at $20,000.
L. E. Mayfieid is owner and manager of the May-
field Music Co., which recently opened for business
at 16 First avenue, East, Hutchinson, Kan.
The Tusting Piano Co., located at 609 Mattison
avenue, Asbury Park, N. J., recently completed altera-
tions to provide for a radio department.
The entire music stock of the Merz Music Store,
Marysville, O , has been purchased by the Holycross
Music Store and transferred to the warerooms of the
latter firm.
The Landon-Gleckner Music Co., Williamsport,
Pa., was formally opened recently at 427 Market
street with a complete line of music goods.
The Webber Music Co., Red Wing, Minn., has ac-
quired the exclusive Victor representation in that city
through the purchase of the stocks of J. J. Ferrin &
Son and the Steaffens Studio.
CORSON, THE PIANO MAN,
CORRECTS ERROR IN ITEM
The Live Dealer, of Dalles, Oregon, Has No Branch,
But Has New Warerooms.
The Dalles, Oregon, January 17, 1925.
Editor Presto: In looking over your January
3rd issue we note an error in the item on page 11
about us. We do not have a branch store in Dufur,
Oregon, but have merely moved in new headquarters
here in The Dalles.
Our new store is located in the Walther-Williams
Building, with the music studio downstairs. We have
a sixty-foot window display. Our record booths are
built in the style of a California bungalow, each sound-
proof. We have a beautiful room for grands, also
for the registering pianos, uprights and phonographs,
each department separate. We are having some
photographs taken of our new store and will be glad
to send you one.
We are very proud to announce that we have one
of the finest showrooms on the coast. We trust you
will change your article in recard to our store being
located in Dufur. We have no connections whatever
at Dufur. Thanking you, we are,
Very truly yours,
CORSON T H E MUSIC MAN.
G. E. Corson.
NELSON=WIGGEN CO.'S
WAREROOMS AMONG FINEST
Quality Merchandise Shown in Retail Warerooms
Includes Pianos, Playerpianos, Phonographs, Radio.
One of the most beautiful retail warerooms in Chi-
cago is that of the Nelson-Wiggen Co., 1731 Belmont
avenue. The company has been in its present loca-
tion for only a year and has already established an
excellent trade among a good class of customers who
have responded to the persistent sales methods, and
the well chosen line of merchandise represented by
the Chicago firm.
The retail wareroom has an admirable location, in
the fact that it is near a big business center on the
North side of Chicago. It has a frontage of ninety
feet, and the merchandise on display is visible from
a good distance. The lighting effect at night is espe-
cially attractive and draws attention to the large
window.
Among the new merchandise recently added is the
Zenith Radio Corporation products.
The company in expanding its wholesale force for
the large business it has acquired, has secured the
services of Lee Jones, who will be general representa-
tive. Mr. Jones took leave of the company's head-
quarters early this week for a tour of the East.
AN ENGLISH LAW.
According to the laws of great Britain on piano
sales, if a trader lets out on hire-purchase a piano
which is to be paid for within a year from the date
of letting, the agreement is enforceable at law, and
any terms agreed on by the parties can be sued upon.
But if the last payment were to be made a year and
a day after the agreement the contract would be un-
enforceable. So also would it be if the payments
were to extend over a number of years, but the hirer
had the option, by paying the amount due, to be-
come the owner before the appointed time. The fact
that a five-year agreement can be terminated within
a year at either party's option nevertheless makes it
an invalid contract if it is not in writing.
ADDS STORE EQUIPMENT.
The McKannon Piano Co., 1620 California street,
Denver, Col., has just completed redecorating and
refinishing its store and providing a number of up-to-
date aids to pleasant selling. The warerooms are
well equipped, carrying a complete stock of musical
merchandise.
FRANK STORY ON EASTERN TRIP.
Frank Story, vice-president of the Story & Clark
Piano Co , 323 S. Wabash avenue, Chicago, left his
office last week to tour the East, where he will visit
friends in the trade and the Story & Clark branch
stores. Mr. Story will return to headquarters at an
early date.
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