April 11, 1925.
PIANO CONVENTION JOYS
FOR WOMEN VISITORS
Marshall Field & Co., Chicago, to Entertain
Ladies of Music Trade with Style Show
and Luncheon at Big Store.
The mothers, wives and daughters of men of the
music trade visiting the annual convention in Chicago
in June are foremost in the thoughts of the enter-
tainment planners and the various committees of the
music-merchants' national association, and other trade
associations as well as that of the Piano Club of Chi-
cago are forming plans for making joyous the hours
of the lady visitors during the big week. But pleas-
ures are being provided outside of the music trade.
A most notable event of convention week will be
on the Tuesday after the opening of the convention
when the retail store of Marshall Field & Co. will
take charge of the women visitors for the entire day.
There will be a visit to the various departments of
the store, a style show and luncheon. Everything of
interest in the store will be shown the women and a
personally conducted tour will be had.
So that there will be attention given as is the
policy of the greatest retail merchandise store in the
world it is suggested that all the women who expect
to be in Chicago during the convention drop a line
to Mrs. Genevieve Reid, Ninth floor, Marshall Field
& Company, State and Randolph street, Chicago.
The retail store of Marshall Field & Company has
been pronounced the shopping center of the world.
The building is twelve stories high and covers four
of the largest blocks in Chicago. It is in the loop
and a short distance from the hotels. The Drake,
the headquarters of the convention, is just a mile
from Marshall Field & Company. More details of
the tour will be given when Mrs. Reid is in receipt
of the number who will attend.
NEWS ABOUT THE MEN
WHO RETAIL THE PIANOS
Brief Items of Trade News Gathered Here and
There in Music Field.
The California Phonograph Co , of San Francisco,
has opened a branch store at 1432 San Pablo avenue,
Oakland, Cal.
A music department has been added to the store of
Edward A. Cotino, 724 West Vernon avenue, Los
Angeles, Cal.
Sumner G. Duckworth has opened a music house
on Central square, Bridgewater, Mass.
Mrs. E. B. Daniels recently opened a music shop
at Big Lake, Tex.
O. O. Scrudder has succeeded the Kelly Music
Co., Hotel Dalton block, Dalton, Ga.
William L. Goehring, 210 Main street, West New-
ton, Pa , is erecting a new building at the corner of
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Main and Water streets, to which he will move his
business when completed.
Secondo Pierpaoli, music merchant of New Haven,
Conn., recently moved to new quarters at 100 Wash-
ington street.
Sol Lasting has opened a general music store at
409 Court street, Portsmouth, Va.
The Waterloo Dry Goods Co., Waterloo, Iowa,
has added pianos, phonographs, music rolls, phono-
graph records and radio receivers.
The Gaskell Music Co., of Nebraska City, Neb.,
has purchased the furniture and music stock of the
J. T. Swan Co., of Auburn, Neb.
The W. Wilbur Co. has opened a music house at
197 Hudson avenue, Albany, N. Y.
NOTES FROM THE
FAR NORTHWEST
B. R. Brassfield New Manager of Portland
Store and Astoria Has Complete Music
House of Cabban.
The Wiley B. Allen Company was visited the past
week by M. Payette, of the Payette Music Company,
of Aberdeen, Wash., who was recently appointed the
Wiley B. Allen representative of that place. Mr.
Payette was accompanied by his wife and came to
Portland to consult with B. R. Brassfield, the man-
ager of the Portland, Ore., branch of Wiley B. Allen.
The Portland, Ore., music dealers had a pleasant
visit from Alice M. Cabban, the proprietress of the
Cabban Music Co., of Astoria, Ore. Mrs. Cabban
was accompanied by her husband, who is her assist-
ant in the store. They have the only complete music
store in the seaport city. The Cline Music Company
is now selling out and Mrs. Cabban says that in spite
of the sale their business has been excellent. They
carry a fine stock of merchandise and are the repre-
sentatives of the Starr, .Gulbransen and Bush & Lane
pianos, the Starr, Strand and Cheney phonographs,
the Gennett and Okeh records and a full stock of
musical merchandise, and have a complete sheet music
department.
PINE BLUFF, ARK., HAS
NEW BUNGALOW SHOP
The Nowlin-Carr Music Co. Opens Store in Center
of Shopping District.
The Nowlin-Carr Music Co., Pine Bluff, Ark., is
also known as the "Bungalow Shop" and the location,
at 606 Main street, brings it within the city's shop-
ping district.
The Bungalow Shop is practical as well as novel.
A homelike atmosphere is given the main salesroom
and immediately upon entering the establishment the
customer feels perfectly "at home." A local news-
paper said :
"On entering the front door you are apparently
upon the front lawn of a modern bungalow home,
you then step upon the spacious front porch and
from there into the central hallway. On each side of
the hallway are arranged sound-proof demonstration
rooms.
"These rooms are small and cozy, with French win-
dows in front and equipped with comfortable furni-
ture and electric fans for the comfort of patrons.
Here are complete stocks of Victor records which
you may listen to and make your selection without
interruption.
"Adjoining these record rooms is the large piano
parlor. This room is handsomely furnished and
here on display are the grand pianos.
"Adjoining the piano room proper is the room in
which are displayed used pianos and for-rent pianos."
The policy of the Nowlin-Carr Music Company is
"Service with a Smile." Their purpose is to make
the customer feel a warm welcome radiating from
every fixture as well as from every member of the
firm.
The piano line includes the Knabe, Chickering,
Fischer and others, with the Ampico mechanism.
The Victor Victrola, Victor records, and Conn band
instruments will be carried.
FEATURED THE CELCO.
The A. B. Chase with the Celco reproducing me-
dium received excellent publicity in Milwaukee re-
cently through the appearance of Marguerite Volavy,
eminent Bohemian pianiste, in a demonstration at
the Cooking and Home Makers' School held at the
Milwaukee Auditorium. Madame Volavy gave a
thirty-five minute program each afternoon, during
which she alternated in her playing with the Celco.
During her stay in Milwaukee she is also appearing
in service concerts in churches and at private homes
under arrangements made with Edmund Gram, Inc.
AKRON, 0., PIANO FIRM
IS INCORPORATED
The Smith & Van Scoyoc Grand Piano Co.,
New Title Among the Music Firms
of Ohio City.
The Smith & Van Scoyoc Grand Piano Co. is the
new title of an active Akron, Ohio, firm which was
incorporated last week, with E. E. Smith, president,
F. W. Van Scoyoc, vice-president and treasurer, and
L. V. Evans, secretary.
The company has remodeled the warerooms at 133
East Market street in the Eagle Temple Building and
has several hundred feet of floor space in the adjoin-
ing room at 135 East Market street, thus gaining
more than three thousand feet of floor space on the
ground floor. This adds three additional beautiful
parlors to the store. Another striking improvement
is a new front giving large window display on East
Market street.
The location of the Smith & Van Scoyoc Grand
Piano Co. is a most desirable one for a progressive
and growing music house. The store is located just
a short distance from the Harbaugh Piano Company
in the same location for the past twenty-five years.
In the juxtaposition .of the two lively music houses
there is a beginning for a new piano row in that
retail portion of Akron. The Smith & Van Scoyoc
Grand Piano Co. and the Harbaugh Piano Company
would welcome other piano houses from up town to
form a new piano center.
The C. A. House Co., 1141 Market street, Wheel-
ing, W. Va., plans to make extensive alterations and
will add stock in several departments.
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