14
PRESTO
June 27, 1925.
TRADE ITEMS FROM
PORTLAND, ORE., FIELD
BALDWIN DISPLAY AT CONVENTION
Oregon Music Trades Association Raises
Funds to Entertain National Music Clubs
and Other News of Current Interest.
The Baldwin Piano
Co., Cincinnati, chose an
admirable location for
the exhibition of its line
at the Drake Hotel dur-
ing the week of the an-
nual convention of the
music trades.
Instru-
ments that exemplify the
fine construction and tone
of the Baldwin were
shown in a well ap-
pointed suite on the mez-
zanine floor. The ex-
hibit ranged from the
small school piano, in an
upright model, to a hand-
some reproducing grand
in period design.
A large electric sign
flashing the word Bald-
win was plainly visible
from the mezzanine floor
and the lobby below.
A largely attended meeting of the executive com-
mittee of the Oregon Music Trades Association was
held in Portland, Ore., June 12, at which G. F.
Johnson of the G. F. Johnson Piano Co., presided. A
committee headed by Mr. Johnson started out and
raised $6,000 to make up a deficit for the entertain-
ment of the National Music Club's biennial conven-
tion which was held in Portland June 6 to 13. This
was widely printed as one of the good acts of the
association.
Among the recommendations was one of the finance
committee suggesting that the membership fees be
raised. This will be voted on at the next meeting.
The membership committee reported twenty-four
additional memberships, twelve of these were reported
by Harry Quackenbush, manager of the Portland
branch of the Bush & Lane Piano Co., and twelve by
Charles Soule, district manager of the Starr Piano
Co. A state-wide meeting was scheduled to be held
during the Rose Festival, but it was postponed until
a later day as several of the prominent dealers wished
to leave the city early so as to motor to Los Angeles
for the second annual convention of the Western
Music Trades Association held in that city June
23 to 26.
Among the Portland, Ore., music dealers who are
attending the second annual convention of the West-
ern Music Trades Association at Los Angeles this
week are the following: G. F. Johnson, of the F. G.
Johnson Piano Co., and president of the Oregon
Music Trades Association, who was scheduled to
make the opening address of the convention; B. F.
Brassfield, manager of the Portland branch of the
Wiley B. Allen Co., who made a report concerning
the reorganization of the Oregon Music Trades Asso-
ciation and its aims and purposes for the future;
Elmer Hunt, wholesale manager of the Portland,
Ore., branch of Sherman, Clay & Co.; Charles Dun-
dore, western representative of the Bush & Gerts
pianos; Frank Lucas, of the Seiberling-Lucas Music
Co.; Charles Soule, district manager of the Starr
Piano Co., with headquarters in Portland; L. D.
Heater, of the L. D. Heater Co., and Harry Melvin,
of the Portland branch of the Wiley B. Allen Co.
Among the Portland visitors during the past week
was P. Gorham, Pacific Coast representative of the
American Piano Co., who visited the G. F. Johnson
Piano Co., Ampico in the Chickering representatives;
the Reed, French Piano Co., Knabe Ampico dealers,
and the Wiley B. Allen Co., representing the Ampico
in the Mason & Hamlin and Haines Bros.
Four concert grand Chickering pianos, furnished
by the G. F. Johnson Piano Co. of Portland, Ore.,
were used the week of June 14 to 20 by "The Musical
Aviators," who are putting on a spectacular act at
the Liberty theater.
Madame Schumann-Heink, famous diva, gave two
concerts recently in the Auditorium, Portland, Ore.,
for the benefit of the American Legion and the main-
tenance fund of the Doernbecher hospital. Her ac-
companist was Arthur Loesser, who came from New
York especially to play her accompaniments. A
Steinway concert grand was used, furnished through
the courtesy of Sherman, Clay & Co., the Portland
representatives of the Steinway.
H. L. Moore, music dealer of Salem, Ore., had his
BALDWIN ROOM AT DRAKE.
shoulder broken and received other injuries recently
when a piano which he was handling slipped and
fell on him.
NEW DEPARTMENT FOR
WILL A. WATKIN COMPANY
Uses of Various Kinds of Musical Instruments in
Modern Home Are Shown.
HENRY 0 . JOHNSON
PIANOS ARE PRAISED
Two Letters Received by the Henry G. John-
son Piano Mfg. Co., Tell of Dealers'
Satisfaction with "the Goods."
The Henry G. Johnson Piano Mfg. Co., Bellevue,
la., with Chicago offices at 307 Great Northern Build-
The Will A. Watkin Company, Dallas, Texas, has ing, strives for the commendation of the dealers
established a Home Entertainment department, in and the satisfaction of the retail customers, in every
which modern musical instruments suitable for the operation of piano construction. The name of the
various kinds of homes are shown.
head of the company, Henry G. Johnson, is well
This showing includes the popular small upright known in the trade as an expert piano builder who
piano, the apartment or baby grand piano, the new has been active in the industry for many years. His
console type phonograph, and the movable Radiola; ambitions are equal to his skill so that merit in an
the Ampico, the re-enacting piano operated by elec-
instrument froni\ the Bellevue factory is always
tricity.
expected by the dealers.
The Henry G. Johnson instruments have won
FURNITURE MEN SEE SHOW.
• A great many men among the 1,500 furniture deal- success and they are becoming more and more in
ers registered at the Mid-Summer Style Show at the demand as the public becomes familiar with them.
American Furniture Mart, Chicago, this week, in- Every day brings expressions of satisfaction with
clude pianos and other music goods in their presen- the instruments from representative dealers. Here
tations. Seven hundred furniture manufacturers have are two letters recently received by the company:
Cincinnati, Ohio, June 2, 1925.
exhibits in the display rooms which cover seventeen Henry G. Johnson Piano
Mfg. Co.,
floors or thirty-two acres of floor space. The exhibits Bellevue, Iowa.
include new furniture of every variety, ranging from
Gentlemen: Enclosed you will find settlement for
baby carriages and high chairs to davenports.
piano recently shipped. We wish to state that this
instrument proved very, very satisfactory to us.
Yours truly,
THE O. K. HOUCK MONUMENT.
A handsome monument was recently erected in
T H E W E L S H B E N N E T T PIANO CO.
Forest Hill cemetery, Memphis, Tenn., by the Al
Butte, Montana, June 1, 1925.
Chyma Temple of that city, in memory of O. K. Henry G. Johnson Piano Co.,
Houck, former piano dealer and founder of the O. K. Bellevue, Iowa.
Gentlemen: In reply to your favor of the 28th,
Houck Piano Co. The monument bears the inscrip-
tion, "Distributor of Sunshine." All the stores of the ult., would say so far as we have been able to judge,
value for the money.
company in Memphis, Little Rock and elsewhere your pianos are very good
Yours very truly,
were closed for the day out of respect to the memory
ORTON BROTHERS.
of the departed head of the business.
W. C. Orton, Pres.
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