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Issue: 1925 2032

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July 4, 1925.
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BIG LINE OF MUSIC GOODS
S. H. Sterchi, Terre Haute, Ind., Builds Bigger
Business by Fair Dealing.
The jewelry and music store of Sam H. Sterchi,
Fourth street and Wabash avenue, Terre Haute,
Ind., has progressed substantially since its establish-
ment in October, 1898. From a small beginning the
firm has grown to one of outstanding importance in
the trade.
The stock of the Sterchi store is complete in all
departments and controls the Holton band instru-
ments in Vigo and five adjoining Indiana and Illinois
counties. Almost every musical organization of the
community has been outfitted by the Sterchi store.
Among these bands and orchestras are those at the
Wiley, Garfield and Gerstmeyer high schools.
The stock includes a full line of brass instruments
and music and orchestra accessories.
SITUATION IN SUPPLIES
Pacts in Various Lines of Commodities Which Enter
Into Musical Instrument Manufacture.
Wool sales held at Geelong, Australia, during the
week ended April 25 developed little competition, the
highest price realized being 29d. per pound. More
than half the present season's clip has already been
sold at excellent prices, however, and with careful
feeding of the market it is generally believed that
the remainder will yield a satisfactory return, accord-
ing to cable advices from the United States commis-
sioner.
Rubber products exported from the United States
in March, valued at $4,411,107, set a new high
monthly record.
Imports of Philippine mahogany into the United
States during April, 1925, consisted of 594,000 board
feet of sawed lumber. No logs were imported.
Wool production in Canada during the year ended
March 31, 1925, is estimated at 15,111,719 pounds, of
which 5,625,265 were exported. Net imports during
the year amounted to 13,544,482 pounds, making 23,-
030,936 retained in Canada for manufacturing pur-
poses, or 4,832,170 pounds less than during the pre-
vious year.
H. G. Fisher, proprietor of the Fisher Music Store,
Grogan street, Fremont, Ohio, is holding a sale to
close out his stock prior to retiring from business.
NEW MILWAUKEE RETAILER
Vesey Walker, Assisted by Experts, Opens the
Walker Musical Exchange at 710 Grand Avenue.
The Walker Musical Exchange is a new musical
merchandise business at 710 Grand avenue, Mil-
waukee, Wis., established recently by Vesey Walker,
an experienced salesman. A general line of small
goods and band and orchestra instruments is car-
ried. Mr. Walker will take charge of the reed instru-
ment section himself.
Mr. Walker, head of the concern, has a wide ac-
quaintance with musicians. He is leader of a seventy-
five piece uniformed saxophone band and an orchestra
of twenty pieces, and a new band which he is organ-
izing for advanced students is expected to be his
greatest success.
He has had valuable practical experience in con-
ducting band and orchestra goods departments in
important stores like the Kesselman-O'Driscoll Co.
and the Carberry-Parker Co. of Milwaukee as well
as with leading houses elsewhere.
The string instrument department is in charge of
Ray Eberle, a well-known teacher, and the brass
goods section is managed by J. Theick, formerly solo
trumpeter with the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra.
UKE BOOKS FOR UKELAND
New York Publishers Send Quantities of Ukulele
Folios to Home of "Jumping Flea."
"You've heard of the American who tried to sell
linen to Madeira, and his pal, a salesman for a Mil-
waukee brewery, who used to take in Pilsen and
Munich, in Germany, on his selling trips. All related
to the lad who carried coals to Newcastle.
Well, none of the aforementioned gentry has a
thing on Robbins-Engel, Inc., New York, publishers
of ukulele books. For, in the year that that firm has
been developing and exploiting its famous ukulele
catalog, it has sold more than 50,000 "uke" folios
to no less a place than Hawaii—home and natal place
of the ukulele, or "jumping flea," as they call it on the
much publicized beach of Waikiki.
An order for five thousand books, received last
week from the Hawaii Sales Co., Ltd., 1009 Niuianu
street, Honolulu, included Ukulele Ike's Comic Songs
for the Ukulele," Nos. 1 and 2, "W. C. Handy's
Famous Comic Blues," and the following famous
books by Hank Linet,—"Hank's One Hour Course
in Ukulele Playing," "Hank's College Ditties,"
"Hank's Songs of the Sunny South" and "Plank's
Comic Camp Ditties," all of Robbins-Engel publica-
tions.
INCREASES P H O N O G R A P H STOCK.
In its newly acquired location on East Mill street,
the A. B. Smith Piano Co., Akron, O., will expand its
talking machine department, where provision has been
made for larger stocks of the lines carried and for
more efficient methods of presenting and demon-
strating them. A complete line of radio will be a
feature of the business in the new location. The firm
moved last week from 11 Buchtell avenue.
GOOD W I N D O W ADVERTISING.
Trade visitors at Chicago are particularly im-
pressed with the beautiful displays of Lyon & Healy's
wholesale lines in the ten windows of their Chicago
store. The feature lines of Couturier band instruments
and saxophones and Washburn stringed instruments
are shown very effectively. The popular priced Ameri-
DEALER E N T E R S F U R N I T U R E BUSINESS.
can professional band instruments and American Con-
The Silverstone Music Co., wholesale representa-
servatory stringed instruments are also attractively
tive of the Edison phonograph in St. Louis, will
displayed. Various products of the wholesale piano open a furniture store in the seven-story building
and phonograph accessories division include new leased at 412 North Twelfth street. Talking ma-
Capital player roll cabinets. In addition to the win- chines will be included in the presentations, but the
dows a very complete display of band and stringed wholesale and retail Edison phonograph and record
instruments, woodwinds, violins, drums, etc., are
lines and radio will be continued at the Olive street
shown on the fifth floor of Lyon & Healy's building. store of the company.
HIGH GRADE
SLINGERLAND
Folding Organs
School Organs
May Bell
Practice Keyboards
Attention Soliofted
A. L. WHITE MFG. CO.
215 En^swood Ave., CHICAGO, ILL.
Slingerland Banjos
VIOLIN, CELLO AND DOUBLE
BASS WOUND STRINGS
OF SUPERIOR QUALITY
Guaranteed for thirty days after they are «old
SEND FOR CATALOG
are sold the country over because
they are Highest quality and sold
at a reasonable price.
Over 40 Styles of Banjos, Banjo Mandolins, Tenor Banjos
and Banjo Ukuleles, to select from.
Write for Catalogue
S. SIMON
8106 Chappell Avenue,
CHICAGO, ILLS.
SLINGERLAND BANJO CO.
1815 Orchard Street
CHICAGO
The Piano Repair Shop
Pianos and Phonographs Rebuilt by
Expert Workmen
Player-actions installed. Instruments
refinished or remodeled and actions and
keys repaired. Work guaranteed. Prices
reasonable.
Our-of-town dealers' repair work solic-
ited. Write for details and terms.
THE PIANO REPAIR SHOP
339 South Wabash Ave.
Chicago
C. G. CONN, Ltd., Elkhart, Ind.
C. D. GREENLEAF, Pres.
J. F. BOYER, Sec'y
World's largest manufacturers of High Grade Band and Orchestra Instruments. Employs 1,000
expert workmen.
All of the most celebrated Artists use and endorse Conn Instruments.
Famous Bandmasters and Orchestra Directors highly endorse and recommend the use of the
Conn Instruments in their organizations.
Conn Instruments are noted for their ease of playing, light and reliable valve or key action;
quick response, rich tonal quality, perfect intonation, tone carrying quality, artisticness of design,
beautiful finish and reliable construction.
Conn Instruments are sent to any point in th U. S. subject to ten days free trial. Branch store
or agencies will be found in all large cities. Write for catalogues, prices, etc.
C. G. CONN, Ltd.
DEPT. MS.
ELKHART, IND.
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PRESTO
July 4, 1925.
COINOLAS
FOR
RESTAURANTS, CAFES and
A M U S E M E N T CENTERS
Style C-2
FROM THE BIGGEST
ORCHESTRION
RADIO HURTS MUSIC SALES
Consensus of Opinion at the Recent New York
Convention of Sheet Music Dealers Con-
,demns Unrestricted Broadcasting.
Radio broadcasting may stimulate for a time the
sale of sheet music, but in the long run it hurts the
retail music trade, according to the consensus of
opinion expressed at the convention of the National
Association of Sheet Music Dealers in New York.
A resolution was adopted pledging the co-operation
of the association with the music publishers in their
efforts to have radio broadcasting subject to the same
copyright and royalty regulations as are other forms
of public performance.
Some dealers expressed the opinion that the sale
of certain kinds of sheet music was unquestionably
increased through the advertising they received by
the radio. The latest jazz hit, it was pointed out,
would have a marked success with radio fans, but
for only a very few weeks. The reason, it was said,
was that radio audiences hear the tune from every
station, many times each day, and are soon so tired
of it that there is no possibility of a continued sale
of the music for several months, as was usual in
former years.
It was admitted that the demand for music of a
semi-classical nature, as well as for standard songs,
is increased by radio broadcasting, especially if they
happen to be interpreted by good artists. Many songs
of a generation ago, it was pointed out, which had
been forgotten, have recently been revived through
the radio.
Samuel Fox, music publisher, told the dealers that
the real solution of the copyright problem will be the
regulation of broadcasting stations by the publishers
as regards the frequency and manner of broadcasting
popular hits. In this way, he said, publishers could
prevent compositions from losing their popularity in
a few weeks through being played too often.
Mr. Fox asked that the conference strike out those
portions of the record containing statements of deal-
ers that broadcasting helped sales. He contended
that if such statements of a minority were included
in the official report they might have an adverse effect
on the publishers campaign to uphold the copyright
law.
IN SMALL GOODS DEPARTMENT
Greater Interest in Musical Merchandise Shows in
New Stores and Old Ones.
Dealers who say they observe a decline in the
favor of the jazzy roll and record, a decrease in
supply of sheet music frankly jazzy, also say they
see no effect on the instruments associated with the
production of jazz music in the orchestras. The call
for banjos, saxophones, clarinets, and drums con-
tinues to increase even in the face of admitted in-
difference or disfavor for jazzy music.
The Music Shop was opened recently in Purcell,
Okla., under the direction of Merle Little and Otis
Morton. A general line of music goods is carried.
The mahogany and cedar shipments from eastern
Nicaragua to the United States during the first quar-
ter of 1925 were unusually heavy; they exceeded
those of the December quarter—usually the largest
of the year—by nearly 400,000 board, feet of
mahogany.
Wilson & Barber, Buffalo, N. Y., has moved its
branch in Kenmore, N. Y., from the old quarters in
Delaware avenue, to a new building erected in Dela-
ware avenue.
A patent for a drum pedal has been invented by
Chester E. Heyn, Omaha, and the pedal placed on
the market. The Heyn Drum Pedal Co., consisting
of C. E. Heyn, president and general manager, and
E. T. Gordon, secretary and treasurer, ha§ -offices in
the Karbach Block.
William Lewis & Son, musical merchandise job-
bers, located for the past twenty-three years at 225
South Wabash avenue, Chicago, moved recently to
larger showrooms at 201-207 South Wabash avenue.
The company is widely known to the trade and pro-
fessionals for its violin department which was the
foundation of the business established in 1889.
GETS ROLL AGENCY.
The agency for the Capital roll cabinets made by
the Capital Furniture Co., Noblesville, Ind., has been
taken over by Lyon & Healy, Chicago. The terri-
tory assigned includes the states of Illinois, Wiscon-
sin and Michigan and every state west of the Missis-
sippi. There are twenty-six models in the roll cabinet
line which has been well known to the trade for a
number of years.
DRIVE FOR ROLLS.
A strong drive for sales of Q R S music rolls is
being made by the Simon Piano Co., Spokane, Wash.,
and Miss Charlotte Wassen, in charge of that depart-
ment for the store, says the drive has stimulated sales
throughout the territory, which includes northern
Oregon, eastern Washington and northern Idaho. A.
L. Quinn, Pacific coast manager for the Q R S
Music Co , says that roll demand is good at present
in the section served by the Simon Piano Co.
FOR RADIO CONFERENCE.
Plans are now under way by the Department of
Commerce at Washington to hold a meeting this
year to deal with radio problems in the United States.
A tentative date in September has been set by Sec-
retary of Commerce Hoover and it is possible the
date will be finally confirmed. The date set coin-
cides with that of the meeting of the International
Telegraphy Conference at Paris, France.
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