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November 7, 1925.
PRESTO
NOTES FROM PORTLAND
MUSIC TRADE FIELD
What Some of the Hard Workers in the
Oregon Metropolis Are Doing This
v
Busy Fall Season.
"Sometime," "Oh, Lovey, Be Mine" and "Oh, Say,
Can I See You Tonight," the last number being re-
served for the prettiest model. At the People's
Theater Chuck Whitehead and his Entertaining Eight
featured "Let's Wander Away," with a special ar-
rangement. Sklare says that the sale of this new
Remick hit has been tremendous.
B. R. Brassfield, manager of the Portland branch
of the Wiley B. Allen Co., and who has supervision
over the other branches in the Pacific Northwest, is
making an extensive tour visiting the company's
agencies in eastern Oregon and Idaho.
The Reed, French Piano Co., of Portland, Ore.,
during the last week of October, gave an Ampico-in-
the-Knabe demonstration in their Knabe studio with
Fred Colber, Ampico artist, who spent the entire
week in their establishment. Mr. Colber's coming
was announced by extensive newspaper advertise-
ments, by special invitations sent out to the firm's
mailing list and by attractive window displays. In
their main window a Knabe Ampico with the front
open, showing the inner workings of the instrument,
was kept playing all day and evening, with the in-
vitation to come in and hear the artist in the studio.
Mr. Colber had large audiences to hear him, many
hundreds taking advantage of the invitation, and Mr.
Reed said that many good prospects were obtained
and attractive sales consummated.
Henry Arcard has returned as assistant of Louis
Mack, who has his sheet music department in the
Portland Wiley B. Allen store. He was formerly
with Mr. Mack and for the past couple of years has
been connected with the piano department of the
Bush & Lane Piano Co. Mr. Arcard takes the place
of Ralph Blake, who resigned to go to Washington,
D. C, where he will enter the government service.
Maye Grinde has been placed in charge of the
Ampico roll department of the Wiley B. Allen Port-
land branch, replacing Elizabeth Steele, who resigned
to join her husband in business in Seattle. Miss
Grinde has a beautiful soprano voice, and it is the
purpose of Mr. Brassfield, manager of the firm, to
use her in demonstrating the Ampico in the Mason
& Hamlin, for which the company are Portland
agents.
Clinton Miller has been appointed manager of the
new Hyatt Music Store branch, at 1422 Sandy boule-
vard. Mr. Miller was for six years connected with
the Radio Corporation of America. He will be as-
sisted by his wife. The branch will carry a full line
of Victor, Edison, Brunswick and Columbia phono-
graphs and records; will have a radio department
featuring the Atwater-Kent and Radiolas, and in the Store Established Thirty-nine Years Ago to Be Con-
piano department will feature the Baldwin lines.
tinued by Starr Piano Co.
Irving Sklare, manager of the Remick Song & Gift
After
thirty-nine
of business life in Ravenna,
Shop, brought the Remick numbers to the front last Ohio, C. H. France, years
veteran
dealer, has retired
week in all of the principal theaters of the city. At to private life. His store at piano
North
street
the Rivoli, where Mary Pickford is playing "Little has been taken over by the Starr Piano Chestnut
of Cleve-
Annie Rooney," this number was featured both by land, with Frank L. Carter of Cleveland, Co.
direct repre-
the orchestra, assisted by Monty Austin, Remick sentative of the company, as resident manager.
plugger, and announcement made on the screen that Carter will be assisted by O. J. Doyle, also Mr.
from
Remick's had the exclusive selling of the number in Cleveland.
Portland.
It is the intention of the Starr Piano Co. to estab-
At the Liberty Monty Austin and Frank Trever
a permanent agency in that city, and an intro-
featured Remick numbers, among others "Let's Wan- lish
sale of Starr player and straight pianos, as
der Away," "Oh, Can I See You Tonight," "If I ductory
as Starr phonographs and records is announced
Had a Girl Like You," and "You Told Me to Go." well
At the Columbia, Sklare arranged for Harry Linden in the newspapers.
Mr. Carter reports excellent sales and that he has
and his all artists' orchestra to use Remick numbers
at the fall Bery Style Show, using "Stepping To," found the Ravenna public very appreciative of Starr
"Let's Wander Away," "You Told Me To Go," merits.
C. H. FRANCE, VETERAN
OHIO DEALER, RETIRES
QUALITY
in Name and in Fact
TONE, MATERIALS, CONSTRUCTION,
WORKMANSHIP. DESIGN—all In ac-
cord with the broadest experience—are
the elements which five character to
Bush & Lane Products.
BUSH&LANE PIANOS
WISH ft LAME CEOIUAN PLAYER PIANOS
t«k» hiftfi place, therefore, in any cetn-
rison of nigh grade pianos because of
»individuality of character which dis-
tinguishes them in all essentials of merit
ana value.
K
HUH ft LANE PIAJK) 00.
SPENCER
The Intrinsic Qualities of This
Piano Command Attention
A High Grade Instrument at a
Moderate Price
First Class Factory and Equipment
Ample Production and Service
SPENCER PIANO COMPANY, Inc.
FACTORY: Thirty-First St. and First Are.
OFFICES: 338 Etat 31st Street, New York N. Y.
SOME LATE DOINGS IN
THE RETAIL TRADE
YOUNQSTOWN, 0., FIRM
OBSERVES ANNIVERSARY
The Yahrling-Rayner Music Co. Celebrates
Twenty-sixth Return of Date of Its
Founding in 1899.
The twenty-sixth anniversary of the founding of
the Yahrling-Rayner Music Co., Youngstown, Ohio,
is being celebrated in a variety of ways that are
bringing the importance of the house in things musical
before the public. The company was organized in
1899 by Charles H. Yahrling and Harry M. Duns-
paugh and the first name of the business was the
Mahoning Piano Co.
The business was later known as the Greenwood-
Yahrling Co. and this subsequently was changed to
the Yahrling-Brown Co. and incorporated at $50,000.
In 1910 the Brown interests in the firm were bought
by H. T. Rayner and the business entered upon a
remarkable era of expansion. In 1912 the firm pur-
chased the entire business of the Scott & Jones Co.,
the oldest music house in the city.
Mr. Yahrling, who is active in the management of
the business, is also prominent in local, state and na-
tional trade associations. He is now vice-president
of the National Association of Music Merchants, past
president of the Ohio Music Merchants' Associa-
tion, and one of the officials of the Ampico Society.
Mrs. Rayner retains the interest in the firm held by
her late husband.
JOHN C. FREUND LEFT $292,036.
John C. Fretind, editor of "Music Trades," who
died June 30, 1924, left an estate appraised at $292,036.
He owned real estate at Long Lake, N. Y., valued at
$104,990 and had securities appraised at $156,393.
The securities included $86,450 as the sum paid by
his partner, Milton Weil, for 500 shares of the Music
Trades Company and $69,368 for 333 shares of Musi-
cal America. Mr. Freund left the bulk of his estate
to his wife and three daughters.
The piano salon of the Outlet Co., Providence,
R. I., is holding a clearance sale of rebuilt and used
pianos and players.
QUALITY FIRST and FIRST QUALITY
Items of General News Value from the Field
Throughout the Country.
The new Kress store at 111-117 West Federal
street, Youngstown, Ohio, carries sheet music, rec-
ords and radios.
The Music Box has been opened at 205 Powell
street, San Francisco, Cal. This is the second store
in a chain which features sheet music and phono-
graph records.
Goodyke & Palmbos has succeeded to Fred Goo-
dyke in the music business in Zeeland. Mich.
Gibson Bros, has acquired the business formerly
conducted by the Barbourville Music Co., Barbour-
ville, Ky.
The Gressett Music House, of Meridian, Miss., will
open a store in Columbus, Miss., this week.
J. J. Tincom has succeeded Charles Long in the
music business on South Main street, Winchester, Ky.
F. W. Smith & Son have opened offices and show-
rooms in the Oak Bank Building, Oakland, Cal.
A piano and sheet music department has been
opened on the balcony of the South Plains Drug Co.,
Plainview, Tex.
J. A. and Bessie G. Newby have engaged in the
music business at 3848 East Fourteenth street, Oak-
land, Cal., as the successors to E. J. and Jeanne
Hauser.
The E. M. Currie Music Co., of Altus, Okla., has
established a branch house at Tipton, Okla., with
W. L. Karsteter as manager.
Griggs & Dalby recently opened a music house at
2032 South Eleventh East street, Sale Lake City,
Utah.
The Taylor Studio, of Broken Bow, Neb., will open
a piano store in Arnold, Neb., this week.
The Grimm Music Co. opened a store at 105 South
Fifth street, Beatrice, Neb., recently.
J. W. Boyle & Son has opened a music shop in
Floydada, Tex.
The Jackson Music Co. is a new name of an old
business in Paducah, Ky. It is the successor to E. O.
Jackson.
Chestnut Bros. Music Co. recently held the formal
opening of its new store at 404 West Main street,
Oklahoma City, Okla.
JESSE FRENCH. & SONS
A
GOOD
PIANO
FOR
YOU!
JESSE FRENCH
& SONS
New Castle, Indiana
"A name well known since 1875"
Becker Bros.
Manufacturers of
HIGH GRADE PIANOS
and PLAYER PIANOS
Factory and Wareroomt
767-769 Tenth Avenue, New York
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