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ACTIVITIES OF THE
WEAVER PIANO CO.
Fine Old Industry at York, Pa., Displays
Every Evidence of the Prosperity It
,
Has Fairly Won.
A visit to the factory and general offices of the
Weaver Piano Co., at York, Pa., on Wednesday of
this week, gave visible evidence of activity there. The
grand piano trade of the York industry has been
especially remarkable this season. In fact, orders
are booked on the Weaver five-foot-three instrument
up to the last of February next.
"Our York uprights, both player and straight, are
going out rapidly now, just preceding the holidays,
and we expect to be pretty well cleaned out of fin-
ished pianos this month," said C D. Bond, Superin-
tendent of the factories. "By the way," he added,
"do you know that we now have the smallest of the
little uprights on the market? Our new style eleven
—3 feet 7 inches—is, so far as I know, at least one
inch shorter than any of our competitors in this model
of instrument."
W. S. Bond, president of the Weaver Piano Com-
pany, was not at his office, he, accompanied by Mrs.
Bond, having gone to Hagerstown, Md., to attend
the fiftieth anniversary celebration and opening of the
new M. P. Moller organ factory at that place, Tues-
day evening this week.
INTERESTING EVENT
AT HAGERSTOWN, MD.
Fiftieth Anniversary of the Founding of Moller
Organ Co. Is Celebrated by Dinner
and Series of Talks.
A noteworthy event took place Tuesday evening of
this week at Hagerstown, Md. It was the celebrat-
ing of the fiftieth anniversary of the establishment of
M. P. Moller's organ manufacturing business and the
erection of a new factory added to the old one. Forty
years ago Mr. Moller established his business at
Hagerstown, having been making reed organs and
small church organs at a small town not far from
that city for ten years previous to that time.
At this week's event a dinner was provided for
some five hundred guests made up of factory em-
ployees and officials and directors of the M. P.
Moller corporation, several heads of music houses
and a dozen or more college professors and presi-
dents, ministers of the Gospel and associates of Mr.
Moller in religious work of the Lutheran Church.
Numerous talks were made and Mr. Moller him-
self gave an interesting fifteen minutes' talk, recount-
ing briefly his business career, telling how he started
his industry very modestly and how the house has
grown to the large proportions it now enjoys. Moller
organs are now found in churches and public places
from one end of the land to the other. The factory
has, at this time, orders for scores of instruments,
among them eleven special organs for the public
schools of New York City.
The dinner was served in a completed portion of
the new factory building. At these services Mr.
Moller was presented with a silver loving cup by the
employees of the company, and an elegant reclining
chair by the members of the board of directors.
Mr. Moller's son, "Teddy," twenty-two years of
age, gave a two-minute talk, in which he pointed out
the high standard of work set by his father and
which he hoped to carry out in a way that would
please his co-workers. M. P. Moller is now seventy-
two years of age and is as enthusiastic in his work
as he was years ago. He has become a very promi-
nent citizen of his city and is interested financially in
numerous enterprises. One of these is in the manu-
facture of the high-grade automobile known as the
"Dagmar" car.
LOOKING AHEAD FOR A
GREAT YEAR COMING
Davenport-Treacy Looking Forward to a Very Active
Year During Next Year.
The popular Davenport-Treacy piano finds itself
with a wider circle of friends and the end of 1925 than
ever before. It is of interest to note some of the
leading schools and other institutions where the
Davenport-Treacy pianos are favorites. A few of
them are the West School, Washington, D. C ; Jef-
ferson School, Washington, D. C ; Villa Augustina
Academy, Goffstown, N. H.; Hotel Bellevue, Sea
Isle City, N. J.; St. Anne's Convent, Worcester,
Mass.; First Presbyterian Church, Butler, Pa.
The Davenport-Treacy piano is a favorite for its
substantial construction. They are giving complete
satisfaction in the trying climate of the Orient, the
frigid temperature of the North and in the salty
breezes of the seashore.
The Davenport-Treacy Company is among those
piano concerns which are planning for a year of great
activity during 1926. They are now busily engaged
in producing much new and forceful advertising mate-
rial to help their dealers take advantage of the oppor-
tunities which they believe are coming.
FOUR TUNINGS A YEAR
IS GULBRANSEN ADVICE
Monthly Bulletin of the Gulbransen Company Says
That Such a Number Is Necessary.
That pianos should be tuned two to four times
a year is the statement that will appear in Gulbransen
national advertising henceforth, according to an an-
nouncement in the bulletin for November of the Gul-
bransen Company, Chicago.
Heretofore the Gulbransen recommendation has
been to have tuning done twice a year, but owing
to the varying conditions to which pianos are sub-
jected, it is recognized that tuning twice a year is
inadequate in many cases, if piano buyers are to be
served to the best advantage. The officers of the
National Association of Piano Tuners feel that it
will be fairer to piano owners, to the tuning profes-
sion and to the makers of pianos to advise tuning
two to four times a year, and their recommendation
is being passed on to the public in mediums that
have circulation in 14,000,000 families per month.
PERPETUAL WINDOW DISPLAY
OF A DITSON HOUSE
Consistency with Which Big New York Music Store
Shows "Ricca" School Model.
A year ago at this season an item appeared in
Presto referring to a small upright Ricca piano which
was shown in the display window of the Chas. H.
Ditson music store, in 34th street, New York. There
is now the same Ricca model, only of a different
veneer case.
It is one of the school models and is the only piano
in their window display, the other articles shown
being sheet music and music books, stringed instru-
ments and musical merchandise of various kinds.
Evidently the Ditson house has a high regard for the
piano they are displaying so prominently.
PROGRESSIVE TACOMA FIRM.
The Eyer Piano Company, Tacoma, Wash., of
which J. B. Eyer is manager, moved recently to the
modern brick business property just completed at 765
South 38th street. The American School of Music,
directed by L. C. Potter, is associated with the piano
company in the new building. Mr. Potter is also
music director of the public schools. Mr. Eyer has
been in the piano tuning business for twenty-six
years, fifteen of which have been spent in Tacoma.
The new building is one of the most modern of com-
munity structures in the city.
MANY ANSWERS TO QUESTIONNAIRE.
The questionnaire recently sent out by the Execu-
tive Committee of the National Association of Music
Merchants is now being returned in numbers which
tell of the interest in its purposes. The questionnaire
was the first actual step toward putting into opera-
tion the plan of promotion adopted by the association.
The questionnaire form states the objectives, methods
and service work which the delegate representation
plan contemplates.
BIG SALES OF SCHILLER GRANDS.
Schiller grands are selling in a lively way highly
satisfactory to Frank M. Hood, wholesale manager
of the Schiller Piano Co., who said this week at the
Chicago offices of the company: "This is going to
be the biggest year the Schiller has ever had. All of
our dealers are enthusiastic over the Schiller Grand—
every one. of them, without a single exception. Our
grands, therefore, are going big."
BUILDS FOR MUSIC DEALER.
The Massey Piano Co., Des Moines, la., will soon
occupy the first, mezzanine, second and basement
floors of a new building being constructed by T. I.
Stoner and W. J. Massey at 914 Walnut street, Des
Moines, Iowa. This building, to cost from $80,000 to
$100,000, will be five stories high, with 22 feet front-
age on Walnut street and 132 feet deep.
December 12, 1925.
RADIO A HELP TO THE
GENERAL MUSIC TRADE
Vice-President of the Rudolph Wurlitzer Com-
pany Tells How Latest Marvel Aids
Other Instruments.
The skeptics and doubting Thomases in the music
industry who have been bemoaning what they call the
detrimental effects of the radio industry on the older
and more firmly established business, have been
answered by Rudolph H. Wurlitzer, vice-president of
the Rudolph Wurlitzer Company, Cincinnati, who, in
a statement just issued to the press, foresees the close
alliance and mutual prosperity of both the old indus-
try and the new.
"The statement that the radio will injure the music
industry is utterly silly and without foundation," Mr.
Wurlitzer said. "As I see it, one industry cannot
thrive without the other.
"Love for music, which was gained by some kind
of musical instrument in the home, is responsible in
part for the present popularity of the radio. It has
brought music to the people, made them appreciate it,
and has resulted in making the musical programs of
broadcasting stations the most popular of all. The
interest in music, begun by a musical instrument in '
the home, is deepened by the wonderful music heard
over the radio. That results in wanting to hear more
and more varied music. It also results in making
people want to learn to play some kind of musical
instrument.
"So that, as I see the situation, love for music was
begun by the musical instrument in the home; when
the radio came along, interest in the musical pro-
grams was great and that helped to make the radio
more popular; and listening to the wonderful orches-
tras and the great artists play over the radio made
the general musical interest still greater than it was
in the beginning, thus again benefiting the music
industry."
So, far from injuring the music trades, the radio
will result in a great musical renaissance, Mr. Wur-
litzer said he believed, from which the music industry
will benefit more than at any time since there have
been competing interests.
"Full steam ahead! The music and the radio in-
dustries, together, will march on to triumphs greater
than was possible in the past for the music industry
standing alone!" This is Mr. Wurlitzer's message to
his fellow craftsmen in the music industry.
COMPREHENSIVE LINE OF
ONE OF DENVER HOUSES
Showing of a Kind to Suggest Fine Opportunities for
Any Live Salesman Anywhere.
On the reverse of the business card of the Chas.
E. Wells Music Co. of Denver, Colo., is the follow-
ing, showing the comprehensive line carried by that
house:
Pianos: Chickering Grand, Chickering Ampico,
Gulbransen Upright, Gulbransen Player, Gulbransen
Grand, Marshall & Wendell Grand, Marshall & Wen-
dell Ampico, Armstrong Upright, Armstrong Grand,
Kurtzmann Upright, Kurtzmann Player; Kurtzmann
Grand.
Brunswick: Phonographs, Records, Radiolas.
Radio: R. C. A. Radiolas, Batteries, Tubes, etc.
Band and Orchestra Instruments:
Exclusive
agents C. G. Conn Co., Ludwig Banjos and Drums,
Vegaphone Banjos.
Player Rolls: Q R S Rolls, Ampico Rolls.
Sheet Music and Teachers' Supplies: A complete
stock of popular and classical music and instruction
books.
FIRST CHRISTMAS CARD
COMES FROM MILWAUKEE
The Waltham Piano Co. Starts the Bright Flood of
the Season's Greetings.
The advance guard of the season's Christmas
greetings comes from the alert Waltham Piano Co.,
of Milwaukee. It came in early this week, like a
ray of sunshine on a cloudy morning. Beautifully
colored, the cover of the folder has a little tot wide
awake watching for Santa Klaus, with sister asleep
beside her. The wee stockings hang on the foot of
the bed. Inside the folder is this greeting:
"Christmas; what precious memories it calls forth,
what joy and happiness! It comes again and again
and each year with greater meaning. It is in this
spirit our greeting comes to you, appreciating the
relations of the past, looking forward to a contin-
uation of pleasant associations in the days to come.
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