April 2, 1927.
PREST 0-TI M E S
MUSIC ARTS CORPORATION
OF MILWAUKEE FORMED
Wisconsin Metropolis Soon to Have Real
Piano Row in Its Own Building in
Heart of City.
At the annual meeting of the Music Arts Corpora-
tion of Milwaukee, Wis, and its subsidiaries, the
Kesselman-O'Driscoll Co., Carberry-Parker Badger
Music Shop, Mason & Hamlin Studios and the Music
Arts Wholesale Company, held recently, the follow-
ing officers were elected: L. M. Kesselman, presi-
dent; A. B. O'Connor, W. A. Bye, H. M. Steussy,
vice-presidents; A. J. Althause, treasurer; M. J. Bosl,
secretary; and A. L. Peltin.
A Musical Center.
With the exception of the Kesselman-O'Driscoll
store, which is located in the Music Arts Building,
owned by the corporation, the other stores are located
about the downtown section of the city. At present
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Correspondence from Reliable
Dealers Invited
Factory and Offices, 304 W. 42nd Si.
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QUARTER OF A CENTURY
extensive improvements are being made in the Music
Arts Building, and within several months all the sub-
sidiaries of the company will be housed there. When
all the improvements have been made, this building
will really represent the musical center of Milwaukee.
The Music Arts Corporation, which serves as the
Ampico dealers in Milwaukee, is capitalized at over
a million dollars and its last statement showed net
assets of over three-fourths of a million. The sub-
sidiaries of the corporation are dealers in pianos,
talking machines, and other musical instruments.
Capital Stock Increased.
The Kesselman-O'Driscoll Company increased its
capital stock by $150,000 at the recent meeting. This
company has shown continuous growth since its or-
ganization in 1916. The Carberry-Parker Badger
Music Shop doubled their common stock at this
meeting, and in the future the company will be
known as the Chickering Warerooms. Fred Car-
berry and L. C. Parker have sold their holdings to
other members of 'the corporation and are no longer
connected with the company. The Mason & Hamlin
Studios and Music Arts Wholesale Company are
departments of the Music Arts Corporation and not
separate corporations.
KINGSBURY PERIOD
MODELS FEATURED
Strong Methods in Presentation and Demon-
stration of Piano of The Cable Company
Made in San Francisco.
The Wiley B. Allen Co., San Francisco, is prose-
cuting with characteristic vigor the well planned cam-
paign for the pianos made by The Cable Company,
Chicago. In the strong featuring the Period and
Art designs are given particular attention. The
newspaper advertising is instructive reading for the
prospective piano purchasers, and the origin of the
historic Period models makes most interesting "copy."
The season is peculiarly fitted for any topic that
touches the beautifying of the home, and any talks
on Period designs appeal to the home-loving folk of
California.
The Kingsbury is a notable piano in the line of
The Cable Co., and one long presented to San Fran-
cisco fine piano buyers by the Wiley B. Allen Co.
Within the past few weeks the Kingsbury in a Wit
liam and Mary model has appealed to discriminating
people, in window displays of the company. In its
Period case the Kingsbury has unusual attractiveness
that drew and held the eyes of passers-by and, when
presented by a retailer of widely acknowledged de-
pendability and backed by its famous makers, it has
the strongest claim on piano prospects.
MICHIGAN ASSOCIATION
NAMES CONVENTION DATE
August 15 to 18 Set for Meeting at Book-
Cadillac Hotel, Detroit, and Discussion
Topics Suggested.
The officers of the Michigan Music Merchants'
Association announce that the third annual conven-
tion of the organization will be held in Detroit
August 15, 16, 17 and 18 at .the Book-Cadillac Hotel.
The slogan for the meeting is: "How can we sell
more pianos at a greater profit?" Thus the business
of the sessions will be centered upon demonstration
and discussion of the following topics: "Co-operative
Insurance," "Carrying-charge in Place of Interest,"
"Piano Playing Contest," and "Group Instruction."
Correspondence Campaign.
Clayton H. Hoffman of the Herrick Piano Co.,
Grand Rapids, secretary of the association, is pre-
paring a campaign of correspondence with all Mich-
igan merchants to start the ball rolling, in the desire
to make the coming convention even more enthu-
siastic and profitable, if possible, than previous ones,
which have attracted so large an attendance from
neighboring states.
President Frank J. Bayley has appointed the fol-
lowing as Publicity Committee: Clarke King of
Detroit, chairman; Clayton H. Hoffman, Herrick
Piano Co., Grand Rapids; Herb. Hardy, Hardy Music
Co., Bay City; E. Z. Woods, Chas. E. Roat Music
Co., Battle Creek; Jonas Carlson, Cadillac; H. J. Tur-
nell, Jackson; J. C. Shattuck, Owosso; W. J. Davis,
Saginaw; Mr. Meyer, Kalamazoo, and Mr. Budd,
Lansing.
Spectacular Feature.
The outstanding spectacular feature of the con-
vention, of course, will be the grand finals of the
Second Annual Greater Detroit Piano Playing Con-
test, and possibly also a national championship event,
a feature of great interest to all piano merchants
and makers as has been so amply demonstrated the
past year. Explanations will be given, during the
sessions, by those who have had the actual intimate
connection in this rapidly spreading movement, for
the benefit of all. Detroit has originated and devel-
oped a plan that actually popularizes and sells pianos
and feels so confident this year that it is setting a
thousand pianos as the goal.
YOUTHFUL BANDITS TAKE
E. R. JACOBSON'S CADILLAC
Head of Straube Piano Company Has Experience
with Auto Thieves in Chicago.
FROM A SEATTLE DEALER.
Ned Douglass is proprietor of the Universal Music
Three youthful automobile bandits held up E. R.
Store, 4511 University Way, Seattle, Wash., which Jacobson, president of the Straube Piano Company
has been established for seven years. It is incorpo- of Hammond, Ind., early last Saturday night as he
rated at $50,000. "We have been looking for a good was about to drive into his garage at the rear of his
old line, but those manufacturers we have met de- home, 5754 South Wells street, Chicago, relieving him
mand volume," writes Mr. Douglass. "If the piano of his Cadillac sedan.
business is slow today the writer has come to the
As Mr. Jacobson alighted from his car to open the
conclusion that the good old 'lines representatives' garage door he was startled by the sharp command:
have placed themselves on the pedestal of success and "Hands Up!" Immediately he raised his hands in
forgotten that there are still youngsters getting their the air and the leader of the trio, a youth of about
start in just the same manner they had to. Maybe nineteen years, told the piano manufacturer to face
we're too far from the source of supply. We'll have towards the door of the garage. The other youth,
it worked out in another ten years."
about a year or two older, slipped quietly through
the door that Mr. Jacobson had left open and into
the driver's seat, and the car swiftly slid away.
OLD HOUSE CELEBRATES.
Mr. Jacobson drives to Hammond every day and
The 105th anniversary of the founding of the Buck- usually gets home at about 6:30 o'clock at night. The
ingham & Moak Co , Utica, N. Y., is being cele- holdup was so quickly done that Mr. Jacobson was
brated. The company claims it is the oldest retail
hardly aware of what was happening until he saw
music house in the country and has the written his car disappearing down the alley.
records in corroboration. A significant fact an-
announced by the management is that more pianos
were sold last month than during the first twenty
CABLE MIDGET SELLS.
years of the operation of the company.
Many sales of the Cable Midget piano made by
The Cable Co., Chicago, have been made recently by
NAT'L ELECTRICAL MFRS. ASS'N.
the San Jose branch of the Wiley B. Allen Co., San
National Electrical Manufacturers Association has Francisco. In San Jose the Woodrow Wilson School
moved its headquarters office to the Graybar Build- and Rosevek Junior High School have recently been
ing, 20 Lexington Ave., New York, according to an- equipped with Cable Midget pianos. Other sales of
nouncement by Alfred E. Waller, managing director. the little piano have been made to the Y. M. C. A.
The association has within its membership electrical and the Catholic Woman's Center of San Jose; the
Parent-Teacher Association of Hollister, and the
manufacturing companies in more than 150 cities in
Union High School, San Mateo.
the United States.
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