April 14, 1928
15
PRESTO-TIMES
grown up who were almost fastidious in their particu-
larity and their minuteness of detail in choosing a
piano—hard customers to please but good buyers
when pleased.
(Continued from page 12)
Brambach Had Big March Trade.
Cheney spends most of his time at the factory head-
"Our
March
trade was very good," said Gordon G.
quarters, Deep River, Conn.
Campbell, vice-president of the Brambach Piano Com-
Trade Is Better.
pany. Xew York, on Tuesday to Presto-Times man.
Edward E. Vidaud, secretary of the Brambach "And our trade so far this year is much ahead of the
Piano Company, 609-619 West 51st street. New York, same period last year."
is happy over the better trade that company has had
Mr. Campbell is general manager of the company
this spring than it had last spring, and its trade was most of the time, for his father has been spending
not poor last year at that. He told Presto-Times much of his time lately in traveling.
correspondent that business has been gaining rapidly
Trade Good with Steinway & Sons.
of late.
"Trade
has been good with Steinway & Sons; I
W. H. P. Bacon, president of the Bacon Piano
Company, manufacturing the Francis Bacon pianos have nothing to kick about," said Frederick Reide-
meister, treasurer of that corporation, on Tuesday of
and reproducing pianos, 601-611 West 50th street, this week to Presto-Times correspondent. "It is not
New York, was met by Presto-Times' representative so good as 1926, which was the peak or banner year,
at the factory office on Tuesday. He said that trade but really it has been much better so far this year
with the company is fair throughout the United than it was in the same period in 1927. So, you see,
States, and that they are doing quite an export busi- there is absolutely nothing to kick about; and the
ness besides. Mr. Bacon said it was pleasing to outlook continues to grow more satisfactory."
observe that trade had turned towards betterment.
Here then, gentlemen of the piano trade throughout
W. C. Hess at Washington.
the United States, is an honestly-voiced expression
William C. Hess of the Estey Piano Company, about an actual condition in the piano trade. And
New York, was at Washington, D. C, on Tuesday who more reliable or less likely to fall into the error
of this week when Presto-Times man called at his of boasting than Mr. Riedemeister, treasurer of Stein-
headquarters, 127 West 43rd street, New York. B. K. way & Sons?
Settergren, of the same company, was also out of
Sympathy for Ernest Urchs.
the city. Both men were on brief trips and returned
Presto-Times joins in the sympathies of thousands
to New York later in the week.
of friends of Ernest I'rchs, of Steinway & Sons, New
Brambach President En Route.
York, who is con lined to his home, 320 West 87th
Mark P. Campbell, president of the Brambrach street, New York, by illness. lie is unable to stir
Piano Company, 609-15 West 51st street, New York, about much and does not dare go to the office, his
was at Biloxi, Miss., on Tuesday of this week. Mr. physician having prescribed rest and quiet as the
Campbell had been stopping at the Edgewater Hotel proper restorative.
in Biloxi, and he wash planning to return to New
York by way of Chicago.
F. A. Wessell Far from Pessimistic
''Ferdinand A. Wessell of Wessell, Nickel & Gross,
piano action manufacturers, northeast corner of 45th
is avoided by the manufac-
street and Tenth avenue, New York, is far from pes-
turer who uses the
simistic about the future of the piano industry, but
he qualified his outlook by saying that the future of
the piano industry, but he qualified his outlook by
saying that "the interest of the future will continue
to turn more and more toward the high-grade and
in his products. He knows
artistically finished instruments. Manufacturers who
everything is all right and
adapt themselves to this developing taste and require-
ment will find the going easier and more lucrative."
that the best musical quali-
ties of his pianos are develop-
He intimated that a new generation of people had
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