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THE AMERICAN MUSIC TRADE WEEKLY
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CHICAGO, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1928
IS BUSY MAKING
RAUWORTH GRANDS
E. S. Rauworth, Head of the Rauworth Grand
Piano Co., Bellevue, Iowa, Uses His Ex-
perience and Skill in Producing a Five-
Foot Instrument of Great Appeal.
Nestled down on the west bank of the Missis-
sippi river in one of the most beautiful spots between
St. Paul, Mhin., and Clinton, Iowa, where the great
picturesque bluffs and highlands terminate in a green
and gorgeous ampitheatre of trees, stands the Rau-
worth Grand Piano Co.'s factor}', in Bellevue, la., a
group of modern and well-equipped buildings in
which are produced the Rauworth grand pianos.
These buildings took the place of the old structures
of the H. G. Johnson piano factory, which was
burned down. The new buildings are splendid struc-
pianos were shipped to a great retail distributor of
American commodities this week by way of Winni-
peg; not to lose sight of other important contracts
in Canada.
All this trade and fame is to the decided advantage
of "Eddie" Rauworth, who is "sitting pretty," at Bel-
levue, Iowa, and is as democratic and approachable
as either Herbert Hoover or Al. Smith. At the fac-
tory one may find him in golf togs or semi-working
clothes, for in his general supervision of things be
leaves much of the work and most of the details to
E. E. Blake, a piano man of long experience in all
its branches, and to others associated in the work
there. Hardly believable, but true, to find an indus-
try producing pianos like a behive of humming
activitv in life and work.
NEW WILKINO STORE
IN INDIANAPOLIS
Gordon Laughead and Chas. E. Howe of Wur-
litzer Grand Piano Co. See Aids to Sales
Designed by Frank Wilking.
The Wilking Music Company, Indianapolis, will
be six years old October 1. It is today one of In-
dianapolis' leading and most beautiful stores. Wur-
litzer and Apollo pianos and reproducing pianos are
featured.
Chas. E. Howe and Gordon Laughead of the Wur-
litzer Grand Piano Company, De Kalb, 111., are in
Indianapolis, Ind., at the invitation of Frank Wilking,
president of the Wilking Music Company. They are
inspecting the new Wilking store, which now fronts
31 East Ohio street. Mr. Wilking personally de-
signed t!ie show windows which are constructed in
Spanish style.
NEW INCORPORATIONS
IN MUSIC GOODS TRADE
K. S. UAUWORTH.
From Snapshot Taken from Bellevue
Point, Relli'VUe, Iowa, Looking to
the Xortheast.
Hires of brick, with outer buildings, power house
and every known device and improvement for manu-
facturing grand pianos.
E. H. Rauworth, president of the company, has
made his way from small beginnings years ago to
lr's present prominent place in the piano world; so
that now it may be said that he has readied the
ultima thule of his ambition in manufacture of pianos
wherein he takes a particular delight.
A Labor of Love.
Mr. Rauworth is a master piano builder of many
years of experience, and his skill, facility and prac-
tical wisdom attained in those years is now con-
tributory to the production of the Rauworth Grand
Pianos.
Mr. Rauworth has put many new ideas and im-
provements into service at his factories in the pro-
duction of his pianos and finds that he has developed
a saving of man power to a great degree, an econ-
omy that is almost a hobby with him, especially
where he can invent some machine or apply some
device equalling or proving superior to hand work.
This he has done time and again, by the application
of pressure by machinery, by specially-designed mi-
crometric tools that have proved labor-savers in
manufacture; which, coupled with the ability to cut
down costs, is working out to wonderful advantage
in lessening expenditures in production.
Need we speak of advantages of factory location;
of service; of making of one size of piano, a five-foot
instrument; of using only two woods in the veneer;
of the highly skilled workmen in the plant.
Sales Are Big.
Some big contracts are on the books of the Rau-
worth Piano Company right now, and these, coupled
with a scattering trade throughout the United States,
smaller orders, amount to a great home trade in the
aggregate. As for Canadian trade, two carloads of
New and Old Concerns Secure Charters in Various
Places.
The Hurtt-Jones-Koeder Co., 110 Curt street, Pekin,
111.; $25,000; to manufacture and deal in musical
instruments. F. L. Hurtt, H. G. Jones and T. K.
Koeder.
The Donnelly Music Co., Blackwell, Okla., succes-
sors to Donnelly & Terry, has been incorporated with
a capital of $5,000.
The Victoria Music Co., 1012 East 18th street, Okla-
homa City, Okla., with a capital of $10,000.
The Frederick Music Co., Buffalo, N. Y., with
capital stock of 200 shares of common stock.
The American Musical Supply Co., Jersey City,
N. J., twenty-three thousand shares of no par value.
The National Electric Phonograph Co., Chicago,
with capital stock of $1,000. Charles B. Moore, E.
Parhly, Jr. and H. W. Harvey.
The Mellon Music Shop, Inc., New York, with a
capital stock of $10,000.
The Renner Music Co., Sandusky, Ohio., with 200
shares of no par value. John F. Renner, Cora Ren-
ner and John U. Feick.
.Emmet W. Miller, Plymouth, Wis.; $25,000; to deal
in music goods and radios; Emmet W. Miller, Fred
Zoeler and E. L. Alley.
U. S. PEOPLE ATTEND LEIPZIG FAIR.
The Leipzig Trade Fair at Leipzig, Germany, which
opened last Saturday, will have probably 100 Ameri-
can exhibits and be attended by more than 1,200
American buyers. This fair has long been the com-
mercial clearing house of Europe in the opinion of its
promoters. This is the fall fair. At the spring fair
orders were given for goods valued at more than
$500,000,000.
W. F. McCLELLAN AT HIS FARM.
W. F. McClellan, secretary of the National Asso-
ciation of Piano Tuners, who attended the conven-
tion in Cleveland, left from that city for a short stay
at his farm in New York state, where he is supposed
to be eating watermelons and grapes. He is expected
back at his office, 22 Quincy street, Chicago, about
the end of this week.
$2 The Year
MUSIC MERCHANTS
IN OHIO TO MEET
Nineteenth Annual Convention of Trade at
Commodore Perry Hotel, Toledo, Sept.
10 to 12, Assured of Record Attend-
ance, to Be Marked by Un-
usual Attractions.
The Music Merchants' Association of Ohio will
hold its nineteenth annual convention at Toledo Sep-
tember 10, 11 and 12, for which an alluring program
of events has been prepared and an exhibit of music
goods assured as an added attraction. The event
will be remarkable for the attendance, according to
Henry C. Wildermuth, chairman of the promotion
committee, who reports success in the drive for a
record attendance.
The large number of exhibitors who already have
made reservations is a guarantee of success in that
feature of the annual meet, and it is said the exhibits
will include new models of the most interesting kind.
Opened by Corley Gibson
The sessions to be held in Parlor No. I of the
Commodore Perry Hotel will be opened by an ad-
dress by Corley Gibson of the Autopiano Company,
New York. The opening and other sessions of the
convention will have interesting addresses as features.
H. B. Harper, manager of the Chicago offices of the
Airway Electric Appliance Corp , listed as one of the
speakers, will make "Salesmanslr'p" his topic.
The annual banquet of the association will be given
on Wednesday evening at the Commodore Perry
Hotel, at which Myers Y. Coope will be principal
speaker. His subject will be "The American Home."
Addresses by prominent men in and out of the trade
will be attractions at the noon luncheons each day of
the convention.
A ladies' reception committee with Mrs. Henry F.
Stucke as chairman and consisting of seventeen mem-
bers, has been appointed. Items of entertainment
include a style show at two leading Toledo dry goods
stores, dinner and bridge at a country club and motor
tours.
The Committee.
The general convention committee is composed of
H. C. Wildermuth, chairman; William W. Smith, Fred
N. Goosman, Henry F. Stucke and Warren L. Kel-
logg. Finance committee, W. W. Smith, chairman;
George V. Terry, Fred N. Goosman, David Blaine
and A. L. Maresh. Entertainment committee, Henry
F. Stucke, chairman; Warren L. Kellogg, Clyde B.
Trobridge, T. W. Reade and Theodore M. Cook.
Golf committee, H. C. Wildermuth, cha : rman; Carl
S. Landgraf, Henry F. Stucke, Chas. H. Yabrling,
Henry Dreher, William R Graul. Get acquainted
committee, Fred N. Goosman, chairman; Howard L.
Shartle, Warren L. Kellogg, assistant chairman; W.
W. Baillie, Doan Vincent, Thad Moore, Robt. C.
Elwell. Transportation committee, William Whit-
ney, chairman. R. F. Maag; Robert Elwell and Hy-
man Rothenstein.
WOULD WELCOME MR. SCHNEIDER.
Adam Schneider, who is spending some t : me at his
country estate in Wisconsin, may come back into
active piano business before long is the belief of his
friends who have been noting that he is too active
to remain out of it much longer. Of course, he
attends the meetings of the piano associations and
clubs; but then, that isn't selling pianos—a work that
was very much to his liking. The trade would like
to see him back in the harness.
GORDON LAUGHEAD VISITS DETROIT.
Gordon Laughead, general sales manager of the
Wurlitzer Grand Piano Company, De Kalb, 111., was
in Detroit on Monday of this week. The company
has one of the biggest of its stores in Detroit, located
in a new skyscraper building which they own. It
fronts on Broadway in the very heart of the city.
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