14
April 1, 1929
P R E S T 0-T I M E S
LATE MUSIC TRADE NOTES
AT INDIANAPOLIS
There will be some changes made at the Starr
Piano Company, Indianapolis, and they will be an-
nounced after April 1, according to H. G. Hook,
division manager of the company. Small Starr
grands are selling exceptionally good, and the same
can be said of the apartment style "D" in the lac-
quer finish. The radio section is humming with
activity and the volume of business is steadily in-
creasing".
Frank Davis, manager of the House of Baldwin,
announces the promotion of E. W. Boyd as manager
of the radio and phonograph division of the com-
pany. Mr. Boyd has risen from the ranks, and is
one of the old employes of the company, having
been in active and continuous service for more than
ten years. Another addition to the sales forces is
J. Parlow, who was formerl\ r connected with the
sales force of the Chicago division.
Schumann Sales Good.
The Marion Music Company report business
good. Among the sales of the past week was one
of the Schumann grands. El Pardo, in Spanish
renaissance. The Brinkerhoff grand is also meeting
with good success, a recent sale of the May-fair
style is reported.
W. W. Timmermann of the Christena-Teague
Piano Company, is more than pleased with business
conditions. The sales force of the company has
been reorganized, and meeting with unusual success.
American Piano Company's line, is moving very
nicely.
Frank Carlin of the Carlin Music Company re-
ports more inquiries every day for pianos, and at-
tributes the demand to the National advertising of
the piano. Business conditions at the Carlin store
are very satisfactory, and optimism prevails.
Apollo reproducing pianos are selling very good
from reports at the Wilking Music Company, and
the Jesse French line of instruments are coming in
for their share of the business. Six-foot grands
B. S. Swingle, Newark, O., has purchased the
Newark store of the Spence Music Company, for-
are very much in demand, and the bulk of the busi- merly the Munson Music Company. The Newark
store is located in the west end of the Arcade. Re-
ness is on this size instrument.
Charles Howe, representative of the Apollo grand cently the Munson Music Company sold the store to
p*ano company, spent last week in Indianapolis, on the Spence Music Company. Mr. Swingle continued
with the new company. He opened negotiations for
some special sales work.
Charles Koehler, representative of the Bechstein the purchase of the business, and the deal was closed
Piano Company, Berlin, Germany, was in Indian- with the announcement last week.
Mr. Swingle, a Newark man, has been associated
apolis and spent the day with Frank Wilking of the
with the store for many years. He is thoroughly
Wilking Music Company.
A. L. Bretzfelder, president of the Krakauer experienced in the business. He will continue the
Piano Company, was another visitor at the Wilking business in the same location, strictly a locally-owned
institution.
Music Company, during the past week.
In addition to pianos and smaller musical instru-
ments, Mr. Swingle will carry a line of popular and
standard sheet music, piano and violin studies and in-
struction books for all other musical instruments. He
Phillip Gordon recently presented a recital in Mil- has arranged to give prompt attention to special
waukee on the original George Steck grand piano orders.
Opens in Wilmington.
that Wagner used when he composed his "Parsifal."
T. Herbert Shaffer, Lynchburg, O.. opened a music
Known as the "Parsifal" grand, the piano was
brought to Milwaukee by the J. B. Bradford Piano store in the New Martin Hotel Building. Wilmington,
Company, under whose auspices the recital was held. O., last week. Mr. Shaffer has worked up a large
The Ward-Brodt Music Company has bought out trade in piano tuning in Wilmington the last five
the Hook Brothers' Piano Company, at Madison, years, and will also continue in this capacity. He
Wis., and will move the combined business to the plans to carry a large line of musical instruments and
Hook Brothers' building. Hook Brothers' store is other merchandise in the music line.
A. B. Chas« for White House.
an old Madison institution. Cecil Brodt and T. Lane
An A. B. Chase grand piano is being made at the
Ward, owners of the Ward-Brodt Company, were
formerly associated with the Hook Brothers' store factory of the Chase Emerson Piano Company, Nor-
walk, O. The piano is beng made for President
and established their concern in April, 1927.
Personnel of the Ward-Brodt Company will remain Hoover and Mrs. Hoover for use in the White House.
intact—Miss Viola Anderson in charge of sheet music, Mr. and Mrs. Hoover have a piano of that make in
Miss Loretta Cotter in charge of records—will con- their private home. President McKinley and Presi-
tinue in their present departments. The company's dent Harding also used Norwalk-made A. B. Chase
repair shop, one of the largest of its kind in Wiscon- pianos at the White House.
son, will continue with Ned Ivey in charge of repair-
ing wind instruments and Eddy Clark in charge of
the string instrument repair department.
William Braid White, acoustic engineer of the
United States Steel Corporation, will address the
Music Teachers' Association at Madison, Wis.,
April 3. Mr. White will speak on piano wire with
reference to scientific experiments which he has con-
ducted recently in this field.
WISCONSIN
For a
Bigger and Better
Business
There is nothing to compare
with the complete line of
"fa
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S a composer I find
in the Baldwin my
best collaborator because
often it knows how to
make suggestions to my
harmonic phantasy and
orchestral color and it
is ever a precious aid to
my work."
—Ottorino Respighi
Ottorino Respi
famous Italian
pianist, conduc-
tor and composer,
u ffs and endorses
the
Baldwin
Piano exclusively.
oa
ITH c o m -
posers of three gen-
erations, songs of the
soul seeking an out-
let have found a
Choose
photographic accu-
racy and human feel-
ing in the interpretation of the
Baldwin. Master musicians,
student musicians and all those
who love good music are sensi-
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tively appreciative of Baldwin
supremacy in lyric tone and
expressi®n. Baldwin Grand
Pianos are priced from $1450.
STRONG APPEAL
FOR BALDWIN
The Baldwin Piano Company,
Cincinnati, recognizes the advan-
tages of forceful advertising ap-
peals direct to the prospective
buyers and acting on that belief
provides dealers with effective aids
for achieving their purposes. The
company also recognizes the value
of tastefulness in the printed pub-
licity and consider that element in
advertising a most desirable one.
The way to the creation of the
piano buying thought is the agree-
able one and when a statement
about a piano is made, its poten-
tialities for effecting the advertis-
ing end is increased by a pleasing
manner of saying it. The accom-
panying cut is a reproduction of
one supplied the trade by the
Baldwin Piano Co. It is one of a
series of forceful advertisements
that speak for the Baldwin piano
in the best way to interest the
prospective piano buyer. The
electros provided for dealers has
a blank space for the insertion of
the dealer's name and address.
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