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September 1, 1929
when the caller made a visit there, but H. J. Newport,
a salesman, said trade was coming along just fine,
considering that it was the hottest season of the whole
year.
At Krite-Boyens Piano Co.
Edward Boyens, of the Krite-Boyens Piano Com-
pany, Olive street, St. Louis, was interviewed. "We
are having a nice trade in Jesse French and Bradbury
pianos," said Mr. Boyens, "and the improvement that
is setting in toward the piano in general is going to
help us greatly this coming fall."
Aeolian Co. Has No Complaint.
"We have no complaint to make, but are fitting our
methods to conditions and going after the drift," said
J. A. Jacober, manager of the piano department of the
Aeolian Company of Missouri, 1004 Olive street, St.
Louis, when approached on Monday of last week.
"This is the only Steinway store in St. Louis," said
Mr. Jacober. Here at this beautiful store I found a
nice display of Steinways and of Aeolian Duo-Art
instruments, of which line the company is also
St. Louis representative. It is also the distributor for
the Radio Corporation of America and the Victor
Talking Machine Company.
Mr. Kieselhorst's Ample Vocabulary.
In spite of its reputation farther north for being a
hot city, Presto-Times correspondent found St. Louis
enjoying a very comfortable August climate.
A call was made upon E. A. Kieselhorst, president
of the Kieselhorst Co., 1007 Olive street. Mr. Kiesel-
horst is in charge of a varied business, handling
pianos, radio, phonographs, records and other articles
pertaining to the music industry.
He chatted jovially about some of his recent trips
to Germany. He joked about his habit of ordering
shincken and eier, otherwise ham and eggs, in the
German restaurants. He said some of his friends in
St. Louis joshed him a little bit about getting around
the world without a knowledge of the various lan-
guages in the countries he visited, to which Mr. Kie-
selhorst replied: "One needs only two words and
those are both English—'How much?'"
Mr. Kieselhorst is amply supplied with the where-
withal that carries him on his trips and puts his ex-
panding business on the map. He watches the stock
markets very closely and does his buying on the
rising market; in other words, always on the bull side.
Mr. Kieselhorst says the principal hindrance to
getting piano trade today is to get hold of active,
pushing salesmen.
Ampico Hall Has Many Customers.
At Ampico Hall, I found A. H. J. Dickhaus in
charge of the store as sales manager. This store is
at 1005 Olive street, having been opened on the first
of April, this year, under the general name adopted
by the American Piano Co. for its stores in the various
cities—Ampico Hall.
"We are putting in radio now," said Mr. Dickhaus.
"We expect to have the radio department in full blast
by Sept. 15. The contracts are all let for building the
booths, and we are anticipating a good business.
"The great trouble is to get salesmen to go out in
the city and make sales. The desire for goods is
shown by the number of customers that have com-
menced to drop into the store from day to day. Four
or five drop-ins every day lately has been the average,
every one inquiring for pianos, and that is more than
I have seen in any store in St. Louis for the last four
or five years. These inquiries show that the Fall
trade is going to pick up."
Mr. Dickhaus has had about 20 years' experience in
the piano business in St. Louis. He was for five years
a representative of the Baldwin Company in that city.
Ampico Hall in St. Louis has a fine display stock of
Mason & Hamlin, Knabe, dickering & Sons and
Fischer pianos.
Ampico Hall is occupying the old store given up
on April 1 by the Smith-Reis Company, which still
has an office in one of the upper rooms, closing out
the remnants of their business between now and
Sept. 1.
Radio Orchestra's Air Trip.
Guy Lombardo and his "Royal Canadians," radio
orchestra, who began an engagement at the St. Louis
Theater August 19, arrived at Lambert-St. Louis Field
in a tri-motored airplane from Kansas City, Mo. The
10 musicians made the trip in a chartered plane of the
Universal Aviation Corporation in an hour and 45
minutes, aided by a tail wind.
413 New Corporations.
In the six-month period ending June 30, Recorder
of Deeds Tamme announced last week 413 new cor-
porations began business in St. Louis with an aggre-
gate capital stock of $24,648,440.33. During the same
time, 83 St. Louis corporations increased their capital
by a total of $13,221,200. The combined new capital
Choose Your Piano As The Artists Do
HOUSTON PAPER AND PIANO
CLUB COOPERATE
Two Pages of Valuable Musical News Appeared in
Houston Post-Dispatch of Aug. 4.
One of the most active local organizations con-
nected with the retail department of the music indus-
try is the Houston Piano Club in Houston, Texas,
which was organized several months ago and in-
cludes in its membership five active retail music mer-
chants in that city.
The club has just completed an arrangement with
the Houston Post-Dispatch, a leading daily paper in
that city, whereby the Post-Dispatch and the music
and piano merchants will co-operate in building a
music section to be made a part of the Sunday paper.
The piano merchants will assist the music editor of
the Post-Dispatch by supplying him with matter per-
taining to music and of such character as will inter-
est the reading public.
The issue of August 4, of the Houston Post-Dis-
patch contains in the music section two pages of valu-
able music news together with very liberal adver-
tising space used by the various retail music houses.
Across the top of the first page of the music section
appears the $1,000 prize slogan, "The Richest Child Is
Poor Without Musical Training."
This activity of the Houston Piano Club points out
the way in an interesting and valuable manner to
what may be accomplished by music merchants work-
ing in close co-operation with their local daily papers.
John George Staats, aged 71 years, founder and
publisher of the Lumberman's Review, died at Green-
wich, Conn., August 19.
of these two groups amounted to $37,869,640.33, for
496 companies.
However, in the same period 22 corporations re-
duced their capital by the sum of $3,819,100.
Kimball, Big Favorite.
The Kieselhorst Co., now in its 50th year, estab-
lished in St. Louis in 1879, in speaking of the Kimball
piano which it represents, says "The tone doesn't wear
out. The old reliable Kimball piano has been the
choice of intelligent, economical buyers for 72 years."
Through Generations "
Have Come Ludwig Ideals
HE Ludwigs, the Ericssons-
and the Perrys created,
nearly a century ago, the stand-
ards to which the Ludwig has
been built. Their ideas and ideals have been car-
ried forward by the present generation and today
the direct descendants of those early builders of artis-
tic pianos are the men directing the destiny of the
Ludwig Piano.
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THE BALDWIN PIANO COMPANY
Cincinnati
Chicago
New York
Indianapolis
San Francisco
WUlow Ave. and 136th St.
NEW YORK
St. Louis
Louisville
Dallas
Denver
The Famous
Established 1863
STEINERT PIANOS
CAROL ROBINSON
Write for catalogue
(Formnoat American Pianist) wrtteat—
If It "takes great audiences to make great poets"... .ft certainly takes
a great piano to make great music. That piano Is the STEINERT I
M. STEINERT & SONS
STEINERT HALL
fhe distinctive features of
Mathushek construction fur-
nish selling points not found
in other makes of pianos.
BOSTON, MASS.
MATHUSHEK PIANO MFG. CO.
132nd Street and Alexander Arenue
NEW YORK
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