Presto

November, 1930
TRADE_PICKUPS
New Firms, Changes, Incorporations, Personal News, Removals,
Piano Sales, Excerpts from Dealers' Advertisements,
and Other Bits of News
The "Weaver Dealer," house organ of the Weaver
Piano Co., Inc., York, Pa., comes to hand with
punctual regularity. It is filled with many items con-
cerning the piano trade—items interesting not alone
to Weaver dealers but also to other piano men.
Lewis & Palmer Music House, Hinckley, 111., are
handling Kranich & Bach, .Kurtzmann and Gulbransen
pianos.
Jenkins Music Co., 1217 Walnut street. Kansas City,
Mo., is featuring the cooperative plan of selling Aeo-
lian-made grand pianos.
Hopper-Kelly, 1421 Third avenue, Seattle, Wash.,
announces that it is the home of the Mason & Hain-
lin, the Checkering and the Kimball pianos.
The Pioneer Music Co., 948 South Hill street, Los
Angeles, Calif., offers $50 for old radios or old pianos,
regardless of make or condition, as a down payment
on a new piano.
The D. Milton Piano Store, La Salle, 111., has been
having a successful sale of second-hand stock.
Lloyde's Music House, Champaign, 111., advertise
their store as the home of Steinway, M. Schulz, Lyon
& Healy, Settergren and Schiller pianos.
One of the tenants of the new Terminal Building at
Bradford, Pa., is the Montin Music Store.
Earl Billings, who was associated with The Cable
Co. in Chicago for several years and made records
for the company's reproducing pianos, is now living
in Topeka, Kansas.
A E. Ruppert has been conducting a temporary
piano store at Ligonier, Ind., for the Wilbur Templin
Music Co., of Elkhart, Intl.
Announcement was made last month by Steinway
& Sons, of New York, of the appointment of the
Winter Piano Co. as Stenway representatives in
Erie, Pa.
The slogan of the Will A. Watkiu Piano Co., of
Dallas, Texas, is "Play square with the customer."
O. C. Rollwage is manager of the wholesale divi-
sion of the Baldwin Piano Co. at 1303 Elm street,
Dallas, Texas, and H. S. Nubemyer is head of the
retail department. The store occupies two floors and
is distributing headquarters for the entire southwest.
Cuts showing the faces of these two men and the
store are used in the Dallas daily papers.
M. V. Cardili & Son, music dealers who have been
in 174 Bleecker street. New York, for 26 years, have
rented a store in the Royalton Hotel, 49 West Forty-
third street, New York.
Arthur J. Archambault, who sold Steinway pianos
in the New England territory, recently became asso-
ciated with the piano department of Heaton's Music
Store in Columbus, Ohio.
The Levy-Page Co., 107-109 East City Hall avenue,
Norfolk, Va., has just conducted a piano sale, with
the store open every week-day evening. They offered
liberal allowances for trade-ins of old pianos, radios,
phonographs or other musical instruments.
The C. A. House Co., 1141 Market street, Wheel-
ing, W. Va., announces that it is headquarters for
Conn band instruments, trumpets, banjos, saxophones
—new, sample and trade-ins.
The Vermont Music Co., 184 North Main street,
Barre, Vt., offers a "new piano guarantee with each
used piano."
Kranich & Bach, Gulbransen and Kurtzmann pianos
are the lines being advertised at present by the Lewis
& Palmer Music House. DeKalb, 111.
L. C. Tiller. 206 Capitol boulevard. Nashville, Tenn.,
is announcing brand new Baldwin. Hamilton, Jesse
French. Haddorff, Bush & Gerts. Howard and Mon-
arch grands, players and uprights, all on the easy
payment plan.
Classes in harmonica instruction for public school
teachers are carried on the seventh floor of the Lyon
& Healy building, Chicago, with James McLain as
instructor.
Bernard Abeler, Lombard, 111., one of the most
| proficient of the 500 piano tuners located in the
I suburbs of Chicago, says in his card in his liome-
|town paper, "The tuner alone preserves the tone."
The Jenkins Music Co., 313 North Penn street, lnde-
Ipendence, Kan., is holding a piano sale, closing out its
Independence store.
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Free music lessons are offered customers by the
Schmoller & Mueller Piano Co., 1514 to 1518 Dodge
street, Omaha, Neb., and those entering can choose
their own music teachers.
Orton Bros., whose Butte. Mont., store is at 216-218
Main street, are selling upright pianos at $10 down and
$2 a week.
"Five dollars down will do, and pay only $2 a week,"
is the offer made to piano customers by the New
England Piano Co., 267 Weybosset street, Provi-
dence, R. I.
Tyson Music Co., "home of Baldwin pianos and
Sentinel and Crosley radios," 622 North 4th avenue,
Tucson, Ariz., is keeping open evenings during its
present first anniversary sale.
Mrs. R. A. Duncan has opened a music store in the
Duncan Theater Building at Aberdeen, Idaho.
Fergusson Bros., Richard O. Fergusson. proprietor,
M5 Grace street, Richmond, Ya.. are featuring the
Lauter p ; anos in their advertising.
October business was more than double in volume
over August at the Pearson Piano Co., Indianapolis,
with prospects and indications looking favorable. Wil-
liam Longacre, representative of the Kurtzmann
Piano Co., and a recent visitor at the store, reports
conditions on the west coast much improved. Mr.
Longacre spent considerable time in the western part
of the country where he found business conditions
showing a marked improvement.
L. B. Gorton, piano dealer at 151 East Main street,
Benton Harbor, Mich., handles the Chickering, Cable-
Nelson, Fischer, Knabe, Marshall & Wendell, Wur-
litzer and Lyric pianos.
Oliver H. Ross Piano Co., , ? 16 Houston street, Fort
Worth, Tex., says "Our store is now crowded to the
very doors with pianos—74 grands packed on the first
and second floors, with the mezzanine floor crowded
to its capacity. These pianos belong to us—we paid
cash for them, and we must sell 30 of these grands
Saturday."
The Tufford piano department, 49 North 6th ave-
nue. Tucson, Ariz., sells Mason & Hamlin, Chicker-
ing, Knabe and Gulbransen instruments.
The Bruce Co.. 206 East Monroe street, Springfield,
111., operates a plan of placing pianos in responsible
homes, which results in purchases of many of the
instruments later.
Brook Mays & Co., 505 Milam street, Shreveport,
La., claims to be "The home of the world's three most
famous pianos: Chickering, Knabe and Mason &
Hamlin."
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The Marion, Indiana, "Ledger" speaking editorially
of the music houses of that section says that the
"House of Butler" is one of the largest institutions of
its kind in Northern Indiana. It was established in
1897. Ethvin Butler, under whose efficient manage-
ment the "House of Butler" has achieved its present
popularity, is one of the best known young business
men in the city, and richly deserves the success he
has won.
A. P. Schuttler, who has been in the music business
for 26 years at Evansville, Ind., and is also a pioneer
in the radio business has opened a new store known
as Schuttler Music shop at 18 Northwest Sixth street.
The enterprise will represent Victor and RCA radio
sets and accessories, and Victor records. Miss Alda
Schuttler will assist in operation of the business.
M. B. Robison, for fifteen years an official of Phil-
lips & Crew Piano Co., Atlanta, Ga., has been ap-
pointed general manager of the organization. A na-
tive of North Carolina, Mr. Robison came to Atlanta
in 1915. and immediately joined the staff of the music
house. He is a member of the officers staff, serving
as secretary. Other officers are: Harvey T. Phil-
lips, president; Robert P. McDavid, vice-president,
and Alex C. King, treasurer.
M. F. Shea, 242 Fifth avenue, N., Nashville, Tenn.,
Advertises the Starr with a cut of a grand and a pic-
ture of Joan Peers, the actress. The text ac-
companying these cuts reads: "Joan Peers, the star
of 'Rain or Shine,' says: "T use the Starr piano
exclusively."
The A. L. Le Jeal Music Store, at Erie, Pa., has
had an arrangement for giving free lessons on the
accordion. The teacher was Burt Saul, who is char-
acterized in a circular issued by the Le Jeal Music
Store as being a star of the first magnitude through
h:s many broadcasts over the country's largest
stations.
Barker Brothers, Piano department. San Francisco,
Calif., are advertising the Krell upright.
The Goodman Music Co., Inc., has been incorpo-
rated at Cleveland, Ohio; 250 shares, no par value.
Incorporators, Jack L. Goodman, Margaret Goodman,
Kathcrine Goodman.
George Ritz has leased space for a music shop at
750 Tenth avenue. New York.
The Hollenburg Music Co. last month celebrated
its 77th anniversary at Little Rock, Ark., with a "sale
of used pianos in good condition."
"See our windows for the latest case designs and
construction in grand pianos," says the W. J. Davis
Music House, Saginaw, Mich.
"Greater values for music lovers" is a phrase in the
advertising of the C. A. House Co., 1141 Market
street, Wheeling, W. Ya.
Brooks Mays Co. now have two stores in Houston,
Texas. One at Travis and Walker streets. The other
at 3712 Main street. This company has recently taken
on the distribution of the Emerson piano for the entire
state of Texas, according to a local paper. Aside from
the Emerson pianos, the Brooks Mays Co. handle the
M. Schulz Co. line and others. H. W. Horton is the
manager of the Main street store at Houston. The
Brooks Mays Co. has been in the piano business in
Texas for forty-one years. Joseph Sondock, general
manager of the Houston stores is optimistic concern-
ing the piano business and says that this line of their
business is improving. Mr. Sondock says that in his
opinion the slump is over.
The San Antonio Music Co., 316 West Commerce
street, San Antonio, Texas, is advertising the Chick-
ering piano as ''America's oldest piano is now the
handsomest." The San Antonio Music Co. carries the
entire American Piano Corporation line of instruments.
Rorabaugh-Wiley's, Hutchinson, Kansas, which ad-
vertises as "Hutchinson's Largest Music Store." is
known as the home of Mason & Hamlin, Knabe,
Chickering. Wurlitzer and Starr pianos.
Shackleton's Music Store, located in the Strand
Theater Building, Louisville, Ky., are using the well-
known Steinway slogan, which slogan appears in the
Steinway advertisement on the tenth page of tht.3
issue of Presto-Times, "No talented child should be
denied a Steinway," and continues: "It is given to
few children to attain fame in the arts. But there are
many children who will develop profoundly under the
softening, refining influence of good music. And if
your child has talent of any order, he should be taught
on a Steinway."
The Grinnell Bros. Music House, 113 E. Michigan
avenue. Kalamazoo, Mich., is known and advertised
as the "musical center of Kalamazoo."
The new Conn Ail-Metal clarinet is a thing of ex-
quisite beauty, both in appearance and in musical per-
formance.
The Duff-Gore Corporation, 131 Fayetteville street,
Raleigh, N. C, is conducting a sale of Steinway
pianos.
The E. E. Forbes & Sons Piano Co., W. Wesley
Parsons, manager, 205 Dexter avenue, Montgomery,
Ala., is featuring the Mason & Hamlin, Chickering,
Knabe. Story & Clark, Wurlitzer and other fine makes
of pianos.
The Sampson Music Co., Steinway agents at 913
Main street, Boise, Tdaho, has branch stores at Good-
ing, Buhl, Nampa, Pocatello, Weiser, Emmett, Twin
Falls and Payette.
League's store, 225 North Main street, Greenville,
S. C, has for its slogan, "Music is the Soul of Hap-
piness." It sells Mathushek, Straube, Hammond,
Wurlitzer, Jesse French & Sons, Gilmore, Lagonda,
Hardman and Harrington pianos.
The Lewis & Palmer Music Store at De Kalb, 111.,
having been repainted and interior re-arranged, pre-
sents a pleasing appearance and will compare favor-
ably with similar concerns in the larger cities. A
finer line of musical instruments would be hard to
find anywhere.
The Carnahan Music Co.. of Ravenna, Ohio, was
started many years ago by Frank Carnahan. present
proprietor, when he was attending Ravenna city high
school. Pianos, phonographs and radios all have con-
tributed in making this store the musical center of
Ravenna for more than twenty years. It handles the
Decker Bros, pianos and the Bosch radios.
A branch music store of the Anderson-Soward Co.,
Dayton, Ohio, has been opened in a room in the Allen
Bkig., at 9 W. Main street. The local branch is in
charge of H. L. Barnes, Dayton, formerly associated
with the Wurlitzer Co., and Thomas Jordan, a piano
expert for the last forty years.
The Radio and Piano Exchange Co., newly incor-
porated, has opened for business in the former Chap-
man Brothers Furniture Store at 5th avenue and Wal-
nut street, Des Moines. Iowa. Mayfield Marshall is
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