Music Trade Review
Issue: 1911 Vol. 53 N. 7 - Page 7
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THE
MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
portunity for introducing them to the public.
It is expected that the other Milwaukee piano
Music Trade to Be Well Represented at Mam- builders will also exhibit, although this has not
moth Industrial Exposition to Be Held in been definitely decided. Among these concerns
Waltham Piano Co., Wilson Piano Co.,
Milwaukee, September 2-12—Those Who are:
Will Be Represented and What They Will Conrad Piano Co., Chas. F. Netzow Piano Mfg.
Exhibit—Some Recent Sales of Interest—J. Co., and Milwaukee Piano Mfg. Co.
The pipe organ industry will be ably repre-
B. Thiery to Occupy New Building Next
sented also. One of the most interesting exhibits
Month.
will be that of the William Schuelke Co., 2214-
2218 Walnut street, which will display a work-
(Special to The Review.)
ing model of its largest organ, encased in plate
Milwaukee, Wis., Aug. 15, 1911.
glass,
to show its working parts in motion. The
The piano and organ industry of Milwaukee,
although only in its infancy, will have one of the Otto Hausman Co., 1208 Kinnickinnic avenue, and
most prominent places at the mammoth industrial the Hann-Wangerin-Weickhardt Co., 114-122 Bur-
exposition to be held in the Auditorium, Milwau- rell street, are also expected to be represented.
The Billings Spring Brass Flange Co., Enter-
kee, from September 2 to 12. The exposition will
be restricted to goods made in Milwaukee. It is prise building, plans to show its actions. The
conducted by the Merchants and Manufacturers' proposed exhibit will be more instructive than
Association in commemoration of the fiftieth anni- mere display and will doubtless be of consider-
versary of the organization of this big commer- able value to piano manufacturers who use Bill-
cial body with more than 1,800 members, fully ings products, especially insofar as education of
representative of the many lines of trade in Mil- the public in the heart of the piano is concerned.
This will be the first great industrial exposition
waukee.
ever held in Milwaukee. While the city is famed
The Gram-Richtsteig Piano Co., which, although
for its breweries, this industry is not the leading
young, is quite a lusty infant, will be one of the
principal exhibitors. Some of the most advan- one, machinery ranking first. The entire Audi-
tageously located space has been allotted to the torium, covering a solid block and ordinarily hav-
Gram concern, and a complete line of all styles ing seating room for a total of 15,000 persons in
will be shown. The exhibit will be in a way a its main and sub-halls, will be filled with ex-
duplicate of the G.-R. display at the piano expo- hibits. None but Milwaukee manufacturers will
sition in Chicago last June, but will be augmented be permitted to make displays.
The Otto Hausmann Co., pipe organs; 1208 Kin-
for this occasion. Max Richtsteig, secretary and
superintendent, is planning to have a working ex- nickinnic avenue, have just installed a handsome
hibit, although the nature of this has not yet been organ in the new St. John's Evangelical Lutheran
Church at Ada, Sheboygan county, Wis. At the •
determined.
The Kreiter Piano Manufacturing Co., which dedication late this month, Prof. Carl Miller, of
still has a large factory in Milwaukee, although Naperville, 111., will officiate. The company has
the main works now are located at Marinette, under construction several other large instruments,
Wis., will also be represented by a large display. the largest being for installation in Evangelical
The Kreiter piano will probably always be known Lutheran Emmaus Church at Hadley and Twenty-
as a Milwaukee-made product, and has been given third streets, Milwaukee, as soon as the new
a fine location in the main arena of the big Audi- edifice is ready. The organ will cost $4,000.
torium. Conrad Kreiter, president of the com- .Charles H. Scheffr, of the Ross-Schefft-Weinmann
pany, is pushing work on the new styles of the Piano Co., 420-22 Broadway, is in charge of the
Kreiter and Wegner, and plans to use this op- sales for the Hausmann Co., in which he holds a
large financial interest, and to his enterprise and
aggressiveness is due a large share of the success
of the concern.
One Ivers & Pond per day is the sales record
made last week by A. E. Goodell, manager of the
piano department of Gimbcl Bros. In six days
Mr. Goodell personally closed six sales, being the
best Ivers & Pond week the store has ever ex-
perienced. One sale was a parlor grand to Dr.
G. I. Hogue, a prominent physician of Milwau-
kee.
Mr. Goodell has been pushing the player
business harder than ever, and with the Knabe-
Angelus and Autopiano has been able to make a
fine record. During the first half of 1911 player
sales by Gimbel Bros, equaled the sales for the
entire year of 1910.
In a strong competition at Janesville, Wis., last
week, the J. B. Bradford Piano Co., 411 Broad-
way, Milwaukee, won out with the Chickering.
The purchaser was Mrs. George J. Hyde, super-
visor of music in the Janesville high and public
Every Packard owner is a Packard
schools. A number of Milwaukee State repre-
booster. He is more than satis-
sentatives were on the ground, but Mrs. Hyde
fied—for he has received more
selected the Chickering on its merits. J. B. De
Swarte, vice-president of the Bradford house, con-
than "full value" for his money
ducted the negotiations.
J. B. Thiery expects to occupy his new four-
That's the reason Packard pianos
story
building on Jackson street, just north of
are easy to sell—and that's the
Wisconsin street, on September 1, on which date
reason you will find profit and
the lease of his present temporary quarters in the
pleasure in. selling them. Also it's
Goldsmith building expires. Mr. Thiery has just
the reason why we are finding it
returned from a vacation tour in his big car, tak-
easy to get the better dealers
ing in the famous Menominee Indian reservation
everywhere to handle them. Write
in northeastern Wisconsin, and other points of
The Packard Company, Fort
historic interest. He was accompanied by Mrs!
Thiery and the family. Mr. Thiery has already
Wayne, Indiana—to-day. If we
arranged for select new stock of Kimball, Hallet
are not already represented in
& Davis and Thiery pianos for installation in the
your territory, we may be glad
new store.
to make agency arrangements
A fine Solo Apoilo player was purchased from*
with you—and it may mean for
the
J. B. Bradford Piano Co. last week by Ar-
you the one big opportunity.
thur R. Wayne, general manager of a large wax
figure manufacturing toncern in Milwaukee. The
sale was made by Hugh W. Randall, manager of
MILWAUKEE'S BUDGET OF NEWS.
dTT A satisfied customer
\ll is a real profit maker
—the best salesman a
piano dealer can possibly
have
ihe player department, who has several other
good sales to his credit for the week.
Another car has been added to the "stables" of
Edmund Gram, No. 209 Grand avenue, Wisconsin
representative of the Steinway. A few weeks ago
.Mr. Gram invested in a roadster as an experiment
and is so well satisfied with automobiles as trade
helps that he has purchased another car, this being
a tourist. The roadster has been, placed at the
disposal of the sales force, while Mr. Gram will
drive the touring car himself. The roadster has
already paid for itself, Mr. Gram says, and he has
no doubt that his second investment in benzine
buggies will be equally as profitable. Up to a few
months ago Mr. Gram resisted all attempts of
automobile men to convert him and he stuck to
his horses until finally one enterprising salesman
just forced him into the gasoline world. It would
be hard at this time to pry Mr. Gram loose from
his cars.
Gimbel Bros.' piano department is holding a
summer-end clearing sale this week and are offer-
ing some good bargains in used and discontinued
styles. The big house is offering free delivery,
stool, scarf and one year's tuning with each in-
strument sold in the city. As soon as the stock is
cleaned up, Manager Goodell will receive a fine
new stock of Ivers & Pond, Angelus and Auto-
piano instruments.
The Ross-Schefft-Weinmann Piano Co. have
been doing a fine Behning and C. Kurtzmann busi-
ness in its southwestern Wisconsin territory
through its branch houses at Mineral Point, Dar-
lington and Platteville, all in the heart of the
lead and zinc mining country.
Several good
Knabe sales have been closed in Milwaukee dur-
ing the last two weeks by August H. Ross and
Charles H. Schefft.
Workmen engaged in remodeling the three-story
building at No. 310 Grand avenue, to be occupied
September 1 by Emil O. Schmidt, who retires as
manager of the Milwaukee branch of the F. G.
Smith Piano Co. at that time, are making rapid
progress, and Mr. Schmidt hopes to be able to
install his fixtures and initial stock before the last
week of the month. The store promises to be one
of the neatest in Milwaukee.
THEY
COST
MORE
THEY'RE
WORTH
IT
401-424 E. 163d St., New York
Chicago Office: Republic Bldg.
THE
MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
portunity for introducing them to the public.
It is expected that the other Milwaukee piano
Music Trade to Be Well Represented at Mam- builders will also exhibit, although this has not
moth Industrial Exposition to Be Held in been definitely decided. Among these concerns
Waltham Piano Co., Wilson Piano Co.,
Milwaukee, September 2-12—Those Who are:
Will Be Represented and What They Will Conrad Piano Co., Chas. F. Netzow Piano Mfg.
Exhibit—Some Recent Sales of Interest—J. Co., and Milwaukee Piano Mfg. Co.
The pipe organ industry will be ably repre-
B. Thiery to Occupy New Building Next
sented also. One of the most interesting exhibits
Month.
will be that of the William Schuelke Co., 2214-
2218 Walnut street, which will display a work-
(Special to The Review.)
ing model of its largest organ, encased in plate
Milwaukee, Wis., Aug. 15, 1911.
glass,
to show its working parts in motion. The
The piano and organ industry of Milwaukee,
although only in its infancy, will have one of the Otto Hausman Co., 1208 Kinnickinnic avenue, and
most prominent places at the mammoth industrial the Hann-Wangerin-Weickhardt Co., 114-122 Bur-
exposition to be held in the Auditorium, Milwau- rell street, are also expected to be represented.
The Billings Spring Brass Flange Co., Enter-
kee, from September 2 to 12. The exposition will
be restricted to goods made in Milwaukee. It is prise building, plans to show its actions. The
conducted by the Merchants and Manufacturers' proposed exhibit will be more instructive than
Association in commemoration of the fiftieth anni- mere display and will doubtless be of consider-
versary of the organization of this big commer- able value to piano manufacturers who use Bill-
cial body with more than 1,800 members, fully ings products, especially insofar as education of
representative of the many lines of trade in Mil- the public in the heart of the piano is concerned.
This will be the first great industrial exposition
waukee.
ever held in Milwaukee. While the city is famed
The Gram-Richtsteig Piano Co., which, although
for its breweries, this industry is not the leading
young, is quite a lusty infant, will be one of the
principal exhibitors. Some of the most advan- one, machinery ranking first. The entire Audi-
tageously located space has been allotted to the torium, covering a solid block and ordinarily hav-
Gram concern, and a complete line of all styles ing seating room for a total of 15,000 persons in
will be shown. The exhibit will be in a way a its main and sub-halls, will be filled with ex-
duplicate of the G.-R. display at the piano expo- hibits. None but Milwaukee manufacturers will
sition in Chicago last June, but will be augmented be permitted to make displays.
The Otto Hausmann Co., pipe organs; 1208 Kin-
for this occasion. Max Richtsteig, secretary and
superintendent, is planning to have a working ex- nickinnic avenue, have just installed a handsome
hibit, although the nature of this has not yet been organ in the new St. John's Evangelical Lutheran
Church at Ada, Sheboygan county, Wis. At the •
determined.
The Kreiter Piano Manufacturing Co., which dedication late this month, Prof. Carl Miller, of
still has a large factory in Milwaukee, although Naperville, 111., will officiate. The company has
the main works now are located at Marinette, under construction several other large instruments,
Wis., will also be represented by a large display. the largest being for installation in Evangelical
The Kreiter piano will probably always be known Lutheran Emmaus Church at Hadley and Twenty-
as a Milwaukee-made product, and has been given third streets, Milwaukee, as soon as the new
a fine location in the main arena of the big Audi- edifice is ready. The organ will cost $4,000.
torium. Conrad Kreiter, president of the com- .Charles H. Scheffr, of the Ross-Schefft-Weinmann
pany, is pushing work on the new styles of the Piano Co., 420-22 Broadway, is in charge of the
Kreiter and Wegner, and plans to use this op- sales for the Hausmann Co., in which he holds a
large financial interest, and to his enterprise and
aggressiveness is due a large share of the success
of the concern.
One Ivers & Pond per day is the sales record
made last week by A. E. Goodell, manager of the
piano department of Gimbcl Bros. In six days
Mr. Goodell personally closed six sales, being the
best Ivers & Pond week the store has ever ex-
perienced. One sale was a parlor grand to Dr.
G. I. Hogue, a prominent physician of Milwau-
kee.
Mr. Goodell has been pushing the player
business harder than ever, and with the Knabe-
Angelus and Autopiano has been able to make a
fine record. During the first half of 1911 player
sales by Gimbel Bros, equaled the sales for the
entire year of 1910.
In a strong competition at Janesville, Wis., last
week, the J. B. Bradford Piano Co., 411 Broad-
way, Milwaukee, won out with the Chickering.
The purchaser was Mrs. George J. Hyde, super-
visor of music in the Janesville high and public
Every Packard owner is a Packard
schools. A number of Milwaukee State repre-
booster. He is more than satis-
sentatives were on the ground, but Mrs. Hyde
fied—for he has received more
selected the Chickering on its merits. J. B. De
Swarte, vice-president of the Bradford house, con-
than "full value" for his money
ducted the negotiations.
J. B. Thiery expects to occupy his new four-
That's the reason Packard pianos
story
building on Jackson street, just north of
are easy to sell—and that's the
Wisconsin street, on September 1, on which date
reason you will find profit and
the lease of his present temporary quarters in the
pleasure in. selling them. Also it's
Goldsmith building expires. Mr. Thiery has just
the reason why we are finding it
returned from a vacation tour in his big car, tak-
easy to get the better dealers
ing in the famous Menominee Indian reservation
everywhere to handle them. Write
in northeastern Wisconsin, and other points of
The Packard Company, Fort
historic interest. He was accompanied by Mrs!
Thiery and the family. Mr. Thiery has already
Wayne, Indiana—to-day. If we
arranged for select new stock of Kimball, Hallet
are not already represented in
& Davis and Thiery pianos for installation in the
your territory, we may be glad
new store.
to make agency arrangements
A fine Solo Apoilo player was purchased from*
with you—and it may mean for
the
J. B. Bradford Piano Co. last week by Ar-
you the one big opportunity.
thur R. Wayne, general manager of a large wax
figure manufacturing toncern in Milwaukee. The
sale was made by Hugh W. Randall, manager of
MILWAUKEE'S BUDGET OF NEWS.
dTT A satisfied customer
\ll is a real profit maker
—the best salesman a
piano dealer can possibly
have
ihe player department, who has several other
good sales to his credit for the week.
Another car has been added to the "stables" of
Edmund Gram, No. 209 Grand avenue, Wisconsin
representative of the Steinway. A few weeks ago
.Mr. Gram invested in a roadster as an experiment
and is so well satisfied with automobiles as trade
helps that he has purchased another car, this being
a tourist. The roadster has been, placed at the
disposal of the sales force, while Mr. Gram will
drive the touring car himself. The roadster has
already paid for itself, Mr. Gram says, and he has
no doubt that his second investment in benzine
buggies will be equally as profitable. Up to a few
months ago Mr. Gram resisted all attempts of
automobile men to convert him and he stuck to
his horses until finally one enterprising salesman
just forced him into the gasoline world. It would
be hard at this time to pry Mr. Gram loose from
his cars.
Gimbel Bros.' piano department is holding a
summer-end clearing sale this week and are offer-
ing some good bargains in used and discontinued
styles. The big house is offering free delivery,
stool, scarf and one year's tuning with each in-
strument sold in the city. As soon as the stock is
cleaned up, Manager Goodell will receive a fine
new stock of Ivers & Pond, Angelus and Auto-
piano instruments.
The Ross-Schefft-Weinmann Piano Co. have
been doing a fine Behning and C. Kurtzmann busi-
ness in its southwestern Wisconsin territory
through its branch houses at Mineral Point, Dar-
lington and Platteville, all in the heart of the
lead and zinc mining country.
Several good
Knabe sales have been closed in Milwaukee dur-
ing the last two weeks by August H. Ross and
Charles H. Schefft.
Workmen engaged in remodeling the three-story
building at No. 310 Grand avenue, to be occupied
September 1 by Emil O. Schmidt, who retires as
manager of the Milwaukee branch of the F. G.
Smith Piano Co. at that time, are making rapid
progress, and Mr. Schmidt hopes to be able to
install his fixtures and initial stock before the last
week of the month. The store promises to be one
of the neatest in Milwaukee.
THEY
COST
MORE
THEY'RE
WORTH
IT
401-424 E. 163d St., New York
Chicago Office: Republic Bldg.
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