Music Trade Review
Issue: 1912 Vol. 55 N. 16 - Page 8
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THE
MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
BUSY TIMES AT BEHN1NGS.
BIG DEMAND FOR GRANDS IN THE NORTHWEST.
Brooks-Evans Co.'s Great Record with the Everett Grands—Twin City Dealers Pleased with
Trade Outlook—Why Raudenbush & Sons Piano Co. Will Move—Some of the Lines That
Are Proving Popular—Recent Trade Visitors of Note—Collections Much Improved.
Retail Store on Fifth Avenue Doing an Excellent
Business—Piano-Player Much in Demand—
Looking for New Player Grands.
(Special to The Review.)
One went to a State institution and the other to
St. Paul atid Minneapolis, Oct. 12, 1912.
a St. Paul church, the sale prices respectively
If the sales of grand pianos is the barometer of
being $1,800 and $1,200.
the piano trade, as some students of the business
The Brooks-Evans Piano Co. last week placed
maintain with fair arguments, the Twin Cities are
four Everett Academics in St. Mary's Hall, Fari-
enjoying a high degree of prosperity, as the grand
bault, and an Academic and a grand in the con-
business is all that its name implies. For in- vent school in the same city, which, by the way,
stance, one day last week the Brooks-Evans Co.
is the home of a long-established piano factory.
received a cargo of Everett grands, and by eve-
Foster & Waldo find trade to their satisfaction
ning all had been sold. To be sure, President
and are getting a big business without much effort.
E. A. Brooks had been notified by two prospective
They entertained this week Gus Behning, of the
purchasers to let them know when he had some
Behning Co., and last week Major Rich, of the
classy Everetts on hand, and with these to see McPhail house. Mr. Behning, who has been out
was to buy. The third instrument was not spoken
on the Coast, declared that everything looks well
for, however, and was a straight floor sale.
in the west, particularly east of the mountains.
One of the reasons that the Raudenbush & Sons
The success of the Behning player has been one
Piano Co. is leaving its established home after
of the comforts of his long journey. He has been
more than twenty years of occupancy is to give its
hearing compliments regarding this player in every
new Knabe grand department a chance to be city he has visited.
shown.
Sales are plentiful, collections better, the whole-
Both W. J. Dyer & Bro. and the Metropolitan
sale end is picking up, and the clearance sale of
Music Co. are doing nice business with their
odds and ends is splendid. This epitomizes the
Steinways, uprights, grands and Pianolas. The week's record at the Northwestern branch of the
former house placed a Steinway at the disposal of
M. Schulz Co.
Mme. Olive Fremstad, who is at the St. Paul Hotel
for a week. Eduard Collins in his program, to-
SUPPLY ORGANJTOJfcACINE CHURCH.
gether with Mme. Schumann-Heink in Minne-
(Special to The Review.)
apolis, used a Steinway.
Milwaukee, Wis., Oct. 15, 1912.
Piano men, without exception, record a nice
The Otto Hausmann & Co. organ manufacturing
business. The new Baldwin house in St. Paul
concern of this city, in which Charles H. Schefft,
is now fairly established, with electric signs and
an official of the Ross, Schefft & Weinman Piano
other progressive features, and seems destined for
Co., is interested, has been meeting with fine pipe
a nice lot of business. In contemplation of its organ sales recently, among them the sale of a large
announced removal to 65 East Sixth street, the pipe organ to the First Evangelical Church at
house of Raudenbush is pushing a big removal
Racine, Wis. A brisk business in Knabe, Behning,
sale. The new store, in which there also will be
Hazelton and Kurtzmann pianos is reported by Mr.
a talking machine department, will be ready for
Schefft. The Ross, Schefft & Weinman Piano Co.
occupancy about November 1. *
has several branch stores about-Wisconsin, and Mr.
The house of Dyer sold two Vocalion organs
Schefft says that business at these establishments
last week by way of varying the music trade. is especially good.
Business is still booming at the warerooms of the
Behning Piano Co., 425 Fifth avenue, New York.
Many fine sales of uprights and player-pianos were
consummated this week by Manager G. Fred Kess-
ler. One player-piano sale caused Mr. Kessler
considerable gratification. A well-known music
lover purchased a Behnimg player as a result of vis-
iting the home of a friend, where he heard the
Behning and was so impressed by its remarkable
tone that he immediately opened negotiations with
Mr. Kessler, and is now the owner of a Behning,
and is more than pleased with his selection.
Mr. Kessler has a waiting list for the new player
grands that the Behning Co. will shortly place on
the market. From present indications the factory
will have to work full capacity and nights to sup-
ply the demand for these popular new models
when they are ready for distribution. The ware-
rooms have been refurnished and attractively ar-
ranged for the coming holiday season. Among the
many visitors this week was L. S. Sherman, presi-
dent of Sherman, Clay & Co., San Francisco. Gus-
tave Behning will return Saturday from a two
weeks' trip to the Coast, where he found conditions
most satisfactory. Henry Behning and Mr. Kess-
ler attended the opening of L. Bamberger & Co.'s
new store at Newark, N. J., on Wednesday, where
the Behning player-piano is handled.
ADDITIONS TO O'NEILL-ADAMS STAFF.
Among the recent additions to the staff of the
O'Neill-Adams piano department are R. H. Wood-
ford and Joseph O'Donnell. Mr. Woodford was
formerly connected with Simpson-Crawford and
Mr. O'Donnell with Greenhut-Siegel Cooper Co.
Both made enviable reputations with their former
connections, and are doing splendidly in the
O'Neill-Adams store.
12 crops a year! An all year 'round
harvest if you sell the leader-
s ' Davenport-Treacy
Style "T"ranks as a fast seller.
The style speaks for itself.
as a leader; i t fulfills i t s n i c h e
perfectly.
Year after year has seen the
growth of D - T dealers with con-
tingent prosperity.
A prosperous clientele means a good line.
If you want a leader that leads, more in-
formation will be sent upon request.
The Davenport-Treacy Piano Co.
NEW
YORK
8
THE
MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
BUSY TIMES AT BEHN1NGS.
BIG DEMAND FOR GRANDS IN THE NORTHWEST.
Brooks-Evans Co.'s Great Record with the Everett Grands—Twin City Dealers Pleased with
Trade Outlook—Why Raudenbush & Sons Piano Co. Will Move—Some of the Lines That
Are Proving Popular—Recent Trade Visitors of Note—Collections Much Improved.
Retail Store on Fifth Avenue Doing an Excellent
Business—Piano-Player Much in Demand—
Looking for New Player Grands.
(Special to The Review.)
One went to a State institution and the other to
St. Paul atid Minneapolis, Oct. 12, 1912.
a St. Paul church, the sale prices respectively
If the sales of grand pianos is the barometer of
being $1,800 and $1,200.
the piano trade, as some students of the business
The Brooks-Evans Piano Co. last week placed
maintain with fair arguments, the Twin Cities are
four Everett Academics in St. Mary's Hall, Fari-
enjoying a high degree of prosperity, as the grand
bault, and an Academic and a grand in the con-
business is all that its name implies. For in- vent school in the same city, which, by the way,
stance, one day last week the Brooks-Evans Co.
is the home of a long-established piano factory.
received a cargo of Everett grands, and by eve-
Foster & Waldo find trade to their satisfaction
ning all had been sold. To be sure, President
and are getting a big business without much effort.
E. A. Brooks had been notified by two prospective
They entertained this week Gus Behning, of the
purchasers to let them know when he had some
Behning Co., and last week Major Rich, of the
classy Everetts on hand, and with these to see McPhail house. Mr. Behning, who has been out
was to buy. The third instrument was not spoken
on the Coast, declared that everything looks well
for, however, and was a straight floor sale.
in the west, particularly east of the mountains.
One of the reasons that the Raudenbush & Sons
The success of the Behning player has been one
Piano Co. is leaving its established home after
of the comforts of his long journey. He has been
more than twenty years of occupancy is to give its
hearing compliments regarding this player in every
new Knabe grand department a chance to be city he has visited.
shown.
Sales are plentiful, collections better, the whole-
Both W. J. Dyer & Bro. and the Metropolitan
sale end is picking up, and the clearance sale of
Music Co. are doing nice business with their
odds and ends is splendid. This epitomizes the
Steinways, uprights, grands and Pianolas. The week's record at the Northwestern branch of the
former house placed a Steinway at the disposal of
M. Schulz Co.
Mme. Olive Fremstad, who is at the St. Paul Hotel
for a week. Eduard Collins in his program, to-
SUPPLY ORGANJTOJfcACINE CHURCH.
gether with Mme. Schumann-Heink in Minne-
(Special to The Review.)
apolis, used a Steinway.
Milwaukee, Wis., Oct. 15, 1912.
Piano men, without exception, record a nice
The Otto Hausmann & Co. organ manufacturing
business. The new Baldwin house in St. Paul
concern of this city, in which Charles H. Schefft,
is now fairly established, with electric signs and
an official of the Ross, Schefft & Weinman Piano
other progressive features, and seems destined for
Co., is interested, has been meeting with fine pipe
a nice lot of business. In contemplation of its organ sales recently, among them the sale of a large
announced removal to 65 East Sixth street, the pipe organ to the First Evangelical Church at
house of Raudenbush is pushing a big removal
Racine, Wis. A brisk business in Knabe, Behning,
sale. The new store, in which there also will be
Hazelton and Kurtzmann pianos is reported by Mr.
a talking machine department, will be ready for
Schefft. The Ross, Schefft & Weinman Piano Co.
occupancy about November 1. *
has several branch stores about-Wisconsin, and Mr.
The house of Dyer sold two Vocalion organs
Schefft says that business at these establishments
last week by way of varying the music trade. is especially good.
Business is still booming at the warerooms of the
Behning Piano Co., 425 Fifth avenue, New York.
Many fine sales of uprights and player-pianos were
consummated this week by Manager G. Fred Kess-
ler. One player-piano sale caused Mr. Kessler
considerable gratification. A well-known music
lover purchased a Behnimg player as a result of vis-
iting the home of a friend, where he heard the
Behning and was so impressed by its remarkable
tone that he immediately opened negotiations with
Mr. Kessler, and is now the owner of a Behning,
and is more than pleased with his selection.
Mr. Kessler has a waiting list for the new player
grands that the Behning Co. will shortly place on
the market. From present indications the factory
will have to work full capacity and nights to sup-
ply the demand for these popular new models
when they are ready for distribution. The ware-
rooms have been refurnished and attractively ar-
ranged for the coming holiday season. Among the
many visitors this week was L. S. Sherman, presi-
dent of Sherman, Clay & Co., San Francisco. Gus-
tave Behning will return Saturday from a two
weeks' trip to the Coast, where he found conditions
most satisfactory. Henry Behning and Mr. Kess-
ler attended the opening of L. Bamberger & Co.'s
new store at Newark, N. J., on Wednesday, where
the Behning player-piano is handled.
ADDITIONS TO O'NEILL-ADAMS STAFF.
Among the recent additions to the staff of the
O'Neill-Adams piano department are R. H. Wood-
ford and Joseph O'Donnell. Mr. Woodford was
formerly connected with Simpson-Crawford and
Mr. O'Donnell with Greenhut-Siegel Cooper Co.
Both made enviable reputations with their former
connections, and are doing splendidly in the
O'Neill-Adams store.
12 crops a year! An all year 'round
harvest if you sell the leader-
s ' Davenport-Treacy
Style "T"ranks as a fast seller.
The style speaks for itself.
as a leader; i t fulfills i t s n i c h e
perfectly.
Year after year has seen the
growth of D - T dealers with con-
tingent prosperity.
A prosperous clientele means a good line.
If you want a leader that leads, more in-
formation will be sent upon request.
The Davenport-Treacy Piano Co.
NEW
YORK
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