Music Trade Review
Issue: 1914 Vol. 58 N. 8 - Page 9
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THE MUSIC TRADE
BUSH & LANE CO. LANDS THE PRIZE.
Sells Grand and Two Uprights to New Palace
Theater
in Detroit—Have
Twenty-four
Pianos in Theaters in That City—Ling to
Bermuda—F3rrand Publicity Peeves Dealers.
DETROIT,
(Special to The Review.)
MICH., February 16. — The
Bush &
Lane Piano Co. landed the piano order of the new
Palace Theater—a grand and two uprights. The
terms being cash, it was a very desirable sale. W.
James Brennan made the sale.
The Bush & Lane Co. now have twenty-four
pianos in Detroit theaters. All of the sales were
for cash. The latest was due directly to the man-
ner in which the Bush & Lane pianos in others have
stood the rough usage they are put to. The drub-
bing pianos in theaters have to submit to make a
sale otherwise than for cash an undesirable one.
But certain parties in Detroit offered to sell on
payments, and Manager C. W. Cross, of the Bush
& Lane store, considers it a big compliment to the
quality of the Bush & Lane that the owners of
the Palace preferred to pay a big price in cash
for his company's pianos rather than buy on time
at a smaller price some piano of which they were
not certain.
W. Y. Archibald, of the Vocalstyle Music Co.,
called upon Detroit dealers this week.
A. R. Miller, formerly with the player depart-
ment of Grinnell Bros., but who resigned to en-
ter an art store, has found that musical art is
better than the painted variety, and returned to
the piano business as a salesman with the J. L.
Hudson Co.
J. Henry Ling has started for Bermuda, where
he expects to spend the remainder of the winter
in rest and recuperation.
Detroit piano dealers are a little peeved at the
way the closing out of the Farrand Co. stock is
being advertised. In almost full-page spaces this
week players are quoted at absolutely low prices.
One hundred and twenty-five dollars for a new
player is pretty stiff competition for the regular
dealers.
REVIEW
BUSINESS FAIR DESPITE WAR.
9
WEAVER ORGAN & PIANO CO. ANNUAL.
All Officers of Prominent York, Pa., Company
Wagner & Levien, the Prominent Representa-
Re-elected for Coming Year—Business for
tives for the Steinway, Aeolian Co., and
1913 Best in the History of the Company—
Other Lines in Mexico City, Report Good
Fifty-second Regular Semi-Annual Declared.
Volume of Sales in That City and Vicinity.
Notwithstanding the political disturbances that
have been raging in Mexico for the past year,
Wagner & Levien, the prominent piano house of
Mexico City, continues to close a good business
day by day. It is, of course, a tribute to the
methods and policies of this old-established house
that it has been able to continue business in any
degree owing to the serious disturbances in our
sister republic, but with admirable pluck and
courage Wagner & Levien have endeavored to
(.Special to The Review.)
YORK, PA., February 16.—At the recent annual
meeting of the Weaver Organ & Piano Co., held
at the offices of the company in this city, the fol-
lowing officers were re-elected for the coming
year: President, M. B. Gibson; vice-president, C.
F. Baer, and secretary and treasurer, W. S. Bond.
At the conclusion of the stockholders' meeting the
board of directors declared the usual semi-annual
dividend of 3 per cent., this being the fifty-second
semi-annual dividend paid by the company. The
business report for the year was particularly
pleasing to the stockholders, showing, as it did,
that the business of the company during 1913 had
increased over 20 per cent., and was the largest
ever done in a single year by the company since
its establishment in 1870. The record is an in-
dication that the Weaver product is winning its
full share of popularity.
President Gibson has just returned from a short
trip through the anthracite coal regions of Penn-
sylvania and reports that the business of the com-
pany in that section is very satisfactory despite
the fact that the general conditions have been un-
favorable in that section for some months past.
TO OPEN STOREJN BUFFALO.
W. Howard Webb, of Buffalo, N. Y., was in
New York this week, seeking several lines of pi-
anos for the new piano store that he will open at
Buffalo immediately. Mr. Webb has been con-
nected with C. Kurtzmann & Co., Schuler Bros.
and E. E. Walters Co. at Buffalo, and as he hns
resided in thai field all his life he has a wide ac-
quaintanceship. He will announce his line and
store location shortly.
WHY THE WEST WILL BUY PIANOS.
( Special to The Review.)
TOPEKA, KAN., February 12. — The reports of
THE ELECTRIC=ACOUSTIC CO.
The Electric-Acoustic Co., of New York, has
been incorporated at. Albany for the purpose of
manufacturing and recording a sound apparatus for
Wagner & Levien's Home in Mexico City.
musical instruments. Capital, $10,000. Those in-
terested in the company are Bayard Stevens, H. W. preach optimism to the discouraged business men
Showers and R. S. M. Mitchell.
of Mexico.
Wagner & Levien, which is the oldest piano
firm in Mexico handling American pianos, is one
of the best-known houses in the piano trade, and
its head, Otto Wagner, is popular both in this
country and in Europe. Representing the Stein-
way piano for many long years and also the com-
plete Pianola line, Wagner & Levien were closing
a splendid high-grade business that was showing
a steady increase until Mexico was plunged into
are inducing wide-awake
its unfortunate political wars. Even with disaster
dealers to secure our agency
threatening it from all sides, the house of Wagner
& Levien continued its newspaper advertising until
was no longer possible to trace shipments of its
If you are building for the it pianos
to different points in the country.
future you cannot afford to
Otto Wagner, president of the house, is a con-
firmed optimist, and although admitting that the
overlook them.
present Mexican situation is most discouraging and
Famous since 1856 for their
disheartening, he is hopeful that the country will
in
the near future regain its natural prosperity.
quality, they will surely
Mr. Wagner is at present in New York, making
please your most critical cus-
his headquarters at Steinway Hall.
The illustration herewith hardly does justice to
tomers.
the real attractiveness of the Wagner & Levien
You will increase your sales
building, as the exterior is artistically conceived
and in line with the beauty of modern American
and profits if you have them.
buildings. Situated on the best business street in
Mexico City, the firm is in an excellent position
A postal will bring full details,
to continue its markedly successful career when
"THE QUALITY COUNTS"
Mexico settles down to real business activity.
new motor licenses show that about $18,000 worth
of new cars are being purchased every week by
Kansans. Over 35,000 licenses are now in force,
indicating that while there may be some caution
in other respects, there is money with which to
buy not only automobiles, but pianos and player-
pianos.
DECKER TONE
DECKER CONSTRUCTION
DECKER FINISH
DECKER & SON, Inc.
Established 1 8 5 6
699 East 135th Street
NEW YORK
INCREASE^CAPTTAL.
The C. F. Widener Organ Co., Richmond, Va.,
has raised its capital from $10,000 to $50,000. C. F.
Widener is president of the company, and W. J.
Tucker, secretary.
THIS IS IT!
The Christman
Attachable Player
which can be installed in any grand or
upright piano, regardless of size or style,
without altering the case.
Write us for Further Information.
CHRISTMAN PIANO CO.
597-601 East 137th St., New York
THE MUSIC TRADE
BUSH & LANE CO. LANDS THE PRIZE.
Sells Grand and Two Uprights to New Palace
Theater
in Detroit—Have
Twenty-four
Pianos in Theaters in That City—Ling to
Bermuda—F3rrand Publicity Peeves Dealers.
DETROIT,
(Special to The Review.)
MICH., February 16. — The
Bush &
Lane Piano Co. landed the piano order of the new
Palace Theater—a grand and two uprights. The
terms being cash, it was a very desirable sale. W.
James Brennan made the sale.
The Bush & Lane Co. now have twenty-four
pianos in Detroit theaters. All of the sales were
for cash. The latest was due directly to the man-
ner in which the Bush & Lane pianos in others have
stood the rough usage they are put to. The drub-
bing pianos in theaters have to submit to make a
sale otherwise than for cash an undesirable one.
But certain parties in Detroit offered to sell on
payments, and Manager C. W. Cross, of the Bush
& Lane store, considers it a big compliment to the
quality of the Bush & Lane that the owners of
the Palace preferred to pay a big price in cash
for his company's pianos rather than buy on time
at a smaller price some piano of which they were
not certain.
W. Y. Archibald, of the Vocalstyle Music Co.,
called upon Detroit dealers this week.
A. R. Miller, formerly with the player depart-
ment of Grinnell Bros., but who resigned to en-
ter an art store, has found that musical art is
better than the painted variety, and returned to
the piano business as a salesman with the J. L.
Hudson Co.
J. Henry Ling has started for Bermuda, where
he expects to spend the remainder of the winter
in rest and recuperation.
Detroit piano dealers are a little peeved at the
way the closing out of the Farrand Co. stock is
being advertised. In almost full-page spaces this
week players are quoted at absolutely low prices.
One hundred and twenty-five dollars for a new
player is pretty stiff competition for the regular
dealers.
REVIEW
BUSINESS FAIR DESPITE WAR.
9
WEAVER ORGAN & PIANO CO. ANNUAL.
All Officers of Prominent York, Pa., Company
Wagner & Levien, the Prominent Representa-
Re-elected for Coming Year—Business for
tives for the Steinway, Aeolian Co., and
1913 Best in the History of the Company—
Other Lines in Mexico City, Report Good
Fifty-second Regular Semi-Annual Declared.
Volume of Sales in That City and Vicinity.
Notwithstanding the political disturbances that
have been raging in Mexico for the past year,
Wagner & Levien, the prominent piano house of
Mexico City, continues to close a good business
day by day. It is, of course, a tribute to the
methods and policies of this old-established house
that it has been able to continue business in any
degree owing to the serious disturbances in our
sister republic, but with admirable pluck and
courage Wagner & Levien have endeavored to
(.Special to The Review.)
YORK, PA., February 16.—At the recent annual
meeting of the Weaver Organ & Piano Co., held
at the offices of the company in this city, the fol-
lowing officers were re-elected for the coming
year: President, M. B. Gibson; vice-president, C.
F. Baer, and secretary and treasurer, W. S. Bond.
At the conclusion of the stockholders' meeting the
board of directors declared the usual semi-annual
dividend of 3 per cent., this being the fifty-second
semi-annual dividend paid by the company. The
business report for the year was particularly
pleasing to the stockholders, showing, as it did,
that the business of the company during 1913 had
increased over 20 per cent., and was the largest
ever done in a single year by the company since
its establishment in 1870. The record is an in-
dication that the Weaver product is winning its
full share of popularity.
President Gibson has just returned from a short
trip through the anthracite coal regions of Penn-
sylvania and reports that the business of the com-
pany in that section is very satisfactory despite
the fact that the general conditions have been un-
favorable in that section for some months past.
TO OPEN STOREJN BUFFALO.
W. Howard Webb, of Buffalo, N. Y., was in
New York this week, seeking several lines of pi-
anos for the new piano store that he will open at
Buffalo immediately. Mr. Webb has been con-
nected with C. Kurtzmann & Co., Schuler Bros.
and E. E. Walters Co. at Buffalo, and as he hns
resided in thai field all his life he has a wide ac-
quaintanceship. He will announce his line and
store location shortly.
WHY THE WEST WILL BUY PIANOS.
( Special to The Review.)
TOPEKA, KAN., February 12. — The reports of
THE ELECTRIC=ACOUSTIC CO.
The Electric-Acoustic Co., of New York, has
been incorporated at. Albany for the purpose of
manufacturing and recording a sound apparatus for
Wagner & Levien's Home in Mexico City.
musical instruments. Capital, $10,000. Those in-
terested in the company are Bayard Stevens, H. W. preach optimism to the discouraged business men
Showers and R. S. M. Mitchell.
of Mexico.
Wagner & Levien, which is the oldest piano
firm in Mexico handling American pianos, is one
of the best-known houses in the piano trade, and
its head, Otto Wagner, is popular both in this
country and in Europe. Representing the Stein-
way piano for many long years and also the com-
plete Pianola line, Wagner & Levien were closing
a splendid high-grade business that was showing
a steady increase until Mexico was plunged into
are inducing wide-awake
its unfortunate political wars. Even with disaster
dealers to secure our agency
threatening it from all sides, the house of Wagner
& Levien continued its newspaper advertising until
was no longer possible to trace shipments of its
If you are building for the it pianos
to different points in the country.
future you cannot afford to
Otto Wagner, president of the house, is a con-
firmed optimist, and although admitting that the
overlook them.
present Mexican situation is most discouraging and
Famous since 1856 for their
disheartening, he is hopeful that the country will
in
the near future regain its natural prosperity.
quality, they will surely
Mr. Wagner is at present in New York, making
please your most critical cus-
his headquarters at Steinway Hall.
The illustration herewith hardly does justice to
tomers.
the real attractiveness of the Wagner & Levien
You will increase your sales
building, as the exterior is artistically conceived
and in line with the beauty of modern American
and profits if you have them.
buildings. Situated on the best business street in
Mexico City, the firm is in an excellent position
A postal will bring full details,
to continue its markedly successful career when
"THE QUALITY COUNTS"
Mexico settles down to real business activity.
new motor licenses show that about $18,000 worth
of new cars are being purchased every week by
Kansans. Over 35,000 licenses are now in force,
indicating that while there may be some caution
in other respects, there is money with which to
buy not only automobiles, but pianos and player-
pianos.
DECKER TONE
DECKER CONSTRUCTION
DECKER FINISH
DECKER & SON, Inc.
Established 1 8 5 6
699 East 135th Street
NEW YORK
INCREASE^CAPTTAL.
The C. F. Widener Organ Co., Richmond, Va.,
has raised its capital from $10,000 to $50,000. C. F.
Widener is president of the company, and W. J.
Tucker, secretary.
THIS IS IT!
The Christman
Attachable Player
which can be installed in any grand or
upright piano, regardless of size or style,
without altering the case.
Write us for Further Information.
CHRISTMAN PIANO CO.
597-601 East 137th St., New York
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