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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
FOURTEEN PIANOS FOR MILWAUKEE NORMAL SCHOOL.
McPHAiL LINE TO CHAS. S. NORRIS.
Large Contract for Prominent Makes of Pianos Landed by J. B. Bradford Co.—School Director
and President Also Buy Instruments—Sohmer Grand for Masons.
Prominent Dealer Will Control McPhail Agency
Throughout Greater Boston.
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Although
W. Otto Miessner, director of
of the
Milwaukee Normal School of Music, and Carroll
G. Pearse, president of the Normal, accompanied
by several members of the State Board of Normal
Regents, visited several Milwaukee piano houses
and personally inspected different well known
makes before deciding definitely upon the line car-
ried by the Bradford house, the matter of the
selection of six of the grands was left to the
faculty members of the Normal School of Music,
and it is most interesting to note that all nine
of the teachers voted for the Mason & Hamlin—
a real tribute.
Director Miessner of the Normal School of Mu-
sic was so favorably impressed with the instru-
ments furnished by the Bradford house that he
purchased a Mason & Hamlin grand, equipped
with a Solo Artapollo player, for use in his
residence. President Carroll G. Pearse of the
Milwaukee Normal School.
Normal, formerly city superintendent of Milwaukee
the Shoninger and the Melville Clark Solo Art- schools, and one of the best known educators tn
apollo, the instruments which figured in t/ie deal.
the country, was so well pleased with the Shon-
Included in the transaction were six Mason & inger line that he placed an order for one of these
Hamlin grands, Styles A and AA, one equipped uprights for installation in his new home.
with the Solo Artapollo player action, to be used
The Bradford house has just closed another in-
in educational work at the institution; one Sohmer teresting sale of a handsome Sohmer concert
grand, Style 9 B, and seven Shoninger uprights, grand for installation in the. fine new $60,000 tem-
Style 4. All the instruments now used in the ple of the Kenwood Lodge of Masons. The new
Milwaukee Normal School of Music were pur- temple will be formally dedicated on November
chased from the Bradford Co., as the house sold 26, when the new Sohmer grand will be played for
the school several pianos a few years ago.
the first time.
(Special to The Ke,view.)
MILWAUKEE, WIS., November 9.—With the sale
of fourteen pianos to the school of music of the
Milwaukee Normal School, and two other instru-
ments to the director of the school of music and
the president of the Normal, the J. B. Bradford
Piano Co., of this city, has just closed one of the
finest deals landed by a Milwaukee house in sev-
eral years. Naturally the sale is regarded as a dis-
tinct tribute for -the Mason & Hamlin, the Sohmer,
PIANO DEALER SERIOUSLY HURT.
CONSOLIDATED IN ROANOKE, VA.
Luther H. Barber, of Brattleboro, Vt., Found
Unconscious Under Overturned Automobile.
Thurman & Boone Co. Absorb the H. B. Hash
Piano Co. and Appoint H. B. Hash Sales
Manager of Combined Piano Departments.
(Special to The Review.)
BRATTLEBORO, VT., November 8.—Luther H. Bar-
ber, of L. H. Barber & Co., dealers in pianos and
musical goods in this city, is in the Rockingham
Hospital, Bellows Falls, Vt., as a result of an auto-
mobile accident last Thursday night. Mr. Barber
and a companion were found at midnight at the
foot of a sixty-five-footh embankment near East
Putney. Both men were under their overturned
automobile, Mr. Barber being unconscious. Doc-
tors were called at once and both men were taken
to the hospital, where their condition is said to
bo serious.
ORGAN BLOWING ENGINEERING CO.
Incorporated with a Capital Stock of $10,000
to Do Business in Fond du Lac.
(Special to The Review )
MILWAUKEE, WIS., November 9.—The Organ
Blowing Engineering Co., of Fond du Lac. Wis.,
has been incorporated with a capital stock of
$10,000 by J. K. Fagan, traveling representative of
the organ department of the W. W. Kimball Co.
iii Wisconsin and northern Michigan; W r . H.
Fagan, H. M. Felenz, James J. O'Rourke and U. S.
O'Connor.
The new concern has opened a plant in the
Quentin Building at Fond du Lac and will'engage
in the manufacture of blowers and suction devices
for pipe organs, designed particularly for use in
moving picture theatres.
(Special to The Review.)
ROANOKE, VA., November 8.—The Thurman &
Boone Co., prominent furniture and piano dealers
of this city, has recently absorbed the business of
the H. B. Hash Piano Co., including the stock,
good will and other assets. The Thurman & Boone
Co. already conducts an extensive piano depart-
ment, to which the Hash Piano Co. stock will be
added. Mr. Hash goes with the furniture house
as manager of the piano department. The Thur-
man & Boone Co. handles the Aeolian Co. line of
Pianola-pianos and the Weber, Steck and McPhail
straight pianos.
ROBERT D. SHARP^CO. TO EXPAND.
Leases Additional Showroom on Champa Street,
Denver, Backing Up On Present Premises.
(Special to The Review.)
DENVER, COLO., November 8.—The Robert D.
Sharp Co., prominent piano house of this city,
has made arrangements to enlarge its present
quarters to practically double the present capacity.
The present store is on Fifteenth street, near
Champa, and the Sharp Co. now uses the third
floor for piano warerooms. A large store on
Champa street has been leased, which runs back
on Fifteenth street quarters, and the two floors
will be thrown into one.
(Special to The Review.)
BOSTON, MASS., November 8.—Treasurer Francis
H. Owen, of the McPhail Piano Co., has just
closed an important deal with Charles S. Norris
for tne sale of McPhail pianos in metropolitan or
Greater Boston. There are over 20,000 McPhail
pianos in the homes of the best musical people of
Boston and vicinity, and as Mr. Norris is one of
the cleanest and most aggressive dealers in the
East, a long and mutually satisfactory connection
should ensue. Both parties to the deal are to be
heartily congratulated by reason of their high
standing in the trade, their clean 'business methods
and their recognition of service and value to the
consumer.
BACH PIANO CO. INCORPORATES.
Successful Concern of Fairbault, Minn., Plans
Further Expansion—E. H. Bach, President—-
Accomplish Much in One Year.
(Special to The Review.)
FARIBAULT, MINN., November 8.—The Bach
Piano Co., one of the progressive piano and talk-
ing machine firms in this city, is now incorporated
with a capital stock of $10,000, and with R. H. Bach
as president and I. H. Klein as secretary and treas-
urer. The move is made in order to permit the
company to expand for the purpose of taking care
of its growing business.
The Bach Piano Co. is just one year old, and
during that time has built up a most substantial
following with the Chase & Baker, Kurtzmann,
Crown, Hobart M. Cable, Brinkerhoff, Brambach
and other makes of pianos, Autopiano, Chase &
Baker and Kurtzmann players, Seeburg electric
pianos, Edison and Columbia talking machines and
musical merchandise. The store was established
by R. H. Bach, having stores at Mankato, Austin,
Albert Lea, Rochester and Owatonna, Minn., with
Irving H. Klein as his manager. Despite keen
competition this company has made good, largely
through the efforts of Mr. Klein, who believes in
the method of loading pianos and talking machines
on a truck and taking them into the country for
disposal.
J. D. WESTER RETIRES FROM TRADE.
Veteran Dealer in Atlanta, Ga., Sells Out to
New Firm Organized in That City.
( Special to Tlie Review.)
ATLANTA, GA., November 6.—After having been
in business in this city for the past twenty-five
years J. D. Wester, head of the Wester Piano
Co. and one of Atlanta's oldest retail men, has re-
tired from the piano trade. Mr. Wester has sold
his business to a new firm, which will operate un-
der the name of the WesLer Music Co., Inc., at
the present location, 27 South Broad street. There
will be no change in the policy of the business, and
it is assumed that t'ie lines handled will continue
unchanged.
CHANGE IN BAGGAGE LAW.
Drastic Provisions Probably Will Be Modified
by Congress.
VETERAN SALESMAN MAKES CHANGE.
The Traffic Bureau of the Merchants' Associa-
tion of New York is engaged in holding confer-
BUSINESS TWENTY=SIX YEARS OLD.
ences for the purpose of agreeing upon an amend-
ment to the Cummins v law which will exempt
Mrs. F. A. Manegold, of 820 Chestnut street.
express and baggage shipments from the drastic
Reading, Pa., recently celebrated the twenty-sixth
provisions requiring an exact declaration of value.
anniversary of the establishment of the Manegold
Other commercial organizations are also interested
music store in that city. Mr. Manegold, the
in the matter and it is expected that an amendment
W. A. Leyhe and the Will A. Watkin Co., of
founder, died only recently. The store is at pres-
will be ready for introduction soon after > Con-
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splendid business is reported.
William J. Boges, one of the veteran piano sales-
men of New Orleans and formerly connected with
the L. Grunewald Co., Inc., has joined the staff of
Philip Werlein, Ltd. He has been connected with
the trade in that city for over forty years.
WINTER & CO.
220 SOUTHERN BOULEVARD, NEW YORK
Manufacturers of
Superior Pianos
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