Music Trade Review
Issue: 1916 Vol. 63 N. 10 - Page 10
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THE
10
MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
KANSAS CITY PREPARING FOR FALL
Piano Houses Arranging Strong Campaigns—
Liberal Advertising the Rule—J. W. Jenkins'
Sons Co. Holding Annual Sale—Other News
ESTABLISHED
1870
KANSAS CITY, MO., August 28.—From reports
received here the piano business in Kansas City
and vicinity compares quite favorably with that
done in other sections of the country during the
summer period. At the present time the various
piano managers and their staffs are busy working
out a campaign for fall and winter business,
and in most cases the campaigns will include
large sections of Kansas and Oklahoma, as
well as Missouri.
With daily insertions of half and three-quar-
ter page advertisements, the J. W. Jenkins'
Sons Music Co., have been making known to the
people of the city the occurrence of their an-
nual mid-summer sale. This year the sale is
made much more appealing and influencing by
the fact, stated in the ad, that after September
1 all Steinway pianos will be increased from
$50 to $100 retail price. Twelve hundred used,
sample and shop-worn pianos have been refin-
ished and in other ways prepared for this sale.
All of the fourteen different stores of this com-
pany, which cover the four States of Missouri,
Kansas, Oklahoma and Arkansas, are co-oper-
ating in this sale. It will run from August 10
to September 1.
W. E. Rupe, manager of the Starr Piano Co.,
has returned from a trip in the East, the last
week of which was spent at the factory in Rich-
mond, Ind. Mr. Rupe said that everything at
the factory was running on high speed, and that
they had not been as busy in years as they were
now. There has been such a great demand for
grand pianos that it has been necessary to en-
large the capacity for turning them out. A new
building, under construction, for the manufac-
ture of records, is now practically completed
and most of it is in use. Mr. Rupe also stated
that business here was better during July and
August than at any time since he had entered
the field.
The alterations and remodeling which have
been under way in the Kimball Piano Co., 1013
Grand avenue, are nearly completed. W. B.
Roberts, the manager, has remodeled the quar-
ters after the Eastern music stores, with a
small, attractive entrance and display room on
the ground floor and an elevator which carries
the patrons to the large show and sales rooms
on the second and third floors. This is rather
a wide departure from the general arrangement
of music stores in this city, but one which
other dealers may come to appreciate.
S. Danberg, 412 East Eleventh street, a deal-
er in small goods and music supplies, has added
a line of second-hand pianos to his stock. Mr.
Danberg was with the Carl Hoffman Music Co.
for a number of years and has been joined in
business by Frank Weidenman, a piano tuner
with Hoffman for eighteen years, and reports
business as fine.
S. H. Wentworth and B. E. Lang, of the
Packard Piano Co., Salina, Kan., were in the
THE LEADING LINE
WEAVER PIANOS
Grands, Uprights
and Players
YORK PIANOS
Uprights and Players
LIVINGSTON PIANOS
Uprights and Player-Pianos
If your competitor does not already have this
line, go after it at once.
Weaver Organ & Piano Co.
MANUFACTURERS
YORK, PA.
T
HE piano manufacturer who uses Pfriemer
-^
%
Re-enforced Hammers in his pianos not
only strengthens his guarantee of the tone quality and life
of the instruments but places at the disposal of the piano mer-
chant who handles them a talking point of inestimable value.
Manufacturers who are using them will
tell you this.
CHAS. PFRIEMER, Inc.
Wales Ave. and 142d St.
NEW YORK
city recently. C. B. Bissell, general traveler
for the Starr Piano Co., Richmond, Ind., .stopped
in the city on his way to the factory.
Chas. Taylor, music dealer of Liberal, Kan.,
was a visitor to the trade here. C. B. Barnett,
who has a music store at Bartlesville, Okla.,
with his wife and daughter, motored through
here on their way to West Grove, la., where
they will spend their vacation. On their return
trip Mr. Barnett, who has the agency for the
Starr piano, will stop to see about his fall line
of goods.
The Wunderlich Piano Co. has been doing
some extensive quality advertising in the local
papers. This store has had good results from a
sale held recently. Mr. Wunderlich says:
"We've had some wonderful sales in Mason &
Hamlin pianos and Steger pianos and players.
These sales have mostly been of high-priced
instruments priced near $1,000. The business
of last month was the heaviest by far of any
July I have experienced in twenty-six years in
the music business."
STEGER PIANO^FOR PYTH1ANS
Handsome Instrument Selected for K. of P.
Club House in Gibson City, 111.
GIBSON CITY, III., August 28.—L. L. Carlock,
factory distributor for the Steger & Sons line
of pianos and player-pianos in this city, recently
sold a Steger & Sons piano to the Knights of
Pythias Lodge here and is particularly proud
of the sale because it was made in the face of
strong competition.
"When a dealer handles the Steger line he
does not have to worry about competition,"
said Mr. Carlock. "My experience has convinced
me that Steger pianos and players easily find
favor with piano buyers and sell quickly. The
great reputation of the house of Steger & Sons
coupled with the Steger guarantee, makes a de-
cided impression upon prospective customers.
Piano business in my territory should be very
satisfactory this fall and I have made the neces-
sary plans to get my share of good sales with
the Steger line."
Among the members of the piano fraternity
who are strong advocates of the passage of the
Webb bill, is J. P. Seeburg, president of the
J. P. Seeburg Piano Co., Chicago, 111. Mr.
Seeburg expressed great pleasure recently at
the bill having been favorably reported.
THE KNABE AT OCEAN GROVE
The Knabe grand piano is playing a promi-
nent part at the great camp meeting which is
being held this week at the Auditorium, Ocean
Grove, N. J., and at which Billy Sunday is
preaching to tens of thousand daily. The Knabe
piano is being used at the song service which
precedes the address of Mr. Sunday and also in
conjunction with the great organ at the Audi-
torium. In view of the immensity of the build-
ing the fact that the Knabe piano is heard to
such splendid advantage affords an idea of its
musical power and quality.
NEW STORE FOR^JENKINS' SONS CO.
FORT SMITH, ARK., August 28.—The J. W. Jen-
kins' Sons Music Co., now located at 814 Gar-
rison avenue, has leased the quarters occupied
at present by the Standard Woolen Co., at 721
Garrison avenue, and will move there within
the near future. The new headquarters will be
remodeled, and the music concern will have
greater space for the display of its complete line
of pianos and musical instruments.
MILWAUKEE HOUSE EXPANDING
MILWAUKEE, WIS., August 28.—The Winter
Piano Co., of this city, is enlarging its ware-
room space and adding piano parlors following
a most successful year's business. The com-
pany has built up from a small beginning to
one of the principal concerns in the local piano
trade. It is carrying the Baldwin and other
lines.
Awarded first prize in many world compe-
titions during the past sixty years, the
Schomacker Piano is now daily receiving first
prizes of preference won by its superb tone,
wonderful breadth of expression and structural
beauty.
SCHOMACKER PIANO CO.
1020 South 21st St.,
Philadelphia, Pa.
THE
10
MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
KANSAS CITY PREPARING FOR FALL
Piano Houses Arranging Strong Campaigns—
Liberal Advertising the Rule—J. W. Jenkins'
Sons Co. Holding Annual Sale—Other News
ESTABLISHED
1870
KANSAS CITY, MO., August 28.—From reports
received here the piano business in Kansas City
and vicinity compares quite favorably with that
done in other sections of the country during the
summer period. At the present time the various
piano managers and their staffs are busy working
out a campaign for fall and winter business,
and in most cases the campaigns will include
large sections of Kansas and Oklahoma, as
well as Missouri.
With daily insertions of half and three-quar-
ter page advertisements, the J. W. Jenkins'
Sons Music Co., have been making known to the
people of the city the occurrence of their an-
nual mid-summer sale. This year the sale is
made much more appealing and influencing by
the fact, stated in the ad, that after September
1 all Steinway pianos will be increased from
$50 to $100 retail price. Twelve hundred used,
sample and shop-worn pianos have been refin-
ished and in other ways prepared for this sale.
All of the fourteen different stores of this com-
pany, which cover the four States of Missouri,
Kansas, Oklahoma and Arkansas, are co-oper-
ating in this sale. It will run from August 10
to September 1.
W. E. Rupe, manager of the Starr Piano Co.,
has returned from a trip in the East, the last
week of which was spent at the factory in Rich-
mond, Ind. Mr. Rupe said that everything at
the factory was running on high speed, and that
they had not been as busy in years as they were
now. There has been such a great demand for
grand pianos that it has been necessary to en-
large the capacity for turning them out. A new
building, under construction, for the manufac-
ture of records, is now practically completed
and most of it is in use. Mr. Rupe also stated
that business here was better during July and
August than at any time since he had entered
the field.
The alterations and remodeling which have
been under way in the Kimball Piano Co., 1013
Grand avenue, are nearly completed. W. B.
Roberts, the manager, has remodeled the quar-
ters after the Eastern music stores, with a
small, attractive entrance and display room on
the ground floor and an elevator which carries
the patrons to the large show and sales rooms
on the second and third floors. This is rather
a wide departure from the general arrangement
of music stores in this city, but one which
other dealers may come to appreciate.
S. Danberg, 412 East Eleventh street, a deal-
er in small goods and music supplies, has added
a line of second-hand pianos to his stock. Mr.
Danberg was with the Carl Hoffman Music Co.
for a number of years and has been joined in
business by Frank Weidenman, a piano tuner
with Hoffman for eighteen years, and reports
business as fine.
S. H. Wentworth and B. E. Lang, of the
Packard Piano Co., Salina, Kan., were in the
THE LEADING LINE
WEAVER PIANOS
Grands, Uprights
and Players
YORK PIANOS
Uprights and Players
LIVINGSTON PIANOS
Uprights and Player-Pianos
If your competitor does not already have this
line, go after it at once.
Weaver Organ & Piano Co.
MANUFACTURERS
YORK, PA.
T
HE piano manufacturer who uses Pfriemer
-^
%
Re-enforced Hammers in his pianos not
only strengthens his guarantee of the tone quality and life
of the instruments but places at the disposal of the piano mer-
chant who handles them a talking point of inestimable value.
Manufacturers who are using them will
tell you this.
CHAS. PFRIEMER, Inc.
Wales Ave. and 142d St.
NEW YORK
city recently. C. B. Bissell, general traveler
for the Starr Piano Co., Richmond, Ind., .stopped
in the city on his way to the factory.
Chas. Taylor, music dealer of Liberal, Kan.,
was a visitor to the trade here. C. B. Barnett,
who has a music store at Bartlesville, Okla.,
with his wife and daughter, motored through
here on their way to West Grove, la., where
they will spend their vacation. On their return
trip Mr. Barnett, who has the agency for the
Starr piano, will stop to see about his fall line
of goods.
The Wunderlich Piano Co. has been doing
some extensive quality advertising in the local
papers. This store has had good results from a
sale held recently. Mr. Wunderlich says:
"We've had some wonderful sales in Mason &
Hamlin pianos and Steger pianos and players.
These sales have mostly been of high-priced
instruments priced near $1,000. The business
of last month was the heaviest by far of any
July I have experienced in twenty-six years in
the music business."
STEGER PIANO^FOR PYTH1ANS
Handsome Instrument Selected for K. of P.
Club House in Gibson City, 111.
GIBSON CITY, III., August 28.—L. L. Carlock,
factory distributor for the Steger & Sons line
of pianos and player-pianos in this city, recently
sold a Steger & Sons piano to the Knights of
Pythias Lodge here and is particularly proud
of the sale because it was made in the face of
strong competition.
"When a dealer handles the Steger line he
does not have to worry about competition,"
said Mr. Carlock. "My experience has convinced
me that Steger pianos and players easily find
favor with piano buyers and sell quickly. The
great reputation of the house of Steger & Sons
coupled with the Steger guarantee, makes a de-
cided impression upon prospective customers.
Piano business in my territory should be very
satisfactory this fall and I have made the neces-
sary plans to get my share of good sales with
the Steger line."
Among the members of the piano fraternity
who are strong advocates of the passage of the
Webb bill, is J. P. Seeburg, president of the
J. P. Seeburg Piano Co., Chicago, 111. Mr.
Seeburg expressed great pleasure recently at
the bill having been favorably reported.
THE KNABE AT OCEAN GROVE
The Knabe grand piano is playing a promi-
nent part at the great camp meeting which is
being held this week at the Auditorium, Ocean
Grove, N. J., and at which Billy Sunday is
preaching to tens of thousand daily. The Knabe
piano is being used at the song service which
precedes the address of Mr. Sunday and also in
conjunction with the great organ at the Audi-
torium. In view of the immensity of the build-
ing the fact that the Knabe piano is heard to
such splendid advantage affords an idea of its
musical power and quality.
NEW STORE FOR^JENKINS' SONS CO.
FORT SMITH, ARK., August 28.—The J. W. Jen-
kins' Sons Music Co., now located at 814 Gar-
rison avenue, has leased the quarters occupied
at present by the Standard Woolen Co., at 721
Garrison avenue, and will move there within
the near future. The new headquarters will be
remodeled, and the music concern will have
greater space for the display of its complete line
of pianos and musical instruments.
MILWAUKEE HOUSE EXPANDING
MILWAUKEE, WIS., August 28.—The Winter
Piano Co., of this city, is enlarging its ware-
room space and adding piano parlors following
a most successful year's business. The com-
pany has built up from a small beginning to
one of the principal concerns in the local piano
trade. It is carrying the Baldwin and other
lines.
Awarded first prize in many world compe-
titions during the past sixty years, the
Schomacker Piano is now daily receiving first
prizes of preference won by its superb tone,
wonderful breadth of expression and structural
beauty.
SCHOMACKER PIANO CO.
1020 South 21st St.,
Philadelphia, Pa.
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