Music Trade Review
Issue: 1917 Vol. 65 N. 11 - Page 9
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THE MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
9
FALL ACTIVITY BEGINNING IN CLEVELAND PIANO TRADE
Local Association Postpones Meeting—Talking Machine Dealers to Meet—Steinway to Be Used in
Many Concerts During Coming Season—McMillin's Being Renovated—Many Visitors in Town
CLEVELAND, O., September 10.—The meeting of uses his automobile constantly in getting new
the Cleveland Music Trades Association, which business. He believes it is better to go out
was to have been held next week, has been after the trade rather than always wait for sales
postponed. This is because the convention of to come to his store. Hence he has traveled in
the Ohio Piano Dealers' Association is scheduled his motor car 11,000 miles this season, and all of
to take place early next week, and quite a num- it right around Cleveland and its environs. An-
ber of Cleveland dealers are planning to go to other way Mr. Poling advertises his business
is by having a young lady play a piano right
Dayton for this conclave.
The Talking Machine Dealers' Association of in the show window of his store. The front
Northern Ohio will hold its first meeting of the part of the piano is removed so that passersby
season next week, Wednesday, at the Colonial can see the entire inner mechanism of the in-
Hotel. Meetings will be held regularly every strument while the woman is playing.
The May Co. has just started an advertising
month thereafter throughout the winter.
Wamelink's report the sale of three Mason & campaign to boom the sale of the Henry F.
Miller piano, of which they "took the agency
Hamlin grand pianos all in one week recently.
The Starr Piano Co. announces a raise in last spring. "Reputation" is the keynote of
their piano prices beginning September 15. Ad- the advertisements, one of which reads in part:
"The reputation of the Henry F. Miller pianos
vertisements in the local papers give the news.
The B. Dreher's Sons Co. have booked the is safe in the expressed judgment of over 45,000
Steinway grand for seventy-eight concerts in purchasers. It will be enhanced by the qual-
Cleveland the coming season. They recently ity of the pianos offered to you to-day, which
sold a Steinway grand to Oberlin College. The are made better than ever, and will give you
Fortnightly Club, of Cleveland, a musical organ- good service and satisfaction."
ization, has signed for the use of the Steinway
the coming season.
The Dreher Co. have also received a substan-
tial order for Krakauer pianos from the Villa Dealers Anticipating Good Fall Business—Sub-
urban Trade Excellent—Some Personals
Angela Convent at Nottingham, near here.
The Edison Phonograph Co. has arranged for
KANSAS CITY, MO., September 10.—Local music
a series of tone test recitals throughout Ohio
the coming fall and winter. Special invitations dealers are all anticipating an exceptionally good
are issued to the public to these concerts which business between now and the first of the year,
will begin at Lima, O., September 24. The and all are placing heavy orders for delivery in
concert here will be the evening of September 29. the next ninety days. There is a decided short-
John A. Krumme, Jr., of the Christman age of stock in the talking machine line and one
Piano Co., New York, was a caller at the Cald- dealer who did a record-breaking business in
well Piano Co. here early this week. Charles August says that he could not predict what the
Eyles, of Sohmer & Co., New York, also visited outcome would have been if he had been able to
get all the machines he wanted. All the dealers
Caldwell's recently.
Extensive renovations are under way at Mc- report they are taking everything they could get
Millin's store on East Ninth street. The en- in talking machines. One dealer who gave an
tire front part of the store is being ripped out order for $16,000 worth of machines sixty days
and new windows put in. A new doorway is to ago made another order for $5,000 this week.
"The country trade is going to be the back-
be built, and the show windows will be on
either side instead of on one side of the door as bone of the business this fall," said L. B. Fine,
formerly. New showcases of special McMillin floor manager of the Kimball Piano Co., "and
design are to be installed in the store. The we like this kind of business. It is as a general
cases will be of solid mahogany, and will con- rule all cash and that means we don't have any
tain a series of drawers to hold the different comebacks. Just this morning a customer was
in here who paid $10 on a piano; she said she
parts of many musical instruments.
Wade H. Poling, of the Cleveland Piano Co., had been in the hospital for a long time and
was not able to keep up her payments and as long
as she had had such bad luck she just wondered
if we would not give her the piano. Of course,
you know what we told her, and before she left
the store we made an appointment for the first
of the week to have our truck call."
Miss Belle Kleckner, of the player department
of the Jenkins Co., has returned from her vaca-
tion. She visited Chicago and Battle Creek,
Mich.
Mrs. L,. M. Cline has severed her connections
with the Altman Piano Co.
Harry Wunderlich, of the Wunderlich Piano
Co., has returned from a fishing trip in Minne-
sota.
C. T. Purdy, Western representative of Hard-
man, Peck & Co., was a recent visitor here.
Henry Von Erdmansdorf, Victrola salesman
for the Jenkins Co., has returned from his vaca-
tion.
TRADE NEWS FROM KANSAS CITY
Pianos of
Character
Smith, Barnes
and
Strohber Co.
Established 1884
FACTORIES
GEN. OFFICE
Chicago, 111.
1872 Cljboum Ave.
N. Milwaukee, Wis.
CHICAGO, ILL.
NO SHIP SPACE AVAILABLE
Embargo Announced on Pianos, Phonographs
and Other Goods Imported into South Africa
Victrola XVII, $250
Victrola XVII, electric, $300
Mahogany or oak
Other styles $15 to $400
Victor
supremacy
The enormous public
demand for the Victrola,
the unparalleled success
of Victor dealers'every-
w h e r e , unmistakably
tell of Victor suprem-
acy.
Victor Talking Machine Co.
Camden, N. J., U. S. A.
Berliner Gramophone Co., Montreal,
Canadian Distributor!
Important Notice.
Victor Records and
Victor Machines are scientifically co-ordinated and
synchronized by our special processes of manufacture,
and their use, one with the other, is absolutely essential
to a perfect Victor reproduction.
" V i c t r o l a " ;, the Registered Trade-mark of the
Victor Talking Machine Company designating the
products of this Company only.
W a r n i n g : The use of the word Victrola upon
or in the promotion or sale of any other talking machine
or Phonograph products is misleading and illegal.
The Controller of Imports of the Union of
South Africa has given notice, according to a
report from Consul General Murphy of Cape-
town, that there is no shipping space available
for a long list of products in which are in-
cluded pianos and phonographs and supplies. It
is well for exporters to make note of this fact.
Mora H. Galloway, piano dealer of Irvington,
Ky., was married recently to Miss Beula Ward-
law, of Ripley, Tenn.
'HIS MASTER'S VOICE"
THE MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
9
FALL ACTIVITY BEGINNING IN CLEVELAND PIANO TRADE
Local Association Postpones Meeting—Talking Machine Dealers to Meet—Steinway to Be Used in
Many Concerts During Coming Season—McMillin's Being Renovated—Many Visitors in Town
CLEVELAND, O., September 10.—The meeting of uses his automobile constantly in getting new
the Cleveland Music Trades Association, which business. He believes it is better to go out
was to have been held next week, has been after the trade rather than always wait for sales
postponed. This is because the convention of to come to his store. Hence he has traveled in
the Ohio Piano Dealers' Association is scheduled his motor car 11,000 miles this season, and all of
to take place early next week, and quite a num- it right around Cleveland and its environs. An-
ber of Cleveland dealers are planning to go to other way Mr. Poling advertises his business
is by having a young lady play a piano right
Dayton for this conclave.
The Talking Machine Dealers' Association of in the show window of his store. The front
Northern Ohio will hold its first meeting of the part of the piano is removed so that passersby
season next week, Wednesday, at the Colonial can see the entire inner mechanism of the in-
Hotel. Meetings will be held regularly every strument while the woman is playing.
The May Co. has just started an advertising
month thereafter throughout the winter.
Wamelink's report the sale of three Mason & campaign to boom the sale of the Henry F.
Miller piano, of which they "took the agency
Hamlin grand pianos all in one week recently.
The Starr Piano Co. announces a raise in last spring. "Reputation" is the keynote of
their piano prices beginning September 15. Ad- the advertisements, one of which reads in part:
"The reputation of the Henry F. Miller pianos
vertisements in the local papers give the news.
The B. Dreher's Sons Co. have booked the is safe in the expressed judgment of over 45,000
Steinway grand for seventy-eight concerts in purchasers. It will be enhanced by the qual-
Cleveland the coming season. They recently ity of the pianos offered to you to-day, which
sold a Steinway grand to Oberlin College. The are made better than ever, and will give you
Fortnightly Club, of Cleveland, a musical organ- good service and satisfaction."
ization, has signed for the use of the Steinway
the coming season.
The Dreher Co. have also received a substan-
tial order for Krakauer pianos from the Villa Dealers Anticipating Good Fall Business—Sub-
urban Trade Excellent—Some Personals
Angela Convent at Nottingham, near here.
The Edison Phonograph Co. has arranged for
KANSAS CITY, MO., September 10.—Local music
a series of tone test recitals throughout Ohio
the coming fall and winter. Special invitations dealers are all anticipating an exceptionally good
are issued to the public to these concerts which business between now and the first of the year,
will begin at Lima, O., September 24. The and all are placing heavy orders for delivery in
concert here will be the evening of September 29. the next ninety days. There is a decided short-
John A. Krumme, Jr., of the Christman age of stock in the talking machine line and one
Piano Co., New York, was a caller at the Cald- dealer who did a record-breaking business in
well Piano Co. here early this week. Charles August says that he could not predict what the
Eyles, of Sohmer & Co., New York, also visited outcome would have been if he had been able to
get all the machines he wanted. All the dealers
Caldwell's recently.
Extensive renovations are under way at Mc- report they are taking everything they could get
Millin's store on East Ninth street. The en- in talking machines. One dealer who gave an
tire front part of the store is being ripped out order for $16,000 worth of machines sixty days
and new windows put in. A new doorway is to ago made another order for $5,000 this week.
"The country trade is going to be the back-
be built, and the show windows will be on
either side instead of on one side of the door as bone of the business this fall," said L. B. Fine,
formerly. New showcases of special McMillin floor manager of the Kimball Piano Co., "and
design are to be installed in the store. The we like this kind of business. It is as a general
cases will be of solid mahogany, and will con- rule all cash and that means we don't have any
tain a series of drawers to hold the different comebacks. Just this morning a customer was
in here who paid $10 on a piano; she said she
parts of many musical instruments.
Wade H. Poling, of the Cleveland Piano Co., had been in the hospital for a long time and
was not able to keep up her payments and as long
as she had had such bad luck she just wondered
if we would not give her the piano. Of course,
you know what we told her, and before she left
the store we made an appointment for the first
of the week to have our truck call."
Miss Belle Kleckner, of the player department
of the Jenkins Co., has returned from her vaca-
tion. She visited Chicago and Battle Creek,
Mich.
Mrs. L,. M. Cline has severed her connections
with the Altman Piano Co.
Harry Wunderlich, of the Wunderlich Piano
Co., has returned from a fishing trip in Minne-
sota.
C. T. Purdy, Western representative of Hard-
man, Peck & Co., was a recent visitor here.
Henry Von Erdmansdorf, Victrola salesman
for the Jenkins Co., has returned from his vaca-
tion.
TRADE NEWS FROM KANSAS CITY
Pianos of
Character
Smith, Barnes
and
Strohber Co.
Established 1884
FACTORIES
GEN. OFFICE
Chicago, 111.
1872 Cljboum Ave.
N. Milwaukee, Wis.
CHICAGO, ILL.
NO SHIP SPACE AVAILABLE
Embargo Announced on Pianos, Phonographs
and Other Goods Imported into South Africa
Victrola XVII, $250
Victrola XVII, electric, $300
Mahogany or oak
Other styles $15 to $400
Victor
supremacy
The enormous public
demand for the Victrola,
the unparalleled success
of Victor dealers'every-
w h e r e , unmistakably
tell of Victor suprem-
acy.
Victor Talking Machine Co.
Camden, N. J., U. S. A.
Berliner Gramophone Co., Montreal,
Canadian Distributor!
Important Notice.
Victor Records and
Victor Machines are scientifically co-ordinated and
synchronized by our special processes of manufacture,
and their use, one with the other, is absolutely essential
to a perfect Victor reproduction.
" V i c t r o l a " ;, the Registered Trade-mark of the
Victor Talking Machine Company designating the
products of this Company only.
W a r n i n g : The use of the word Victrola upon
or in the promotion or sale of any other talking machine
or Phonograph products is misleading and illegal.
The Controller of Imports of the Union of
South Africa has given notice, according to a
report from Consul General Murphy of Cape-
town, that there is no shipping space available
for a long list of products in which are in-
cluded pianos and phonographs and supplies. It
is well for exporters to make note of this fact.
Mora H. Galloway, piano dealer of Irvington,
Ky., was married recently to Miss Beula Ward-
law, of Ripley, Tenn.
'HIS MASTER'S VOICE"
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