Music Trade Review
Issue: 1920 Vol. 70 N. 1 - Page 8
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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
ST. LOUIS DEALERS FACITNEW YEAR WITH SMALL STOCK
Holiday Trade Practically Cleaned Out Every Retail Wareroom of Pianos and Players—Local
Civic Music Association Planning Activities—Christmas Bonuses Please Employes
"ST. LOUIS, MO., December 30.—Holiday business,
wnen all is said and done, ended up pretty well,
but to the talking machines be all the honor and
the glory. If dealers had depended upon pianos
they would be whistling a different tune to-day.
Practically all of the dealers say that although
the number.of sales was not as great for this
holiday season as it was last year, the volume
w*is i s great or' greater, but they add that
pianos did not achieve this result. Piano sales,
as has been stated before, began falling off in the
early part of November and kept it up to the
last, although there were exceptions here and
there. The talking machine business was con-
sistently strong throughout and was only lim-
ited by the number of machines that could be
obtained. All of the dealers came down to
Christmas eve with stocks of pianos almost ex-
hausted. If the piano business had kept up they
would not have been able to supply the instru-
ments, so it would not have made a great deal
of difference if the demand had kept up. The
disquieting consideration, however, is that the
outlook is not bright for pianos when the stocks
are replenished. One thing that held down the
piano sales was the inability in many cases to
supply the particular makes or styles of instru-
ments desired. All of the dealers had to turn
down sales on this account.
As soon as the holidays have passed the work
of putting the Civic Music Association of St.
Louis into shape to realize the aims for which
it was organized will be pushed. The committee
on classification will classify and group all of
the organizations which are affiliated or should
be affiliated, after which those that are still
out will be brought into line. The next step
will be for each organization to line up its indi-
vidual members. The individual membership
fee is only $1 a year and it is expected that
Service Is the Direct Result of
Modern Facilities
The steady growth for over forty years of the
organization which now comprises the Astoria
Mahogany Company, Inc., may be attributed
to the constant application of modern methods
and facilities for the production, manufacture
and distribution of
Mahogany Lumber and Veneers
Modern facilities make a high degree of service
possible, and service produces a degree of satis-
faction that results in growth.
Astoria Mahogany Company, Inc.
347 Madison Avenue, New York
Successors to
Huddleston-Marsh Mahogany Co.
Astoria Veneer Mills and Dock Co.
F. W. Kirch, Inc.
Mills and Yards, Long Island City, Neiv York
.44 North Market Avenue
Grand Rapids, Mich.
2256 Lumber Street
Chicago, 111.
JANUARY 3,
1920
thousands of members will be enrolled. When
these details have been disposed of the asso-
ciation will take up the different steps of its
program.
P. E. Conroy, president of the Conroy Piano
Co., was unable to make his arrangements to
attend the meeting of the executive committee
of the Music Industries Chamber of Commerce
in New York.
The national convention, to be held in New
York in February, is being discussed by St.
Louis piano men and the indications are that
there will be a good representation. It is
not the intention of the Music Merchants' As-
sociation to appoint delegates. Dealers will
go as individuals, but it is probable that a party
will be made up.
Russell Mead, thirty-four years pld, a sales-
man for the Field-Lippman Piano Co., is in St.
Luke's Hospital with a fractured skull and a
fractured right arm and is in a paralyzed con-
dition from a fall at his home, 6113 Waterman
avenue, Tuesday night. His condition is seri-
ous.
Most of the St. Louis piano houses gave
Christmas remembrances to employes. The Con-
roy Piano Co. distributed several thousand dol-
lars on the basis of merit. A substantial bonus
was given to each employe of the music de-
partment of the Famous & Barr Co., based on
length of service. Gifts of gold were given
by some of the houses. V. P. Springate, who
was recently discharged from military service,
has taken a position with the P. A. Starck Piano
Co. He was formerly with the Grinnell Piano
Co., at Detroit.
Theodore Maettiu and Charles Mueller, of the
Kieselhorst Piano Co., spent Christmas and the
ensuing week-end shooting (at) wild turkeys in
the Ozarks.
A. E. Whitaker, who has an upstairs piano
store in the Holland Building, will move short-
ly to the third floor of the new Arcade Build-
ing at Eighth and Oliver streets.
M. A. Murray, representing the G. Schirmer
Music Stores, Inc., passed through St. Louis
just before Christmas on his way to the Pa-
cific Coast.
Referee in Bankruptcy Coles has approved a
proposed compromise of the suit against the
Hamilton Investment Co.
A USEFUL HOLIDAY SOUVENIR
Weaver Piano Co. Remember Trade Friends
With Most Attractive Gift
YORK, PA., December 26.—The Weaver Piano
Co. of this city have forwarded to their many
friends in the trade a particularly attractive
brass novelty for the desk. Covered space is
provided with compartments for pins, pens, etc.,
and on the reverse of this cover is a calendar
for the ensuing year, which is brought to view
when the cover is raised. This novelty also
includes a holder for pens and pencils. " The
attractiveness and usefulness of this article are
assurance that it will be found upon the desk
of the executives of the many piano houses
throughout the country for years to come. Ac-
companying this gift was a letter with a wish for
the new year that is worthy of repetition:
"That God may guide us to as speedy a vic-
tory over the internal enemies of our govern-
ment as He did over Germany, is our greeting
in wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy
New Year."
ORGAN FOR PLAYING COLOR MUSIC
The relation of color to music and the in-
terpretation of music through color has come
in for a good deal of attention among musicians
and artists at various times. It is now said
that Mary Hallock Grennewalt, of Philadelphia,
has perfected an organ, operated by pedals, by
which- color expression can be controlled at
will. This silent instrument makes possible an
almost unlimited number of color combinations
which express musical harmonies.
THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
ST. LOUIS DEALERS FACITNEW YEAR WITH SMALL STOCK
Holiday Trade Practically Cleaned Out Every Retail Wareroom of Pianos and Players—Local
Civic Music Association Planning Activities—Christmas Bonuses Please Employes
"ST. LOUIS, MO., December 30.—Holiday business,
wnen all is said and done, ended up pretty well,
but to the talking machines be all the honor and
the glory. If dealers had depended upon pianos
they would be whistling a different tune to-day.
Practically all of the dealers say that although
the number.of sales was not as great for this
holiday season as it was last year, the volume
w*is i s great or' greater, but they add that
pianos did not achieve this result. Piano sales,
as has been stated before, began falling off in the
early part of November and kept it up to the
last, although there were exceptions here and
there. The talking machine business was con-
sistently strong throughout and was only lim-
ited by the number of machines that could be
obtained. All of the dealers came down to
Christmas eve with stocks of pianos almost ex-
hausted. If the piano business had kept up they
would not have been able to supply the instru-
ments, so it would not have made a great deal
of difference if the demand had kept up. The
disquieting consideration, however, is that the
outlook is not bright for pianos when the stocks
are replenished. One thing that held down the
piano sales was the inability in many cases to
supply the particular makes or styles of instru-
ments desired. All of the dealers had to turn
down sales on this account.
As soon as the holidays have passed the work
of putting the Civic Music Association of St.
Louis into shape to realize the aims for which
it was organized will be pushed. The committee
on classification will classify and group all of
the organizations which are affiliated or should
be affiliated, after which those that are still
out will be brought into line. The next step
will be for each organization to line up its indi-
vidual members. The individual membership
fee is only $1 a year and it is expected that
Service Is the Direct Result of
Modern Facilities
The steady growth for over forty years of the
organization which now comprises the Astoria
Mahogany Company, Inc., may be attributed
to the constant application of modern methods
and facilities for the production, manufacture
and distribution of
Mahogany Lumber and Veneers
Modern facilities make a high degree of service
possible, and service produces a degree of satis-
faction that results in growth.
Astoria Mahogany Company, Inc.
347 Madison Avenue, New York
Successors to
Huddleston-Marsh Mahogany Co.
Astoria Veneer Mills and Dock Co.
F. W. Kirch, Inc.
Mills and Yards, Long Island City, Neiv York
.44 North Market Avenue
Grand Rapids, Mich.
2256 Lumber Street
Chicago, 111.
JANUARY 3,
1920
thousands of members will be enrolled. When
these details have been disposed of the asso-
ciation will take up the different steps of its
program.
P. E. Conroy, president of the Conroy Piano
Co., was unable to make his arrangements to
attend the meeting of the executive committee
of the Music Industries Chamber of Commerce
in New York.
The national convention, to be held in New
York in February, is being discussed by St.
Louis piano men and the indications are that
there will be a good representation. It is
not the intention of the Music Merchants' As-
sociation to appoint delegates. Dealers will
go as individuals, but it is probable that a party
will be made up.
Russell Mead, thirty-four years pld, a sales-
man for the Field-Lippman Piano Co., is in St.
Luke's Hospital with a fractured skull and a
fractured right arm and is in a paralyzed con-
dition from a fall at his home, 6113 Waterman
avenue, Tuesday night. His condition is seri-
ous.
Most of the St. Louis piano houses gave
Christmas remembrances to employes. The Con-
roy Piano Co. distributed several thousand dol-
lars on the basis of merit. A substantial bonus
was given to each employe of the music de-
partment of the Famous & Barr Co., based on
length of service. Gifts of gold were given
by some of the houses. V. P. Springate, who
was recently discharged from military service,
has taken a position with the P. A. Starck Piano
Co. He was formerly with the Grinnell Piano
Co., at Detroit.
Theodore Maettiu and Charles Mueller, of the
Kieselhorst Piano Co., spent Christmas and the
ensuing week-end shooting (at) wild turkeys in
the Ozarks.
A. E. Whitaker, who has an upstairs piano
store in the Holland Building, will move short-
ly to the third floor of the new Arcade Build-
ing at Eighth and Oliver streets.
M. A. Murray, representing the G. Schirmer
Music Stores, Inc., passed through St. Louis
just before Christmas on his way to the Pa-
cific Coast.
Referee in Bankruptcy Coles has approved a
proposed compromise of the suit against the
Hamilton Investment Co.
A USEFUL HOLIDAY SOUVENIR
Weaver Piano Co. Remember Trade Friends
With Most Attractive Gift
YORK, PA., December 26.—The Weaver Piano
Co. of this city have forwarded to their many
friends in the trade a particularly attractive
brass novelty for the desk. Covered space is
provided with compartments for pins, pens, etc.,
and on the reverse of this cover is a calendar
for the ensuing year, which is brought to view
when the cover is raised. This novelty also
includes a holder for pens and pencils. " The
attractiveness and usefulness of this article are
assurance that it will be found upon the desk
of the executives of the many piano houses
throughout the country for years to come. Ac-
companying this gift was a letter with a wish for
the new year that is worthy of repetition:
"That God may guide us to as speedy a vic-
tory over the internal enemies of our govern-
ment as He did over Germany, is our greeting
in wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy
New Year."
ORGAN FOR PLAYING COLOR MUSIC
The relation of color to music and the in-
terpretation of music through color has come
in for a good deal of attention among musicians
and artists at various times. It is now said
that Mary Hallock Grennewalt, of Philadelphia,
has perfected an organ, operated by pedals, by
which- color expression can be controlled at
will. This silent instrument makes possible an
almost unlimited number of color combinations
which express musical harmonies.
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