Music Trade Review
Issue: 1920 Vol. 70 N. 15 - Page 13
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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
APRIL 10, \920f
13
BUFFALO DEALERS AWAITING SHIPMENTS OF PIANOS
" RE-
amine
Local Piano Men Hope to Receive Sufficient Stock to Enable Them to Fill Their Orders
Promptly—"Boost Buffalo" Campaign on This Week—Personals and Other News
BUFFALO, N. Y., April 5.—Buffalo piano busi-
ness was only moderate the week before Easter.
The high price of apparel for Eastertide seemed
to have put a temporary crimp in many pocket-
books, thereby keeping away many prospective
purchasers from local piano stores. Even with
this handicap a number of players and pianos
were delivered on time for use Easter morning.
There also was a lively sale of Easter records
and music rolls. A drop in temperature delayed
some country campaigns planned by a few of
the local piano firms.
Denton, Cottier & Daniels are conducting a
sale of used pianos. They report that all these
instruments have been thoroughly overhauled
by experts in their repair shops.
P. E. Russell, manager of J. N. Adam & Co.'s
Victrola department, and his assistant, Floyd
F. Barber, are meeting with success with the
Victor record recitals which they conduct two
afternoons each month. The recitals are held
in the concert room on the fifth floor of the
store. This is near the company's piano de-
partment, which is also visited by many who
attend the concerts. The recitals are advertised
in the newspapers and personal invitations are
sent out with parcels and to those included in
the company's mailing list.
Buffalo-made products, including C. Kurtz-
mann & Co.'s pianos and players, will receive
extra publicity as part of the "Boosting Buf-
falo campaign" during the week of April 12.
Local school children will send out thousands
of letters, explaining this city's importance as a
manufacturing center, etc. Films, photographs
and descriptive circulars giving details of Buf-
falo's business have been contributed for the
drive.
The trade has been visited by a number of
manufacturers' representatives in the past two
weeks. For a long time some of these traveling
men were conspicuous by their absence on ac-
count of the subnormal production at their
factories and whether they are now here to
take orders because of increased production at
their plants has not been stated. At any rate
they have received a number of orders and as a
result some of the local stores are expecting
shipments of pianos and players at an early
date.
No tangible action has been taken so far in
regard to the proposed organization of local
piano dealers in connection with the Buffalo
Chamber of Commerce. Most of the merchants
are heartily in favor of the movement.
The Koenig Piano Co. recently sold a player-
piano to the Metropolitan "five-to-fifty cent"
store in this city. The instrument is being used
in the company's music roll department. The
Koenig Co. has sold a Lexington piano to the
Majestic Theatre in East Ferry street. Lex-
ingtons, manufactured by the Hallet & Davis
Co., have also been sold to the Lyric and other
local theatres. The Koenig Co.'s big electric
FOTOPLAYER
for the finest
Motion Picture
Theatres
AMERICAN PHOTO
PLAYER CO.
San Francisco
New York
Chicago
sign is being refinished and will be moved
shortly to the firm's new location at 668 Main
street.
The Jackson Class Glee Club will use a Knabe
Ampico at their concert on April 15. The in-
strument will be supplied by the Wurlitzer Co.
The Hoffman Piano Co. has received a large
shipment of Lagpnda players. The Hoffman
store is being kept open evenings to accom-
modate many customers attracted by a demon-
stration of the Brunswick phonograph. This is
in connection with the celebration of "Bruns-
wick week."
The following firms, which handle pianos or
talking machines, have donated prizes to Buf-
falo school children in an essay-writing contest
to stimulate army recruiting: Adam, Meldrum &
Anderson Co., the William Hengerer Co., the
Household Outfitting Co. and J. N. Adam & Co.
YOUR Territory
Look Back
TO MAKE THREE MONTHS' TRIP
B. H. Janssen Will Leave for Pacific Coast on
Monday and Will Visit Important Points Both
Coming and Going, Studying Retail Conditions
B. H. Janssen, the well-known New York
piano manufacturer, will leave on Monday next
for an extended trip to the Pacific Coast, during
which time he will visit various important ccn-
Over Your Old
Prospect List
GET Those
$$$
Ben H. Janssen
ters. Besides calling on many well-known deal-
ers throughout the country Mr. Janssen will
make a close study of prevailing conditions
in the retail piano industry.
Mr. Janssen expects to be away for a period
of approximately three months and will be ac-
companied by Mrs. Janssen and his daughter,
Miss Elsa Janssen.
NEW BRUNO & SON PRICE LIST
Prominent Musical Merchandise House Issues
First Price List Since 1917
C. Bruno & Son, Inc., New York City, im-
porters and wholesalers of musical merchandise,
have issued during the past week a twelve-page,
well-illustrated price list. Owing to the unset-
tled conditions in the trade, no price list has
been issued during the period of the war, this
list being the first since 1917. The merchandise
described in this list comprises but a few of the
many items which are included in the full line
of C. Bruno & Son, Inc. This enterprising
house, even during the days of the greatest mer-
chandise scarcity, made every endeavor to keep
their line as nearly complete as possible. Their
line at the present day offers an exceedingly
wide variety, but many items in the line are im-
possible to list under existing conditions. The
new price list contains descriptions and quota-
tions on harmonicas, accordions, blow accor-
dions, saxophones, band instruments, violins,
violin bows, strings, guitars, mandolins, ukuleles,
pitch pipes, etc.
DON'T
LET
THEM
FLIT
AWAY
AGAIN!
It's easy to get a big pile
of $$$s any time or any
place with an attractive
line of S E E B U R G ' S
A u t o m a t i c Coin Con-
trolled Pianos and Or-
chestrions.
And don't
forget, They Sell Them-
selves !
J. P. SEEBURG
Piano Company
Leaders in the Automatic Field
Factories, Seebnrg Building, 419 West Erie Street
CHICAGO
THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
APRIL 10, \920f
13
BUFFALO DEALERS AWAITING SHIPMENTS OF PIANOS
" RE-
amine
Local Piano Men Hope to Receive Sufficient Stock to Enable Them to Fill Their Orders
Promptly—"Boost Buffalo" Campaign on This Week—Personals and Other News
BUFFALO, N. Y., April 5.—Buffalo piano busi-
ness was only moderate the week before Easter.
The high price of apparel for Eastertide seemed
to have put a temporary crimp in many pocket-
books, thereby keeping away many prospective
purchasers from local piano stores. Even with
this handicap a number of players and pianos
were delivered on time for use Easter morning.
There also was a lively sale of Easter records
and music rolls. A drop in temperature delayed
some country campaigns planned by a few of
the local piano firms.
Denton, Cottier & Daniels are conducting a
sale of used pianos. They report that all these
instruments have been thoroughly overhauled
by experts in their repair shops.
P. E. Russell, manager of J. N. Adam & Co.'s
Victrola department, and his assistant, Floyd
F. Barber, are meeting with success with the
Victor record recitals which they conduct two
afternoons each month. The recitals are held
in the concert room on the fifth floor of the
store. This is near the company's piano de-
partment, which is also visited by many who
attend the concerts. The recitals are advertised
in the newspapers and personal invitations are
sent out with parcels and to those included in
the company's mailing list.
Buffalo-made products, including C. Kurtz-
mann & Co.'s pianos and players, will receive
extra publicity as part of the "Boosting Buf-
falo campaign" during the week of April 12.
Local school children will send out thousands
of letters, explaining this city's importance as a
manufacturing center, etc. Films, photographs
and descriptive circulars giving details of Buf-
falo's business have been contributed for the
drive.
The trade has been visited by a number of
manufacturers' representatives in the past two
weeks. For a long time some of these traveling
men were conspicuous by their absence on ac-
count of the subnormal production at their
factories and whether they are now here to
take orders because of increased production at
their plants has not been stated. At any rate
they have received a number of orders and as a
result some of the local stores are expecting
shipments of pianos and players at an early
date.
No tangible action has been taken so far in
regard to the proposed organization of local
piano dealers in connection with the Buffalo
Chamber of Commerce. Most of the merchants
are heartily in favor of the movement.
The Koenig Piano Co. recently sold a player-
piano to the Metropolitan "five-to-fifty cent"
store in this city. The instrument is being used
in the company's music roll department. The
Koenig Co. has sold a Lexington piano to the
Majestic Theatre in East Ferry street. Lex-
ingtons, manufactured by the Hallet & Davis
Co., have also been sold to the Lyric and other
local theatres. The Koenig Co.'s big electric
FOTOPLAYER
for the finest
Motion Picture
Theatres
AMERICAN PHOTO
PLAYER CO.
San Francisco
New York
Chicago
sign is being refinished and will be moved
shortly to the firm's new location at 668 Main
street.
The Jackson Class Glee Club will use a Knabe
Ampico at their concert on April 15. The in-
strument will be supplied by the Wurlitzer Co.
The Hoffman Piano Co. has received a large
shipment of Lagpnda players. The Hoffman
store is being kept open evenings to accom-
modate many customers attracted by a demon-
stration of the Brunswick phonograph. This is
in connection with the celebration of "Bruns-
wick week."
The following firms, which handle pianos or
talking machines, have donated prizes to Buf-
falo school children in an essay-writing contest
to stimulate army recruiting: Adam, Meldrum &
Anderson Co., the William Hengerer Co., the
Household Outfitting Co. and J. N. Adam & Co.
YOUR Territory
Look Back
TO MAKE THREE MONTHS' TRIP
B. H. Janssen Will Leave for Pacific Coast on
Monday and Will Visit Important Points Both
Coming and Going, Studying Retail Conditions
B. H. Janssen, the well-known New York
piano manufacturer, will leave on Monday next
for an extended trip to the Pacific Coast, during
which time he will visit various important ccn-
Over Your Old
Prospect List
GET Those
$$$
Ben H. Janssen
ters. Besides calling on many well-known deal-
ers throughout the country Mr. Janssen will
make a close study of prevailing conditions
in the retail piano industry.
Mr. Janssen expects to be away for a period
of approximately three months and will be ac-
companied by Mrs. Janssen and his daughter,
Miss Elsa Janssen.
NEW BRUNO & SON PRICE LIST
Prominent Musical Merchandise House Issues
First Price List Since 1917
C. Bruno & Son, Inc., New York City, im-
porters and wholesalers of musical merchandise,
have issued during the past week a twelve-page,
well-illustrated price list. Owing to the unset-
tled conditions in the trade, no price list has
been issued during the period of the war, this
list being the first since 1917. The merchandise
described in this list comprises but a few of the
many items which are included in the full line
of C. Bruno & Son, Inc. This enterprising
house, even during the days of the greatest mer-
chandise scarcity, made every endeavor to keep
their line as nearly complete as possible. Their
line at the present day offers an exceedingly
wide variety, but many items in the line are im-
possible to list under existing conditions. The
new price list contains descriptions and quota-
tions on harmonicas, accordions, blow accor-
dions, saxophones, band instruments, violins,
violin bows, strings, guitars, mandolins, ukuleles,
pitch pipes, etc.
DON'T
LET
THEM
FLIT
AWAY
AGAIN!
It's easy to get a big pile
of $$$s any time or any
place with an attractive
line of S E E B U R G ' S
A u t o m a t i c Coin Con-
trolled Pianos and Or-
chestrions.
And don't
forget, They Sell Them-
selves !
J. P. SEEBURG
Piano Company
Leaders in the Automatic Field
Factories, Seebnrg Building, 419 West Erie Street
CHICAGO
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