Music Trade Review

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OCTOBER 23, 1920
MUSIC DEALERS IN AUSTRALIA
Trade Directory Issued by Department of Com-
merce Contains Many Names—Manufacturers'
Agents Included in South Australia Section
A list of the dealers in musical instruments in
Adelaide, Australia, has been issued by the De-
partment of Commerce and the list is herewith
reproduced for the benefit of piano men who are
interested in this growing market:
Dealers
Adelaide Co-operative Society, Ltd. (pianos) |
Alexander Hall (pianos).
Allans, Ltd.
Australasian Implement & House Furnishing
Co., Ltd. (R.)
Beale & Co. (M.), pianos.
Cawthorne & Co. (M.), pianos.
E. T. Collins' Music Store.
Cornell, Ltd. (phonographs).
R. Correll (R.).
A. W. Dobbie & Co., Ltd. (pianos).
E. T. Eddy (phonographs).
John Evans, Ltd. (M.), pianos.
H. Furness & Son (M.), pianos and organs.
S. Hoffnung & Co., Ltd. (A.), phonographs.
Hooper's Furnishing Arcade (pianos).
A. Macrow & Sons, Pty. Ltd. (pianos).
James Marshall & Co., Ltd. (pianos).
S. Marshall & Sons (pianos).
John Martin & Co., Ltd. (pianos).
Pianola Co., Pty. Ltd. (pianos, phonographs
and records).
Malcolm Reid & Co., Ltd. (pianos).
W. L. Roberts (M.), organs.
William Saunders (pianos).
Peter Small (pianos).
Solomon & Co. (pianos).
S. A. Farmers' Co-operative Union Co., Ltd.
(R.), pianos.
Max Swift & Co. (pianos),
Hugo Wertheim, Pty. Ltd. (M.), pianos.
Sheet Music Dealers
Allans, Ltd.
Gertie Campbell.
Cawthorne & Co.
Cole's Book Arcade.
E. T. Collins.
R. Correll.
James Marshall & Co., Ltd.
Marshall's Music Store, Port Adelaide.
S. Marshall & Sons.
Charles Moore & Co.
Rigby, Ltd.
William Saunders.
Woodman's Music Store.
Manufacturers' Agents
American Trading Co. of Australia.
Ayers & James, Ltd.
Roland E. Jacobs.
Helmsley Jones.
34 NEW SHIPS NOW AVAILABLE
American Shipyards Turn Out 246,225 Tons in
September for Shipping Board
THE MUSIC TIRADE
SOME NEW KURTZMANN LITERATURE
JOHNSON OF ELGIN A BUSY MAN
Elaborate New Catalog Just Issued by C. Kurtz- Runs Two Piano Factories and a Big Farm—
mann & Co., Buffalo, Together With a Con-
Thinks of Buying an Airplane
venient Book of Letters of Praise
ELGIN, III., October 18.—It is now about eighteen
The interesting lines of grand, upright and years since E. P. Johnson, of Ottawa, 111., left
player-pianos manufactured by C. Kurtzmann the Merrifields, and with the money he received
& Co., Buffalo, are set forth admirably in a for his interest in the business and with the aid
new catalog just issued by that company. The of local capital bought the P. C. Weaver plant
catalog in every respect is a high-grade produc- and business. It was a hard job building up the
tion, with fine quality of paper and printing neglected business and putting it on a solid
combined with artistic typography.
foundation, but Johnson was the man to do it
In the new booklet very little space is given and did it. It was not long before he was able
over to introductory matter, the pages being de- to buy out his associates and become sole owner.
voted to illustrations and descriptions of the Four years ago opportunity again knocked and
various Kurtzmann products, including the baby found Mr. Johnson lurking in the vicinity. He
grand, Style B; Studio Model Grand, Style M; came to Elgin and took over the business of the
Parlor Grand, Empire Style; Louis XV Art Seybold Piano & Organ Co. and again faced
Grand; the Kurtzmann Reproducing Grand; the
Kurtzmann Reproducing Player, and Styles 8 the problem of building up a run-down business,
and 6 player-pianos in upright models. The but he succeeded, as is well known in the trade,
and this year he had the satisfaction of buying
straight uprights include Styles S, T and A.
One page of the catalog is given over to views out in full and for cash the interests of William
of the Kurtzmann factory, another page to a Grote, the Elgin banker, and his associates.
list of the educational institutions using Kurtz- Both the Ottawa and Elgin plants have been
mann pianos and other pages to enthusiastic greatly improved by the addition of up-to-date
machinery in the last two years and a large
endorsements of those instruments.
Accompanying the catalog is a small pocket addition to the Ottawa factory was recently
volume in which are reproduced a number of built. The two plants now afford a total ca-
letters in praise of the Kurtzmann piano, and pacity of about twenty-five pianos a day.
Needless to say, Mr. Johnson is a pretty busy
in which are shown views of the several Kurtz-
mann instruments, together with descriptive man, as he gives his personal supervision to
both plants, and also himself sells their entire
matter.
output. However, he has a genius for econo-
mizing time and refuses to get into a rut, so,
MISSION OF HOUSE OF MAUZY
some way or other, he manages to supervise
Business Principles of San Francisco Music a big mile square farm near Ehnhurst, where
he raises grain, blooded Holstein cattle and
Dealer Well Set Forth in Leaflet
aristocratic pigs, all of which he declares realize
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL., October 16.— has taken occasion to announce through the of his piano factory.
medium of specially designed slips enclosed in
ADDITIONAL CLAIMS ARE FILED
International Piano Co. Creditors in First Meet-
ing—Gimbel Bros. Buy Stock of Pianos
Mission of the House ofc*
BYKON MAUZY
f7[0 traffic in art and yet not lose
w the spirit of art; to do things
well and do them quickly: to search
constantly and faithfully for better
methods; to regard alj customers as
friends; to join courtesy and cheer*
fulness to loyalty and diligence; to
belle*e lhat there is sentiment in
business, and that no treat work
can he done without it; to consider
a good bargain one which benefits
both parties; to take an intense
pride in the name which symbol-
izes over thirty-five > ears of honor-
able development in the field of-
music.
FALL RIVER, MASS., October 18.—Referee George
W. Stetson presided at a regular session of the
bankruptcy court in this city last week, at which
Attorney Israel Brayton filed additional claims
in the adjourned first meeting of the Interna-
tional Piano Co. as follows: William C. Atwater
& Co., $316.65; Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.,
$596.08; and A. G. & W. J. Howland, $126.44.
On Monday the trustees, who have taken
charge of the company's affairs, were granted
the right by the referee to close a contract with
Gimbel Bros, of New York to sell a certain num-
ber of pianos for $90,000.
INVOICES ON BULGARIAN IMPORTS
Commissioner Em. Anastassoff of the Bul-
garian Government Food Administration in New
York City, under date of October 2, 1920, has
transmitted to the Department of Commerce the
information that the Bulgarian Government re-
quires a certified consular invoice for all imports.
Commissioner Anastassoff has been authorized
to certify invoices for goods shipped from the
United States. His address is 505 World Build-
ing, New York City.
The world's surplus of tonnage was increased
BYRON MAUZY
in September by the addition of 246,225 dead
250 Stockton Street, San Francisco
weight tons delivered to the Shipping Board by
In Oakland at 575-14th Street .
American shipyards during the month. Official
records show that a total of thirty-four new
steamers, of which thirty were large steel steam-
Some Practical Rules for Success
ers, were added to the American Government-
owned merchant marine. Two concrete tank- all correspondence the mission of his music
ers, each having a dead weight register of 7,500 house, and in so doing has set down a number WOULD REGISTER NAME "RICHMOND"
tons, were delivered to the board for operation. of objectives that combine the ideal and the
The Starr Piano Co., Richmond, Ind., has ap-
practical. The announcement, which is repro-
plied
for registration of the name "Richmond"
duced
here,
has
been
favorably
commented
on
REGISTRATION OF A. B. CHASE
by many of the Mauzy customers. The principles used on the company's products.
Application has been made by the A. B. Chase might well be studied by music merchants gen-
Piano Co., Inc., for the registry in the United erally who are seeking to build their businesses
ALEXANDER McDONALD ON TRIP
States patent office for the registry of both the upon permanent foundations.
Alexander McDonald, of Sohmer & Co., is at
name "A. B. Chase" and the design with the let-
W. G. Kehoe, of the Jacob Doll Piano Co., present on a trip visiting dealers in the Western
ters "A. B. C." which the company uses on its
part of the country.
New York, was in St. Louis last week.
instruments.
THE BEST KNOWN
MUSICAL NAME
IN THE WORLD.
IANOCO - P I A N O S * NEWYORK Cl
THE BEST PROFIT
PRODUCER FOR THE
DEALER IN THE TRADE