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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
VACATION THE PRINCIPAL THEME IN ST. LOUIS TRADE
Dealers Are Resting Up in Preparation for Active Fall Endeavors, Though the Present Volume of
Business Is Up to Normal—Personal Items of Interest and Other News
ST. LOUIS, MO., July 10.—What with a day off
for the Fourth of July and nobody feeling like
doing much on the one day between Sunday and
the Fourth, and half a day off on Saturday, last
week was considerably shot to pieces and no
great amount of business was done. The week
also inaugurated the vacation season and for the
next two months there will be more or less rest-
ing on oars in piano circles. Of course there are
always some grinds who make hay while the
sun shines and while other salesmen are vaca-
tioning or loafing on the job, and these get the
best of the Summer selling.
Manager J. E. Reger, of the P. A. Starck Piano
Co., is going to see what can be done with a
mid-Summer removal sale in connection with the
removal to the southeast corner of Eleventh and
Olive streets.
A. L. Davis has succeeded Fred Seeger as resi-
dent manager of the Wood River, 111., branch of
the Conroy Piano Co.
W. A. Lippman, secretary and manager of the
Field-Lippman Piano Co., has returned from a
motor trip to Michigan, on which he was ac-
companied by his family and a party of friends.
Victor Raehmoeller, formerly with the Wiley
FELT
Co-operating With Piano
Manufacturers to Raise
and Maintain Standards
—Such is the constructive work which has been
and is carried to a successful issue by the
American Felt Company.
Not simply to make and market Felt, but
really to participate in the achievements of
P i a n o Manufacturers, has long been the
aspiration of this company.
That we have fulfilled the highest -ideals of the
piano industry is shown by the fact that we are
honored as the exclusive resource in our field by
manufacturers whose names are known the world over
for the quality of their product.
AmericanFelt
Never before
so well
prepared to
give quick
delivery—
try us on a
small order.
Company
TRADE
MARK
JULY
15,
1922
B. Allen Piano Co., of Los Angeles, Cal., has
joined the sales force of the P. A. Starck Piano
Co.
Albert Price, of Price & Teeple, Chicago, was
in St. Louis last week.
Gerald Harris, manager of the Lehman Piano
Co., is visiting his brother, Parker Harris, of the
Harris-Loeb Piano Co., New Orleans, La.
Vesper N. Springgate, formerly with the P. A.
Starck Piano Co., has taken a position with the
Wurlitzer Co.
"Doc" Dickinson, formerly with the Smith-
Reis Piano Co., has transferred his allegiance o
the Kieselhorst Piano Co.
R. M. Ham, formerly with the Baldwin Piano
Co., is now with the Lehman Piano Co.
F. F. Stevenson, formerly with the piano de-
partment at John Wanamaker's, Philadelphia, has
joined the Kieselhorst Piano Co.
Fred T. Kuni, secretary of the Kieselhorst
Piano Co., is spending his vacation in the
Ozarks.
J. Harry Shale, of the United Piano Corp, New
York, stopped in St. Louis last week on his way
back from a Western trip. He planned to stop at
Indiana points before returning to New York.
W. J. Esler, of the Gulbransen-Dickinson Co.,
Chicago, was in St. Louis last week.
H. S. Buttell, of the Chase-Hackley Piano Co.,
Muskegon, Mich., was here last week.
A Chickering with the Ampico, loaned by the
Famous & Barr Co., and a Steinway Duo-Art,
loaned by the Aeolian Co., were seriously dam-
aged by water during a fire in the radio room of
the Post-Dispatch one day last week.
Fred W. Bertholdt, of the Famous & Barr Co.
piano department, is spending his vacation tour-
ing. A. H. Dickhaus and Jack Burke will go this
week. Mr. Dickhaus will spend his in the Ozarks
and Burke will tour.
JUNE BIGGEST JJRAMBACH MONTH
M. P. Campbell Enthuses Regarding Past and
Future of Baby Grande—Big Year Expected
June passed into history for the Brambach
Piano Co., 639 West Forty-ninth street, New
York, as the biggest month in the history of their
business, according to Mark P. Campbell, pres-
ident of the company, who was enthusiastic this
week regarding the success of the Brambach
baby grand while talking to a representative of
The Review. He said:
"Not only are orders coming in for future de-
livery in large numbers, but we are shipping
every day and it is certainly very gratifying to be
able to report that we shipped a greater number
of instruments in June of this year than in any
one month since we have been manufacturing
baby grand pianos exclusively. Combining what
we have done during the first six months of the
year with what we now can see ahead of us, we
will undoubtedly by the end of the year be far
ahead of our previous experiences.
"The Brambach baby grand is finding its way
into not only every section of this country, but
also many foreign lands, as our export business
is also increasing perceptibly, and the demand
for the small grand seems to have become world-
wide. When we realize the results of the efforts
of the Brambach Piano Co., which was the first
to specialize in baby grand pianos exclusively,
you can readily imagine our gratification and that
we feel well repaid for these efforts and feel as-
sured that greater things will arise from the
universal movement now manifesting itself in
promoting the popularity of this type of instru-
ment."
ESTEY WELTEJXJRP. CHARTERED
100 SUMMER ST.
114 E. 13TH ST.
325 SO. MARKET ST.
BOSTON
NEW YORK
CHICAGO
The Estey W r elte Corp., Niagara Falls, N. Y.,
radio, has been incorporated with an active capi-
tal of $5,000, the incorporators named being M.
C. Lorini, V. J. Veath and M. N. Burnham.
Consult the universal Want Directory of
The Review. In it advertisements are inserted
free of charge for men who desire positions.