Music Trade Review

THE
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MUSIC
TRADE
REVIEW
NOVEMBER 3, 1923
SALT LAKE CITY DEALERS REPORTING STEADY DEMAND
COINOLAS
Supremacy thru their
Performance
Tiny Coinola
Durability that has
defied the years
Known Values
Proven Satisfaction
Your territory may be open
Manufactured by
The Operators Piano Co.
16-22 S. Peoria Street
Chicago
Illinois
Utah Association of Music Industries to Hold Only Quarterly Meetings Henceforth-Glen Bros.­
Roberts Ogden Branch in New Quarters- J. R. Daynes Elected Association Treasurer
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SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, October 25.- The
ous music merchants of this city, without a
single exception, report business to be in a
highly satisfactory condition at this time. There
is interest in practically everything. Pianos,
talking mach.ines, sheet music, band instru­
ments-ali are selling. With industrial condi­
tions being so favorable, and with the increas­
ing . interest in things musical, this coming
Christmas sho uld see the busiest time in the
history of musical merchandising in the city.
The 1.:tah Association of :'{usic Industries
has decided to abandon its monthly meetings
and meet but once a quarter, turning these
meetings into a kind of convention on a sma ll
scale, winding up with a social. This change
will involve more responsibility for the execu­
tive committee, Secretary Fred Beesley, Sr.,
said.
Chas. J. Thomas, sales manager for the Con­
solidated Music Co. and with the firm for the
past nine years, has been made a director. of the
company to represent the employes.
The Bees ley Music Co . has installed a pipe
organ, a Smith unit, for demonstration pur­
poses.
The Consolidated Music Co. has taken the
C. G. Conn band instrument agency The York
agency will be handled by the Beesley Music
Co.
A prominent local firm reports that it is im­
possible to secure sufficient second-hand pianos
locally to satisfy the demand.
Ogden Branch in New Building
The Glen Bros.-Roberts Piano Co.'s Ogden
branch has moved in to its fine new $50,000
building on \iVashington avenue, ncar Twtnty­
fifth street. The new store has ten phonograph
booths on the main floor, in addition to the
display cases for small goods and an Ampico
and player roll demonstration department. In
the rear will be the shop and varnish depart­
ment. The new store boasts of a large concert
hall capable of seating 500 and also a stage
where talking machine concerts will be given.
In the larlte and handsome display w indows
there is a twelve-foot turntable, large enough
to accommodate grand pianos or the large con­
sole type of phonographs. The Ogden store is
under the immediate management of Presiden t
George Glef!, of the company. Miss Geneve
Swaae, formerly of the Keith-O'Brien .phono­
graph department, is the assistant to Manager
Henry Gardner at the new phonograph depart­
ment in the great Z. C. M. I. department store.
George D. Pyper, widely known in musica l
circles, has resigned as manager of the Musical
Arts Society of this city.
Donald Daynes, tr easurer of th e Dayries­
Beebe Music Co., and Ted Lewis, of the firm's
phonograph department, have gone on a deer­
hunting trip in southern Utah. President and
General Manager Joseph ]. Daynes has made
several short duck-hunting trips recently.
The Daynes-Beebe Music Co. has put on a
big piano and player sale to last two weeks.
Dean Daynes, of the Consolidated Music Co.,
reports a lot of activity in country band circles,
which is bringing his company some nice busi­
ness.
Seldon Heaps, with the Consolidated Co . for
ten years but for tbe past twelve months organ­
ist at the Americanist Theatre, is back again in
the company's sheet music department.
Elected Association Treasurer
J. Donald Daynes, treasurer of the Daynes­
Beebe Music Coo, has been elected treasurer of
the Utah Association of Music I ndustries, suc­
ceeding Clarence Chris tens en.
\iV. E. Stone, president of Stone & Co., will
conduct the orchestra at the American Dan­
sante this season. Mr. Stone has been leader
of the Shriners' Band for some time.
Chester Madsen, assistan t manager of the
Consolidated Music Co. , has resigned to go into
the furniture business in this city. His succes ­
sor has not been appointed at this writing.
H. E. Dewsnup, formerly sales manager of
the Consolidated and of late acting as an agent
for the Baldwin piano in this city, has pur­
chased an interest in the O'Loughlin business
on Main street and will take care of its ne~
piano department.
Sam Palmer, of the Glen BrOS.-Roberts Piano
Co., is giving several more Gulbransen con­
certs, the first having proved so successful.
The Glen Bros.-Roberts Piano Co. has put in
a wonderful Halloween window-pumpkins,
fighting cats, witches and all.
MORE ACTIVE TRADE IN SEPTEMBER
Number of Employes in Piano and Organ Plants
Increases DUring That Month as Do the Pay­
rolls, According to Governmental Reports
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vYASHINGTON, D.
October 29.-Increased em­
ployment and -higher wages are reported for the
piano and organ industries during the month of
September by the Bureau of Labor Statistics
of the Department of Labor. Reports from
t wenty-six ~stablishments show an increase of
2_3 per cen t in the number of emplo yes, accom­
panied by an increase of 8.3 per cent in the
weekly payroll, 7,235 employes being paid
$207,558 for one week in Septem ber, against
7,072 employes receiving $191,635 for a cor­
responding period in the preceding month.
Reports from ten establishments, showing con­
ditions in September, 1922, as compared with
September this year, show an increase of 24.2
per cent in the number of employes and 13.7
per cent in the weekly payroll, so that per capita
earnings o'f the employes in the industry in
September were 5_9 per cent grea te r than in the
preceding month, and 10.4 per cent greater than
in September, 1922.
Reports from nineteen manufacturers show­
ing conditions as to operations show that all
are operating on full time.
MUSIC ROOM FOR GOVERNOR
Executive Mansion in Albany Redecorated and
Refurnished and Proper Attention Is Given t'O
Musical Features During Process
AT BANY, :-.r. Y., October 29. The work of re­
decorating and refurnishing the Executive Man­
sion in Eagle street this city, where the Gov­
ernor of New York State makes his home, has just
been completed under the direction of Governor
Smith at a cost of $75,000. The work occupied
four months and among the results was the re­
ar ran gement of the music room to make it a
music room in the fullest sense of the word, and
the removal of a number of bookcases and cab­
inets from the apartment. The music room is
now equipped wi th a Steinway grand piano and
in the main reception room is an Ampico grand,
installed in th e mansion during the term of
Governor Miller.
THE FIGURES WERE TOO MODEST
The Levis Music Store, Rochester, N. Y.,
ca lls attention to an over modest statement in 3.
story pub lished recently regarding the installa­
tion of Kohler & Campbell pianos in the East­
man School of Music, Rochester. The story
gave credit for the installation of twenty-ei.ght
pianos, when, according to the Levis Music
Store, the actual num ber was thirty-six.
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