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DECEMBER 27,
THE
1924
MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
The Past Year in the Music Industries
A Summary of the Outstanding Events Which Have Taken Place in All Branches of the Music Industries
Since the Advent of 1924 — the Past Twelve Months Fruitful in Constructive Achievement
in All Branches of the Trade and of Real Development
Gustav Herzberg & Son, Philadelphia, celebrate half cen-
January
tury as representatives of Kranich & Bach piano.
H. Emerson Giles, of Giles Bros., Quincy, Mass., dies at
Estey Piano Co. remodels warerooms in Philadelphia.
home in that city.
Emil Voelckel appointed superintendent of the Hardman
Fischer Music Co., Tucson, Ariz., opens second branch
piano factory in New York.
store in Glendale, Ariz.
Traveling staff of Hallet & Davis Piano Co. holds week's
John Church Co., Cincinnati, opens branch in Peoria, 111.
conference at Boston headquarters.
Eastern division of Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co. occupies
W. V. Swords resigns as general manager of the Aeolian
new headquarters building in New York.
Co., New York.
Field-Lippman Piano Co., St. Louis, bought out by Union
O. H. Unger, well-known dealer of Reading, Pa., dies at
Housefurnishing Co.
age of seventy-four.
N. S. Martin appointed manager of export department of
Edison Disc Jobbers' Association holds annual conven-
Vocalstyle Music Co., Cincinnati.
tion in New York.
Progressive Musical Instrument Corp., New York, adds
Hugh C. Ernst appointed manager of phonograph depart-
20,000 square feet to floor space.
ment of John Wanamaker Store, New York.
Henry Stadlmair Co. enters musical merchandise jobbing
field with headquarters in New York.
March
Consolidated Talking Machine Co., Chicago, suffers $150,000
All divisions of United Piano Corp., including Lindeman
fire loss.
& Sons and Emerson divisions, concentrated in Nor-
Richmond Music Supply Corp., New York, announces first
walk, O.
general sheet music catalog.
Howard Webber resigns as general manager of the retail
M. Hohner, New York, harmonica manufacturer, incor-
division of Mathushek & Sons Piano Co., New York, to
porated for $500,000.
become connected with Lyon & Healy, Chicago.
E. B. Jones buys control of Schiller Piano Co., Oregon,
Roliert A. Witt joins sales staff of S. E. Overton Co.,
111., and becomes its president.
South Haven, Mich., manufacturer of piano benches.
Henry L. Marshall, well-known figure in Portland, Ore.,
Scruggs, Vandervoort & Barney, St. Louis, secure repre-
trade, buys Morris Music House in Eugene, Ore.
sentation of Chickering with Ampico and also Haines
S. P. Walker, general manager of Chas. M. Stieff, Inc.,
Bros, and Franklin lines.
celebrates forty-second anniversary with that house.
Wm. G. Frederick appointed manager of Knabe Studios,
W. S. Givler becomes general sales manager of Steger
Kansas City.
& Sons Piano Mfg. Co.
Wm. H. Alfring elected vice-president and appointed gen-
Managers and executives of Grinnell Bros., Detroit, and
eral manager of Aeolian Co., New York.
branches, hold twenty-first annual conference.
James A. Coffin, president of E. Gabler & Bro., popular
Band Instrument Manufacturers' Association compiles
figure in trade, dies suddenly in New York.
code of ethics doing away with granting of subsidies.
Luebtow Music Co., Milwaukee, holds formal opening of
Boston band and orchestra instrument distributors form
handsome new quarters in that city.
new association, with J. H. Burke as president.
American Piano Supply Co. buys out business of C. F.
Rachmaninoff renews his contract to record exclusively for
Goepel & Co., New York piano supply house.
the Ampico.
Grubb & Kosegarten, Nassau, N. Y., changes name to
Charles Houston elected treasurer of Grosvenor-Lapham
Kosegarten Piano Action Mfg. Co.
Co., Chicago.
Lyon & Healy, Chicago, take over control of E. A. Cou- August Stahl becomes superintendent of factory of
Schmidt-Dauber Co., New York.
turier Band Instrument Co., Laporte, Ind.
Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co., Chicago, and Radio Corp.
Charles T. Allen joins traveling staff of Janssen Piano Co.,
of America announce reciprocal arrangements whereby
New York.
Radiola receivers will be installed in Brunswick phono-
Lester Gunst elected president of Dallas, Tex., Music
graphs and record artists heard "on the air."
Industries Association.
Leander L. Doud, former secretary of A. B. Chase Piano
Executive Committee of Ampico Art Society holds mid-
Co., dies at home in Norwalk, O.
year meeting in New York.
New England Music Trades Association tenders elaborate
Howard E. Gerhardt, veteran music dealer of Reading,
banquet to Edward S. Payson, dean of the piano indus-
Pa., dies in that city.
try.
Mid-Winter meetings of Board of Directors of Music
Geo. P. Ross appointed manager of San Francisco Conn
Industries Chamber of Commerce; the Advisory Board
Co., San Francisco, Cal.
and Executive Committee of the National Association of
Arthur C. Winegar closes out own business in Buffalo and
Music Merchants; the Executive Committee of the Na-
becomes manager of store of John B. Schuler, Inc.
tional Piano Manufacturers' Association, and the Board
Harold S. Morse joins traveling staff of Brambach Piano
of Directors of the Musical Supply Association hold
Co.
mid-year meetings at Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York.
Glen Bros.-Roberts Piano Co. announces continuance of
Uoardman & Gray, Albany, N. Y., announce appointment
store in Salt Lake City and removal of headquarters to
of E. C. Gray as factory superintendent, Niel A. Gray as
Ogden, Utah.
general sales manager and Bradley C. Gray as retail
Thos. F. Green, president of Silas A. Pearsall Co., Victor
manager.
wholesaler, New York, dies in hospital in this city.
Baldwin Piano Co. representatives hold annual conference
Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co. establishes new recording
in Cincinnati.
studios in New York.
February
Robert S. McCarthy resigns as manager of the piano and
phonograph department of Gimbel Bros., Philadelphia,
after fifteen years of service.
Chicago Accordion Association formed in that city with
headquarters in Lyon & Healy Building.
Chicago Piano & Organ Association holds twenty-fifth an-
nual banquet with five charter members present.
N. Stetson & Co., Philadelphia, celebrated thirty-first anni-
versary as representatives for the Steinway piano.
M. Max, manager of Gimbel Bros, piano and phonograph
department, New York, takes charge of similar depart-
ments in Philadelphia store.
Carle C. Conway elected president of the Conway Co.,
Boston, Mass.
D. J. Tremblay becomes manager of Chickering warerooms
and Knabe Studios, Baltimore, Md., succeeding E. Paul
Hamilton.
W. F. Frederick Piano Co. arranges to handle Story &
Clark Piano Co.'s litie in Pittsburgh territory.
Gulbransen-Dickinson Co., Chicago, becomes the Gulbransen
Co. and capital stock is increased from $2,000,000 to
$5,000,000.
\V. C. Fuhri succeeds George W. Hopkins as sales man-
ager of Columbia Phonograph Co.
Alfred Behning elected president of Piano Club of New
York.
W. Deane Preston, Jr., re-elected president of Boston
Music Publishers' Association at annual meeting.
Sonora Phonograph Co., Inc., New York, issues $400,000
worth of new common stock and takes over assets of
Sonora, Inc.
Chicago trade pays tribute to Adam Schneider on twenty-
fifth anniversary jn trade.
April
E. Robert Schmitz, distinguished French pianist, contracts
to record exclusively for Ampico.
Conroy Piano Co., St. Louis, installs talking machine de-
partment.
E. Paul Hamilton joins Neal, Clark & Neal, Buffalo, as
general manager of Buffalo store and of Music Lovers'
Shoppe, Rochester.
W. C. Mallory becomes manager of wholesale and retail de-
partments of Sterling Piano Corp., Derby, Conn., and
Brooklyn, N. Y.
Arthur C. Germer closes music store in Beardstown, 111.,
after twenty-one years in trade.
Julius B. Cohen, vice-president of Pease-Behning Co.,
Brooklyn, N. Y., passes away in that city.
Wm. Haussler re-elected president of Superintendents' Club
of New York Piano Manufacturers' Association.
Retail branches of Steinway & Sons make arrangements to
handle the full line of Steinway Duo-Art pianos.
Chas. B. Lawson, a veteran of the piano manufacturing
trade of New York, dies at home here in sixty-ninth year.
Walter C. Hepperla elected president of New York Piano
Manufacturers' Association.
Hans P. Nelson, former head of the H. P. Nelson Piano
Co., Chicago, dies in that city after a long illness.
Charleston, W. Va., piano dealers form new association,
with R. W. McKee, of McKee Music Co., as president.
Calvin C Purdy re-elected president of New York Piano
Merchants' Association.
Victor Talking Machine Co. of Canada, Ltd., with head-
quarters in Montreal, is chartered to take over business
of Berliner Gramophone Co., Ltd.
A. I. Ellis, head of A. I. Ellis. & Sons, Uniontown, Pa.,
retires from active business after thirty-one years in the
active trade.
Lyman Paine, well known music dealer of Middletown,
Conn., celebrates fiftieth anniversary of founding of his
business.
New England Phonograph Distributing Co. organized in
Boston to succeed the Sonora Co. of New England.
Lyon & Healy, Chicago, take on the Brunswick line in the
talking machine department.
May
State Music Co. buys out Starr Piano Co. branch in Mans-
field, O.
Story & Clark Piano Co. holds formal opening of new
home at 33 West Fifty-seventh street, New York.
Kranich & Itach announce new warerooms in Chicago in the
Straus Building, with Roger O'Connor manager.
Bradford C. Edmands elected vice-president of Chickering
& Sons.
George S. Marygold, general manager of Southern Califor-
nia Music Co., Los Angeles, and one of the most prom-
inent music men on Coast, dies suddenly.
Hugh F. Cunningham, long an active factor in Cunning-
ham Piano Co., Philadelphia, dies at home in that city.
Piano department of John Wanamaker Store, New York,
celebrates twenty-fifth anniversary of its establishment.
Estey Piano Co., Philadelphia, celebrates fiftieth anniver-
sary of its establishment.
Lyon & Healy, Inc., Chicago, discontinues wholesaling of
Victor talking machines.
Sherman, Clay & Co. occupy large new wholesale building
in San Francisco.
S. O. Martin elected president of Sonora Phonograph Co.,
New York, with George E. Brightson, former president,
as chairman of the Board of Directors.
E. Pateman, well known in Western trade, heads Montelius
Music House, Chicago.
Pratt Read & Co. buy ivory equipment and machinery for
making piano keys of the Sylvester Tower Co.. Cam-
bridge, Mass.
Fred Gretsch Mfg. Co., Brooklyn, prominent musical mer-
chandise house, opens branch office in Chicago, with Fred
J. Base as manager.
Texas Music Merchants' Association holds fifth annual con-
vention in Galveston. J. R. Reed elected president.
Col. Wm. B. Brinkerhoff, well-known piano manufacturer
of Chicago, dies at home in Oak Park, 111.
Victor Herbert, noted composer, dies suddenly in New
York.
Theodore Morse, well-known songwriter, succumbs after
brief illness.
June
Seventh annual convention of the Music Industries Cham-
ber of Commerce held at Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New
York. Richard W. Lawrence re-elected president.
National Piano Manufacturers' Association holds twenty-
eighth annual convention in New York. E. R. Jacobson
elected president.
National Association of Music Merchants holds twenty-third
annual convention in New York. George R. Hughes, San
Francisco, elected president.
Fifth annual convention of Musical Supply Association of
America held in New York. Joseph F. Reed, of the
Paragon Foundries, elected president.
The Organ Builders' Association of America holds annual
convention in New York, re-electing Adolph Wangerin, of
Milwaukee, president.
Ampico Art Society holds annual convention at Waldorf-
Astoria Hotel, New York, elected Homer Kitt, of Wash-
ington, as president.
Annual meeting of National Piano Travelers' Association
held in New York. Charles J. Cunningham elected presi-
dent.
National Musical Merchandise Association holds annual
meeting in New York and re-elects William J. Haussler
president.
National Band Instrument Manufacturers' Association holds
annual meeting at Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York, re-
electing C. D. Greenleaf president.
J. W. Jenkins' Sons Music Co., Kansas City, suffers heavy
fire loss.
Plant of Johnson Piano Co., Bellevue, la., suffers $100,000
damage by fire.
John C. Freund, editor of The Music Trades, passes away
after long illness.
National Piano Technicians' Association organized in New
York, with A. K. Gutsohn as president.
National Association of Musical Instrument and Accessories
Manufacturers organized in New York, with J. R. Stew-
art, of the Harmony Co., Chicago, as president.
Peter D, Strauch, founder of Strauch Bros., piano action
manufacturers, dies at his home in Tuckahoe, N. Y., in
eighty-eighth year.
Cunningham Piano Co. occupies new $2,000,000 building on
Chestnut street, Philadelphia.
Smith & Mitten Piano Co., Akron, O., chartered with cap-
ital stock of $75,000.
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