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Music Trade Review

Issue: 1924 Vol. 79 N. 6 - Page 10

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THE
MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
AUGUST 9, 1924
turing the portables and the cheaper machines (
He reports that business has been good during
July, showing an increase over that of July,
1923, particularly in the Edison and the Victor.
As soon as the department has been moved, Mr.
High Crop Prices Already Beginning to Have Effect Upon Buying Powers of the Farmers— Lee expects to take an extended trip East, visit-
Wunderlich Piano Co. Has Store Decorated—Knabe Studios Planning Fall Recitals
ing at Niagara Falls, Asbury Park, New Jersey,
and in New York City, spending about three :
.TZANSAS CITY, MO., August 5.—After en- early Fall. She will sing at the Women's Uni- weeks away from the store.
during several years of depressing condi- versity Club, at the Rotary Club, at Ivanhoe
The Graphonola Shop, owned by O. D.
tions among the farmers in this locality, the Temple and other organizations using the Am- Standke, has been closed out at the present,
music dealers, as well as other business men, pico as accompanist. Fred Colber, composer location and has established temporary quarters >
are highly optimistic over the satisfying turn and pianist, will assist at some of these con- on the third floor of the same building until a
toward prosperity evident in the crop situation, certs. The Ampico will play in direct compari- new and suitable location may be found for the'
with corn, wheat and livestock prices soaring. son with Mr. Colber, the Ampico being fur- concern.
These high crop prices are already having their nished by the Knabe Studios. Mr. Frederick
effect and farmers are beginning to pay off long states that they had a very fine business during
standing loans to banks, wholesalers are receiv- the month of June. July ran a little slack as
ing larger orders from the rural districts and is to be expected at this time of the year, but
the whole outlook is rosy. If the conditions they are expecting a fine Fall business.
continue, and there is every prospect that they
Frank Roeder, 'for many years in the music Instrument to Be Placed on the Roof Garden
will, the Middle West is in for a period of better business serving in various capacities, is now
of Fine New Hostelry—Miessner Piano Se-
business than it has enjoyed for the past five associated with the Paul Record Shop, just off
lected for Use in Dining-room
years. Music merchants naturally are confident Petticoat Lane, which handles the Victor rec-
that they will participate in this prosperity in ords and machines.
TOPEKA, KAN., August 4.—A Lester grand piano*
full measure.
Mrs, Edward Zola, who has had the Music was recently installed by J. W. Jenkins' Sons!]
A. B. Nail, of the Ampico department of the Box in Newman Theatre Building, has closed Music Co. on the roof garden of the fine new?
Wunderlich Piano Co., returned July 29 from out the shop, going out of the record business. Hotel Kansan in this city, and the instruments
a two weeks' vacation spent in Indiana and Miss Frances Enoch, formerly in the record will be used in many programs of dance and'
Kentucky. Harry Wunderlich, with his family, department of The Music Box, is now associated concert music which it is planned to offer on
also returned from Lake Outing, Minn., where with the Brunswick Shop in the record de- the hotel roof. The Jenkins house also sold aj
he has been for several weeks.
partment.
Miessner piano to the hotel for installation inj
The Wunderlich Piano Co. has recently had
The Brunswick Shop is expecting the new the dining-room.
the store newly decorated, putting a tiffany- radio combination machine, which is the Bruns-
toned paper on the walls and an ivory paint on' wick with the R. C. A. line of radio, so as to
the woodwork, preparatory to putting in a new have both the talking machine and the radio in
radio department.
the same cabinet. This machine will be on the
The annual convention of the National Coun-i
G. B. Frederick, of the Knabe Studios, states market for early Fall and is expected to go
cil of Traveling Salesmen's Association, of r
that due to- their recent organization that they across big.
will not have any vacations this Summer. On
C. R. Lee, head of the music department of which the National Piano Travelers' Associa.r[
the contrary they are busy making plans for a the Jones Store Co., reports that the plans for tion is a member organization, will be held 'ill
series of recitals this Fall in which they will removing and enlarging the department are well the Hotel Pennsylvania, New York, on Aug
feature the Ampico. The first recital will be under way and he expects that they will be in 26, 27 and 28. An elaborate program of
of Miss Ruth Lloyd Kinney, noted contralto, their new quarters by August 23. They are value to traveling men generally is being
who will be in Kansas Citv for one week in the holding a removal sale in which they are fea- pared for the sessions.
Kansas Rural Prosperity Encourages
Music Merchants in that Territory
Lester Grand Piano for
New Hotel Kansan, Topeka
Traveling Salesmen to Meet
This is ONE of
The BEST
Piano Actions
ON EARTH
The OTHER ONE is the
Staib-Abendschein
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Reproducer Grand Action
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Send for booklet
The Sfaib-Abendschein Co.
Non-blockable
13kh St. and Brook Ave.
NEW YORK

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