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JUNE 6, 1925
Large Delegation of Indianapolis
Dealers to Be Present at Convention
Manufacturers' Outlet Piano Co. Now Occupying Store Formerly Used by Steinway & Sons Local
Branch, Which Has Been Discontinued—Music Dealers to Participate in Street Fair
I N D I A N A P O L I S , IND., June 3.—The piano
and small instrument sales have slumped
along with other lines. A depression, and the
recognition of it, is no secret among music
dealers. From a Chamber of Commerce re-
port this would not seem the case but when
merchandise does not move there is reason to
think that the cause is near at hand.
The out-State stores conducted by the Pear-
son Piano Co. at Muncie, Anderson, Colum-
bus and Kokomo have shown a very good
Spring business, reports Mr. Stockdale. The
branches are managed along the same lines as
the Indianapolis store, and handle both pianos,
talking machines and small instruments. The
old Steinway location at 225 North Pennsyl-
vania street, which line was taken over by the
Pearson Co., is now occupied by the Manufac-
turers Outlet Piano Co. It is operated inde-
pendently of the Pearson store and is used to
dispose of surplus stocks obtained by the Pear-
son Co. and used goods which are sold at bar-
gain prices. Ted Meredith is in charge.
A. T. Rapp of the Rapp & Lennox Piano
Co., reports that the piano sales the past month
have been confined to grands, the better grade
of instruments easily leading the field.
Movement in small instruments has been
confined largely to saxophones, trumpets and
banjos. J. L. Peter, manager of the small in-
strument department of the Pearson store, re-
ports that it is running well with their last
year's records.
The Fuller Ryde Co. reports the small instru-
ment trade as only ordinary. This store fea-
tures the Conn band instruments, and does a
large business among local orchestras. Recent
sales of instruments have been made by this
company to the Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphan
Home at Knightstown, Ind., and the Masonic
Home at Franklin.
Joel B. Ryde, manager of the Fuller Ryde
Music Co., and active in music and civic circles,
left May 27 with the local Shrine for a two
weeks' trip to Los Angeles.
Local music dealers are planning to descend
upon Chicago June 6 to attend the National
Music Industries Convention. Among those at-
tending will be John Pearson and E. W. Stock-
dale, president and manager respectively of the
Pearson Piano Co.; William Christena and H.
J. Teague of the Christena-Teague Piano Co.,
and Hal P. Shearer of the Indianapolis Music
House, who will stop off at Chicago on his re-
turn from New York and Minneapolis. Other
dealers are planning to attend but will be un-
able to arrange their affairs definitely until a
later date.
The Pennsylvania Street Dealers' Association,
which comprise all business men in two blocks
on Pennsylvania street, north of Washington
street, are arranging to conduct a Street Fair
the week of June 9-16. Present plans call for
elaborate decorations comprising street stream-
ers and store front decorations. Special music
will be featured. Prizes will be awarded for
the best windows. Unusual interest is being
manifested by local music dealers, since five
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music dealers are in these two blocks and such
publicity will be of vast benefit to them. Music
dealers in this section are the Baldwin Piano
Co., Weidner's, Victor, Brunswick and Colum-
bia dealers, the Brunswick Shop, the Pearson
Piano Co. and the Indianapolis Music Shop.
Visitors include Fred Jones of the George
P. Bent Co., Mr. Harris of the Packard Piano
Co. and Paul Fink of the Aeolian Co.
Downward Revision of
Vocalion Record Prices
Beginning May 25 the Seventy-five Cent Rec-
ords Were Listed at Fifty Cents and More
Expensive Numbers at Seventy-five Cents
It is announced this week by the Vocalion
Record Division of the Brunswick-Balke-Collen-
der Co., in New York, that effective as of May
25 there has been a downward revision of retail
list prices on Vocalion records, which is ex-
pected to stimulate the demand for those rec-
ords throughout the country to a very substan-
tial degree.
Under the new schedule Vocalion Red Rec-
ords, formerly listed at seventy-five cents, will
be sold at fifty cents and these will include a
number of records of the better sort, such as
those by Colin O'More, the Irish tenor. Voca-
lion records formerly listing at $1 and. $2 will
in future be listed retail at seventy-five cents.
In connection with the price revision it is stated
there will be no deviation from the present high
quality of Vocalion records or the policy of re-
leasing the current hits with surprising prompt-
ness.
Pitch Committee to Meet
CHICAGO, I I I . , June 1.—It is announced that
on June 8 a meeting of the Technical Commit-
tee of the Standard Musical Pitch Committee
will be held to consider the interim report that
will be presented to the Music Industries
Chamber of Commerce. The meeting will be
presided over by Chas. Deutschmann, presi-
dent of the National Association of Piano
Tuners, chairman. Win. Braid White, technical
editor of The Music Trade Review, is secretary.
This meeting is not to be confused with the Na-
tional Piano Technicians' Association, which
will also meet on June 8 at 8.00 o'clock in the
evening, preceded by a dinner at 6:30 p. m.
Weser Bros. Grand Used
by Noted Tenor de Muro
Well-known Sardinian Artist Selects That In-
strument for His Debut at the Manhattan
Opera House and Praises Its Tone
The Weser piano was highly honored recent-
ly when Bernardo de Muro, the famous Sardin-
ian tenor, selected a grand of that make for
use in his debut at the Manhattan Opera House,
New York, and praised the tone qualities of the
piano unstintingly. This is just another occa-
sion when the Weser piano was considered
worthy of the commendation of artists of stand-
ing, and indicates the success met with by
Weser Bros., Inc., in their efforts to produce
an instrument of recognized quality.
It is stated at the Weser Bros, factory that
the business for each month during 1925 has
shown an increase over the corresponding
month of a year ago, the orders for May being
of particularly heavy volume. The recent
change in the superintendency of the Weser
plant has had a most beneficial effect.
Charles Doll Dies in New
York After Brief Illness
Son of Late Jacob Doll Passes Away on Satur-
day, May 30, in 37th Year—Funeral Services
Held on Tuesday
Charles Doll, son of the late Jacob and Emma
Doll and brother to Otto, George and Fred
Doll of Jacob Doll & Sons, New York, passed
away on Saturday last after a brief illness of
pneumonia.
Mr. Doll was thirty-seven years old. The
funeral services were held at his late residence,
324 West One Hundred and Third street, on
Tuesday of this week and were attended by a
large number of friends and members of the
industry.
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