Music Trade Review
Issue: 1925 Vol. 80 N. 23 - Page 4
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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
The New Knabe Studio in Kansas City
Holds Formal Opening of Handsome Store
t)r. Sigmund Spaeth Lectures and Stuart Ross, Ampico Recording Artist, Appears in Concert at
Event—Feature of New Warerooms is Fine Recital Hall
1ZANSAS CITY, MO., June 1.—On the eve-
ning of May 25, the new Knabe Studio at
the Country Club Flaza held a formal opening
with a concert and lecture. Dr. Sigmund
Spaeth, lecturer and author, talked on the
"Common Sense of Music"; Stuart Ross, com-
poser and Ampico recording artist, who has
just completed a tour with Rosa Ponselle, was
the pianist of the evening. Mrs. Allen Taylor,
prominent vocalist of Kansas City, sang to
the accompaniment of the Ampico in the Knabe.
The Greatest Plan
Ever Devised for
Selling Pianos
If you are tired of trying worn-
out selling plans that fail to
arouse even a spark of interest,
here's your chance to do some-
thing different.
A plan that gets action—stirs
up interest in every community
where tried. Parents have en-
rolled over 15,000 children under
this wonderful plan. When a
dealer adopts it, sales of the
Miessner piano invariably fol-
low.
The Miessner piano is different
—low, compact, light, easily
portable. But it's a regular-
sized piano in tone—has a tone
as big and beautiful as that of
a small grand piano.
The remarkable Miessner Sales
Plan grew out of these distinc-
tive features of the piano. The
plan and the piano go hand in
hand. Send for full information
and wake up your piano sales.
MIESSNER PIANO GO.
136 Reed St.
Milwaukee, Wis.
THE LITTLE PIANO WITH THE DIG TONE
MIESSNER PIANO CO.,
136 Reed St., Milwaukee, Wil.
Gentlemen: Send me the Miessner catalog,
full information on your wonderful Sales Plan
and booklet, "How to Get Business in New
and Untouched Fields with the Miessner
Piano."
Name
Name of Stoce
Address
Highest
Quality
One selection, "Open Road," was written by
Mr. Stuart and re-enacted from his own playing
by the Ampico. Portions of the "Oriental
Dance," by Sinding, were played by Mr. Ross
arid portions by the Ampico in the Knabe.
The outstanding feature" of the concert was
the mood of mutual response of audience and
artists, expressing good will and friendliness.
This attitude was made possible by the infor-
mality of the musicians, the attractive setting
of the low stage and the softly shaded lights,
giving the effect of a private concert rather
than that of impersonal remoteness which is
so frequently felt in a large theatre or hall.
The seating capacity of the hall allows over a
hundred people to be present without their
being crowded. The chairs were of comfortable
old-ivory wicker, and although set in the con-
ventional concert hall rows, the presence of
crimson draperies, shaded lamps, large ferns
and baskets of pink peonies and carnations on
the stage, gave the effect of richness and good
taste. Dr. Spaeth talked informally to the au-
dience at the close of the program, stating
that he hoped they would take advantage of
the special purpose of the Studio, as a place to
bring their friends or to drop in frequently to
hear the concerts given daily by the Ampico.
He urged that the pleasure of music is a
growth and that it is through repetition that a
composition grows to mean more and more to
the listener. It is for this reason that the daily
concerts in the drawing room of the studio
should be attended.
In his lecture on "The Common Sense of
Music," Dr. Spaeth urged the cause of stand-
ard music as being worth while to the public,
although the public so frequently runs away
from it fearing it because of its appellation,
"highbrow."
The point of the talk was the fact that every
individual has an inherent musical sense which
should be developed in the form in which it is
present. By this means, music for pleasure
rather than the much too frequent reaction,
music as a duty, results.
After the program the audience spoke en-
thusiastically of the event and of the Knabe
Studio, as being particularly desirable in the
community center and within easy access to
their homes. G. W. Frederick was unanimous-
ly congratulated on what had been accom-
plished for the evening in the function of the
studio and in the pleasure derived from it.
The majority of the audience consisted of pa-
trons and customers of the Knabe Studios.
The entire program was broadcasted from
the Knabe Studios through Station W D A F of
the Kansas City Star.
Q R S Film Shown at
John Wanamaker Store
Auditorium of New York Store Given Over on
May 28 to Q R S Program—Recording Pian-
ists Play
An instructive and entertaining bit of pub-
licity was engaged in by the Q R S Music Co.,
when through the courtesy of the John Wanama-
ker store, New York, the Wanamaker Entertain-
ment ho'Ur for Thursday afternoon, May 28,
was given over to a moving picture production
that showed in detail the process of making
Q R S player rolls and a most excellent musi-
cal program rendered by four exclusive Q R S
pianists.
JUNE 6,
1925
The affair was featured in Wanamaker's news-
paper advertisements of the preceding day and
Thursday morning, in which it was referred to
as "A Popular Music Matinee," Piano Ensemble
consisting of the popular "composer-pianists,"
"Victor Arden, Max Kortlander, Phil Ohman,
Pete Wendling." Also, a "record making" mo-
tion picture revealing the process of manufac-
turing "Player-piano Rolls."
Dr. Alexander Russell, concert director for
Wanamaker's, presided at the Wanamaker great
organ and supplied the accompanying music for
the moving picture part of the program. The
Q R S Co. mailed invitations to all of its metro-
politan dealers, a very large number of whom
took advantage of the opportunity of attending.
G. A. Ensenberger & Sons j
Erecting New Building 1
Bloomington, 111., Concern Will Give Over Sub-
stantial Space in New Structure to Successful
Music Department
BLOOMINGTON, I I I . , June 1.—G. A. Ensenberger
& Sons, one of the leading housefurnishing con-
cerns in this section, who operate a very com-
modious music department under the manage-
ment of Otto F. Mueller, have let contracts for
a modern new building on the site of their old
quarters at 212-214 North Center street. The
old structure has been razed and work has
already been started on the new building, which
will be six stories high and modern in every par-
ticular.
The front of the structure will be of Gothic
design and of highly glazed cream colored ter-
ra-cotta. The front facade will be in the form
of six columns of terra-cotta between which
will be set spacious windows with ornamental
metal work top and bottom.
The Ensenberger business was established in
1886 on the site where the new building will
arise, and has met with continued success. In
the music department are handled Steinway,
Vose, Lyon & Healy, Brambach, Apollo, and
Gulbransen pianos and players, as well as Edi-
son and Victor phonographs and records. This
department will occupy large space in the new
building.
Thiery Music Go. Formed
MILWAUKEE, WIS., May 30.—A new music con-
cern, called the Thiery Music Co., has opened
an up-to-date music store at 872 Third street,
handling Schiller pianos and players and a full
line of phonographs and radio goods. The com-
pany has also taken over the business of the
Thiery Piano and Phonograph Co., 516 Grand
avenue, and the retail business of the J. B.
Thiery Co., 2324 North avenue.
The Spiegel Music Co., of Fort Wayne, Ind.,
has recently increased its capitalization to $25,000,
with the addition of $10,000 common stock.
American
Piano Wire
"Perfected" "Crown"
Highest acoustic excellence dating back to the
days of Jonas Chickering. Took prize over
whole world at Paris 1900. For generations
the standard, and used on the greatest num-
ber of pianos in the world.
Services of our Acoustic Engineer always available
—free Illustrated books—free
American Steel & Wire
ACOUSTIC DEPARTMENT
208 S. LA SALLE ST.. CHICAGO
Highest
Quality
Company
THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
The New Knabe Studio in Kansas City
Holds Formal Opening of Handsome Store
t)r. Sigmund Spaeth Lectures and Stuart Ross, Ampico Recording Artist, Appears in Concert at
Event—Feature of New Warerooms is Fine Recital Hall
1ZANSAS CITY, MO., June 1.—On the eve-
ning of May 25, the new Knabe Studio at
the Country Club Flaza held a formal opening
with a concert and lecture. Dr. Sigmund
Spaeth, lecturer and author, talked on the
"Common Sense of Music"; Stuart Ross, com-
poser and Ampico recording artist, who has
just completed a tour with Rosa Ponselle, was
the pianist of the evening. Mrs. Allen Taylor,
prominent vocalist of Kansas City, sang to
the accompaniment of the Ampico in the Knabe.
The Greatest Plan
Ever Devised for
Selling Pianos
If you are tired of trying worn-
out selling plans that fail to
arouse even a spark of interest,
here's your chance to do some-
thing different.
A plan that gets action—stirs
up interest in every community
where tried. Parents have en-
rolled over 15,000 children under
this wonderful plan. When a
dealer adopts it, sales of the
Miessner piano invariably fol-
low.
The Miessner piano is different
—low, compact, light, easily
portable. But it's a regular-
sized piano in tone—has a tone
as big and beautiful as that of
a small grand piano.
The remarkable Miessner Sales
Plan grew out of these distinc-
tive features of the piano. The
plan and the piano go hand in
hand. Send for full information
and wake up your piano sales.
MIESSNER PIANO GO.
136 Reed St.
Milwaukee, Wis.
THE LITTLE PIANO WITH THE DIG TONE
MIESSNER PIANO CO.,
136 Reed St., Milwaukee, Wil.
Gentlemen: Send me the Miessner catalog,
full information on your wonderful Sales Plan
and booklet, "How to Get Business in New
and Untouched Fields with the Miessner
Piano."
Name
Name of Stoce
Address
Highest
Quality
One selection, "Open Road," was written by
Mr. Stuart and re-enacted from his own playing
by the Ampico. Portions of the "Oriental
Dance," by Sinding, were played by Mr. Ross
arid portions by the Ampico in the Knabe.
The outstanding feature" of the concert was
the mood of mutual response of audience and
artists, expressing good will and friendliness.
This attitude was made possible by the infor-
mality of the musicians, the attractive setting
of the low stage and the softly shaded lights,
giving the effect of a private concert rather
than that of impersonal remoteness which is
so frequently felt in a large theatre or hall.
The seating capacity of the hall allows over a
hundred people to be present without their
being crowded. The chairs were of comfortable
old-ivory wicker, and although set in the con-
ventional concert hall rows, the presence of
crimson draperies, shaded lamps, large ferns
and baskets of pink peonies and carnations on
the stage, gave the effect of richness and good
taste. Dr. Spaeth talked informally to the au-
dience at the close of the program, stating
that he hoped they would take advantage of
the special purpose of the Studio, as a place to
bring their friends or to drop in frequently to
hear the concerts given daily by the Ampico.
He urged that the pleasure of music is a
growth and that it is through repetition that a
composition grows to mean more and more to
the listener. It is for this reason that the daily
concerts in the drawing room of the studio
should be attended.
In his lecture on "The Common Sense of
Music," Dr. Spaeth urged the cause of stand-
ard music as being worth while to the public,
although the public so frequently runs away
from it fearing it because of its appellation,
"highbrow."
The point of the talk was the fact that every
individual has an inherent musical sense which
should be developed in the form in which it is
present. By this means, music for pleasure
rather than the much too frequent reaction,
music as a duty, results.
After the program the audience spoke en-
thusiastically of the event and of the Knabe
Studio, as being particularly desirable in the
community center and within easy access to
their homes. G. W. Frederick was unanimous-
ly congratulated on what had been accom-
plished for the evening in the function of the
studio and in the pleasure derived from it.
The majority of the audience consisted of pa-
trons and customers of the Knabe Studios.
The entire program was broadcasted from
the Knabe Studios through Station W D A F of
the Kansas City Star.
Q R S Film Shown at
John Wanamaker Store
Auditorium of New York Store Given Over on
May 28 to Q R S Program—Recording Pian-
ists Play
An instructive and entertaining bit of pub-
licity was engaged in by the Q R S Music Co.,
when through the courtesy of the John Wanama-
ker store, New York, the Wanamaker Entertain-
ment ho'Ur for Thursday afternoon, May 28,
was given over to a moving picture production
that showed in detail the process of making
Q R S player rolls and a most excellent musi-
cal program rendered by four exclusive Q R S
pianists.
JUNE 6,
1925
The affair was featured in Wanamaker's news-
paper advertisements of the preceding day and
Thursday morning, in which it was referred to
as "A Popular Music Matinee," Piano Ensemble
consisting of the popular "composer-pianists,"
"Victor Arden, Max Kortlander, Phil Ohman,
Pete Wendling." Also, a "record making" mo-
tion picture revealing the process of manufac-
turing "Player-piano Rolls."
Dr. Alexander Russell, concert director for
Wanamaker's, presided at the Wanamaker great
organ and supplied the accompanying music for
the moving picture part of the program. The
Q R S Co. mailed invitations to all of its metro-
politan dealers, a very large number of whom
took advantage of the opportunity of attending.
G. A. Ensenberger & Sons j
Erecting New Building 1
Bloomington, 111., Concern Will Give Over Sub-
stantial Space in New Structure to Successful
Music Department
BLOOMINGTON, I I I . , June 1.—G. A. Ensenberger
& Sons, one of the leading housefurnishing con-
cerns in this section, who operate a very com-
modious music department under the manage-
ment of Otto F. Mueller, have let contracts for
a modern new building on the site of their old
quarters at 212-214 North Center street. The
old structure has been razed and work has
already been started on the new building, which
will be six stories high and modern in every par-
ticular.
The front of the structure will be of Gothic
design and of highly glazed cream colored ter-
ra-cotta. The front facade will be in the form
of six columns of terra-cotta between which
will be set spacious windows with ornamental
metal work top and bottom.
The Ensenberger business was established in
1886 on the site where the new building will
arise, and has met with continued success. In
the music department are handled Steinway,
Vose, Lyon & Healy, Brambach, Apollo, and
Gulbransen pianos and players, as well as Edi-
son and Victor phonographs and records. This
department will occupy large space in the new
building.
Thiery Music Go. Formed
MILWAUKEE, WIS., May 30.—A new music con-
cern, called the Thiery Music Co., has opened
an up-to-date music store at 872 Third street,
handling Schiller pianos and players and a full
line of phonographs and radio goods. The com-
pany has also taken over the business of the
Thiery Piano and Phonograph Co., 516 Grand
avenue, and the retail business of the J. B.
Thiery Co., 2324 North avenue.
The Spiegel Music Co., of Fort Wayne, Ind.,
has recently increased its capitalization to $25,000,
with the addition of $10,000 common stock.
American
Piano Wire
"Perfected" "Crown"
Highest acoustic excellence dating back to the
days of Jonas Chickering. Took prize over
whole world at Paris 1900. For generations
the standard, and used on the greatest num-
ber of pianos in the world.
Services of our Acoustic Engineer always available
—free Illustrated books—free
American Steel & Wire
ACOUSTIC DEPARTMENT
208 S. LA SALLE ST.. CHICAGO
Highest
Quality
Company
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