Music Trade Review
Issue: 1926 Vol. 82 N. 23 - Page 15
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JUST BEFORE GOING TO PRESS
C. Alfred Wagner, President of
Chickering & Sons, Home From Europe
Manages to Mix Some Business With Pleasure Trip and Is Enthusiastic Over the Progress Made
By the Ampico Abroad—Visits Liszt Museum in Buda-Pesth
p ALFRED WAGNER, president of Chick-
^^•ering & Sons, who has been on an extended
European trip, accompanied by Mrs. Wagner
and their two daughters, the Misses Esther
and Carolyn, returned to New York on Tues-
day of this week and was most enthusiastic
over the tour, during which he combined busi-
ness with pleasure to a certain extent, although
C. Alfred Wagner
ihe trip was really in the nature of a vacation.
Mr. Wagner was highly pleased with the re-
ception accorded him by European piano mak-
ers and took advantage of the opportunity of
visiting several of the leading factories.
Conditions abroad are steadily improving, he
said.
The successful handling of the recent
general strike in England has developed much
confidence there and this is heightened by the
return of the pound to approximately par value.
He found the piano business on the "tight little
isle" satisfactory, and was much impressed with
the official methods followed in several of the
factories visited.
In France, too, piano business is good, with
at least two of the leading manufacturers con-
siderably behind in orders, said Mr. Wagner.
The French manufacturers are progressing
steadily and there has been a considerable im-
provement in the French pianos themselves
since the war.
Mr. Wagner was particularly enthusiastic
over the progress made by the Ampico in Great
Rritain, since it has been made available in a
number of the leading makes of British pianos,
including the Marshall & Rose, Broadwood,
Collard & Collard, Challen, Rogers and Hop-
kinson. The music lovers are becoming ac-
quainted with the great possibilities of the
Ampico, and it bids fair to win the same high
esteem in England that it enjoys in this coun-
try.
Especially interesting is the announcement
made by the returned traveler that the Ampico
will shortly be available in the Bosendorfer,
recognized as the leading piano in Austria.
Mr. Wagner reported that C. E. Gorham, well
known in the trade in the United States through
his connections with the American Piano Co.,
who is now representing that company abroad,
is delighted with his British home and is well
pleased with the situation generally, although
it is naturally quite in contrast to that in
America.
While in Buda-Pesth, Hungary, Mr. Wagner
took the opportunity of visiting the Liszt
Museum and inspected the various letters and
personal effects of the great composer as-
sembled there, which include two Chickering
pianos that were used by Liszt during the last
sixteen years of his life, one in his home studio
and the other in the Royal Conservatory. Both
of the instruments are still in playable condi-
tion despite the fact that one of them was sent
abroad by Chickering & Sons in 1862 for dis-
play at the Paris Exposition.
Premier Grand as Prize
in Music Memory Contest
and intend to give extensive publicity to the
results of the contest through the medium of
motion pictures, nationally.
Selections from fifty or more compositions
were played for the contestants—the com-
positions being those of notable American and
foreign composers of the past and present. Mr.
Hays also put on the celebrated motion picture
"Grass" at the Steel Pier, the incidental music
of which consisted of many of the compositions
in the contest. The judges included: C. M. Tre-
maine, director of the National Bureau for the
Advancement of Music; James F. Cooke, W. J.
Redman, Miss Grace Thompson Seton and P.
B. Hogan.
President H. B. Tremaine
Returns From Europe
Head of Aeolian Co. Arrives Home on the
Berengaria on Friday — Accompanied by
Robert C. Reid, of Australian Aeolian
Interests
H. B. Tremaine, president of the Aeolian Co.,
returned to New York on Friday of last week,
on the Berengaria from an extended visit to
Europe in the course of which he inspected the
progress being made by the branches of the
company in England and on the Continent.
Accompanying Mr. Tremaine was Robert C
Reid, one of the prominent executives in charge
of the Aeolian Co. business in Australia. Mr.
Reid plans to remain at the New York head-
quarters for some time.
Early Convention Arrivals
Members of the trade from distant points
began to arrive in New York early this week,
Premier Grand Piano Corp. Presents Instru- among them Philip T. Clay, president of Sher-
ment as Capital Prize in Big Contest Con- man, Clay & Co., together with R. E. Robinson,
Seattle manager for the company; J. W. Carter,
ducted by Motion Picture Interests
of Houston, Tex.; E. A. Geissler, of the George
One of the most important music memory J. Birkel Co., Los Angeles; S. Ernest Philpitt,
contests of recent date was the National Music of Miami, Fla.; E. H. Uhl and John W. Booth,
Memory Contest staged at Atlantic City, N. J., of Los Angeles, and several others from the
during the week of May 30 through the efforts Coast and Southwest.
of the leading motion picture producers and dis-
tributors of America. This competition included
all children who were winners in the Na-
tional Music Week Contest and also those who
HARRISBURG, PA., June 5.—William H. Shoe-
won in school contests throughout the year. maker, former organ maker and the first repre-
More than two hundred children are expected sentative of Charles M. Stieff, Inc., in this city,
to compete.
is dead here at the age of eighty-eight. He had
An interesting feature of the contest is that been in the music business in this city since
the Premier Grand Piano Corp., New York, has 1875, when he came here from Illinois.
donated a Premier baby grand as one of the
prizes of the competition. It is required that all
contestants must bring an essay not to exceed
three hundred words on "How the Motion Pic-
ture Theatre Increased My Love of Music." The
ISLIP, N. Y., June 5.—Jedlicka Bros. Music &
Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of Radio Shop, Bayshore, has let contracts for the
America, of which Will H. Hays is president, erection of a new three-story building in that
showed great interest in the competition town, and construction work has already begun.
STARR PIANOS
W. H. Shoemaker Dead
Jedlicka Erects Building
STARR PHONOGRAPHS
GENNETT RECORDS
Represent the Hicjhert oAttainmtnt in cMusical
(Worth
%STARR PIANO COMPANY
Richmond. Indiana
Established 1872
15
JUST BEFORE GOING TO PRESS
C. Alfred Wagner, President of
Chickering & Sons, Home From Europe
Manages to Mix Some Business With Pleasure Trip and Is Enthusiastic Over the Progress Made
By the Ampico Abroad—Visits Liszt Museum in Buda-Pesth
p ALFRED WAGNER, president of Chick-
^^•ering & Sons, who has been on an extended
European trip, accompanied by Mrs. Wagner
and their two daughters, the Misses Esther
and Carolyn, returned to New York on Tues-
day of this week and was most enthusiastic
over the tour, during which he combined busi-
ness with pleasure to a certain extent, although
C. Alfred Wagner
ihe trip was really in the nature of a vacation.
Mr. Wagner was highly pleased with the re-
ception accorded him by European piano mak-
ers and took advantage of the opportunity of
visiting several of the leading factories.
Conditions abroad are steadily improving, he
said.
The successful handling of the recent
general strike in England has developed much
confidence there and this is heightened by the
return of the pound to approximately par value.
He found the piano business on the "tight little
isle" satisfactory, and was much impressed with
the official methods followed in several of the
factories visited.
In France, too, piano business is good, with
at least two of the leading manufacturers con-
siderably behind in orders, said Mr. Wagner.
The French manufacturers are progressing
steadily and there has been a considerable im-
provement in the French pianos themselves
since the war.
Mr. Wagner was particularly enthusiastic
over the progress made by the Ampico in Great
Rritain, since it has been made available in a
number of the leading makes of British pianos,
including the Marshall & Rose, Broadwood,
Collard & Collard, Challen, Rogers and Hop-
kinson. The music lovers are becoming ac-
quainted with the great possibilities of the
Ampico, and it bids fair to win the same high
esteem in England that it enjoys in this coun-
try.
Especially interesting is the announcement
made by the returned traveler that the Ampico
will shortly be available in the Bosendorfer,
recognized as the leading piano in Austria.
Mr. Wagner reported that C. E. Gorham, well
known in the trade in the United States through
his connections with the American Piano Co.,
who is now representing that company abroad,
is delighted with his British home and is well
pleased with the situation generally, although
it is naturally quite in contrast to that in
America.
While in Buda-Pesth, Hungary, Mr. Wagner
took the opportunity of visiting the Liszt
Museum and inspected the various letters and
personal effects of the great composer as-
sembled there, which include two Chickering
pianos that were used by Liszt during the last
sixteen years of his life, one in his home studio
and the other in the Royal Conservatory. Both
of the instruments are still in playable condi-
tion despite the fact that one of them was sent
abroad by Chickering & Sons in 1862 for dis-
play at the Paris Exposition.
Premier Grand as Prize
in Music Memory Contest
and intend to give extensive publicity to the
results of the contest through the medium of
motion pictures, nationally.
Selections from fifty or more compositions
were played for the contestants—the com-
positions being those of notable American and
foreign composers of the past and present. Mr.
Hays also put on the celebrated motion picture
"Grass" at the Steel Pier, the incidental music
of which consisted of many of the compositions
in the contest. The judges included: C. M. Tre-
maine, director of the National Bureau for the
Advancement of Music; James F. Cooke, W. J.
Redman, Miss Grace Thompson Seton and P.
B. Hogan.
President H. B. Tremaine
Returns From Europe
Head of Aeolian Co. Arrives Home on the
Berengaria on Friday — Accompanied by
Robert C. Reid, of Australian Aeolian
Interests
H. B. Tremaine, president of the Aeolian Co.,
returned to New York on Friday of last week,
on the Berengaria from an extended visit to
Europe in the course of which he inspected the
progress being made by the branches of the
company in England and on the Continent.
Accompanying Mr. Tremaine was Robert C
Reid, one of the prominent executives in charge
of the Aeolian Co. business in Australia. Mr.
Reid plans to remain at the New York head-
quarters for some time.
Early Convention Arrivals
Members of the trade from distant points
began to arrive in New York early this week,
Premier Grand Piano Corp. Presents Instru- among them Philip T. Clay, president of Sher-
ment as Capital Prize in Big Contest Con- man, Clay & Co., together with R. E. Robinson,
Seattle manager for the company; J. W. Carter,
ducted by Motion Picture Interests
of Houston, Tex.; E. A. Geissler, of the George
One of the most important music memory J. Birkel Co., Los Angeles; S. Ernest Philpitt,
contests of recent date was the National Music of Miami, Fla.; E. H. Uhl and John W. Booth,
Memory Contest staged at Atlantic City, N. J., of Los Angeles, and several others from the
during the week of May 30 through the efforts Coast and Southwest.
of the leading motion picture producers and dis-
tributors of America. This competition included
all children who were winners in the Na-
tional Music Week Contest and also those who
HARRISBURG, PA., June 5.—William H. Shoe-
won in school contests throughout the year. maker, former organ maker and the first repre-
More than two hundred children are expected sentative of Charles M. Stieff, Inc., in this city,
to compete.
is dead here at the age of eighty-eight. He had
An interesting feature of the contest is that been in the music business in this city since
the Premier Grand Piano Corp., New York, has 1875, when he came here from Illinois.
donated a Premier baby grand as one of the
prizes of the competition. It is required that all
contestants must bring an essay not to exceed
three hundred words on "How the Motion Pic-
ture Theatre Increased My Love of Music." The
ISLIP, N. Y., June 5.—Jedlicka Bros. Music &
Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of Radio Shop, Bayshore, has let contracts for the
America, of which Will H. Hays is president, erection of a new three-story building in that
showed great interest in the competition town, and construction work has already begun.
STARR PIANOS
W. H. Shoemaker Dead
Jedlicka Erects Building
STARR PHONOGRAPHS
GENNETT RECORDS
Represent the Hicjhert oAttainmtnt in cMusical
(Worth
%STARR PIANO COMPANY
Richmond. Indiana
Established 1872
15
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