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THE
MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
Steinway Officials From All Sections
of the World Gathered at New York
Dedicatory Ceremonies at the New Steinway Hall in This City Notable for Gathering of Officials
of Steinway & Sons From All of Firm's Wide-flung Activities
them, it being the first occasion upon which so
many representatives were gathered together.
In addition to the headquarters staff, includ-
ing members of the Steinway family, there was
HP H E dedicatory exercises at Steinway Hall,
•*• New York, in October were notable from
many angles, not the least important feature be-
ing the fact that the importance of the event
JANUARY 16, 1926
There is also presented herewith the latest
photograph of the members of the Steinway
family now connected in an official capacity with
Steinway & Sons, with President Frederick T.
Steinway seated in the center.
Salt Lake City Trade
Prospects Are Bright
Money Appears to Be Plentiful in Utah—Glen
Bros.-Roberts Co.'s Prosperous Year—Or-
chestra Suffers in Blizzard
SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, January 9.—The music
Members of the Steinway Family Actively Engaged in Firm
First Row, Left to Right—Henry Ziegier, Vice-President; Fred T. Steinway, President; William R. Steinway, Euro-
pean General Manager. Second Row—Theodore Cassebeer, Director and General Factory Manager; C. F. M. Stein-
way; F. A. Vietor; P. H. Schmidt; Theodore N. Steinway
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business here seems to be holding up rather
well following the Christmas rush. One reason
for this satisfactory state of affairs is the ex-
cellence of the industrial situation. There is
more money in Utah now than there has been
at the beginning of January for many years and
music merchants of the city and the State gen-
erally are delighted with the outlook. There is
much room here for development in this field,
for, although there has been considerable ac-
tivity during the past year or two in the pro-
motion of amateur bands and orchestras, the
surface has as yet scarcely been scratched.
Herbert Gould, the Chicago basso who was
here during the holidays for the purpose of tak-
ing his annual solo role in The Messiah, was a
guest of Royal W. Daynes, general manager of
the Consolidated Music Co., while in the city.
Extensive alterations and improvements of the
famous organ in the great Mormon Taber-
nacle on Temple Square are on the way. The
Austin Organ Co., which enlarged and electrified
the instrument a decade ago, has been awarded
the contract.
The Glen Bros.-Roberts Piano Co., of this
city and Ogden, has announced its quarterly
dividend on the 8 per cent preferred stock, and
also a 6 per cent dividend on the common stock.
President George Glen of the company enclosed
a statement with the dividend checks saying
that their business in 1925 was 10 per cent
ahead of that of the preceding year. The Glen
Bros.-Roberts Co. began in 1907 as a $5,000.00
concern.
Warner Stone, of Provo, Utah, and formerly
of Salt Lake City, well known as a musician and
a music merchant, and a number of members
of his orchestra were badly frozen and other-
wise suffered great hardship while stranded as
the result of a blizzard in which they .were
caught while traveling in the Northwest.
J. C. McClain, secretary and treasurer of the
Utah Music Co., is lying seriously ill at his
home.
"We have been selling more high-grade band
instruments than for many years," said Dean
R. Daynes, of the Consolidated Music Co., the
other day. "Conditions here are very satisfac-
tory."
Art Walsh as Song Writer
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Directors, Managers and Assistant Managers of Steinway & Sons
Top Row, Left to Right—George Stark, Paris Representative; C. F. M. Steinway; F. A. Vietor; Paul H. Bilhuber;
R. E. Wells, Cincinnati Manager; Byron H. Collins, Sales Manager. Center Row—Albert Sturcke; Ernest Urchs;
T. E. Steinway; W. R. Steinway, European General Manager; Paul H. Schmidt, Assistant to President; Hermann
Irion; Theodore Ehrlich, Director Hamburg House. Bottom Row—F. Reidemeister, Treasurer; Henry Ziegler, Vice-
President; Fred T. Steinway, President; N. Stetson, Secretary; Theodore C'assebeer, Factory General Manager
served to bring the New York headquarters,
Steinway executives and representatives not
only from various sections of the United States
but from European countries. When the offi-
cials were grouped at Steinway Hall advantage
was taken of the opportunity to photograph
present George Stark, Paris representative of
Steinway & Sons; R. E. Wells, manager of
Steinway's retail store in Cincinnati, O.; William
R. Steinway, European general manager from
London, and Theodore Ehrlich, director of the
Steinway business in Hamburg, Germany.
Arthur Walsh, musical director and adver-
tising manager of Thos. A. Edison, Inc., finds
time at intervals to do quite a bit of popular
song writing. He manages to have them pub-
lished and sees them become popular, which
is the final test. Among recent songs for
which Mr. Walsh is responsible are: "When
Dear Old Summer Goes," "What a Smile Can
Do," "As a Porcupine Pines For Its Pork,
That's How I Pine For You," and his latest
effusion: "When I Sit on the Sofa With
Sophie." It will be seen from the titles that
Mr. Walsh is not serious minded when it comes
to composing. The various numbers are pub-
lished by the Joe Morris Music Co., New York.
Robert N. Watkin, of the Will A. Watkin Co.,
Dallas, Tex., is expected in New York during
the week of January 18, for the purpose of visit-
ing the companies with which his house does
business and also attending the mid-Winter ses-
sion of the executive board of the National
Association of Music Merchants.