Music Trade Review
Issue: 1926 Vol. 83 N. 10 - Page 24
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MUSICAL MERCHANDISE
Conducted By Thomas W. Bresnahan
C. D. Greenleaf Principal Speaker
at Oregon Music Trades Association
President of C. G. Conn, Ltd., Predicts Double Volume of Musical Merchandise Demand With-
in Next Few Years—G. F. Johnson and Frank Lucas the Other Speakers
D O R T L A N D , ORE., August 26.—A special
meeting of the Oregon Music Trades Asso-
ciation was called and held at a noon luncheon
at the Henry Thiele restaurant recently,
primarily in the interest of the small goods de-
partments, or the band and string instrument
dealers of the association. The luncheon was
attended by fifteen dealers and their employes
and the principal speaker of the meeting was
C. D. Greenleaf, president of C. G. Conn, Ltd.
Mr. Greenleaf, in his address, stated that the
piano business was running about $1 per capita
in the United States, while the musical mer-
chandise department were approximately ten
cents per capita, but he believed that in the
next three or four years the small goods would
be 20 cents per capita, as this department of
the music industry was showing great growth,
far greater than the piano business. Mr. Green-
leaf in saying this merely wished to emphasize
the importance of every music merchant having
a small goods department. The speaker urged
the dealers to forget their petty grievances and
co-operate so that the business would be more
pleasant and profitable.
G. F. Johnson, of the G. F. Johnson Piano
Co. and president of the Oregon Music Trades
Association, who presided at the meeting, fol-
lowed Mr. Greenleaf's address and urged more
co-operation among the local small goods deal-
ers, and it was announced that special meet-
ings of this nature would be held semi-monthly,
as it was hoped, with the aid of these meetings,
to establish greater friendship and good will so
that eventually p.etty trade grievances would be
eliminated and also that the radical evil of giv-
ing long discounts to the buying public would
be eliminated.
Frank Lucas, of the Seiberling-Lucas Music
Co., followed Mr Joh.nson and spoke along the
same line, and the meeting was an exceedingly
successful one and showed a great desire on
the part of the small goods merchants to or-
ganize themselves in the interest of the future
welfare of this branch of the music industry.
Stanley Baylis, who for the past four and a
half years has been associated with the Conn-
Portland store, located in the Elks' million
New Catalog
FREE /
dollar temple at Eleventh and Alder streets, has
been appointed as manager of the Portland
branch by C. D. Greenleaf, president of C. G.
Conn, Ltd., while in Portland accompanied by
J. M. Brodhead. Mrs. Greenleaf and their son
accompanied the party and Mr. Greenleaf com-
bined business with pleasure. He came to Port-
land at the close of the Seattle convention and
expressed himself as greatly pleased with the
obvious growth of Portland and the surround-
ing territory.
Mr. Baylis will have complete charge of the
Portland store, and he, naturally, is greatly
pleased with the confidence the head concern
has placed in him. Mr. Baylis has received all
kinds of good wishes and congratulations on his
appointment and he will certainly put in every
effort to make it a success. He is an accom-
plished pianist and musician and his wife is a
vocalist of prominence and stands high in the
Portland musical circle. Mr. Baylis has en-
gaged the services of Lynn Sherman, well-
known saxophone teacher, who has organized
many saxophone bands, and he will, in addition,
conduct sax classes, and certainly will be a
great acquisition to the Portland house.
Lyon & Healy Lease
Large New Factory
New Chicago Plant, With Between 85,000 and
95,000 Square Feet of Space, to Be Devoted to
Musical Merchandise
CHICAGO, I I I . , August 28.—Announcement was
made this week by President Marquette A.
Healy, of Lyon & Healy, that they have selected
a new factory in Chicago on which they have ac-
quired a long lease. The location is at Twenty-
second and Rockwell streets, this city, and the
building, a large and modern one, will give Lyon
& Healy a floor space of between 85,000 and
95,000 square feet in the two floors which they
will use. They have already moved in and much
of the equipment and machinery is being in-
stalled. Within the next few weeks they will
move that portion of their small goods manu-
facturing department which they have had in
the plant at Healy, 111., which they recently sold
to the Mills Novelty Co. From now on all the
manufacturing of their fretted instruments,
small goods and parts will be concentrated in
Quality Musical
Merchandise
the Twenty-second and Rockwell streets plant.
This gives Lyon & Healy more than double the
space for their stringed instrument division that
they have hitherto had.
Discussing this important development with
The Review, R. H. Roberts, manager of the
wholesale small goods division of Lyon &
Healy, said: "For more than a year we have
been building up our production of stringed
instruments. We have been turning out stead-
ily increasing quantities and making many times
the quantity of instruments that Lyon & Healy
ever made in their own factory before. We
have added more machinery and more men, but
in our present headquarters we are handicapped
by lack of space."
Fred Gretsch Go. Registers
"F.W.L." for Violin Bows
Covers German Line of F. Wunderlich, Which
the Company Represents Exclusively Here
and in Canada
The Fred Gretsch Mfg Co., manufacturer and
wholesaler of musical merchandise, 60 Broad-
way, Brooklyn, N. Y., has been granted a
trade-mark on the legend "F. W. L." This is
the trade-mark of the celebrated F. Wunderlich
line of violin bows made in Leipzig, Germany,
for which the Gretsch firm is the exclusive
United States and Canadian distributor.
"The granting of this trade-mark enables us
to proceed with an intensive selling campaign,"
declared Emerson Strong, advertising manager
of the Fred Gretsch Mfg. Co., to a representa-
tive of The Review. "As the trade probably
knows without our going into great detail, the
Franz Wunderlich bows are ranked as the peers
of all modern bows. The workmanship is very
fine, but, what is more important, the playing
qualities are superb.
"By means of our campaign we hope to bring
these bows to the attention of every maker and
retailer of violins in the United States and
Canada. We have had an extraordinary suc-
cess with this line and now, with complete pro-
tection, we shall feel justified in redoubling
our selling efforts."
Two New Violin Gases
CHICAGO, I I I . , August 30.—Geib & Schaefer Co.,
1751-7 North Central Park avenue, manufac-
turer of musical instrument cases, has added
something new to its extensive violin case line
in making two new models, known as the
shark-skin violin case and the walrus-skin vio-
lin case. These new models are particularly
attractive and covered with the genuine skins.
GRITSCH
Trade
Mark
for
MUSICAL MERCHANDISE
MUSICAL INSTRUMENT MAKERS
SINCE 1883
The Fred Gretsch Mfe Co.
LOWEST
PRICES
6O Broadway Brooklyn,N.Y
24
MUSICAL MERCHANDISE
Conducted By Thomas W. Bresnahan
C. D. Greenleaf Principal Speaker
at Oregon Music Trades Association
President of C. G. Conn, Ltd., Predicts Double Volume of Musical Merchandise Demand With-
in Next Few Years—G. F. Johnson and Frank Lucas the Other Speakers
D O R T L A N D , ORE., August 26.—A special
meeting of the Oregon Music Trades Asso-
ciation was called and held at a noon luncheon
at the Henry Thiele restaurant recently,
primarily in the interest of the small goods de-
partments, or the band and string instrument
dealers of the association. The luncheon was
attended by fifteen dealers and their employes
and the principal speaker of the meeting was
C. D. Greenleaf, president of C. G. Conn, Ltd.
Mr. Greenleaf, in his address, stated that the
piano business was running about $1 per capita
in the United States, while the musical mer-
chandise department were approximately ten
cents per capita, but he believed that in the
next three or four years the small goods would
be 20 cents per capita, as this department of
the music industry was showing great growth,
far greater than the piano business. Mr. Green-
leaf in saying this merely wished to emphasize
the importance of every music merchant having
a small goods department. The speaker urged
the dealers to forget their petty grievances and
co-operate so that the business would be more
pleasant and profitable.
G. F. Johnson, of the G. F. Johnson Piano
Co. and president of the Oregon Music Trades
Association, who presided at the meeting, fol-
lowed Mr. Greenleaf's address and urged more
co-operation among the local small goods deal-
ers, and it was announced that special meet-
ings of this nature would be held semi-monthly,
as it was hoped, with the aid of these meetings,
to establish greater friendship and good will so
that eventually p.etty trade grievances would be
eliminated and also that the radical evil of giv-
ing long discounts to the buying public would
be eliminated.
Frank Lucas, of the Seiberling-Lucas Music
Co., followed Mr Joh.nson and spoke along the
same line, and the meeting was an exceedingly
successful one and showed a great desire on
the part of the small goods merchants to or-
ganize themselves in the interest of the future
welfare of this branch of the music industry.
Stanley Baylis, who for the past four and a
half years has been associated with the Conn-
Portland store, located in the Elks' million
New Catalog
FREE /
dollar temple at Eleventh and Alder streets, has
been appointed as manager of the Portland
branch by C. D. Greenleaf, president of C. G.
Conn, Ltd., while in Portland accompanied by
J. M. Brodhead. Mrs. Greenleaf and their son
accompanied the party and Mr. Greenleaf com-
bined business with pleasure. He came to Port-
land at the close of the Seattle convention and
expressed himself as greatly pleased with the
obvious growth of Portland and the surround-
ing territory.
Mr. Baylis will have complete charge of the
Portland store, and he, naturally, is greatly
pleased with the confidence the head concern
has placed in him. Mr. Baylis has received all
kinds of good wishes and congratulations on his
appointment and he will certainly put in every
effort to make it a success. He is an accom-
plished pianist and musician and his wife is a
vocalist of prominence and stands high in the
Portland musical circle. Mr. Baylis has en-
gaged the services of Lynn Sherman, well-
known saxophone teacher, who has organized
many saxophone bands, and he will, in addition,
conduct sax classes, and certainly will be a
great acquisition to the Portland house.
Lyon & Healy Lease
Large New Factory
New Chicago Plant, With Between 85,000 and
95,000 Square Feet of Space, to Be Devoted to
Musical Merchandise
CHICAGO, I I I . , August 28.—Announcement was
made this week by President Marquette A.
Healy, of Lyon & Healy, that they have selected
a new factory in Chicago on which they have ac-
quired a long lease. The location is at Twenty-
second and Rockwell streets, this city, and the
building, a large and modern one, will give Lyon
& Healy a floor space of between 85,000 and
95,000 square feet in the two floors which they
will use. They have already moved in and much
of the equipment and machinery is being in-
stalled. Within the next few weeks they will
move that portion of their small goods manu-
facturing department which they have had in
the plant at Healy, 111., which they recently sold
to the Mills Novelty Co. From now on all the
manufacturing of their fretted instruments,
small goods and parts will be concentrated in
Quality Musical
Merchandise
the Twenty-second and Rockwell streets plant.
This gives Lyon & Healy more than double the
space for their stringed instrument division that
they have hitherto had.
Discussing this important development with
The Review, R. H. Roberts, manager of the
wholesale small goods division of Lyon &
Healy, said: "For more than a year we have
been building up our production of stringed
instruments. We have been turning out stead-
ily increasing quantities and making many times
the quantity of instruments that Lyon & Healy
ever made in their own factory before. We
have added more machinery and more men, but
in our present headquarters we are handicapped
by lack of space."
Fred Gretsch Go. Registers
"F.W.L." for Violin Bows
Covers German Line of F. Wunderlich, Which
the Company Represents Exclusively Here
and in Canada
The Fred Gretsch Mfg Co., manufacturer and
wholesaler of musical merchandise, 60 Broad-
way, Brooklyn, N. Y., has been granted a
trade-mark on the legend "F. W. L." This is
the trade-mark of the celebrated F. Wunderlich
line of violin bows made in Leipzig, Germany,
for which the Gretsch firm is the exclusive
United States and Canadian distributor.
"The granting of this trade-mark enables us
to proceed with an intensive selling campaign,"
declared Emerson Strong, advertising manager
of the Fred Gretsch Mfg. Co., to a representa-
tive of The Review. "As the trade probably
knows without our going into great detail, the
Franz Wunderlich bows are ranked as the peers
of all modern bows. The workmanship is very
fine, but, what is more important, the playing
qualities are superb.
"By means of our campaign we hope to bring
these bows to the attention of every maker and
retailer of violins in the United States and
Canada. We have had an extraordinary suc-
cess with this line and now, with complete pro-
tection, we shall feel justified in redoubling
our selling efforts."
Two New Violin Gases
CHICAGO, I I I . , August 30.—Geib & Schaefer Co.,
1751-7 North Central Park avenue, manufac-
turer of musical instrument cases, has added
something new to its extensive violin case line
in making two new models, known as the
shark-skin violin case and the walrus-skin vio-
lin case. These new models are particularly
attractive and covered with the genuine skins.
GRITSCH
Trade
Mark
for
MUSICAL MERCHANDISE
MUSICAL INSTRUMENT MAKERS
SINCE 1883
The Fred Gretsch Mfe Co.
LOWEST
PRICES
6O Broadway Brooklyn,N.Y
24
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