Music Trade Review
Issue: 1926 Vol. 83 N. 17 - Page 7
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OCTOBER 23, 1926
The Music Trade Review
Cleveland Music Trades Ass'n to
Sponsor Piano Playing Contest There
Committees Appointed at Special Meeting Held October 15—Local Trade Unanimously Behind
the Movement—Rexford C Hyre Named Treasurer and Supervisor of Event
CLEVELAND, O., October 18.—Cleveland is
^"^ to have a piano-playing contest. It will be
sponsored by the Cleveland Music Trades Asso-
ciation and the first active steps to consummate
it were taken at a special meeting of the Asso-
ciation on Friday evening, October 15, at the
Hotel Winton. President A. L. Maresh called
the meeting and presided at it. Members had
dinner together preceding the affair and were
very enthusiastic about the possibilities of the
piano-playing contest. Rexford C. Hyre, secre-
tary of the Music Merchants Association of
Ohio, was named treasurer and general super-
visor of the contest. Fred Stelker, secretary of
the Cleveland Music Trades Association, was
named assistant treasurer.
A finance committee consisting of M. O.
Mattlin, chairman, Knabe Warerooms; D. J.
Nolan, general manager of the Wurlitzer Co.,
and Otto C. Muehlhauser, of Muehlhauser
Bros. Co., was appointed by President Maresh.
The visit of Frank Bayley and Roy Maypole
and other prominent Detroit music . merchants
to Cleveland, October 10, completely sold the
Cleveland Music Trades Association on the
idea of a contest. During the Detroit contest
a number of the Cleveland trade paid a visit to
Detroit and personally investigated the matter,
and were greatly impressed. That Cleveland
can put on a successful contest is certain. The
biggest men in the piano trade are solidly lined
up for it and work has already commenced on
the thousand and one details involved in putting
over such an event.
director of the recently organized Illinois Music
Merchants' Association, has taken an active in-
terest in teaching the piano in the schools and
was largely instrumental in influencing the
latest action of the school board.
Janice Scott to Give
Recital Tour in West
Will Appear in Conjunction With Kimball
Welte-Mignon (Licensee) Reproducing Grand
in Concert
Announcement was made this week by the
Auto Pneumatic Action Co., New York, that
Miss Janice Scott, the talented young Welte-
Mignon (Licensee) recording artist, has begun
Chickering Grand Offered as Prize to
Pittsburgh Musical Institute Students
Lechner & Schoenberger, Local Representatives, Will Award Instrument to Student of School
Who Makes the Greatest Progress During the Present Year
PITTSBURGH, PA., October 18.—The Lech- the Roosevelt Junior High School in that city
ner & Schoenberger Co., one of the well- on October 14 by the Rotary Club. The event
known music firms of Pittsburgh, has an- was in honor of Stephen A. Foster. Mr.
nounced that a Chickering grand piano will be Winter gave a vocal interpretation of two of
awarded as a first prize to the student at the Foster's best-known selections. He first sang
Pittsburgh Musical Institute who has made the "Massa's in the Cold, Cold Ground," and in re-
most satisfactory progress during the school sponse to an encore, he sang "Beautiful
year 1926-27. The contest started October 15 Dreamer." Arthur E. Winter, son of the veteran
and will close June 15, 1927, when the award musician and a member of the firm of F. A.
Winter & Son, who is president of the Rotary
will be made.
y The prize, a Chickering grand piano, is on Club, made a brief address.
Edward Hoffmann, of the J. M. Hoffmann Co.,
display at the Lechner & Schoenberger store
and is attracting much attention, especially on in speaking of trade conditions said: "With the
Janice Scott
the part of the students at the Pittsburgh Musi- coming of cooler weather we have observed a
cal Institute who are entitled to participate in notable increase in our sales of pianos and an important Fall tour of the Middle West.
other musical instruments, such as the Bruns- The present activity of Miss Scott, who has
the contest.
In speaking of the prize offer, Arthur O. wick Panatrope and the new Brunswick line. risen to remarkable attainments as a pianist
Lechner, secretary of the company and presi- The demand for Sohmer grand pianos has also during the past few years, is under the auspices
dent of the Piano Merchants Association of been very gratifying. It appears to me as of the Kimball Piano Co., Chicago, and she will
Pittsburgh, said: "It is my sincere hope that though the Winter season will be a very satis- use a Kimball Welte-Mignon (Licensee) repro-
ducing grand during the season. One of Miss
other prizes of a similar nature will be offered factory one in our piano department."
Scott's first important recitals will be given in
by progressive music houses of Pittsburgh. The
Kimball Hall, Chicago, on October 29.
plan is one that will be worthy of the support
A feature of Miss Scott's appearances will be
of the music trade not only of Pittsburgh, but
her comparison playing with the Welte-Mignon
other cities where music schools are located.
(Licensee). In each number she will play the
The prize offer is one that is bound to stimulate
the study of music and will also aid, eventually, The Course to Be Optional as in Case of In- selection manually on the piano, which will be
struction on Band and Orchestra Instruments followed immediately by the reproduction of
in the stimulation of business for the music in-
—Plan Classes for All Schools
the composition on the Welte-Mignon (Li-
dustry of the city and State. There are other
censee). William C. Heaton, president of the
musical institutions in this city and adjoining
DECATIK, III,, October 16.—Arrangements have Autc Pneumatic Action Co., states that these
districts that could properly be chosen as the
media for awarding a piano or other musical been made by the Decatur school authorities for comparison concerts have become extremely
instrument to be contested for by the students the teaching of the piano to the school children popular with Welte-Mignon (Licensee) dealers
of this city, and questionnaires have been sent everywhere, as they illustrate in a particularly
attending the school."
Word was received here of the mishap to out to parents explaining the plan and asking vivid way the perfect reproduction made possi-
Charles M. Courboin, a well-known musician, that they signify whether they desire to have ble by this process of recording. During her
tour Miss Scott will make her headquarters in
who was injured when his automobile was their children take the course.
The undertaking is made possible through Kansas City, working to the surrounding citie*
struck by a trolley car in Scranton, Pa., and de-
molished. He is now at the State Hospital in the offer of the Millikin Conservatory of Music, from that point.
Scranton, suffering from a broken jaw and a which will provide a room, teachers and pianos.
lacerated hand and face. Mr. Courboin, who The children will be taught in classes of twenty,
some years ago was knighted by Belgium, is at a fee of twenty-five cents per lesson, or $3
organist of the Hickory Street Presbyterian for the full course of twelve lessons.
KENT, O., October 18.—Considerable damage by
The instruction will be confined to those chil- smoke and water was done to the stock of musi-
Church of Scranton and is considered one of
dren who have had no preliminary instruction cal merchandise of the music store of S. W.
the three ranking organists of the world.
In the Mercer County Court at Mercer, Pa., a in piano playing, and will be carried on by Trory, by fire which swept the business district
decree of dissolution was authorized by Judge means of keyboard charts. The course is op- here this week, causing $50,000 damage to ad-
J. A. McLaughry for the dissolution of the tional with the parents and will be carried on joining mercantile establishments. Officials of
Greene Music Co., of Greenville, Pa. The com- along the lines of the instruction offered dur- the company announce business would go on
pany was organized in 1924. The petition set ing the past two years on band and orchestra witliQUt interruption.
forth that all taxes and debts of the company instruments. Should the piano instruction prove
popular it is hoped to have classes in all the
had been paid.
Incorporation papers have been filed recently
F. A. Winter, the well-known music dealer city schools.
by Hopper-Logan, Inc., Tacoma, Wash, which
W. Curtis Busher, of the Emerson Music has a capital stock of $30,000. C. G. Hopper
of Altoona, Pa., and Civil War veteran, par-
ticipated in the musical program rendered at House, this city, who was, appointed musical. .,-and Carl A- Logan^are^h^proprietors.
Glass Piano Instruction
for Decatur, 111., Schools
Suffers Damage From Fire
OCTOBER 23, 1926
The Music Trade Review
Cleveland Music Trades Ass'n to
Sponsor Piano Playing Contest There
Committees Appointed at Special Meeting Held October 15—Local Trade Unanimously Behind
the Movement—Rexford C Hyre Named Treasurer and Supervisor of Event
CLEVELAND, O., October 18.—Cleveland is
^"^ to have a piano-playing contest. It will be
sponsored by the Cleveland Music Trades Asso-
ciation and the first active steps to consummate
it were taken at a special meeting of the Asso-
ciation on Friday evening, October 15, at the
Hotel Winton. President A. L. Maresh called
the meeting and presided at it. Members had
dinner together preceding the affair and were
very enthusiastic about the possibilities of the
piano-playing contest. Rexford C. Hyre, secre-
tary of the Music Merchants Association of
Ohio, was named treasurer and general super-
visor of the contest. Fred Stelker, secretary of
the Cleveland Music Trades Association, was
named assistant treasurer.
A finance committee consisting of M. O.
Mattlin, chairman, Knabe Warerooms; D. J.
Nolan, general manager of the Wurlitzer Co.,
and Otto C. Muehlhauser, of Muehlhauser
Bros. Co., was appointed by President Maresh.
The visit of Frank Bayley and Roy Maypole
and other prominent Detroit music . merchants
to Cleveland, October 10, completely sold the
Cleveland Music Trades Association on the
idea of a contest. During the Detroit contest
a number of the Cleveland trade paid a visit to
Detroit and personally investigated the matter,
and were greatly impressed. That Cleveland
can put on a successful contest is certain. The
biggest men in the piano trade are solidly lined
up for it and work has already commenced on
the thousand and one details involved in putting
over such an event.
director of the recently organized Illinois Music
Merchants' Association, has taken an active in-
terest in teaching the piano in the schools and
was largely instrumental in influencing the
latest action of the school board.
Janice Scott to Give
Recital Tour in West
Will Appear in Conjunction With Kimball
Welte-Mignon (Licensee) Reproducing Grand
in Concert
Announcement was made this week by the
Auto Pneumatic Action Co., New York, that
Miss Janice Scott, the talented young Welte-
Mignon (Licensee) recording artist, has begun
Chickering Grand Offered as Prize to
Pittsburgh Musical Institute Students
Lechner & Schoenberger, Local Representatives, Will Award Instrument to Student of School
Who Makes the Greatest Progress During the Present Year
PITTSBURGH, PA., October 18.—The Lech- the Roosevelt Junior High School in that city
ner & Schoenberger Co., one of the well- on October 14 by the Rotary Club. The event
known music firms of Pittsburgh, has an- was in honor of Stephen A. Foster. Mr.
nounced that a Chickering grand piano will be Winter gave a vocal interpretation of two of
awarded as a first prize to the student at the Foster's best-known selections. He first sang
Pittsburgh Musical Institute who has made the "Massa's in the Cold, Cold Ground," and in re-
most satisfactory progress during the school sponse to an encore, he sang "Beautiful
year 1926-27. The contest started October 15 Dreamer." Arthur E. Winter, son of the veteran
and will close June 15, 1927, when the award musician and a member of the firm of F. A.
Winter & Son, who is president of the Rotary
will be made.
y The prize, a Chickering grand piano, is on Club, made a brief address.
Edward Hoffmann, of the J. M. Hoffmann Co.,
display at the Lechner & Schoenberger store
and is attracting much attention, especially on in speaking of trade conditions said: "With the
Janice Scott
the part of the students at the Pittsburgh Musi- coming of cooler weather we have observed a
cal Institute who are entitled to participate in notable increase in our sales of pianos and an important Fall tour of the Middle West.
other musical instruments, such as the Bruns- The present activity of Miss Scott, who has
the contest.
In speaking of the prize offer, Arthur O. wick Panatrope and the new Brunswick line. risen to remarkable attainments as a pianist
Lechner, secretary of the company and presi- The demand for Sohmer grand pianos has also during the past few years, is under the auspices
dent of the Piano Merchants Association of been very gratifying. It appears to me as of the Kimball Piano Co., Chicago, and she will
Pittsburgh, said: "It is my sincere hope that though the Winter season will be a very satis- use a Kimball Welte-Mignon (Licensee) repro-
ducing grand during the season. One of Miss
other prizes of a similar nature will be offered factory one in our piano department."
Scott's first important recitals will be given in
by progressive music houses of Pittsburgh. The
Kimball Hall, Chicago, on October 29.
plan is one that will be worthy of the support
A feature of Miss Scott's appearances will be
of the music trade not only of Pittsburgh, but
her comparison playing with the Welte-Mignon
other cities where music schools are located.
(Licensee). In each number she will play the
The prize offer is one that is bound to stimulate
the study of music and will also aid, eventually, The Course to Be Optional as in Case of In- selection manually on the piano, which will be
struction on Band and Orchestra Instruments followed immediately by the reproduction of
in the stimulation of business for the music in-
—Plan Classes for All Schools
the composition on the Welte-Mignon (Li-
dustry of the city and State. There are other
censee). William C. Heaton, president of the
musical institutions in this city and adjoining
DECATIK, III,, October 16.—Arrangements have Autc Pneumatic Action Co., states that these
districts that could properly be chosen as the
media for awarding a piano or other musical been made by the Decatur school authorities for comparison concerts have become extremely
instrument to be contested for by the students the teaching of the piano to the school children popular with Welte-Mignon (Licensee) dealers
of this city, and questionnaires have been sent everywhere, as they illustrate in a particularly
attending the school."
Word was received here of the mishap to out to parents explaining the plan and asking vivid way the perfect reproduction made possi-
Charles M. Courboin, a well-known musician, that they signify whether they desire to have ble by this process of recording. During her
tour Miss Scott will make her headquarters in
who was injured when his automobile was their children take the course.
The undertaking is made possible through Kansas City, working to the surrounding citie*
struck by a trolley car in Scranton, Pa., and de-
molished. He is now at the State Hospital in the offer of the Millikin Conservatory of Music, from that point.
Scranton, suffering from a broken jaw and a which will provide a room, teachers and pianos.
lacerated hand and face. Mr. Courboin, who The children will be taught in classes of twenty,
some years ago was knighted by Belgium, is at a fee of twenty-five cents per lesson, or $3
organist of the Hickory Street Presbyterian for the full course of twelve lessons.
KENT, O., October 18.—Considerable damage by
The instruction will be confined to those chil- smoke and water was done to the stock of musi-
Church of Scranton and is considered one of
dren who have had no preliminary instruction cal merchandise of the music store of S. W.
the three ranking organists of the world.
In the Mercer County Court at Mercer, Pa., a in piano playing, and will be carried on by Trory, by fire which swept the business district
decree of dissolution was authorized by Judge means of keyboard charts. The course is op- here this week, causing $50,000 damage to ad-
J. A. McLaughry for the dissolution of the tional with the parents and will be carried on joining mercantile establishments. Officials of
Greene Music Co., of Greenville, Pa. The com- along the lines of the instruction offered dur- the company announce business would go on
pany was organized in 1924. The petition set ing the past two years on band and orchestra witliQUt interruption.
forth that all taxes and debts of the company instruments. Should the piano instruction prove
popular it is hoped to have classes in all the
had been paid.
Incorporation papers have been filed recently
F. A. Winter, the well-known music dealer city schools.
by Hopper-Logan, Inc., Tacoma, Wash, which
W. Curtis Busher, of the Emerson Music has a capital stock of $30,000. C. G. Hopper
of Altoona, Pa., and Civil War veteran, par-
ticipated in the musical program rendered at House, this city, who was, appointed musical. .,-and Carl A- Logan^are^h^proprietors.
Glass Piano Instruction
for Decatur, 111., Schools
Suffers Damage From Fire
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