Music Trade Review
Issue: 1927 Vol. 84 N. 23 - Page 10
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The Music Trade Review
C0IN0LAS
Supremacy thru their
Performance
Tiny Coinola
Durability that has
defied the years
Unusually Effective
New Kurtzmann Catalog
Artistic Arrangement of the Contests of Volume
Reflects the Quality Spirit—Ten Different
Grands Are Presented
Unusually interesting, not alone because of
its contents but also for the effective manner in
which they are presented to the reader, the new
catalog just issued by C. Kurtzmann & Co.
represents a welcome and impressive addition
to piano trade literature. From cover to cover
the volume displays originality of treatment,
and a quality that is thoroughly in keeping with
the instruments that are presented through the
medium of its pages.
Altogether ten different types of Kurtzmann
grands, ranging in size from the concert model
to the small grand only four feet eleven inches
long, are illustrated in the pages. Each,
whether a period or a regular model, being set
in a background that is always in complete har-
mony, but so treated that the instrument itself
dominates the picture. The same rule applies
to the presentation of four models of uprights
and two of upright players.
The grands shown are the Style O, the Co-
lonial, and the Style A in the four foot eleven
inch size, the Queen Anne, the Style R and the
Florentine and Early Spanish, each five feet
three inches long, the Style M, five feet seven
inches, the Style E, six feet long and the con-
cert grand.
The several period models are
really notable examples of what may be accom-
plished in applying period designs to piano
cases. The uprights include the Style F, four
feet high, the Style V, four feet four inches,
the Style K, and the Style G, both four feet six
inches.
The hand set type used for the text matter
is particularly effective, giving the various pages
the appearance of having been hand lettered and
fitting in particularly well with the presenta-
tion of the several period models. Two pages
are given over to introductory matter regarding
the progress and the ideals of C. Kurtzmann &
Co. since the establishment of the business in
1848, and some four pages in the back to lists
of colleges and musical institutions which use
and endorse the Kurtzmann, and a dozen or so
testimonials from those institutions. The bal-
ance of the text applies directly to the instru-
ments themselves. Each page is set in a fancy
border printed in ivory, and the illustrations
are not only clear but particularly well framed.
On the whole, the catalog should prove of
material assistance "to the dealer In his contact
with the customer who is seeking quality.
Udell Works Issue New
Catalog of Its Cabinets
Player Organ
Known Values
Proven Satisfaction
Your territory may be open
Manufactured by
The Operators Piano Co.
715 N. Kedzie Ave.
Chicago
Illinois
New Volume Illustrates and Describes Many
Attractive Designs of Player Roll and Radio
Cabinets—To Exhibit at the Conventions
The Udell Works, Indianapolis, Ind., one of
the largest, if not the largest, manufacturers of
music roll and radio cabinets in the country,
have just issued an elaborate new catalog cover-
ing the company's complete cabinet line. The
opening pages of the catalog are given over to
the various types of player roll cabinets de-
signed to hold various numbers of rolls from
63 to 210. Particularly impressive are the vari-
ous period models including the Victorian, the
Queen Anne, William and Mary, Louis XV and
Louis XVI, Spanish, and other types, some of
them distinctly elaborate and highly decorated.
The Udell cabinets for player rolls are de-
signed to fit in well with music room furnish-
ings and to harmonize with the numerous styles
of period pianos that are now so prominent in
the market.
The console models are in the
main particularly elaborate.
The last few pages of the catalog are devoted
to illustrations and descriptive matter-covering
JUNE 4, 1927
the company's line of radio cabinets, some de-
signed to accommodate the table model receiv-
ers and others designed especially to accom-
modate in their interiors the standard models of
well-known sets, together with the necessary
battery equipment.
The Udell Works will have a display of its
line of cabinets at the Hotel Stevens during
the Music Industries Convention and will con-
tinue to display during the following week for
the benefit of the members of the radio trade
who will be in convention in Chicago at that
time. The exhibit will be in Room 557A.
Philadelphia Association
President and Active Force
Selection of G. C. Ramsdell as Head of Phila-
delphia Piano Dealers' Association Has Aided
Much in the Rejuvenation of That Body
PHILADELPHIA, PA., May 28.—It is due largely
to the zeal and efforts of President G. C. Rams-
dell, of the Philadelphia Piano Dealers' Asso-
ciation, recently revised and organized into a
G. C. Ramsdell
new spirit of activity on behalf of the industry,
that the dealers in the Quaker City trade have
again become alive to the interest and welfare
of the piano branch of the music industry. When
the matter of organizing was taken up at the
meeting held in the Philadelphia Chamber of
Commerce, with Chairman George Whitcraft, of
the F. A. North Co., as chairman, the dealers
as a whole approved the appointment of Mr.
Ramsdell as the outstanding member of the
local trade best fitted to organize the industry.
By personal calls upon the dealers and the
devotion of much time in securing members, the
local organization was successfully revived by
President Ramsdell, and since the first meeting
he has continued to develop the organiza-
tion and has secured several new members.
President Ramsdell comes of a family that
long has been identified with the piano trade in
the Quaker City. Since the age of fifteen years,
and as a youth intent upon following in his
father's footsteps, he has had practical contact
with piano markets. The present firm of G. C.
Ramsdell & Son, of which he is head, was
founded by his grandfather back in 1835 and
has been successfully guided and conducted by
four generations who inherited it as descendants
of the first member of the firm, James Rams-
dell. President Ramsdell took over the business
upon the death of his father, J. G. Ramsdell.
For thirty years the firm has dealt in the Ivers
& Pond and Laffargue pianos. The business
is now located at 127 South Eleventh street.
10
The Music Trade Review
C0IN0LAS
Supremacy thru their
Performance
Tiny Coinola
Durability that has
defied the years
Unusually Effective
New Kurtzmann Catalog
Artistic Arrangement of the Contests of Volume
Reflects the Quality Spirit—Ten Different
Grands Are Presented
Unusually interesting, not alone because of
its contents but also for the effective manner in
which they are presented to the reader, the new
catalog just issued by C. Kurtzmann & Co.
represents a welcome and impressive addition
to piano trade literature. From cover to cover
the volume displays originality of treatment,
and a quality that is thoroughly in keeping with
the instruments that are presented through the
medium of its pages.
Altogether ten different types of Kurtzmann
grands, ranging in size from the concert model
to the small grand only four feet eleven inches
long, are illustrated in the pages. Each,
whether a period or a regular model, being set
in a background that is always in complete har-
mony, but so treated that the instrument itself
dominates the picture. The same rule applies
to the presentation of four models of uprights
and two of upright players.
The grands shown are the Style O, the Co-
lonial, and the Style A in the four foot eleven
inch size, the Queen Anne, the Style R and the
Florentine and Early Spanish, each five feet
three inches long, the Style M, five feet seven
inches, the Style E, six feet long and the con-
cert grand.
The several period models are
really notable examples of what may be accom-
plished in applying period designs to piano
cases. The uprights include the Style F, four
feet high, the Style V, four feet four inches,
the Style K, and the Style G, both four feet six
inches.
The hand set type used for the text matter
is particularly effective, giving the various pages
the appearance of having been hand lettered and
fitting in particularly well with the presenta-
tion of the several period models. Two pages
are given over to introductory matter regarding
the progress and the ideals of C. Kurtzmann &
Co. since the establishment of the business in
1848, and some four pages in the back to lists
of colleges and musical institutions which use
and endorse the Kurtzmann, and a dozen or so
testimonials from those institutions. The bal-
ance of the text applies directly to the instru-
ments themselves. Each page is set in a fancy
border printed in ivory, and the illustrations
are not only clear but particularly well framed.
On the whole, the catalog should prove of
material assistance "to the dealer In his contact
with the customer who is seeking quality.
Udell Works Issue New
Catalog of Its Cabinets
Player Organ
Known Values
Proven Satisfaction
Your territory may be open
Manufactured by
The Operators Piano Co.
715 N. Kedzie Ave.
Chicago
Illinois
New Volume Illustrates and Describes Many
Attractive Designs of Player Roll and Radio
Cabinets—To Exhibit at the Conventions
The Udell Works, Indianapolis, Ind., one of
the largest, if not the largest, manufacturers of
music roll and radio cabinets in the country,
have just issued an elaborate new catalog cover-
ing the company's complete cabinet line. The
opening pages of the catalog are given over to
the various types of player roll cabinets de-
signed to hold various numbers of rolls from
63 to 210. Particularly impressive are the vari-
ous period models including the Victorian, the
Queen Anne, William and Mary, Louis XV and
Louis XVI, Spanish, and other types, some of
them distinctly elaborate and highly decorated.
The Udell cabinets for player rolls are de-
signed to fit in well with music room furnish-
ings and to harmonize with the numerous styles
of period pianos that are now so prominent in
the market.
The console models are in the
main particularly elaborate.
The last few pages of the catalog are devoted
to illustrations and descriptive matter-covering
JUNE 4, 1927
the company's line of radio cabinets, some de-
signed to accommodate the table model receiv-
ers and others designed especially to accom-
modate in their interiors the standard models of
well-known sets, together with the necessary
battery equipment.
The Udell Works will have a display of its
line of cabinets at the Hotel Stevens during
the Music Industries Convention and will con-
tinue to display during the following week for
the benefit of the members of the radio trade
who will be in convention in Chicago at that
time. The exhibit will be in Room 557A.
Philadelphia Association
President and Active Force
Selection of G. C. Ramsdell as Head of Phila-
delphia Piano Dealers' Association Has Aided
Much in the Rejuvenation of That Body
PHILADELPHIA, PA., May 28.—It is due largely
to the zeal and efforts of President G. C. Rams-
dell, of the Philadelphia Piano Dealers' Asso-
ciation, recently revised and organized into a
G. C. Ramsdell
new spirit of activity on behalf of the industry,
that the dealers in the Quaker City trade have
again become alive to the interest and welfare
of the piano branch of the music industry. When
the matter of organizing was taken up at the
meeting held in the Philadelphia Chamber of
Commerce, with Chairman George Whitcraft, of
the F. A. North Co., as chairman, the dealers
as a whole approved the appointment of Mr.
Ramsdell as the outstanding member of the
local trade best fitted to organize the industry.
By personal calls upon the dealers and the
devotion of much time in securing members, the
local organization was successfully revived by
President Ramsdell, and since the first meeting
he has continued to develop the organiza-
tion and has secured several new members.
President Ramsdell comes of a family that
long has been identified with the piano trade in
the Quaker City. Since the age of fifteen years,
and as a youth intent upon following in his
father's footsteps, he has had practical contact
with piano markets. The present firm of G. C.
Ramsdell & Son, of which he is head, was
founded by his grandfather back in 1835 and
has been successfully guided and conducted by
four generations who inherited it as descendants
of the first member of the firm, James Rams-
dell. President Ramsdell took over the business
upon the death of his father, J. G. Ramsdell.
For thirty years the firm has dealt in the Ivers
& Pond and Laffargue pianos. The business
is now located at 127 South Eleventh street.
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