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The Music Trade Review
SEPTEMBER 24, 1927
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Music at Start of Industrial Day
Finds Favor in San Francisco Trade
Music Merchants See Opportunity for Piano Sales in Latest Innovation—Baldwin
Line Displayed at California State Fair—Many Trade Visitors
CAN FRANCrSCO, Cal., September 17.—A for a trip eastward which will extend as far as
*"* new and very practical way of using the Denver, Colo.
piano in business circles has just been inaugu-
John A. Krumme, Western sales manager for
rated here by C. B. Waters, San Francisco man- Hardman, Peck & Co., is calling on the trade in
ager for Remington-Rand, Inc. This corpora- San Francisco and vicinity in the interests of
tion, which is nation-wide in its operations, has the Hardman piano.
fifty salesmen on its staff in San Francisco.
Bceraan P. Sibley, president of the Western
Believing that it is important for the men to Piano Corp., is in Los Angeles on a business
start off on their day's sales efforts with the visit.
right amount of cheerfulness and pep, Mr.
Call Still Good for Grands
Waters got an Aldrich piano from Sherman,
L. F. Goelzlin, proprietor of the Pacific Music
Clay & Co., and requisitioned the services of Co., says that they are getting out their stock
Miss Elsie Otto, his secretary, who plays the for the Fall piano trade which they expect will
piano. Five minutes are devoted every morning be good enough to warrant quite a shipment of
by the entire sales force to community singing, pianos. There is still a good call for grands, but
accompanied by the piano. They sing in mass Mr. Goelzlin finds that the pianos most in de-
formation and nearly raise the roof with the vol- mand at present are small uprights.
ume of some old-time, lively songs.
Kimball Dealer Reports Good Business
Speaking of this departure, which is new in
Both stores of the Union Music Co. are doing
San Francisco, Richard Ahlf, head of the piano very well, stated Ralph Stine, sales manager of
department of Sherman, Clay & Co., remarked the company. The Mission street store had a
that if you start off the day by singing, you nice business through August. Speaking of the
are in the proper frame of mind and are apt to Kimball piano, for which the Union Music Co.
end the day in the right way.
is the San Francisco dealer, Mr. Stine said that
Merrill & Merrill, Kimball representatives in
Showed Baldwin's at State Fair
The San Francisco Baldwin house had a nice Oakland, in the Trans-Bay region, have just sold
display of pianos at the State Fair held in Sacra- a Kimball grand to the new Alameda Hotel,
mento, which is always one of the important Oakland.
events of the year in California. L. C. Elmore,
from San Francisco, was in charge of the display, Visuola Summer Courses
which included some new styles just received
from the factory. The Baldwin display resulted
Attended by Teachers
in a nice business and in securing some pros-
pects from all over the State. Generally speak- New Piano Instruction Method Exploited by
ing, visitors from the rural districts showed
Ten One-Week Courses Held in Aeolian Hall
most interest in players and city folks in grands
and reproducing pianos, but some of the coun-
Summer sessions of the Visuola Normal
try people were interested in grands. Everyone Training Courses, conducted during the past
admired the period grands.
two months at the Aeolian School for Musical
Amazed at Seattle's Growth
Research, located in the Aeolian Co. building
F. W. Stephenson, secretary of Sherman, Clay in New York, closed on Saturday, September
& Co., has just returned from visiting the firm's 10, after a highly gratifying first season. Ten
branch in Seattle. He had not time to remain one-week courses were given during the Sum-
over elsewhere and will probably return North mer, starting July 5, the first course being given
a little later. It is between three and four years under the direction of Henry Holden Huss, dis-
since Mr. Stephenson was last in Seattle, and he tinguished pianist, composer and pedagogue.
said he had found remarkable growth on every
The courses were attended by music teachers
hand. Great buildings have gone up and devel- from all parts of the country, who responded en-
opment generally is remarkable.
thusiastically to the ideas embodied in this new
Piano Representatives Visit the Trade
method of visual piano instruction. The last
Alex McDonald, representing the Sohmer five weeks of the school were devoted to the
piano, was in San Francisco for several days use of the Visuola in connection with all stand-
early this week and has now left for the South. ard teaching material, and were under the di-
Marshall Breeden, representative of Jesse rection of Sophie Pratt Bostelmann, associate
French & Sons Piano Co., was here this week director of the Aeolian school. Other prominent
and visited the Union Music Co., which carries instructors included: Miss Violet Collins, head
the Jesse French pianos. Mr. Breeden has left normal teacher of the Miessner Institute; Mrs.
The Little MIESSNER
is easier than ever to sell
The Sono-Rim, built into the sounding board of
the little Miessner, is the latest development in
this little piano's steady march toward perfection.
Music authorities everywhere say that the Sono-
Rim is the greatest single improvement in piano
building in recent years.
Take advantage of its well-known merit—let the
Miessner help you build a constantly increasing
volume of business year after year. Investigate
the Miessner franchise now. It is a real money-
maker.
Write for information on the Miessner plan today.
MIESSNER PIANO CO.
136 Reed St., Milwaukee, Wis.
THE LITTLE PIANO WITH THE BIO TONE
Harvey D. Ingalsbe, head normal teacher for
the University Society; and Mrs. Gail Martin
Haake, instructor in class piano methods, Ameri-
can Conservatory of Music, Chicago, also editor
of the Oxford University Press course, and
former associate professor of piano normal
methods at Northwestern University.
Concert by Hill Billies
Results in Record Sales
Snyder Bros. & Poris, who operate the "Mu-
sical Sport Shop" in Johnson City, Tenn., re-
cently staged an extensive performance by the
Original Hill Billies with Al Hopkins and his
Buckle Busters in the company's store. Over
500 people attended the performance, and as
Ihe various selections were played and sung
salesmen went among the audience and took
orders for corresponding Brunswick and Vo-
calion records. The whole affair was so satis-
factory from the standpoint of interest aroused
and actual sales that it is planned to repeat the
concert at a later date.
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