Music Trade Review
Issue: 1928 Vol. 86 N. 4 - Page 3
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News Number
THE
VOL. 86. No. 4
REVIEW
Published Weekly. Federated Business Publications, Inc., 420 Lexington Are., New York, N. Y., Jan. 28,1928
Single Copies 10 Centa
$2.00 Per Year
Sherman, Clay & Go. Buy Allen
Northern Chain of Stores
Pacific Coast Music House Buys Wiley B. Allen Co. Branch
Stores in San Francisco, Oakland, Sacramento, Stockton,
Fresno and San Jose—$1,000,000 Is Involved
C A N FRANCISCO, CAL., January 24.—The largest and most important deal ever made in music
^ trade history on the Pacific Coast, involving approximately $1,000,000, was completed yester-
day when Sherman, Clay & Co. bought outright all the Northern California interests of the
Wiley B. Allen Co., including the Allen store in this city, next door to the Sherman, Clay & Co.
retail store, together with the company's branches in Oakland, Sacramento, Stockton, San Jose
and Fresno. The properties will be taken over by the purchasers on February 1, with the organ-
izations intact, to be run under the Sherman,
Clay & Co. name. Inventory is now being taken
California cities, where they have purchased
Allen branches. The Allen Co. has stores in
and will probably be completed by Sunday.
Frank Anrys, stated regarding the Wiley B. Los Angeles and San Diego, but no announce-
ment has been made regarding them.
At the headquarters of Sherman, Clay & Co.
it was stated that there had as yet been, no de-
cision made regarding the Allen Co. line. When
the inventory is completed there will be a di-
rectors' meeting to consider future plans, but at
present attention is being centered on the details
incident to taking over the new interests by
the first of the month.
Eleanora F. Allen, widow of Wiley B. Allen,
is president of the Wiley B. Allen Co., but the
management has been in the hands of Frank B.
Anrys. Mr. Allen opened his first store in San
Jose in 1873, and in 1880 opened the second
store at Portland, Ore. He entered the field in
Sacramento in 1900, and two years later opened
his San Francisco establishment, followed
shortly by the Oakland store. He died in 1905-
Sherman, Clay & Co. have been located at their
present retail location in San Francisco for
seventy years.
Parrot Music Go. Moves
The Parrot Music Co., formerly of Van Buren,
Ark., has moved to new quarters in the Com-
mercial Hotel Building, Paris, Ark., where a full
line of pianos, phonographs and small goods is
carried.
Class Piano Teaching Is
Discussed by Supervisors
Committee Appointed by Music Supervisors' National Confer-
ence to Promote Class Piano Instruction in the Schools—
Holds Two-Day Meeting in New York City
Philip T. Clay
Allen Co. withdrawal from the music business
in central and northern California "our music
business to be merged with that of Sherman,
Clay & Co." The southern branches of the
A.llen Co. are not included in the sale.
For the present at least Sherman, Clay & Co.
will continue the Allen Co.'s store in San Fran-
cisco until the conclusion of the lease, the date
of which has not been announced. Sherman,
Clay & Co. have branches in all five northern
' " p H E cause of piano instruction in the public schools of the country received a mighty im-
* petus on Monday and Tuesday of this week as a result of the meeting in New York of a
special committee appointed at the last annual gathering of the Music Supervisors' National Con-
ference for the purpose of working on the question of promoting class instruction in the piano
in schools generally. The committee is a division of the Committee on Instrumental Affairs
of the Conference, and the gathering this week was the first since it was officially appointed.
The advisability and the feasibility of piano
instruction in the schools of the country were and adopt class piano study as a regular feature
accepted without question by the members of of the school curriculum.
The sessions of the committee were launched
the committee and those associated with them,
with
a luncheon at the Town Hall Club on Mon-
and what remains now is to preach the doc-
trine among the school authorities so ener- day, attended by some twoscore prominent mem-
{Continued on page 13)
getically that they will see the light generally
News Number
THE
VOL. 86. No. 4
REVIEW
Published Weekly. Federated Business Publications, Inc., 420 Lexington Are., New York, N. Y., Jan. 28,1928
Single Copies 10 Centa
$2.00 Per Year
Sherman, Clay & Go. Buy Allen
Northern Chain of Stores
Pacific Coast Music House Buys Wiley B. Allen Co. Branch
Stores in San Francisco, Oakland, Sacramento, Stockton,
Fresno and San Jose—$1,000,000 Is Involved
C A N FRANCISCO, CAL., January 24.—The largest and most important deal ever made in music
^ trade history on the Pacific Coast, involving approximately $1,000,000, was completed yester-
day when Sherman, Clay & Co. bought outright all the Northern California interests of the
Wiley B. Allen Co., including the Allen store in this city, next door to the Sherman, Clay & Co.
retail store, together with the company's branches in Oakland, Sacramento, Stockton, San Jose
and Fresno. The properties will be taken over by the purchasers on February 1, with the organ-
izations intact, to be run under the Sherman,
Clay & Co. name. Inventory is now being taken
California cities, where they have purchased
Allen branches. The Allen Co. has stores in
and will probably be completed by Sunday.
Frank Anrys, stated regarding the Wiley B. Los Angeles and San Diego, but no announce-
ment has been made regarding them.
At the headquarters of Sherman, Clay & Co.
it was stated that there had as yet been, no de-
cision made regarding the Allen Co. line. When
the inventory is completed there will be a di-
rectors' meeting to consider future plans, but at
present attention is being centered on the details
incident to taking over the new interests by
the first of the month.
Eleanora F. Allen, widow of Wiley B. Allen,
is president of the Wiley B. Allen Co., but the
management has been in the hands of Frank B.
Anrys. Mr. Allen opened his first store in San
Jose in 1873, and in 1880 opened the second
store at Portland, Ore. He entered the field in
Sacramento in 1900, and two years later opened
his San Francisco establishment, followed
shortly by the Oakland store. He died in 1905-
Sherman, Clay & Co. have been located at their
present retail location in San Francisco for
seventy years.
Parrot Music Go. Moves
The Parrot Music Co., formerly of Van Buren,
Ark., has moved to new quarters in the Com-
mercial Hotel Building, Paris, Ark., where a full
line of pianos, phonographs and small goods is
carried.
Class Piano Teaching Is
Discussed by Supervisors
Committee Appointed by Music Supervisors' National Confer-
ence to Promote Class Piano Instruction in the Schools—
Holds Two-Day Meeting in New York City
Philip T. Clay
Allen Co. withdrawal from the music business
in central and northern California "our music
business to be merged with that of Sherman,
Clay & Co." The southern branches of the
A.llen Co. are not included in the sale.
For the present at least Sherman, Clay & Co.
will continue the Allen Co.'s store in San Fran-
cisco until the conclusion of the lease, the date
of which has not been announced. Sherman,
Clay & Co. have branches in all five northern
' " p H E cause of piano instruction in the public schools of the country received a mighty im-
* petus on Monday and Tuesday of this week as a result of the meeting in New York of a
special committee appointed at the last annual gathering of the Music Supervisors' National Con-
ference for the purpose of working on the question of promoting class instruction in the piano
in schools generally. The committee is a division of the Committee on Instrumental Affairs
of the Conference, and the gathering this week was the first since it was officially appointed.
The advisability and the feasibility of piano
instruction in the schools of the country were and adopt class piano study as a regular feature
accepted without question by the members of of the school curriculum.
The sessions of the committee were launched
the committee and those associated with them,
with
a luncheon at the Town Hall Club on Mon-
and what remains now is to preach the doc-
trine among the school authorities so ener- day, attended by some twoscore prominent mem-
{Continued on page 13)
getically that they will see the light generally
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