Music Trade Review

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JANUARY 5, 1929
The Music Trade Review
H. c . Hanson Has Had Long j?j re
Career in the Music Trade
jj as
Head of Hanson Music House, San Francisco,
Was For 14 Years With Lyon & Healy and
Then Went With Pacific Coast Concern
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL., December 29.—Although
he has been operating the Hanson Music House
in this city only since 1915, H. C. Hanson, head
of the company, has had a long career in the
music trade.
His first position was with Lyon & Healy, at
a salary of $5 per week. He remained for
fourteen years, and eventually became head of
the band instrument department. He left the
store to become manager of Charles Post's
ranch. Two years of this and the call of his
former business became so great that he came
to San Francisco and accepted a position with
Sherman, Clay & Co. Later he went to Kohler
& Cha In 1915 he decided to start his own business.
With less than $1,000, he opened a store on
Kearny street. Soon his business grew and he
had to seek new quarters on O'Farrell street
Later he moved to his present location at 137
Powell street. His business has shown a strong,
healthy growth every year since.
Besides his store in San Francisco, Hanson
lias a branch store in Oakland.
W. M. Ringen started some years ago with
Hanson with another concern. Later Hanson
went into business for himself, while Ringen
went his way. After being parted approximately
fifteen years they are together again.
R. O. Foster Celebrates
His Seventieth Birthday
Prominent Head of Foster & Waldo Co. Still
Distinctly Active in the Conduct of the Affairs
of That Successful Company
MINNEAPOLIS, MINN., December 29.—The local
newspapers have been devoting much space re-
cently to sketches of the life and business suc-
cess of Robert O. Foster, head of Foster &
Waldo, who recently celebrated his seventieth
birthday, although there are many of those who
know him who have been under the impression
that he was nearer 50 than 70, because of his
constant activity in connection with the affairs
of his company.
The success of the Foster & Waldo concern
during the past few years, when some other
retailers were having their troubles has been
due in no small measure to the acceptance and
appreciation of modern business methods and
particularly consistent and strong advertising
As the business situation changed the company
changed with it, and although it still does a
notable piano business, it has done well in the
selling of other lines, and one month not long
ago disposed of close to half a, million dollars'
worth of radio apparatus.
Consult the Universal Want Directory of
The Review In it advertisements are inserted
free of charge for men who desire positions.
Terrors for This
Columbia Portable Instrument
This Columbia
Machine,
Found in Fire
Ruins, Was Still
Playable
When
Rescued
V I T H E N the store of the Fox Co., Columbia
** dealer in San Antonio, Texas, was re-
cently badly damaged by fire, the remains of a
Columbia portable No. 162 were found in the
ruins, still able to play, and "very well," too, re-
ports F. R. Erisman, Dallas branch manager,
who submits the above evidence. Even the record
which was on the instrument at the time was
playable, warped indeed, but with the needle
still traveling its surface.
Crowds Fill Store to Hear
Crosley Radio Corp.
Brambach Noon Concert
to Double Size of Plant
Event Staged by Sherman, Clay & Co. in San
Francisco Attract Many Shoppers—Baldwin
Adds Radio Lines
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL., December 31.—During
the noon hour one day last week the luncheon
and shopping crowds within a block in every
direction from Sherman, Clay & Co.'s down-
town store enjoyed a piano concert. Jerry and
her Brambach baby grands were at the Or-
pheum last week, and from twelve-thirty to
'.ne-thirty they played in one of the large store
windows of Sherman, Clay & Co. Dynamic
loud speakers broadcast the recital simulta-
neously from the Kearny and Sutter street
side of the store, and the playing went on the
air with splendid effect. The four Brambach
baby grands were especially installed, and the
concert had been well advertised by Sherman,
Clay & Co., so there was a very large crowd
outside the store. People over a block away,
however, also stopped to listen to the concert.
Baldwin Takes on Radio Line
For the first time the Baldwin Music House
here is showing radio lines. It was stated at
the store that a few radios are being handled
because the holiday demand seemed to run
a good deal to radios, so they were put in
to accommodate customers and to participate
in the radio business. Lines shown in the Bald-
win's radio window include Atwater Kent,
Columbia-Kolster, Sonora and Eveready.
CINCINNATI, O., December 31.—Announcement
has been made of plans for the construction of
a new eight-story building for the Crosley
Radio Corp., which when completed will prac-
tically double the company's manufacturing ca-
pacity. The announcement was made at a
meeting of the company's distributors held
here last week, where it was reported that sales
for November had been the gratest in the his-
tory of the Crosley Corp.
New Philadelphia Concern
PHILADELPHIA, PA., December 29.—William
Morsbach, who formerly managed the music
store of his uncle, Louis Morsbach, at Broad
street and Snyder avenue, is now engaged in
business on his own account in partnership
with Earl E. Brand, as Brand & Morsbach,
3617 North Twenty-second street. The new
firm carries a complete assortment of musical
goods, including string and brass instruments,
sheet music and radios.
Clarence J. Roberts, of Baltimore, president
of the National Association of Music Merchants,
was a business visitor in New York last week,
attending to some matters for Chas. M. StiefT,
Inc., piano manufacturers, with which concern
he is identified in an executive capacity.