Music Trade Review
Issue: 1929 Vol. 88 N. 11 - Page 5
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MARCH 16, 1929
Arleigh G. Dom, Sonora
Manager in Cincinnati
The Music Trade Review
Steinway of World-Wide Fame
{Continued from page 3)
different types of people who buy our pianos.
There are, for instance, Argentine cattle men,
Australian sheep raisers, professional men, mer-
chants, shipbuilders and planters; there are
manufacturers to please, Indian Rajahs, Chinese
mandarins, as well as the educators in colleges,
conservatories, etc. Then we have miners, en-
gineers, * bankers, and the owners of ocean
liners and private yachts to cater to. Not all
of these people, of course, demand pianos of a
design to meet a particular whim, but the na-
tionals of any country as a rule have certain
more or less standard ideas which they seek to
have incorporated in the instruments they pur-
chase.
"In our offices we have an alphabetical list
of the countries in which we do business, and at
first glance it is a very commonplace list. First
comes Argentine, then Austria, then Australia,
followed by Belgium and Borneo. It is fas-
cinating to make mentally that little jump from
the Argentine to Austria, from Austria to Aus-
tralia, then back to Belgium, from there to
Borneo and then to Brazil, etc. Here are coun-
tries almost half the circumference of the globe
apart and separated by continents and oceans
and yet they all are buying pianos and buying
them in increasing numbers.
"We get a particular kick at different times
through having someone visit our factory and
headquarters in New York, Hamburg or Lon-
don and tell us of having found the Steinway
piano far out in the veldt in South Africa, close
Arleigh C. Dom
graph Co. The Cincinnati headquarters are lo- to a mountain top in the Andes, or furnishing
music for the travelers on ocean liners on the
cated at 708-9 Peoples' Bank Bldg.
^
P
a
cific."
Mr. Dom has had a long experience in the
Here is an international business that repre-
music trade in the south and southwest and is
well known to dealers in that territory, hav- sents just what is claimed for it, and it is a
ing been for a number of years sales represen- business that in the main is so broad in its
scope that it does not depend upon what might
tative for the Imperial Roll Co. and later for
the QRS Co. Most recently he has been act- be termed local conditions in any one country
for its growth. Last year was the greatest year
ing as field sales manager for H. C. Schultz
ever
experienced in Steinway export business,
Co., Inc., Sonora jobbers of Cleveland and
and the company makes and sells nothing but
Detroit.
pianos. Surely with Steinway pianos encircling
the globe, as it were, it is hard to believe that
the general interest in the instrument can be
permanently on the wane in any one particular
locality.
ALBANY, N. Y., March 9.—An allowance of
Some idea of the extent of the Steinway ex-
$40,000 granted A. Page Smith, Albany attor- port trade can be found in the list of countries
ney, as a receiver for the Baker Music House, to which instruments are shipped regularly. Get
Inc., for four and one-half years, is contested by out your geography and check it. They are
creditors who must be answered by Mr. Smith Argentine, Austria, Australia, Belgium, Borneo,
in federal court to-day.
Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Czecho-Slovakia, Chile,
Records will be introduced, it is reported, to China, Costa Rica, Cuba, Denmark, Egypt, Eng-
show that the Albany attorney spent $15,000 in
personal expenses and incurred other obliga-
tions that will cut his actual honorarium to less
than $25,000.
The receivership was. for twenty per cent to
preferred creditors, and five per cent to unse-
PORTLAND, ORE., March 9.—Sidney L. Johnson,
cured. Nellie F. Towner, as attorney, was al-
for the past three years Oregon manager for
lowed $15,000 for work done for Mr. Smith
Sherman, Clay & Co., has been notified of his
while he acted as receiver.
promotion to the home office of the company
at San Francisco, and expects to leave Portland
March 15 to assume his new duties. Mr. John-
son came here from the company's Tacoma
store.
Succeeding him here as Oregon manager will
OAK HARBOR, O., March 11.—More than 3,000 be Robert Armstrong, now manager of the
pupils in Ottawa county are now receiving
Fresno, Cal., store of Sherman, Clay & Co.
music instruction as a regular subject. A county
school orchestra was formed in 1927, which
this year has grown to 56 members. Lynn W.
Thayer is county director of music, and it is
through his efforts, together with the co-opera-
tion of music dealers, that this small county
E. A. Kieselhorst, head of the Kieselhorst
has made the showing it has in music instruc-
Co., St. Louis, is at the present time enjoying
tion.
a respite from his labors amid the palm trees
at Sebring, Fla., on Lake Jackson. In a letter
to The Review, E. A. sings high praises of the
The Bland Piano Co., High Point, N. C, of
manner in which the citizens of Florida are
which R. R. Bland is proprietor, recently suf-
recovering from the recent slump. He sees
fered damage from fire amounting to about
many opportunities in the State.
$10,000.
Arleigh C. Dom has been appointed manager
of the Cincinnati, O., branch of the Sonora
Phonograph Co., the appointment being an-
nounced by A. J. Kendrick, vice-president and
general sales manager of the Sonora Phono-
land, Esthonia, Finland, France, Germany,
Greece, Guatemala, Holland, Hungary, Iceland,
India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Java, Jugoslavia,
Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malay Penin-
sula, Morocco, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway,
Palestine, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal,
Roumania, Santo Domingo, Scotland, South
Africa, Spain, Straits Settlements, Sumatra,
Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Turkey, Uruguay
and Venezuela. Certainly an imposing list.
Nicholas W. Weser Enters
Business Father Founded
Second Son of Late John W. Weser Becomes
Actively Engaged in Piano Manufacturing
Business in New York
Nicholas W. Weser, second son of the late
John Weser, who founded the firm of Weser
Bros., Inc., in 1879, has just become actively
Question Allowance to
Music Store Receiver
New Sherman-Clay Manager
Appointed in Portland
3,000 Children Taking Music
Instruction in One County
E. A. Kieselhorst Now
Sojourning in Florida
©Blank & Stoller
Nicholas W. Weser
engaged in the business and is diligently work-
ing each day in the production end learning in
detail how to construct pianos.
Mr. Weser, who just recently became of age,
was educated in the McBurney School, New
York, and Franklin & Marshall University. He
will devote as much time as is necessary for
him to absorb every detail in piano construc-
tion before studying the other branches of the
business.
Another son, John Weser, Jr., is at present
taking a postgraduate course at the Tuck
School of Business at Dartmouth College and
it is expected that he will join the Weser or-
ganization in May of this year.
Both of these young men will school them-
selves with practical experience in the piano
manufacturing business so that in years to
come they will be able to carry on this for-
midable piano manufacturing institution which
was founded by their father and has become
recognized as one of the strongest in the piano
industry.
Receiver for Miller Co.
PHILADELPHIA, PA., March 12.—Nathan R.
Rambo, of this city has been appointed perma-
nent receiver for the Miller Piano Co., of West
Chester, Pa., which was involved in bankruptcy
proceedings here a few days ago. Bond has
been fixed for $30,000 by the United States
District Court sitting in this city in which the
petition has been filed.
MARCH 16, 1929
Arleigh G. Dom, Sonora
Manager in Cincinnati
The Music Trade Review
Steinway of World-Wide Fame
{Continued from page 3)
different types of people who buy our pianos.
There are, for instance, Argentine cattle men,
Australian sheep raisers, professional men, mer-
chants, shipbuilders and planters; there are
manufacturers to please, Indian Rajahs, Chinese
mandarins, as well as the educators in colleges,
conservatories, etc. Then we have miners, en-
gineers, * bankers, and the owners of ocean
liners and private yachts to cater to. Not all
of these people, of course, demand pianos of a
design to meet a particular whim, but the na-
tionals of any country as a rule have certain
more or less standard ideas which they seek to
have incorporated in the instruments they pur-
chase.
"In our offices we have an alphabetical list
of the countries in which we do business, and at
first glance it is a very commonplace list. First
comes Argentine, then Austria, then Australia,
followed by Belgium and Borneo. It is fas-
cinating to make mentally that little jump from
the Argentine to Austria, from Austria to Aus-
tralia, then back to Belgium, from there to
Borneo and then to Brazil, etc. Here are coun-
tries almost half the circumference of the globe
apart and separated by continents and oceans
and yet they all are buying pianos and buying
them in increasing numbers.
"We get a particular kick at different times
through having someone visit our factory and
headquarters in New York, Hamburg or Lon-
don and tell us of having found the Steinway
piano far out in the veldt in South Africa, close
Arleigh C. Dom
graph Co. The Cincinnati headquarters are lo- to a mountain top in the Andes, or furnishing
music for the travelers on ocean liners on the
cated at 708-9 Peoples' Bank Bldg.
^
P
a
cific."
Mr. Dom has had a long experience in the
Here is an international business that repre-
music trade in the south and southwest and is
well known to dealers in that territory, hav- sents just what is claimed for it, and it is a
ing been for a number of years sales represen- business that in the main is so broad in its
scope that it does not depend upon what might
tative for the Imperial Roll Co. and later for
the QRS Co. Most recently he has been act- be termed local conditions in any one country
for its growth. Last year was the greatest year
ing as field sales manager for H. C. Schultz
ever
experienced in Steinway export business,
Co., Inc., Sonora jobbers of Cleveland and
and the company makes and sells nothing but
Detroit.
pianos. Surely with Steinway pianos encircling
the globe, as it were, it is hard to believe that
the general interest in the instrument can be
permanently on the wane in any one particular
locality.
ALBANY, N. Y., March 9.—An allowance of
Some idea of the extent of the Steinway ex-
$40,000 granted A. Page Smith, Albany attor- port trade can be found in the list of countries
ney, as a receiver for the Baker Music House, to which instruments are shipped regularly. Get
Inc., for four and one-half years, is contested by out your geography and check it. They are
creditors who must be answered by Mr. Smith Argentine, Austria, Australia, Belgium, Borneo,
in federal court to-day.
Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Czecho-Slovakia, Chile,
Records will be introduced, it is reported, to China, Costa Rica, Cuba, Denmark, Egypt, Eng-
show that the Albany attorney spent $15,000 in
personal expenses and incurred other obliga-
tions that will cut his actual honorarium to less
than $25,000.
The receivership was. for twenty per cent to
preferred creditors, and five per cent to unse-
PORTLAND, ORE., March 9.—Sidney L. Johnson,
cured. Nellie F. Towner, as attorney, was al-
for the past three years Oregon manager for
lowed $15,000 for work done for Mr. Smith
Sherman, Clay & Co., has been notified of his
while he acted as receiver.
promotion to the home office of the company
at San Francisco, and expects to leave Portland
March 15 to assume his new duties. Mr. John-
son came here from the company's Tacoma
store.
Succeeding him here as Oregon manager will
OAK HARBOR, O., March 11.—More than 3,000 be Robert Armstrong, now manager of the
pupils in Ottawa county are now receiving
Fresno, Cal., store of Sherman, Clay & Co.
music instruction as a regular subject. A county
school orchestra was formed in 1927, which
this year has grown to 56 members. Lynn W.
Thayer is county director of music, and it is
through his efforts, together with the co-opera-
tion of music dealers, that this small county
E. A. Kieselhorst, head of the Kieselhorst
has made the showing it has in music instruc-
Co., St. Louis, is at the present time enjoying
tion.
a respite from his labors amid the palm trees
at Sebring, Fla., on Lake Jackson. In a letter
to The Review, E. A. sings high praises of the
The Bland Piano Co., High Point, N. C, of
manner in which the citizens of Florida are
which R. R. Bland is proprietor, recently suf-
recovering from the recent slump. He sees
fered damage from fire amounting to about
many opportunities in the State.
$10,000.
Arleigh C. Dom has been appointed manager
of the Cincinnati, O., branch of the Sonora
Phonograph Co., the appointment being an-
nounced by A. J. Kendrick, vice-president and
general sales manager of the Sonora Phono-
land, Esthonia, Finland, France, Germany,
Greece, Guatemala, Holland, Hungary, Iceland,
India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Java, Jugoslavia,
Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malay Penin-
sula, Morocco, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway,
Palestine, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal,
Roumania, Santo Domingo, Scotland, South
Africa, Spain, Straits Settlements, Sumatra,
Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Turkey, Uruguay
and Venezuela. Certainly an imposing list.
Nicholas W. Weser Enters
Business Father Founded
Second Son of Late John W. Weser Becomes
Actively Engaged in Piano Manufacturing
Business in New York
Nicholas W. Weser, second son of the late
John Weser, who founded the firm of Weser
Bros., Inc., in 1879, has just become actively
Question Allowance to
Music Store Receiver
New Sherman-Clay Manager
Appointed in Portland
3,000 Children Taking Music
Instruction in One County
E. A. Kieselhorst Now
Sojourning in Florida
©Blank & Stoller
Nicholas W. Weser
engaged in the business and is diligently work-
ing each day in the production end learning in
detail how to construct pianos.
Mr. Weser, who just recently became of age,
was educated in the McBurney School, New
York, and Franklin & Marshall University. He
will devote as much time as is necessary for
him to absorb every detail in piano construc-
tion before studying the other branches of the
business.
Another son, John Weser, Jr., is at present
taking a postgraduate course at the Tuck
School of Business at Dartmouth College and
it is expected that he will join the Weser or-
ganization in May of this year.
Both of these young men will school them-
selves with practical experience in the piano
manufacturing business so that in years to
come they will be able to carry on this for-
midable piano manufacturing institution which
was founded by their father and has become
recognized as one of the strongest in the piano
industry.
Receiver for Miller Co.
PHILADELPHIA, PA., March 12.—Nathan R.
Rambo, of this city has been appointed perma-
nent receiver for the Miller Piano Co., of West
Chester, Pa., which was involved in bankruptcy
proceedings here a few days ago. Bond has
been fixed for $30,000 by the United States
District Court sitting in this city in which the
petition has been filed.
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