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FEBRUARY 2, 1929
The Music Trade Review
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Stultz & Bauer Baby Piano
Steinert Collection
Month-End Sales Help
Used in Melody Way Glasses
Placed on Exhibition
Anderson-Soward Trade
Officials of the McKee Music Co. of Charles-
DAYTON, O., January 26.— The past year has been
a record one in the long history of the Ander- ton, West Virginia, were so enthusiastic over
son-Soward Piano Co. here, according to the the success of a recent effort in Melody Way
management of this firm, which, with its busi- instruction, conducted at their store by Mrs.
ness ancestors, has a service record of seventy-
eight years to its credit.
One of the new features of the Anderson-
Soward service has been the month-end sales.
These sales, according to officials, have attracted
thousands of patrons and awakened old custo-
mers of the company to the many advantages of
making their purchases through this music
house.
This firm features the Steinway piano, the
Brunswick Panatropes, the Radiola, the Victor
Orthophonic and Zenith, Kolster and Steinite
radios. Officials of the company are very opti-
mistic concerning the prospects for a greatly
increased volume of business for 1929.
Court Holds That Radio
Receiver Is Not Luxury
UNIONTOWN, PA., January 28.—According to
Judge Thomas H. Hudson of the Fayette
County Courts, radio sets are no longer luxur-
ies, the court agreeing with the Title and Trust
Co., of western Pennsylvania that its charge,
William W. Beard, a war veteran, is entitled to
a radio as a part of his future happiness.
Beard, who resides at Connellsville, is a
veteran of the world war. Recently he ex-
pressed a desire for a radio. He is paid $100
a month from the U. S. Veterans' Bureau, and
of this sum $70 is expended for his mainten-
ance. As a result nearly $2,000 has accumu-
lated in the bank for Beard. The court author-
ized the expenditure of $146 for a radio set for
I'.eard.
McLaughlin, "The Music
Man" Occupies New Quarters
January 27.—McLaughlin, "The
Music Man," has removed from 607 Broadway to
the firm's new home at 117 North Third street.
For many years' McLaughlin was in business
at 317 Broadway, but moved to 607 Broadway
about one year ago. About the same time Mr.
McLaughlin purchased the Barksdale store
property at 117 North Third and within the past
few months contractors have been busily reno-
vating the building from the first to the third
floor. Today it is one of the most attractive
storerooms in the downtown district.
In the new location McLaughlin will carry
complete lines of pianos, radios^ phonographs
and small instruments.
PADUCAH, KY.,
Plan Radio Show
PHILADELPHIA, PA., January 27.—A special
"Radio Show" is to be staged by the music
merchants of the Tioga section of the city as
arranged at a meetrng recently. . It will he
held in the headquarters of the Tioga Business
Men's Association, 3308 Germantown avenue.
The meeting for the preliminary arrangements
was held in the music store of C. Zitzer and
Sons, 3422 Germantown avenue, when the
wholesale distributors of the various radio sets
now on the market arranged to co-operate with
the dealers in staging their own sectional show.
Among the firms who are instrumental in pro-
moting the show are the A. W. Hilliard Shop,
A. L. Henricks, L. R. Lowe, Modern Radio
Shoppe and the Mclvers Store.
The show managers are A. !L. Henricks and
Conrad Zitzer, who are president and secretary
of the Tioga Radio Dealers' Association, made
up of dealers from that section of the city.
The show is to be staged in the near future.
Harpsichord Once Owned by Napoleon and
Pianos Owned by Haydn and Beethoven
Among Notable Instruments to Be Shown
NEW HAVEN, CONN., January 27.—An exhibition
of the recently restored musical instruments in
the Morris Steinert collection will be held Tues-
day evening in the President's Room in Woolsey
Hall. This collection, one of the most complete
of its kind, was presented to Yale in 1900 by
Morris Steinert, of this city, and contains ancient
keyed and stringed instruments showing their
development during a period extending over
several centuries. It also contains a number
of ecclesiastical manuscripts.
Miss Lotta Van Buren, of New York City,
who has been in charge of the restoration of the
instruments, will play informally. Miss Van
Ikiren worked with Arnold Dolmetsch in Eng-
land upon the construction of clavichords,
harpsichords and spinets. She has spent a year
repairing the collection and has put one speci-
men of each type into playing condition.
Included in the collection are a harpsichord
once
owned by Napoleon and pianos once the
Two Embryo Pianists Who Won Honors in a
property of Haydn and Beethoven. Napoleon's
Melody Way Class
harpsichord was built by Jacobus Kirkman, a
Lambert, of that city, that they went to the ex- famous English builder of the eighteenth cen-
pense of having a picture taken of two of the tury. When Napoleon was banished he gave
prize winners with a Stultz & Bauer baby piano. the instrument to a French sergeant, who
These little ladies were elated at their success brought it to this country, locating at Scituate,
in the classes.
Mass. In 1833 it was sold to Simon Bates, of
For piano instruction among children these that town, and remained in the Bates family until
miniature pianos imbue the little ones with in- purchased by Mr. Steinert.
terest in their work.
The Haydn piano is a grand of unusually
Not only does this piano awaken the interest fine workmanship, with the delicate, graceful
of children, but the grownups as well make ex- outlines of a harpsichord. The Beethoven piano
cellent use of it. Many acts on the vaudeville was built by Nanette Stein, and is autographed
stage use these pianos and they have quite a by her on the soundboard. It has the sturdier
vogue among the night clubs and cabarets. build of the days when the piano no longer
These little pianos have even been used in
suggested a clavichord nor a harpsichord, but
broadcasting from an aeroplane in flight. Cer-
was
rapidly assuming the familiar proportions
tain traveling theatrical companies number this
of the modern instrument.
instrument among their equipment.
Oakland Piano Glasses Grow
Group Piano Instruction
Highly Praised by Bauer OAKLAND, CAL., January 25.—The Music Trades
Association of Northern California held a meet-
The emphatic endorsement of the class in- ing last week at the Athens Club, Oakland.
struction idea for music students by Harold Glenn H. Woods, Superintendent of the Music
Bauer, eminent concert pianist, was one of the Division, Oakland public schools, gave a great
outstanding developments at the meeting of the deal of interesting information on the teaching
school music committee of the Music Teachers' of piano-playing in Oakland public schools. He
National Association held in New York this said that the only difficulty is that more children
week. Mr. Bauer called attention to the fact .want instruction than can possibly be taken care
that most of the great teachers of the instru- of with the present keyboards available. There
ment, including Liszt, Rubinstein and Lesche- are 22 teachers working with the keyboards at
tizky, regarded their group instruction as giving the present time. The demand for keyboards
their pupils a most valuable experience. Class is so great that some of the teachers take them
instruction in violin and other instruments of from one school to another in their automobiles,
the orchestra and band is making steady prog- in order to give more children a chance to use
. ress, he said, and the advent of the piano cla,sses them. Mr. Woods a,lso said that more pupils
becomes almost an inevitable outgrowth of ex- want to take lessons in orchestral instruments
isting conditions.
than Oakland public schools can supply at pres-
"Pupils educated in this manner," Mr. Bauer ent, though the Oakland public schools are
stated, "with trained ears as well as trained fin- better equipped in this respect than are the
gers, are likely to show imagination and intel- school departments of most cities.
ligence in performance, not merely ability ac-
quired by painful effort to advance from one
grade of technical difficulty to another. Many a New Orleans Now in
student who has had years of individual instruc-
Radio Broadcasting Chain
tion is totally-unable to play a single piece ac-
ceptably, much less to take part in a duet or a
NEW ORLEANS, LA., January 27.-~The fact that
trio or even to read a simple accompaniment New Orleans was put on a national radio broad-
for a song. It may confidently be expected casting chain for the first time caused a great
that the spirit of emulation, the free interchange deal of interest in local music circles recently.
of ideas which group study provides, will de- After several months of work, officials of station
velop a vivid sense of music as a social activ- WDSU, one of New Orleans' most powerful
ity, than which there is no more enduring sat- stations, were rewarded by being linked with
isfaction."
the Columbia chain and these programs art
being broadcast three nights a week. This
The J. B. Parker Music Store, Ft. Myers Fla.. marks the first time that listeners in this city
has moved to new quarters on First street that have been able to hear a national chain pro-
gram through a local station.
city.