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Kohler-Brambach Piano Co. Formed
With Mark P. Campbell as President
The culmination of several months of negotia-
tions between the various boards of directors
of the Kohler Industries requited last week in
an agreement to unite the activities of the vari-
ous piano companies affiliated with this organ-
ization in one unit to be known as the Kohler-
Brambach Piano Co., Inc., with the following
It further guarantees a financial stability
capable of coping with and abetting the various
financial problems of the dealers doing business
with this corporation.
In reviewing the situation and commenting
upon the organizing of this new corporation,
factured in the country in 1929 was twice as
much as in former years. It is, therefore, with
the greatest confidence that we start on this
new procedure backed with financial and
manufacturing facilities which in every way can
meet the requirements of the retail music in-
dustry."
Frederick Piano Co. Offices
Are Moved to Pittsburgh
PITTSBURGH, PA.—The general offices of the W.
F. Frederick Piano Co., which for years were
located at Uniontown, Pa., have been moved to
Pittsburgh. W. F. Frederick, president of the
company, who for years also maintained his
offices at Uniontown, now has his office in the
Oppenheim-Collins Co. Building, corner Penn
avenue and Fifth avenue. Miss Mary Mahoney,
secretary to Mr. Frederick, is also located in
Pittsburgh in the same position. The Frederick
Co. has the fourth and fifth floors of Oppen-
heim-Collins Co. Building. One floor is devoted
to the exclusive sale of pianos and the other for
the wholesale Victor and Zenith radio trade.
American Piano Co. Moves
Toward Reorganization
Mark P. Campbell
as officers:
Mark P. Campbell, president;
Gordon Campbell, vice-president; Julius A.
White, treasurer, and Corley Gibson, secretary.
This company embodies all the strength of
the various piano companies affiliated with this
organization and the combined production
thereof, which since their inception has been
At a meeting of the creditors' committee of
the American Piano Co. held on February 25,
at the office of the receivership department of
the Irving Trust Co., Walter A. Hall, counsel
Corley Gibson
for the preferred stockholders' protective com-
Mark P. Campbell said to a representative of
mittee, stated that substantial progress had been
The Review, "We have every confidence that made toward the effective reorganization of the
from now on the piano business will continue American Piano Co.
to show a steady improvement. Although I do
Harry H. Wolf of Chicago, accountant and
not feel that the demand will come in the form
reorganization engineer, who has been retained
of a boom, I do look for an increase in produc- by the preferred stockholders' protective com-
tion of from 20 to 25 per cent during the com- mittee to make a review of the present condi-
ing year. In the Kohler-Brambach Piano Co., tion of the company and formulate a plan of
Inc., there is combined in one unit the tremen- reorganization, has been asked by prospective
underwriters to certify to the results of his
review, and Mr. Hall stated that it is anticipated
that the prospective underwriters will be in a
position within the next few days to submit
definite proposals which will make the reor-
ganization effective.
Annual Meeting of
the Clark Music Co.
SYRACUSE, N. Y.—At the annual meeting of the
Clark Music Co., held here February 14, Mel-
ville Clark was re-elected president; G. L. Ches-
bro, vice-president and treasurer; D. S. Clark,
secretary; and F. W. Jackson, assistant secre-
tary. Those names, together with A. K. Laug
and E. C. Bajus, constitute the board of direc-
tors.
It was reported that the business for 1929 had
been most satisfactory and that the future is
particularly bright, the company having pro-
cured the representation in Syracuse of the
Steinway and Aeolian company lines.
Gordon G. Campbell
three-quarters of a million pianos which are in
use throughout the country at the present time.
It also puts into effect the co-ordination of
manufacturing facilities which, combined with
the tremendous resources of this organization,
will prove highly beneficial to those dealers
handling the line marketed by this corporation.
Julius A. White
dous resources of various corporations who up
to this time have produced and marketed over a
quarter of a million of pianos and player-pianos.
In fact during the last year the percentage of
pianos produced by the organizations which are
now included in the Kohler-Brambach Piano
Co., Inc., in ratio to the number of pianos manu-
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Death of Leo Landau
Leo Landau, a member of the firm of the
Landau Music & Jewelry Co., Wilkes-Barre, Pa.,
died on February 11 in the Hazleton State Hos-
pital. Mr. Landau was thirty-three years old
and was manager of the Hazleton branch of the
company.