Music Trade Review
Issue: 1932 Vol. 91 N. 6 - Page 16
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THE
16
MUSIC
TRADE
There IS no finer piano than a
KRANICH & BACH
Made under one family's supervision
since 1864
RANICH f BACH
237 EAST 2 3 " STREET
New York
REVIEW,
June-July, 1932
for the purpose of mapping out the program.
A feature of the Portsmouth meeting will
be an exhibition of pianos, band and orches-
tra instruments, radios and various home elec-
trical appliances.
Leading manufacturers
will be invited to make displays during the
convention and they will be open to the gen-
eral public.
In order to increase the membership rolls
of the Association before the convention, the
annual dues were reduced to $5.00. President
Carl E. Summers and Secretary Clark F.
Gross, of the Association, have been devoting
much time and effort to the work of the
organization and are apparently getting re-
sults in holding the interest of the members.
VASSAR COLLEGE MUSEUM
HAS OLD INSTRUMENTS
The Belle Skinner Hall of Music recently
opened at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie,
N. V., already has the beginning of a splen-
did collection of old musical instruments. The
latest acquisition is a small residence pipe
might have been sold in the past four or five organ, built in the early part of the last cen-
tury. It was built by the same firm which
years.
made the original organ for Vassar, in 1865,
This brought up the question of pianos in
Messrs. Labagh & Kemp, and was in use on
storage and not used, and David W. Kimball
Governors Island, New York City, for some
told of his experiments through offers to pay
years, and was also installed at Princeton
cash for old pianos, in finding out how little
University during the time the firm was com-
truth existed in the popular gossip about
pleting an organ for that institution. It has
warehouses being full of pianos unused by
been in the Kemp family home in Jersey City
the owners and waiting sales. The Kimball
for the past fifty years and it is given jointly
Co. offers in the advertising columns of the
by Joseph M. Priaulx, son-in-law of Mr.
Chicago Tribune to pay cash for unwanted
Kemp, in memory of his wife, Isabelle Mor-
pianos brought ridiculously few offers, and
rison Kemp (Prialux), and Louis F. Mohr
for these few the owners, paying storage,
& Co., of New York City, the organ mainte-
wanted prices as high as new instruments at
nance firm, who have always taken care of
retail.
the instrument. The father of the present
Then Local Manager L. C. Wagner, of the
Baldwin Piano Co., told of a survey his or- members of the Mohr firm made the pipes
ganization had recently made of the pianos of the first Vassar College organ, built in
1865 and destroyed by fire in 1918.
in sixty-five Chicago warehouses. Assertions
that there were hundreds proved to be true.
The instrument just given has five stops:
The owners continued to pay storage and only
open diapason, dulciana, stopped diapason,
thirteen were willing to sell their grands, and
principal and fifteenth. The open diapason
of these only three were resalable if the Bald-
and dulciana begin at tenor G, the lower
win Company had made the purchase. They
seventeen pipes of the stopped diapason are
did not. But the experience of the Kimball
used also as the lower notes of the open
and the Baldwin houses effectively disposed
diapason. The stop knobs are placed in a
of the myth about thousands of people want-
horizontal row directly above the keys. There
ing to get rid of their pianos, a useful fact
are no pedal stops, the pedal keys being per-
to know when one considers that the Baldwin
manently coupled to the manual keys. The
survey included sixty-five warehouses in Chi- organ is not enclosed in a swell box. It con-
cago, which is certainly comprehensive.
tains 236 pipes. The organ can be blown by
Then the veteran Adam Schneider wound
a foot pedal or by a bellows handle extend-
up this interesting round-table discussion by
ing forward and placed directly at the right
reminding his hearers that there were 500,000
of the bench. The casework is of mahogany
children in Chicago, graduates of public
and richly hand-carved.
schools, and 385,000 more from the parochial
The organ is installed in the midst of a
schools, each of whose parents were certainly
number of interesting exhibits. On its left
the best of prospects for piano sales.
stands an especially good model of an early
Resolutions of sympathy with the family of
American Melodion made by R. Burnbacker,
the late James Weibley were passed, and the of Washington, N. J., and on its right is a
next meeting is scheduled for September.
Broadwood piano of 1796, originally sold bv
John Jacob Astor to Hon. Edmund Living-
stone of Poughkeepsie.
MAY MEETING OF CHICAGO PIANO AND
ORGAN ASSOCIATION VERY INTERESTING
HE May luncheon meeting of the Chi-
cago Piano and Organ Association was
held May 19 at the Auditorium Hotel,
with President George L. Hall, Vice-presi-
dent Wagner, Secretary David W. Kimball,
Executive Secretary Adam Schneider and a
representative number of members present.
Excellent vocal music was furnished by a
quintet provided by Frank Bennett, of the
Baldwin Piano Co.'s local branch, and re-
ceived the thanks of the association in a for-
mal vote.
Adam Schneider reported on behalf of the
ways and means committee that it had been
decided not to make a formal protest to Con-
gress as an organization, as there did not
seem to be any probability of a sales tax be-
ing imposed this session on pianos.
He also reported on the situation of music
instruction in the public schools of Chicago,
and it was noted with satisfaction by the
members that out of all the pianos loaned to
the Chicago School Board for class piano in
struction by local dealers and manufacturers
only seven were idle, all the rest being in
daily use, and over seven thousand children
are now taking class piano instruction in the
local public schools.
Vice-President W. E. Guylee, of the Cable
Co., being called on for some remarks on the
trade, made a number of interesting points.
He spoke of the changed public attitude
toward the piano, and said that emphatically
the public no longer bought pianos as a mat-
ter of pride to make their homes complete,
but their enjoyment of the piano and of piano
music was evident from the national use of
the piano over the radio, since the programs,
after all, indicated more or less faithfully
what the public wanted in music.
But there was in Mr. Guvlee's opinion a
great reservoir of piano sales yet unmade, and
this could be profitably worked, in other sales
made, if we employ salesmen who know the
PLANNING PROGRAM FOR
piano and who can sell the piano as a musical
OHIO ASS'N CONVENTION
instrument. When that is done you have an
ever-growing influence for more sales. So if
Plans are now being whipped into shape
dealers and salesmen develop the thought that for the annual convention of the Music Mer-
the piano as a musical instrument, not as a
chants' Association of Ohio which will be
mere piece of furniture, is a bigger selling
held in Portsmouth, O., on September 13 and
force than ever before, our trade can recover
14, following an executive meeting of the
a large part of the million pianos which association officers held recently in Columbus
T
For Moths in Pianos Use
The Schall Laboratories
Piano-Moth-e X
Ten-year (Jiiiwantcr
Dealers - Tuners - Write :
TIIK SCHALL I.A HOKATOK1 KS
Madison Ave.,
l.a<'r«Ks.-, VVis.
THE
16
MUSIC
TRADE
There IS no finer piano than a
KRANICH & BACH
Made under one family's supervision
since 1864
RANICH f BACH
237 EAST 2 3 " STREET
New York
REVIEW,
June-July, 1932
for the purpose of mapping out the program.
A feature of the Portsmouth meeting will
be an exhibition of pianos, band and orches-
tra instruments, radios and various home elec-
trical appliances.
Leading manufacturers
will be invited to make displays during the
convention and they will be open to the gen-
eral public.
In order to increase the membership rolls
of the Association before the convention, the
annual dues were reduced to $5.00. President
Carl E. Summers and Secretary Clark F.
Gross, of the Association, have been devoting
much time and effort to the work of the
organization and are apparently getting re-
sults in holding the interest of the members.
VASSAR COLLEGE MUSEUM
HAS OLD INSTRUMENTS
The Belle Skinner Hall of Music recently
opened at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie,
N. V., already has the beginning of a splen-
did collection of old musical instruments. The
latest acquisition is a small residence pipe
might have been sold in the past four or five organ, built in the early part of the last cen-
tury. It was built by the same firm which
years.
made the original organ for Vassar, in 1865,
This brought up the question of pianos in
Messrs. Labagh & Kemp, and was in use on
storage and not used, and David W. Kimball
Governors Island, New York City, for some
told of his experiments through offers to pay
years, and was also installed at Princeton
cash for old pianos, in finding out how little
University during the time the firm was com-
truth existed in the popular gossip about
pleting an organ for that institution. It has
warehouses being full of pianos unused by
been in the Kemp family home in Jersey City
the owners and waiting sales. The Kimball
for the past fifty years and it is given jointly
Co. offers in the advertising columns of the
by Joseph M. Priaulx, son-in-law of Mr.
Chicago Tribune to pay cash for unwanted
Kemp, in memory of his wife, Isabelle Mor-
pianos brought ridiculously few offers, and
rison Kemp (Prialux), and Louis F. Mohr
for these few the owners, paying storage,
& Co., of New York City, the organ mainte-
wanted prices as high as new instruments at
nance firm, who have always taken care of
retail.
the instrument. The father of the present
Then Local Manager L. C. Wagner, of the
Baldwin Piano Co., told of a survey his or- members of the Mohr firm made the pipes
ganization had recently made of the pianos of the first Vassar College organ, built in
1865 and destroyed by fire in 1918.
in sixty-five Chicago warehouses. Assertions
that there were hundreds proved to be true.
The instrument just given has five stops:
The owners continued to pay storage and only
open diapason, dulciana, stopped diapason,
thirteen were willing to sell their grands, and
principal and fifteenth. The open diapason
of these only three were resalable if the Bald-
and dulciana begin at tenor G, the lower
win Company had made the purchase. They
seventeen pipes of the stopped diapason are
did not. But the experience of the Kimball
used also as the lower notes of the open
and the Baldwin houses effectively disposed
diapason. The stop knobs are placed in a
of the myth about thousands of people want-
horizontal row directly above the keys. There
ing to get rid of their pianos, a useful fact
are no pedal stops, the pedal keys being per-
to know when one considers that the Baldwin
manently coupled to the manual keys. The
survey included sixty-five warehouses in Chi- organ is not enclosed in a swell box. It con-
cago, which is certainly comprehensive.
tains 236 pipes. The organ can be blown by
Then the veteran Adam Schneider wound
a foot pedal or by a bellows handle extend-
up this interesting round-table discussion by
ing forward and placed directly at the right
reminding his hearers that there were 500,000
of the bench. The casework is of mahogany
children in Chicago, graduates of public
and richly hand-carved.
schools, and 385,000 more from the parochial
The organ is installed in the midst of a
schools, each of whose parents were certainly
number of interesting exhibits. On its left
the best of prospects for piano sales.
stands an especially good model of an early
Resolutions of sympathy with the family of
American Melodion made by R. Burnbacker,
the late James Weibley were passed, and the of Washington, N. J., and on its right is a
next meeting is scheduled for September.
Broadwood piano of 1796, originally sold bv
John Jacob Astor to Hon. Edmund Living-
stone of Poughkeepsie.
MAY MEETING OF CHICAGO PIANO AND
ORGAN ASSOCIATION VERY INTERESTING
HE May luncheon meeting of the Chi-
cago Piano and Organ Association was
held May 19 at the Auditorium Hotel,
with President George L. Hall, Vice-presi-
dent Wagner, Secretary David W. Kimball,
Executive Secretary Adam Schneider and a
representative number of members present.
Excellent vocal music was furnished by a
quintet provided by Frank Bennett, of the
Baldwin Piano Co.'s local branch, and re-
ceived the thanks of the association in a for-
mal vote.
Adam Schneider reported on behalf of the
ways and means committee that it had been
decided not to make a formal protest to Con-
gress as an organization, as there did not
seem to be any probability of a sales tax be-
ing imposed this session on pianos.
He also reported on the situation of music
instruction in the public schools of Chicago,
and it was noted with satisfaction by the
members that out of all the pianos loaned to
the Chicago School Board for class piano in
struction by local dealers and manufacturers
only seven were idle, all the rest being in
daily use, and over seven thousand children
are now taking class piano instruction in the
local public schools.
Vice-President W. E. Guylee, of the Cable
Co., being called on for some remarks on the
trade, made a number of interesting points.
He spoke of the changed public attitude
toward the piano, and said that emphatically
the public no longer bought pianos as a mat-
ter of pride to make their homes complete,
but their enjoyment of the piano and of piano
music was evident from the national use of
the piano over the radio, since the programs,
after all, indicated more or less faithfully
what the public wanted in music.
But there was in Mr. Guvlee's opinion a
great reservoir of piano sales yet unmade, and
this could be profitably worked, in other sales
made, if we employ salesmen who know the
PLANNING PROGRAM FOR
piano and who can sell the piano as a musical
OHIO ASS'N CONVENTION
instrument. When that is done you have an
ever-growing influence for more sales. So if
Plans are now being whipped into shape
dealers and salesmen develop the thought that for the annual convention of the Music Mer-
the piano as a musical instrument, not as a
chants' Association of Ohio which will be
mere piece of furniture, is a bigger selling
held in Portsmouth, O., on September 13 and
force than ever before, our trade can recover
14, following an executive meeting of the
a large part of the million pianos which association officers held recently in Columbus
T
For Moths in Pianos Use
The Schall Laboratories
Piano-Moth-e X
Ten-year (Jiiiwantcr
Dealers - Tuners - Write :
TIIK SCHALL I.A HOKATOK1 KS
Madison Ave.,
l.a<'r«Ks.-, VVis.
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