Music Trade Review
Issue: 1940 Vol. 99 N. 10 - Page 26
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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW,
26
OCTOBER, 1940
NEW MODELS FIRST SHIPPED IN OCTOBER
Kranich & Bach Style 39-C — 39" High
Kranich & Bach Style 39-E — 39" High
Kranich & Bach Style 38-S — 38" High
Blond Walnut and Ebony Novachord by
Hammond Instrument Co.
York Style 44—44" High and York Celeste 33" high by Weaver Piano Co., York, Pa.
68 Years in
One Location
At 92 J. R. Balliet Still Active in
Piano Business
Recently, Josiah ft. Balliet, Belvidere,
111. recently celebrated his 92nd birthday
and claims to be the oldest active music
dealer in the business today. He has been
in the music business under the same
name and in the same location for the
past 68 years.
Mr. Balliet's parents were pioneer
settlers who came to Illinois from
Mauch, Pa.. "Uncle Joe," as he is known
to his many friends, was born in a log
cabin, February 26, 1848. At the time
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of his birth James K. Polk, was Pres-
ident of the United States. Lincoln was
a rising young lawyer in Springfield, 111.,
and was not inaugurated President until
thirteen years later.
After attending a country school, he
acquired further education at a nearby
town and was awarded a teacher's cer-
tificate. He taught in country schools
throughout the northern part of Illinois
until 1872 when he decided to open a
music store in Belvidere.
Mr. and Mrs. Balliet celebrated their
golden* wedding anniversary before she
passed away in 1930. Last year Mr.
Balliet presented the local First Presby-
terian Church with a $5,000 pipe organ
as a memorial to her.
Mr. Balliet's life work has been inter-
woven with a great number of civic and
business activites. He was chiefly re-
sponsible for giving the city telephone
service and in bringing the first electric
lights to the city. It is also said that the
largest industrial plants now operating
in Belvidere located there through his
influence.
His chief hobby in earlier years was
hunting and fishing. Eighteen years ago
he took up golf and admits today that
golf has come near displacing his fishing
hobby.
Today, although he is entering his
93rd year in life and his 69th year in
business, at the same location and under
the same name, Mr. Balliet is still going
strong. He has handled Wurlitzer pianos
for many years.
THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW,
26
OCTOBER, 1940
NEW MODELS FIRST SHIPPED IN OCTOBER
Kranich & Bach Style 39-C — 39" High
Kranich & Bach Style 39-E — 39" High
Kranich & Bach Style 38-S — 38" High
Blond Walnut and Ebony Novachord by
Hammond Instrument Co.
York Style 44—44" High and York Celeste 33" high by Weaver Piano Co., York, Pa.
68 Years in
One Location
At 92 J. R. Balliet Still Active in
Piano Business
Recently, Josiah ft. Balliet, Belvidere,
111. recently celebrated his 92nd birthday
and claims to be the oldest active music
dealer in the business today. He has been
in the music business under the same
name and in the same location for the
past 68 years.
Mr. Balliet's parents were pioneer
settlers who came to Illinois from
Mauch, Pa.. "Uncle Joe," as he is known
to his many friends, was born in a log
cabin, February 26, 1848. At the time
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I S H M I COM PA NY
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B U F F A L
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of his birth James K. Polk, was Pres-
ident of the United States. Lincoln was
a rising young lawyer in Springfield, 111.,
and was not inaugurated President until
thirteen years later.
After attending a country school, he
acquired further education at a nearby
town and was awarded a teacher's cer-
tificate. He taught in country schools
throughout the northern part of Illinois
until 1872 when he decided to open a
music store in Belvidere.
Mr. and Mrs. Balliet celebrated their
golden* wedding anniversary before she
passed away in 1930. Last year Mr.
Balliet presented the local First Presby-
terian Church with a $5,000 pipe organ
as a memorial to her.
Mr. Balliet's life work has been inter-
woven with a great number of civic and
business activites. He was chiefly re-
sponsible for giving the city telephone
service and in bringing the first electric
lights to the city. It is also said that the
largest industrial plants now operating
in Belvidere located there through his
influence.
His chief hobby in earlier years was
hunting and fishing. Eighteen years ago
he took up golf and admits today that
golf has come near displacing his fishing
hobby.
Today, although he is entering his
93rd year in life and his 69th year in
business, at the same location and under
the same name, Mr. Balliet is still going
strong. He has handled Wurlitzer pianos
for many years.
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