Music Trade Review
Issue: 1954 Vol. 113 N. 14 - Page 9
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FOUNDATION COMMITTEE
(Continued from Page 5)
low from time to time in the future will
be supplemental (rather than alterna-
tive) to the basic program which will
soon be started.
Piano—the Gateway to All Music
"In the piano, we have the gateway
to all music, and a source of education,
entertainment, and of personal improve-
ment, not equalled by any other article
of commerce, but there are not enough
people who know that this is true. There
is no lack of market, but there has been
a lack of proper appeal to the market
that exists. Our program will show how
to correct that.
Letters are being sent to members of
the NPTVIA and the National Piano
Member Association soliciting sugges-
tions for future promotion.
Highest Piano Production
in September for Wurlitzer
September production of pianos at
the Wurlitzer, DeKalb, 111. plant ex-
ceeded that of any September in the en-
tire history of the Company. Present
indications are that production of pi-
anos between now and the holidays will
be in excess of the same period a year
ago-
Retail sales have increased sharply
during the past few weeks and we ex-
pect business to be good during the
fall and winter.
Unfilled orders for defense products
stand at approximately $7,000,000 at
the present time.
Sales of The Rudolph Wurlitzer Co.
for the second quarter (July, August
and September) were $8,955,785, up
25% from $7,179,664 in the corres-
ponding quarter of last year. Net earn-
ings for the quarter were $185,090. or
22c per share of common stock. This
compares with a net loss of $49,022 for
the same period a year ago.
For the first six months (April to
September inclusive) sales were $18,-
599,631, up 29% from $14,422,133 for
last year. Net earnings were $475,186,
or 57c per share of common stock, in-
cluding a tax refund, as compared with
a loss of $71,371 in the corresponding
period of last year.
After the usual slow summer months,
fall business has been good in all divi-
sions of the Company.
Production of coin-operated phono-
graphs, electronic organs and defense
work at the North Tonawanda, N. Y.,
plant is satisfactory. Sales of this divi-
sion are expected to be good for the
next few months.
THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW, NOVEMBER, 1954
OLD PIANOS
Your Ready Reference Book
Reproducing approximately 250 photographs
of famous pianos from all over the world
England - France - Austria - Hawaii - Denmark - Switzerland
Germany and the United States
HERE ARE A FEW
First S+einweg (Steinway)
Grand made in 1836
First Chickering upright
First Steinway Grand
First Mathushek shipped
to San Diego
First two pianos shipped from
Germany to San Francisco 1843
First Chickering Square
First Steinway Square
First Chickering Grand
First home built in Anaheim 1857
(Mother colony)
First home built in Los Angeles,
California
First pianos made in America
Beethoven's Piano
Haydn's Piano
OTHER
PHOTOGRAPHS
INCLUDE
Albrecht
Antisell
Astor
Babcock
Bacon & Raven
Benson
Boardman & Gray
Bord
Bosendorfer
Bradbury
Broadwood
Brown & Allen
Cadby
Collard & Collard
Crehore
Cummings & Canfield
Decker
Dunham
Emerson
Erard
Firth-Hall & Pond
Fischer
Fisk
SOME
Jenny Lind's Chickering Piano
Madam Modjeska's Square
Richard Wagner's Piano
Mozart's Piano
Stephen Foster's Piano
Teddy Roosevelt's Piano
Tom Thumb's (The Midget) Piano
Abraham Lincoln's Piano
Lowell Mason's Piano on which he
wrote "Nearer My God to Thee"
Clavichords and harpsichords dat-
ing back to 1546; several dated
between 1600 and 1700; many
from 1700 to 1800.
Small upright owned by Mary
Dodds Lincoln, wife of Abraham
Lincoln.
OF THE FIRST PIANOS
Gaehle & Maws
Gale
Geib
Hallet & Davis
Hallet & Cumston
Hardman
Harper
Hass
Hawkins
Hiskey
Kearsing
Kimball
Kirkman
Kirchmann
Klein
Kuhn
Kroeger
Light & Newton
Lindeman
Longman & Broderip
Mackay
Mathushek
Monington & Weston
MANUFACTURED
SUCH AS:
Nunns & Clark
Osborne
Pape
Peters & Cragg
Playel
Roller & Blanchett
Ruckers
Schmidt & Flohr
Schomacker
Sohtner
Staples
Stein
Stodart
Streicher
Sturm & Miller
Taskin
Weber
Whaites & Charters
Wheelock
Wilkins & Hall
Wornum
Zumpe
ORDER NOW!
Your Order Blank "Old Pianos" $6.50
Please send (
) copies of '"''Old Pianos 97
Name
Address
City
State
N. E. MICHEL
9123 Terradell Ave., Rivera, Calif.
,J
9
FOUNDATION COMMITTEE
(Continued from Page 5)
low from time to time in the future will
be supplemental (rather than alterna-
tive) to the basic program which will
soon be started.
Piano—the Gateway to All Music
"In the piano, we have the gateway
to all music, and a source of education,
entertainment, and of personal improve-
ment, not equalled by any other article
of commerce, but there are not enough
people who know that this is true. There
is no lack of market, but there has been
a lack of proper appeal to the market
that exists. Our program will show how
to correct that.
Letters are being sent to members of
the NPTVIA and the National Piano
Member Association soliciting sugges-
tions for future promotion.
Highest Piano Production
in September for Wurlitzer
September production of pianos at
the Wurlitzer, DeKalb, 111. plant ex-
ceeded that of any September in the en-
tire history of the Company. Present
indications are that production of pi-
anos between now and the holidays will
be in excess of the same period a year
ago-
Retail sales have increased sharply
during the past few weeks and we ex-
pect business to be good during the
fall and winter.
Unfilled orders for defense products
stand at approximately $7,000,000 at
the present time.
Sales of The Rudolph Wurlitzer Co.
for the second quarter (July, August
and September) were $8,955,785, up
25% from $7,179,664 in the corres-
ponding quarter of last year. Net earn-
ings for the quarter were $185,090. or
22c per share of common stock. This
compares with a net loss of $49,022 for
the same period a year ago.
For the first six months (April to
September inclusive) sales were $18,-
599,631, up 29% from $14,422,133 for
last year. Net earnings were $475,186,
or 57c per share of common stock, in-
cluding a tax refund, as compared with
a loss of $71,371 in the corresponding
period of last year.
After the usual slow summer months,
fall business has been good in all divi-
sions of the Company.
Production of coin-operated phono-
graphs, electronic organs and defense
work at the North Tonawanda, N. Y.,
plant is satisfactory. Sales of this divi-
sion are expected to be good for the
next few months.
THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW, NOVEMBER, 1954
OLD PIANOS
Your Ready Reference Book
Reproducing approximately 250 photographs
of famous pianos from all over the world
England - France - Austria - Hawaii - Denmark - Switzerland
Germany and the United States
HERE ARE A FEW
First S+einweg (Steinway)
Grand made in 1836
First Chickering upright
First Steinway Grand
First Mathushek shipped
to San Diego
First two pianos shipped from
Germany to San Francisco 1843
First Chickering Square
First Steinway Square
First Chickering Grand
First home built in Anaheim 1857
(Mother colony)
First home built in Los Angeles,
California
First pianos made in America
Beethoven's Piano
Haydn's Piano
OTHER
PHOTOGRAPHS
INCLUDE
Albrecht
Antisell
Astor
Babcock
Bacon & Raven
Benson
Boardman & Gray
Bord
Bosendorfer
Bradbury
Broadwood
Brown & Allen
Cadby
Collard & Collard
Crehore
Cummings & Canfield
Decker
Dunham
Emerson
Erard
Firth-Hall & Pond
Fischer
Fisk
SOME
Jenny Lind's Chickering Piano
Madam Modjeska's Square
Richard Wagner's Piano
Mozart's Piano
Stephen Foster's Piano
Teddy Roosevelt's Piano
Tom Thumb's (The Midget) Piano
Abraham Lincoln's Piano
Lowell Mason's Piano on which he
wrote "Nearer My God to Thee"
Clavichords and harpsichords dat-
ing back to 1546; several dated
between 1600 and 1700; many
from 1700 to 1800.
Small upright owned by Mary
Dodds Lincoln, wife of Abraham
Lincoln.
OF THE FIRST PIANOS
Gaehle & Maws
Gale
Geib
Hallet & Davis
Hallet & Cumston
Hardman
Harper
Hass
Hawkins
Hiskey
Kearsing
Kimball
Kirkman
Kirchmann
Klein
Kuhn
Kroeger
Light & Newton
Lindeman
Longman & Broderip
Mackay
Mathushek
Monington & Weston
MANUFACTURED
SUCH AS:
Nunns & Clark
Osborne
Pape
Peters & Cragg
Playel
Roller & Blanchett
Ruckers
Schmidt & Flohr
Schomacker
Sohtner
Staples
Stein
Stodart
Streicher
Sturm & Miller
Taskin
Weber
Whaites & Charters
Wheelock
Wilkins & Hall
Wornum
Zumpe
ORDER NOW!
Your Order Blank "Old Pianos" $6.50
Please send (
) copies of '"''Old Pianos 97
Name
Address
City
State
N. E. MICHEL
9123 Terradell Ave., Rivera, Calif.
,J
9
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