Music Trade Review
Issue: 1954 Vol. 113 N. 5 - Page 4
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Once More—Many Thanks!!
Wayne. Pa.
My Dear Carleton;
I just received my copy of the 75th
anniversary issue of the Music Trade
Review and my hearty congratulation?
for a fine and most interesting job
that you did in it.
What memories it brings back, the
old timers like myself who I knew
almost to a man and I was further im-
pressed with the fact that as the issue
says that you started in the business
at the day after Labor Day 1908.
which, just happens to be the exact
day that I also started in it, just after
I had graduated from high-school when
the late Charles E. Wells then sales
manager of the Knight-Campbell Music
Co. in Denver gave me my first job at
$8.00 a week. To my dying day I
shall never forget the first talk he gave
me about the piano business and I still
laugh over it. He gave me to under-
stand that if I were to run off with the
bosses daughter or pad my expense
account that it might be overlooked,
but that if ever I let a week go by that
I had not worked at least two or three
nights, that was an unpardonable sin
which would never be forgiven.
Those words must have stuck for as
a matter of fact, for some thirty-five
years to follow, I worked that many
nights or more each and every week
and it paid dividends. Your remarks
about the quality of men that our in-
dustry has produced only puts it mildly
as I consider them the fineest type of
men that I have ever known in any line
of business. Never did I find even one
who was not willing and glad to give
me a helping hand and a boost when
I needed it. I take my hat off in silent
thanks to those who are still with us
and those other grand fellows who have
passed away. I only hope that the
piano industry will produce in the
future as fine and capable men as those
who preceeded them.
This is just a little note to thank
you for this issue and to let you know
that there is at least one other in the
business as long as you have been. My
hearty congratulations and every good,
wish to you. believe me.
Most cordially yours.
Charles S. Onderdonk. Jr.
R.F.D. 1. Wayne. Pa.
Dekalb. Ill
April 7. 1954
Dear Carleton:
It was nice receiving from you a
personal copy of the 75th Anniversary
issue of the Music Trade Review.
\ o u certainly did an excellent job
preparing this issue, as you do on all
others, and I enjoyed reading it im-
mensely. The historical information
should be particularly interesting to
those of us who have not been in the
piano industry as long as some.
Thank you again for your thought-
fulness.
Cordially.
RUDOLPH WURLITZER CO..
Jim Rolfing,
Assistant Manager
DeKalb Division
East Rochester. N. Y.
April 8. 1954.
Dear Carleton:
Many thanks for sending me the
copy of your 75th anniversary Review.
I want to congratulate you on the very
fine work you have done in connection
with this anniversary issue and to ex-
press my appreciation of the very fine
article referring to our various com-
panies which appeared in your maga-
zine.
Sincerely,
R. A. Hill. President
Aeolian American Corp.
Philadelphia.
April 10. 1954.
Dear Mr. Chace:
Thank you very much for your letter
of March 26. also for the copies of the
Review. \^ e will see that Luke Moore
gets one. It was indeed a very inter-
seting story and we thank you.
This anniversary issue, we think, is
one of the finest we have ever read and
you are to be complimented.
Best regards.
Very sincerely yours.
IN. Stetson Company.
W. E. Voltz. President.
Cincinnati. Ohio.
April 8. 1954.
Dear Carleton :
Thanks very much for your letter of
March 26. We all felt that your '75th
Anniversary' was a great success and
a very good and worthwhile reporting
of the history of most of the important
piano companies.
Our sincere congratulations! May
the REVIEW have another successful
75 vears.
,. ..
r
Cordially.
The Baldwin Piano Company.
James M. E. Mixter
A
*S\
DeKalb. Ill
.,'*:--'*VV April 7. 1954.
Dear Carleton
Thank you for vour thoughtful ness
in sending me a Hat copy of the "75th
Anniversary " number of the "Review."
It is a splendid issue for which you and
your associates are entitled to a great
deal of credit. We congratulate the
Music Trade Review upon its ""75th
Anniversary* number.
It is with more than common or
ordinary interest that we read the ma-
terial and looked over the pictures in
that section entitled "75 Years Or
More." Moreover, it provided addi-
tional interest to "review" all of this in
relation to the current material and
current photographs with which this
issue was so well equipped.
\^e believe everyone in the piano
business, as well as ourselves, feels
grateful to you and your associates for
this very considerate service you have
rendered to the piano industry, and we
join with all of them in wishing all of
you continued good health, good for-
tune and happiness.
Yours sincerely,
THE RUDOLPH WURLITZER CO..
Hugh Stewart.
Vice-President and Sales Mgr..
DeKalb Division
New York, N. Y.
April 7. 195k
Dear Carlclon:
Thanks very much for yours of
March 19th. and for the copy of the
REVIEW which is a very fine job. We
were delighted to be part of it. and
were pleased to be included.
With best wishes to you. I remain
Sincerely yours.
STEIN WAY & SONS
John H. Steinway.
Advertising Manager
Birmingham. Ala.
April 12. 1954.
Dear Mr. Chace:
I enclose you an ad which ran in
Monday's paper here, April 5 issue,
and thought you might be interested in
making some comments about it.
I am very much interested in the
picture you put in. and the history you
are writing up about the piano manu-
facturing industry many years ago. I
remember very well riding with your
former president and going up on the
mountains out in San Francisco, when
we had the piano merchants convention
there.
I always enjoy your paper, and think
it is very helpful to the trade.
Yours very truly.
E. E. Forbes. Sr.. President
E. E. Forbes Piano Co.
THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW, MAY, 19 4
Once More—Many Thanks!!
Wayne. Pa.
My Dear Carleton;
I just received my copy of the 75th
anniversary issue of the Music Trade
Review and my hearty congratulation?
for a fine and most interesting job
that you did in it.
What memories it brings back, the
old timers like myself who I knew
almost to a man and I was further im-
pressed with the fact that as the issue
says that you started in the business
at the day after Labor Day 1908.
which, just happens to be the exact
day that I also started in it, just after
I had graduated from high-school when
the late Charles E. Wells then sales
manager of the Knight-Campbell Music
Co. in Denver gave me my first job at
$8.00 a week. To my dying day I
shall never forget the first talk he gave
me about the piano business and I still
laugh over it. He gave me to under-
stand that if I were to run off with the
bosses daughter or pad my expense
account that it might be overlooked,
but that if ever I let a week go by that
I had not worked at least two or three
nights, that was an unpardonable sin
which would never be forgiven.
Those words must have stuck for as
a matter of fact, for some thirty-five
years to follow, I worked that many
nights or more each and every week
and it paid dividends. Your remarks
about the quality of men that our in-
dustry has produced only puts it mildly
as I consider them the fineest type of
men that I have ever known in any line
of business. Never did I find even one
who was not willing and glad to give
me a helping hand and a boost when
I needed it. I take my hat off in silent
thanks to those who are still with us
and those other grand fellows who have
passed away. I only hope that the
piano industry will produce in the
future as fine and capable men as those
who preceeded them.
This is just a little note to thank
you for this issue and to let you know
that there is at least one other in the
business as long as you have been. My
hearty congratulations and every good,
wish to you. believe me.
Most cordially yours.
Charles S. Onderdonk. Jr.
R.F.D. 1. Wayne. Pa.
Dekalb. Ill
April 7. 1954
Dear Carleton:
It was nice receiving from you a
personal copy of the 75th Anniversary
issue of the Music Trade Review.
\ o u certainly did an excellent job
preparing this issue, as you do on all
others, and I enjoyed reading it im-
mensely. The historical information
should be particularly interesting to
those of us who have not been in the
piano industry as long as some.
Thank you again for your thought-
fulness.
Cordially.
RUDOLPH WURLITZER CO..
Jim Rolfing,
Assistant Manager
DeKalb Division
East Rochester. N. Y.
April 8. 1954.
Dear Carleton:
Many thanks for sending me the
copy of your 75th anniversary Review.
I want to congratulate you on the very
fine work you have done in connection
with this anniversary issue and to ex-
press my appreciation of the very fine
article referring to our various com-
panies which appeared in your maga-
zine.
Sincerely,
R. A. Hill. President
Aeolian American Corp.
Philadelphia.
April 10. 1954.
Dear Mr. Chace:
Thank you very much for your letter
of March 26. also for the copies of the
Review. \^ e will see that Luke Moore
gets one. It was indeed a very inter-
seting story and we thank you.
This anniversary issue, we think, is
one of the finest we have ever read and
you are to be complimented.
Best regards.
Very sincerely yours.
IN. Stetson Company.
W. E. Voltz. President.
Cincinnati. Ohio.
April 8. 1954.
Dear Carleton :
Thanks very much for your letter of
March 26. We all felt that your '75th
Anniversary' was a great success and
a very good and worthwhile reporting
of the history of most of the important
piano companies.
Our sincere congratulations! May
the REVIEW have another successful
75 vears.
,. ..
r
Cordially.
The Baldwin Piano Company.
James M. E. Mixter
A
*S\
DeKalb. Ill
.,'*:--'*VV April 7. 1954.
Dear Carleton
Thank you for vour thoughtful ness
in sending me a Hat copy of the "75th
Anniversary " number of the "Review."
It is a splendid issue for which you and
your associates are entitled to a great
deal of credit. We congratulate the
Music Trade Review upon its ""75th
Anniversary* number.
It is with more than common or
ordinary interest that we read the ma-
terial and looked over the pictures in
that section entitled "75 Years Or
More." Moreover, it provided addi-
tional interest to "review" all of this in
relation to the current material and
current photographs with which this
issue was so well equipped.
\^e believe everyone in the piano
business, as well as ourselves, feels
grateful to you and your associates for
this very considerate service you have
rendered to the piano industry, and we
join with all of them in wishing all of
you continued good health, good for-
tune and happiness.
Yours sincerely,
THE RUDOLPH WURLITZER CO..
Hugh Stewart.
Vice-President and Sales Mgr..
DeKalb Division
New York, N. Y.
April 7. 195k
Dear Carlclon:
Thanks very much for yours of
March 19th. and for the copy of the
REVIEW which is a very fine job. We
were delighted to be part of it. and
were pleased to be included.
With best wishes to you. I remain
Sincerely yours.
STEIN WAY & SONS
John H. Steinway.
Advertising Manager
Birmingham. Ala.
April 12. 1954.
Dear Mr. Chace:
I enclose you an ad which ran in
Monday's paper here, April 5 issue,
and thought you might be interested in
making some comments about it.
I am very much interested in the
picture you put in. and the history you
are writing up about the piano manu-
facturing industry many years ago. I
remember very well riding with your
former president and going up on the
mountains out in San Francisco, when
we had the piano merchants convention
there.
I always enjoy your paper, and think
it is very helpful to the trade.
Yours very truly.
E. E. Forbes. Sr.. President
E. E. Forbes Piano Co.
THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW, MAY, 19 4
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