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CONVINCING TRIBUTES TO
SALAB1UTY OF 'STRAUBE'
September 8, 1923
FOUR HOTELS BUY BALDWIN PIANOS
Words of Several Live Dealers Tell Why
Instruments From Hammond Are
Pushing Steadily Forward.
If the tributes of dealers are taken as a criterion,
the Straube Piano Company, of Hammond, Indiana,
is fast getting to the point where its products will
sell themselves on sheer merit alone! The latest
tribute for Straube comes from Clinton Randolph,
head of the Randolph Music Store, Aurora, 111. In-
cidentally, Mr. Randolph is looked upon generally
as a careful merchandiser of things musical, and is
not given to passing on his endorsement on slight
pretext.
Mr. Randolph made a special trip to the Straube
factory last week to place his Fall order, and while
there made the following statements to Straube
officials and other visitors who happened to be in the
office of E. R. Jacobson, president of the company:
"As long as I can buy instruments like those
built by Straube, at the price I am paying you, there
is every reason why I should push the Straube line
hard.
"I have several players on my floor at this time,
but I can't sell them after the customer gets a look
at the Straube products. I have given a great deal
of time and study to the matter and have come to
the conclusion that the Straube proposition, looked
at from every angle, is the best one available."
"I am having a special sale," wrote another dealer,
"to clear my floors of everything save Straube prod-
ucts. It is foolish for me to try to sell any other
player after I have demonstrated a Straube. So why
have the other stock around in the way? If you
have any suggestions to make about a sale, please
send them to me as I am ready to begin advertising
the special."
Twelve new dealers were added to the already
enviable Straube list last week.
BIG MUSIC SCHOOL BUYS
TWENTY=TWO BEHR PIANOS
MacPhail School of Music of Minneapolis
Equipped with Many New York
Instruments.
One of the largest individual sales of pianos on
record was recently completed by the delivery to the
MacPhail School of Music, Minneapolis, of twenty-
two Behr Brothers grand pianos. The MacPhail
School purchased the instruments through the Stone
Piano Company, Behr Brothers representatives in
Minneapolis.
• The occasion for the purchase was the opening of
the new building of the MacPhail School. The new
school is a handsome, four-story brick-and-stone
structure, containing offices, studios and an audi-
torium seating 350 people. It is one of the largest
buildings in the world devoted exclusively to instruc-
tion in music and dramatic art, costing $350,000.
The MacPhail School of Music is an important in-
stitution in the civic life of Minneapolis. Its student
enrollment now numbers over 4,000; it employs 125
teachers, some of them with national and international
reputations. Its Orchestral Art Society, numbering
some 100" students, teachers and outside lovers of
music, gives several concerts each season.
The
faculty concerts, given each year, are recognized
among the leading events in the city's musical calen-
dar. The school supplies talent for banquets, social
Two Baldwin grand pianos have been purchased
and placed in each of the hotels illustrated above.
The building at the left is the Hotel Charlotte, Char-
lotte, N. C. The buildings in the center are: At the
top, the O'Henry Hotel, Greensboro, N. C, and at
the bottom the George Washington Hotel, Washing-
ton, Pa. The hotel at the right is the Francis Marion,
Charleston, S. C.
events, concerts, dramatics, etc.
This important
position in music-loving Minneapolis has been gained
in the phenomenally brief time of sixteen years, the
MacPhail School having been founded in 1907.
That the Behr Brothers grand piano should have
been selected as the official instrument of such an
institution is an impressive tribute from skilled pian-
ists to the qualities and workmanship of the instru-
ment. Behr Brothers & Co., Inc., are to be con-
gratulated upon the receipt of such tangible evidence
of appreciation, and also upon the fact that students
frotn all parts of the United States will return to
their homes from the MacPhail School to spread the
prestige of the Behr Brothers grand.
NEW MUSIC STORE FOR
OCONTO, WIS., NOW ASSURED
AWFUL DISCOVERY OF A
COUNTY ATTORNEY IN UTAH
Agent of Law Will See How Great a Crime is Bottle
Concealed in Piano.
County Attorney David J. Wilson, of Ogden, Utah,
is consulting the law books with a view to ascertain-
ing whether or not he has the power to confiscate a
piano found in that city recently with a pint of
whiskey concealed in its case. Mr. Wilson says if
an automobile carrying liquor can be taken, why not
a piano? The case is unique, and it is but the second
instance when the musical instrument has been sus-
pected of defying- the Volstead act and serving as
a life-saver in time of draught.
The first case of the kind was that in which a
prominent Chicago capitalist had stowed away a lot
of liquid delight in either a piano case or a Victrola
box, and the music was stopped on its way. The
Ogden case will no doubt be followed with interest.
The Morgan Music Company, at 119 West Cherry
street, Herrin, 111., will move their store to the
Raddle Building on North Fifteenth street.
Arno Maigatter, Widely Known as Orchestra Leader
in Section, Is Owner.
A new music store is to be opened in Oconto, Wis.,
by Arno Maigatter, at present in the music business
in Oconto Falls.
The work of remodeling a building will be started
immediately. There will be three individual booths,
two for records and playerpianos, and everything
will be arranged according to the most modern
music store layout.
Mr. Maigatter is well known locally as an or-
chestra leader and proprietor of the music store in
Oconto Falls, which he has operated for the past six
years. For a number of years he was a member of
the most widely known orchestras in the state, and
he was also very active as an orchestra director until
the pressure of his business duties forced him to
give up that line of work.
A general line of music goods will be handled at
the new store and quality merchandise on which the
public can depend will be stocked.
ADDS MUSIC DEPARTMENT.
Herman White will add a music department to his
business in Williamsburg, Ky., at the completion of a
new building now under construction. The building
will be the most modern in the city, and the show-
rooms in the new music section will be decorated
and furnished in an attractive way.
The upper
floors will be finished into spacious and well-venti-
lated office rooms. In the front, the finishing will
be onyx and bronze, which will add greatly to the
appearance of the building, which has a very desirable
location on Main street.
New Edition Ready About November First
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