Presto
Issue: 1924 1959 - Page 7
February 9, 1924.
PRESTO
IF
MUSIC MERCHANTS PLAN
SOME GREAT ACTIVITIES
1
Executive and Advisory Boards Decide to In-
crease the Scope of National Bureau for
Advancement of Music.
you fail to secure the
agency for the See-
burg O r c h e s t r i o n s
and coin-operated pi-
anos you miss an all-
year-round source of
profit—a maximum of
results for a minimum
of effort.
They appeal to the
very best class of trade
because of their real
musical efficiency and
artistic appearance.
The cause of music advancement was the out-
standing feature of the Mid-Winter meeting of the
Executive and Advisory Boards of the National As-
sociation of Music Merchants held recently in New
York. The fact is important from the representative
character of the meeting and the earnestness of those
who participated in it. Every section of the country
was represented. Men from Portland, Maine, and
Los Angeles, Denver and Dallas, St. Louis' and
Washington, Pittsburgh and Milwaukee, Detroit and
Chicago, voiced the same sentiment—the need for
even greater effort in the cause of music advance-
ment.
All were loud in their praises of the work of the
National Bureau for the Advancement of Music and
Mr. Tremaine, whose genius has made it the out-
standing achievement of the industry. There was a
deep conviction, however, that the broad scope of the
National Bureau should be localized in order to secure
its greatest benefits, and that this could only be ac-
complished by the extending of the organization idea
into the local and state fields, that is, that the music
merchants in every city, district and state should be
organized into a unit for the advancement of the
cause of music in their own communities. That
these trade organizations should be developed with
the one idea of promoting music in their respective
communities. It was the consensus of opinion of all
present that too much stress had been given in the
past to remedying so-called evils in the trade when
the real objective should be the creation of an ever-
widening market for musical instruments by stimu-
lating a greater interest in music itself.
Out of this discussion came the suggestion that a
paid organizer be employed to go into the field to
organize state and local organizations. The concep-
tion was that this organizer would present to the
trade a concrete plan for the promotion locally of
music weeks, music memory contests and other ac-
tivities of the National Bureau in such a way as to
have a direct influence upon the musical life of the
community and thereby offer greater opportunities
for the sale of pianos and other musical instruments.
The lack of interest by music merchants in the
musical affairs of their communities is notorious. In
this sense no class of men do less to promote their
own business. To be sure if very much is to be ac-
complished it must be by co-operative effort and it
is the belief of the official boards that the action
taken at this meeting will, in course of time, result
in a cohesive organization throughout the country
to promote the noblest of the arts and to remove to
the vanishing point the possibility of saturation in
musical instruments.
They represent the
acme of durability and
simplicity of construc-
tion. "The sales stick."
Trade Conditions Are Good, Is Report Made by Out-
of-Town Callers.
Write for catalogs
and full information.
Among the early February visitors to the Chicago
trade this week were G. E. Hoffmann and H. T.
Hamner, of the Hoffmann Furniture & Undertaking
Co., Waynesburg, Pa., which sells the Story & Clark
line in that city. While in Chicago they called at the
offices of that company on South W'abash avenue.
Another early visitor -was H. L. Dahners, of the
music shop, Mandan, N. D., who represents the Bald-
win instruments and who visited the Baldwin Chi-
cago office of the Cincinnati industry.
AMONG EARLY FEBRUARY
VISITORS TO CHICAGO
AUSTIN CONRADI IS NEW
WELTE=MIGNON ARTIST
J. P. SEEBURG
PIANO CO.
Factory
Offices
1508-16 Dayton St.
1510 Dayton St.
CHICAGO, ILL.
Well Known Young Baltimore Pianist Scores Great
Success in Recent Recital.
Austin Conradi, well known young pianist, who
records exclusively for the Welte-Mignon (Licensee),
scored a great success at a recent recital in the Pea-
body Conservatory of Music, Baltimore, of the staff
of which institution he is a member. The following
press notice is typical of those that appeared in
Baltimore papers the day after the recital.
That Austin Conradi, the young Baltimore pianist,
who is largely a Peabody Conservatory product and
holds membership on the staff of that institution,
has gained greatly in musical insight, depth of con-
ception, breadth of interpretation and power to ex-
press sentiment as well as emotion was made very
patent yesterday afternoon in the course of his
playing of the Schumann "Papillons," and this feel-
ing was heightened when he followed the opus with
Liszt's Sonata in P> minor.
The impression created by the playing of the
Schumann number was further heightened by Mr.
Conradi's exceedingly broad and finished interpre-
tation of the Liszt opus, which became not merely an
exhibition of musical pyrotechnics but a performance
so characterized by deep emotion and sweeping
grandeur as to lift it far above a mere show of skill
and make it a finely sensitive and noble expression
of exalted sentiment. In both numbers Mr. Conradi
showed a remarkable ripeness of ideas for so young
a man.
MATT J. KENNEDY FINDS
OPTIMISM AMONG EASTERNERS
National Secretary Says Large Attendance at Con-
vention Is Anticipated by Executives.
Matt J. Kennedy, secretary of the National Asso-
ciation of Piano Merchants, with offices at the Repub-
lic Building, Chicago, where he represents the Pre-
mier Grand Piano Corporation, returned to Chicago
last week from a visit to New York and other eastern
MATT J. KENNEDY.
cities, where he attended a series of executive meet-
ings of the Music Merchants' Association.
"I found piano men everywhere to be optimistic in
regards to future trade conditions," said Mr. Ken-
nedy, to a Presto representative this week. '"The
meetings were a great success, and all those present
seemed to be assured of a big attendance and an en-
joyable and instructive time in New York during the
convention week in June."
DELIVERIES BY TRUCK.
Transportation by truck for distances formerly cov-
ered only by rail is now part of the efficient service
of the Grunewald Music Co., New Orleans. The com-
pany recently delivered three Steinway grand pianos
to Baton Rouge by truck. It is estimated by B. N.
Grunewald, president, that the expense of sending
the pianos by truck was one-fourth less than the
cost would have been by rail. The truck, too, on the
return trip, brought back the instruments that were
exchanged when the new ones were brought. The
truck, with four negro handlers and a piano tuner,
left New Orleans at 6 a. m. and arrived at Baton
Rouge at 11 a. m. The deliveries were completed
and the return trip started at 1 p. m., the truck get-
ting back to New Orleans at 5 p. m. The roads were
in excellent shape the entire trip and there may be a
"tip" in it for other piano houses.
ACTIVE CHICAGO DEALER.
A fine business during January, with the Gulbran-
sen registering piano, is reported by Jas. F. Budrick,
3343 S. Halsted street, Chicago. Mr. Budrick is
becoming one of the live dealers in Chicago's South
Side. His ability to advertise and display the Gul-
bransen is bringing him good results. He is also
making increasing sales of the U. S. Music Rolls.
OPENS WINSTON-SALEM BRANCH.
A branch store of the Bland Piano Co., Winston-
Salem, N. C, has been opened recently on West Fifth
street, in the Huntley-Hill-Stockton Co.'s Building.
The present store of the Bland concern on North
Main street will continue in operation and will in no
way be replaced by the new branch, which will fea-
ture the full line of the main store.
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PRESTO
IF
MUSIC MERCHANTS PLAN
SOME GREAT ACTIVITIES
1
Executive and Advisory Boards Decide to In-
crease the Scope of National Bureau for
Advancement of Music.
you fail to secure the
agency for the See-
burg O r c h e s t r i o n s
and coin-operated pi-
anos you miss an all-
year-round source of
profit—a maximum of
results for a minimum
of effort.
They appeal to the
very best class of trade
because of their real
musical efficiency and
artistic appearance.
The cause of music advancement was the out-
standing feature of the Mid-Winter meeting of the
Executive and Advisory Boards of the National As-
sociation of Music Merchants held recently in New
York. The fact is important from the representative
character of the meeting and the earnestness of those
who participated in it. Every section of the country
was represented. Men from Portland, Maine, and
Los Angeles, Denver and Dallas, St. Louis' and
Washington, Pittsburgh and Milwaukee, Detroit and
Chicago, voiced the same sentiment—the need for
even greater effort in the cause of music advance-
ment.
All were loud in their praises of the work of the
National Bureau for the Advancement of Music and
Mr. Tremaine, whose genius has made it the out-
standing achievement of the industry. There was a
deep conviction, however, that the broad scope of the
National Bureau should be localized in order to secure
its greatest benefits, and that this could only be ac-
complished by the extending of the organization idea
into the local and state fields, that is, that the music
merchants in every city, district and state should be
organized into a unit for the advancement of the
cause of music in their own communities. That
these trade organizations should be developed with
the one idea of promoting music in their respective
communities. It was the consensus of opinion of all
present that too much stress had been given in the
past to remedying so-called evils in the trade when
the real objective should be the creation of an ever-
widening market for musical instruments by stimu-
lating a greater interest in music itself.
Out of this discussion came the suggestion that a
paid organizer be employed to go into the field to
organize state and local organizations. The concep-
tion was that this organizer would present to the
trade a concrete plan for the promotion locally of
music weeks, music memory contests and other ac-
tivities of the National Bureau in such a way as to
have a direct influence upon the musical life of the
community and thereby offer greater opportunities
for the sale of pianos and other musical instruments.
The lack of interest by music merchants in the
musical affairs of their communities is notorious. In
this sense no class of men do less to promote their
own business. To be sure if very much is to be ac-
complished it must be by co-operative effort and it
is the belief of the official boards that the action
taken at this meeting will, in course of time, result
in a cohesive organization throughout the country
to promote the noblest of the arts and to remove to
the vanishing point the possibility of saturation in
musical instruments.
They represent the
acme of durability and
simplicity of construc-
tion. "The sales stick."
Trade Conditions Are Good, Is Report Made by Out-
of-Town Callers.
Write for catalogs
and full information.
Among the early February visitors to the Chicago
trade this week were G. E. Hoffmann and H. T.
Hamner, of the Hoffmann Furniture & Undertaking
Co., Waynesburg, Pa., which sells the Story & Clark
line in that city. While in Chicago they called at the
offices of that company on South W'abash avenue.
Another early visitor -was H. L. Dahners, of the
music shop, Mandan, N. D., who represents the Bald-
win instruments and who visited the Baldwin Chi-
cago office of the Cincinnati industry.
AMONG EARLY FEBRUARY
VISITORS TO CHICAGO
AUSTIN CONRADI IS NEW
WELTE=MIGNON ARTIST
J. P. SEEBURG
PIANO CO.
Factory
Offices
1508-16 Dayton St.
1510 Dayton St.
CHICAGO, ILL.
Well Known Young Baltimore Pianist Scores Great
Success in Recent Recital.
Austin Conradi, well known young pianist, who
records exclusively for the Welte-Mignon (Licensee),
scored a great success at a recent recital in the Pea-
body Conservatory of Music, Baltimore, of the staff
of which institution he is a member. The following
press notice is typical of those that appeared in
Baltimore papers the day after the recital.
That Austin Conradi, the young Baltimore pianist,
who is largely a Peabody Conservatory product and
holds membership on the staff of that institution,
has gained greatly in musical insight, depth of con-
ception, breadth of interpretation and power to ex-
press sentiment as well as emotion was made very
patent yesterday afternoon in the course of his
playing of the Schumann "Papillons," and this feel-
ing was heightened when he followed the opus with
Liszt's Sonata in P> minor.
The impression created by the playing of the
Schumann number was further heightened by Mr.
Conradi's exceedingly broad and finished interpre-
tation of the Liszt opus, which became not merely an
exhibition of musical pyrotechnics but a performance
so characterized by deep emotion and sweeping
grandeur as to lift it far above a mere show of skill
and make it a finely sensitive and noble expression
of exalted sentiment. In both numbers Mr. Conradi
showed a remarkable ripeness of ideas for so young
a man.
MATT J. KENNEDY FINDS
OPTIMISM AMONG EASTERNERS
National Secretary Says Large Attendance at Con-
vention Is Anticipated by Executives.
Matt J. Kennedy, secretary of the National Asso-
ciation of Piano Merchants, with offices at the Repub-
lic Building, Chicago, where he represents the Pre-
mier Grand Piano Corporation, returned to Chicago
last week from a visit to New York and other eastern
MATT J. KENNEDY.
cities, where he attended a series of executive meet-
ings of the Music Merchants' Association.
"I found piano men everywhere to be optimistic in
regards to future trade conditions," said Mr. Ken-
nedy, to a Presto representative this week. '"The
meetings were a great success, and all those present
seemed to be assured of a big attendance and an en-
joyable and instructive time in New York during the
convention week in June."
DELIVERIES BY TRUCK.
Transportation by truck for distances formerly cov-
ered only by rail is now part of the efficient service
of the Grunewald Music Co., New Orleans. The com-
pany recently delivered three Steinway grand pianos
to Baton Rouge by truck. It is estimated by B. N.
Grunewald, president, that the expense of sending
the pianos by truck was one-fourth less than the
cost would have been by rail. The truck, too, on the
return trip, brought back the instruments that were
exchanged when the new ones were brought. The
truck, with four negro handlers and a piano tuner,
left New Orleans at 6 a. m. and arrived at Baton
Rouge at 11 a. m. The deliveries were completed
and the return trip started at 1 p. m., the truck get-
ting back to New Orleans at 5 p. m. The roads were
in excellent shape the entire trip and there may be a
"tip" in it for other piano houses.
ACTIVE CHICAGO DEALER.
A fine business during January, with the Gulbran-
sen registering piano, is reported by Jas. F. Budrick,
3343 S. Halsted street, Chicago. Mr. Budrick is
becoming one of the live dealers in Chicago's South
Side. His ability to advertise and display the Gul-
bransen is bringing him good results. He is also
making increasing sales of the U. S. Music Rolls.
OPENS WINSTON-SALEM BRANCH.
A branch store of the Bland Piano Co., Winston-
Salem, N. C, has been opened recently on West Fifth
street, in the Huntley-Hill-Stockton Co.'s Building.
The present store of the Bland concern on North
Main street will continue in operation and will in no
way be replaced by the new branch, which will fea-
ture the full line of the main store.
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