Presto

12
November 28, 1925.
PRESTO
LATE TRADE NEWS
FROM PORTLAND, ORE.
CHICKERING FOR BOSTON THEATER
Interesting Collection of Trade Incidents in
Progressive Northwest City Shows Persis-
tent Activity of Prominent Music Houses.
The Wiley B. Allen, Portland, Ore., branch repre-
sented the music industry at the Oregon state con-
vention of the Parent-Teachers' Association which
was held recently in that city, and which was at-
tended by over 14,000. Various educational exhibits
were displayed and the Wiley B. Allen Co. display
consisted of a Mason & Hamlin piano, Victor and
Brunswick phonographs and radio sets in the Radiola
line and Brunswick combination. The firm also fur-
nished a Mason & Hamlin concert grand for the use
of the convention for their various musical programs.
The wholesale department for the Pacific North-
west of the Starr Piano Co., Charles Soule, district
manager, has been moved from 22 North Tenth
street to the corner of Fifth and Flanders streets,
where the department will occupy the entire second
floor of a business block. Mr. Soule says that the
new location will enable them to speed up deliveries
as they are only two blocks from the depot and have
a railroad spur right up to their building, and the
office and warehouse space are in the same building,
while formerly they were in separate buildings. They
will give more space to display the Starr pianos and
phonographs.
The G. F. Johnson Piano Co. has placed several
Ampico-in-Chickering instruments in prominent Port-
land homes recently. The latest is a handsome
Chickering Ampico Style 59 which was placed in the
home of Clarke E. Dye, salesmanager of the Doern-
becher Furniture Co., one of the largest furniture
manufacturing companies in the world.
The Portland, Ore., representatives of the Ameri-
can Piano Co., the G. F. Johnson Piano Co., the Reed,
French Piano Co., and the Wiley B. Allen branch,
were visited last week by J. H. Shale, recently
appointed the Pacific Coast representative of the
American Piano Co. This was Mr. Shale's initial
trip, visiting the agencies of the company on the coast
over which he has supervision.
A Steinway concert grand piano was furnished
through the courtesy of Sherman, Clay & Co., of
Portland, Ore., for the concert of Mine. Hulda
Lashauska, lyric soprano and Victor artist, who was
presented in recital in that city November 11, when
The new Metropolitan Theater, Boston's latest and
finest playhouse, is one of the most beautifully de-
signed theaters in«the country. Its splendid foyer
is a masterpiece of architectural and decorative art
for which a Chickering concert grand in a special
case, entirely of gold, has been constructed. The
illustration shows the beauty of this notable interior
and the Chickering grand which will be heard at
informal programs during the entr'actes.
she was greeted by a large audience in the municipal
auditorium.
The thirteen-year-old son of Harry N. Quacken-
bush, manager of the Portland, Ore., branch of Bush
& Lane Piano Co., was recently accidentally shot and
killed in Tacoma, Wash.
H. C. BAY CO.'S EXPORT
TRADE INCREASING
RADIO ARTIST SELECTS
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Miss Signe Nordin, New Haven, Conn., Pianist, Visits
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instead of alluring price. Such a policy does not
attract bargain hunters. It doe*, however, wm the
hearty approval and support of a very desirable
and substantial patronage.
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Miss Signe Nordin, the well known pianist of New
Haven, Conn., and a member of the faculty of the
New Haven School of Music, director of the Nordin
Trio, organist in the Christian Science Church, and
favorite radio artist, recently visited Boston for the
purpose of choosing a Mason & Hamlin piano, sup-
plied to her through the A. B. Clinton Co., New
Haven agents for the Mason & Hamlin Co., Boston.
Miss Nordin was greatly interested in the spirit
pervading the Mason & Hamlin factory. Especially
was she delighted with the Mason & Hamlin Orches-
tra, an organization composed entirely of factory em-
ployes, who devote several hours each week to the
playing of orchestral works.
DEALERS KEPT THANKSGIVING.
All of the retail piano and music stores in Chicago
were kept closed all day Thursday of this week, in
observance of the national holiday and day of thank-
fulness—Thanksgiving Day.
This included the
numerous piano stores located far out on Chicago's
by-streets and in suburban localities, as well as the
two great downtown piano sections, Wabash avenue
and North Michigan avenue. Most of the dealers and
manufacturers and salesmen ate turkey, but a few
dined on duck, goose and game birds. The only
thing the poor turkey had to be thankful for was
that his death was swift and sure. Many of the
piano travelers came into Chicago, New York, and
other piano manufacturing centers from "far-away-
off" to celebrate Thanksgiving at home "with the
folks."
J. Mayworm, Formerly of Lyon & Healy,
Now in Charge of This Important Depart-
ment of the Chicago-Bluffton Industry.
J. Mayworm, a scholarly man who reads English,
Spanish and German with practically equal readiness,
is now in charge of the new export department at
the main offices of the H. C. Bay Company on the
eighth floor of the Republic Building, State and
Adams streets, Chicago. Mr. Mayworm recently re-
signed from managing the export department at
Lyon & Healy's, Chicago; so that he has had educa-
tive experience in his field.
There is great need of Spanish in a house such as
that of the H. C. Bay Company, for orders come
from the Antilles, from southwestern United States
and from Mexico, for instruments, frequently specify-
ing in detail some special attachment or finish desired
by customers in those lands and climates.
And as for German, inquiries come in from the
Netherland sections of Europe from cities where
German is spoken and where the prejudices aug-
mented and intensified by the late war will "not
down" so far as to give any manufacturer in Ger-
many an order. The department is doing quite well
so far, but the plan is to expand its activities very
much. The company believes that a steady export
trade is not to be overlooked.
E. C. Burbick, for several years identified with the
Lewis Brothers Co., Alliance, O-, Victor dealer, has
been appointed manager of the new Cope Store in
Alliance.
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Charles Stanley, Jr., made a trip through Indiana
which ended some ten days ago. "I found trade con-
ditions much improved in Central Indiana.," said Mr.
Stanley in Chicago on Wednesday. "I have been out
lately as an independent salesman of pianos; recently
have been making a clean-up of Settergren makes
from Bluffton, Indiana."
HOMER PIANOS
740-742 East 136th Street
NEW YORK
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