Presto
Issue: 1925 2053 - Page 15
November 28, 1925.
15
PRESTO
SEPTEMBER EXPORTS
OF MUSIC GOODS
Playerpiano Shipments Abroad for Month
Named Show Increase Over Figures for 1924
—Other Instruments Decrease in Export.
The total of exports of musical instruments from
the United States for the month of September, the
latest period for which figures have been compiled,
amounted to $1,009,476, compared with $1,064,428 for
the same month last year.
In the aggregate exports for September there were
462 pianos valued at $97,545 compared with 541
pianos,, valued at $103,197 for September, 1924.
The exports of playerpianos for September, 1925,
numbered 1,260 valued at $372,891, compared with
980 valued at $316,489 for September, 1924.
Organs exported for September numbered 178,
valued at $16,633, compared with 130 organs valued
at $11,351 for the same month a year ago.
The piano actions and parts thereof exported for
September amounted to $11,538. Player actions and
parts thereof exported for the month named were
valued at $26,550.
The exports of player music rolls for September
were valued at $21,414 compared with $26,973' for
September, 1924.
Band instruments to the value of $35,157 were
shipped abroad during September and string instru-
ment shipments totaled $31,175.
The value of all other musical instruments and
parts thereof shipped to foreign countries during the
month named amounted to $97,223.
NEW INCORPORATIONS
IN MUSIC CiOODS TRADE
New and Old Concerns Secure Charters in Various
Places.
W. P. Geissler Music Company, Evansville, Ind.;
$15,000 capital stock; deal in musical instruments and
radios. Directors, Joseph Westjer, W. P. Geissler,
William E. Barnes.
The Hawes Music Stores, Portland, Me., $10,000;
Cornelius C. Hawes, president and treasurer.
Edison Phonograph Distributing Company, New
Jersey corporation, certificate of withdrawal from
Indiana.
The Gibbs Piano Co., Springfield, Mass., $350,000;
Clinton E. Bell, John I. McManus and Gertrude Shel-
don.
The Alexander Mueller Publishing Co., Baltimore,
SPENCER
Md., $100,000; to do a music publishing business;
Perry Alexander, William M. Mueller and Lulu
Alexander.
WELTE=MIGNON ARTIST
HONORED BY AUDIENCE
CHICAGO 'OUTSIDE' STORE
DEVELOPS GRAND SALES
The Rudolph H. Schoeppe Piano Co. at Ash-
land Ave. and Sixty-third Street,
Sets Pace for Loop.
Carol Robinson Receives Elight Recalls at Annual
Musical Festival in Worcester, Mass.
Grand pianos have a foremost place in the holiday
sales of the Rudolph H. Schoeppe Piano Co., 6319
The well known festival of music that is held annu- and 6321 South Ashland avenue, Chicago, which re-
ally at Worcester, Mass., is generally conceded to be cently held the formal opening of its fine new store.
The company has been featuring the small grand in
the greatest and most important presentation of
music held in this country. For it has been the final an effective way in line with the trend of taste in
piano buyers.
aim of all the great artists for many years.
The new store of the Rudolph H. Schoeppe Piano
When Miss Robinson, a Welte-Mignon (Licensee)
Co.
would do credit to the Loop in importance,
reproducing artist, was called upon to play Liszt's
Phantasy with the accompaniment of the New York appearance and taste in arrangement. It is charac-
Symphony Orchestra under Conductor Stoessel, the teristically a part of a section which has grown amaz-
ingly within a decade; an "outside center" of ambi-
honor was considered a great one.
But when Miss Robinson received eight recalls and tion. The store is a fixture at that point, the musi-
was compelled to play an encore, something unheard cal center of a community admittedly of big piano
of at these concerts, she marked herself as one of buying ability.
The firm carries the Haddorff, Cable-Nelson, Bush
the premier pianists. Her playing may be heard on
the Welte-Mignon (Licensee) Reproducing Record & Gerts, Hallet & Davis, and Conway pianos and
on which she is featured as an artist of the highest players, Conn band instruments, phonographs, Q R S
music rolls, sheet music and radio.
kind.
PIANO MEN MAKE GOOD.
When piano men leave the business they generally
make good elsewhere, proving the old saying that
"the world's pastures are wide and the picking is
good." An instance in point, is that of Harry E.
Edmiston, whose latest connection with the piano
trade was when some years ago he owned and oper-
ated a store on 63rd street, Chicago. He is now with
the Morton Manufacturing Company, railway equip-
ment and building material, 5132 West Lake street,
Chicago, a concern that is now specializing on a steel
medicine cabinet for bathrooms. His daughter, Miss
Erma Edmiston, was married on November 2 to
Gordon Wanzer, who is with his father in the firm of
Sidney Wanzer & Sons, South Side dairymen of Chi-
cago. The young couple have just returned from
their wedding trip, in which they visited Hot Springs,
Va., and Washington, D. C.
Upon the completion of a building at 3429-35 East
Twenty-fifth street, Minneapolis, N. S. Hoogner will
move his business there. His music store now is
located at 710 Marquette avenue, Minneapolis.
RICHARD GRUNTHAL OF
JACKSONVILLE, FLA., DIES
Wide Circle of Friends Mourns Death of Partner
in Maxey Grunthal & Bros.
Richard Grunthal, one of the members of the firm
of Maxey Grunthal & Bros., Shoninger representa-
tives in Jacksonville, Fla., died last week. All of the
members of the firm are well known throughout the
industry due to their progressive methods which have
achieved success for the Florida house.
Through the death of Mr. Grunthal the music trade
has lost a man of upright character and high ideals
which he applied to his business and personal life,
and thereby helped to raise the standards of the
music business in his state.
"As a firm we feel his loss deeply, and as an in-
dividual I feel it to a far greater extent, for he was
the type of man who was highly admired not only
for his business tactics, but as a loyal friend as well,"
said S. B. Lane, president of the Shoninger Piano Co.,
New York, this week.
HUMAN NATURE EVENS UP.
QUALITY
in Name and in Fact
The reflective thoughts of every leader in the piano
business are permeated with the strong philosophy of
life. George J. Dowling, for instance, president of
The Cable Company, Chicago, who has dealt with
every class of men in every state of the Union, and
sold orders to foreign lands, says that he has found
human nature the same or much the same every-
where. Environment has much to do with habits and
the approachableness of men, but geography has little
to do with character.
The Intrinsic Qualities of This
Piano Command Attention
TONE, MATERIALS, CONSTRUCTION,
WORKMANSHIP, DESIGN—all in ac-
cord with the broadest experience—are
the elements which give character to
Bush & Lane Products.
A High Grade Instrument at a
Moderate Price
BUSH&LANE PIANOS
Becker Bros.
BUSH & LANE CECILIAN PLAYER PIANOS
Manufacturers of
take high place, therefore, in any com-
parison of high grade pianos because of
the individuality of character which dis-
tinguishes them in all essentials of merit
and value.
HIGH GRADE PIANOS
and PLAYER PIANOS
First Class Factory and Equipment
Ample Production and Service
SPENCER PIANO COMPANY, Inc.
FACTORY: Thirty-First St. and Firit Ave.
OFFICES: 338 East 31st Stre-t, New York N. Y.
BUSH t LANE PIANO CO.
ADAM SCHAAF, Inc.
""mNos™ 0 GRANDS AND UPRIGHTS
Established
Reputation
FACTORY
1020 So. Central Park Ave.,
Corner FiOmore Street
Holland, Mich.
Factory and Warerooma
767-769 Tenth Avenue, New York
RADLE TONE The Musician's Delight
Whenever you hear the name RADLE you immediately
think of a wonderful tone quality, durabili y and design.
ffigK
and Quality Since 1873
OFFICES AND SALESROOMS
Musicians insist on RADLE
319-321 So. Wabaah Ave.,
New Adam Schaaf Building,
CHICAGO, ILL.
A QUALITY PRODUCT
FOR OVER
QUARTER OFA CENTURY
F. RADLE, Inc.
POOLE
-BOSTON-
Est. 1850.
609-11 W. 36th St., New York City
G R A N D AND UPRIGHT PIANOS
ANO
PLAYER PIANOS
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15
PRESTO
SEPTEMBER EXPORTS
OF MUSIC GOODS
Playerpiano Shipments Abroad for Month
Named Show Increase Over Figures for 1924
—Other Instruments Decrease in Export.
The total of exports of musical instruments from
the United States for the month of September, the
latest period for which figures have been compiled,
amounted to $1,009,476, compared with $1,064,428 for
the same month last year.
In the aggregate exports for September there were
462 pianos valued at $97,545 compared with 541
pianos,, valued at $103,197 for September, 1924.
The exports of playerpianos for September, 1925,
numbered 1,260 valued at $372,891, compared with
980 valued at $316,489 for September, 1924.
Organs exported for September numbered 178,
valued at $16,633, compared with 130 organs valued
at $11,351 for the same month a year ago.
The piano actions and parts thereof exported for
September amounted to $11,538. Player actions and
parts thereof exported for the month named were
valued at $26,550.
The exports of player music rolls for September
were valued at $21,414 compared with $26,973' for
September, 1924.
Band instruments to the value of $35,157 were
shipped abroad during September and string instru-
ment shipments totaled $31,175.
The value of all other musical instruments and
parts thereof shipped to foreign countries during the
month named amounted to $97,223.
NEW INCORPORATIONS
IN MUSIC CiOODS TRADE
New and Old Concerns Secure Charters in Various
Places.
W. P. Geissler Music Company, Evansville, Ind.;
$15,000 capital stock; deal in musical instruments and
radios. Directors, Joseph Westjer, W. P. Geissler,
William E. Barnes.
The Hawes Music Stores, Portland, Me., $10,000;
Cornelius C. Hawes, president and treasurer.
Edison Phonograph Distributing Company, New
Jersey corporation, certificate of withdrawal from
Indiana.
The Gibbs Piano Co., Springfield, Mass., $350,000;
Clinton E. Bell, John I. McManus and Gertrude Shel-
don.
The Alexander Mueller Publishing Co., Baltimore,
SPENCER
Md., $100,000; to do a music publishing business;
Perry Alexander, William M. Mueller and Lulu
Alexander.
WELTE=MIGNON ARTIST
HONORED BY AUDIENCE
CHICAGO 'OUTSIDE' STORE
DEVELOPS GRAND SALES
The Rudolph H. Schoeppe Piano Co. at Ash-
land Ave. and Sixty-third Street,
Sets Pace for Loop.
Carol Robinson Receives Elight Recalls at Annual
Musical Festival in Worcester, Mass.
Grand pianos have a foremost place in the holiday
sales of the Rudolph H. Schoeppe Piano Co., 6319
The well known festival of music that is held annu- and 6321 South Ashland avenue, Chicago, which re-
ally at Worcester, Mass., is generally conceded to be cently held the formal opening of its fine new store.
The company has been featuring the small grand in
the greatest and most important presentation of
music held in this country. For it has been the final an effective way in line with the trend of taste in
piano buyers.
aim of all the great artists for many years.
The new store of the Rudolph H. Schoeppe Piano
When Miss Robinson, a Welte-Mignon (Licensee)
Co.
would do credit to the Loop in importance,
reproducing artist, was called upon to play Liszt's
Phantasy with the accompaniment of the New York appearance and taste in arrangement. It is charac-
Symphony Orchestra under Conductor Stoessel, the teristically a part of a section which has grown amaz-
ingly within a decade; an "outside center" of ambi-
honor was considered a great one.
But when Miss Robinson received eight recalls and tion. The store is a fixture at that point, the musi-
was compelled to play an encore, something unheard cal center of a community admittedly of big piano
of at these concerts, she marked herself as one of buying ability.
The firm carries the Haddorff, Cable-Nelson, Bush
the premier pianists. Her playing may be heard on
the Welte-Mignon (Licensee) Reproducing Record & Gerts, Hallet & Davis, and Conway pianos and
on which she is featured as an artist of the highest players, Conn band instruments, phonographs, Q R S
music rolls, sheet music and radio.
kind.
PIANO MEN MAKE GOOD.
When piano men leave the business they generally
make good elsewhere, proving the old saying that
"the world's pastures are wide and the picking is
good." An instance in point, is that of Harry E.
Edmiston, whose latest connection with the piano
trade was when some years ago he owned and oper-
ated a store on 63rd street, Chicago. He is now with
the Morton Manufacturing Company, railway equip-
ment and building material, 5132 West Lake street,
Chicago, a concern that is now specializing on a steel
medicine cabinet for bathrooms. His daughter, Miss
Erma Edmiston, was married on November 2 to
Gordon Wanzer, who is with his father in the firm of
Sidney Wanzer & Sons, South Side dairymen of Chi-
cago. The young couple have just returned from
their wedding trip, in which they visited Hot Springs,
Va., and Washington, D. C.
Upon the completion of a building at 3429-35 East
Twenty-fifth street, Minneapolis, N. S. Hoogner will
move his business there. His music store now is
located at 710 Marquette avenue, Minneapolis.
RICHARD GRUNTHAL OF
JACKSONVILLE, FLA., DIES
Wide Circle of Friends Mourns Death of Partner
in Maxey Grunthal & Bros.
Richard Grunthal, one of the members of the firm
of Maxey Grunthal & Bros., Shoninger representa-
tives in Jacksonville, Fla., died last week. All of the
members of the firm are well known throughout the
industry due to their progressive methods which have
achieved success for the Florida house.
Through the death of Mr. Grunthal the music trade
has lost a man of upright character and high ideals
which he applied to his business and personal life,
and thereby helped to raise the standards of the
music business in his state.
"As a firm we feel his loss deeply, and as an in-
dividual I feel it to a far greater extent, for he was
the type of man who was highly admired not only
for his business tactics, but as a loyal friend as well,"
said S. B. Lane, president of the Shoninger Piano Co.,
New York, this week.
HUMAN NATURE EVENS UP.
QUALITY
in Name and in Fact
The reflective thoughts of every leader in the piano
business are permeated with the strong philosophy of
life. George J. Dowling, for instance, president of
The Cable Company, Chicago, who has dealt with
every class of men in every state of the Union, and
sold orders to foreign lands, says that he has found
human nature the same or much the same every-
where. Environment has much to do with habits and
the approachableness of men, but geography has little
to do with character.
The Intrinsic Qualities of This
Piano Command Attention
TONE, MATERIALS, CONSTRUCTION,
WORKMANSHIP, DESIGN—all in ac-
cord with the broadest experience—are
the elements which give character to
Bush & Lane Products.
A High Grade Instrument at a
Moderate Price
BUSH&LANE PIANOS
Becker Bros.
BUSH & LANE CECILIAN PLAYER PIANOS
Manufacturers of
take high place, therefore, in any com-
parison of high grade pianos because of
the individuality of character which dis-
tinguishes them in all essentials of merit
and value.
HIGH GRADE PIANOS
and PLAYER PIANOS
First Class Factory and Equipment
Ample Production and Service
SPENCER PIANO COMPANY, Inc.
FACTORY: Thirty-First St. and Firit Ave.
OFFICES: 338 East 31st Stre-t, New York N. Y.
BUSH t LANE PIANO CO.
ADAM SCHAAF, Inc.
""mNos™ 0 GRANDS AND UPRIGHTS
Established
Reputation
FACTORY
1020 So. Central Park Ave.,
Corner FiOmore Street
Holland, Mich.
Factory and Warerooma
767-769 Tenth Avenue, New York
RADLE TONE The Musician's Delight
Whenever you hear the name RADLE you immediately
think of a wonderful tone quality, durabili y and design.
ffigK
and Quality Since 1873
OFFICES AND SALESROOMS
Musicians insist on RADLE
319-321 So. Wabaah Ave.,
New Adam Schaaf Building,
CHICAGO, ILL.
A QUALITY PRODUCT
FOR OVER
QUARTER OFA CENTURY
F. RADLE, Inc.
POOLE
-BOSTON-
Est. 1850.
609-11 W. 36th St., New York City
G R A N D AND UPRIGHT PIANOS
ANO
PLAYER PIANOS
Enhanced content © 2008-2009 and presented by MBSI - The Musical Box Society International (www.mbsi.org) and the International Arcade Museum (www.arcade-museum.com).
All Rights Reserved. Digitized from the archives of the MBSI with support from NAMM - The International Music Products Association (www.namm.org).
Additional enhancement, optimization, and distribution by the International Arcade Museum. An extensive collection of Presto can be found online at http://www.arcade-museum.com/library/
Future scanning projects are planned by the International Arcade Museum Library (IAML).