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November 28, 1925.
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OBSERVANT EDITOR SEES
BOOMING PIANO TRADE
Streator, 111., Free Press Proud to Record
Activity in Factories of E. P. Johnson
Piano Co. in Elgin.
It comprises a range of artisti-
cally worthy instruments to
please practically every purse:
The Hardman, official piano of
the Metropolitan Opera House;
the Harrington and the Hensel
Pianos in which is found that in-
builtdurabilitythatcharacterizes
all Hardman-made instruments;
the wonderful Hardman Repro-
ducing Piano; the Hardman
Autotone (the perfect player-
piano); and the popular Playo-
tone.
The Streator, 111., Free Press is an observer of
music conditions and the interest of the paper is not
merely of a local character. The appeal generally of
the piano is commented upon and the pleasant con-
ditions in a piano industry with factories in other
Illinois towns in that section, were set forth in an
article in the paper last week:
If anybody had the idea that the radio would hurt
the piano business, a talk with William Scales will
change his belief.
Mr. Scales is superintendent of the Ottawa fac-
tory of the E. P. Johnson Piano Company, Elgin,
with factories in Elgin and Ottawa, and this morn-
ing he said the factories were working overtime in
an effort to keep up with orders. Thirty-three men
are employed, and the tremendous demand for the
company's product that has been made manifest
within the past month and has come as a surprise
to those unfamiliar with the business.
Piano dealers in many parts of the country were
not buying. They feared a slump in the demand,
believing, no doubt, that the radio would affect the
business materially. Now comes the demand and
dealers are short of instruments.
The Ottawa factory of the company is making
only upright players, while the grands are made by
the company in Elgin.
For a time the piano business slumped to such an
extent that in order to keep the organization intact
the Johnson company turned its Ottawa factory over
to the manufacture of phonographs. This morning
Mr. Scale said the making of phonographs had been
eliminated, all of the time of the factory being de-
voted to the manufacture of playerpianos.
"We are putting in every hour possible at this
time,' said Mr. Scales, "working day and night, and
we are having a difficult time keeping the urgent
orders shipped on time."
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The Line That Sells Easily
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209 State Street
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E. R. Kroeger, St. Louis Pianist, Gives Program at
Alton, 111., Under Woman's Council Auspices.
E. R. Kroeger, pianist, St. Louis, presented a pro-
gram recently in the Unitarian Church at Alton, 111.,
an important city situated across the Mississippi
river above St. Louis. The program was given under
the auspices of the Alton Woman's Council. Mr.
Kroeger's numbers were from Chopin, Mendelssohn
and Liszt with two of his own compositions, "March
of the Indian Phantom" and "Egeria," the two latter
being reproduced from Mr. Kroeger's recordings for
the Ampico.
The Mason & Hamlin grand Ampico was sup-
plied by the Kieselhorst Piano Co. of St. Louis,
who received an enthusiastic letter of thanks for
their co-operation from the officers of the Woman's
Council.
GRATUITOUS TEACHING OF MUSIC.
In succeeding days the state may possibly step in
to secure a systematic course of musical instruction
for her children, and thus increase their interest in
that branch of culture. In many of the larger cities
of the United States music is taught gratuitously;
but how much better it would be were music made
part of the regular curriculum of every school in the
land.
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are the last word in
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