Presto
Issue: 1927 2111 - Page 4
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department of the house. The tw r o companies are
controlled by Conrad Kreiter, who is president of
them both. Waldemer Kreiter is vice-president of
the manufacturing company and manager of the fac-
tory.
The other son, Herbert Kreiter, is vice-president of
the Kreiter Piano Company and general manager of
Conrad Kreiter and His Two Sons, by Whose the Milwaukee store. The officers and stockholders
of both companies, which are separate corporations,
Activities the Milwaukee Industry Has
are the same.
Been Brought to a Substantial Place
It is no doubt true that the Kreiter companies have
in the World.
done much to sustain the piano industry and trade
of the Middle West. The instruments, produced at
the factory in Marinette, are attractive and depend-
able. They have a large sale throughout the country.
The retail warerooms in Milwaukee are spacious and
Notable Example of What May Be Done with De- suggest the strength of its owners. And the Messrs.
Kreiter themselves are men of unchallenged stability
pendable P.anos and Reliable Ownership in
and standing in the world of business.
the Musical Instrument Business.
The house enters the new year under favorable con-
Among the piano industries of this country, and ditions and in anticipation of 'the same steady in-
one which has been especially notable throughout the crease by which its career has been marked from its
West, is that of the Kreiter Manufacturing Co., of first beginning.
Milwaukee. Furthermore, it is one of the long estab-
MEN BEHIND THE
KREITER PIANOS
TWIN CORPORATIONS
CLEVELAND, OHIO, SENDS
NEWSY PARAGRAPHS
Change in Wurlitzer Store Management;
"Press" Prints Piano Lessons; Steinway
and Knabe Pianos in Prominent Use.
('(l.XRAI) KRKITKli.
lished and financially strong piano industries. Tt
began as a retail establishment and. by hard work and
a consistent policy of co.irtesy and persistent pursuit
of business, the name of Kreiter soon became a syno-
nym of music. Later, and after the retail trade had
been well established, the manufacture of pianos was
begun with the same determination that had already
won success in the retail field.
Starts to Manufacture.
A fine factory was secured, at Marinette, Wis.,
which was perfectly equipped and manned with
skilled piano makers in all departments. The factory
has been kept active from the start, and is today
The second prominent piano man to take a win-
ter's vacation in Florida is George Ott, president of
the Ott Piano Co. In company with his wife he
expects to leave for Miami for six or eight weeks.
E. C. Tincher, manager of the piano department
of the Wurlitzer company, has resigned from the
company's service after being- with them for six
years. His successor is J. V. Kalva, who has been
in the piano department for eight years and who is
well known in the trade.
Marion Talley is booked to sing here early the
coming month at the Masonic Hall and the Dreher
Piano Co. will furnish a Steinway grand for accom-
paniment purposes.
A series of piano lessons is being printed in the
Cleveland Press each evening. The student lays the
printed chart on the piano keys and with a little
practice is soon able to master the lesson. There are
twenty-four lessons in all and they are expected to
prove a very good advertisement for the piano
business.
Cleveland is assured of grand opera each season
for the next five years, a contract having been signed
with the Metropolitan Opera Co., whose first visit
will be May 2. M. O. Mattlin, head of the Knabe
Warerooms will have charge of furnishing the Knabe
pianos for the artists..
HERBERT
KREITER.
turning out a line of instruments known the world
over, for Kreiter pianos have a large export trade.
Among its regular customers are men who have rep-
resented the Milwaukee industry almost from its
start.
The founder of the business, President Conrad
Kreiter, is still its active head, and with him are his
two sons.
Twin Industries.
Closely affiliated with the Kreiter Manufacturing-
Co, is the Kreiter Piano Company, which is the retail
W. P. HAINES & CO. TO
MOVE EXECUTIVE OFFICES
About February 1 New Retail Warerooms for
Showing Bradbury and Other Instru-
ments of Line Will Be Opened.
The wholesale executive offices of W. P. Haines
& Co., East 138th street and Walton avenue, New
York, will be removed about February 1 to 396 Fifth
avenue, according to an announcement this week by
T. L. Floyd-Jones, president of the company. An
entire floor of the building named has been leased
and retail warerooms to be known as the Bradbury
Warerooms will be opened. The full lines of the
Bradbury and W r . P. Haines pianos will be carried
and actively featured.
The new retail department and the executive offices
are in the center of the great metropolitan shopping
district and preparations for the proper showing of
the line lines are now being made, and plans for a
suitable scheme of decoration is also being carried
out. The furnishings and furniture will help in pro-
viding an ideal setting for the famous instruments.
The new executive offices, on the second floor of
the building, are easy of access to visiting dealers,
who will be provided with an excellent opportunity
for seeing the entire line of instruments made by
W. P. Haines & Co.
WEEK FILLED WITH
MUSIC TRADE INTEREST
Last Monday's Entertainment, and Next
Week's Events, to Be Followed by
Annual Dinner of P. & O. Association.
The Chicago Piano Club was richly entertained at
its noon-day meet last Monday by Mme. Pavlowski,
well known contralto vocalist of the Chicago Civic
Opera; Mrs. Edmund Tyler, president of the Na-
tional Federation of Music Clubs, and Mr. Samuel D.
Jackson, of Fort Wayne, Iud., the prosecuting attor-
ney of the district in which Fort Wayne is located.
Madame Pavlowski spoke on the ever-prevalent
topic of "Music in America," while Mrs. Tyler dis-
coursed on many interesting phases of music clubs
in this country, what lovers of music and music club
folks are doing toward fostering a love for music and
preserving the ideals of good music, and of those to
whom we are indebted for the best we have in music
today. Mr. Jackson gave an interesting talk on Ste-
phen A. Foster, the American song-writer.
The toastmaster impressed upon the members to be
prepared for the superb event to take place the last
week in January—the club's dinner-dance, to be given
at Chez Pierre, for the club members., their wives,
MILWAUKEE DEALER DIES.
relatives and sweethearts.
The death is announced of William A. Conklin,
It was also pointed out that next week will be
a music dealer for many years at Milwaukee, Wis., full of interest to Chicago music trade people owing
which occurred at his home in that city last week. to the various activities in the trade, the Piano and
Mr. Conklin was stricken with paralysis and passed Organ Association dinner, Thursday night at the
away after only a day or 'two of illness. The de- Union League Club, and the meetings, dinner and
ceased was in his sixty-fourth year. His last store luncheons incident to the music industries and dealers
was on Eleventh avenue, near Greenfield avenue, national committee gathering on the 21st and 22nd.
but for the past four or five years he had not been On the latter date the committees of the national
active in business. Mr. Conklin had sold the Adam association will meet at the Palmer House to com-
Schaaf pianos for several years past.
plete arrangements for the spring conventions of the
various departments of the music industries and
trades. It is expected that a large gathering will be
ODDITY IN FIRM NAME.
held for the occasion is an important one. The for-
The Algarlay Co., selling pianos and other musical mal invitation for the event of the 21st reads as
goods, was recently opened at 5463 College avenue, follows:
Oakland, a location convenient to a desirable sec-
"The Chicago Piano and Organ Association in-
tion of Berkeley, another of San Francisco's large vites you to be present at its Twenty-eighth Annual
suburbs. The name Algarlay is an adaptation of the Dinner Thursday evening, January the twentieth.
first syllables of the given names of the owners— Nineteen hundred and twenty-seven, Union League
Albert Nelson, Garnet Brown and Leighton Shaw, Club, Chicago.
who are members of the Musicians' Union of San
"Reception at six o'clock. Informal."
Francisco.
NEW TRADE MARK BILL.
"W AI. T > K M E R K R KIT E R.
January 15, 1927.
A new bill for the protection of trade marks and
to authorize and regulate their registration, has been
introduced in the house by Representative Vestal of
Indiana. The bill would regulate the entire pro-
cedure of registering trade marks and the deter-
mination of infringements and existing acts incon-
sistent with the proposed bill are repealed by its
provision.
IN MEMORY OF F. A. WINTER.
A graceful tribute to the memory of the late Fer-
dinand A. Winter, veteran music dealer of Altoona,
Pa., in resolutions recently adopted at a meeting of
the Kiwanis Club, of which he was a member. The
resolution expressed the loss to the club and the city
by the death of Mr. Winter and extended sympathy
and condolences to his family.
JAPS BUY FEW PLAYERS
STULTZ & BAUER SMALL ASSETS.
The receiver appointed for Stultz & Bauer, Inc.,
the old established manufacturers of pianos, 338 East
31st street, New York, is Alfred E. Smith, Jr., of the
Music Industries Chamber of Com-nerce, under $5,-
000 bond. Liabilities about $50,000; assets about
$25,000.
The playerpiano has comparatively few sales in
Japan, as the high price limits its purchase. Besides,
the Japanese taste for piano music is for personal
performance, rather than the mechanical. Most of
the playerpianos imported are from the United States
and are used in public cafes, in successful competi-
tion with the samisen, a domestic instrument.
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department of the house. The tw r o companies are
controlled by Conrad Kreiter, who is president of
them both. Waldemer Kreiter is vice-president of
the manufacturing company and manager of the fac-
tory.
The other son, Herbert Kreiter, is vice-president of
the Kreiter Piano Company and general manager of
Conrad Kreiter and His Two Sons, by Whose the Milwaukee store. The officers and stockholders
of both companies, which are separate corporations,
Activities the Milwaukee Industry Has
are the same.
Been Brought to a Substantial Place
It is no doubt true that the Kreiter companies have
in the World.
done much to sustain the piano industry and trade
of the Middle West. The instruments, produced at
the factory in Marinette, are attractive and depend-
able. They have a large sale throughout the country.
The retail warerooms in Milwaukee are spacious and
Notable Example of What May Be Done with De- suggest the strength of its owners. And the Messrs.
Kreiter themselves are men of unchallenged stability
pendable P.anos and Reliable Ownership in
and standing in the world of business.
the Musical Instrument Business.
The house enters the new year under favorable con-
Among the piano industries of this country, and ditions and in anticipation of 'the same steady in-
one which has been especially notable throughout the crease by which its career has been marked from its
West, is that of the Kreiter Manufacturing Co., of first beginning.
Milwaukee. Furthermore, it is one of the long estab-
MEN BEHIND THE
KREITER PIANOS
TWIN CORPORATIONS
CLEVELAND, OHIO, SENDS
NEWSY PARAGRAPHS
Change in Wurlitzer Store Management;
"Press" Prints Piano Lessons; Steinway
and Knabe Pianos in Prominent Use.
('(l.XRAI) KRKITKli.
lished and financially strong piano industries. Tt
began as a retail establishment and. by hard work and
a consistent policy of co.irtesy and persistent pursuit
of business, the name of Kreiter soon became a syno-
nym of music. Later, and after the retail trade had
been well established, the manufacture of pianos was
begun with the same determination that had already
won success in the retail field.
Starts to Manufacture.
A fine factory was secured, at Marinette, Wis.,
which was perfectly equipped and manned with
skilled piano makers in all departments. The factory
has been kept active from the start, and is today
The second prominent piano man to take a win-
ter's vacation in Florida is George Ott, president of
the Ott Piano Co. In company with his wife he
expects to leave for Miami for six or eight weeks.
E. C. Tincher, manager of the piano department
of the Wurlitzer company, has resigned from the
company's service after being- with them for six
years. His successor is J. V. Kalva, who has been
in the piano department for eight years and who is
well known in the trade.
Marion Talley is booked to sing here early the
coming month at the Masonic Hall and the Dreher
Piano Co. will furnish a Steinway grand for accom-
paniment purposes.
A series of piano lessons is being printed in the
Cleveland Press each evening. The student lays the
printed chart on the piano keys and with a little
practice is soon able to master the lesson. There are
twenty-four lessons in all and they are expected to
prove a very good advertisement for the piano
business.
Cleveland is assured of grand opera each season
for the next five years, a contract having been signed
with the Metropolitan Opera Co., whose first visit
will be May 2. M. O. Mattlin, head of the Knabe
Warerooms will have charge of furnishing the Knabe
pianos for the artists..
HERBERT
KREITER.
turning out a line of instruments known the world
over, for Kreiter pianos have a large export trade.
Among its regular customers are men who have rep-
resented the Milwaukee industry almost from its
start.
The founder of the business, President Conrad
Kreiter, is still its active head, and with him are his
two sons.
Twin Industries.
Closely affiliated with the Kreiter Manufacturing-
Co, is the Kreiter Piano Company, which is the retail
W. P. HAINES & CO. TO
MOVE EXECUTIVE OFFICES
About February 1 New Retail Warerooms for
Showing Bradbury and Other Instru-
ments of Line Will Be Opened.
The wholesale executive offices of W. P. Haines
& Co., East 138th street and Walton avenue, New
York, will be removed about February 1 to 396 Fifth
avenue, according to an announcement this week by
T. L. Floyd-Jones, president of the company. An
entire floor of the building named has been leased
and retail warerooms to be known as the Bradbury
Warerooms will be opened. The full lines of the
Bradbury and W r . P. Haines pianos will be carried
and actively featured.
The new retail department and the executive offices
are in the center of the great metropolitan shopping
district and preparations for the proper showing of
the line lines are now being made, and plans for a
suitable scheme of decoration is also being carried
out. The furnishings and furniture will help in pro-
viding an ideal setting for the famous instruments.
The new executive offices, on the second floor of
the building, are easy of access to visiting dealers,
who will be provided with an excellent opportunity
for seeing the entire line of instruments made by
W. P. Haines & Co.
WEEK FILLED WITH
MUSIC TRADE INTEREST
Last Monday's Entertainment, and Next
Week's Events, to Be Followed by
Annual Dinner of P. & O. Association.
The Chicago Piano Club was richly entertained at
its noon-day meet last Monday by Mme. Pavlowski,
well known contralto vocalist of the Chicago Civic
Opera; Mrs. Edmund Tyler, president of the Na-
tional Federation of Music Clubs, and Mr. Samuel D.
Jackson, of Fort Wayne, Iud., the prosecuting attor-
ney of the district in which Fort Wayne is located.
Madame Pavlowski spoke on the ever-prevalent
topic of "Music in America," while Mrs. Tyler dis-
coursed on many interesting phases of music clubs
in this country, what lovers of music and music club
folks are doing toward fostering a love for music and
preserving the ideals of good music, and of those to
whom we are indebted for the best we have in music
today. Mr. Jackson gave an interesting talk on Ste-
phen A. Foster, the American song-writer.
The toastmaster impressed upon the members to be
prepared for the superb event to take place the last
week in January—the club's dinner-dance, to be given
at Chez Pierre, for the club members., their wives,
MILWAUKEE DEALER DIES.
relatives and sweethearts.
The death is announced of William A. Conklin,
It was also pointed out that next week will be
a music dealer for many years at Milwaukee, Wis., full of interest to Chicago music trade people owing
which occurred at his home in that city last week. to the various activities in the trade, the Piano and
Mr. Conklin was stricken with paralysis and passed Organ Association dinner, Thursday night at the
away after only a day or 'two of illness. The de- Union League Club, and the meetings, dinner and
ceased was in his sixty-fourth year. His last store luncheons incident to the music industries and dealers
was on Eleventh avenue, near Greenfield avenue, national committee gathering on the 21st and 22nd.
but for the past four or five years he had not been On the latter date the committees of the national
active in business. Mr. Conklin had sold the Adam association will meet at the Palmer House to com-
Schaaf pianos for several years past.
plete arrangements for the spring conventions of the
various departments of the music industries and
trades. It is expected that a large gathering will be
ODDITY IN FIRM NAME.
held for the occasion is an important one. The for-
The Algarlay Co., selling pianos and other musical mal invitation for the event of the 21st reads as
goods, was recently opened at 5463 College avenue, follows:
Oakland, a location convenient to a desirable sec-
"The Chicago Piano and Organ Association in-
tion of Berkeley, another of San Francisco's large vites you to be present at its Twenty-eighth Annual
suburbs. The name Algarlay is an adaptation of the Dinner Thursday evening, January the twentieth.
first syllables of the given names of the owners— Nineteen hundred and twenty-seven, Union League
Albert Nelson, Garnet Brown and Leighton Shaw, Club, Chicago.
who are members of the Musicians' Union of San
"Reception at six o'clock. Informal."
Francisco.
NEW TRADE MARK BILL.
"W AI. T > K M E R K R KIT E R.
January 15, 1927.
A new bill for the protection of trade marks and
to authorize and regulate their registration, has been
introduced in the house by Representative Vestal of
Indiana. The bill would regulate the entire pro-
cedure of registering trade marks and the deter-
mination of infringements and existing acts incon-
sistent with the proposed bill are repealed by its
provision.
IN MEMORY OF F. A. WINTER.
A graceful tribute to the memory of the late Fer-
dinand A. Winter, veteran music dealer of Altoona,
Pa., in resolutions recently adopted at a meeting of
the Kiwanis Club, of which he was a member. The
resolution expressed the loss to the club and the city
by the death of Mr. Winter and extended sympathy
and condolences to his family.
JAPS BUY FEW PLAYERS
STULTZ & BAUER SMALL ASSETS.
The receiver appointed for Stultz & Bauer, Inc.,
the old established manufacturers of pianos, 338 East
31st street, New York, is Alfred E. Smith, Jr., of the
Music Industries Chamber of Com-nerce, under $5,-
000 bond. Liabilities about $50,000; assets about
$25,000.
The playerpiano has comparatively few sales in
Japan, as the high price limits its purchase. Besides,
the Japanese taste for piano music is for personal
performance, rather than the mechanical. Most of
the playerpianos imported are from the United States
and are used in public cafes, in successful competi-
tion with the samisen, a domestic instrument.
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).