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NEW STEINWAY & SONS FACTORY
One accompanying illustration shows the new fac-
tory of Steinway & Sons on Ditmars boulevard,
Steinway, L. I., in its present state of completion,
adjoining the old factory at that location and another
cut shows how this new plant will look when finally
completed.
When mention is made of a factory building it
implies practically no interest other than it is a fac-
tory building. One rarely considers a building of
To meet present requirements, the basement and
first floor have been erected with all provisions made
for future additions as the necessity for same arises.
This building, upon completion, will be then five
stories and basement in height, 200 feet wide by 486
feet in depth.
The exterior walls on first floor and buttresses,
full height, will be of a buff colored brick; the win-
dow spandrels of a gray brick which, with the open-
ings to the roof, accentuating the vertical line treat-
January 14, 1928
CHEERFUL NEWS FROM
INDIANAPOLIS TRADE
Good Performances for Closing Weeks of 1927
and Excellent Anticipations for New
Year Feature of Reports
Frank Wilking, president of the Wilking Music
Company, Indianapolis, announced this week that his
company has disposed of every second hand instru-
ment in the house during the past six weeks. "Spe-
cial efforts were directed toward this end, "said Mr.
Wilking, "and every salesman was instructed to go
after prospects wanting used instruments, with the
result that we are going to start the new year with
a clean slate."
C. R. Moores, president of the Indiana Association
of Music Merchants, is scheduled to be in Indian-
apolis on Wednesday, January 11, according to
George Stewart, secretary of the association.
John C. Pearson of the Pearson Piano Company
predicts 192 5 to be a very good year for the piano
dealer and the music merchant in general. Not only
in the increased sales of the better pianos and musical
instruments, but sales with larger down payments,
and an increased cash business over the past year.
There is every indication of increased business for
1928 and every chance for an improvement in busi-
ness in genera), said Mr. Pearson.
Herbert Teague of the Christena-Teague Piano
Company reports business looking better in the past
week, and indications are promising. More people
are going back to working full time, and other lines
of business are improving, which will help the piano
business to a great extent.
Frank Davis, manager of the Indianapolis House
of Baldwin, left that city for Cincinnati on Sunday
evening to attend the annual meeting of the Baldwin
managers. Mr. Davis returned to Indianapolis later
in the week.
FACTORY OF STEINWAY & SONS AS IT APPEARS AT PRESENT.
this class worthy of any particular mention for the ment, give height to what would otherwise be a long,
reason that the average factory building is just an low building.
The basement and first floor, as erected, total 133,-
enclosure to house machinery for manufacturing pur-
poses, and as a rule, architectural treatment has 000 square feet, and when complete the total area
of floor space in entire building will be 472,000 square Successful Dealer in Organs in Early Days in
heretofore been negligible.
There are, however, as in all other things, excep- feet, and the approximate cost total operation will
Dubuque, Iowa, Is Recalled as Fine
tions to the rule, and Factory No. 3 erected for be about two million dollars.
Type of Old School Dealer.
Into the new factory the company will move all
Steinway & Sons in the Steinway section of Long
Island City, New York, is one of these exceptions departments now housed at the temporary location
George B. Grosvenor, a veteran of the music trade,
where the architect has succeeded in producing a on Eleventh avenue, between 36th and 37th streets,
building which, architecturally, will be second to none New York, which has been occupied since the old whose activities centered quite a number of years
and from a practical angle indicates a thorough study Steinway Hall building on East Fourteenth street ago in Dubuque, la., died January 10 in Scarsdale,
N. Y., where he had made his home with a niece
was sold about three years ago.
of the problem as to the present and future need.
for several years.
Mr. Grosvenor operated a book, stationery and
music store in the Iowa city where many in com-
mercial life there remember him as a man of great
dignity and charm of character. He was about one
of the last representatives of George Woods & Co.'s
organs, in which he built up a big business. In his
later years in Dubuque he formed a partnership with
his brother-in-law, the firm name being changed to
Grosvenor & Harger.
Surviving him are a niece, and his son, George
Grosvenor, formerly one of the principals in Gros-
venor & Lapham, Chicago, who, to be close to his
father, has resided in Scarsdale for several years past.
The body was brought through Chicago to Du-
buque on Thursday, where interment took place this
week.
Q. B. GROSVENOR, VETERAN
OF MUSIC TRADE, DIES
HARRY BIBB RESIGNS.
HOW FACTORY OF STEINWAY & SONS WILL LOOK WHEN COMPLETED.
BOMBERS ATTACK MUSIC STORE.
Heretofore the activities of Chicago bombing gangs,
composed mostly of persons who had slipped past the
immigration officers in entering this country, have
been confined to "joints" of their own ilk. But this
week some one bombed the radio and music store of
Louis Eller, 2702 West Division street, Chicago,
which the police attribute to the work of trade asso-
ciation "racketeers." The bomb shattered two plate
glass windows, wrecked showcases and a number of
radios, and frightened several families living on the
second floor of the structure. Mr. Eller told the
police that he had recently joined a radio dealers'
association which had been formed to fight racket-
eers who had been attempting to extort money from
men in the radio trades.
NEW OKLAHOMA STORE,
The newest business firm in Tonkawa, Okla., is the
Tonkawa Radio & Music Company. The Tonkawa
Radio & Music Company will handle an up-to-date
line of radios, phonographs, pianos and musical in-
struments of all kinds. High grade merchandise will
be carried and the firm will strive to build up a repu-
tation along this line of endeavor. W. W. Reser has
been in business in fonkawa for the past four years,
and he is well and favorably known.
Harry B. Bibb has just resigned his position with
the Brunswick-Balke-Collender Company, Chicago,
where he had been Chicago District Manager for
some time. It is understood that Mr. Bibb's arrange-
ments for the future are quite definitely settled but
are not sufficiently matured to be announced at this
writing, further than that Mr. Bibb will probably
continue as an important factor in the line of the
music industry in which he has been well-known for
some years past.
SUCCESSFUL SELLING SCHILLERS.
H. H. Bradley, who is an independent salesman
selling Schiller pianos on his own time and in terri-
tory in and closely adjacent to Chicago, had a very
satisfactory trade during the holiday season. He
does not work all the time, but plans his calls in
such a manner that they prove most effective.
Manx piano men still pronounce it "Chop-in,"
and most of them never heard a worth-ivhile con-
Herman H. Fleer of Lyon & Healy's, Chicago, cert. If you ivant to be a successful salesman,
secretary of the Music Merchants' National Associa-
Be sincere; know music.—
tion, has gone to New York on a business trip of a knoiv your stuff.
few days.
Henry Weiscrt, of Bisscll-Weisert Co., Chicago.
H. H. FLEER IN NEW YORK.
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