Presto
Issue: 1928 2169 - Page 5
PREST 0-T I M E S
February 25, 1928
OF THF M
CO INTERESTING REPORTS
uu.
FROM INDIANAPOLIS
Third Generation of Family Now Active in Realizing the Ambitions and
Carrying Out the Wise Policies Formulated by the Founder
Indications of Good Spring Trade Observed
by John C. Pearson—New Style Jesse
French Announced—Other News.
The origin of any industry
is a most important period in
its history because the char-
acter of methods and the
tendencies of purposes are de-
termined at the beginning of
things. It is not the material
wealth of the founder of a
piano industry that assures
the certainties of progress,
but the extent of his earnest-
ness in realizing his wise poli-
cies.
The most remarkable thing
about many successful Amer-
ican industries is that their
beginnings were small. That
is small in the sense of capital
and equivalent assets.
But
the now great industries may
have been started with the
powerful and i r r e s i s t i b l e
strength of firm purpose in
cooperation with marked abil-
ity to produce high results in
manufacturing.
The M. Schulz Co., Chi-
cago, is a type of the success-
ful industry which had a mod-
est beginning, and by close
adhesion to wisely established
policies achieved a position
among the wealthiest and
most progressive companies
in the American piano indus-
try.
It is interesting to consider
when visiting the great plants
of the M. Schulz Co., Chicago,
that these piano factories are
developments of a very small
beginning by Mathias Schulz,
founder of the company.
Mathias Schulz was born •
and spent his boyhood in Ger-
many. It was there he served
as an apprentice cabinet
maker and learned the value
of thoroughness in all things.
He emigrated to the United States, and in 1869
founded the M. Schulz Co. The capital of the firm
organized by Mr. Schulz was not quite a thousand
John C. Pearson of the Pearson Piano Company,
Indianapolis, says that business conditions are im-
proving and believes that with the approaching spring
season music merchants will have emerged from the
present depression, and enjoy one of the best sum-
mers for a long time. "Of course," said Mr. Pearson,
"pessimists will be disappointed in that business didn't
reach the high level thay had anticipated. However,
there is every indication of business being done on
a sounder basis during this year than ever before.
Steinway sales in the straight piano and the Welte-
Mignon sales are very much in evidence and indi-
cations for future business in this line is promising.
One of the new arrivals in the Pearson piano is a
grand in mahogany, high-lighted in the Florentine
style, which is truly a very artistic instrument.
New Style S. Jesse French & Sons'.
The new style Jesse French & Sons' style "S" in
two-tone duco finish will soon make its appearance
at the warerooms of the Wilking Music Company,
according to Frank Wilking. Mr. Wilking has been
advised by the Jesse French & Sons' Piano Co. that
the instruments are on their way through the great
factories, and will be ready for shipment in the very
near future. The sales of Jesse French & Sons'
pianos are increasing each month, which is every
indication of their growing popularity among music
lovers of Indianapolis.
Some very exquisite period models manufactured
by the Wurlitzer Grand Piano Company of De Kalb,
111., have been recently placed in the Apollo room
of the company, where one might witness one of the
finest displays of Period models in the city.
Starr's Window Brings Results.
Ned Clay, who is partly responsible for the Val-
entine Window featured by the Starr Piano Company
during the past week, is well pleased with its results.
Fuller-Ryde Changes Personnel.
Joel B. Ryde of the Fuller-Ryde Music Company
has purchased the interests of the other members of
the company and will continue under the name of
the Fuller-Ryde Music Company. Mr. Ryde an-
nounced to the correspondent of the Presto-Times
that the new company will operate as heretofore with
some changes in the personnel. The interests of Geo.
B. Wiswell of Joliet, 111., and L. C. Wiswell of Chi-
cago, 111., have been taken over by Mr. Ryde. The
new officers of the company are as follows: Joel
B. Ryde, president; R. E. Stratman, vice-president,
and Miss Gladys Alwes, secretary and treasurer. Mr.
Ryde has been closely allied with the music interests
of the city, and was instrumental in bringing about
the organization of the Indiana Association of Music
Merchants.
Visitors during the past week were Mr. De Hayes,
manager of the Dayton, Ohio, salesroom of the Starr
Sales Corporation. While in Indianapolis Mr. De
Hayes spent his time with Mr. Hook, manager of the
local division of the Starr Sales Corporation.
Jacob Schiller, vice-president of the Lester Piano
Company, was one of the visitors of the Pearson
Piano Company during the past week.
H. Edgar French and his brother, Jesse French,
Jr., of the Jesse French & Sons Piano Company, New
Castle, Ind., spent some time in Indianapolis during
the past week at the warerooms of their local repre-
sentatives, the Wilking Music Company.
OTTO SCHULZ.
Schulz's supervision one of the large business insti-
tutions of Chicago was formed which helped make
that city a great business center. As the firm grew
the capital was increased to more than a million
dollars.
At the death of Mathias Schulz, Otto Schulz, his
son, became head of the concern. Under his super-
vision and through the traditions established by his
father the popularity of Schulz pianos and organs
increased, necessitating further expansion of producing
facilities.
In 1925 Otto Schulz, Jr., son of the president, was
admitted to the firm and became second vice-president
thereof, as well as superintendent of production, thus
making three generations to have actively partici-
pated in the making of pianos which are known
throughout the world for their high qualities.
Modern methods and machinery are used in the
making of upright pianos, player pianos, grands and
reproducing grands, the company's products; and
through all the years of constant development the
company has faithfully followed the family traditions
of careful workmanship and the aim towards per-
fection upon which Schulz pianos have made their
reputation.
NEW INCORPORATIONS.
OTTO SCHULZ, JR.
dollars, and the factory was a very small one located
on West Erie street, Chicago.
Some years later the capital was increased under
the laws of Illinois and the manufacture of pianos
and organs was extended. The factory was enlarged
to care for an increased product which seemed to
have an ever growing demand. Under Mathias
The Wilson Music Co., Baton Rouge, La.; $85,000;
T. E. Swann, William Howard Beasley, both of Dal-
las, Texas, and H. C. Wilson of Baton Rouge.
Harry Rosenthal, Madison W r is., music dealer; capi-
talization is 500 shares of no par value. Incorpora-
tors include Leo D. Swidler, Harry Primakow and
Charles Swidler.
The Hyde Music Co., 15 Exchange place, Jersey
City, N. J.; $125,000; to deal in loud speakers, ampli-
fiers and other music and radio merchandise.
NEW TERRE HAUTE STORE.
Mrs. L. H. Banks has opened a new music store
at 1274 Maple avenue, Terre Haute, Ind. The new
music shop is attractive and Mrs. Banks has an-
nounced that she will carry the latest records and
sheet music.
GOOD WURLITZER SALES.
The Wurlitzer Music House on South Ludlow street,
Dayton, O., showed an increase of 33 Y /z per cent in
January, 1928, over the corresponding period of last
year. The biggest increase was made in the radio
and Victrola departments. Quite a demand contin-
ues, however, for the better and higher grade pianos.
The Wurlitzer store in Dayton leads all of the other
stores in the great Wurlitzer organization in the in-
crease of business done in January this year.
SPECHT BAND FOR EUROPE.
To get around the restrictions in regard to Amer-
ican bands in England, Paul Specht has engaged Jack
Pudney's band of London, Ontario, to fill engage-
ments open to a band of Canadian musicians but
not to American citizens, according to announcement
by the Consolidated Orchestras Bureau. Specht re-
cently spent two weeks in Canada, going over mat-
ters with the individual members of the band and
rehearsing them on some special orchestrations. En-
gagements in London, Berlin, Paris and a dozen
other cities are being arranged by Specht, who also
plans a European tour with his original band this
coming summer.
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February 25, 1928
OF THF M
CO INTERESTING REPORTS
uu.
FROM INDIANAPOLIS
Third Generation of Family Now Active in Realizing the Ambitions and
Carrying Out the Wise Policies Formulated by the Founder
Indications of Good Spring Trade Observed
by John C. Pearson—New Style Jesse
French Announced—Other News.
The origin of any industry
is a most important period in
its history because the char-
acter of methods and the
tendencies of purposes are de-
termined at the beginning of
things. It is not the material
wealth of the founder of a
piano industry that assures
the certainties of progress,
but the extent of his earnest-
ness in realizing his wise poli-
cies.
The most remarkable thing
about many successful Amer-
ican industries is that their
beginnings were small. That
is small in the sense of capital
and equivalent assets.
But
the now great industries may
have been started with the
powerful and i r r e s i s t i b l e
strength of firm purpose in
cooperation with marked abil-
ity to produce high results in
manufacturing.
The M. Schulz Co., Chi-
cago, is a type of the success-
ful industry which had a mod-
est beginning, and by close
adhesion to wisely established
policies achieved a position
among the wealthiest and
most progressive companies
in the American piano indus-
try.
It is interesting to consider
when visiting the great plants
of the M. Schulz Co., Chicago,
that these piano factories are
developments of a very small
beginning by Mathias Schulz,
founder of the company.
Mathias Schulz was born •
and spent his boyhood in Ger-
many. It was there he served
as an apprentice cabinet
maker and learned the value
of thoroughness in all things.
He emigrated to the United States, and in 1869
founded the M. Schulz Co. The capital of the firm
organized by Mr. Schulz was not quite a thousand
John C. Pearson of the Pearson Piano Company,
Indianapolis, says that business conditions are im-
proving and believes that with the approaching spring
season music merchants will have emerged from the
present depression, and enjoy one of the best sum-
mers for a long time. "Of course," said Mr. Pearson,
"pessimists will be disappointed in that business didn't
reach the high level thay had anticipated. However,
there is every indication of business being done on
a sounder basis during this year than ever before.
Steinway sales in the straight piano and the Welte-
Mignon sales are very much in evidence and indi-
cations for future business in this line is promising.
One of the new arrivals in the Pearson piano is a
grand in mahogany, high-lighted in the Florentine
style, which is truly a very artistic instrument.
New Style S. Jesse French & Sons'.
The new style Jesse French & Sons' style "S" in
two-tone duco finish will soon make its appearance
at the warerooms of the Wilking Music Company,
according to Frank Wilking. Mr. Wilking has been
advised by the Jesse French & Sons' Piano Co. that
the instruments are on their way through the great
factories, and will be ready for shipment in the very
near future. The sales of Jesse French & Sons'
pianos are increasing each month, which is every
indication of their growing popularity among music
lovers of Indianapolis.
Some very exquisite period models manufactured
by the Wurlitzer Grand Piano Company of De Kalb,
111., have been recently placed in the Apollo room
of the company, where one might witness one of the
finest displays of Period models in the city.
Starr's Window Brings Results.
Ned Clay, who is partly responsible for the Val-
entine Window featured by the Starr Piano Company
during the past week, is well pleased with its results.
Fuller-Ryde Changes Personnel.
Joel B. Ryde of the Fuller-Ryde Music Company
has purchased the interests of the other members of
the company and will continue under the name of
the Fuller-Ryde Music Company. Mr. Ryde an-
nounced to the correspondent of the Presto-Times
that the new company will operate as heretofore with
some changes in the personnel. The interests of Geo.
B. Wiswell of Joliet, 111., and L. C. Wiswell of Chi-
cago, 111., have been taken over by Mr. Ryde. The
new officers of the company are as follows: Joel
B. Ryde, president; R. E. Stratman, vice-president,
and Miss Gladys Alwes, secretary and treasurer. Mr.
Ryde has been closely allied with the music interests
of the city, and was instrumental in bringing about
the organization of the Indiana Association of Music
Merchants.
Visitors during the past week were Mr. De Hayes,
manager of the Dayton, Ohio, salesroom of the Starr
Sales Corporation. While in Indianapolis Mr. De
Hayes spent his time with Mr. Hook, manager of the
local division of the Starr Sales Corporation.
Jacob Schiller, vice-president of the Lester Piano
Company, was one of the visitors of the Pearson
Piano Company during the past week.
H. Edgar French and his brother, Jesse French,
Jr., of the Jesse French & Sons Piano Company, New
Castle, Ind., spent some time in Indianapolis during
the past week at the warerooms of their local repre-
sentatives, the Wilking Music Company.
OTTO SCHULZ.
Schulz's supervision one of the large business insti-
tutions of Chicago was formed which helped make
that city a great business center. As the firm grew
the capital was increased to more than a million
dollars.
At the death of Mathias Schulz, Otto Schulz, his
son, became head of the concern. Under his super-
vision and through the traditions established by his
father the popularity of Schulz pianos and organs
increased, necessitating further expansion of producing
facilities.
In 1925 Otto Schulz, Jr., son of the president, was
admitted to the firm and became second vice-president
thereof, as well as superintendent of production, thus
making three generations to have actively partici-
pated in the making of pianos which are known
throughout the world for their high qualities.
Modern methods and machinery are used in the
making of upright pianos, player pianos, grands and
reproducing grands, the company's products; and
through all the years of constant development the
company has faithfully followed the family traditions
of careful workmanship and the aim towards per-
fection upon which Schulz pianos have made their
reputation.
NEW INCORPORATIONS.
OTTO SCHULZ, JR.
dollars, and the factory was a very small one located
on West Erie street, Chicago.
Some years later the capital was increased under
the laws of Illinois and the manufacture of pianos
and organs was extended. The factory was enlarged
to care for an increased product which seemed to
have an ever growing demand. Under Mathias
The Wilson Music Co., Baton Rouge, La.; $85,000;
T. E. Swann, William Howard Beasley, both of Dal-
las, Texas, and H. C. Wilson of Baton Rouge.
Harry Rosenthal, Madison W r is., music dealer; capi-
talization is 500 shares of no par value. Incorpora-
tors include Leo D. Swidler, Harry Primakow and
Charles Swidler.
The Hyde Music Co., 15 Exchange place, Jersey
City, N. J.; $125,000; to deal in loud speakers, ampli-
fiers and other music and radio merchandise.
NEW TERRE HAUTE STORE.
Mrs. L. H. Banks has opened a new music store
at 1274 Maple avenue, Terre Haute, Ind. The new
music shop is attractive and Mrs. Banks has an-
nounced that she will carry the latest records and
sheet music.
GOOD WURLITZER SALES.
The Wurlitzer Music House on South Ludlow street,
Dayton, O., showed an increase of 33 Y /z per cent in
January, 1928, over the corresponding period of last
year. The biggest increase was made in the radio
and Victrola departments. Quite a demand contin-
ues, however, for the better and higher grade pianos.
The Wurlitzer store in Dayton leads all of the other
stores in the great Wurlitzer organization in the in-
crease of business done in January this year.
SPECHT BAND FOR EUROPE.
To get around the restrictions in regard to Amer-
ican bands in England, Paul Specht has engaged Jack
Pudney's band of London, Ontario, to fill engage-
ments open to a band of Canadian musicians but
not to American citizens, according to announcement
by the Consolidated Orchestras Bureau. Specht re-
cently spent two weeks in Canada, going over mat-
ters with the individual members of the band and
rehearsing them on some special orchestrations. En-
gagements in London, Berlin, Paris and a dozen
other cities are being arranged by Specht, who also
plans a European tour with his original band this
coming summer.
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).
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