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MAY 29, 1926 The Music Trade Review 111

York, there will be a large staff of Conn men in the business. The Gold Medal string is one cordions, office and factory 71 Third avenue, on hand to greet the visiting Conn dealers. of the most popular of strings made by this New York. The owners of this concern are Geo. Cloos, Inc. house. This house sells through jobbers exclu- Robert and Eugene Galanti, and they have been Geo. Cloos, Inc., 1659 Stephen street, Brook- sively. manufacturing for many years. Dur- lyn, N. Y. This factory is located in the Ridge- Fred Mfg. Co. ing the past year they have found that dealers wood section of Brooklyn and is devoted en- The Fred Gretsch Mfg. Co., 60 Broadway, in all parts of the country are selling piano key tirely to the manufacture of wood-wind instru- Brooklyn, N. Y. This big manufacturing and accordions to orchestra players, a sign of their ments. It can be reached by subway to Brook- jobbing house is worth the trip to Brooklyn to greatly increasing popularity, with the result lyn Bridge and the Myrtle avenue L to Brooklyn. see. It is situated at the Brooklyn end of the that this firm has a big display of them for The Felsberg Co. famous Williamsburg Bridge, but you need not convention visitors. Mario Perry, the celebrated The Felsberg Co., Spring and Cross streets, let the distance to Brooklyn terrify you for you soloist with Paul Whiteman's Or- Newark, N. J. This concern is well known in have only to call Stagg 6538 and Mr. Gretsch chestra, plays exclusively and indorses the the trade as the maker of the "Bull's Head" or Phil Nash, the sales manager, will see that Galanti Bros, accordions. The most popular in- line of cases for musical instruments made you are driven direct to the factory and back. struments in the Galanti line are Italian styles, famous by the old house of Maulbetsch & The Gretsch line of musical merchandise is as one finished in white and the other in black. Whittemore, which they bought out a few years complete as you could possibly wish to see. William R. Gratz Import Co. ago. The factory is reached by way of the Fred Gretsch is the head of the company, with William R. Gratz Import Co., an old-estab- Hudson tubes to Newark, 40 cents fare round competent assistants in Phil Nash and Emerson lished popular and reliable importing and whole- trip, and street car or taxi from the tube station Strong, the advertising manager. sale house handling musical merchandise and in Newark. The business was established in Gretsch & Brenner, Inc. accessories, has salesrooms at 126 West Thirty- 1886 and Edward E. Felsberg is president, with Gretsch & Brenner, Inc., 46 East Twentieth fourth street, New York City, in the heart of the H. C. Ball sales manager. The annual output is street, New York. Not far from the Commodore shopping districts and a few doors west of 150,000 cases. is this enterprising importing house which rep- Broadway and Sixth avenue. This company was Carl Fisher, Inc. resents some of the finest concerns in all Eu- founded in 1886 by William R. Gratz. Joseph Carl Fisher, Inc., Cooper square, New York. rope. Headed by Walter Gretsch and William Mock is secretary and general manager of the This is another house on the square, but this Brenner, old veterans of the musical merchan- firm, which has the exclusive selling rights for time the square is Cooper square. Get off the dise game, this organization is composed of the United States and Canada for such lines subway at Eighth street (Wanamaker's), look the keenest searchers for values you could wish as Bohland & Fuchs band instruments, V. Koh- south and you will see the fine new building of for. A large stock of all kinds of high-grade lert & Sons wood-wind instruments, and other Carl Fisher, Inc., one of the biggest jobbing lines of musical instruments and their ac- leading lines. houses in the trade. The retail department is on cessories will be found ready for inspection. M. Hohner, Inc. ' the main floor, but upstairs will be found com- Gretsch & Brenner are factory distributors in M. Hohner, Inc., the famous house, plete wholesale stocks gathered from every part the United States and Canada for G. Leblanc is just off Union square at 114 East Sixteenth of the world. Henry Gerson, secretary of the clarinets and all wood-wind musical instru- street, New York. This concern is the largest company, is head of the wholesale musical mer- ments; J. Gras (Paris) band instruments, French in the world devoted exclusively to the manu- chandise division and will be glad to see his horns; Guy Humphrey (Paris) clarinets and all facture of accordions and , with old friends there. Mr. Gerson is also president wood-wind musical instruments; G. Kruspe large factories at , . The of the Associated Dealers flutes and piccolos; Eug. Vandoren (Paris) hand- business was originally established by M. of New York. made reeds; E. Rheinhold Schmidt violins, Hohner in 1857 and has grown to very large Musical String Co. 'cellos and violas; Richard Weichold Gold Knot proportions. The product is handled by leading Gibson Musical String Co. manufactures the gut strings, and L. Doucet (Paris) violin rosin; jobbers and wholesale houses everywhere and Gold Medal, Columbia and Black Label steel Kroll (Paris) reed trimmers and Green Band sold by retail merchants throughout the coun- and wound strings for musical instruments at reeds. try. The development of the harmonica busi- its own modern plant at Belleville, N. J. James Galanti Bros. ness in this country has been exceedingly great Gibson and Frank Gibson, Jr., are the partners Galanti Bros., manufacturers of piano key ac- during the past year, due to the gigantic ex-

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