

The price of the average piano ranges from $900 to $1,400. Kunow, who maintains he could teach anyone to play something in one lesson, says that it takes a minimum of a lesson a week for six months, with lots of practice, to learn to play either instrument with facility. To attract new customers, the store is offering piano or organ lessons at $3 for a half‐hour lesson. “We had a lot of friends in Newark and there is a real need for a music store here,” he declared. Kunow, who had held a variety of managerial positions with the Griffith company for 17 years prior to Wurlitzer's opening here last month, said that many of the new store's employes were from the old Griffith staff.

He added that the other two are in the Livingston Mall and the East Brunswick Mall and that six or seven more stores are expected to open in the North Jersey soon. “This is the third Wurlitzer store to open in northern New Jersey,” Earl Kunow, city manager for the store, reported. 15-After the Griffith Piano Company closed down here last November after being in business for nearly 60 years, Wurlitzer Music Stores, Inc., one of the nation's largest music chains, took over the old Griffith location at 605 Broad Street and more than a little of As good will.
