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THE
FEBRUARY 14, 1920
MUSIC
TRADE
REVIEW
41
C. G. CONN WINS SUIT
Prominent Band Instrument Manufacturer Up-
held by Court in Refusal to Pay Brokers
$42,500 in Commissions for Art Deal
Supreme Court Justice Bijur this week vacated
an attachment obtained by Abe Landow, as as-
signee for the North Shores Art Galleries of
Chicago, on a number of paintings in this city
owned by Charles G. Conn and valued at more
than $250,000.
The writ of attachment was intended to re-
cover $42,500 from Conn on an alleged breach
of contract. The dealers stated that Conn en-
gaged them to bring the pictures from San Fran-
cisco to New York and to find a purchaser for
them. Conn, .they said, named a base price
under which he would not sell and agreed to
pay them, as brokers, the expense of moving
the pictures and half what they got for them
above the base price. They alleged they found
a purchaser willing to pay $250,000, which was
sufficient, they said, to net them $5,500 for ex-
penses and $37,000 in commissions. They
charged, however, that Conn refused to sell at
that price, breaking the contract.
Justice Bijur ruled that Conn had the right
to discharge the brokers whenever he desired.
EXHIBIT SOLD AT MUSIC SHOW
Practically Every Instrument Exhibited by C.
G. Conn, Ltd., at Music Show Last Week Sold
to Visitors Who Saw the Exhibit
At the close of the Music Show last week
J. F. Boyer; secretary of C. G. Conn, Ltd.,
stated that practically every instrument on dis-
play at the Conn exhibit had been sold from
the floor to members of the trade and to the
general public. This display was one of the
most attractive at the show and Mr. Boyer was
gratified to state that the great majority of the
expensive instruments on display had met with a
ready sale. In fact, when Mr. Boyer returned
to Elkhart not a single instrument remained for
return shipment to the Conn headquarters.
INCORPORATED IN UTAH
The Royal Distributing Co., Provo, Utah, has
been incorporated to act as distributing agents
for manufacturers of all kinds of musical instru-
ments. The officers are L. R. Taylor, president;
T. C. Jones, vice-president; A. R. Taylor, sec-
retary and treasurer, and T. N. and T. S. Tay-
lor, directors.
SALES STAFF HOLDS BAN0UET
The sales staff of the talking machine depart-
ment of the Shepard-Norwell Co., Boston,
Mass., recently had an enjoyable banquet at
the Quincy House that city, at which A. R.
Filante, the manager, acted as toastmaster.
The above is a photographic view of the present plant whore True-Tone Band and Orchestra Instru-
ments are made. Its size, though one of the largest of its kind, has proven inadequate to supply the
stupendous increase in demand for True-Tone Quality Instrument*. resuttiiiK in (lie caiicelhition of many
thousands of orders because of our not being' able to offer other than far in advance deliveries.
NEW ADDITION DOUBLES CAPACITY
We wish to take this opportunity to advise our many patrons who had to cancel their orders with
us for the above reasons, and may not have been successful in securing an instrument to their satisfaction
elsewhere, that the new addition to our factory, which more than doubles our present capacity, is nearly
ready for occupancy. We will then not make you wait as we have in the past.
Why this wonderful and unprecedented growth from a dozen or less employees in 1904 to nearly
1,000 of the highest possible skilled band instrument makers in 1920? The reason is obvious. With this
up-to-the-minute enlarged plant, we shall in the future, as in the past, continue to do one thing only
and do that thing better than it was ever done before—the making of the True-Tone Quality Brand.
We cordially invite you to visit our new plant—see Buescher True-Tone instruments in the making
—witness the thousand and one details of production—then you will realize what it means to master the
art of making band instruments the True-Tone way. Your copy of our catalog, "Tone-Topics No. 11," is
ready for your file. Send for it.
Address all correspondence to
JACKSON
BUESCHER BAND INSTRUMENT COMPANY, 297 STREET
ELKHART, IND.
at its marginal portion wherein the moisture
absorbed by the head will tend to collect, in or-
WASHINGTON, D. C, February 7.—Richard R. der to obviate deadening the sound of the in-
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central part of the head, and in conjunction with
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head which is usually of.untanned skin of an intensifying the sound.
animal is susceptible of absorbing moisture from
the air, and the moisture chiefly collects around
the peripheral portion of the head with a ten-
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