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Lester Gunst Heads the
Dallas Music Association
W. H. Beasley Elected Vice-president and Jules
H. Corder Secretary and Treasurer—New
Board of Directors Also Elected
DALLAS, TEX., January 19.—At a recent meeting
of the Dallas Music Industries Association,
Lester Gunst, who has been vice-president of
that body for the past two years, was unani-
mously elected president by members assem-
bled for luncheon in the Y." W. C. A. W. H.
Beasley, president of the Texas Music Mer-
chants, was unanimously chosen as vice-presi-
dent Of the local body, and Jules H. Corder,
the veteran secretary and treasurer, was unani-
mously elected for a second term. The new
board of directors, will include D. L. Whittle,
the outgoing president, and Paul Burling, C. L.
Mahaney, Brook Mays and Will A. Watkin.
Making his annual report, former President
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Whittle called attention to the progress of
Dallas from a musical standpoint, with particu-
lar reference to the observance of Music Week
last Spring. Plans have been completed, he
stated, to repeat the massed piano concert,
which was a feature of the week's program.
Mr. Whittle took occasion to thank the Dallas
newspapers especially for the efforts to promote
the cause of music. He also congratulated the
Dallas Music Commission for its successful
direction of musical activities.
Plans were discussed to assure adequate audi-
ences for as many of the musical attractions
booked for Dallas as possible. It was sug-
gested that those members of the Association
who could mention in their regular advertising
the forthcoming attraction, when any tie-up of
prestige for instruments or records used by the
artist presented itself.
JANUARY 26,
1924
Charles T. Allen With
the Janssen Piano Go.
Well-known Traveler Joins Wholesale Forces of
That Company—Twenty Years' Experience
With the Piano Industry
Announcement was made last week by H. H,
Janssen, of the Janssen Piano Co., Inc., New
York, of the appointment of Charles T. Allen
as one of its wholesale representatives.
Mr. Allen is well and favorably known
throughout the entire industry and comes to the
Consult the Universal Want Directory of
The Review. In it advertisements are inserted
free of charge for men who desire positions.
The Popularity of the
Staib-Abendschein
Reproducer Grand
Piano Action
with
C. T. Allen
Janssen Piano Co. after a wide experience in
both manufacturing and wholesale merchandis-
ing. He has been connected with the piano
business for approximately twenty years, and at
one time traveled extensively in the interests
of the Standard Pneumatic Action Co. as player
mechanism expert. He is, therefore, well
equipped to assist dealers in their player-piano
problems as well as their merchandising efforts.
New Standard Music Roll
Receiving a Wide Response
Lost Motion Attachment
Play-A-Roll, Recently Put Out, Proves to Be
Steady and Persistent Seller With the Dealers
Who Handle It
is growing steadily on account of the satisfaction it has
given during the last two years in many of the highest
grade reproducing pianos in the country.
James C. Fonner, sales manager of the Stand-
ard Music Roll Co., 29 Central avenue, Orange,
N. J., recently stated that the new Standard
Play-A-Roll has met with wide response in trade
circles. This hand-played word roll, carrying
some new features, is being marketed in a
mannier that has added substantially to its sales.
Not only is the roll a new type of recording,
but its manufacture in all details undergoes the
closest scrutiny with the result that a roll of
much merit is being produced. The new box
in which the rolls are placed has added to the
attractiveness of these offerings. They lend
themselves readily to display purposes of all
kinds and some very effective windows have
been the result.
In the reproducing piano it eliminates all lost motion
between the action and mechanism, permits soft pedal
movement adjustment to the lightest pneumatic and
does away with key shifting and key dipping entirely.
Send for illustrated booklet which
explain* it in detail and tells
how to install and regulate it
Minsel Goes With Dunlap
THE STAIB-ABENDSCHEIN CO.
134th St. and Brook Ave.
New York
OssiNiNG, N. Y., January 22.—Adam O. Minsel
has been engaged by Mr. Dunlap as manager
of the Dunlap Music Store on Main street. Mr.
Minsel, who comes from Detroit, is experienced
in the music business and will be "in active
charge of the local store.