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OCTOBER 23, 1926
Plans for Piano Playing Contest to
Be Submitted at Wisconsin Convention
Proposed Event to Be Held in Milwaukee With Finals to Take Place During National Music
Week—Musical Instrument Revue to Be a Big Feature of the Meeting
MILWAUKEE, WIS., October 19.—Milwau-
kee music dealers are actively engaged in
plans for the convention which will organize the
Wisconsin Association of Music Merchants, and
which will be held October 28 and 29 of next
week.
Committees report that they have practically
completed their plans for the event, and present
indications point to a very successful meeting.
The committee on nominations has been an-
nounced with Edmund Gram as chairman. He
will be assisted by A. B. O'Connor, Fred E.
Yahr and Hugh W. Randall.
The committee on hotel arrangements, com-
prising the chairman, -J. R. Rousselot, H. M.
Steussy and H. L. Ashworth, who is acting sec-
retary of the Milwaukee dealers, has chosen the
Plankinton for the convention hotel. Reserva-
tions now coming in promise a very good at-
tendance and seem to indicate great interest in
the'project on the part of dealers throughout
the State.
A few changes have been made in the original
schedule of the convention. The Musical In-
strument Revue, which was scheduled for the
first night of the convention, will be featured on
the second evening, October 29. The revue will
be held in the Sky Room of the Plankinton,
immediately after the convention dinner. Hugh
Holmes is chairman of the committee in charge,
and Carl Lovejoy and Phil H. Lasher will assist
him.
The committee on exhibits, composed of
Chairman Fred E. Yahr, Edward Herzog and
George Ruez, has announced its plan to stage
the showings on the mezzanine floor of the
hotel and the adjoining rooms. Some very fine
displays will be arranged, as the success of the
radio show has demonstrated conclusively to
local dealers the great value of such exhibits.
Plans for a piano-playing contest in Milwau-
kee, similar to the one held at Detroit, will be
submitted at the convention. Present plans will
have the final contest take place during Na-
tional Music Week. W. Otto Miessner is chair-
man of the committee in charge of the piano-
playing contest and piano class demonstration.
Exhibits at Food and Household Exposition
The music exhibits at the Milwaukee Journal
Food and Household Exposition are attracting
a great deal of interest and comment. The show
opened October 18 and will continue through-
out the week. The music festival is held in
the annex of the auditorium and the elaborate
displays are proving one of the drawing cards of
the exposition.
The Noll Piano Co., which features Bush &
Lane pianos, has leased the entire area of
Juneau Hall. Several unusual features are being
used by this firm with the intention of attract-
ing greater interest to the show. Walker Hall
is being occupied by the exhibit of Kesselman-
O'Driscoll Co., who are featuring their display
from an educational standpoint. The Milwaukee
Piano Manufacturing Co., retailers of the
Waltham line, and the Carberry Parker Co.,
home of the Ampico in the Chickering, have
leased the greater portion of Kilbourn Hall.
The remaining area is occupied by the display
of the Holton Band Instrument Co. and the
Walker Musical Exchange. The Walker display
is featuring a number of instruments which
were made expressly for this exhibit.
Piano Instruction in Milwaukee Schools
The strength of music as a bond to the better
things in life was emphasized at a meeting of
Milwaukee people who are interested in pro-
moting the civic concerts which will be held in
Milwaukee during the season. Among the
facts of special importance brought out in the
meeting was the announcement of Herman
Smith, director of music in the public schools of
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Milwaukee, that piano and violin lessons are
now being given to school children. The chil-
dren learn to play the piano in classes with
paper keyboards. Following the first enroll-
ment of 1,600 students in the first semester,
more than 350 dropped out to take private les-
sons. Mr. Smith declared this to be a favorable
sign for music in Milwaukee. James Tartley, of
Chicago, gave a demonstration of harmonica
playing.
Baldwin Sales Satisfactory
A. J. Quinn, manager of the Baldwin Piano
Parlors of Milwaukee, says that sales in Bald-
wins during the past month have been very
satisfactory. According to Mr. Quinn, business
conditions. are very good and promise to be
even better. J. L. Sawyer, formerly salesman
for the Baldwin piano in Denver, has been ap-
pointed to the sales force of the Baldwin Piano
Parlors at Milwaukee.
Window Display of Conn Instruments
Eric S. Hafsoos, of Flanner-Hafsoos Music
House, Inc., states that the demand for C. G.
Conn band instruments is exceptionally good.
Flanner-Hafsoos have added Joseph -W. Guepe
to the sales force in the band instrument de-
partment. A window display featuring well-
known Milwaukee bands which endorse C. G.
Conn band instruments is attracting- much at-
tention to the Flanner-Hafsoos store. Large
pictures of the various artists and orchestras,
with their name and perference in instruments,
are mounted on attractive frames. The pictures
will be used for the walls of the store after
they have served their purpose for a window
exhibit.
A. V. Orth, of the Orth Music Co., states
that radios have been especially active during
the month. Mr. Orth is featuring the Atwater
Kent line, which he recently added to his store,
and the new batteryless Zenith. The window
display at the Orth music store is featuring the
armchair model of the Atwater Kent. A num-
ber of other models of the line are shown, but
attention is especially attracted to the armchair
model, which is. placed beside a handsome red
leather armchair. Another of the armchair
models is the center of the background decora-
tion formed in a bright orange and black color
scheme.
Mr. Orth says that the presence of Isham
Jones and his orchestra as the feature attrac-
tion of the Wisconsin Theatre during the past
week has stimulated sales of Brunswick records.
Strong Phonograph Demand
Merle E. Roussellot, managing director of the
Lyric Music Co., Milwaukee agents for the
Kimball line, says that the new Kimball repro-
ducing phonograph now on the market is selling
very well. He states that the demand for Bruns-
wicks is very active and that this company is
selling all the Brunswicks they can get. Percival
Brooks, special Kimball representative, has been
with the Lyric store for the past week. E. L.
Stryker, of the main office of the Kimball Piano
Co., visited at the store during the week.
W. E. Day, wholesale representative for the
W. W. Kimball Co. in Milwaukee, who has been
ill recently, is recovering at his home in Chi-
cago.
Marion Bauer Lectures at
University of New York
Marion Bauer, the well-known composer pf
music of the better class, and a recognized
musical authority, has begun her lectures and
classes at the University of New York on or-
chestration, criticism, and many other phases of
music. A substantial registration indicates the
Interest in Miss Bauer's work at the University.
Pleads Guilty in St. Louis
to Using Mails to Defraud
Edgar Schneider Took Orders for Radio Re-
ceiving Sets, Taking Dealers' Notes and Then
Failed to Deliver Merchandise
ST. LOUIS, MO., October 16.—Largely through
the efforts of the Better Business Bureau of
St. Louis, Edgar Schneider, who operated the
Tyrola Phonograph Co., National Distributing
& Sales Co., and North American Sales Co..
was brought to justice recently and pleaded
guilty to charges of using the mails to defraud,
before the United States District Court here;
The sentence was deferred for thirty days in
order to permit him to wind up. Charges against
Schneider's son and his brothers-in-law were
dismissed.
Schneider's plan of operation was to take
orders for radio receiving sets from dealers and
take the dealers' notes for the purchase price.
He failed to deliver the radio sets, but sold the
notes to others. Federal agents estimate that
he obtained about $65,000 in this manner.
Knabe Ampico in Concert
The Knabe piano with the Ampico will be
featured in a special program given before the
National Arts Club, New York, on October 27,
through the courtesy of William Knabe & Co.
The artists will be Arcadie Birkenholz, violin-
ist; Alexander Brachocki, pianist, and James
Kaskey, accompanist, and a well-balanced pro-
gram has been arranged.
A Visitor From Worcester
Among the visitors to the executive offices
of Hardman, Peck & Co., New York, recently
were Mr. and Mrs. George F. Charron, of Wor-
cester, Mass. Mr. Charron is junior member
of F. J. Charron & Son, Hardman representa-
tives in that city.
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