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Music Trade Review

Issue: 1926 Vol. 83 N. 23

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DECEMBER 4, 19?6
The Music Trade Review
Talking Machine & Radio Men, Inc.,
Discuss Present Radio Broadcasting
Passes Resolutions Favoring Control of Situation by Federal Government Legislation, Licensing
of Broadcasting Stations, Etc.—Congressman Sol Bloom the Speaker
meeting of the Talking Ma-
T HE chine monthly
& Radio Men, Inc., the organization
of retailers of New York, New Jersey and Con-
necticut, held on Tuesday of this week, was
devoted largely to a discussion of ways and
means for controlling the broadcast situation
with a view to overcoming, through the
medium of Federal control, the confusion at
present existing in the air.
The executive committee of the association
held a meeting recently, at which the subject
was gone into thoroughly and a set of resolu-
tions drawn up, which were adopted by the
members at large at Tuesday's meeting. The
resolutions • urged that Congress during its
present short session enact a law to give a
proper measure of protection to the public and
to the trade by regulation.
It was resolved that the channels of radio
communication should be perpetually main-
tained and controlled by and for the people
and should never be permitted to become pri-
vate property; that the use of the channels
of radio communication should be controlled
by Federal license, issued for a minimum of
three years and a maximum of five years, and
subject to revocation for any violation of the
law; that a sworn statement of the ownership
of the broadcasting station be filed with the
proper agency once every six months; that
the authority to issue licenses, assign wave-
lengths and call letters, and to establish power
limitations, etc., be vested by law in some
executive branch of the Federal Government,
maintained by funds appropriated by Congress;
that licenses shall not be transferable; that
broadcasting stations shall retain the right to
determine the character of all material broad-
cast; that there be no tax levied on radio
receiving sets or parts or on broadcasting
equipment, and that a copy of every speech
made over radio be filed with the proper au-
thorities within forty-eight hours after its
delivery and kept on file for a year.
Following the adoption of the resolution
Congressman Sol Bloom, of New York, spoke
at some length upon the radio situation and
the means being taken to relieve it. He
declared that unless proper attention was given
to framing the laws governing radio there was
a strong possibility of the creation of a
monopoly and the development of a situation
much worse than that which exists at present.
Congressman Bloom, who was for a number
of years in the talking machine business him-
self, was very frank in summing up the situa-
tion, and urged particularly that it was up to
the dealers to place before Congress the
opinions of the radio-using public and that the
campaign should not be left entirely in the
hands of the broadcasters and the manufac-
turers.
Another matter which received the attention
of the Association was the law introduced by
Assemblyman Alterman and which went into
effect on September 1, which serves to com-
plicate and make almost prohibitive the expense
of repossessing musical instruments, furniture,
etc., sold on instalments and on which pay-
ments have defaulted. The bill expressly ex-
cludes automobiles from its provisions, due to
the fact that automobile dealers were cognizant
of it and took immediate action. Now the
members of the music trade, together with the
furniture dealers, are working to have the bill
repealed. Having been passed, the details ot
the measure are more or less familiar to mem-
bers of the trade, and steps have been taken
whereby retailers will be advised immediately
of the introduction of other measures in Al-
bany that are calculated to affect the interests
of the industry.
The next meeting of the Association will be
held on January 12, when will''be considered
a proposed change in the by-laws to provide
for the election of sectional vice-presidents,
three in Manhattan, one in Queens County, one
in Kings County, one in New Jersey, one in
Bronx County and others as they may be need-
ed. These vice-presidents will have to do with
regional matters and will replace the vice-
presidents who are now in office and who rep-
resent groups of retailers of various lines of
talking machines.
Phillips-Andover Academy
Purchases an Ampico
Chickering Ampico to Be Installed in New
Auditorium of Noted Old Preparatory School
in Andover, Mass.
The Phillips-Andover Academy, at Andover,
Mass., one of the oldest and most famous col-
lege preparatory schools in the United States,
has recently purchased from Chickering &
Phillips-Andover Academy
Sons, Boston, a Chickering Grand Ampico for
installation in the magnificent new auditorium,
which is now being completed.
Phillips-Andover has long been noted for the
excellent musical training it has given its stu-
dents as an added feature of its academic
curriculum, and the selection of the. Ampico in-
dicates both the desire of the Andover trustees
to provide modern equipment and also the
recognition on the part of educators of the
Ampico as an important factor in music educa-
tion.
The music at Andover is in charge of Carl
Pfattsicher, the noted organist and authority
on Bach. Mr. Pfattsicher will use the Ampico
in his lectures on music appreciation.
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Wohn Bros, handle a fine line of instruments,
including the Hardman, A. B. Chase, Kimball
and Kohler & Campbell lines of pianos, Kim-
ball pipe organs, Sonora and Kimball phono-
graphs and Buescher band instruments.
In connection with its sales promotion ac-
tivities in the interests of pianos, considerable
auccocc has been experienced in making sales
to large educational institutions, demonstrating
the rewards to be obtained by aggressive
dealers in going after this business. Forty-four
Hardman pianos have been Sold to Wilson
College in Pennsylvania, and seventeen pianos
have been installed in Irving College, also in
that State.
School Superintendents
Interested in Piano Study
Over 600 Superintendents Write to National
Bureau for Advancement of Music for Book-
let on "Piano Classes in the Schools"
Six hundred-odd superintendents of schools
have written to the National Bureau for the
Advancement of Music during the past two
months requesting its booklet, "Piano Classes
in the Schools," these being in addition to the
more than one thousand requests previously
received from supervisors of music.
Approximately 150 of the superintendents
added some comment in the space provided for
this on the return postal enclosed with the
letter of announcement. Many remarks were
individual and revealed helpful facts concern-
ing the psychology of the school authorities,
particularly to what extent their interest in
piano classes had already been aroused. Fre-
quently these indicated that the superintendents
were actually on the lookout for more
information on the subject and that the
Bureau's booklet was a timely aid. Some
thirty asked for two or more copies for the
use of music supervisors or teachers in their
systems.
In all cases the tone of the comment was
one of respect for the Bureau's judgment and
disinterestedness. In one case, that of Super-
intendent M. W. Longman, of Muskegon,
Mich., the remark, "This looks like a booklet
of information," unconsciously disclosed the
suspicion with which the school people look
upon literature from sources which do not in
their opinion possess these qualifications.
Concert by Music Week
Gold Medal Winners
Interesting Musical Event Scheduled for Early
in the New Year Under Auspices New York
Music Week Association
The New York Music Week Association,
through its director, Miss Isabel Lowden, and
Walter Stoffregen, president of the Gold Medal
Winners' Club, announces the opening of re-
hearsals for the Gold Medal Winners' concert
to be given in the early part of the new year.
This concert will be participated in by the
Wohn Bros., of Harrisburg, Depend Upon Out- gold medal winners of the three past seasons,
side Organization for Sales Volume—Selling who will appear in ensembles under the direc-
tion of a distinguished orchestral conductor.
Pianos to Educational Institutions
The program, as outlined, includes two piano
HARRISBURG, PA., November 27.—Wohn Bros., ensembles of eight pianos each and a large
of this city, are successfully utilizing the can- string ensemble, together with two or three
vassing route to sales, five experienced sales- smaller numbers. The string ensemble will
men canvassers being constantly at work on include not only the gold medal winners in
the outside. E. W. Wohn, founder of the the string classes, but will be augmented to
business, which, by the way, is one of the eighty or more numbers by the addition of a
oldest music houses in the State, having been large number of silver medal winners, who
established in 1876, declares that canvassing is received marks of 90 per cent or over in the
vitally necessary to secure volume business. He contests of the past three seasons. All silver
emphasized the fact that only good men who medal winners in string classes who have
like the work are fit for outside selling and reached 90 per cent or more are invited to
the store has a sales organization composed of take part in this ensemble.
result-producing canvasser-salesmen. The men
have been selected by the process of elimina-
Consult the Universal Want Directory of
tion and are all on a straight salary basis.
The Review.
Finds That Canvassing
Produces the Results
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Bee Hive Department Store, Astoria,
Ore., to Open a New Music Department
Firm Will Handle the Kimball Line of Pianos—Chickering Featured With Mary Lewis Recital-
New Broadway Theatre of Portland Sei*"** the Steinway Piano
DORTLAND, ORE., November 26.—Mary
Lewis, soprano of the Metropolitan Opera
Co. of New York, was presented in recital at
the Municipal Auditorium by the Elwyn Con-
cert Bureau, November 20, before a large and
appreciative audience. All of the local Victor
dealers took advantage of the appearance of
the artist and advertised her visit extensively.
Her accompanist, Lester Hodges, used a Chick-
ering concert grand, furnished for the occasion
by the G. F. Johnson Piano Co., the Portland
representative of the Chickering.
The G. F. Johnson Piano Co. featured the
new Marshall & Wendell upright in an at-
tractive window display. The front of the
piano was exposed to view so that those who
passed could see the working of the Ampico,
which was playing. Mr. Johnson said it was
interesting to note those who stopped to in-
vestigate the instrument, and while the popular
impression is that the women are the ones
who usually decide the instrument to be pur-
chased, he noted that it was the men who were
interested in the mechanical working of the
piano. Mr. Johnson reports piano business as
good, with excellent prospects for the holiday
trade.
H. H. Princehouse, vice-president of the Mc-
Cormick Music Co., announces the opening of
a music department in the Bee Hive depart-
ment store in Astoria, Ore., at the mouth O T
'
the Columbia River. Kimball pianos and phono-
graphs will be carried and Mr. Princehouse
will have charge of the department. He said
that he long had his eyes on Astoria and pre-
dicts a great future for the city by the sea.
Claude "Bubbles" Kent, formerly connected
with the Paul Ash and Max Dolan orchestras,
of San Francisco, has joined the Hermie King
Christmas Spirit
in the Air
That is literally true. It applies to these
airs listed below. Every rol! here bears on
this most important holiday. Every one
who owns a player piano wants Christmas
Music. In this collection you find the best
music dedicated to this occasion, music for
both the grown-ups and the children.
Let us call your particular attention to the
complete home playlet in two rolls—
"Christmas at Grandma's."
The complete list suggested for the holi-
day trade follows:
13517 Away in a Manger
11315 Adeste Fidelis (Latin Words)
10529 Adeste Fidelis (O Come All Ye Faithful)
(Chime Effects)
4147 Birthday of a King:, The
11228 Cantique de Noel (Adam) (English Text)
11022 Cantique de Noel (in French)
11822 Christmas Carols (Medley)
12270 Christmas at Grandma's (Home Playlet)
(2 Rolls)
8391 Christmas Song, A
18516 The First Noel
13518 God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlemen
10854 Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
4059 The Holy City
13478 It Came Upon the Midnight Clear
12628 Jingle Bells
10875 Joy to the World, The Lord Is Come
1381 Noel (Gounod)
10873 O Little Town of Bethlehem
1382 Silent Night, Holy Night
4001 Star of the East, The
4112 Watchman, Watchman, Tell Us of the
Night
13479 While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks
4128 Yuletide Chapel Chimes
13464 Yuletide Echoes (Marimba Waltz Medley)
Send your orders to our nearest branch
THE VOCALSTYLE
MUSIC COMPANY
New York
Cincinnati
San Francisco
Orchestra at the Music Box and has tied up
with the small goods department of Sherman,
Clay & Co., and will give lessons on the drum
and the xylophone in the drum room of the
firm. He uses and recommends Ludwig drums
and Deagan xylophones.
Lorene Riley, manager of the Duo-Art roll
department of Sherman, Clay & Co., says that
the November list has had a splendid response
from the buying public and that the classic
numbers that head the list were "Badinage,"
played by Constance Mering, and the "Mignon
Engineers Discuss Wood
Situation in Chicago Meet
Wood-using Division of A. S. M. E. Hears
Prediction of Exhaustion of Native Hard-
woods in Short Time
CHICAGO, I I I , , November 27.—The National
Wood Industries Division of the American So-
ciety of Mechanical Engineers held a meeting
Tuesday afternoon and evening, November 23,
with William Braid White, technical editor of
The Review, chairman of the Wood Industries
Division, presiding at both sessions.
The principal feature of the meeting was a
paper by Major George P. Ahern, United States
Army, retired, formerly chief forester of the
Philippine Islands, who is now head of the
Tropical Research Foundation, Washington,
D. C, and the investigator for the American
Society of Mechanical Engineers in connection
with the research now being made by the
society on the subject' of a possible substitu-
tion in the way of tropical woods for native
hardwoods.
Major Ahern's paper showed the scope and
aims of such research and disclosed facts con-
cerning the present status of the remaining
stand of native timber which can only be re-
garded as extremely critical. The showing of
films by the forestry division corroborated
Major Ahern's statement, emphasizing that two-
thirds of the wood cut in this country in a
year is either lost or wasted before it comes
to final use.
Major Ahern's talk began in the afternoon,
but proved to be so interesting that the meet-
ing was continued after the dinner in the eve-
ning, at which there was a number of represent-
atives of piano and music houses. An active
discussion took place with the general agree-
ment that the native hardwoods will be un-
available in the United States within a period
of from fifteen to twenty years and that it will
be absolutely necessary to import such woods
for the wood-using industries. The seriousness
of this state of affairs is well known to the
piano trade by the constant rise in prices and
decline in quality of native woods.
Among the well-known local piano men at
this meeting were T. A. Johansen, of the Cable
Company; Otto Schulz, Jr., of M. Schulz Co., as
well as many distinguished guests representing
the General Electric Company, Bell Labora-
tories, Western Electric Co. and others.
Harvard Music Go. Handles
Excellent Line of Pianos
Cleveland, O., Concern Enjoys an Excellent
Business With Cable Company Line and
Others in Polish and Bohemian Districts
The Harvard Music Co., 6964 Broadway,
Cleveland, O., handles the Cable Company,
Continental, Weaver and Kohler & Campbell
DECEMBER 4, 1926
Selections," played by Armbruster, with the
First and Second movement of the new World
Symphony (Dvorak), played by Rudolph Ganz,
also in big demand.
A Steinway grand piano has been selected
by the management of the new million-dollar
Broadway Theatre, which was recently opened
in this city, and the handsome instrument was
placed in their beautiful reception and lounge
,oom and was installed by Sherman, Clay &
Co., from whom the instrument was purchased.
The Ampico recording of the MacDowell
"Sonata, No. 4, Op. 59 E Minor," by Frederick
Dixon, heads the list of the November record-
ings, according to Florence Pick, manager of
the Ampico roll department of the G. F. John-
son Piano Co. Portlanders are great admirers
of Mr. Dixon, who last year gave Ampico
demonstrations on the Mason & Hamlin Am-
pico at the Wiley B. Allen branch in this city.
lines of pianos, together with Sonora phono-
graphs, sheet music, etc., and is doing par-
ticularly well in the Polish and Bohemian
sections of the city. It was stated inadvertent-
ly in The Review this week that the company
handles other lines of instruments.
B. J. Sheppard Go. Moves
to New Savannah Store
New Warerooms, at 220 Broughton Street, Are
Three Stories in Height, With Basement and
Mezzanine
SAVANNAH, GA., November 27.—The B. J. Shep-
pard Co., which has conducted a successful
music business here for more than twenty years,
has moved into its elaborate new home at 220
Broughton street, west. The building is located
in the heart of the business section of the city
and includes three floors, a basement and a
mezzanine. The store is under the direction of
B. J. Sheppard, who established the business
and maintained it until the present at its origi-
nal location. A large piano department in-
cludes the Steinway and the Duo-Art, Steck,
Mathushek, Brambach, Gulbansen and Kohler
& Campbell makes of pianos. A complete line of
small goods including Gibson string instru-
ments, Paramount banjos and Buffet wind in-
struments is installed in the musical merchan-
dise department. The Sheppard store also
handles an extensive line of talking machines
and radio and comprises a sales staff of ten or
more persons.
Lutkins and Son Home-
ward Bound From Europe
A cable was received at the offices of T. L.
Lutkins, Inc., 40 Spruce street, New York, late
last week to the effect that T. L. Lutkins and
his son, Ted L. Lutkins, Jr., proprietors of the
business, sailed for New York from Plymouth,
England, on Thanksgiving Day. They have
been abroad about seven weeks, visiting Eng-
land, France, Germany, Belgium and Holland
in the interests of their lambskin importing
business, which has been supplying the player
action and organ business in the United States
and Canada for many years. Mr. Lutkins and
his son are returning on the S.S. Paris and are
expected the first few days in December.
Heads New Department
YOUNCSTOWN,
ment is made
named head of
at the new
store, recently
O., November 22.—Announce-
that J. E. Anderson has been
the talking machine department
Strouss-Hirshberg department
opened in Federal street.
A branch store has been opened at 349 East
Second street, Pomona, Cal., by the Rudolph
Wurlitzer Co., with W. Keene as manager, and
will handle a complete line.

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