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The Music Trade Review
Well-Known Musicians of the Middle
West Pay Tribute to the Bush & Lane
Henry Biagini,
Business
Manager,
FEBRUARY 19, 1927
practically all the prizes awarded by the school,
including the American Legion medal offered
by the John Eraser Bryan Post for the gradu-
ate showing the most useful all-around activity;
I he Classical Club Award; a cash scholarship
of $250 for higher education; the Alliance Fran-
caise Prize for scholarship standing, and the
privilege of being the class orator. Russell
Urquhart plans to enter a university next Fall
and in the meantime will take a post-graduate
course.
Thomas L. Floyd-Jones
Starts on First Trip
Son of T. L. Floyd-Jones, President of W. P.
Haines & Co., Now Making First Visit to
the Dealers
Goldkette
Orchestra,
Detroit,
Who Endorses
the
Bush & Lane
Piano
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Charlotte
Meyers
and
Mary Tudor,
Well-known
Radio Artists,
Who
Appeared at
Opening of
Durant Hotel,
Flint, Mich.
Thomas L. Floyd-Jones, son of T. l.inton
Floyd-Jones, president of VV. P. Haines & Co.,
New York, and great-grandson of Napoleon
J. Haines, started on Thursday of this week
on his initial trip, representing the Haines &
Co., Bradbury and Webster pianos and player-
pianos.
Mr. Floyd-1 ones is a graduate of Dartmouth
and since his graduation has spent his time
learning the piano business at the extensive
factories of this corporation, in I.cominster,
Mass., and New York. He has devoted some
time to each department of the business, thor-
oughly schooling himself in the manufacturing
of pianos and player-pianos, and henceforth
will represent the company in the sales division
of the business.
The trip which Mr. Floyd-Jones is now mak-
ing will give him an opportunity to visit the
dealers in New York, Ohio, Illinois, Missouri
and Iowa.
To a representative of The Review this week-
Mr. Floyd-Jones stated: "Naturally I am
greatly enthused over the piano business, be-
cause I have been brought up in it and represent
the fourth generation of our family in the busi-
nes-.
\> long as 1 can remember I have
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Maryland Music Dealers
to Combat New Legislation
Bill Introduced in General Assembly Would
Make Pianos and Other Instruments Sold or.
Time Liable for Seizure in Rent Actions
BALTIMORE:, MIL, February 8.—Piano and other
musical instrument dealers here are exercised
over the introduction of a bill in the general as-
sembly which would remove the distraint now
existing on piano and other musical instruments
which have been bought on the partial payment
plan or rented.
Under the present law pianos, organs, talk-
ing machines, radios and other musical instru-
ments are exempt from distress or seizure for
rent by landlords where tenants have been sued
for rent. The bill to repeal this law was intro-
duced last week and is now in the hands of the
judiciary committee.
C. J. Roberts, president of the Baltimore
Music Dealers' Association, lias been appealed
In ami will call a meeting of the association,
probably next week, when action looking to the
defeat of the bill will be taken. Mr. Roberts
has communicated with C L. Dennis, executive
secretary of the National Association of Music
Merchants, requesting him to attend this meet-
ing, and as soon as he hears from Mr. Dennis
will set a date for the meeting, as the bill affects
every music dealer in Maryland. The meeting
will be made State-wide and invitations to at-
tend will be sent to every piano and talking
machine dealer in the State.
Russell Urquhart Makes
a Notable School Record
Ubert
Aeolian
pansion
his son
School,
Urquhart, wholesale traveler for the
Co., gained several inches in chest ex-
last week following the graduation of
Russell from the Evander Childs High
New York. The youngster received
Thomas L. Floyd-Jcnes
always looked forward to the day that I could
be actively engaged in the business which was
established bv my ancestors, and it has been
a keen delight to have had the opportunity
to have so thoroughly learned the mechanical
end of the business. I know that 1 am going
to enjoy meeting the retail merchants on the
frequent trips which 1 now expect to make."
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