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The Music Trade Review
AUGUST 20, 1927
Knight-Campbell Go. Opens
The Proof of the Fish Story Saxophone Month to
Club for Professionals Henry Simson, president and general man-
Be Held in October
Over 5,000 Attend Reception That Marks the
Opening of New Clubroom for Professional
Musicians in Denver Music Store
August 6.—The Knight-Campbell
Music Co. this week held the formal opening
of a new clubroom for professional musicians
and it proved one of the biggest affairs in local
musical circles for a long time. Some five
thousand citizens of Denver filled the street
for one solid block, so that it was necessary
to close the sixteen hundred block on Cali-
fornia street to traffic for three hours. The
store is located at 1625 California street.
The Professional Musicians' Club was first
organized by Dan Packard, general auditor for
the Knight-Campbell Music Co., and C. O.
Bohon, manager of the musical merchandise
and sheet music department for the company.
The new clubroom, just opened by the Knight-
Campbell Music Co., is accessible from the first
floor of the store. It is comfortably furnished
with club stationery, telephone and a library
of current magazines and articles of interest
to musicians. A piano and Orthophonic Vic-
trola with the latest Victor records are pro-
vided for entertainment and study. Adjoining
the clubroom are four small studios for use
in teaching the musicians' pupils or for indi-
vidual rehearsals. There is no charge for these
facilities and the company emphasizes that the
clubroom is not a salesroom. It has been
made a rule of the house that no sales shall
be attempted there. It is provided for the
pleasure and comfort of Denver's professional
musicians.
Among those in the trade who attended the
opening were Clyde Wilson, general Western
representative of C. Bruno & Son, Inc., New
York, and Clarence P. Gotsch, of the Walter
Gotsch Co., Chicago. Messages of good will
and floral offerings were received from William
Lange, New York; the Buescher Band Instru-
ment Co., Elkhart, Ind.; Shapiro-Bernstein &
Co., New York; Sherman, Clay & Co., San
Francisco, and many others.
ager of Simson & Frey, Inc., importers and
wholesalers of musical merchandise, New York,
returned last week from a Canadian fishing
DENVER, COLO.,
Here It Is
trip. In the accompanying illustration we be-
hold Mr. Simson proudly displaying a four-and
a-half-pound bass which he pulled from the
waters of Lake Kanawaka. Had space per-
mitted we should have published a photograph
of Mr. Simson holding a giant muskelonge
with which he battled for over an hour. Fish-
ing, according to Mr. Simson, is not unlike
selling musical merchandise—you offer the cus-
tomers what they want and they will grab your
line every time.
Organizes Scout Band
CINCINNATI, August 13.—Ray Lammers, head
of the Starr small goods department, has just
completed the organization of a Boy Scout
Band, the first of its kind in Cincinnati. He will
be the director, and naturally they will use King
instruments. Mr. Lammers got this idea during
the recent convention of the Elks, at which the
Boy Scout Band of Wilmington won the first
prize at the contest in spite of sharp com-
petition.
Instrument to Be Specially Featured Through-
out Trade During That Period
ELKHART, IND., August 15.—The month of Oc-
tober has been chosen by the band instrument
manufacturers as Saxophone Month, according
to the announcement made in the current issue
cf Contact. By getting the co-operation of
manufacturers and their dealers to concentrate
on the saxophone during this one month, it is
hoped to make an unusually strong impres-
sion upon the public regarding the saxophone,
as well as band and orchestra instruments in
general.
"It is especially hoped the campaign will
popularize the saxophone in the church and
home," the announcement reads, "and will re-
store the C melody saxophone to something
like its former prestige. By November 1 it is
believed every boy and girl, man and woman
in the country will have learned something
about the saxophone and many \>f them will
be so enamored of the instrument that they
will turn loose a lot of perfectly good cash in
order to own one."
To help the dealers in the campaign the
Conn factory is preparing to give dealers com-
plete co-operation along the following lines:
The Conn Music Center outdoor advertising,
saxophone club maps, the September issue of
Conn Musical Truth, national advertising,
newspaper ad service, other dealer helps.
Adds Stadlmaier Line
AKRON, O., August 9.—Announcement is made
that Rudick's Music Store, which recently moved
to its new location in South Main street have
added the Henry Stadlmaier Co. of violins,
violas and cellos. This line has been stocked
in its entirety and recent announcement was
made that the store will be the Akron repre-
sentative for these instruments.
The E. M. Abbott Piano Co., Cincinnati, has
removed several demonstration booths from the
ground floor to the basement of the store, to
provide more display space in the main floor
showroom.
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