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JANUARY 7, 1928
The Music Trade Review
Dealers Board of Control
Meeting; on January 26-27
Gathering at Hotel Commodore Will Include Eighty-Six Mem-
bers, Comprising Executive Board, Advisory Board, State
Commissioners and the Auxiliary Board
"THE annual mid-Winter meeting of the Board of Control of the National Association of
*• Music Merchants will be held at the Hotel Commodore, New York, on Thursday and Fri-
day, January 26 and 27, and President C. J. Roberts, of the Association, has sent out an
urgent call to all members of the Board to make every endeavor to be present and discuss the
general situation, as it concerns the Association and various new activities and successful policies
for the organization.
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The Board of Control comprises eighty-six
members, being made up of the Executive
Board, which includes the National officers; the
Advisory Board made up of past-presidents;
the State Commissioners from sections where
there are no local organizations, and the Aux-
iliary Board, consisting of the president, treas-
urer and one other member from each State
and local Association affiliated with the Na-
tional body.
Reports on what has transpired since the June
convention will be made by the president, ex-
cutive secretary, various committee chairmen,
and particular attention will be given to the
activities of the new promotion department de-
signed to bring about closer affiliation between
the National Bureau for the Advancement of
Music and the executive officers of the Mer-
chants' Association.
The sessions will begin at 9.30 a. m. on the
26th, and after an official luncheon will con-
tinue throughout the afternoon and if neces-
sary over the following day. On Thursday
evening the delegates will be the guests of the
New York Piano Merchants' Association at an
informal dinner at the Commodore.
AmDlCO
H O U F of
Is Launched Over Radio
Lhevinne Featured Artist in First of Elaborate
Series of Ampico Radio Programs Presented
Over WJZ, New York, and Other Stations
Tin- Ampico Hour of Music, the first of a
series of Ampico Hours to be given over the
radio, was launched through Station WJZ, New
Cicala Succeeds Hess at
Hammacher-Schlemmer
Becomes General Manager of American Piano
Supply Division of Well-known New York
Supply Firm
George Cicala has been appointed by Ham-
macher, Schlemmer & Co., New York, as suc-
cessor to William C. Hess, who resigned De-
cember 31 as general manager of the American
Piano supply division of the company, to be-
come associated with the B. K. Settergren Co.
of BUiffton, Ind. Mr. Cicala, who became asso-
ciated with Hamrnacher, Schlemmer & Co.
about five years ago, is well known to the
Eastern piano manufacturers, his duties having
entailed contact with them both personally and
through correspondence. He has assumed all
of Mr. Hess' duties and in view of his wide
experience in the field is assured of success in
his new capacity.
Poole Piano Go. Occupies
New Plant in Cambridge
Moves on First of Year to Modern Building at
195 Albany Street—Showrooms For Use of
Dealers a Feature of Equipment
Otto B. Heaton Now Sole
Owner of Music Business
Takes Over Entire Control of Heaton's Music
Store, Columbus, O., Following Retirement
of His Partner, C. Wert Heaton
Josef Lhevinne
COLUMBUS, O., January 3.—Following the de-
sire of C. Wert Heaton to retire from the busi-
ness partnership with Otto B. Heaton in
Heaton's Music Store, this city, the latter has
taken over the entire business, assumed all obli-
gations, and will continue as sole proprietor.
Otto B. Heaton is well known throughout
the trade and recognized as a progressive music
merchant of unusual ability. He states that he
will continue the policies that have proven so
successful heretofore.
The store handles an excellent line of instru-
ments, including the Chickering piano with the
Ampico, Brinkerhoff, Milton and Gulbransen
pianos, together with Brunswick Panatropes,
Victrolas, Radiolas and band instruments, and
is one of the best-known houses in the trade.
York, and a chain of associated stations on
January first, and from the responses received
by the company proved an unqualified success.
The featured artist at the premier concert was
Josef Lhevinne, the noted pianist, who played
Liszt's "Liebestraum" and several other num-
bers, including a group of Chopin Etudes. The
balance of the program included "Pan-Ameri-
cana," Frank Black and Orchestra; "Thank
God for a Garden," tenor solo with Ampico
accompaniment; "Medley From .the Ziegfeld
Follies," Fairchild and Rainger; "Veil Dance,"
Frank Black and Orchestra; "Nanette," Adam
Carroll with orchestra; "The Spirit of St.
Louis," Vincent Lopez, conducting orchestra;
Dinner Music (No. 8), J. Milton Delcamp;
"Among My Souvenirs," tenor solo, with orches-
tra; "Medlev of Musical Comedv Hits," Richard
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Rodgers in his own compositions; "O Dry
Those Tears," cello solo with Ampico accom-
paniment; "Hit the Deck," selections, Frank
Black and Orchestra.
The second of the series of radio concerts
was given on Thursday evening, January 5, also
over WJZ and other stations with Richard
Buhlig as the featured pianist. In both pro-
grams the Ampico was heard in reproducing
the playing of the featured artist and also his
accompanying instrument. In addition to Buh-
lig, the Thursday program included selections
by Frank Black and his orchestra, and by Ray
Perkins.
BOSTON, MASS., January 3.— The Poole Piano
Co., for some years located on Sydney street,
Cambridge, moved on the first of the year to
new factory quarters at 195 Albany street, Cam-
bridge. The building which is several blocks
nearer Boston than the old Poole factory, and
in the center of a rapidly developing industrial
district, is of modern mill construction unusually
well-lighted and has every facility for the use
of the latest and most up-to-date electrical
manufacturing devices and for the comfort of
the producing force.
A feature of the new quarters is a large, well-
lighted factory wareroom where the entire
Poole line will be displayed for wholesale pur-
poses and for the convenience of the numerous
Poole dealers in New England who can bring
prospects to the factory for purposes of making
a selection.
Louis Dreibelbis, proprietor of the Dreibel-
bis Music Co., 77 West Park street, Butte,
Mont., has purchased the Baltimore Block, on
West Park street, and will move his music
business there as soon as his present lease
expires.
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