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The Music Trade Review
MARCH 24, 1928
Chicago and the Middle West — (Continued from page 13)
It is made in walnut with the new highlight
rt lacquer finish that has beconie so popular.
t is also made in mahogany,. The size is
Jour feet five inches long, four feet eight inches
wide, and three feet two inches high.
'Triano" Wins Prize
in Gulbransen Contest
Winning Name and Slogan for Gulbransen
Combination Registering Reproducing Piano
Suggested by Mrs. M. W. Black
The Gulbransen Triano, "The Three-Way
Piano," is the new name that has been selected
for the Gulbransen combination registering
reproducing piano. It was submitted by Mrs.
Margaret W. Black, of Spokane, Wash., who
won an instrument for her suggestion in the
contest held by the Gulbransen Co.
It was selected by the committee of judges
as the most suitable name and slogan properly
to describe the functions of the instrument,
after consideration of the many hundreds of
suggestions submitted during the contest
launched by the Gulbransen Co. November 10.
The name is in very close relation to the
word piano, and at the same time stresses the
fact that there are three ways of playing it,
by hand, through electric playing of the roll
and as a registering piano, played by foot
pedals. When played the latter way the roll
is propelled electrically and the piano pedals
are used for striking the notes and playing with
expression.
Mrs. Margaret Woodland Black is a daughter
of Dr. W. F. Kippen, a Spokane physician. She
graduated from the North Central High School
of Spokane in 1918, after which she attended
the University of Idaho at Moscow and later
graduated from Cheney Normal School of Che-
ney, Wash. She taught school prior to her mar-
riage to Mr. Black, who is in the commissary de-
partment of the Potlatch Lumber Co. She has
written a note of thanks to the Gulbransen
Co. as follows: "A mere letter of thanks seems
very inadequate at this time. I am surely
Fansteel Products Co. Announces a
Complete Line of Radio Receiving Sets
Line, Including the Balkite AC Set, Will Sell at Retail From $175 to $200 Without
Tubes—Console Models Also Available
'TpHE Fansteel Products Co., North Chicago,
-*• manufacturers of the well-known Balkite
radio power units, announces that it will in-
troduce at once a complete line of radio receiv-
ing sets, including the Balkite AC set, to retail
at between $175 and $200 without tubes. A com-
prehensive line of console models will also be
available.
In discussing the new plans of the company,
Herman J. Doughty, Director of Sales, said in
part:
"The good-will that Balkite has built for us
in the past has been founded on two things,
quality and offering thernost advanced line of
equipment on the market. We intend to follow
this policy exactly in the manufacture of radio
receivers. The new Balkite set is not low priced.
But it is as good a commercial receiver as we
and money can make it. We have stopped at
nothing to produce a set that will be as out-
standing in the set field as Balkite is in the
radio power field. It will be different in appear-
ance. The table model will be designed so that
it can be used alone as a self-contained unit,
or in a console, whichever the owner prefers.
It will be different in performance. While the
set is fully licensed we have patterned after no
other receiver. It will be purely a Balkite
product, engineered in our own plant. Our de-
cision to enter the set field is not a hasty one.
Some of the features to be incorporated into
the receiver are the result of over four years
of development work in our general research
laboratories.
"As for distribution, we believe that one of
the other factors that is accountable for the
success of Balkite in the past is that the trade,
both jobber and retailer, have always made
money in the resale of our line. We intend
that the trade shall make money out of our
sets, and will do everything in our power to see
to it that they do. In a radio set line, unlike
a radio power line, this calls for restricted dis-
tribution. A complete statement of sales policy
will be made with the first showings of the re-
ceiver itself.
"We believe we have a line of receivers that
it will pay every retailer and jobber in the
country to wait for before making commit-
ments."
Mr. Doughty added a word about the regular
Balkite line. "Our announcement of the new
set is not to be taken to mean that we intend
to discontinue the manufacture of Balkite radio
power units. On the contrary, there will al-
ways be a demand for power equipment for sets
using DC tubes, for special installations, for
sections of the country and districts which
make the use of AC tubes impractical. We be-
lieve that the radio power unit field will be a
profitable one for a long time to come and we
mean to maintain our leadership in it."
proud and happy to learn of my good fortune
in having won 'the three-way piano,' and I wish
to thank you for having made possible my
chance to win such a wonderul prize. Grate-
fully yours, (Mrs.) Margaret Black."
The judges in the contest were C J. Levin,
of the Kranz-Smith-Hammann-Levin Co., Balti-
more; Henry D. Sulzer, of Vanderhoof & Co.,
advertising agents of Chicago, and A. H.
Boettcher, patent attorney of Chicago.
Becker Bros.
High Grade Pianos and Player-Pianos
Factory and
Warerooms:
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NEW YORK
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