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COUNTERPHASE
RADIO
Six Years
of Success
Bremer-Tully are start-
ing their seventh year in
radio with a reputation
bigger and better than
ever.
Since the earliest pio-
neer days this company
has increased over two
hundred times its original
size,—a record that we
point to with pride,—a
record that has no equal
in the radio industry.
What is the secret of
this meteoric growth,—
how was this record
achieved?
The answer is MERIT,
—born of sound engineer-
ing and superior radio
knowledge coupled with
intensive, conscientious
effort.
Bremer-Tully have con-
centrated in one field
only,—Radio. With them
it is not a side-line.
Bremer-Tully history is
the best barometer by
which to gauge their
future.
It is your assurance of
permanence!
Now, more than ever
before does the standing
of the manufacturer offer
your best guide to the
selection of a profitable
radio line.
Bremer-Tully
Mfg. Co.
520 S. Canal Street
CHICAGO, ILL.
APRIL 28, 1928
Adult Piano Classes for
San Francisco Music Week
Feature of Event Will Be Three-Lesson Course Offered for
Adults With Enrolment Limited to 1,500—Allen Co.
Closes San Diego Branch—Clay Visits East
AN FRANCISCO, CAL., April 19.—The three-lesson course in piano-playing for adults is
coming to the attention of the public as one of the leading features of San Francisco's
eighth annual Music Week. Registration for the classes, which are offered gratis, is lim-
ited to 1,500 men, women, boys and girls. No prizes are offered, as in the piano-playing con-
test, another feature of Music Week. The folder giving the schedule of adult classes says:
"By the end of the week you will be able to play at least one piece, and for the rest of
your life enjoy a greater appreciation of the
music you hear daily over the radio, on the Clay & Co.'s publishing and sheet music de-
phonograph, at the recital, concert or opera." partment, attend the annual convention of the
Through the courtesy of Sherman, Clay & National Association of Sheet Music Dealers,
Co. John G. Vogel, who is directing the June 11 and 13, in New York City, he will also
adult piano-playing course for the Music Week have Jimmy Haley as traveling companion to
Committee, will use the Bevitt system which the convention. Haley is in charge of the
he has elaborated. Originally it was not in- sheet music jobbing department of Sherman,
tended to use this system for class work, but Clay & Co.
Glenn H. Woods, head of the music depart-
ment of the Oakland (Cal.) public schools, was
Senate Committee Will
the first to put it into group instruction, using
one piano and twelve dummy keyboards. Mr.
Not Rescind Retroaction
Vogel will conduct the classes for adults during
Music Week with twelve upright pianos
Despite the protests from music merchants
grouped, like the spokes of a wheel, around the all over the country the Senate Finance Com-
teacher, who is in the center. Half-hour classes mittee has voted not to eliminate the retroac-
will be held during music week from nine in tive feature of the present revenue act which
the morning till nine in the evening. There compels the merchant who elected prior to the
will be three students at each of the twelve passage of the 1926 act to report his income
pianos, limiting the class to thirty-six students on the accrual basis to pay taxes twice. This
at each lesson. On this basis the capacity of vote simply confirms the opinion of the com-
the service is 1,500 pupils during Music Week. mittee, as expressed frequently at the hearings,
As the Civic Auditorium was booked for the that the music merchant should seek his remedy
week before it was realized how much interest in the courts instead of looking to Congress
the adult piano-playing classes would arouse for relief.
the Y. M. C. A. donated the use of its audi-
The bill will not leave the committee, accord-
torium. The course is for those who have ing to present indications, until about May 1.
never had piano instruction.
Alfred L. Smith, general manager of the Music
Industries Chamber of Commerce, states that
Allen Co. Closes Its San Diego Branch
Frank Anrys, vice-president and general man- objections will continue to pour into the com-
ager of the Wiley B. Allen Co., said to-day that mittee, and that the provision may be recon-
the company has leased the San Diego branch sidered before the bill is reported out. An in-
to a concern in another line of business. After tensive campaign will be carried on while the
a very successful sale, which included fixtures bill is on the floor of the Senate, if necessary.
and furniture, the Wiley B. Allen Co. has sold
the pianos from its San Diego branch to Sher-
man, Clay & Co., which will ship them to San Ritchie and Erskine
Francisco.
in Convention Broadcast
P. T. Clay Will Visit the East
On May 12 P. T. Clay, president of Sherman,
The National Association of Music Mer-
Clay & Co., will sail for New York by the chants announces that it has just concluded
new Panama-Pacific intercoastal liner "Cali- arrangements with George McClelland, vice-
fornia." Mr. Clay will probably be gone for president of the National Broadcasting Co.,
about two months. He plans to visit some of New York, whereby two important features
the conventions and call at factories repre- connected with the coming Twenty-seventh
sented on the ('oast by Sherman, Clay & Co.
Annual Convention will be made available to
R. F. Skinner Advertising Manager
thousands of radio listeners. The National
Robert F. Skinner, purchasing agent for Sher- Broadcasting Co. will place on the air the ad-
man, Clay & Co., has just been appointed ad- dress at the annual banquet on Thursday eve-
vertising manager for the firm, retaining, how- ning, June 7, at the Hotel Commodore, to be
ever, his duties as purchasing agent. Neill C. delivered by Governor Albert C. Ritchie, of
Wilson will have general supervision of the Maryland, and the speech of Professor John
advertising department of Sherman, Clay & Co. Erskinc at the get-together luncheon of the
Went Overseas for New Recordings
Music Industries Chamber of Commerce, at the
The San Francisco branch of the Brunswick Hotel Commodore, Monday, June 4. This will
is just releasing some special records made be the first time that functions in connection
recently in Honolulu (T. H.). C. P. Mac- with the National Convention have been made
Gregor, San Francisco manager for the Bruns- available to radio listeners.
wick, went to the Islands and arranged for
recordings by real Ha,waiians. Following Mr.
MacGregor's visit the Brunswick record outfit
Buys Sherwin Music Store
went over, and the result of their work is seen
in the records just being put on the market.
The Rev. Harry Adams Hersey has purchased
R. N. Reed, formerly of Seattle, is now in charge control of the Sherwin Music Store in Canton,
of the office of the Brunswick here.
N. Y., and will conduct the business in the
Not only will Ed. Little, head of Sherman, future, handling a general stock of instruments.
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