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CHICAGO AND THE MIDDLE WEST
Frank W. Kirk, Manager, 1302 Republic Building, South State St., Chicago
Gulbransen Urges Music
World's Fair Festival
& Lane Piano Co., Holland, Midi. Announce-
ment of this appointment was made by W. Win-
strom, sales manager of the Hush & Lane Radio
Division. At the Radio Trade Show to be held
at the Stevens Hotel in Chicago the week of
June 11, the exhibits of the Radio Division of
the Hush & Lane Piano Co., Holland, Mich.,
will be in booths. No. 131 and No. 132.
President of Gulbransen Co., Chicago, Advocates Holding Inter-
Lyon & Healy Report
national Event in Connection With Centennial Cele-
$265,972.31 Profit
bration of Chicago's Founding in 1933
Chicago Music House States Retail Sale Showed
Advance in 1927, With Decreases in Whole-
sale Trade
N international music festival has been proposed by A. G. Gulbransen, president of the Gul-
bransen Co., in connection with the Chicago World's Fair of 1933. In a letter to Rufus
Lyon & Healy, in their report covering the
C. Dawes. president of the World's Fair Committee, Mr. Gulbransen suggests that the
festival bring together the most famous conductors, singing societies, military bands, orchestras, year ending December 31, 1927, report a surplus
choruses and choirs of Europe and America as the spiritual message of Chicago's centennial cele- net profit of $265,972.31, with total assets of
$6,582,948.17 and a surplus of $659,844.57. Ray-
bration.
Chicago's position as one of the world's compensator, which is an exclusive feature, mond E. Durham, in transmitting the report,
greatest musical centers, Mr. Gulbransen makes the 6-40 extremely sensitive. It enables made the following statement:
"We have great confidence in the future of
pointed out, would be greatly enhanced by the t h e operator to adjust the set to suit his par-
staging of a program which would give every Ocular antenna conditions and personal prefer- the music business, and have taken definite steps
nation an opportunity to express itself in the ence. Once set, this compensator requires no for the advancement of our business.
"There was never a time when there was
further attention.
one universal language—'music.
This model is furnished in the three cabinet such a widespread interest on the part of the
"Such an event," said Mr. Gulbransen, "would
impart to the fair a spiritual element that would styles illustrated: model R with rounded cor- general public and school children in good
not soon be forgotten. Programs could be
arranged featuring the music of each nation and
introducing such organizations as bands,
choruses and orchestras.
"Chicago, by reason of its civic opera, its
symphony orchestra, its Apollo club and its
many music colleges, conservatories and studios,
is to-day one of the greatest music centers of
New Models g
the world, and such a festival would go far to-
of the Bremer- j
ward the enhancement of its prestige."
The Chicago World's Fair of 1933 has taken
Tully 6-40
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specific form in the announcement that ground
Receiver
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for the first building will be broken next
Spring. It will be a semi-circular amphitheatre
seating 25,000 people. Facing Lake Michigan,
it is intended to provide a view of water pag-
eants and spectacles performed on immense
stage barges.
It is stated that the Fair will be open six
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months and perhaps longer, and will be as dif-
ners
and
mahogany
finish
set
off
by
decorative
music.
This
was
emphasized,
particularly at a
ferent as possible from other world's fairs, pre-
senting an exposition of methods and problems overlay of darker finish on each side of center recent conference of 5,000 music supervisors
of science and the arts and industries, rather panel: model S of walnut with projecting base representing schools from every part of the
and top and model C, a walnut console with United States.
than an exhibition of prodr~ts.
"It is our policy to confine our business to
As music will be one of the important depart- built-in speaker.
Overall dimensions of models R and S which the retailing and wholesaling of musical mer-
ments of the Fair, along with painting, science,
are equal in size, nineteen inches wide, ten chandise and kindred lines. In conformity with
manufacture, architecture, education and other inches high, ten and one-half inches deep. this policy we have discontinued the manufac-
twentieth century activities, Mr. Gulbraosen's Model C measures forty and five-sixteenths ture of band and stringed instruments. We will
proposal that an international music festival be inches high, twenty-two and one-half inches continue to manufacture the world-famous
held is timelv.
Lyon & Healy harp in our own factory.
wide, twelve and one-half inches deep.
"Our retail sales for 1927 showed an increase
Bremer-Tully 6-40
over 1926, but a decrease was shown in whole-
C. H. Stanley, Jr., Joins
sale sales."
A
Reported in Good Demand
Instrument Is Available in Three Models Em-
bodying Latest Developments in Receivers
.The Hremer-Tully Mfg. Co. reports a greater
sales volume on its new 6-40 receiver than any
previous model. It is the lowest-price receiver
it has ever built, and, being compact and self-
contained,, it fits into any surroundings. The
cabinet is only nineteen inches wide. The manu-
facturer emphasizes particularly the tone qual-
ity, which it claims is superior, and the sub-
stantial quality of the parts and workmanship,
which are intended to eliminate all necessity for
servicing.
The 6-40 is strictly single-control, the drum
being indexed for direct reading and illuminated
by a shaded pilot light. The adjustable antenna
Seeburg Piano Co.
Chas. H. Stanley, Jr., has joined the whole-
sale sales department of the J. P. Seeburg Piano
Co., Chicago manufacturer of automatic pianos,
orchestrions and reproducing pipe organ or-
chestras. Mr. Stanley has had a number of
years of experience in various branches of the
music industry and is well known to the trade.
Marquis With Radio
Section of Bush & Lane
George W. Marquis, formerly vice-president
of the Tay Sales Co., Chicago and Milwaukee,
has been appointed Chicago and Milwaukee
representative for the radio division of the Bush
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A Gable Upright
in Sunny Spain
C. E. Jackson, sales manager of the Cable
Company, Chicago, has received an interesting
letter from a friend of his, who is touring
through Spain. "As we were walking through
one of the narrow streets of Seville," he writes,
"a truck passed with one boxed upright piano
from the Cable Company. It seemed so strange
to us, but on the dock they were unloading a
number of other American products. So we are
not altogether unknown in Spain." The Export
Department of the Cable Company has many
contacts in Spain and South America.
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