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CHICAGO AND THE MIDDLE WEST
Frank W. Kirk, Manager, 333 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago
Bids Opened for the
H. G. Bay Property
Offerings Include Land and Buildings in Bluff-
ton, Ind., as Well as Equipment, Inventory
and Finished Stock
Fred E. Hummel, 105 West Adams street,
Chicago, trustee for the. H. C. Bay Co., bank-
rupt, by order of the United States District
Court is soliciting bids for the assets of the
bankrupt concern.
The plant is located at Bluffton, Ind., and
the property includes about ten acres of land,
improved with eleven brick buildings, two and
three stories high, having a combined floor
space of 350,000 square feet. This constitutes
all buildings necessary for a complete piano
manufacturing plant, such as machine shop, glue
building, cabinet case building, stock rooms,
plate rooms, storage house, engine and boiler
In uses, etc.
The trustee is also offering for sale approxi-
mately forty acres of land adjoining the city
of Bluffton improved with several residences.
The plant is said to have an annual capacity
of 31,000 pianos. The stock consists of finished
pianos and pianos in process, including player-
pianos, grands, piano cases, radio cabinets, piano
actions, keyboards, sound boards, scales, piano
hardware and accessories. There is also a stock
of lumber.
It is announced that the property will be
offered for sale in various divisions, to wit,
land and buildings as parcel A; machinery and
equipment, parcel B; inventory, parcel C; lum-
ber, parcel D, and office furniture and fixtures,
parcel E, as well as in its entirety.
Bids will be received at the office of Fred E.
Hummel, trustee, until 9.30 a. m., Thursday, No-
vimber 8, 1928, and will be reported for ap-
proval at 11 a. hi. of the same day to the Hon.
Harry A. Parkin, Referee in Bankruptcy, 137
South La Salle street, Chicago, 111.
In the event that no satisfactory bid is re-
ceived, the assets described will be sold at pub-
lit auction without further notice.
Wurlitzer Player Piano
for Byrd Expedition
Instrument Accompanying Exploration Party
to Antarctic Continent
A Wurlitzer player-piano is accompanying the
Byrd Antarctic Expedition and helps to cheer
the two-year voyage for the physicists, geolo-
gists, geographers, oceanographers, meteoro-
logists, glaciologists and many other learned
scientists in the expedition.
Although they confront the dangers of South
Pole exploration, moved by the serious scientific
purpose of seeking out the mysteries of the
realm of Southern ice, they have not voted
pleasure out of the two-year trip.
"On such an expedition, facilities for pleasure
and enjoyment may be as important as any of
the equipment they are carrying," states'a Wur-
litzer official. "Eighty men, enduring severe
hardships and cut off for a year or two from
all other human society, could conceivably
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grow very despondent before it ended. Muti-
nies and near mutinies have arisen in such sit-
uations, as Columbus and Magellan, were they
alive, could attest. Of course, the scientists of
the Byrd expedition are not to be compared
with the unlearned sailors of those early voy-
ages; yet it is possible that much nerve strain
and many a grouch capable of working a great
deal of mischief may be saved by providing
them with good music and other pleasures of
modern life."
Tiny New Kimball Upright
Introduced to the Trade
One of the popular instruments in the W. W.
Kimball Co. line is the new small-sized upright
in early Spanish style, which was introduced to
the trade recently, and immediately made a
strong impression. Although only three feet
nine inches high, four feet ten inches wide and
Duo-Tone Sound Mirror
Popular With Film Theatres
Newest Product of Western Electric Piano Co.
Provides Excellent Cuing of Film Presenta-
tions at Moderate Cost
The new Duo-Tone Sound Mirror, introduced
recently by the Western Electric Piano Co.,
Chicago, and already being sold and distributed
very successfully by a number of representative
dealers throughout the country, is said to make
a particularly strong impression upon operators
of motion picture theatres who are seeking some
means for bringing about a more perfect cuing
of film presentation.
There is a definite reason for the large de-
mand existing for an inexpensive cuing device
of this kind. The cost of installation plus the
leasing fee of "talking" motion pictures makes
it prohibitive for the theatre of small seating
£lectric Sound Mirror
$595^2
Duo-Tone
two feet one-inch deep the little upright has a
full scale of eighty-eight notes and a volume
that is decidedly rich and full for its size. The
case work is attractive and the spiral turns
serve to give it a distinctive touch.
Gulbransen in News
The progress made by A. G. Gulbransen in
piano building was recently recognized by the
Chicago Daily News, one of the leading metro-
politan newspapers of the country, which pub-
lished the life story of this well-known manu-
facturer, written by Royal F. Munger, who has
been writing a series of human-interest stories
for the Dailv News.
Consult the Universal Want Directory of
The Review. In it advertisements are inserted
free of charge for men who desire positions.
Sound Mirror
capacity to install profitably this most highly
developed equipment. The Duo-Tone sells for
less than $600 f. o. b. Chicago, and yet provides
reproductions of pipe organ, orchestra in sym-.
phony, or jazz, vocal selections, vaudeville dia-
logue, etc. Besides, it is possible by the usi
of phone equipment to make announcements to
the audience. The libraries of all leading phono
graph record producers are available in addi-
tion to an especially prepared selection of
records which is followed on a cue sheet sup-
plied for every motion picture released.
To relieve the exhibitor of the inconvenience
of pro-viewing the picture in order to arrange
his required phonograph records, a cuing
service has been established whereby a definite
number of standard selections are purchasable
to provide the necessary library. At a small
cost, a cue service is furnished which provides
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