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Lyon & Healy Remodeling
Dreher Piano Go. Store
Musical Merchandise and Sheet Music to Be
Added to the Company's Lines and Premises
Are Being Rearranged Generally
CLEVELAND, O., July 30.—Following the purchase
of the business of the Dreher Piano Co. by
Lyon & Healy, of Chicago, the work of re-
modeling the local store, under the auspices
of the new owners, has already begun. Raymond
E. Durham, president of Lyon & Healy, spent
several days in Cleveland last week in connec-
tion with the taking over of the Dreher store.
It is announced that the Dreher Co. stock,
which included only pianos, phonographs, ra-
dios, records and music rolls, will be enlarged
to include musical merchandise and sheet music.
The alterations include the moving of the
ticket offices from the front to the rear of the
store, the transferring of the music roll de-
partment to an upper floor, the placing of the
Duo-Art department on the second floor and
the general offices on the third. Harry R. Val-
entine, formerly vice-president of the Dreher
Piano Co. and associated with that company for
twenty-two years, has taken up his duties as
voice-president and general manager of the
Cleveland store of Lyon & Healy, and it is
understood that the old Dreher employes will
be retained in their positions.
New Piano Factory to Be
Opened in Victoria, B. G.
B. C, July 26.—The British Colum-
bia Piano Co., Ltd., a new concern formed in
Canada, by the Dominion, Evans and -Bell Piano
Companies, of Ontario, has arranged for the
opening of a factory in this city, where the Bell,
Dominion and Evans pianos will be made for
the Western and export trade. The city has
VICTORIA,
granted a site for the plant for a nominal fee
and a factory costing about $50,000 and employ-
ing, from sixty-five to seventy men will be
erected. The grant of the site was made on the
condition that the company produce at least 800
pianos annually after the first six months of
operation.
James J. Davin Returns
From Western Tour
James J. Davin, who has been traveling
through the Far West in the interests of the
American Piano Co. during the last few weeks,
returned home this week. Mr. Davin was in
Los Angeles during the Pageant of Music, and
the convention of the Western Music Trades 1
Convention in that city, and while there ad-
dressed a number of meetings of salesmen of
the Platt Music Co., local Ampico representa-
tives. On his way home he stopped in Ogden,
Salt Lake City, Denver, Omaha and Chicago
Aeolian Go. in Yonkers
YONKERS, N. Y., August 1.—The Aeolian Co.,
New York, has leased the building at 14 Main
street, this city, for a period of twenty years
at an aggregate rental of $265,000, and as soon
as complete alterations are made, the firm will
open it as a retail sales branch handling the
full line of Aeolian products. An entirely new
front will be installed and handsome display
rooms are planned.
Shecter Music Go. Quits
CUMBERLAND, MD., July 28.—The Shecter Music
Co., 16 North Center street, filed a deed of trust
in Circuit Court. Louis Bernstein was "named
trustee, for the purpose of closing out the busi-
ness. He qualified and filed bond.
AUGUST 4, 1928
Splitdorf Issues New
Catalog of Radio Line
Portfolio, Handsomely Printed, Shows Entire
Line of Styles, Illustrated on Separate
Sheets
In keeping with the idea of beauty in radio
the Splitdorf Radio Corp. has issued a port-
folio containing specially processed photo-
graphs of the Splitdorf Fine of radio receivers.
All of the art furniture consoles are shown
and the two table models that were patterned
after an old world jewel case. The front cover
shows the facilities back of the Splitdorf Radio
Corp. in an artistic conception of the plants
of the Splitdorf-Bethlehem Electrical Co., the
parent organization. Against the soft brown
and black background of squares are sketched
in the Newark, Bethlehem, Chicago plants and
the cabinet plant at Bethlehem where the Split-
dorf woodwork is fashioned for cabinets and
consoles.
The photographs of ten Splitdorf models are
separately placed within the portfolio printed
on heavy tan paper. They are the Abbey Junior,
the Abbey Senior, the Avon, the Warwick, the
Lorenzo, the Como, the Salem, the Salem (with-
out bookcase top), the Winthrop and the
Devon. In the consoles three general periods
of furniture are followed, namely, the Old Eng-
lish, Early American and Italian of Renais-
sance days.
Menth With Hardman
Herma Menth, Viennese concert pianist and
exclusive Hardman artist, gave a series of four
recitals at Cliff Haven, N. J., in conjunction
with the twenty-seventh annual session of the
Catholic Summer School of America. Miss
Menth offered four distinct programs during
the week and was most enthusiastically received
by audiences of several hundred persons.
BEAUTY THE BEST SALESMAN
Piano Manufacturers who are concentrating on beautiful case designs and finishes are
finding excellent demand for pianos. Many of the dealers are staging style shows and
report that many sales are being made as a result—made through eye appeal.
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