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FEBRUARY 16, 1929
The Music Trade
N. Y. Musical Instrument Dealers
to Hold Next Meeting February 19
HP HE next regular meeting of the Associated
Musical Instrument Dealers of New York,
Inc., will be held on Tuesday evening, February
19, at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Ninth street and
Fifth avenue. Dinner will be served promptly
at 7 o'clock, following which John A. Redfield,
acoustical expert and writer on musical sub-
jects, will address the gathering. Mr. Red
field is well acquainted with the progress being
made with music education, especially with
band and orchestral instruments, and has some
interesting facts to relate in this connection.
A. J. Neumann, president of the Association.
is particularly anxious to have a full attendance
in view of the efforts being made by the mem-
bership committee to secure fifty or one hun-
dred new members during the year. H. L.
Hunt, secretary, has been communicating with
Rexford C. Hyre, secretary of the Cleveland
Music Trades Association, in order to exchange
views on the necessity for getting new members
and the means of accomplishing it. Mr. Neu-
Elkhorn Case Mfg. Go.
Elects New Officers
February 9.—The Elkhorn Case
Mfg. Co., of this city, recently reorganized
the company with the installation of the follow-
ing officers: J. Smith, president; Henry Wales,
vice-president; N. K. Thompson, secretary-
treasurer and general manager. Mr. Thomp-
son was for many years general superintendent
of the Frank Holton Band Instrument Co., and
is an able mechanical and industrial engineer.
The company recently installed modern ma-
chinery and equipment which provides the
latest improvement methods in manufacturing
musical instrument cases. With the installation
of this machinery, the company announces it is
now equipped to turn out a larger volume of
business this year than at any time in its his-
tory. While quantity production will be intro-
duced, the quality of workmanship and durable
material will not be sacrificed.
A full line of cases for all classes of band and
orchestra instruments is manufactured, such as
violin, ukulele, flute, clarinet, banjo, guitar,
saxophone, trumpet, cornet, alto, mellophone,
French horn, baritone, bass and sousaphone. It
is also announced that plans are being made to
add other lines so as to increase the volume of
business.
ELKHORN, WIS.,
Carl Fischer Travelers
Making Extended Trips
Arthur Hauser, sales manager for Carl
Fischer, Inc., New York, left recently on his
annual trip through the trade. Mr. Hauser is
calling on both sheet music and instrument
dealers and will spend about two months on
the road, going as far as the Pacific Coast. At
the same time Emil Stock, head of the wind
instrument department of the Fischer firm, is
making an extended tour through the Eastern
and Southern States. This is the first trip to
be made by Mr. Stock in several years, during
which time he has been busy organizing his
department to a point where he is able to leave
it for such trips as the present one.
Wm. Gretsch in Adv. Field
William Gretsch, youngest son of Fred
Gretsch of the musical instrument manufactur-
ing concern bearing his name, has just made a
connection with the Bedford Advertising
Agency, Inc., of Brooklyn, N. Y. Mr. Gretsch
previously attended Lehigh University.
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inann feels that once new members start attend-
ing the meeings the Association will grow by
leaps and bounds as each enthusiastic new man
will be in a position to bring in one or two
other outsiders.
York Radio Hour Changed
to Thursday Evenings
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH., February 11.—The regu-
lar York radio recitals, conducted each week
over Station WMAQ through the courtesy of
the York Band Instrument Co., of this city,
have been shifted from Tuesday evenings to
Thursday evenings from 9 to 9:30 o'clock, Cen-
tral Standard Time, commencing with the pro-
gram on February 7. The Fanfare Four, con-
sisting of three trumpets and a slide trombone,
will continue to be a feature of the York pro-
grams as in the past.
They will be assisted by H. S. Lorriman,
saxophone and clarinet soloist; William R.
Burnham, French horn artist; George Ham-
burg, playing bass tuba, and Walter Dellers on
piano. Four interesting programs have been
prepared by these York soloists for February
7, 14, 21 and 28 and dealers are being urged to
tie up actively with them as an incentive for
new business. Station WMAQ operates on a
wave length of 447.5 meters.
Kenin's Orchestra on
Columbia Hook-up
PORTLAND, ORE., February
11.—Hermin Kenin's
Multnomah Hotel orchestra, which has held
forth at this hotel for several years, being the
successor to the George Olsen orchestra, of
which Kenin was a member, has been engaged
to furnish musical programs over the Columbia
broadcasting chain on the Pacific Coast. Kenin's
orchestra has been increased in size and will
appear in a six months' engagement over the
coast chain of the Columbia broadcasting sys-
tem and later over the national hookup. The
broadcasting over the coast chain will be done
from the key station in San Francisco, the or-
chestra appearing three times a week. Officials
of the company announced that they had
scouted the entire, coast for an orchestra best
adapted to broadcast work, and finally selected
Kenin's.
Kenin and fourteen of his musicians left for
San Francisco recently and presented their first
program January 4. Leo Carrillo, well-known
actor, is master of ceremonies for this event.
At the conclusion of six months in San Fran-
cisco, according to the contract, the orchestra
will move to New York for an indefinite period,
presenting programs over the national network.
New Store in Williamsport
February 9.—Hawley Bros.,
Williamsport, Pa., have established a complete
music store in their recently acquired premises
at 216 West Fourth street, according to Hobart
Hawley, who came here last week to order
musical merchandise. The firm deals in musi-
cal instruments, talking machines and radio
and is planning the addition of pianos this
year.
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