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Music Trade Review

Issue: 1930 Vol. 89 N. 9

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333 No. MICHIGAN
AVENUE
R. A. Burke Now Secretary
of Story & Clark Piano Co.
R. A. Burke last month was elected a mem-
ber of the Board of Directors, and now is sec-
retary, of the Story & Clark Piano Co. This
is a well-deserved promotion for a capable, pop-
ular and energetic man who has had nearly
twenty years' service with the company. Mr.
Burke is a member of a prominent Southwest-
ern Illinois family, and served in the U. S.
Marines during the World War. For a number
of years he has been sales manager of the
company, which position he also retains. On
his selling trips he has covered practically every
State in the Union, and is well known and well
liked by hundreds of dealers. The Story & Clark
Piano Co. also has a prosperous export trade,
particularly in Latin America, where Mr. Burke
has also traveled much to maintain his contact
with Storv & Clark dealers.
FRANK W. KIRK
Manager
Deutschmann; Eugene Whelan, and Axel
Christensen has been nominated in place of E.
V. Galloway, resigned.
W. W. Kjmball Heads
Kimball Organ Department
The W. W. Kimball Co. announces the ap-
pointment of W. W. Kimball as managing di-
rector of its organ department. Mr. Kimball is
a son of President Curtis H. Kimball, and a
grandnephew and namesake of the founder of
that great house. He is a Dartmouth graduate
of marked engineering ability, and ever since he
has left school has devoted himself to the man-
ufacturing section of the Kimball Co. For a
Dundore to Represent
Schulz Pianos in West
H. D. Hewitt, sales manager of the M. Schulz
Co., annnounces an important change in selling
operations. For three years A. C. Beckman
has been representing M. Schulz Co. in the
West. Now he is retiring and will return to
Chicago. A new arrangement has been effected
with Charles Dundore, who "will visit the Schulz
dealers on the Pacific Coast in the territory
from Utah West between Canada and Mexico.
Mr. Dundore, who has represented the Had-
dorflf Piano Co. of Rockford, 111., on the Pacific
Coast for the past several years, will still con-
tinue to represent the Haddorff line as well.
As Mr. Hewitt put it to a representative of
The Review, "The present arrangement in rep-
resenting two independent manufacturers will
permit of more frequent visits to the trade.
This will place the dealer in closer and more
frequent contact with the Haddorff and . the
Schulz factories, and both companies believe it
will be helpful alike to the dealers and to the
two companies interested."
Nominations for Chicago
Piano Club Officers
The nominating committee of the Piano Club
of Chicago selects the following ticket, which
will undoubtedly be elected at the annual meet-
ing in October: For president, Benj. F. Duvall;
for vice-president, Edward E. Benedict; for sec-
retary, David W. Kimball, and for treasurer, S.
M. Harris. For member of the Board of Gov-
ernors to serve for a two-year term: Gurney R.
Brownell; Ray J. Cook; Otto Schulz; C. A.
Lyon & Healy Plan Large
Steinway Ad. Campaign
What is said will be the most elaborate news-
paper advertising campaign ever run by Lyon
& Healy, Chicago, in the interests of a single
instrument, will be launched early in September
for the purpose of featuring the Steinway piano,
which that company has handled as leader for
many years.
The copy for the campaign is now being pre-
pared by an advertising organization of national
prominence, and the appeal will be based chiefly
on the elevating influence of the piano in the
home and its value as a medium for the train-
ing of children in music. A number of leading
newspapers in the territory served by Lyon &
Healy will be used regularly over an extended
period in presenting the distinctive series of
Steinway advertisements.
The copy, with its cultural appeal, will be of
the type that is calculated to arouse more gen-
eral interest in the piano as an instrument to
the benefit of the trade at large as well as to
Lyon & Hraly and the Steinway house.
Starr Grants Allowances
for Old Pianos Destroyed
Wallace W. Kimball
number of years past he has been specializing
on pipe organs and the steadily growing future
of that business.
As is well known, the W. W. Kimball Co.
have designed and built organs for many of
the greatest auditoriums in the country, includ-
ing such big instruments as those in Roxy's
theatre in New York, the Municipal Auditoriums
in Minneapolis, Minn., Memphis, Tenn., and
other cities.
The W. W. Kimball Co., which was founded
in 1857, is one of the largest concerns in the
musical instrument business, maintaining large
factories in Chicago, devoted to the manufacture
of pianos, organs and radio. The company be-
gan the manufacture of pipe organs some forty
years ago and has built some of the most
famous organs in America.
Mr. Kimball, who is a member of the Board
of Directors of the company, has technical
equipment that will enable him to accomplish
much in his new post as head of the organ de-
partment.
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Much interest has been aroused in the trade
by the recent announcement made by Fred Gen-
nett, secretary of the Starr Piano Co., Richmond,
Ind., to the effect that the company not only
believed that obsolete pianos should be de-
stroyed, but would, during a limited period,
share the dealer's loss in destroying worthless
trade-ins.
The Starr Co. offers, during a limited period,
to extend a series of credits ranging from $5.00
to $2000 to be allocated to the dealer's present
account or on future purchases, these credits to
be in connection with the sale of Starr-made
instruments. Only one trade-in credit will be
allowed to each sale. Claims are to be made
on forms furnished by the Starr Co. and ap-
proval of the claims will be made upon inspec-
tion and witnessing of destruction of worthless
instruments by Starr Co. representatives. All
claims must be filed before a certain date. No
credit deduction may be taken prior to formal
acceptance of the claim and the company's de-
cision as to any claim is to be final. A report
received from the Starr Co. indicates that a
large number of retail dealers have already
taken advantage of this very unusual offer.
If a number of piano manufacturers, possibly
all of the members of the National Piano Manu-
facturers' Association, were to adopt a plan of
somewhat similar nature, it is probable that a
very long step would be taken towards the
elimination of a great number of worthless
pianos which might otherwise remain in use.
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The Music Trade Review
Eugene A. Whalen Now
Kimball Retail Manager
• Edwin C. Smith celebrated the fiftieth anni-
versary of his service with the W. W. Kimball
Co. recently by resigning as director and as the
head of the retail department of the company.
Mr. Smith is now at his summer home in Grand
Beach, Mich., and will devote a portion of his
leisure to travel in the future.
Following Mr. Smith's resignation, Eugene A.
Whalen was formally promoted to the position
SEPTEMBER, 1930
ranged as to play at the proper tempo for danc-
ing without any further regulation. The first
of the new rolls will appear in the Clark Sep-
tember bulletin. They are all arranged for 65-
note instruments.
Third Gulbransen Piano
for Decatur High School
Oberlin, Kan., a town of 1,600 people, is doing
more than its share in "making America Mu-
sical." The Decatur Community High School
there has just purchased an additional Gulbran-
stn grand .piano from funds contributed by the
graduating classes of the past several years.
This is the third Gulbransen piano, purchased
by this school, as it previously had a style "S"
and a Minuet.
according to an announcement made by Hugh
W. Randall, president and general manager of
the company.
Adolph J. Althause, who lias been an assistant
in the piano and duo-art department, has been
named assistant sales manager with Mr. Oerd-
ing and H. W. Boone has been placed in com-
plete charge of the radio department of the
store.
Wurlitzer Chicago Staff
Wins Radio Selling Prize
The Wurlitzer organization recently con-
ducted an interesting and profitable sales con-
test which was concentrated on Lyric radio, and
the Chicago radio sales group pictured herewith
won the first place by selling more Lyric radios
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Decatur
Community
High
School,
Oberlin,
Eugene A. Whalen
of retail manager of the Kimball Co. Mr.
Whalen is widely known in local musical and
trade circles and has been, for many years, in
the service of the house. He started as an er-
rand boy, filling practically all office positions,
then, having a special aptitude for selling, he
was transferred to the retail department, be-
came a canvasser, and later a floor manager,
assistant manager and acting manager. Now he
is taking the place of Mr. Smith on the latter's
retirement.
Air. Whalen has filled every office in the Chi-
cago Piano and Organ Association except that
of treasurer, which is retained for Adam
Schneider, and has also filled every office in
the Chicago Piano Club. He is highly popular,
genial and capable. His recreation is motoring.
Clark Orchestra Roll Co.
Offers New Eight-Tune Roll
The Clark Orchestra Roll Co., DeKalb, 111.,
is now offering an innovation of interest in the
form of an eight-tune roll for reproducing
organs, automatic pianos and orchestrions, which
has been produced to meet a definite demand
for such a product. The new rolls will contain
choice selections of eight of the latest popular
musical hits of the day, elaborately arranged for
dancing or concerts, and a feature will be the
longer playing time of the rolls. It is particu-
larly desirable for dancing. They are so ar-
Kan.
For years past music has been emphasized
in the schools of Oberlin. A piano teacher on
full time has sixty private pupils each week,
and during the Summer months is giving class
instruction to beginners. The Decatur High
School has eight practice pianos and the grade
school three. For music appreciation classes
there are two phonographs and a radio.
Besides the instructor in piano, there is a
band and orchestra teacher, and a vocal teacher.
The grade school has a full-time public school
music teacher. For three years out of the past
four the Decatur Community High School has
won the Sweepstakes Cup at the Hays North-
west Kansas Music Festival. No tax money
has been used to buy any of these pianos or
other musical instruments.
in the contest time than any other city. Man-
ager Harry Reinwald, of the radio department
of the Wurlitzer store in Chicago, asserted that
in no time in the history of the Wurlitzer house
had he seen so much interest displayed by their
radio sales force. Each salesman firmly sold
himself on the idea that the individual coming
J. B. Bradford Co. Men
Receive Promotions
Winning Team of the Rudolph Wurlitzer Co.,
Chicago
into the store to look at a radio was more than
interested, and it was his own personal job to
sell a Lyric radio to that inquirer right then
and there.
MILWAUKEE, WIS.—C.
E.
Oerding, who
has
been associated with the J. B. Bradford Piano
Co. here for several years, has been promoted
to vice-president and sales manager of the radio,
piano, and pipe organ divisions of the company,
Consult the Universal Want Directory of
The Review.
THE REVIEW'S UNIVERSAL "WANT" DIRECTORY
NY member of the music trade may
forward to this office a "position
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wanted" advertisement intended
for this Department, to occupy four
lines agate measure, and it will be in-
serted free. Replies will also be for-
warded without cost. Additional space
charged at the rate of 25c per line. If
bold-faced type is desired, the cost for
same will be 25c a line, 7 words to a line.
"Help Wanted" advertisements will be
charged for at the rate of 25c per line.
Cash must accompany order.
Business Opportunities and For Sale
advertisements inserted as display space
only at $7.00 per single column inch.
All advertisements intended for this
department must be in hand on the Sat-
urday preceding date of issue.
A
FOR SALE
A going music store in thriving Texas city, with best
known agencies. Established 25 years. In 1929 this
business paid 16% on investment. Owner selling on
account of health. Address Box 340O,, Music Trade
Review, 420 Lexington Avenue, New York City.
E X P E R I E N C E D STORE MANAGER—desires position
with progressive piano concern having a representative line.
Can create my own business. Knowledge of accounting
credits and collections. Address Box 3401, Music Trade
Keview, 420 Lexington Avenue, New York City.
POSITION WANTED—Do you need competent man-
ager or salesmanager who can handle men and sell piaruos?
Eighteen years manager Steinway and Chickering houses.
Excellent reason for change. Age 38. Address Box 3398,
Music Trade Review, 420 Lexington Avenue, New York
City.
POSITION WANTED—Piano tuner, with action finish-
ing, tone regulating and repairing experience.
Beck,
9559 112th St., Richmond Hill, L. I.
POSITION WANTED by experienced sales
manager of piano and radio stores. Have been
doing this type of work for years with the
largest companies in the industry. Am em-
ployed in a managerial capacity at present time
in New York City but for good and sufficient
reasons desire to change and give the very
finest references as to character, past record,
present record, organization ability and general
capability. Address Box 3397, Music Trade Re-
view, 420 Lexington Ave., New York City.
POSITION WANTED—As piano repair shop foreman,
experienced in all branches, including outside service and
selling. Best references. Address Box 3399, Music Trade
Review, 420 Lexington Avenue, New York City.
POSITION WANTED—by expert tuner and repairman,
Ampico and reproducer mechanic, 15 years' experience in
shop and outside. Qualified as shop foreman. Address Box
3392, Music Trade Review, 420 Lexinjtfon Ave., New
York City.

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