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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW, DECEMBER, 1940
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24 Piano Festival Held in Battle Creek
12 Gulbransens
for Catholic school
The Gulbransen Co., Chicago recently
received an order for 12 pianos for use in
Our Lady of Lourdes School in Utah City.
Four Gulbransen pianos have been in use
in the School for several months and the
order for 12 more was based on the sat-
isfaction the first four have been giving,
according to E. P. Williams, salesmanager.
Recent orders have included pianos for
30 other schools. These include:
24 Wurlitzer Console Pianos in Festival Held in Battle Creek. Mich.
A successful piano festival, sponsored
by the Battle Creek Music Teachers Club,
was held in the W. K. Kellogg Auditorium
on October 17, during the recent Conven-
ton of the Michigan Music Teachers Asso-
ciation.
More than 2,800 people attended to
hear nearly 400 pupils play the piano in
solo and ensemble and to enjoy the musi-
cal ability of local teachers and directors
who contributed their own artistry to the
other magnificent feaures of the festival.
Twenty-Four of the latest Wurlitzer Con-
sole pianos were used.
Cooperating in this movement was the
local press, merchants in various lines of
endeavor and the officials of the public
schools, who on the day preceding the
festival declared a holiday so that more
than 4000 scholars might be permitted to
attend two afternoon matinees featuring
abbreviated presentations of the festival
itself.
E. E. Woods of the Roat Music Co.,
served as general chairman, and Paul
Tammi, local High School Band Director,
conducted the festival.
Canfield School—Los Angeles, Cal.; Crippled
Children's School (2)—Denver, Col.; Ben Davis
Grade School—Indianapolis. Ind.; Thomas Carr
Howe High School—Indianapolis, Ind.; Indiana
School for the Blind—Indianapolis. Ind.; Southern
Indiana T. B. Hospital—New Albany, Ind.; Foreman
High School—Chicago, 111.; Our Lady of Lourdes
School (12)—Chicago, 111.; East Alton-Wood River
Community H. S. — Wood River, 111.; Bloomfield
High School—Bloomfield,la.; Dawson Consolidated
School—Dawson. la..; Masonic Temple—Perry,
la.; High School—Perry. la.; Webster School—
Perry, la.; Chicot Farms (Farm Security Admin-
istration)—Jerome, Kan.; Elmdale Rural High
School— Elmdale. Kan.; Hamilton Central School
—Hamilton, N. Y.; Pavilion Centralized School—
Pavilion, N. Y.; Perry High School (3)—Perry, N.
Y.; Order of Eastern Star — Perry, N. Y.;
Central High School (4) — Wappinger Falls,
N. Y.; Jones Academy—Hartshaw, Okla.; M. J.
Ryan Lafayette Township School—Mt. Alton, Pa.;
Sagamore High School—Sagamore, Pa.; Federal
Reformatory—Seagoville, Texas; Washington &
Henry High School—Atlee, Va.; Hiawathaland
Broadcasting Co. — WSOO — Sault Ste. Marie,
Mich.; Mansfield Broadcasting Station—Mansfield.
Ohio; Station WFHR — Wisconsin Rapids, Wis.;
Wanamassa School—Wanamassa, N. J.; Oakhurst
School—Oakhurst, N. J.
Greetings *
Congratulations to the entire piano industry
on its steady progress forward in 1940 . . .
and, may we add our best wishes to all for a
JESSE FRENCH
NEW CASTLE
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CORPORATION
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