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R. E. Waltemade Appointed Manager
Of Wurlitzer DeKalb Division
R. C. Rolfing, president of the Ru-
dolph Wurlitzer Co., has announced the
appointment of Roy E. Waltemade as
manager of the DeKalb Division of the
company, succeeding Cyril Farny, vice
president of the company and manager
of the DeKalb Division for the past
twenty years, who has resigned to
make his years of experience avail-
able to the company on research and
engineering projects in connection with
pianos and accordions. In the latter
capacity Mr. Farny will shortly make
a trip to a number of European coun-
tries in the interest of the DeKalb
Division.
Mr. Waltemade who has already
assumed his new duties, was born in
Chicago, was graduated from Lain'
Technical High School, after which he
attended Northwestern University in
the School of Accounting and Busi-
ness Law. During the past seventeen
years he has been directly connected
with the manufacture and sale of
various types of products in the
Piano Playing Aids
Insane Inmate
For the Better Used Pianos
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VARNISH
ROY
E.
WALTEMADE
mechanical and electrical field. The
last eleven years he has spent at the
Wurlitzer, North Tonawanda Division
and has directed or assisted in direct-
ing all phases of manufacturing, ac-
counting and selling.
Associated with Mr. Waltemade will
he the same highly specialized staff
which already has accomplished so
much at DeKalb: J. A. Miller Super-
intendent in charge of all manufactur-
ing; R. W. Sperry, Chief of Technical
Department; W. A. Zaiser, Chief of
Designing Department; H. B. Home,
Assistant Secretary and Plant Comp-
troller, and Hugh Stewart, Vice Presi-
dent and Sales Manager.
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National Music Week
Suggestion Letter Out
With the keynote slogan "Emphasize
The Need for Music in the Post War
World," The National and Inter-Amer-
ican Music Week Committee through
its secretary C. M. Tremaine has recent-
Apply With Cloth Covered Brush
J. C. Dtirden, Originator
Box 442, Columbus, Ga.
Geo. W. Braunsdorf
Distributor
96-38 Corona Ave., Corona, N. Y.
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ly distributed its annual letter of sug-
gestions to local Music Week chairmen
and workers regarding National Music
Week activities.
This year's observance, the 2.'3rd an-
nual, falls May 5-12, as Music Week
begins always the first Sunday in M&y.
"More and more," says Mr. Tre-
maine, "Music Week is also being util-
ised to focus public attention on the
value of music education, to promote
specific local musical objectives, and to
encourage wide participation in the
making and enjoyment of music."
Copies of the Letter may be obtained
free upon request to C. M. Tremaine,
815 Fourth Ave., New York 10, N. Y.
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HAISIIUAV
PECK & CO.
Master piano craftsmen
since 1842
An insane man, assisted by guards,
kept three hundred musicians enthral-
led in Detroit recently as he played a
piano. The player, an inmate of the
Wayne County General Hospital's psy-
chiatric ward, bowed silently and left
the stage apparently unmoved by the
thunderous applause that followed his
playing of masterpieces by Chopin,
Mozart and Beethoven.
Throughout the performance a hos-
pital aide stood at his side, turning the
pages of the music at proper inter-
vals. Otherwise, hospital authorities
explained, the man would have played
the same page over and over.
It has been nine years since the man,
formerly a distinguished musician, had
given a public concert. He is 45.
His appearance was arranged by
Dr. Ira M. Altschuler, hospital psychi-
atrist, to demonstrate to a conference
of the Music Teachers' National Asso-
ciation the value of music in aiding the
mentally ill.
Dr. Altschuler described the ailment
of the pianist, as "a form of negativ-
ism" resulting from a split personality
which causes the victim to seek with-
drawal from the world.
His present interest in music, the
physician said, was his first sign of
improvement.
* When the first opportunity was given
to him to return to the piano, he just
"-'okfd at the keys."
HARDMAN AND
I HARRINGTON GRANDS
AND CONSOLES
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'MINIPIANOS'
33 West 57th Street
New York
THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW, MARCH, 1946