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Wurlilzer Piano and Bench
Stolen from Delivery Truck
On May 27th, as Jim Heaney and
his three helpers started on their rounds
for the M & L Trucking Co., Brooklyn,
their minds were at ease. Their cargo
consisted of six pianos to be distribu-
ted about Manhattan for the Rudolph
Wurlitzer Co.
Jim and his helpers delivered four
of the instruments without incident.
At 2:30 p.m., Jim and the lads
pulled their van to the curb in front
of an apartment house at 140 Brad-
hurst Ave., in lower Washington
Heights. The bill of lading showed one
upright piano to be delivered to the
apartment of Mrs. Thelma Cox at this
address.
The lour men eased the upright off
the tailboard and heaved their way into
the building and up the stairs. Inside
the truck was the one remaining in-
strument.
The climb to the Cox apartment, the
deposting of the upright in the Cox
living room, the obtaining of the sig-
nature to the delivery order, etc., con-
sumed less than 20 minutes. Then Jim
and his aids returned to the sidewalk
and stopped in their tracks—thurder-
struck. The truck was empty.
"Don't ask me!" a steaming angry
Heaney told Detective Nick Romano in
the squad room of the W. 135th St.
station a few minutes later. "Don't ask
me what happened. All I know the pi-
ano is in the wspon when we take up
the other one. When we come out it's
gone! What kind of a town is this Ret-
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tin' to be anyway, and they swiped the
bench also". At last account neither pi-
ano or bench have been recovered.
W. M. Reneker Special Rep.
For Baldwin Organ Division
The Baldwin Piano Company. Cin-
cinnati, 0 . recently announced the ap-
pointment of Walter M. Reneker to the
position of Special Field Representa-
tive in the Wholesale Organ Division.
This is part of a general expansion of
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Fairway Piano Sliding Boards
Spinet Piano Covers
Grand Piano Covers
Piano Straps and Keyboard Straps
Organ Covers
Organ and Piano Bench Covers
Custom-styled Piano Covers
Piano Hoist Belts and Irons
Piano Paper Covers
Self-locking Tackle Blocks
Piano Dolly Trucks
Piano Trucks for Grands and Uprights for
Moving on Stage and up and down
stairs
Furniture Ties.
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Made of the
Highest Grade Domestic Felts
REPAIR ORDERS PROMPTLY EXECUTED
We maintain a special department for tuners and technicians
Tel. WAtkins 9-1148
Baldwin's organ sales activities put
into effect by the company to keep pace
with the greatly increased public de-
mand for Baldwin Organs. The recent
introduction of Baldwin's new Ors ro -
sonic (spinet mod-
el h a s brought
the pitch of organ
activity to an all-
time high.
Mr. Reneker re-
ceived his Bache-
lor of Music de-
gree at the West-
minster Choir Col-
lege at Princetoi ,
N. J., and for two
years with the famous Westminster
Choir.
Prior to the war, Mr. Reneker held
the position of Minister of Music at
the Central Baptist Church in Hartford,
Conn, at the Plymouth Congregational
Church, New Haven, Conn.; and the
Pawtucket
Congregational
Church,
Pawtucket, R. I., as well as the Direc-
tor of Music at Mishkan Israel Tem-
ple at New Haven.
Since the war ,Mr. Reneker has sold
Baldwin Organs in Massachusetts and
more recently in Texas.
MRS. ELLA T. CHRISTMAS
VINCENT VILIM, INC
20 N O . HILLSIDE AVENUE
52
ELMSFORD, N. Y.
Mrs. Ella T. Christman, wife of the
late Henry Christman formerly vice-
president of the Christman Piano Co..
passed away on June 15th at her home
in New Roehelle, 1\. Y. She is survived
by four daughters and one son, H. El-
liott Christman.
THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW, JUNE, 1953