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Indiana Tuner Technicians Visit
Wurlitzer Factory in DeKalb,
Several members of the Indiana Divi-
sion of the American Society of Piano
Technicians, and their wives, were re-
cent guests of the Rudolph Wurlitzer
for an informal meeting, and question-
and-answer period was conducted by
Joe Daurer. Wurlitzer Advertising
Manager.
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FIRST ROW LEFT TO RIGHT: JOE DAURER, WURLITZER ADV. MGR.; MRS. WALTER
BOSHART: JANET ACHOR; MRS. TED ACHOR; MRS. RONALD ACHOR; MRS. SETH
KNIFFIN: PERCY LUNDBERG, WURLITZER
TECHNICAL CONSULTANT. SECOND
ROW: DON ULERY, ADVERTISING DEPT.; WALTER BOSHART, GOSHEN, INDIANA;
ROY NEWSTEDT, WURLITZER PIANO TECHNICIAN; TED ACHOR AND RONALD
ACHOR, MARION, INDIANA, AND SETH KNIFFIN, ELKART. INDIANA. THIRD ROW:
JOHN FISCHER
AVILLA, INDIANA; JIM ROLFING. WURLITZER ASS'T. MANAGER,
DEKALB DIVISION; WALTER BENSON,WUR LITZER ASS'T. SALES MANAGER; AND
LEONARD STIGLIANI, HEAD OF ACTION REGULATION DEPARTMENT.
Co.. DeKalb. 111. where they had an
opportunity to witness first hand, the
complete precision methods employed
in manufacturing Wurlitzer Pianos.
The group was accompanied on their
tour of the factory by Roy Newstedt.
Wurlitzer Chief Piano Technician and
Bob Bell of the Sales Department.
At noon, the visitors and their wives
were driven to the Rice Hotel where the
group and various members of the
\K urlitzer Company enjoyed luncheon.
On completing the tour of the plant
later in the afternoon, they assembled
After brief talks had been given by
James Rolfing. Assistant Manager, De-
Kalb Division; Hugh Stewart. Vice
President and Sales Manager; and Wal-
ter Benson. Assistant Sales Manager,
the meeting was opened to technical
questions with Leonard Stigliani, head
of the Action Regulation Department,
Percy Lundberg. Technical Advisor,
and Roy Newstedt. answering questions
and discussing the matters and prob-
lems presented by the visiting Tech-
nicians.
Weslinghouse Had Extra Flight
For European Holiday Winners
The first group of winning dealers
left New York on March 28. Successive
trips left on March 31, April 13, 20
and 27. The four final trips will leave
on May 5. May 7. May 12. and May
20th.
Fred S. McCarthy. Sales Promotion
Manager, Westinghouse Radio-TV Di-
vision, has announced that an addition-
al "European Holiday" flight was
scheduled with Sabena Belgian Airlines
to accommodate '"an unexpectedly
large number of Westinghouse dealers
who qualified for "Holiday" trips in
our nation-wide TV sales contest."
The added flight, scheduled to leave
\ew York's International Airport on
May 2th. was the ninth to carry West-
inghouse dealers and their wives to
Europe for free, expense-paid 12-day
'"European Holidays."
"With the addition of this flight to
the original schedule. "McCarthy said.
"Westinghouse will have sent 502 con-
test winners, their wives, and in some
instances their families to Europe on
Holiday trips that included Paris, the
French Riviera and Rome.
THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW. JULY. 1953
Kansas Piano Dealer Uses
Unique Gulbransen Adv. Copy
Following is a copy of a large space
ad run by Carl Latenser of Atchinson.
Kansas, in the Atchinson Daily Globe.
Sunday. May 17, which contained a
number of similar ads extending con-
gratulations to the members of the
Atchinson Medical Societv.
Music is Patent Medicine
"Do you feel miserable, run down
and ostracized? Are you a wall flower,
a kill joy and a bore? Try a beautiful
Gulbransen piano. If. after a few weeks,
you don't feel socially inclined—call
your doctor quick . . . 'cause you're
really sick!!
Arthur Smith Music Co. Buys
Brown's Store in Lakeland
Sale of Brown's Music Store, Lake-
land. Fla.. to the Arthur Smith Music
Co.. of Tampa, one of the oldest music
firms in Florida, was announced recent-
ly by William E. Brown.
Arthur Smith. Jr., a son of the
founder of the Tampa firm, w ill be pres-
ident and manager of the new firm here,
to be known as the Arthur Smith Music
Company of Lakeland.
The Lakeland store will be affiliated
with the Smith stores at Tampa and
Sarasota.
Founded in 1920 by Arthur H. and
Ruth E. Smith, now retired, the Smith
Music Company operates with the slo-
gan "Florida's Music Center.' Now em-
ploying an average of 45 persons, the
firm is under management of Arthur
Smith. Jr.. and two brothers. Graham
and Jack Graham heads the firm's pi-
ano and organ division, with Jack
serving as comptroller. In addition to
operating the Lakeland store. Arthur is
head of the firm's band division.
Pianos to be stocked will include such
well-known lines as Steinway. Chicker-
ing. Wurlitzer, Musette and Winter. The
company will also handle Hammond
Organs. Smith said.
Brown, who sold pianos wholesale in
Cuba and 17 Southern states from 1922
to 1934. while living in Lakeland, said
he might wholesale them again in Cuba
and South America.
The South Florida store was Brown's
fifth Lakeland location.
K. G. Gillespie Honored by
Electrical Distributors Ass'n
Kenneth G. Gillespie, vice-president
and general manager of the Jenkins
Music Company in Kansas City, was
honored Wednesday. May 27, in Chi-
cago when he was presented a formal
certificate of honorary life member-
ship in the National Association of Elec-
trical Distributors.
A former member of the board of
governors of NAED, Gillespie became
ineligible for active membership last
year when Jenkins completed the liquid-
ation of its wholesale division.
Gillespie had been chairman of the
NAED major appliance committee
from 1948 to 1952, was chairman of
the store management committee from
1944 to 1947 and had served on the
sales booster and the membership com-
mittees.