Music Trade Review

Issue: 1954 Vol. 113 N. 8

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P r e s i d e n t C u s h i n g t u r n s t h e g a v e l o v e r t h e P r e s i d e n t - E l e c t G e r a r d M . T h o m p s o n a n d " B i l l y " H e a t o n p i n s t h ie
t past president's medal on
retiring president Howard M. Cushing.
entertained with a splendid show dur-
ing which four members of the audience
were drafted in one of the acts. These
were 0. Fred Rydeen, Vice-President and
Sales Manager of the Aeolian American
Corp.; Paul Murphy, M. Steinert &
Sons Co.. Boston, and present Vice-
President of the N.A.M.M.; Alfred
Knight, piano manufacturer from Lon-
don. England; and Charles K. White.
Vice-President of Kohler & Campbell.
Inc. as can be seen in the accompanying
illustrations.
The guests at the speakers' table be-
sides the officers and directors of the
Travelers Association were Russell B.
Wells, President of the N.A.M.M., John
E. Furlong, President of the National
Piano Manufacturers Association, and
William R. Card. Executive Secretary
of the N.A.M.M.
Participate at Conventions
Both Dr. John C. Kendel and Marion
Egbert attended and participated in
the annual conventions of the Catholic
Music Educators Association and the Na-
tional Industrial Recreation Associa-
tion. At the CMEA convention in Mil-
waukee. AMC was given booth space
to explain services available to the
Catholic educators. Kendel and Egbert
distributed specially printed pamphlets
outlining the kinds of assistance offered
by AMC. At the NIRA meeting in Chi-
cago, they were able to contact many
industrial recreation leaders and to
participate in discussions of music's
place in the plant recreation program.
From L. R.—O. Fred Rydeen, vice-president of the Aeolian American Corp. dons kilts and becomes a bagpipe player deluxe—Paul
Murphy of M. Steinert & Sons, Boston and vice-president of the N A M M toots on a trumpet; Charles Kohler White, vice-oresident of
Kohler <£. Campbell Inc., blows on a horn while Alfred Knight, managing director Alfred Knight, Ltd., London, England, plays the trombone
and Paul Murphy tries to lead with a limp baton. Then the quartet does it stuff much to the delight of the audience.
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E X C L U S I V E
E X H I B I T
S H O T S
F R O M
L A S T
M O N T H ' S
PIANO
S H O W
EXHIBITS
1.
O. Fred Rydeen, Vice-President and Sales Man-
ager of the Aeolian American Corp., looking
over the menu of the dinner of the National
Piano Manufacturers Assn., of 1903 in Buffalo,
N. Y., which was brought to the Convention
by Mert DeForrest of Sharon, Pa.
2.
Tom Pritchett, in the center, in the Aeolian
American exhibit, talking to C. T. Heindl of
Walter Moses & Co., Richmond, Va. and
Charles Roberts.
3.
Mrs. Helen S. Killam of the Killam Music Co.,
Quincy, III., sits at the piano while George F.
Brown of L. L. Parker, Harrisburg, III., Herbert
Arcadius of the Aeolian American Corp., and
R. M. Killam look on.
4. Seated surrounding the Baldwin grand in the
Baldwin piano exhibit is Ted Hahn of Hahn Co.,
Canton, Ohio; Orville Tucker; George McGarvey
and George Pelling of the Baldwin Piano Co.
5.
George Seibel, President of the Bremen Piano
Corp., stands at the right while Mrs. Kellmayer
of the Kellmayer Music Center, Camden, N. J.
sits at the piano and Mr. Kellmayer and
James Kerwin stand by.
6.
Seated at the Conover Cable piano
hibit of the Conover Cable Co. is
Rice of Columbia, S. C , while
Behning of the Conover Cable Co.
7.
In the exhibit of the Estey Piano Corp., James
A. McClanahan of the Williams Piano Co.
stands to the right of one of the new Estey
models while the rest of the group includes
Don Spake, factory superintendent, Don Bruce,
Sales Manager, and H. R. Lullman, Vice-Presi-
dent, and Mrs. E. M. Lullman, President.
in the ex-
Emmett S.
Henry G.
stands by.
8. George A. McDermott, Vice-President of the
Gulbransen Co., is impressing a dealer re-
garding the salient features
of the new
Gulbransen line.

9.
E. P. Williams, Sales Manager of the Gulbran-
sen Co. is conversing with one of the Gul-
bransen dealers.
10.
Robert E. Johnson, President of the Schaff Pi-
ano String Co., and S. E. Zack, President of the
Gulbransen Co., nod as they walk through the
corridor.
11.
Richard W. Stevens on the left in the Ivers
& Pond exhibit room is talking with Sol
Switchers of Lansing, Mich.
12.
The Janssen spinet, advertised as the smallest
spinet piano in the world with a direct-blow
action, creates attention in the Janssen Exhibit
Room.

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