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PRESTO
April 7, 1923
COINOLAS
FOR
RESTAURANTS, CAFES and
A M U S E M E N T CENTERS
orients of Better Homes Week will be to encourage
thrift and the ambition for home ownership.
Of course the idea of home is closely associated
with music and that is where the people of the music
trade can aid in furthering the purposes of the cele-
bration. T The Music Industries Chamber of Com-
merce w ill line up the music trade, organize its
efforts and provide advertising helps for the particu-
lar use of music dealers.
A plan book issued by the advisory council of the
movement has as introduction a letter from President
Harding. There is also one from Secretary Hoover
endorsing the movement. The book suggests the
methods of organization locally, and amongst other
things instructions are given to "arrange for musical
instruments, etc., in the home."
NEW INCORPORATIONS
IN MUSIC GOODS TRADE
New and Old Concerns Secure Charters in Various
Places.
Style SO
FROM THE BIGGEST
ORCHESTRION
Tiny Coinola
THE SMALLEST
KEYLESS
Manufactured by
The Operators Piano Co.
16 to 22 South Peoria St.
CHICAGO
The Miller & Hunt Company, Portland, Me., to
deal in all kinds of musical goods; capital stock, $50,-
000, of which $25,000 is common and $25,000 is
preferred stock. Charles M. Drummond, president;
R. B. Buzzell, treasurer; and Wadleigh B. Drum-
mond, all of Portland.
Harold Dellon, Manhattan; music publishing; $5,-
000; C. Greenberg, H. Dellon. Attorney, A. Green-
berg, 152 West 42nd street.
Starke Bros., Brooklyn, N. Y.; $30,000; E. F. and
W. F. and F. L. Starke. Attorney, L. Dorf, 614
Kosciusko street, Brooklyn.
Portland Community Service, Inc., Portland, Ore.;
to promote music and singing; William F. Wood-
ward, president; B. F. Boynton, vice-president; San-
ford Lowergart, treasurer; and John C. Henderson,
secretary.
Steel-.Sounding-Board Corp., music instruments;
$3,500,000; Wilmington, Del.
Stockman's 86th Street Music Shop, Manhattan;
$10,000; M. and I. Stockman, M. Cohen.
Christena-Teague Piano Company, Indianapolis;
capital, $200,000; $100,000 preferred; to deal in musi-
cal instruments; directors, Herbert J. Teague, Wil-
liam C. Christena and George Kanouse.
Bronx Music House, New York City; to manufac-
ture instruments; $20,000; A. Cabat, A. Zeitlin, M.
Fischler.
T. Taylor Buckley, Tnc, Trenton, N. J.; authorized
capitalization of 2,500 shares, without par value, to
deal in musical instruments and appliances. T. Tay-
lor Buckley, Marion M. Buckley and Karl Bernstein.
The Easy Method Music Co., Chicago; $50,000;
David B. Clarkson, Thomas F. Clarkson, J. Howard
Start and Charles R. Young. The company is lo-
cated at 2533 South State street and is engaged in
publishing a new method of music writing.
Henry Welch & Co., Oakland, Cal., with a capital
stock of $15,000 to deal in musical instruments. The
subscribers are H. R. Welch, W. A. Little, H. R.
Aldrich and A. M. More.
C. H. Taylor & Co., 218 South Wabash avenue,
Chicago; $25,000 capitalization to deal in musical in-
struments. The incorporators are C. H. Taylor, Ben-
jamin Katz and Nathan A. Lavin.
FIRST FRENCH MUSIC
SALON OPENS IN MAY
Great Sample Fair for Instruments and Printed
Music to Be Held in Paris May
10 to 25.
The First Music Salon is the official name of a
sample fair to be held in Paris, France, from May 10
to 25 this year. This First Music Salon will be held
on the Esplanade des Invalides in a hall of 1,000
square meters, which has been exclusively reserved
for it and will be specially fitted up. Here, for the
first time in France, will be gathered all branches of
French musical industry:
The salon will be organized under the auspices of
National Music Trade and Musical Industries Federa-
tion, and is expected to prove an important event in
the history of music goods manufacture and music
publishing in France. The representation already
assured, according to Musique & Instruments, in-
cludes:
Fifteen piano makers, 4 makers of pneumatic
pianos, 3 organ and harmonium builders, 4 makers
of mechanical pianos and orchestrions, 3 manufac-
facturers of fittings and accessories for pianos and
organs, 12 makers of string instruments, 10 makers
of wood-wind and brass instruments, 3 makers of
various instruments, 9 makers of gramophones, rec-
ords and accessory articles, 2 makers of broadcasting
outfits, 24 music publishers, 1 publisher of pianola
rolls, and the Training School for Music Engraving.
In telling about the project, Musique & Instru-
ment of Paris says all the great French houses will
be represented, together with many others who, al-
though of smaller repute, will be given an opportunity
to become more generally known and appreciated.
"Mirecourt, La Couture Boussey, Mantes, Nice will
bring their finest goods to Paris, the world's capital,
so attractive and captivating in the spring," is the
promise. The Paris journal adds:
Everything has been done in the way of careful
preparation and organization to facilitate sampling.
The Salon is not to be an exhibition of goods manu-
factured or published expressly for the purpose, but
a show of music and instruments of current sale.
This, however, will by no means preclude novelties
or inventions from being submitted to the expert and
to the general public.
The participants have been divided into groups and
stalls are assigned to them in various parts of the
vast hall, according to the nature of the industry
they represent. Thus piano makers will be placed to-
gether, music publishers side by side, violin makers
next to each other, and so on. Buyers and visitors
will therefore have no difficulty in finding any of the
products that may be of interest to them, all of
which will be exclusively of French manufacture.
As regards music publishing, it may be pointed out
what splendid results various French firms have at-
tained in publishing", in addition to modern works,
editions of the universally acknowledged classics,
which already form very imposing collections and are
• sold at a cheaper rate than similar German editions,
and this in spite of numerous difficulties such as
scarcity of labor and high cost of raw materials.
HIGH GRADE
BRIEF RECORDS OP PIANO
DEALERS ACTIVITIES
Folding Organs
School Organs
Incidents in the Energetic Pursuit of the Prospec-
tive Buyer Told in Short Sentences.
Lucien E. Hockett, Bellefontaine, O., and Will
Hockett, of Columbus, brothers, will open a piano
store in Bellefontaine about the last of April. Lucien
E. Hockett and wife left Saturday for Los Angeles,
Cal., and upon their return business plans will go
forward.
The Hamilton Piano Co., Tampa, Florida, recently
secured the agency in that section for the Gulbran-
sen playerpianos. Kenneth Hamilton is associated
with his father, J. P. Hamilton, in the piano business.
They look forward to big business, if the early season
orders can be judged as any criterion.
. One hundred and five new billboards advertising
the Gulbransen playerpiano went up in Chicago on
the first of March, erected by retailers in co-operation
with the Gulbransen-Dickinson Co., Chicago, manu-
facturers of this instrument. The signs are distrib-
uted through the south side, west side, north side,
and the suburbs touching on the city limits.
The B. Dreher Sons Piano Co., Cleveland, O., re-
cently supplied five Krakauer pianos to the public
schools.
Ed. Little, manager of the music publishing de-
partment of Sherman, Clay & Co., San Francisco,
left this week for a trip covering the firm's branches
in the northwest.
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Practice Keyboards
Dealers' Attention Solicited
A. L. WHITE MFG. CO.
215 Englewood Ave., CHICAGO, ILL.
PIONEER SCHOOL FO PIANO MEN
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