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P R E S T O
March 8, 1924.
INSTRUCTIVE DISPLAY IN
DULUTH WINDOW STORE
Taylor Music Co. Shows Stage Setting De-
signed to Prove Popularity of "Straight"
Piano With the Music Loving Public.
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ing to serve you (musically) any way we can, and
we are the most accommodating folks you ever saw.
You can use our telephone, we will cash your check
(providing it ain't too big), and will give you the
price of a meal if you're broke. All we ask in return
is that you trade here at this store that's been trying
to serve you faithfully for ten years.
TEXAS STATE DEALERS'
COLLEGE BUYS BALDWINS
The Taylor Music Co., of Duluth, has been making
a rather unique window display. It represents the
interior of a room with a piano and phonograph side Two Grands and One Hamilton School Special in
by side. Seated on the piano bench, with a sheet of
the Recent Purchases.
music in her hand, is an attractively dressed woman
This interesting picture shows the North Texas
—a wax figure of course, not a real woman.
State Teachers' College, Galveston, Texas, which
The casual observer, says the Duluth Herald, will
doubtless think that the woman is there merely to recently purchased two Baldwin grands and one
Hamilton school special piano.
add to the effectiveness of the scene or because the
In the picture reading from left to right appear the
color of the beads she wears exactly matches the blue
following officials of the college: Mr. Smith, vice-
curtain that forms the background. But doubtless
the window decorator had a far more important place
for the woman in his scheme of advertising the piano
and the talking machine. He might have put a
playerpiano in the window and spoiled the story.
When talking machines were first introduced into
homes many people predicted a falling off in piano
sales and when the player piano came pessimists
prophesied a bread line of music teachers in the near
future. But while the sale of records has increased
tremendously and canned and mechanical music have
spread from the city to the cabin in the wilderness,
it has proved to be a promoter of musical education
rather than a rival. Sales of pianos and other musi-
cal instruments have increased and more children are
dangling their legs from piano benches to the time
of the metronome than ever before in the history of
the world.
Bringing more music into the home, either in the
form of records or playerpianos, has only made
people love music more and therefore want to know
how to make it for themselves. Just because father
BATJDWINR DELIVERED AT TEXAS COI.LKOR.
and mother can sit down in the living room on a
cold night and put on a Fritz Kreisler record is no president and purchasing agent; Mr. Marcus, presi-
sign they can't enjoy their Willy's strident tones dent, and Mr. Ball, Jr., in charge of the music de-
when he plays his first piece; and the most perfect partment.
One of the Baldwin grands was purchased for the
coloratura notes issuing from a wooden box cannot
rival in the home circle sister's faulty tones when she main auditorium of the college and the other for the
personal use of Mr. Ball in his private studio.
sits down at the piano for a bit of jazz.
AEOLIAN CO. TO DISTRIBUTE
NEW INCORPORATIONS
RCA RECEIVING APPARATUS
IN MUSIC GOODS TRADfc
In Addition to Jobbing Activities, Aeolian Dealers
Will Retail the Radio Sets.
The active entry of the Aeolian Company, New
York, into the radio field is an important piece of
trade news told in the announcement of the com-
pany's appointment as distributor for RCA sets by
the Radio Corporation of America. In addition to
the jobbing features, the radio receiving equipment
of the Radio Corporation of America will be sold in
all the retail stores of The Aeolian Company.
Details of the arrangements between the companies
for the distribution of the radio apparatus will soon
be announced. The assumption is that distribution
will be performed through present Aeolian Com-
pany's representatives. Dealers carrying the Vocalion
phonograph will add the RCA apparatus. One of the
possibilities of the new arrangement is a Vocalion
combining the RCA receiving set which will be dis-
tributed through The Aeolian Company.
KANSAS MUSIC DEALER
WRITES SPRING POEM
And H. S. Dickey Uses It to Grace His Ad in Pages
of Newton Newspapers.
Personally, commercially and musically, H. S.
Dickey, proprietor of H. S. Dickey's Piano Store,
Xewton, Kans., is highly appreciated by his neigh-
bors. He is known as a likable fellow, the warmth
of whose good nature tinctures his advertising. H. S.
Dickey never preaches or makes positive assertions
in his advertising. But he conveys the readiness of
his store to serve the music customer in a readable,
human way that makes the people in that part of
Kansas consider his ad compositions in the line of
literature. A display of his firm in the Xewton
papers last week was graced with a spring poem in
verse and an added one in prose. Here they are:
Robins all a singin', sparrows chirpin', too;
All of 'em a saying, "'Hello, how are you?"
They all know it's comin', flowers are peepin' thru.
Spring time is a-comiu'; I'm sure glad—ain't you?
We are glad spring is comin', and we want you to
be happy, too; even if it only takes a 50c Hohner
harp to make you that way (sure, we've got them);
and if that won't do it we will sing you a song (one
of our own) that would sure make you smile, and
smiles sometimes help a lot. Anyway we are wait-
New and Old Concerns Secure Charters in Various
Places.
The Oaks Music Co., Cincinnati, O., $5,000; mu-
sical instruments; George J. Oaks, Elizabeth M.
Oaks, Roslyn A. Oaks, Albert J. Piehle and Johanna
M. Piehle.
Leland Music Publishing Co., Albany, X. Y., $25,-
000; J. E. Tarches, S. E. Boisclair and A. Klein.
Moore Music Co., Burlington, N. C, $100,000; J. S.
Moore, J. T. Moore and W. P. Moore.
Jack Nelson Music Co., Wilmington, Del., $25,000.
Cowlitz Music Stores, of Kelso, Washington; capi-
tal stock, $10,000; incorporators, A. F. V. Davis,
Frank P. C. Davis and George G. Cadwell.
Phonograph Company of Kansas City decreased
stock $300,000 to $100,000.
STEINWAY IN MIAMI HOTEL.
A feature of the elaborate new Pancoast Hotel,
Miami Beach, Fla., which was formally opened re-
cently, is a Style B. Steinway grand piano in walnut
case and mahogany finish and made by Steinway &
Sons on special order, which graces the main recep-
tion room of the hotel. The Steinway grand was sold
to the hotel by S. Ernest Philpitt & Son, and Mr.
Philpitt himself took a prominent part In arranging
the opening celebration in which the Steinway had a
prominent part.
NEW STORE IN MARSHALL, MO.
The Claycomb Music House, Marshall, Mo., held
its formal opening last week. The manager, Royal
Claycomb, had four years' experience with the Bald-
win Piano Company. He was for two years manager
of a music store at Guymon, Okla., and was later
with the St. Louis division of the Baldwin Piano
Company, from which place he was sent to Okmulgee,
Okla., where he acted as special salesman for the
Baldwin Music Shop.
E. E. BLAKE IN BANKRUPTCY.
Edward E. Blake, jobber in used pianos, and repair
specialist, at 339 South Wabash avenue, Chicago, has
failed. On Tuesday he filed a petition in voluntary
bankruptcy. Mr. Blake is well known in the trade,
having held important positions with large concerns.
He was with the Apollo Piano Co. before entering
business for himself.
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