PRESTO
LOCATING EVENTS AT
WALDORF-ASTORIA
Schedule Announced This Week Gives Date
snd Rccm Number of Association Meet-
ings During Convention Days.
The following will be the schedule of headquar-
ters rooms at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel during the
trade conventions from June 1 to 7:
Registration, East Foyer.
Directors and committee meetings, Room 115.
Merchants' Association headquarters, Room 116.
State associations' headquarters, Rooms 117, 120,
141.
Exhibits of Chamber activities, Myrtle Room.
The schedule of association meetings on Tuesday
and Wednesday, June 3 and 4, is as follows:
National Association of Music Merchants, Astor
Gallery, Tuesday, 9:30 a. m., 2 p. m.
National Piano Manufacturers' Association, East
Room, Tuesday, 9:30 a. m., 2 p. m.
Supply Association of America, Room 151, Tues-
day, 9:30 a. m.
Organ Builders' Association of America, Room 110,
Tuesday, 9:30 a. m., 2 p. ni.; Wednesday, 9:30 a. m.,
2 p. m.
National Association of Band Instrument Manufac-
turers, State Apartments, Wednesday, 9:30 a. m., 2
p. m.
National Musical Merchandise Association, East
Room, Wednesday, 9:30 a. m., 2 p. m.
All of the above rooms are on the convention floor.
The above schedules are subject to change.
WISWELL MUSIC CO., INC.,
BUYS AURORA, ILL., BUSINESS
M. C. Randolph, Located for Twenty Years at 134
Fox Street, Retires.
M. C. Randolph, proprietor of the Randolph Music
Store at 134 Fox street, Aurora, Til., has closed a
deal for the sale of the business to the Wiswell
Music Company, Inc., it was announced this week.
The new company is planning to enlarge the stock
and equipment of the store and will add ra.dio and
sheet music departments.
Mr. Randolph has been in the music business in
Aurora for twenty years and has been in the location
at 134 Fox street for the last nineteen years. He
entered business here in 1904 with the firm of Eger-
mann & Randolph. A year later he purchased Mr.
Egermann's interest in the store and moved to the
present location.
Mr. Randolph stated today that he has made no
definite plans for the future but expects to take a
vacation for the summer, which he may spend with
h*s sisters and brother in California.
May 17, 1924.
for the store they now occupy, the lease to be in
effect five years.
A. E. Astle has purchased the interests of Gordon
and Bernice Haley in the music business in Houlton,
Me, and has changed the name to the Astle Music
Store.
The Griffith Piano Co., of Newark, N. J., is prepar-
ing to open a branch store at 639 Main avenue, Pas-
saic, N. J.
The Wells Music Co., Elmira, N. Y., has opened a
branch store at 316 East Fourteenth street, Elmira
Heights.
EXPECT NO INCREASE
IN PARCEL POST RATES
No Action to Be Taken During Present Session of
Congress Is Belief of Members.
No action will be taken during the present session
of Congress toward increasing parcel post and other
rates, is the belief of members. This feature has been
eliminated from the bill providing increased compen-
sation for postal employes, of which it was originally
a part and which is to be taken up by Congress this
session. A new bill will be prepared to provide for
increased postage rates.
The proposals for increasing rates have been under
consideration by a sub-committee of the House post
office committee and the matter has not yet come be-
fore- the full committee as a concrete proposition.
The Post Office Department has been asked to supply
information on which to base new rates, but it is not
expected that this data will be received in time to
permit the committee to do much with the legislation
before the end of the session.
Several members of the committee are strongly in
favor of increasing the parcel post, insurance and
other rates, but sentiment differs as to the extent of
such increases. It has been pointed out by Repre-
sentative Kelly that the increases sought by the Post
Office Department would not advance rates so greatly
as to give the express companies any advantage. In
fact, the increase would not run more than five cents
on any parcel, and while this would be a very high
percentage on parcels weighing one or two pounds
and traveling but short distances, it would be hardly
noticeable on heavy long-distance shipments.
JEWELER ADDS PIANOS.
F. Lammers, a jeweler of Huntingbury, Ind., has
devoted part of his store to music and has installed a
line of pianos of The Cable Company, Chicago.
RESULTS OF MUSIC WEEK
IN JACKSONVILLE, FLA.
Maxey Grunthal & Bros, Piano Merchants and
Builders, Contribute Effectively with
Haddorff Reproducing Piano Recitals.
The Music Week in Jacksonville, Florida, was an
event which stirred the city and surrounding country,
and with good results, too, to the music trade of the
southern city. And conspicuous in the activities of
Jacksonville's Music Week was the house of Maxey
Grunthal & Bros., representatives of the Haddorff
Piano Co. for that section of Florida.
On May 5th a Maddorff Reproducing piano recital
was given under the auspices of the Edward Waters
College. Messrs. Grunthal write that "the Haddorff
Reproducing recital at the Edward Waters College
was a winner. We had at least 2,500 people en-
thralled for nearly two hours. The Reproducer was
operated by Mr. Maxey Grunthal. We were compli-
mented by hundreds of people on the wonderful Had-
dorff piano."
There was a further Reproducing recital given May
12th at the Florida Conservatory of Music, and it
was reported by Maxey Grunthal & Bros, that "the
elite of Jacksonville was present." The program was
made up exclusively of the Haddorff Reproducing
numbers, with violin solos by Wallie Grunthal ac-
companied by the Haddorff Reproducing piano.
At the St. Joseph Academy during the National
Music Week in Jacksonville, a recital was given
using Haddorff and Clarendon pianos. This was not
a Reproducing recital, however.
Maxey Grunthal & Bros, are live-wire representa-
tives. They are high-grade salesmen and rare busi-
ness men and, in addition, they are piano builders and
tuners as well as musicians. They have built up a
wonderful service department, and, owing to their
efficiency in tuning and repairing, are entrusted with
the care of over 6,000 pianos throughout Florida.
There are no bigger boosters of Haddorff and Claren-
don pianos in the country than Maxey Grunthal &
Bros.
NEW OWNER TAKES CHARGE.
Ted Alverson has purchased the Sedro-Woolley
Music Store, Sedro-Woolley, Wash., from Dr. J. F.
Mills, who plans to go east for professional study.
The Alversons, who have had extensive experience in
the music business, are carrying out several changes
in the store.
NEWS ABOUT THE MEN
WHO RETAIL THE PIANOS
Brief Items of Trade News Gathered Here and
There in Music Field.
The Anderson Piano Co., Steele Building, Xenia,
Ohio, recently increased its capital stock from $100,-
000 to $200,000.
The store at 266 Stockton street, Brooklyn, N. Y.,
will be occupied this week by I. Boslow, music mer-
chant, who conducted his business for years at 1845
Pitkin avenue, Brooklyn.
The A. J. Thiery Co., Hartford, Conn., has se-
cured the store formerly occupied by the L. M.
Pierce Co. at 296 Asylum street, Hartford.
Margaret L. Christophe is engaged in business as
Christophe's at 2365 Mission street, San Francisco.
The Oakley Music Co., Wade Building, Fayette-
ville, Ark., is now operated by Miss Mamie Oakley.
The Title & Hauschildt Co. has opened piano
warerooms at 3628 East Fourteenth street, Oakland,
Cal.
The L. W. Guisinger Music Co. is remodeling and
enlarging its home in Fayetteville, Ark.
A branch store of the Davis-Burkham-Tyler Co.,
piano dealers, was opened recently at 16 South Third
street, Zanesville, Ohio.
Richardsons', Inc., Los Angeles, is preparing to
move to new quarters at 726 West Seventh street.
The Mead Music House is a new music business in
Wausau, Wis.
John R. Dunham, music merchant of New Bruns-
wick, N. J., is preparing to move his business to new
quarters at 78 Schureman street from 137 Church
street.
Fred L. and Warner H. Paige, owners of the Paige
Music Co., at Terre Houte, Ind., have closed a lease
The Q R S Kleernote Suction Pump
A necessity with all Grand Reproducing Players.
(The Tracker bar catches all the dust.)
A Boon with any Player Piano. A profitable
addition to your '"'little sales." Saves repair-man
expense. Keeps the player owner satisfied—easy
to operate—easier to sell. Special price to Tuners.
THE 0 R S MUSIC COMPANY
Sole Distributors
CHICAGO
306 S. Wa&ash Ave.
NEW YORK
SAN FRANCISCO
E. 135th St. and Walnut
306 Seventh St.
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