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November 8, 1924.
PRESTO
TRADE HELPED BY
SERVICE BUREAU
exhibit be confined to letters and mailing pieces for
distribution to the public.
Music Week Activities.
''Co-operative Newspaper Advertising for National
Music Week. The Advisory Committee of the Trade
Service Bureau recommends making available to local
trade groups a co-operative newspaper advertising
Advisory Committee of that Body Through series for use in connection with National Music
Week, May 3 to 9, adapting for the purpose the
Report of Its Chairman, C. C. Conway,
plates and copy used by Talking Machine Men, Inc.,
Makes Several Very Important Rec-
in connection with New York's Music Week, and
ommendations Which Are Adopted.
contributed by this organization to the national work,
also, a series of general music advertisements pre-
sented by New Orleans dealers in the New Orleans
Item which newspaper is now negotiating with the
Chamber to present for syndicate use.
Suggests Reprint of Book.
Department of Commerce of the United States Offers
"Changes
for
Third Reprint of 'The Care of the
Co-operation with Bureau in Solving Music
Piano.'—The Trade Service Advisory Committee
Trade Problems.
recommends a third reprint of the booklet which has
been one of the most popular pieces of literature used
The Trade Service Bureau of the Music Industries by the trade now approaching the total distribution
Chamber of Commerce was formed with compre- of 300,000 copies of the first two editions. The Ad-
hensive plans for the betterment of the music trade. visory Committee recommends that the special com-
At the meeting of the directors of the Chamber in mittee including Milton Weil of Krakauer Bros.,
New York last week, C. Alfred Wagner, in the chairman, President Chas. Deutschmann of the Na-
absence of C. C. Conway, chairman of the advisory tional Association of Piano Tuners, M. L. Cheek of
committee, presented important recommendations the Danquard Player Action School, and Ashley B.
Cone of Hardman, Peck & Co., be authorized to issue
which were approved by the board.
The report said the Trade Service Bureau has had the new edition of 'The Care of the Piano' with such
correspondence with the Bureau of Foreign and changes as they consider advisable, and supplemen-
Domestic Commerce of the United States Depart- tary literature on playerpiano service and varnish
ment of Commerce, resulting in an offer of the gov- checking if the demand warrants.
Request to Manufacturers.
ernment department under Mr. Hoover to interest
itself in research work on problems of the music
"Request Manufacturers and Distributors to Adver-
trade, if such service were desired.
tise Trade Service Items.—The Advisory Committee
"The Bureau Advisory Committee recommends recommends the adoption of a plan to furnish envel-
that we avail ourselves of the service, thus getting an ope stuffers to manufacturers and distributors for
impartial economic analysis, with full co-operation insertion in various mailings, to acquaint the retail
on the part of our own organization and members, on trade with the service help on advertising, accounting
two problems," said the report. "These are the trade- and Merchandising problems, made available through
in problem, and cost of doing business on the in- the Chamber and its member associations.
"Reference List of Publications of Value to the
stallment plan, with particular reference to establish-
Trade.—The Advisory Committee recommends the
ing a differential cost or carrying charge instead of
interest, which many buyers object to." The report compilation and publication of a reference list of pub-
lications of value to the music trade."
continued:
GOVERNMENT AID
Suggests Interesting Exhibits.
"Addition of Direct-by-Mail Advertising Exhibit to
Convention Features.—The advisory committee of
the Trade Service Bureau recommends the addition
of a direct-by-mail advertising exhibit to the conven-
tion exhibits previously authorized which include the
retail advertising exhibit, national advertising dis-
play, music week window display contest, and a
showing of trade service helps available through the
bureau. It is recommended that the new convention
WEBSTER PIANOS
Noted for Their Musical Beauty
of Tone and Artistic Style
ATTRACTIVE
Factory
LeominaUr,
Mast.
PRICES
Executir* Offic«>
138th St. and Walton Ave.
N«w York
DirUion W. P. HAINES & CO., Inc.
QUALITY
in Name and in Fact
TONE, MATERIALS, CONSTRUCTION,
WORKMANSHIP, DESIGN—all in ac-
cord with the broadest experience—are
the elements which give character to
Bush & Lane Products.
BUSH&LANE PIANOS
BUSH & LANE CECILIAN PLAYER PIANOS
take high place, therefore, in any com-
parison of high grade pianos because of
the individuality of character which dis-
tinguishes them in all essentials of merit
and value.
BUSH ft LANE PIANO CO.
Holland, Mich.
BRIEF RECORDS OF PIANO
DEALERS ACTIVITIES
Incidents in the Energetic Pursuit of the Prospec-
tive Buyer Told in Short Sentences.
The Arkadelphia Music Co.'s branch store at For-
dyce, Ark., was moved last week. This branch was
established temporarily about six months ago, but
better quarters are now occupied.
The branch store of the Davis-Burkham-Tyler Co.
at Clarksburg, W. Va., is already spiritedly advertis-
ing for the holiday trade. A small goods department
was added recently. The branch is located in the
Maconic Temple Building. W. H. Cooper is man-
ager.
The New York Jewelry & Music Co. was recently
opened at 2711 St. John street, Flint, Mich.
The W. S. Gardner Music Co. recently opened a
new store in Spartanburg, S. C.
Frederick & Nelson, Seattle, has enlarged and re-
arranged the music department. The new display
room is attractively furnished.
F. Farland has opened a music store at 406 East
Douglas street, Wichita, Kan.
With the opening of the remodeled and enlarged
store of the C. L. Chute Co., furniture and music
house of New Lexington, Ohio, recently, the music
department was given almost twice its original floor
space.
Armstrong & Armstrong, White Hall, 111., has
added a music department to the business.
Wood Bros, recently opened new piano warerooms
at 610 East Grace street, Richmond, Va.
V E N E E R BUSINESS LIVELY.
The veneer market is showing a good tone this
season with continued demand for some of the rarer
woods, as well as a strong call for the better grades
of American walnut and mahogany, according to
veneer men. Reports show that the veneer-using in-
dustries are more active now than at any previous
period 6f the year with a steady and constant demand
for practically all the varieties.
OPENS IN COLUMBUS, O.
Arthur M. Taylor, who recently has leased the
second floor at 112^2 South High street, Columbus,
O., has opened a musical merchandise store there.
Mr. Taylor was with the musical merchandise de-
partment of the Goldsmith Music Store here for
seven years and will make a specialty of band and
orchestra instruments. He will also maintain a well-
equipped repair department.
DEATH OF E. R. WANCKEL
IN LEIPZIG, GERMANY
One-Time Popular Member of Supply Trade,
Associated with the Late Alfred Dolge Is
Pleasantly Remembered.
News has just reached Presto of the death of Ed-
mund R. Wanckel at Leipzig, Germany, on August
29th.
Mr. Wanckel for years was one of the outstanding
figures in the supply trade. He was with Alfred
Dolge when that gentleman started his supply busi-
ness, including his felt factory, at what is now
Dolgeville, New York. Mr. Wanckle was in charge
of the New York office of the Dolge concern when
Alfred Dolge & Sons were in the hands of the re-
ceiver, and he continued along with the newly formed
American Felt Co., being the general manager of that
concern for many years and paying special attention
to the piano supply end of the business.
Mr. Wanckel, who was in his 72nd year, had been
in Germany for a good many months, being occupied
in settling personal business. He is survived by his
only daughter, whose home is in Roselle Park, New
Jersey.
Mr. Wanckel has been practically retired for the
past ten years so far as active business is concerned,
but until he went abroad, he devoted a great deal of
his time to charitable work among the poor of New
York, who will greatly miss both the personal effort
and the financial help he extended.
Among the older, members of the piano industry
the death of Mr. Wanckel will recall many pleasant
recollections.
Of genial disposition and always
cheerful, he shed the light of his character broadly in
the trade. And at one time there were very few
more widely known.
TO MAKE MILK SPOUT
WHEN BOSSIES POUT
Temperamental Tale of the Cowyard, as Told by a
Big Chicago Newspaper.
The Chicago Times-Herald recently told the tale
of the "temperamental bossies." And the poetic
headlines were: "When Temperamental Bossies Pout,
Turn Music on and Milk Will Spout." Here is the
beautiful bovine tale:
Scene—Any barn. Time—5 a. m. Cast—Hiram,
Hiram—Put on "Swanee River" and milk that lop-
eared Holstein, Josiah.
Hiram (five minutes later)—How's she workin'?
Josiah—She ain't workin'. She gone and went to
sleep.
Hiram—Change that record and play "Them High
Brown Blues."
Josiah (ten minutes later)—Get some more pails,
Hiram; she's a-spoutin'. Filled four pails, but dog-
gone it, it's all buttermilk.
Charles D. Isaacson of the Chicago Civic Opera
Association yesterday told members of the music in-
dustry, at the Illinois Athletic Club, that the rhythm
of music compels greater production and that dairy-
men say it makes cows give more and better milk.
STRICH & ZEIDLER, Inc
GRAND, UPRIGHT and PLAYER
AND
HOMER PIANOS
740-742 East 136th Street
NEW YORK
Becker Bros.
Manufacturer* of
HIGH GRADE PIANOS
and PLAYER PIANOS
Factory and Wareroomi
767-769 Tenth Avenue, New York
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