February 7, 1925.
23
PRESTO
COINOLAS
FOR
RESTAURANTS, CAFES and
A M U S E M E N T CENTERS
Style C-2
FROM THE BIGGEST
ORCHESTRION
IN SMALL GOODS DEPARTMENT
accessories. The store now is twice the size of its
original quarters. A radio section handling the De
Forest, R. C. A. and other sets has also been added.
Greater Interest in Musical Merchandise Shows in
CONN MANAGER'S PLANS.
New Stores and Old Ones.
The wholesale department of the Chicago Conn
The Metal Crafters Corp., East Stroudsburg, Pa., Co., Chicago, is under the management of J. L.
has purchased the plant of the New York Piano Luellen, and now occupies the entire fourth floor of
Stool & Mfg. Co. in the same city.
the building" at 339 South Wabash avenue. The
Harry C. Reid is the new manager of the small wholesale department has also found it necessary to
goods department of Schmoller & Mueller, Omaha, add six more employes to its staff, according to Mr.
Neb.
Luellen, who plans to make this year a record-
W. J. Fiynn's music store on main street, Trinidad, breaker.
Colo., was damaged by fire recently.
The Kurtzmann Piano Co., Lockport, N. Y., will
NEW BRANCH PROSPEROUS.
move this week to new quarters at 89 Main street.
The Corley Co., Petersburg, Va,, established in
The Flanders Music Co. is the successor to the the fall, is located at 23 West Washington street. The
McCuster Piano Co. at Rapid City, S. D.
branch handles the same general music lines as are
The Pope Piano House has succeeded C. H. Smith handled at the retail headquarters of the Corley Co.
at Blytheville, Ark.
in Richmond, Va. A big volume of business is being
Bush & Lane Piano Co., Portland, Ore., has moved done under the able management of J. K. Fletcher.
to the Royal Annex Building, Park and Morrison
streets, for which a five-year lease on quarters in
EXPANDS IN WHITTIER, CALIF.
that building was recently signed.
The Whittier Music Co., 125 South Greenleaf ave-
At a recent meeting of the stockholders of the Will
A. Watkin Music Co., Dallas, Tex., the officers and nue, Whittier, Cal., has enlarged its radio depart-
ment. At the same time several other departments
directors were re-elected.
in the store will be increased in size to take care of
An announcement of a general cut in the prices of
all British radio tubes was made this week in Lon- the growing business, according to L. J. Sims, the
don. The reduction goes into effect on Monday, manager.
February 9, and covers the entire range of tubes
from the cheapest to the most expensive. The move
CONNS FOR ORCHESTRA.
was made at the initiative of three of the largest radio
The Homer L. Kitt Co., 1330 G street, Washington,
supply firms in England as a stimulus to purchasers, D. C, has supplied a full outfit of Conn instruments
many of whom hitherto have contented themselves for the La Java Orchestra, the well-known organiza-
with crystal reception instead of tube amplifiers and tion which supplies music for the La Java Salon.
tube sets.
The Homer L. Kitt Co. is the energetic representa-
tive of C. G. Conn, Ltd., Elkhart, Ind.
CANADA'S RADIO WEEK.
ENLARGES DEPARTMENT.
The Canadian Radio Trades Association, whose
The Platt Music Co., Los Angeles, Cal., has found
membersship is made up of the leaders in the Cana-
dian radio industry, was observed this week as it necessary to enlarge its band instrument and saxo-
Canada's Second Annual Radio Week. The event phone department. Ralph Kenney is manager of the
was given a great deal of publicity in newspapers, department.
radio publications, and wholesale and retail stores.
Manufacturers of radio apparatus, distributers, and
The new radio broadcasting station at Varberg is
dealers throughout the Dominion cooperated to make completed, making direct radio communication be-
this year's radio week an unqualified success. Every tween Sweden and the United States possible for
evening during the week special addresses and en- the first time.
tertainment were broadcasted from Dominion sta-
tions.
A Pneumatic Action bearing the name
PRESIDENT SLINGERLAND'S PLANS.
H. H. Slingerland, president of the Slingerland
Banjo Co., Chicago, and recently elected president of
the. Association of Musical Merchandise Manufac-
turers of the Chicago zone, has ambitious plans for
is your guide for unfailing quality.
the association during the coming year. The organ-
ization will be active in the convention of national
associations of the music industries in Chicago early
The high quality which has characterized
this summer. In this connection the first steps to
the Strauch Bros. Piano Actions and Ham-
be taken by the association are towards early affilia-
tion with the National Association of Musical Instru-
mers for almost sixty years, distinguishes
ment & Accessory Manufacturers.
our latest product, the
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Myer T. Hall, Inc., 2626 Germantown avenue,
Philadelphia, has added a musical merchandise divi-
sion with a full line of string and band instruments.
In the recently remodeled and enlarged store on Ger-
mantown avenue is now shown a complete assort-
ment of band instruments, string instruments and
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