Presto

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February 14, 1925.
P R E S T C
AMBITIOUS POLICY
OF SUPPLY HOUSE
American Piano Supply Co., New York, Is
Proud of the Phrase Which Voices a
Well-known Ambition.
"Where Supply Meets Demand" is a good phrase
of the American Piano Supply Co., 110-112 East
Thirteenth street, New York, that suggests a trade
characteristic particularly interesting to the busy
men who buy piano supplies. There are occasions
when the problem of finding the requisite commodity
quickly, puzzles the piano factory superintendent,
the repairman and the tuner. The ability to complete
a rush job inside the specified time is usually a mat-
ter of pride to the efficient repairman and often a
customer places dependence on the tuner to put an
instrument into shape in time for use at a special
event. In all cases the ability to make the job a
satisfactorily closed incident depends on the ease
and quickness of getting a needed part or parts.
In helping the factory head, the repairman and
the tuner in solving problems of supply, the Ameri-
can Piano Supply Co. enjoys a unique and admirable
position in the piano trade. The pride of the com-
pany is in its ability to serve the factory and the
repair shop in every conceivable way. The ambi-
tion to hold a stock of supplies to meet every pos-
sible demand from the piano, organ and talking ma-
chine trade has been realized. In hardware, felts,
cloths, hammers, etc., for pianos, organs, players,
talking machines; special stamping and turnings, the
great supply keeps pace with the growing demand.
"Where supply meets demand" is a phrase justi-
fied in use by the American Piano Supply Company.
The fact is made clear to every piano, organ and
talking machine manufacturer, every repairman and
every piano tuner in association with the ambitious
supply house. They find their problems of supply in
urgent cases to be settled by a letter or telegram.
The willingness and ability to serve its patrons and
serve them quickly has become a fact widely known
in the music trade and industry. The customers'
problems are made the problems of the American
Piano Supply Company, and on this admirable fact
is based the growth in business and prestige of the
progressive New York supply house.
SOME OF THE LATE CHANGES
IN RETAIL PIANO TRADE
Changes, Renewals and New Enterprises in Different
Parts of the Country.
A sub-branch of the San Jose, Cal, store of Sher-
man, Clay & Co. has been opened at Palo Alto, Cal.,
the home of Stanford University, with Byron J. Snow-
as manager.
A music store was opened recently at 930 Penn
street, Reading, Pa., by J. Gordon McLean.
The H. A. French Music House of Nashville,
Tenn., is settled in its new home at 710 Church street,
where it has double the floor space it had at its old
quarters at 29 Arcade.
Damage estimated at $25,000 was caused recently
by fire in the Hunt Furniture Co., Salamanca, N. Y.
George W. Will has purchased the piano stock of
R. F. Peters, formerly of the Peters & Mills Music
Store, Salem, Ore.
W. L. Britt, music dealer of Rogers, Ark., has
opened a branch in the Ferrenberg Building, Walnut
street, Rogers, Ark.
Mrs. Mary Keaney is the proprietor of a new music
store recently opened at 1819 West Monroe street,
Sandusky, Ohio, under the name of the Sandusky
Music Exchange.
Wilbor & Hoag is the title of a music house at 70
Chapel street, Albany, N. Y.
The formal opening of Heim's Music Store at 221
Main street, Daubury, Conn., was held recently.
The Karberton, Ohio, store of the Mitten Piano Co.,
Akron, Ohio, has been discontinued.
H. W. Vandertheid recently opened a piano store
in Merrill. Wis.
Mrs. H. G. Thayer is the successor to Theodore
Meyer in the piano business in Houston, Tex. Mrs.
Thayer is also proprietor of the Peacocke Shoppe,
2505 Fannin street, Houston.
Jack Terry has opened a music store in Pawhuska,
Okla., under the name of the Terry Music Co.
Mrs. C. M. Livingston has removed her music busi-
ness from Bryan, Ohio, to Archbold, in the same
state.
Reifsnyder's, Inc., will open a store at 119 North
Sixth street, Reading, Pa. The main store is ex-
pected to lie ready for occupancy in March.
VETERAN "PACKARD" WORKER
IN ACCORDED HONORS
James Ryan Has Loyally Served the Famous Fort
Wayne Industry for 50 Years.
Presentation of a gold watch was made by the
management of the Packard Piano Company, of Fort
Wayne, lnd., to James Ryan, on the event of his
having completed his fiftieth year in the service of
the company. C. L. Scheiman, treasurer and direc-
tor of the industry, presented the token in the pres-
ence of all employes of the factory.
Mr. Ryan is a native of Ireland and was born Jan-
uary 6, 1850. Landing in America when he was 21
years old he went direct to Fort Wayne. A short
time later he moved to Auburn and in 1875 returned
to Fort Wayne and took employment at the Pack-
ard plant as a pointer and gluer. After working in
this capacity about twenty years he was given duties
in the case department and later was transferred to
outdoor work in the yards, his present duties.
Mr. and Mrs. Ryan have four sons and four daugh-
ters, all of whom live in Fort Wayne, with the excep-
tion of one son, James Ryan, who was last heard of
in France, having enlisted in the army during the
war—a sacrifice of his parents to their adopted
countrv.
FEDERAL SURVEY OF
BROADCASTING IS ASSURED
Work of a Comprehensive Kind Will Determine
Power and Wave Length of Stations.
The appropriation of $100,(XX) to be made avail-
able in a bill to be presented by Secretary of Com-
merce Hoover will be used in a comprehensive sur-
vey lo determine the ordinary range of the radio
broadcasting stations.
The survey will be undertaken by the Department
of Commerce, and the necessary information will be
obtained through co-operation with the department
and the American Tel. & Tel. Co., which operates a
great many of the broadcasting stations if high power
in the country today. It is expected that by the re-
sult of these experiments the Department of Com-
merce will regulate the power and wave length of
stations in the future, as well as determine the num-
ber of stations which can operate on a given wave
length band in a given stated section.
PUBLICITY TOPIC
FOR NEXT MEETING
Other Important Matters Will Also Interest
National Association of Musical Instru-
ment and Accessories Manufacturers
at Meeting March 2-3 in Cleveland.
A meeting of the National Association of Musical
Instrument and Accessories Manufacturers has been
called by Secretary F. F. Larson for March 2 and 3
at the Hotel Statler, Cleveland, O., and a big attend-
ance is expected. A number of interesting matters
will be discussed, among them being a scheme of pub-
licity designed to further increase the desire for music
in the home and thereby direct attention to instru-
ments in the musical merchandise stock.
That the meeting in Cleveland will be representa-
tive of a large section of the country is assured.
William L. Langc, 225 East Twenty-fourth street,
New York, has been appointed chairman of an attend-
ance committee of the manufacturers of the New
York zone and promises a full roster of the member-
ship from that section. Secretary Larson, who is
also widely known as secretary of Ludwig & Ludwig,
Inc.. Chicago, guarantees a full representation of the
industries of the Chicago zone.
The Purpose.
The National Association of Musical Instrument
and Accessories Manufacturers was organized last
June in New York during the conventions of the
music trades, and is distinct from the other national
associations in the musical merchandise trade—the
National Musical Merchandise Association and the
Band Instrument Manufacturers' Association. The
National Association of Musical Instrument and Ac-
cessories Manufacturers is particularly representative
of the makers of stringed and fretted instruments,
drums, tympani and drummers' accessories and ac-
cessories generally. The meeting in Cleveland will
be the first since the formation of the association and
the first opportunity for expressing the friendly feel-
ing of the associated industries.
The Officers.
The officers of the association are: President, J.
R. Stewart; vice-president, Walter M. Gotsch; secre-
tary-treasurer, Fred E. Larson. The following com-
prise the board of directors: J. R. Stewart, Walter
M. Gotsch, Fred E. Larson, C. L. W. Nelson, H. A.
Weymann, H. C. Lomb, Walter Schmidt, E. E. Fels-
berg, W. L. Lange, G. F. Chapin and Morris Lifton.
The membership of the association includes: Lud-
wig & Ludwig, Inc., Chicago; The Harmony Co.,
Chicago; Lifton Mfg. Co., New York; Walter M.
Gotsch Co., Chicago; Oscar Schmidt, Inc., Jersey
City, N. J.; The Felsberg Co.. Newark, N. J.; H. A.
Weymann & Son, Inc., Philadelphia; The Vega Co.,
Boston; William M. Lange, New York; C. F. Mar-
tin & Co., Nazareth, Pa.; Waverly Musical Products
Co., New York; A. D. Grover & Son, Inc., New
York; Standard Musical String Mfg. Co., New York;
Regal Musical Instrument Co., Chicago; Lyon &
Healy, Inc, Chicago; Paragon Case Co., Chicago;
Leedy Mfg. Co., Indianapolis; Globe Musical Instru-
ment Co., Chicago.
HARDLY FAIR.
The Griggs Piano Co., of Moline, 111., is running a
large advertisement in local papers about "the Apart-
ment grand made and guaranteed by Kimball." The
word "Apartment" in connection with grand pianos
is a trade-name employed by Lyon & Healy and
probably the Kimball house does not approve of rep-
resentatives appropriating it.
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