March 14, 1925.
SHERMAN, CLAY & CO.
HOLDS ANNUAL MEETING
industries and with members of this sub committee
during the summer.
Changes are expected in the personnel of the Pat-
ents Committee but they will not be made until next
December.
San Francisco Company Elects Officers and
Directors and Listens to Very Cheering
Reports from All Departments.
PAPER FLOOR PLAN
OF GULBRANSEN GRAND
At the annual meeting of Sherman, Clay & Co.,
San Francisco, held recently, the following officers
were elected: Leander S. Sherman, chairman of the
board; Philip T. Clay, president; Frederick R. Sher-
man, vice-president; Ferdinand W. Stephenson, secre-
tary: Andrew G. McCarthy, treasurer. The follow-
ing were named directors: Philip T. Clay, Mrs. A. L.
Clay, Leander S. Sherman, Frederick R. Sherman,
Andrew G. McCarthy, and H. L. Crawford.
The various reports were very cheering, that of
the piano department telling a story of a great in-
crease of sales for 1924 over the previous year. In
his report Secretary Stephenson said the earnings
for 1924 were $450,000, more than sufficient to meet
the generous dividend requirements. The dividends
declared were the monthly payment on the common
and preferred stock and the quarterly dividends on
the 7 per cent prior preferred stock issued last year.
In the new radio department a wonderful achieve-
ment in sales was reported, with an immense busi-
ness anticipated for the ensuing year.
The Gulbransen Company, Chicago, Provide Dealers
with Excellent Grand Sales Arguments.
A paper plan showing the exact floor space cov-
ered by the Gulbransen Grand, the new Registering-
Grand made by the Gulbransen Co., Chicago, has
been prepared for the use of dealers. It is proof
positive for the prospective grand buyer that the in-
strument is of desirable dimensions for the living
room or other place in the home or apartment. The
Gulbransen grand is 5 feet, four inches long. This
information is printed on the paper floor plan which
shows the position of the full-sized keyboard by a
black and white etching:
"Its larger size and greater string length give it
bigger, more resonant tone. A real grand piano of
artistic musical quality. Made as a registering grand,
playable by hand or roll; registering and reproducing
grand playable by hand, by roll and electrically; reg-
ular grand playable by hand only.
NO ACTION TAKEN ON
PERKINS COPYRIGHT BILL
Legislation Expected to Be Important Issue in the
Next Session of Congress.
No action was taken by the Committee on Patents
on the Perkins Copyright Bill which proposed to
eliminate the principle of mechanical license. Hear-
ings were held on January 22 and February 3, 10
and 24. The Authors' League, Music Publishers'
Protective Association, the American Society of
Authors, Composers and Publishers and others fa-
voring the bill appeared on January 22. Representa-
tives of this Chamber and of phonograph record and
music roll companies appeared on February 3 and
10 in opposition. The motion picture industry op-
posed the bill on February 24.
Undoubtedly a bill to amend the Copyright Act
will be presented in the next Congress, but it is not
expected that the Perkins Bill will be reintroduced
in its present form. In fact, a sub committee, con-
sisting of Representatives Florian Lampert, Wiscon-
sin; Randolph Perkins, New Jersey; Frank R. Reid,
Illinois; Fritz G. Lanham, Texas, and Sol Bloom,
New York, were appointed to work on a new bill
which it is hoped will bring into harmony the desires
of all conflicting interests. Representatives of this
Chamber will confer with representatives of other
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PRESTO
"Built on Family Pride"
Doll & Sons
Represent the Artistic
in Piano and Player Piano
Construction
JACOB DOLL & SONS
STODART
WELLSM0RE
Jacob Doll & Sons, Inc.
Southern Boulevard, E. 133rd St.
E. 134th St. and Cypreu Ave.
NEW YORK
TRADE PAPER MAN'S CHANGE.
After eight years in music trade journalism, Arthur
Nealy, long-time manager of the western department
of the Music Trade Review, will enter another line of
work. He has made a contract to represent, in the
West, a new device designed to make records directly
from radio broadcast. Mr. Nealy will be missed in
the Chicago piano factory offices.
BUILDS IN MIAMI, FLA.
A contract for the erection of a building at the
corner of Lincoln road and Jefferson avenue, Miami,
Fla., has been let by the E. Ernest Philpitt Co. The
building will have 50 feet frontage and a depth of 105
feet, and will have a firm foundation to allow for the
addition of two upper floors at a later date. The esti-
mated cost of the structure will be $35,000.
Becker Bros.
Manufacturers of
HIGH GRADE PIANOS
and PLAYER PIANOS
Factory and Wareroom*
767-769 Tenth Avenue, New York
STEINWAY FOR ARTIST.
Sherman, Clay & Co., San Jose, Calif., supplied the
Steinway piano used recently in a concert given by
Rachmaninoff, the Russian pianist-composer, at the
Victory Theater. The artist was accorded wide pub-
licity through window displays of the local music
firms and through newspaper advertising.
STR1CH & ZEIDLER, Inc.
GRAND, UPRIGHT and PLAYER
AND
SEEKS LARGER QUARTERS.
Amendola Bros., 164 Wooster street, New Haven,
Conn., will move to larger quarters by April 1. In-
creasing business makes a larger store a necessity.
The house attributes its success to operating five
trucks, covering the state of Connecticut and selling
from the trucks.
Q R S ROLLS IN BRONX SHOW
HOMER PIANOS
740-742 East 136th Street
NEW YORK
Schumann
PIANOS and PLAYER PIANOS
GRANDS and UPRIGHTS
Have no superiors in appearance, tone
power or other essentials of strictly
leaders in the trade.
Warning to Infringers
This Trade Mark 1B cast
In tho plat* and also ap-
pears upon the fall board
of all genuine Schumann
Pianos, and all Infringe™
will be prosecuted. Beware
of Imitations such as Schu-
mann A Company, Schu-
mann & Son, and also
Shuman, as all stencil
shops, dealers and users of
pianos bearing a nami In
imitation of the name
Schumann with the Inten-
tion of deceiving the public
will be prosecuted to tha
fullest extent of tha law.
New Catalogue on Request.
The above picture represents the Q R S Music
Company's booth at the Bronx Industrial Show in
New York.
The huge pyramid in the center was made of
Q R S Unit Boxes, and" the letters "Unit Box" were
made of blue label Story-roll boxes. The display
created much intreest in Q R S rolls and the Unit
Box, and the idea conveyed by the picture is one well
worth preserving for an attractive window display.
Schumann Piano Co.
W. N. VAN MATRE, President
Rockford, III.
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