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PRESTO
April 4, 1925.
NEW ORGANIZATION ELECTS
New York Musical Instrument & Accessory Manu-
facturers' Assn. Names A. D. Grover President.
Permanent officers for the recently formed New
York Musical Instrument & Accessory Manufactur-
ers' Association, were elected at a meeting last week
at Keene's Chop House. Walter Grover, temporary
chairman, was elected president; Walter Schmidt,
vice-president; J. D. Taylor, secretary, and P. Grant,
treasurer. The directors named are: D. L. Day,
Maurice Lifton, F. H. Martin, Edward Felsbe and
Frank Gibson.
A committee to draw up a set of by-laws and a
constitution, was appointed, consisting of G. F.
Chapin, chairman, Maurice Lifton, Epi Stathpouli,
Henry C. Lomb and F. H. Martin. The name by
which the organization has been known since its
formation is not official. The name to be voted upon
at the next meeting will describe the purpose but will
not be so lengthy as the temporary one.
RECEIVERS APPOINTED
Several Small Failures in the New York City Music
and Radio Trades.
Henry Kagen, doing business as Empire Radio and
Music Co., 246 Bowery—Joseph Mulqueen, Jr., ap-
pointed, under $2,500 bond, by Judge Knox. Liabili-
ties, about $10,000; assets, about $5,000.
Superior Instrument Co., Inc., manufacturers of
radio condensers, 233 Canal street—William Etgen,
Jr., appointed, under $1,000 bond, by Judge Knox.
Liabilities, about $8,000; assets, about $2,000.
S. S. S. Radio Corporation, 1 East 28th street, by
the Hamburger Radio Corporation on a claim for
$600. George A. Turley was appointed receiver,
tinder $3,000 bond, by Judge Knox. Liabilities, about
$12,000; assets, about $5,000.
ENCOURAGE ROLL LIBRARIES
Importance of Such an Activity for Music Dealers
Pointed Out by Speaker at Trade Meeting.
The importance of encouraging the playerpiano
owner to get the roll buying habit is recognized
among the thoughtful English dealers. The topic
of the music roll library was treated by W. Rush-
worth, an English dealer in a paper read before a
meeting of the Federation of Music Industries re-
cently, and the remarks show the speaker was aware
of the potentialities of a course of action generally
practiced here. He said in part:
"The music-roll library is regarded by most deal
ers with mixed feelings, and in many respects it is
unfortunate that the playerpiano owner was not edu-
library in the same way as the purchaser of a grarao-
cated from the commencement to establish his own
phone buys his records. Yet, efficiently organized,
this department is a form of service which may build
up for you still another circle of customers. Assist-
ants should be trained to educate subscribers to pur-
chase rolls of their own, and they can also render
valuable assistance in influencing the cabinet-player
customer to the advantage of a combined instrument,
or the player owner to buy a reproducing piano.
"In this department especially is an intimate knowl-
edge of the catalogues essential, as well as a personal
acquaintance with each customer's particular require-
ments in music.
"Careful record should be kept of each selection of
rolls sent out to avoid the annoyance of repeated
titles. An advance card notifying that you are send-
ing the new month's selection will advise the sub-
scriber to have the old box ready to exchange when
the new one is delivered. Blank lists for customers'
selection numbers should accompany every box, and
the subscriber encouraged to make frequent and full
requisitions from the catalogue, of, say, a hundred
numbers at a time, to ensure an acceptable selection
being made. Impress upon your customer the neces-
sity for prompt return of all rolls, thus enabling you
to give the most efficient service. Do not choke your
library by including current dance numbers which
have but a brief life, but withhold these for three
months after issue and encourage inquirers to buy
them."
HELPS VARNISH TRADE.
Recent reports from the oilseed and vegetable oil
industry of Great Britain, which supplies the United
States with most of its basic oils for the paint and
varnish manufacturing trade, show a most prosper-
ous condition of last year's business. Considerably
over a million and a half tons of oil seeds, oil nuts and
kernels, all of which was imported from overseas,
went into the mills during the twelve months ended
December 31, the production of oils and oilcakes and
meals therefrom being not only ample to meet domes-
tic requirements but to permit a substantial export
trade.
CONSOLE TYPES SELL.
Console types of phonographs are leading all the
others by a wide margin in San Francisco, accord-
ing to the reports of the managers of the leading
stores. In the music sections of the department
stores the same report is made. Charles Mauzy,
head of the music department in the Emporium, says
there is a good demand for the high priced models of
the period types. A similar condition is noted by
Manager Storms of the City of Paris Dry Goods Co.
STATION KFKX, HASTINGS, NEBR.
Broadcasting Point of Which Will J. Hay Is An-
nouncer, Written Up by Natl. Geographical Society.
Every radio fan within a wide radius knows sta-
tion KFKX, Hasting, Nebr., and the voice of the
announcer is also familiar to the listeners-in. That
voice and Will J. Hay, the man who owns it, are
remembered by Chicago piano men. Before joining
the Gaston Music Co., in Hastings, Mr. Hay was sec-
retary of the Brinkerhoff Piano Co., Chicago, and in
addition to his piano sales abilities possessed a bari-
tone voice of great clearness and volume. That's the
voice which has helped make Hastings famous. So
important has become the village that the National
Geographic Society has issued a bulletin regarding it:
"Once Hastings was just one of the 'American
cities under 12,000 population.' Now it is a radio
Mecca.
"A tube set that has not made a pilgrimage to Has-
tings and back is an outcast indeed. It is at once
the best known and least known city in the United
States. The huge relay station for KDKA, of Pitts-
burgh, located there, is nearly in the geographical
center of the United States.
"Absence of tall buildings in Hastings and of high
hills in the neighboring countryside and the presence
of good ground water are conditions counted in favor
of establishing a station at this place.
"When America tunes in on Hastings it gets a
main street town on the edge of what used to be
called the Great American Desert."
MAHOGANY VARIETIES.
More than sixty different species of timber have
been put on the market under the name of mahogany.
Many if not all of these have been used in the manu-
facture of musical instruments, notably pianos. Not
all of these are true mahogany. Some of them closely
resemble mahogany and are related to it botanically.
Others have only a general resemblance to mahogany,
but may be mistaken for that choice veneer by per-
sons unfamiliar with its characteristics, according to
Arthur Koehler, specialist in wood structure, in an
interesting report on the identification of the true and
so-called mahoganies for the United States Depart-
ment of Agriculture.
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