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May 9, 192S.
PRESTO
MUSIC WEEK CELEBRATED
THROUGHOUT COUNTRY
Annual Event Observed with Great Enthu-
siasm by Music Trade, Clubs, Women's
Organizations, Schools, Municipalities.
In Chicago the Piano Club co-operated in dis-
tributing the window display posters carrying the
emblem of music week and appointed the following
committee constituting the trade press to take charge
of the work.
The Piano and Organ Association sent out a letter
calling attention to the work that the Chicago Fed-
eration of Women's Organizations was doing under
the direction of Mrs. Ora Lightner Frost, who had
organized the events to celebrate Music Week, which
included musical affairs every day in the schools,
churches, jails and all public institutions as well as
over radio. An orchestra contest was held by the
school orchestras throughout the city, under the
auspices of the women's organization, with prizes for
the winner.
Dealers had special window displays. The Cable
Piano Co. offered $50 for the best composition writ-
ten by a Chicago boy or girl on the theme "What
Music Means to Chicago." The W. W. Kimball Co.
turned over Kimball Hall on May 8 to the Women's
Clubs.
A prominent feature of the Music Week celebra-
tion in New York was a public Music Memory Con-
test open to all music students, school children, pro-
fessional and non-professional adults, to be held at
the Town Hall, May 5, under the auspices of Wm.
Knabe & Co., which offered a prize of $100 to the
winner.
Erwin Nyiregyhazi, the Hungarian pianist, played
an entire concert without a printed program. Printed
forms were distributed to the entire audience, and
immediately after the concert the written slips were
collected.
Indianapolis dealers exhibited unusual activity in
preparation for the observance of Music Week, co-
operating with the Chamber of Commerce Commit-
tee for a successful program. Features of the week
were community singing in hospitals and stores, open-
air band concerts, musical contests between civic
organizations, and special programs in theaters and
schools. The Indianapolis radio stations broadcasted
talks on music and public and parochial schools paid
special attention to music during the week.
In the observance of Music Week from May 3 to
9 in Salt Lake City, Utah, bandstands were erected
at several points along Main street, the principal
business street. There were also musical competi-
tions. Winners in the voice, piano and violin depart-
ments will be sent to compete at the National Federa-
tion of Music Clubs' Convention.
SATISFACTORY RESULTS
FROM MEMBERSHIP DRIVE
Efforts to Increase Roster of Merchants National
Association Being Made by Travelers.
Satisfactory results are reported in the member-
ship drive of the National Association of Music Mer-
chants in co-operation with the National Piano Trav-
elers' Association.
The National Association of Music Merchants has
offered a total of $250 in prizes, participation in
which is confined to members of the travelers' asso-
ciation in good standing.
The campaign will close Thursday, June 11, at 6
p. m., giving the travelers an opportunity to follow
up all prospects at convention time, and the following
cash prizes will be awarded at the travelers' dinner,
held on this day: First prize, $100; second prize,
$75; third prize, $50; fourth prize, $25.
In order to qualify for competition for first and
second prizes five paid memberships must be turned
in before the close of the campaign. In the event of
a tie contestants will be given an award identical
with the one in the division in which they qualify.
In stimulating the drive the members of the Na-
tional Piano Travelers' Association are asked to have
their respective manufacturers write everybody in
the retail music business and "pep" them up, so that
when solicitations are made the work will have been
exploited by the company of the representative.
DRY GOODS COMPANY
ADDS LINE OF MUSIC GOODS
A moderate priced reproducing piano,
beautiful in design and rich in tone.
Write for our new explanatory Chart,
the most complete and simple treat-
ment of the reproducing action.
Wabash at Jackson - - - Chicago
ADDRESSES TEXAS CONVENTION.
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 0 0 .
Hotemf, Mtoi.
Doll & Sons
Represent the Artistic
in Piano and Player Piano
Construction
JACOB DOLL & SONS
STODART
WELLSMORE
Jacob Doll & Sons, Inc.
Southern Boulevard, E. 138rd St.
E. 134th Stw and Cypress Ave.
NEW YORK
Becker Bros.
Manufacturer* of
HIGH GRADE PIANOS
and PLAYER PIANOS
Factory and Wareroomt
767-769 Tenth Avenue, New York
Prominent Maquoketa Concern Co-operating with
Big Davenport House Adds Fine General Line.
The Lee Dry Goods Company, Maquoketa, la.,
co-operating with the Schmidt Music Co., Daven-
port, la., opened a music department May 1. The
greater portion of the second floor of the Lee build-
ing has been given over to the new departure which
is in charge of Frank Keeney, a well known bands-
man and orchestra leader, assisted by his wife and
daughter, Mrs. Opal Keeney-Crabb, the latter being
one of the city's most accomplished musicians and
teachers-.
A fine line of pianos, playerpianos, talking ma-
chines, and string and brass instruments as well as a
complete line of sheet music and musical findings
will be stocked.
The grand opening held May 1st was one of the
musical treats of the year, the program being by and
under the auspices of the Schmidt Symphonic orches-
tra of Davenport, which splendid organization nearly
every radio fan in. the country has heard through
broadcasting station WOC at Davenport.
The Lyon & Healy
Reproducing Piano
"Built on Family Prid*"
Charles E. Byrne, vice-president and general sales
manager of the Steger & Sons Piano Company, Chi-
cago, has been in attendance at the Texas State
Music Merchants' convention this week. The con-
vention is held at Austin, the capital of the state,
this year, where the meetings are at the Stephen
P. Austin hotel. On Friday, Mr. Byrne gave a talk
before the covention, his subject being "Piano Adver-
tising." Mr. Byrne may remain a few days in the
Sunny South before returning to Chicago.
STARTS TOWN WITH PIANO.
T. E. Rice, who recently purchased the Bixler
.•farm at the intersection of the Orrville Southern and
Lincoln Highways, near Wooster, Ohio, has started
the construction of a brick business block there. Mr.
Rice plans to sell pianos later on, and will be in per-
sonal charge of his business there. It is the start of
a new town, and perhaps the. first that began with a
piano store. Mr. PJce is financially interested in
The Wooster Rubber Company.
A TORNADO TOWN CORRECTION..
The Morgan Music Co., of tornado wrecked Mur-
physboro, 111., advertises to correct an erroneous im-
pression that the musical instruments they are selling
were damaged in the storm. They were not. But
the company sustained losses which they hope to
retrieve by an increased sale of instruments.
STRICH & ZEIDLER, Inc.
GRAND, UPRIGHT .nd PLAYBR
AND
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 is cast
In the plat* and also ap-
pears upon the fall board
of all genuine Schumann
Pianos, and all Infringers
will ba prosecuted. Bbware
cf imitations such as Schu-
mann A Company, Schu-
mann A Son, and also
Shuman, as all stencil
shops, dealers and users of
pianos bearing a name in
imitation of the name
Schumann with the inten-
tion of deceiving the public
will be prosecuted to fhe
fullest extent of the law.
New Catalogue on Bequest.
Schumann Piano Co.
W. N. VAN MATRE, President
Rockford, 111.
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