May 30, 1925.
13
PRESTO
cral manager of the Music Industries Chamber of
Commerce; C. M. Tremaine, director of the Bureau
The Banquet Invitation.
Formal invitations from The National Association
of Music Merchants, to attend its Twenty-Fourth
Annual Banquet on Wednesday evening, June the
PIONEER IN PIANO KEY
INDUSTRY AND REPAIRS
Head of Frield Miller & Co., the Business of
Which Is Well Established and Grow-
ing Rapidly at Indianapolis.
The piano hammer business of Frield Miller & Co.,
at Indianapolis, Ind.—that is to say, the business of
piano hammer covering, facing and repairing—was
established by Mr. Miller some two years ago. A
little later Mr. Miller took his son, Paul, an experi-
enced young man in this line of piano construction
and a musician of high standing, into the business as
a partner.
Mr. Miller, senior, has been in the music business
since childhood, his first work having been in the fac-
tory of his father, who was a melodeon, organ and
piano manufacturer in Canada, and one of the first
men over there to construct a portable melodeon.
This melodeon business was the forerunner of and
finally merged into the well-known house of the D.
NOW WITH P. A. STARCK CO.
Elburke Slaughter, well known to the music trade
in the South, has joined the retail sales force of the
eastern division of the P. A. Starck Piano Co., 112
West Forty-second street. New York, of which Frank
K. Amreihn is general manager. Mr. Slaughter has
had valuable experience in the piano trade.
E. Leins Piano Co.
Makers of Pianos and
Player Pianos That Are
Established L e a d e r s
Correspondence from Reliable
Dealers Invited
Factory and Offices, 304 W. 42nd S i
NEW YORK
SUPERINTENDENT McILWRATH
CORRECTS ERRONEOUS ITEM
An Item Elsewhere States the Situation Correctly
and Presto Regrets and "Begs Pardon."
New Castle, Ind., May 26, 1925.
Editor Presto: In Presto of May 23rd, on page 4,
you have an article in which you clai mthat David
Mcllwrath, the writer, was going to the Straube
Piano Co., at Hammond, Ind., as superintendent.
This is a mistake which I wish you to adjust. I do
not know who gave you the item, as 1 certainly have
not given anyone the idea that I was to become
general superintendent of cither the old or the new
plant.
On page 6 you have a statement given by myself,
which is all I expected would appear in any of the
tnule papers.
I will therefore ask you in your next issue to state
that your article on page 4 was a mistake.
Yours very truly.
D. McILW'RATH, Superintendent,
Jesse French & Sons Piano Co.
MATT J. KENNEDY.
St'iTetary, National Association of Music Merchants.
tenth, nineteen hundred and twenty-five at The Drake
Hotel, Chicago, having been mailed to the trade.
The tickets are $7:00 per plate and to insure adequate
arrangements it is essential all replies reach James
T. Bristol, treasurer, not later than Saturday, June
the sixth.
Parham Werlein, Chairman.
Parham Werlein, New Orleans, will be honorary
chairman of the luncheon on Wednesday, June 10,
Southern Day. The honorary chairmen will be
named later for Pacific Coast Day and Eastern Day.
The Tuesday Dinner, June 9.
The slogan of this convention is "Make America
Musical" which inaugurates a drive to inspire the en-
tire nation with a further love and appreciation of this
wonderful art.
Interesting addresses will be given by prominent
men of the trade and special programs of both high
class and popular music will be played on occasion
during the week.
A special entertainment will be given by the fem-
inine visitors at the great store of Marshall Field &
Co., Tuesday, June 9. A program of sports, includ-
ing golf, for the men will take place Friday, June 11.
The following is a day-to-day program of social and
business events during convention week:
tial reputation for good work. Some time ago they
asked their customers, "Did your keys arrive O.K.
and was the work satisfactory?" Here arc some of
the replies received:
Keys arrived today and we find the work very satis-
factory.-—Chas. M. Stieff, Inc., H. S. Bryant, shop
foreman, Baltimore.
Your work is very satisfactory in workmanship
and price. You will receive all my work from now
on.—A. J. Ingram, Peabody, Kansas.
Keys arrived O.K. Very satisfactory—G. W. P.
Jones Music Co., Washington, Pa.
Keys arrived in nice shape. Best wishes for your
.success.—E. Koll, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Job was O. K.—E. Giesecke, Honolulu, Hawaii.
O.K. and customer delighted—L. C. Dunn, Bishop-
ville, Md.
WOULD DROP AUTOMATIC TAX.
FHIELD MILLER.
W. Karn Co., at Woodstock, Ontario. Coming to
the United States, Mr. Miller engaged in the music
business at Danville, 111. In 1905 he engaged with
the Pearson Music House, at Indianapolis, where he
remained for a long time, mostly in the tuning and re-
pair department, retiring from that position on ac-
count of poor health.
Frield Miller and his son are building a substan-
Representative Bacharach of New Jersey, a mem-
ber of the House Committee on Ways and Means,
has originated a plan for eliminating the present tax
of 5 per cent on coin-operated musical instruments
and proposes the drafting of a bill to be introduced
at the beginning of the coming session of Congress
providing for the dropping of this tax as well as the
reduction of many other levies. By that means there
will be a saving of approximately $400,000,000 yearly
to the public, he says. While the President is under-
stood to have made no direct comment on the Bach-
arach plan, he let it be known that if it found a sub-
stantial treasury surplus on hand at the end of the
present fiscal year, June 30, the administration would
support a tax reduction measure along the lines pro-
posed by Mr. Bacharach.
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