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October 3, 1925.
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HADDORFF GRAND FOR
MOLINE ELKS CLUB
Harry J. Pearson also Reports Sale of Claren-
don Reproducing Grand to Prominent
Physician to Round Out Day's Work.
The Tri-City Piano Company, Moline, 111., of
which Harry E. Pearson is proprietor and manager,
reports the sale of a Haddorff grand piano for the
new Elks Club in that city, whose building was re-
cently erected at a cost of $300,000. Mr. Pearson said
that when he had concluded the sale of the grand to
the officials of the Elks Club he had about concluded
to "call it a day," but kind fate decreed otherwise. A
prominent physician, who had become interested in a
Clarendon Reproducing Grand, entered the store and
declared himself changed from a prospect to a
customer.
Mr. Pearson is an enthusiastic piano man with
system in his mode of operation. He is the kind that
sees a prospect in everybody without a piano. But
there is no lost motion in his methods. He is proud
of a prospect list whose facts are up-to-date and reli-
able. He is a good advertiser but confesses abiding
faith in the personal pursuit of the prospect.
In the Haddorff and Clarendon lines of pianos,
players and reproducing pianos he finds excellent op-
portunities for interesting prospects, and his faith in
the merits of his instruments is a matter of common
knowledge to his neighbors and the public generally
in his community.
WISCONSIN DEALER'S
SON CLEVER ARTIST
Ralph Mead, Son of Fred L. Mead, Music
Merchant of Merrill and Wausau on
Way to Fame.
A feature page of the Milwaukee Journal, Sunday,
September 27, is devoted to an interesting description
of the summer work in landscape painting of Ralph
Mead, a University of Wisconsin student and son of
Fred L. Mead, of the Mead Music House, Merrill
and Wausau, Wisconsin.
Young Mr. Mead, who is a junior at the university
this fall, has chosen art as his life work. During the
last two years he has designed a number of settings
and directed the making of scenery for the Wisconsin
University Players, of which he was production man-
ager last year. A new form of puppet entertainment
was worked out when he made Aladdin, a marionette
spectacle, with more than two hundred puppets done
in water colors. It presents on a grand scale, though
in miniature, the splendor and glorious romance char-
acteristic of the Arabian Nights.
At the university, Mr. Mead has painted many
landscapes—on the campus, along Lake Mendota, in
Tenny park and other parts of Madison. He has
also done a number of portraits.
At Christmas time Mr. Mead spent a week paint-
ing with Adrian Dornbush, the artist, at his cottage
in Iowa, and it was arranged that they should paint
together in northern Wisconsin this summer.
The old Ackerman homestead on Askee lake
formed an ideal location for the artists. Surrounded
as it is by'meadows, rolling green hills and neighbor-
ing farms, it is not far from the virgin forest.
Music Industries Chamber of Commerce. Radio
manufacturers were included, and allied interests, too,
such as makers of musical instrument supplies.
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CLAIMS EFFICIENCY FOR
BLIND PIANO TUNERS
L/Xe
Story to Newspapers from Lester, Pa., Has State-
ment Lester Piano Co. Could Verify.
According to an Associated Press story to news-
papers from Lester, Pa., "Every man in the piano
tuning department of a piano factory here is blind.
The management claims that instead of their blind-
ness being a handicap, it is proving an asset."
The Lester Piano Co.'s factories are in Lester, Pa.,
and if the company believes that blindness in the
tuner is an aid to efficiency, it is possible the force is
a sightless one. The company is proud of the char-
acter of tunefulness in its pianos and a natural desire
would be to have every instrument leaving the fac-
tory tuned to perfection. .
SIR HARRY LAUDER WRITES
TO WILLIAM THOMSON
In Letter Dated from New Zealand Famous Stage
Character Discusses British Conditions.
William Thomson, head of William Thomson &
Sons, Glasgow, recently received a letter from his
friend, Sir Harry Lauder, dated New Zealand, in
which the famous comedian gives some characteris-
tically sound advice on the present industrial situa-
tion. "
"Man, Wullie," he writes, "here I am in New
Zealand. What a fine country and what a great
people—real British, just like bein' at hame. How
are things? I hope all goes well, and that common-
sense leads the way."
Continuing, Sir Harry asks what the home folks
are doing to improve conditions, and he suggests
that the unfortunate industrial workers should be
helped over the stile until the dawn of better days.
He points out, however, that it is only work that
these men want, and not the dole. These are not
slackers (he adds), and paying dole will not improve
matters.
QULBRANSEN ADVERTISING
IN THE NATIONAL MAGAZINES
Three Out of Every Five Homes Reached by Gul-
bransen Co. in National Campaign.
September is the first month of the big fall drive
of the Gulbransen Co., Chicago, in which the com-
pany is reaching at least three out of five homes in
every community in the United States. Other pub-
lications besides the Saturday Evening Post used this
month are the American Magazine, Country Gentle-
man, Everybody's, Ainslee's, Sea Story, Munsey's,
Short Stories, Holland's Magazine, etc.
The ad in the Saturday Evening Post of September
19 dramatically and effectively points out the distinc-
tiveness and superiority of the Gulbransen Register-
ing piano and that it is the only piano of its kind.
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Players s ad Pianos have won their stand-
ing with trade and public by 54 years of
steadfast striving to excel. They repre-
sent the
LARGEST COMPETITIVE VALUE
because <«f their beauty, reliability, tone
and moderate price. They are profitable
to sell and satisfactory when sold.
Brighten Your Line with the
SCHAFF BROS.
The Schaff Bros. Co.
Established 1868
Huntington, Ind.
ENERGETIC DEALERS AWARDED.
STATUS OF THE MUSIC
INDUSTRY TOLD IN FIGURES
Alfred L. Smith, Secretary of the Music Industries
Chamber of Commerce, Publishes Interesting Facts.
"Upwards of a billion dollars are invested in the
making and selling of musical instruments of all
kinds in America and the sales, at retail, total about
a billion annually now," according to Alfred L. Smith,
secretary of the Music Industries Chamber of Com-
merce. "Tens of thousands find employment in the
industry. More than 300,000 pianos, vast quantities
of band, orchestral instruments and phonographs,
and now $350,000,000 or more of radio supplies are
sold annually.
"No other country in the world spends so much for
musical instruments. And, besides, there are the hun-
dreds of millions spent annually in admissions to con-
certs and musical shows. While $350,000,000 was
spent for radio last year, it is predicted that a still
larger sum will go into that field this year. The
music industry is adjusting itself to the developments
of radio—leading phonograph manufacturers are
making combination phonograph and radio sets."
Mr. Smith said that three thousands establishments
were now represented in the membership of the
The Canton, Ohio, music stores which had ex-
hibits at the annual Stark County Fair, which opened
on Labor Day are now reporting profitable results.
In the merchants' display hall beneath the grand-
stand, where there were fifty merchants' exhibits, sev-
eral music houses of Canton and two from Massillon
had displays. Dealers made their displays more in-
teresting and offered mand new attractions to hold
the attention of the crowds.
FORT WAYNE FIRM ACTIVE.
The Packard Music House, Wayne and Harrison
streets, Fort Wayne, Ind., is featuring the Bond
playerpiano in a forceful way this week. The Pack-
ard Baby Grand Piano is also included in the special
September activities to bring the prospects to the
store where convincing demonstrations of the instru-
ments are given continuously by expert players.
The Good Old
SMITH & NIXON
Pianos and Player Pianos
Better than ever, with the same
"Grand Tone In Upright Case."
Grands and Players that every deal-
er likes to sell, for Satisfaction and
Profit,
FOR A MICHIGAN ASSOCIATION.
A meeting of Michigan music dealers has been
called at the Pantland Hotel, Grand Rapids, Mich.,
to organize a state association. Frank G. Bayley,
of the Bayley Music House, Detroit, believes the
association will be formed at the meeting, although
several previous attempts to organize dealers proved
unsuccessful.
Smith & Nixon Piano Co.
1229 Miller St., Chicago
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