P R E S T 0-T I M E S
ANGELUS CONCERT AT
CHICAGO HIGH SCHOOL
Harry Keeler, Principal of the Lindblom
School Directs Demonstration Event
Before Three Thousand Pupils.
Harry Keeler, principal of the Lindblom High
School, Chicago, recently enabled 3,000 pupils of that
school to enjoy an Angelus comparison concert by
the famous Viennese pianist. Miss Henna Menth.
ments. The nickels and dimes and quarters which the
budget plan saves are diverted to the piano payments.
Agnes, to the complete joy of herself and family, is
on her way to the spotlight of her ambitions.
And, in the course of a few years, the Colby family
will own the piano which it has always wanted.
NEW COMMITTEE FOR
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Sub-Division No. 34, Representing Music Industries,
Announces New Membership This Week.
The following is the result of the election of offi-
cers of Sub-Division 34, Music Industries, the Chi-
cago Association of Commerce, Ways and Means
Committee, just announced:
Chairman, R. J. Cook, Cable Piano Co.; vice-chair-
men, Walter Roche, Lyon & Healy, Inc.; W. C. Grif-
fith, Chicago Talking Machine Co.; Albert N. Page,
Q R S Music Roll Co.; F. P. Whitmore, W. W. Kim-
ball Co, and Clayton F. Summy, Clayton F.
Summy Co.
MICHIGAN PLANS TO
TEACH PIANO IN SCHOOLS
Allegan Parent-Teachers' Council Adopts Method
Used Successfully in Adjoining County.
HARRY KEELEK
This concert gave the children of the Lindblom High
School an excellent idea of the interpretative art of
the Angelus, and the pianistic skill of Miss Menth.
Menth.
It is needless to say that Mr. Keeler is an enthu-
siast regarding the piano and music in general—the
musical activities of this Chicago high school being
outstanding features of the curriculum.
EVERYTHING SOLD IS
PIANO'S COMPETITOR
Paper Manufacturer Uses Familiar Piano Sale
Incident to Prove Fact Most Dealers
Will Understand.
In presenting his pianos to the public the dealer
must be governed by the fact that his instruments
must compete with all other products; the necessi-
ties as well as the luxuries; the simple diversions and
the complex distractions. His competitors are 'the
movies and milliners, restaurants and resorts, the
cigar store and candy parlor, the taxi and theater,
modish clothes and motor cars. His enlightening
thought should be that even the fattest income is lim-
ited in the sense that it can only be spent once.
The following homely narrative clipped from a
series of advertisements produced by the S. D. War-
ren Company, manufacturers of high grade printing
paper, is based on the fact that everybody else in
trade is your competitor, no matter what you sell.
The fact that it is a piano incident gives it greater
interest to readers of a piano trade paper:
Not only has Charles stopped his noon-day pie, but
Mrs. Colby has cancelled the weekly engagement of
the helpful woman who, one day in seven, made Mrs.
Colby's housework easier.
Agnes Colby is carrying her lunch. Charles, Junior,
also is carrying his.
At 'the local theaters, where pictures in motion can
be viewed from the balcony for twenty-five cents, the
entire Colby family appears but one day a week in
lieu of three. Mr. Colby smokes a pipe each evening
instead of his ten-cent straight. Mrs. Colby and
Agnes are coloring and remodeling last year's hats.
There is no cause for alarm, however. The Colbys
have not stopped spending. There is no buyer's
strike. It is simply that a seller of merchandise
struck a responsive chord in the hearts of the Colby
family.
A folder addressed to Mrs. Colby said: "Perhaps
your daughter is a future great pianist." This Mrs.
Colby and the rest of the family had already sus-
pected. Mrs. Colby thought the writer of the folder
remarkably discerning. She read on. She discovered,
as she read, 'that the world is full of undeveloped tal-
ent. She was surprised and pleased to find that even
the lack of money to buy a piano need not be a seri-
ous handicap to those with talent, ambition, and the
willingness to make a few sacrifices. So she returned
the card requesting that a representative call and
explain how to develop musical talent.
Eventually, Mrs. Colby started a family budget
plan; incidentally she bought a piano on deferred pay-
A Parent-Teachers' council in Allegan, Mich., will
be formed and the problem of music in the rural
schools discussed at a meeting called by the county
chairman to be held at the same time as the teachers'
institute.
A plan has been worked out in Kent coun.ty which
has proven very successful. Each school board pays
a special music teacher a certain wage per hour to
teach music in their school. She travels from one
school to another, teaching in, at first, only six schools
which enrolled for this special training. There are
now twelve schools, three of them large buildings of
several rooms where it is necessary for the music
instructor .to remain all day. An assistant has been
appointed to help in this work.
NEW INCORPORATIONS
IN MUSIC GOODS TRADE
Mew and Old Concerns Secure Charters in Various
Places.
Rolfe's Music House, Inc., Salem, Mass, $25,000;
Rosella M. Rolfe, J. Frank Rolfe and Leila R. Hersey.
The Jordan Piano Co., Paterson, N. J.; $125,000;
James T. Jordan, John A.Jordan and Ralph J. Temple.
The Consolidated Record Corp., Newark, N. J..
with 100 shares of no par value; to manufacture
phonograph records.
Marion Piano Co., Marion, Ind., $1,000 shares, no
par value; to deal in musical instruments; Samuel N.
Karantz, Guy Landis and Ruth Kanantz.
The Willoughby Music Co., Willoughby, O.,
$25,000; R. A. Semrod, A. T. Madon, R. O. Semrod,
C. A. Reeves and J. A. Bechtol.
CONTEST IN ROCHESTER, N. Y.
In a piano playing contest which opened last week
in Rochester, N. Y., sponsored by two local news-
papers, the following music dealers are cooperating:
General Music Co., Griffin Piano Co., W. C. Altpeter,
DaBoll Piano Co., Joseph C. Kurtz, Hoffman Music
Store, Ludwig's, Music Lovers' Shoppe, J. W. Martin
& Bro., Arthur W. Oster, Arthur T. Pritchard and
the Rochester Music Store.
SPREAD OF MUSIC DEMAND.
An indication of the extent to which the reputation
of the National Bureau for the Advancement of Music
has spread is found in a letter received by the Bu-
reau this week from Seldovia, Alaska, in which the
writer advises that he has been referred to the
Bureau for assistance by the Commissioner of Edu-
cation for Alaska.
BRAZIL WANTS USED PIANOS.
Dealers in second hand pianos do a thriving busi-
ness in Brazil, due to the fact that the life of an
imported piano, or any imported piece of furniture,
becomes only a matter of a few months after it is
attacked by the Brazilian bug, "Cupim," that thrives
on foreign wood.
January 1, 1927.
BEAUTIFUL SHOWING
OF SCHILLER PIANOS
Unusually Fine Display of Line from Oregon,
111., with Special Reference to Baby
Upright, Japanese Finish.
A brilliant array of Schiller pianos, s>mall grands
and super-grands; colonial, gothic and period mod-
els—in the regular and the Bauer Patented Construc-
tion—and several of the little upright 3x7 model,
known as the Schiller Baby upright, have been
shown at the Schiller parlor in the Republic Building,
Chicago, this week. There is a variety of veneers
in .the grands, such as French walnut, English brown
mahogany, satinwood and oak, in regular finish, and
high-light effect.
One of the little uprights deserves more than pass-
ing notice because of the beautiful design with which
the full length music rack is decorated. It is a Jap-
anese design, carved in the wood, and carved with
such remarkable fidelity to the drawing, from which
it was evidently copied, that the details of landscape,
pagodas and the view of Japan's famous mountain
volcano, stand out in surprisingly bold relief.
The art work on this piano is rich and will bear
careful inspection as something beautifully and
artistically done. And musical^ the little piano is
a gem. Splendid tone quality and brilliancy, with
responsive action.
This Schiller line, on the ninth floor of the Re-
public Building, is well worth going to see. Man-
ager Frank Hood will be there all next week to
welcome his friends and any prospects that may call.
EFFICIENT TRAINING FOR
BRITISH SALESMEN ASSURED
Music Trades School of London Is Operated in Con-
junction with Big Trade Associations.
The practical interest in the training of piano sales-
men, tuners and repairmen by British manufacturers
of music goods is seen in the efficient Music Trades
School in London, which is working in conjunction
with the Pianoforte Manufacturers' Association, the
British Associated Pianomakers, the Association of
Gramophone and Musical Instrument Makers, the
Music Trades Association, and the Federation of Brit-
ish Music Industries.
Ernest White, the organizer, now has associated
with him two committees from the trade—a consulta-
tive committee comprising Frank Samuel, John Chal-
len, W. Strohmenger, and Lieut.-Col. R. H. Tatton,
and an advisory committee comprising Paul Booth,
E. Gowland, Herbert Brinsmead, D. J. Blaikley, A.
Stokes, the president of the Music Trades Associa-
tion (Frankland-King), a representative of the Col-
umbia Graphophone Company (A. E. Liedtke), and
the president of the Pianoforte Manufacturers' Asso-
tiation (R. P. Brasted).
Thus it will be seen that 'the various associations and
the manufacturing bodies are taking a keen interest
in the school and its activities, and it is reported 'that
dealers generally throughout the country are availing
themselves of the opportunities that are theirs to ob-
tain assistants with training. The first term com-
menced on September 14 and ended December 21, the
second term is from January 10 to April 8, and the
third term, April 26 to July 27. For evening stu-
dents, the session begins on September 27 and ends
on April 8.
INSTRUMENTS IN JAPAN.
Western music is gradually increasing in popularity
in Japan. This has naturally created a demand for
European and American musical instruments, result-
ing not only in larger importations of foreign instru-
ments but also in the establishment of domestic
plants for producing them. The phonograph has
served to stir interest in many of the instruments of
which it is the vehicle of expression. The violin,
mandolin and guitar make the strongest appeal to the
men while the organ, piano and guitar are popular
with women.
TUNERS BUSY IN ENGLAND.
Piano tuners in England are more active now than
at any time in recent years. Many of the big music
stores have increased their staffs of tuners, as pianos
are being bought in increasing numbers by persons
whose interest in music has been awakened by radio
programs.
ALBERT BOND'S GREETING.
STEALS SAXOPHONE.
One of the most artistic of the flood of holiday
cards, which came too late for mention last week, is
that of President Albert Sweetzer Bond, of the Pack-
ard Piano Co., Fort Wayne, Ind. It "wishes you
every happiness at this joyous season."
Indianapolis police hunted a new type of bandit
last week—the saxophone bandit. The thief threw
a brick into the plate glass window of the Fuller-
Hyde Music Co., 27 East Ohio street and escaped
with a $90 trumpet and a $135 saxophone.
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