Presto

February 12, 1927.
PRESTO-TIMES
MATT J. KENNEDY ASKS
AID FOR BRO. TRAVELER
President of National Association Asks for
Contributions to Fund to Help
Fellow Member.
Matt J. Kennedy, president of the National Piano
Travelers' Association, Republic Building, Chicago,
has addressed the following letter to members:
"Dear Member: James Freeman, 5084 Minerva ave-
nue, St. Louis, Mo., who was a member of the Trav-
elers' Association until misfortune overtook him, and
who traveled for a number of manufacturers during
the past few years, is in need of financial assistance.
"While on a trip in Iowa last year, with a tempera-
ture of 20 below zero, he froze his feet, and after
considerable medical attention gangrene developed
and he was taken to a hospital and had his legs ampu-
tated. He is trying to raise approximately $300 with
which to buy a pair of artificial limbs and, while I
do not believe that it has ever been customary to
make an appeal of this sort to our members, I have
no hesitancy in doing so in a case of this kind, and I
am going, to ask every member of the Travelers'
Association to send me $1, and when this fund is col-
lected I will personally see, with the assistance of
some of the Chicago members of the Travelers' Asso-
ciation, that Mr. Freeman is supplied with a pair of
artificial limbs so that he may again be enabled to
take a position and help support his family.
"Let us all help a fellow 'traveler."
NEW POSTER FEATURES
PIANO PLAYING CONTEST
Other Activities of Promoters Extend Public
Interest in Annual Greater Chicago
Children's Piano Playing Contest.
what difficult. As a result they are permitted to play
"Musette," which is much easier.
A committee of judges well known to the musical
world, headed by Glen Dillard Gunn, Frederick Stock
and Herman Devries, made the change.
Stations W E B H and WJJD in Chicago have
arranged weekly piano lessons over the radio for the
benefit of prospective contestants.
BRITISH YEAR BOOK IS
COMPREHENSIVE PUBLICATION
Concert, Parlor ana Small Grands
Period ana Modern Designs
Early Reservations Will Secure Best Accom-
modations in World's Biggest Hostelry,
and Rates Desired Insured.
The Local Committee of Arrangements for the
Music Industries Convention, to be held at the new
Stevens Hotel, Chicago, June 6 'to 9 inclusive,
through the chairman of that committee, Gordon
Music Trades Diary for 1927 Contains Interesting Laughead, president of the Piano Club of Chicago,
and Instructive Information for Music Merchants.
which is sponsoring the convention arrangements,
sends out this week its first circular to the 'trade and
G. D. Ernest & Co., Ltd., publishers, London, Eng-
prospective attendants at the convention. This an-
land, have issued the "Music Trades Diary, Directory
nouncement is as follows:
and Year Book for 1927," a copy of which was re-
"Over twenty-four hundred of the three thousand
ceived by Presto-Times this week. It is a well- rooms of 'the new Stevens Hotel, Chicago, will be
edited and cleanly-printed book, available in cloth available for those in the music trade at $3.50, $4
or paper cover, and in thoroughness fulfills every and $5 single, or $5, $6 and $7.50 double.
promise in the title.
"Members of the Music Trades Associations affili-
There is an official directory of the British music ated with the Music Industries Chamber of Commerce
trades which contains the names and addresses of all are urged to forwafd their reservation now to secure
members of music trade associations in England, Scot-
the best service.
land and the Irish Free State. An overseas section
"The convention begins Monday, June 6th, and
is a directory of the principal manufacturers, dealers
closes Thursday, June 9th. Many are expected to
and publishers in the music trade of the British over- arrive Saturday, June 4th and Sunday, June 5th.
seas dominions and foreign countries, including the
"The $3.50 rooms have shower bath, the $4 rooms
United States.
include shower, tub, or shower and tub. The $5
Other sections are devoted to patent and copyright
rooms are equipped with both shower and tub.
laws, import duties, hire, purchase trading, trade
"Address your reservation to Stevens Hotel, Chi-
commissioners abroad, directory of technical trade cago, 111., stating rate desired, single or double,
terms, tables of exports of musical instruments, postal
name of your association and probable date of arrival.
information, radio for music dealer, talking machine
"The new Stevens Hotel is the largest in the world
societies, insurance and laws affecting music trade. and an early reservation insures a choice room."
In dealing with foreign music trade journalism the
scope of Presto-Times, Chicago, Canadian Music
Trades Journal, Toronto, and the Music Trade Re-
view of New York is described.
HAS THE PIANO BUYER
THE RIGHT TO RENIG?
BIG CONN DEALERS.
The demand for musical merchandise grows in
Canada, according to the statement of R. S. Williams
& Sons, Ltd., Toronto, with branches in Winnipeg
A most effective poster in blue and orange on a and other large cities. The company, which handles
yellow ground has been prepared by the promoters of
the complete line of band and orchestra instruments
the Annual Greater Chicago Children's Piano Play- of C. G. Conn, Ltd., Elkhart, Ind., is one of the
ing Contest. The hanger has been prepared for the largest musical merchandise dealers in the Dominion.
use of all music houses of Greater Chicago and vicin- High quality, not price, interests the Canadian buyer
ity that have contributed to the financial support of
and the market for any other kind of merchandising
the piano playing tournament.
in Canada is very small, is the statement.
The piano contest rules have been changed to allow
people in lower grades to participate.
D. L. CALHOUN, MANAGER.
Under 'the new ruling, any child in the first six
D. L. Calhoun has been appointed manager of the
grades of public, parochial or private school who Boyer Music House, Inc., 201 South Main street.
enters is required to play two pieces in the tourna- South Bend, Ind. Mr. Calhoun, before assuming his
ment.
duties as manager of the local establishment, was
One of them will be a personal selection, any piece associated with 'the John Church Company, of Cin-
thoroughly familiar. A second piece may be selected cinnati and Chicago. He spent five years teaching
from either 'Solfeggietto," by Bach, or "Musette," music before becoming interested in the merchandis-
ing of musical goods.
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in D major.
The change in the rules is that they can have their
choice of the two specified pieces. In the original
OPENS NEW BRANCH.
rules it was compulsory for the child to play "Sol-
The Gaston Music Co., Hastings, Neb., has opened
feggietto."
a branch store at 110 North Third street, Norfolk,
Many, pupils, particularly those who are just be- Neb., with A. L. Rhodes temporarily in charge. The
ginning to take piano lessons, found the piece some- permanent manager will be William F. Rhodes, who
will assume his new duties next week. The Gaston
Music Co. is well known in that section of the state
and has associations there extending back close to
thirty years.
"THE HOUSE OF GRANDS"
RESERVE HOTEL ROOM
FOR JUNE CONVENTION
How Legal Friend of Newspaper Advises Reader
Who Would Undo a Good Bargain.
In a letter to the Chicago Tribune's legal Friend
of the People, a correspondent says: "I bought
a piano on October 13, 1926. My payments are $3 a
week. I am seven weeks behind and am unable to
keep the piano any longer.
The company has
stopped my wages for $36, which they say I owe.
I am willing to pay the $21 if they take the piano,
but they refuse to 'take it.
"What I want to know is, can they make me keep
the piano after I pay all that is due on it, which they
say is $36?"
And to that frequently recurring problem in the
piano 'trade the newspaper replies: "Of course, they
cannot make you keep the piano in the sense that you
are at liberty to give it away, but unless you have
some defense such as minority you are liable for the
amount that you agreed to pay."
NEW STORE AT PICAYUNE, MISS.
Nielsen's Studio and Music Store, which recently
started business at Picayune, Miss., is selling the
Weser Bros, line of pianos and players. R. V. Niel-
sen says that the Weser is "filling the bill" admirably
and he hopes to build up a good trade in these
instruments in that vicinity.
EDGAR B. JONES IN CHICAGO.
Edgar B. Jones, president of the Schiller Piano
Co., Oregon, 111., and Mrs. Jones are visiting 'the
HIS CALIFORNIA HOME.
Chicago headquarters of the company this week. Mr.
Jones has been busily engaged at the factory where
T. J. Mercer, formerly sales manager of the Gul-
bransen Company, was a Chicago visitor one day production is being centered on period models and
last week, en route to San Francisco, Cal., where he high-light finishes.
now resides and is the Pacific Coast representative of
the Bankers' Security Company of New York, which
does a large business in music trade discounts time
payment paper.
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