March 12, 1927.
17
PRESTO-TIMES
The Background
A BUSY ROLL
DEPARTMENT
Interest in the formation of bands in industrial
plants in England grows rapidly. A similar growth
of interest in bands is reported from Australia.
The Manley Piano Co., of Williamson, W. Ya.,
Musical Merchandise Shown in Tasteful Man- was recently appointed representative of the C. G.
Conn, Ltd., line of band and orchestra instrumenis.
ner in Window and Store Has Increased
Waters & Ross, 19 Stockton street, San Francisco,
Chances of Quick Sale.
reports success for its recently established wait-on-
yourself musical merchandise department.
The old helter-skelter way of dumping goods in
Free lessons on band and orchestra instruments are
windows and on shelves and counters are things of
provided by 'the schools of St. Charles, 111., the pro-
the past, and the carelessness which survives is a
gressive town in which one of the factories of The
reminder of earlier days.
Cable Co., Chicago, is located.
Good examples of well-kept stores are everywhere,
The new phonograph record lines of the Starr
and special aids to presenting the goods in an allur-
Piano Co., Richmond, lnd., are considered by dealers
ing and artistic manner are available. The manufac-
as great sources of stimulus of phonograph sales.
ture of store fixtures, cases, cabinets and contrivances
Walter E. Richardson, Chicago, recently was
for showing music goods in the most effective way
has reached an enormous volume and novelties in the granted a patent on a key pad for saxophones.
line are constantly being introduced.
The art of window dressing, once monopolized by
the dry goods and millinery stores, has been devel-
oped in an admirable way by the more progressive
A Few Items Interesting to People in Sheet Music
music stores. An artistic show window presentation
Department Are Printed.
of pianos has long been a rule with dealers; now band
and orchestra instruments and sheet music are pre-
Harry
Klotz,
Denver, Colo , representative of
sented in windows and on the inside in an effective
Jerome
H.
Remick
& Co., is a baritone whose voice
way that impresses the merits of the goods. In the
does much to make known the merits of Remick
windows the goods are not crowded in the old heter-
songs on the concert and vaudeville stage.
generous way that was so distracting but the array is
Five winning song-dance numbers of the Englc-
limited to one kind of instrument or one line.
wood Music House, 516 Englcvvood avenue, Chicago,
Inside the stores 'the musical merchandise is shown
are available with orchestrations for which twenty-
in handsome cases that keep the goods bright and
five cen.ts is quoted.
free from dust and the best feature of all is that
The Otto Zimmerman & Son Co., Inc., Cincinnati,
everything is visible and a possible suggestion to
music printers since 1876, has the largest engraving
buy to visitors to the s' L ore. The music dealer, anx-
department in the United States.
ious to make sales, does not neglect this proven means
A bill has been introduced in the Missouri legisla-
towards interesting the publ'c in his goods. Realizing
ture to make "My Missouri," composed by Miss
the advantages of a proper display he naturally is
Mary Ellis of Kansas City, the official state song.
interested in suitable store and window fixtures,
The ballot taken by the Columbus Phonograph Co ,
which may be called first aids to orderliness.
Inc., New York, on the choice of ten composers
The proper ways of showing the goods are neces-
whose work would comprise an ideal ten-foot shelf
sary in these days of keen competition. The fixtures
has been completed with Beethoven leading all the
and show window devices must be modern and suited
rest.
to the desired purposes, because the customer has
The Oliver Ditson Co., Boston has published the
been trained to expect pleasant store methods in
second anthem by Charles S. Norris, the owner of the
whatever line of goods he may be interested.
Charles S. Norris Warerooms, 181 Tremont street.
The new anthem is called "Lo, a Great Multitude."
Irving Sklare, manager of the Portland, Ore.,
branch of Jerome H. Remick & Co., song publishers,
was a visitor on business to Chicago this week.
Many New Names Appear in Musical Instrument
Business and Old Ones Continue in Activities.
THE OHIO CONTESTS.
PRESENTING THE GOODS
SHEET MUSIC TRADE NOTES
THE NEW
CAPITOL
WORD ROLLS
75c—FEBRUARY RELEASES—75c
1694 A Little Music in the Moonlight
—Fox Trot
1673 Candy Lips—Fox Trot
1686 Don't Forget the Pal You Left at
Home—Marimba Waltz
1683 Elsie Schultz-En-Heim—Fox Trot
1682 Give Me a Ukulele—Fox Trot
1661 Gone Again Gal—Fox Trot
1685 Knows His Groceries—Fox Trot
1690 Hello, Swanee! Hello!—Fox Trot
1696 How Could Red Riding Hood?—
Fox Trot
1695 I Don't Mind Being Alone—Fox
Trot
1691 If Tears Could Bring You Back to
Me—Fox Trot
1684 I'm Tellin' the Birds—Tellin' the
Bees—Fox Trot
1687 It Made You Happy When You
Made Me Cry—Fox Trot
1674 I've Got the Girl—Fox Trot
1689 My Baby Knows How—Fox Trot
1693 My Girl Has Eye Trouble—Fox
Trot
1688 Oh, How She Could Play a Uku-
lele—Fox Trot
1675 Original Black Bottom D a n c e
1679 She's Still My Baby—Fox Trot
1672 Sidewalk Blues
1678 Susie's Feller—Fox Trot
1680 Tonight You Belong to Me—Waltz
1676 Trail of Dreams—Waltz
1697 When I First Met Mary—Fox Trot
1681 When I'm in Your Arms—Fox
Trot
1682 Within the Prison of My Dreams
—Fox Trot
Extra Choruses
A Longer Roll
Seventy-five cents
Printed Words
Hand Played
Made of the best materials
obtainable.
Will please your trade and
double your sales.
Quality and price make
Capitol rolls the deal-
er's best profit producer
in a roll department.
Capitol Roll & Record Co.
721 N. Kedrie Art., CHrCAGO, ILL
(Formerly Columbia Music Roll Co.)
NEWS OF SMALL GOODS FIELD
The plant of the Wall-Kane Needle Mfg. Co., 3922
Fourteenth avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y., manufacturers
of talking machine needles, was completely destroyed
by fire last week.
A patent has been granted by the United States
Patent Office for a "flexible sound record" to two
English inventors. 0
The Dream Shop is the name of a new music store
opened recently at 916 F street, N. W., Washington,
D. C , by Alexander Bolker, musical merchandise,
phonographs and Q R S music rolls are carried.
A. Favella & Sons, manufacturers of stringed in-
struments, Brooklyn, N. Y., has moved from 411
Berry street to larger quarters at 552 Myrtle avenue.
Friedrich & Bro., violin jobbers, New York, has
moved from 279 Fifth avenue to 5 East Fifty-seventh
street.
Ernest Dahlen has purchased the interests of Fred
Worch in the sniall goods department which they
established some time ago in the store of the S. E.
(ioldsmith Furniture Co., 73 East Long street, Col-
umbus, O.
The name "Playol" as a trade mark for instruments
for imitating animal and other cries, has been regis-
tered in the patent office by Buegelersen & Jacob-
son, New York.
The Sherman, Clay & Co.'s Band, San Francisco,
recently organized by E. J. Delano, head of the musi-
cal merchandise department, is giving programs over
radio station KFRC.
Observant dealers are making the most of the
violin revival by keeping good stocks of varied char-
acter, to suit different tastes and price desires, of
violin buvers.
Seventeen counties in Ohio have started music
memory contests, and in every county prizes for win-
ners have been provided. Many of the promoters in
the counties report satisfactory enthusiasm among the
school teachers and children, but regrets are ex-
pressed at the discontinuance of state supervision of
the contest.
STORE SCHOOL GROWS.
The steady increase in pupils in the band and or-
chestra school operated in connection with the Saxo-
phone Shop at 622 Main street. Little Rock, Ark.,
necessitated in the remodeling and enlargement plans
now being carried out in the store. Mr. Bean, man-
ager, said that a portion of the new available space
will be devoted to a repair department under efficient
management.
BOSTON PUBLISHERS ELECT.
William Arms Fisher was re-elected president of
the Boston Music Publishers' Association at the an-
nual meeting at the Boston Art Club recently. Other
officers elected were: Charles W. Homeyer, vice-
president and James A. Smith, secretary-treasurer.
Messrs. King, Preston and Buttleman were appointed
a committee to represent the association at the fes-
tival of the Civic Music Association of which Mrs.
William Arms Fisher is chairman.
S. Ernest Pin'lpitt & Son, Tampa and other places
in Florida, reports a great success for its recently
concluded series of concerts in the Philpitt's Ariist
Course given in Tampa.
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