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MUSICAL
TIMES
PRESTO
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THE AMERICAN MUSIC TRADE WEEKLY
10 Cents a Copy
CHICAGO, SATURDAY, APRIL 30, 1927
EXHIBITORS AT THE BIG CONVENTION
Imposing List of Piano and Other Displays of
the Music Industry to Be Seen at the
Hotel Stevens, Chicago, During
the Week of June 6-9.
ROOMS ALREADY ENGAGED
Small Instruments, Supplies and Inventions Included
in the Reservations by Manufacturers for
Space at the Special Show.
Never before has there been so large and compre-
hensive exhibit of general musical instruments as will
be seen at the Hotel Stevens, Chicago, during the
National Music Trade Convention, which opens on
June 6, continuing through nearly a full week, though
the official dates are from the 5th to the 9th.
It will be a display in which nearly everything
associated with music will be included. The piano
exhibit will be nearly as large as that at the Chicago
Coliseum in May, 1917. And that memorable exhibit
was the first really comprehensive piano display since
the visions of Section I of the Columbian Exposition
of 1893.
An All-Instrument Show.
Last year's exhibit at the convention held at the
Commodore Hotel, New York, while a good one,
lacked much of the interest which attached to the
one of 1925, at the Drake Hotel in Chicago. This
year's will put them all in the shade in the matter
of variety, because a great number of small instru-
ment exhibits will be made, as well as of novelties,
band instruments and heretofore almost unheard-of
products of industries that have not before taken
part in any of the activities of the associations.
What has been said must give added interest to
the June conventions, and to give further emphasis to
the extent of the exhibits in connection with the great
gathering of manufacturers and merchants expected,
the following list of exhibitors is appended, with their
room numbers in the Hotel Stevens:
List of Exhibitors.
Audak Co. (refer Targ & Dinner Music Co.), Room
421A.
Atwater Kent Mfg. Co., 4700 Wissahickon Ave.,
Philadelphia, Pa., Rooms 1300, 1301. 1301A.
Ampico Corporation, 29 W. 57th St., New York
city, Rooms 2000, 2001. 2002, 2001 A. 2002A.
Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co., 629 W. Wabash
Ave., Chicago, Rooms 430A, 557A.
H. C. Bay Co., 620 Republic Bldg., Chicago, Rooms
422A. 423A. 440A, 444A, 445A, 450A, 451A. 452A.
Baldwin Piano Co., 323 S. Wabash Ave , Chicago,
Rooms 500, 501, 501A.
Buescher Band Instrument Co.. Elkhart, Ind.,
Rooms 532, 533', 5.34.
Bacon Banjo Co. (refer Chicago Musical Instru-
ment Co.). Room 535A.
Bankers' Commercial Security Co.. Inc., 270 Madi-
son Ave. at 39th St., New York city. Rooms 900. 901.
901A.
Bush & Lane Piano Co., Holland, Mich., Rooms
1005, 10O6.
Berg Auto Trunk & Specialty Co., Inc , Thomas
Ave., Long Island City, N. Y., Rooms 1405, 1406.
C. G. Conn, Ltd., Elkhart. Ind.. Room 435A.
Continental Music Co., 339 S. Wabash Ave., Chi-
cago, Room 453A.
Cable-Nelson Piano Co.. 306 S. Wabash Ave., Chi-
cago, Rooms 513, 556, 557, 560.
Chicago Musical Instrument Co., 214 S. Wabash
Ave., Chicago, Room 536A.
A. B. Chase Piano Co. (see L T nited Piano Co.),
Room 561A.
Financial Company Also.
Commercial Investment Trust Co., New York city,
Room 611A.
Consolidated Talking Machine Co., Inc., 227-229
W. Washington St., Chicago, Room 1500, 1501, 1502.
Emerson Piano Co. (refer LTnited Piano Co.),
Room 563A.
Estey Welte Corp., 695 Fifth Ave , New York city,
Rooms 1000, 1001, 1002, 1003. 1001A, 1002A, 1003A.
Freshman Co., Chas , 2626 W. Washington Blvd.,
Chicago, Rooms 1900, 1901.
Foster-Armstrong Co., East Rochester, N. Y.,
Rooms 1200, 1201, 1201A.
Carl Fischer, Inc., Cooper Square, New York city,
Rooms 561, 563.
Gretsch & Brenner, 42 E. 20th St., New York city,
Room 529.
Gulbransen Co., Kedzie and Chicago Aves., Chi-
cago, Rooms 519A, 520A.
Fred Gretsch Mfg. Co., 209 S. State St., Chicago,
Room 539A.
Walter M. Getsch Co., 430 S. Green St., Chicago,
Room 551A.
Gibson, Inc., Kalamazoo, Mich., Room 1100, 1101,
1101A.
Geib & Schaeffer. 1/51 N. Central Park Ave., Chi-
cago, Room 536.
Band Instruments, Too.
Frank J. Holton. Elkhorn, Wis., Rooms 532A.
533A.
Haddorff Piano Co., Fine Arts Bldg., Chicago,
Rooms 604A, 605A, 606A. 607A.
E. P. Johnson Piano Co., Elgin, 111., Rooms 547,
549.
Kohler Industries. 1222 Kimball Bldg., Chicago,
Rooms 502A, 504A, 505A. 5O7A, 509A, 512A, 513A,
515A, 700, 701, 701A, 526A, 528A.
C. Kurtzmann & Co.. 526 Niagara St, Buffalo,
N. Y.. Rooms 800, 801, 802, 801 A, 802A.
Ludwig & Ludwig, 1611 N. Lincoln St., Chicago,
Room 539, 553.
Lester Piano Co., 1306 Chestnut St., Philadelphia,
Pa.. Room 517A.
Lindeman & Sons Piano Co. (refer United Piano
Corp.), Room 564A.
Ludwig & Co., 748 E. 135th St., New York city,
Rooms 605, 606.
Lyon & Healy, 243 S. Wabash Ave., Chicago,
Rooms 553A, 556A.
Leedy Mfg. Co., Barth Ave. and Palmer St., In-
dianapolis, Ind., Room 1501A.
Martin Band Instrument Co. (refer Chicago Musical
Instrument Co.), Room 537A.
Paul G. Mehlin & Sons, West New York, Hudson
County, New Jersey, Rooms 1800, 1801.
Pan American Band Instrument & Case Co.,
Elkhart, Ind., Room 439A.
Packard Piano Co., Fort W T ayne, Ind., Room 1605,
1606.
Many Mid-West Pianos.
Schumann Piano Co., Rockford, 111., Rooms 412,
413.
Straube Piano Co., Hammond, Ind., Rooms 502,
504. 505, 507, 509.
S. Simon, 8106 Chappell Ave., Chicago. Room 512.
J. Schwartz Music Co., 10 W. 19th St., New York-
city, Room 519.
M. Schulz Co., 711 Milwaukee Ave., Chicago,
Rooms 520, 521, 522, 523.
J. P. Seeburg Piano Co., 1508 Dayton St., Chicago,
Rooms 521A. 523A, 524A.
H. H. Slingerland Banjo Co., 1815 Orchard St.,
Chicago, Room 542A.
B. K. Settergren Co., Bluffton, Ind., Rooms 450,
451, 453.
Charles Frederick Stein, 1535 Fulton St., Chicago,
Rooms 545, 546.
Schiller Piano Co., Oregon, 111 , Rooms 545A, 546A,
548A, 550A.
House of Stathopoulo, 35 Wilbur Ave., Long Island
City, N. Y., Rooms 705, 706.
H. & A. Selmer, Inc., Selmer Bldg., Elkhart, Ind.,
Room 534A.
East and West.
Simpson & Fry, 19-25 E. 24th St., New York city,
Rooms 1805, 1806.
Targ & Dinner Music Co., 229 W. Randolph St.,
Chicago, Room 420A.
Tonk Bros , 623 S. Wabash Ave., Chicago, Room
560A.
United Piano Co., including A. B. Chase Piano Co.,
Room 561 A; Emerson Piano Co., Room 563A; Lin-
$2 The Year
deman & Sons Piano Co., Norwalk, O., Room 564A.
Waltham Piano Co., Milwaukee, Wis., Rooms 1400,
1401. 1401A.
Winter & Co.. 849 E. 141st St., New York city,
Rooms 2005A, 2006A.
Weyman & Son, H. A., 1108 Chestnut St., Phila-
delphia, Pa , Room 457.
Western Electric Piano Co., 429 Superior St., Chi-
cago, Room 516.
Wurlitzer Grand Piano Co., De Kalb, 111., Rooms
600, 601, 601 A.
White & Co.. H. N., 5225 Superior Ave., Cleve-
land. O.. Rooms 804, 805, 806.
York Band Instrument Co., Grand Rapids, Mich.,
Room 530A.
Nelson-Wiggen Piano Co., 1731 Belmont Ave., Chi-
cago, Rooms 544A, 613A.
Henry Stadlmeir Co., Inc, 115 E. 23rd St., New
York city, Room 619.
List of Options.
The Amphion Corp. of America, 280 Madison Ave.,
New York city, Rooms 805A, 806A.
Ampico Corp., 29 W. 57th St., New York city,
additional Rooms 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006.
Hobart M. Cable Co., La Porte, Ind., Rooms 9O5A,
906A, expires April 22, 1927.
Ivers & Pond Piano Co., 258 Boylston St., Boston,
Mass., Rooms 1700, 1701, 1702, expires April 16. 1927.
Arthur B. Miller, 1615 Third Ave, Seattle, Wash.
(Ludwig & Ludwig), Room 537.
Paragon Case Co., Inc., Oregon, 111., Room 612A.
Vincennes Phonograph Co., Vincennes, Ind.,
Rooms 905, 906, expires April 22, 1927.
Wurlitzer Grand Piano Co., De Kalb, 111., Addi-
tional Rooms 602, 603, 602A, 603A.
Outside Displays
To the long list of exhibitors must be added the
Story & Clark Piano Co., which will have a tine dis-
play especially arranged in the warerooms of that
house at 173 North Michigan avenue; the P. A.
Starck Piano Co., which will likewise prepare for
visitors at their new building at Wabash avenue; and
others whose warerooms are so near to the Stevens
as to present no inconvenience to members of the
trade who may want to see "everything" while they
are in Chicago. It is believed, furthermore, that some
of the industries whose names are in the list of those
who secured options for space in the Hotel Stevens
had concluded arrangements for space before the
options had expired.
It must be understood, further, that the foregoing
list includes the industries for which reservations
had been made up to last Saturday, April 23.
Only Members Admitted.
And it may also be noted that several manufac-
turers who desired to enter the list could not do so
because of arrangements with the Stevens Hotel to
admit none other than members of the Music Indus-
tries Chamber of Commerce. This ruling made it
necessary for non-members to seek accommodations
in other hotels. It is understood that some of the
disappointed therefore will secure rooms in nearby
hotels, as the Congress and Auditorium, which are
only two blocks north of the Stevens. Lists of any
such will appear in a later issue of Presto-Times. But
the purpose this week is to show how great is the
interest of the manufacturers in the opportunities pre-
sented by the exhibit.
It is equally certain that the attendance of manufac-
turers, their representatives and the music merchants
will be proportionately large. In fact, Presto-Times
has already received many letters from members
of the trade asking 1 for advice as to securing accom-
modations and expressing the determintion to stroll
along Boul. Mich, in the bright early June days.
Programs Coming.
Work on the complete programs of the conven-
tion is under way, and as soon as ready they will
appear in Presto-Times. Meantime this paper will
be pleased to answer questions of any kind pertain-
ing to the coming event. The Stevens Hotel is more
conveniently located with respect to the city's center
than the Drake, and it is within a short walk of the
offices of Presto-Times and the famous Piano Row
which, while somewhat broken by the exodus of
prominent piano houses northward, is still a point of
interest to all piano men.
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April 30, 1927.
PRESTO-TIMES
LATEST PLANS FOR
JUNE CONVENTION
Golf Tournament at Olympia Fields, Big
Luncheon on Opening Day and Provisions
for Great Audience at Children's
Piano Contest Provided for.
PIANO CLUB ACTIVITIES
Plans of Chicago Committee of Arrangements Give
Promise of Week of Surprising Interest at Mer-
chants and Industries Convention.
The activities of the Piano Club of Chicago Com-
mittee of Arrangements for the June convention are
accumulating week by week. This committee, ap-
pointed by President Gordon Laughead of the club, is
composed of the following members, with the presi-
dent of the club as chairman: Harry Bibb, Roger
O'Connor and G. R. Brownell, with advisory com-
mittees ad. lib. from time to time.
The Piano Club, therefore, which, through this
committee, sponsors the local arrangements for con-
vention week, now meets every Monday just after
the noonday luncheons at its Illinois Athletic rooms.
At these sessions plans for every phase of conven-
tion activity and entertainment is brought out. dis-
cussed, and so far as possible, decided upon.
to one of the test exhibitions, made the remark to one
of the "committee of three," who, himself, was con-
nected with the piano department of Lyon & Healy,
that if his boy was so fortunate as to be voted a gold
medal winner he would at once purchase for him a
certain small Steinway grand piano which the sales-
man had been showing him.
The boy, a really talented youngster, won the
coveted gold medal, and Monday morning, true to his
word, the father ordered the instrument delivered.
A Contest Exhibition.
The club was again given an opportunity to hear
one of the gold medal winners go through the pre-
scribed piano pieces required of contestants, and also
the piece selected by the contestants to play for the
jurors. This little girl was Jeanette Shearer, who
was passed by the jurors at one of the tests in the
second grade exhibition last week. The girl was
complimented by her listeners and given the usual
wishes for her final success at later elimination tests
and finals.
Flowers for Mrs. Bent.
Learning that the fifty-first anniversary of the mar-
riage of Mr. and Mrs. George P. Bent was on that
( Monday) day. it was proposed to send flowers but
later a member suggested that the flowers be sent
to Mrs. Bent, at the Bent home in Los Angeles, and
accordingly a wire for flowers was at once dis-
patched.
Events in Stevens Ball Room.
At a meeting of the Supervising Committee of the
Playing Tournament recently held at the offices of
Chas. E. Byrne, of Steger & Sous, the suggestion of
having the Grand Final of the tournament staged at
the Stevens Hotel was approved. This event will,
The Golf Tournament.
therefore, be held in the Grand Ballroom of the Stev-
At the meeting last Monday it was practically
ens Wednesday evening, June 8, instead of at the
decided to have a golf tournament at Olympia Fields,
Coliseum, as originally planned.
with a luncheon. James T.- Bristol was made chair-
The Music Industries Chamber of Commerce has
man of the golf committee and to him and his com- sanctioned the use of the Stevens Hotel ballroom, and
mittee is left the matter of prizes' and other details
the hotel management has also O.K.'d the proposi-
of the game, which will take place on Friday, June 9.
tion, thus settling this rather important problem. The
The opening of convention week will be the occa-
Grand Ballroom of the Stevens has a normal seating
sion of a luncheon Monday noon, at the Stevens
capacity of 3,600, but the Stevens management has
Hotel, at two dollars a plate. Tables may be reserved
agreed to supply some two thousand more seats,
for this luncheon and, as it will be an important event
so at least five thousand persons will be able to wit-
in the way of speeches and entertainment, there will ness the Grand Finals of the Children's Piano Play-
be a rally to secure reserved tables and good loca- ing Contest, on the night of Wednesday, June 8.
tions.
For the convenience of delegates to the big con-
Big Attendance Assured
vention, and their friends and relatives a special block
Gordon Laughead, chairman of the committee- of
of 400 seats will be reserved. There will be no ad-
arrangements, spoke of the great interest manifested
mission charge to anybody, but all those who are
in the convention from all over the country. Cali- admitted will have received in advance their quota
fornia promises a good-sized delegation: New York-
of special invitation tickets.
is going to respond well, and a letter from Parnhaui
The thirty children (ten in each classification) who
Werlein, New Orleans, is filled with enthusiasm
win the semi-finals the third or fourth week in May
over the prospects of a good attendance from that
will participate in the grand finals.
section, which, he trusts, conditions will permit.
Medals Instead of Rings.
It is urged that persons intending to be at the con-
Another ruling made this week was that the semi-
vention make reservations early, if they desire to
stop at the Stevens, especially if they want one of final winners, instead of getting diamond rings, would
be presented with diamond medals. And with the
the $3.50 per day rooms, as there is only a limited
medal goes the privilege of competing in the grand
number of accommodations at that rate.
finals.
Piano Playing Tournament.
It is urged that every one who can get to the
But the Piano Club's immediate interest, and which
Piano Club next Monday be there, as Joe E. Brown
President Laughead says should be first in the heart
of "Twinkle, Twinkle," the Erlanger musical farce,
of every club member, centers in the goings-on in
will be the guest of honor and a rare treat is prom-
connection with the Children's Piano Playing Tour-
ised.
nament in Chicago. The committees for each week
are now made up; in fact there were more offerings
last Monday than were required to take care of this
week's recitals.
The committees find it a pleasant occasion to take
part in an affair so close to the piano business. Nu-
merous "prospects" are being secured at these gath-
erings and acquaintances made there.
One tangible result was related last Monday where
the father of a ten-year-old son whom lie had brought
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