June 4, 1927.
MANUFACTURERS' PLANS
INTEREST DEALERS
Annual Meeting of National Piano Manufac-
turers' Association More Interesting This
Year to Dealers Than Ever Before.
The National Association of Piano Manufacturers
will hold its annual convention for 1927 at the Stevens
Hotel, Chicago, June 6 and 7, at the final meeting of
W. E. GUYLEE,
First Vice-President N. A. of P. M.
which the election of officers for the new term will
take place..
The following are the officers elected at the con-
vention of 1926:
President, Max de Rochmont.
First vice-president, W. E. Guylee.
Second vice-president, C. D. Bond.
Secretary, Herbert Simpson.
Treasurer, Charles Jacob.
Their Own Problems.
The piano manufacturers have eternal problems to
discuss for their national association, involving some
effects of hoary evils scotched but not killed in early
days. Some of the problems of the men who make
the pianos interest the dealers only in an indirect
way. This year, however, the national piano pro-
motion plan, originated by the manufacturers, is of
the keenest interest to the men who retail the instru-
ments, and its discussion in the business sessions of
the manufacturers' association will mark the close
bond between the two phases of the piano business.
At the convention of the piano manufacturers last
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PRESTO-TIMES
year the annual report of President de Rochmont was
devoted to suggestions for a practical way to increase
piano sales by dealers. They subsequently resulted
in the manufacturers' plan for national piano promo-
tion which has had such enthusiastic adoption and
co-operation in the trade.
NEWS OF THE TRADE
IN WISCONSIN STATE
THE MUSICAL SUPPLY
ASSOCIATION TO MEET
Active and Prominent National Organization
Will Hold Its Annual Convention at the
Hotel Stevens, June 6.
Items from Various Points Also Tell of Activi-
ties Which Relate to Advancement of
Music Generally.
The importance of the interests of the Musical
Supply Association makes it one of the foremost
associations making up the division membership of
the Chamber. While it is numerically small in mem-
bership, the prominence of the industries gives it a
foremost position in the group of units composing the
joint body. The association shows its keen interest
Alterations and remodeling work on the Music
Arts Building, Mason street and Broadway, Milwau-
kee, Wis., is well underway and the building, which
will house the stores of the Music Arts Corporation,
should be ready for occupancy within another month.
The Chris'tianson Brothers Company, Racine, Wis.,
recently sold out its entire stock of pianos. The store
has been sold, which forced them out of business.
Under a bill introduced in the assembly, the All-
Wisconsin American Legion band would be presented
next September. The provision is at the foot of a
bill for an official state band. The Wisconsin state
band would be selected annually through a contest
staged by the music department of the state univer-
sity. Until such contest is held under the bill, the
All-Wisconsin Legion band would be the official
musical unit of the state and as such would be sent to
the Legion France meeting.
The Wisconsin Piano Company, Milwaukee, Wis.,
has been formed here with a capital of $20,000 for
general merchandise and manufacturing business.
Members of the company are Charles Brussat, George
E. Samson and Cornelius D. Moynihan.
WILL AFFILIATE WITH
NATIONAL MERCHANTS BODY
New North Carolina State Association to Carry Out
Desirable Purpose Convention Week.
The new North Carolina State Association, organ-
ized in Greensboro recently will be affiliated with the
National Association of Music Merchants and it is
the purpose to go through the formalities during the
annual convention of the latter organization during
the week of June 6.
The officers of the new North Carolina State Asso-
ciation are: C. S. Andrews, Charlotte, president; C.
H. Stephenson, Raleigh, first vice-president; W. R.
Murray, Durham, second vice-president; W. S. Gard-
ner, Gastonia, secretary; H. A. Durham, Asheville,
treasurer. The directors are Jesse C. Boweu, Winston-
Salem; C. W. Parker, Charlotte; J. R. Maynard,
Salisbury, and J. S. McFadyen, Fayetteville.
The new association is a revival of an old organiza-
tion of state dealers formed several years ago, but
which was allowed to discontinue operations. The
president was Charles W. Parker of Charlotte, who
was one of the active ones in the organization of the
new body.
FISCHER AMPICO IS FEATURED.
Music Week was celebrated by the R. C. Bollinger
Music Co. of Fort Smith, Ark., by a recital given in
its Music Salons on Thursday evening, May 5. At
this successful observation of Music Week the Bollin-
ger Music Company presented Dora Hoffman,
soprano, and Clarence Burg, pianist. With the
Fischer Ampico Mr. Burg reenacted the playing of
the great pianists whose recordings were included.in
the program, and Mrs. Hoffman delighted the audi-
ence with her vocal numbers, one group of which was
sung to the Fischer Ampico accompaniment.
PIANO FOR NOTED AUTHOR.
The Fitzgerald Music Company, Los Angeles, re-
cently placed a Fischer Latin Ampico in the beautiful
Los Angeles house of Dr. Frank Crane, the noted
author. Dr. Crane has long been an Ampico admirer
and his gifted pen has more than once been used to
extol the instrument. It was he who said, in an
edifying article entitled "The Human Touch," "the
Ampico differs from the ordinary playerpiano as a
living, breathing man differs from a wax figure or a
carved statue."
ARTHUR L. WKSSELL,
Director, Musical Supply Association.
in affairs which concern its membership all through
the year, and the annual meeting is considered an
occasion for originating important plans carried out
during the succeeding months.
The Officers.
The following officers of the Musical Supply Asso-
ciation were chosen at the annual meeting of 1926
held at the Commodore Hotel, New York:
President—E. C. Johnson.
Vice-President—William C. Hess.
Secretary—A. L. Smith.
Treasurer—David A. Smith.
Directors—For three years, Arthur L. Wessell,
George L. Cheney, William C. Heaton, C. A. Mor-
gan. William C. Hess. For one year (to till vacan-
cies), Charles L. Me Hugh and A. L. Kelly.
INDIANA MUSIC EXPORTS.
Musical instruments in the $63,820,505 worth of
Indiana exports during the calendar year of 1926,
amounted to $1,058,065, according to the report of the
Bureau of Commerce, Washington. Dr. Julius Klein,
director, under whose supervision the figures were
compiled, said they are based primarily on through-
bills-of-lading and, therefore, in the case of some
states they reflect but a part of their total foreign
trade.
PROMINENT CHICKERING OWNER.
Mr. Joel O. Cheek of Nashville, Tenn., and a mem-
ber of the Cheek-Neal Company, manufacturers of
Maxwell House Coffee, has just purchased a Chick-
ering Ampico. This sale was made by the Claude
F. Street Piano Company, Chickering representative
at Nashville.
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BEN PLATT IN CHICAGO.
Ben Platt, of the Platt Music Co., Los Angeles, is
expected to reach Chicago today, Saturday, from the
east, where he has been looking after purchases of
pianos and other lines of musical goods. After plac-
ing his Chicago orders Mr. Platt will continue on to
Los Angeles.
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