PRESTO-TIMES
MASON & HAMLIN FOR COLLEGE
June 25, 1927.
TO NAME SPECIAL
PIANO COMMITTEE
Music Supervisors' National Conference Now
Authorized to Appoint a Special Group
Composed of Three Persons to Pro-
mote Piano Class in Schools.
VICTORY FOR C. M. TREMAINE
Director of National Bureau for Advancement of
Music Achieves Purpose for Which He Has
Actively Worked for Years.
C. M. Tremaine, director of the National Bureau
for the Advancement of Music, recently received a
telegram, of the greatest importance to the piano
manufacturer and merchant, announcing that a spe-
cial committee on piano study had been authorized
and would be appointed by the Music Supervisors'
National Conference. The sender of the wire was
Joseph E. Maddy, chairman of the Committee on In-
strumental Affairs of the Conference, and under whose
general leadership the new committee will function.
The Bureau has been working for the establishment
of a piano committee by the music supervisors for
several months, Mr. Tremaine taking the first definite
steps toward that end on his visit to the meeting of
the Department of Superintendence of the Naitional
Education Association at Dallas, Texas, in March.
The Committee on Instrumental Affairs was present
and held a meeting at that time.
Composed of Three.
The special committee on the piano will consist of
WEI.LS COLLEGE, AURORA, WHICH HAS JL'ST ADDED THE MASON & HAMLIN AMP1CO GRAND TO three persons, and their assignment will be to study
ITS MUSIC DEPARTMENT.
INSETS: WINIFRED MAC BRIDE (LEFT). SCOTCH PIANIST, WHOSE HUS-
the question of the piano as a part of school music
BAND MR CHRISTOPHER J. THOMAS (RIGHT), IS DIRECTOR OF MUSIC AT WELLS COLLEGE.
training and to promote piano classes in the schools
Prof. Christopher J. Thomas, director of music at technical comments as are desirable later on. This of the country. Its members will be specialists in
Wells College, selected a Mason & Hamlin Ampico the Ampico achieves through its uncanny interpre- their field, just as the members of the Committee on
grand from the Clark Music Company at Syracuse, tative fidelity to the many excellent pianists who Instrumental Affairs are specialists in band and or-
chestra. When the latter committee was appointed there
N. Y., for the music department of the famous educa- record for it.
"I feel that the many educational uses to which
tional institution of which he is director. Mr. Thomas this instrument can he put makes it indispensable to was no thought of including the piano among the
instruments the study of which it was to develop,
recently expressed keen satisfaction with the Ampico, the music department of any institution."
nor indeed that piano playing was a subject to be
the latest piece of equipment added to his music
Mr. Thomas' wife is Winifred MacBride, the Scotch taught in the schools.
department.
pianist. She has just made for the Ampico a superb
Recognition of Piano Study.
"In the teaching of the appreciation of music," said recording of the '"John Ireland Sonata" for piano.
The very fact therefore that the scope of this com-
Mr. Thomas, "I believe it to be a cardinal principle
Miss MacBride's performance of the sonata at a
that a work to be studied shall first of all be presented London recital was heard by the composer, and she is mittee has been enlarged to include piano playing,
in as perfect a manner as humanly possible, so that
in receipt of an eloquent letter from him in praise of and that a sub-committee of experts is to be appoint-
the initial experience of the student shall be unbiased
her beautiful interpretation. Miss MacBride's record- ed to promote piano study in the schools, is a great
achievement. li marks the formal recognition of
and unencumbered with such facts, opinions and ing will be released in the earlv autumn.
piano s*udy as a legitimate school subject, in itself a
long step forward. However, only the surface has
of the piano, and it is doubtful if anything ever will. been scratched as yet, and the real significance of the
A Denver newspaper printed this a few days ago: appointment of the committee is the opportunity it
"Columbus, O —To finance a concert career, Faye offers to get piano classes introduced in the entire
Ferguson, a pianist of Ironton. has incorporate:! her- school system.
Froves Effectiveness
self under the laws of Ohio. She lacked funds to
In the lew years of its existence the Committee on
Noted Teachers and Artists Have Supervision hnish her musical training, so she became Faye Fer-
guson, Inc , and sold stock to her friends.
Instrumental Affairs has been able to do much for
of Courses for Which Young and Old
"A board of directors will govern and declare divi- the development of lands and orchestras in the
Are Signing Up.
dends on her. She has appeared already in Xew York schools. Not only has its work led to the establish-
and Philadelphia as a soloist with the Cincinnati sym- ment of many new instrumental ensembles and im-
By J. B. DILLOX.
phony orchestra and although only .10. has given 300 provement of others already in existence, but it has
The Rocky Mountain News of Denver, Colorado, concerts.""
liberalized the attitude of many school superintend-
offers an absolutely free course of lessons on the pi-
A Possibility
ents previously apathetic or opposed. If the special
ano and has organized a club called the "Melody
While congratulat'ng the youn^ lady upon her re- committee on the piano can do as much for this in-
Way Club." One need not subscribe, solicit subscrip-
strument—and there is every reason to believe this
tions nor anything else in the line of canvassing to sourcefulness and artistic ability, it may occur to a will be the case—there will be a large increase in
possible
investor
in
the
s'ock
of
Faye
Ferguson,
Inc.,
quality for the club, but merely clip a coupon from the
school piano classes in all parts of the country and a
News, sign your name, address, state whether you that some young man might purchase the controlling favorable attitude toward them everywhere.
stock
and
then
propose
matrimony.
Could
he
fore-
ever took piano lessons, give your age, and if a school
close and claim the "company"?
Mr. Tremaine, who is secretry of the Committee en
child state the grade you are in.
Several investment bankers of Denver are offering Instrumental Affairs, will also undoubtedly be secre-
There are classes for children and the grown-ups,
and you need not buy a piano to get the lessons. The part of a seven million dollar issue of common stock tarv of the new committee.
of the American Piano Company.
course is supervised by John C. Kendel, head of
John C. Wilcox, music editor of the Denver Morn-
music education in Denver's public schools, the ing Post, was elected to membership in the American
EXPENSES OF A FRENCH OFFICE.
classes to meet in the Denver College of Music, the Academy of Teachers and Singers.
A foreign company which maintains a permanent
Denver Conservatory of Music, the Lamont School
purchasing ofhee in France is regarded as doing bus-
of Music, and the Blanche Dingley-Matthews School
WHILE LINDY FLEW OVERHEAD.
iness there and is required to register not only in the
of Piano Work. Coupled with its announcement, the
E. A. Kieselhorst, of the Kieselhorst Piano Com- Commercial Register, kept in the clerk's office of the
Xews mentions the name of a Denver traffic officer
pany, 1007 Olive street, St. Louis, in finishing a letter Tribunal de Commerce, but also with the Bureau de
who learned to play in ten weeks.
to a friend in the Chicago trade recently, added I'Enregistremeii't, for the purpose of paying a divi-
The Reasons
dend tax of 18 per cent. The company must name a
Why such a generous offer? What is back of it? this postscript: "3:15 p. m., 'Lindy' just flew over responsible agent, usually a bank, which is acceptable
our
store
and
the
'loop'
of
our
city,
and
the
town
is
The News and the Post, competitive newspapers,
wild. We will see him at the ball game tomorrow to the Enregistrement and which undertakes to pay
have been giving the Denverites "all kinds of good
and at the theater in the evening, after which a taxes due in case the foreign company defaults.
things" and each is trying to outdo the other, hence
banquet
at the Hotel Chase." The next day, Sunday.
it is that when the Scripps-Howard newspaper hit
Mr. and Mrs. Kieselhorst left for the East to visit
upon the free course in piano teaching, it selected
NEW INCORPORATIONS.
their sons at Yale University, New Haven, and to
what newspaper men call a "scoop" and lends great
get
ready
for
their
trip
to
Europe,
for
which
they
The Peerless Musical Instrument Co., Inc., of Pas-
weight to the high plane upon which they look upon
saic, N. J., $75,000; to manufacture musical instru-
the value of any person being able to play the piano. sailed today (June 25).
ments.
The moral for all piano men to get from this item is:
The Wood Brothers Music Co.. El Dorado, Ark.,
A promising array of musical talent has been as-
It is an achievement that stands out as praiseworthy,
sembled in the reorganization of the Amboy, Ind., $10,000, Horace A. Wood, E. Newlin and J. A. Carr.
to be able to play the piano and lends zest to the fact
The Jordan-Holmes Piano Co.. Greenwood, Miss.,
that regardless of what great changes have come over band., which has engaged Prof. Elliott of Marion as
$10,000; D. B. Holmes and E. E. Wilkins.
us in the few years past, nothing has taken the place instructor.
DENVER NEWSPAPER
HAS MELODY WAY CLUB
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