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July 23, 1927.
PRESTO-TIMES
HARRY T. SIPE TRAVELER
GOES TO PACIFIC COAST
salesman from the Muskogee store. In the future
their business in Hughes and surrounding counties
will be handled by the store in Shawnee.
General Representative for Adam Schaaf, Inc., Leaves
This Week.
J. P. SIMMONS TAKES CHARGE
OF LEXINGTON, KY., STORE
Harry T. Sipe, gen-
eral traveling represen-
tative for Adam Schaaf,
Inc., Chicago, who was
at the Chicago general
offices a good part of
last week, left the city
Saturday night for the
Pacific Coast. He will
make several stops be-
fore reaching San Fran-
cisco, visiting as many
Adam Schaaf Co.'s rep-
resentatives as possible.
From San FYaneisco
Mr. Sipe will go to
southern California and
expects to visit all the
important points before
returning eastward.
Mr. Sipe is a piano
man of wide experience
in the music trades and
HARRY T. SIPE.
industries; a hard worker and with a charac-
ter for reliability equal to the piano he repre-
sents, that stands very high in the estimation of the
trade and people generally in the West. It is an
instrument that commands the best following among
dealers. The Adam Schaaf agency is one sought
after by merchants who are building business on
merit and quality.
NEW OKLAHOMA BRANCH.
R. E. Kroh, general manager of the Kroh Music
Co. of Muskogee, Okla., was in Shawnee, Okla.,
last week, opening a music store in the Miller build-
ing, Lon J. Parker of Muskogee, is manager. Herb
Smith of Muskogee is the service man. The Kroh
Music Co. has been doing business in Muskogee for
several years and has been doing business in Hughes
county for the past seven years through a traveling
R. K. MAYNARD HAS VERY
BUSY CONVENTION WEEK
Receives Host of Old Friends Who Visit At-
tractive Exhibit of M. Schulz Co. at
St. Francis Hotel.
Expert Piano Man Happy to Be Back in the Old
Home Town.
J. P. Simmons, the well known piano man, who
for the past year or two has been associated with
the Baldwin Piano Company of Cincinnati, at one
of its branch houses, has settled in Lexington, Ky.,
his real "home town," where he has become the man-
ager of the piano department of the Music Shop, lo-
cated at 216 East Main street. The Music Shop
handles the Baldwin line of pianos, so that Mr. Sim-
mons is practically continuing his Baldwin affilia-
tions. Under the caption, "To Head Piano Depart-
ment at Music Shop," the Lexington Herald has this
to say of Mr. Simmon's return to that city:
James Pettit Simmons, former citizen of Lexing-
ton and a student of the old "A and M" college
when it was located here, has returned to Lexington
to make his home. His parents were the late Dr.
N. R. Simmons and Mrs. Jennie Pettit Simmons.
Dr. Simmons was for many years in charge of the
Lexington health department, and his wife, Mrs.
Jennie Pettit Simmons, has lived in Lexington for
many years.
Mr. Simmons came to Lexington to take charge
of the piano department of the Music Shop, of 218
East Main street. He has had many years' experi-
ence in the piano business, being for 25 years the
president of the Junius Hart Piano House, Inc., of
New Orleans, La. After selling his interests in that
concern five years ago Mr. Simmons served as
southern representative of the United States Music
Company, making his residence in Lexington.
If the extent of his enjoyment was measured by the
number of his friends, R. K. Maynard had a
supremely pleasurable time last week during the con-
vention of the Western Music Trade Association at
the St. Francis Hotel, San Francisco. Few men in
the piano industry are so well known to the piano
dealers of the West generally and the Pacific Coast
particularly, as Mr. Maynard, whose abilities as a
piano man are as well understood as his success in
making fast friends out of acquaintances.
Of course he was in his element among the fine
array of pianos of the M. Schulz Co.. Chicago, at the
St. Francis Hotel. He loves to talk about them at
any time but where he can demonstrate the tone
while at the same time pointing out the merits of
their structure and the rare beauties of their lines,
the occasion is perfect for him. He had such a com-
bination of opportunities during convention week in
San Francisco where he made duty a continuous
pleasure.
"The artistic character of the display of M. Schulz
pianos is a most impressive feature," said Mr. May-
nard. "The truth in the recreation of designs in the
Period models was a topic among a group of promi-
nent artists who made a prolonged visit to the M.
Schulz exhibit. They commented particularly on the
clever adaptation of the splendid old designs to piano
case work."
SCHOOL DURING CONVENTION.
NEW STORES.
Attention is again called to the fact that the Ampico
The Olympic Music Shop, Chicago, will open an- school will hold a session immediately following the
tuners' convention in New York in August. The
other store at 4437 Lincoln avenue, carrying all types
of musical instruments. Expert piano tuning is guar- school will open at the Ampico Service Building, 423
West 54th street, on August 12. Full information
anteed.
covering enrollment may be had now by addressing
The Starr Piano Co. has opened a branch at Park
the Ampico Service Department, or during the con-
and Rhodes avenues, New Boston, Ohio.
An addition to the F. A. North Co.'s store at 821 vention at the Ampico headquarters in the Hotel
Commodore.
Broadway, Camden, N. J., was recently opened.
There is but one true test of all great pianos—
TONE
In that essential at all times and in all places the
JAMES & HOLMSTROM PIANO
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