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CHICAGO, SATURDAY, AUGUST 6, 1927
PLANS COMPLETED
FOR TUNERS' MEET
An Alluring Series of Lectures by Experts,
Special School Sessions and Comprehensive
Exhibits of Pianos, Players, Actions and
Farts Assures an Interesting Time.
EXPECT BIG ATTENDANCE
Unusual Interest in Event at Hotel Commodore,
New York, from August 8 to 11 Points to
a Record Crowd.
All plans are completed for a successful annual
convention of the National Association of Piano
Tuners, Inc., to be held next week fruin Tuesday to
Thursday at the Hotel Commodore. Xew York City.
The assurances of success are in the more than usual
interest in the meeting by tuners everywhere and by
the alluring promises of an instructive and thor-
oughly.enjoyable time impressed in the propaganda
of the organization.
The tuner who loves his work looks for Itechnical
thrills at. the business, sessions and this year he is
going to get a-head full.. Some of the most distin-
guished men in the manufacturing and service divi-
sions of the piano industry will make addresses dur-
morning and evening sessions and Xels C. Boe will
be there to unknot the tuners' technical problems and
solve mechanical difficulties.
The Contest.
A phtyerpiano playing contest wi 1 take place dur-
ing the convention under the auspices of the Stand-
ard Pneumatic Action Company, New York. This
contest will test the skill of association tuners as
player pianists and handsome trophies will be
awarded to the three making the best showing.
There will be contestants from all sections of the
country, and the event will be of outstanding sig-
nificance.
Duo-Art Lec.ures.
A series of interesting and instiuctive lectures by
piano experts is scheduled by the Aeolian Company,
Xew York, to be given in Room 740 of the Hotel
MAYOR OF DETROIT
FAVORS CARNIVAL
Mayor John W. Smith Urges All Lovers of
Music to Attend Demonstration in Con-
nection with Annual Convention at
Michigan Music Merchants' Ass'n.
STRONG SUPPORT
Governor of State, Police Commissioner and Many
Prominent Men to Take Active Part in
Events of Great Week.
By FRANK J. HAY LEY.
The following ietter from Mayor John W. Smith
of Detroit is an official encouragement of the music
carnival organized as a prominent feature of the
annual convention of the Michigan Mus : c Merchants'
Association, to be held from August 15 to 13:
"To All Lovers of Music:
"The second week cf August 15. during which will
be held Detroit's Second Annual Music Carnival, is
dedicated to the universal language of music. The
carnival is to be the finest civic presentation the city
has seen, and 1 urge all lovers of music to attend this
demonstration on August 16 and 17 as the guests of
Detroit.
"During this time the convention of the Michigan
Music Merchants' Association will be held and I
want especially to commend this carnival to their
attention, and promise that as the city's guests they
will find it of extraordinary interest and pleasure.
Sincerely,
"JOHN W. SMITH. Mayor."
\V. F. McCI.KLT.AN.
Secretary.
CHARLKS UEUTSCHMANN,
President.
ing the business sessions and discussions are in order
at their conclusion. That questions by tuners are
officially invited a most absorbing time is expected.
The officials of the tuners' organization believe that
nothing broadens the vision and modernizes the
thinking like spontaneous discussion of a topic.
The instructive features of the tuners' convention
at the Hotel Commodore, New York, next week, will
mark the feeling of cooperation which actuate sev-
eral representative industries. More than twenty
companies will have exhibits of pianos, players, re-
producing pianos, actions or parts and each display
will be a wonderful source of enlightenment for the
members.
In addition there will be the several schools for in-
struction in the player and reproducing mechanisms.
For those who wish to take a complete course ar-
rangements can be made for continuing the classes
after the convention is over. A class in voicing will
be conducted by Herbert F. Antunes, a recognized
and respected authority on this subject. Classes in
grand action regulating, under the supervision of
E. S. Werolin, an eminent authoritv, will have earlv
$2 The Year
Commodore at a convenient period each day. A
corps of experts will be on hand to answer all ques-
tions relating to the Duo-Art reproducing piano and
a practical souvenir will be given to each visitor.
The Weaver Proposition.
C. I). IJond, superintendent of the Weaver Piano
Co., Inc., York, Pa., will be at the convention of the
National Association of Piano Tuners, Inc., at the
Hotel Commodore, New York, from August "After you've said 'hello' and talked about the
trend of the piano business, the situation in China,
the baseball scores, etc.—ask 'C. D." for some details
of the Weaver Proposition to Tuners," says the an-
nouncement. "Every tuner who attends this great
convention owes it to himself to find out what it has
meant in dollars and cents to other tuners and what
it could mean in the same language to you. It isn't
just a dried out, last minute plan of 'you do some-
thing for us and we'll do something for you.' It
couldn't be dried out. for it's unique with this com-
pany. And a great deal of time and thought have
been spent on it—to make it 100 per cent attractive
and profitable to every ambitious tuner.
"So, when you breeze in at the Commodore on the
8. 9. 10 and 11 of August, go up to 'C. D.' and ask
him for details."
An Action Exhibition.
The Pratt Read Player Action Co., Deep River,
Conn., will have a display of its keys and actions for
grand and upright pianos in room 744 at the Hotel
Commodore during the three days of the tuners'
convention.
Ampico School Session
All tuners are invited to the Ampico exhibit at the
X. A. P. T. convention August 8 to 11, of the Hotel
Commodore, Xew York, in rooms 639-641-643 and
645.
(Continued on page 5)
What Public Expects.
It is customary for each succeeding music con-
vention to be heralded as the greatest ever, but
Detroit feels that the coming Michigan convention
will be a landmark, especially in the eyes of the
public, and that the program is exceedingly strong.
The program contains many strong civic, business
and indnustry names. The two annual piano playing
contests that have been conducted in the school sys-
tems of Greater Detroit have been >uch noteworthy
successes that public men and the whole press has
become interested in the movement and do not hesi-
tate to endorse the movement, thus the mayor, the
governor and the police commissioner will do so
from the convention platform, with the knowledge
that they will be quoted in the press. Fred Wardell,
one of the foremost of Detroit's many big business
men, will likewise take the opportunity to congratu-
late the music men for instituting a movement of
such timely cultural and sociological benefit to the
rising generation.
A Series of Events.
Detroit will read piano propaganda, initiated in the
meetings of the convention in the daytime and have
three big nights of demonstration and celebration.
The first night will be the grand finals of the piano
playing contest held in the most conspicuous and
civic auditorium in the city, the Belle Isle Symphony
Shell, broadcasted by radio and taken by the movies.
Following this civic event will take place the gigan-
tic Detroit Music Carnival on the four blocks of
Washington boulevard, the Fifth avenue of Detroit,
in the very heart of the city, to accord befitting
honor to the 430 school chiMren who have been
judged the champions of their respective schools. A
civic demonstration, financed by the city government.
U. S. Takes Part.
The U. S. Government thinks so well of it that
Washington has made an exception to a recent ruling
and is sending a squadron of 24 bombers over the
town to open the carnival. The total actual cost
will run nearly $20,000, but the music men are not
putting up a penny. The demonstration over the
children piano champions will be greater and more
expensive that over Lindbergh, as acknowledged by
the committee in charge of the latter. Detroit be-
lieves that it is putting over piano playing as Lind-
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bergh is putting over aviation. A crowd of 200,000
people is the conservative estimate for each night
with a radio audience of a million and a movie audi-
ence subsequently of many more.
Instead of a convention banquet it has been
planned to hold a "Mayor's Rail" and reception to
the little hero piano champions, an event sponsored
by the leading names of Detroit's social register.
Detroit has never accorded even its war heroes honor
equal to this. The piano industry is most cordially
invited to attend the Michigan convention and study
piano promotion first hand. Mornings for exhibits,
afternoons for theory and evenings for actual dem-
onstration, no time for play, just stay over for a day
or so in the most progressive and beautiful city in
America.
PROGRAM.
Monday Morning, August 15—Registration, Clay-
ton H. Hoffman of Grand Rapids, secretary.
12:30 P. M.—Luncheon; toastmaster, Frank J.
Bayley. Address of Welcome by Hon. John W.
Smith, Mayor of Detroit. Response by C. J. Rob-
erts of Halt'more, president National Music Mer-
chants' Association; W. E. Guylee of Chicago, pres-
ident of National Manufacturers' Association; Her-
mann Iron of New York, president of Music Indus-
try Chamber of Commerce; Charles L. Deutsclrnan,
president oi National Association of Piano Tuners,
Inc.; C. H. Boyd of Marion, Ohio, president of Ohio
Music Trade Association; A. L. Maresch of Cleve-
land, president of Cleveland Music Trade Associa-
tion, and other visiting officials of the industry.
Monday, 3:00 P. M.—The Detroit Piano Playing
Contest, Roy A. Maypole, director.
Monday Evening, 7:20—Crand finrls of Create;
Detroit 1927 p'ano playing contest, conducted in the
nearly 500 schools of Detroit and suburbs. Belle Isle
Symphony Shell.
Tuesday. August 16. 12:30.—luncheon. Crystal
Ball Room: toastmaster, Frank J. Bayley.
Address of Welcome, Hon. Fred W. Green, Gov-
ernor of Michigan. Address, "The Piano as a Crime
Deterrent," Hon. Charles L. Bartlett, Recorder of
Recorder's Court, Detroit.
Tuesday, 2:30 P. M.—"The Carrying Charge"
Charles H. Yahrling of Youngstown, Ohio, vice-
president National Association of Music Merchants;
3:00 P. M., -'Modern Merchandising," Fred Wardell.
president of the Fiureka Vacuum Cleaner Co. and
chairman Greater Detroit convention.
3:30 P. M.—"Nat'onal Piano Promotion," Edward
C. Boykin, Executive Secretary of National Promo-
tion Committee of Piano Manufacturers' National
Association.
4:00 P. M.—'The Player-piano, an Educational Ex-
planation and Demonstration," A. K. Gutsohn of
New York, president of National Tichnicians' Asso-
ciation.
Tuesday Evening, 7:30.—Detroit Music Carnival,
Washington boulevard, a demonstration in honor
of the 430 boy and girl school champions of the
Piano Playing Contest. 10:30, Mayor's Ball. Book-
Cadillac Ba'l Room. A reception to the 430 school
champion piano players.
Wednesday, August 17, 12:30.-—Luncheon, Crys'al
Ball Room; toastmaster, Frank J. Bayley. Wm. P.
Rutledge, Comnvssioner of Police, speaks on "The
Piano vs. Crime." Address. "The Piano in the Pub-
lic School," Frank Cody, superintendent of Detroit
public schools.
2:30.—"The Grand Piano, Its Place and Trend,"
by Mr. Gordon Laugheed of Chicago, president Na-
tional Piano Travelers' Association.
3:00.—"National Piano Promotion," C. H. Tre-
maine, director of National Bureau for the Advance-
ment of Music.
3:30.—The "Melody Way," by W. Otto Meissner of
Mliwaukee.
4:00.—Continuation of player-piano educational
demonstration by A. K. Gutsohn of New York.
Wednesday Evening. 7:30—Second night of Detroit
Musical Carnival, Washington boulevard.
11:00.
Annual Conclave of Michigan Chapter of Ancient
Order of Cheese-Hounds, initiation and business
meeting at Oriole Terrace.
Thursday, August 18, 11:00 A. M.—Closing ses-
sion, for transaction of business, passing of resolu-
tions and election of officers. 12:30, luncheon and
adjournment.
month of August ought to be up to the normal and
that fall trade ought to be good.
Henry Hudson and wife, who comprise Hudson
& Son, retail music dealers at Booncville, Ind., will
assist in arranging the program for the next meet-
ing of the Booneville Philharmonic Club, of which
both are members. The Philharmonic Club is the
leading musical organization in the city of Boone-
ville.
\V. P. Geissler, of the W. P. Geissler Music Com-
pany, of Evansville, has returned from a business
trip to Chicago. Mr. Geissler is looking for a very
good fall and winter business.
W. B. Miller, head of the Harding & Miller Music
Co , Evansvile, and his wife are back from a trip
to West Baden, Ind.
Radio dealers in Evansville report a splendid trade.
They say their business for the first six months of
this year was much better than for the correspond-
ing period of last year.
Albert Barclay, head of the Warren Music Com-
pany of Evansville, reports a fair prospect for fall
trade.
Floyd Nestcr, of Heinzle & Nester, phonograph
dealers at Booneville, Ind., has been named on some
of the important standing committees of the Boone-
ville Kiwanis Club for the ensuing year. Phono-
graph dealers in Evansville say that in spite of the
popularity of the radio, that the talking machine
business is holding up well and that this year prom-
ises to bring in as large, if not larger, volume of
trade than that of last vear.
USES AMPICO IN HIS
CLASSES AT PRINCETON
Frof. Alexander Russell, Music Director, in Letter,
Tells Usefulness of Instrument.
The Ampico installed in Princeton University for
the use of the Music Department is the subject of
enthus'astic comment by Alexander Russell, director
of music at the university. Professor Russell uses
the instrument in all his lectures on musical appre-
August 6, 1927.
HERMANN IRION NAMES
CHAMBER COMMITTEE
President of Music Industries Chamber of
Commerce Completes Official Roll by
Announcement of Special Appointees.
The standing committees of the Music Industries
Chamber of Commerce for the ensuing term have
been named by President Hermann Irioiv. The lists
complete the roll of officials of the chamber, which
is as follows:
President, Hermann Irion, New York; first vice-
president, Charles H. Yahrling, Youngstown, O.;
second vice-president, William J. Haussler, New
York; treasurer, Herbert Simpson, New York, and
secretary, A. L. Smith, New York.
The direc'ors at large, elected for two years at the
1927 convention, are: Hermann Irion, Walter W.
Chirk, Herbert Simpson and R. E. Durham.
The holdover directors at large are Mark P. Camp-
bell, A. J. Kendrick, H. C. Dickinson and Charles H.
Jahrling.
The past presidents are Richard W. Lawrence and
E. R. Jacobson.
The new committees announced this week are:
Finance Committee: Herbert Simpson, chairman,
Kohler & Campbell, Inc., New York; Max J. de
Rochemont. Laffargue Co., New York; Richard W.
Lawrence, Bankers Commercial Security Co., New
York; Charles Jacob, Jacob Bros., New York; C. D.
Greenleaf, C. G. Conn, Ltd., Elkhart, Ind.; C. J.
Roberts, Chas. M. Stieff, Inc., Baltimore; A. Z.
Moore, Kirk-Johnson & Co., Lancaster, Pa.; Wil-
liam J. Haussler, C. Bruno & Son, Inc., New York;
William C. Hess, Hammacher, Schlemmer & Co.,
New York; W. E. Guylee, Cable Co., Chicago.
Music Advancement Committee: Mark P. Camp-
bell, chairman, Brambach Piano Co., New York;
C. C. Birchard, C. C. Birchard Co., Boston; Walter
W. Clark, Victor Talking Machine Co., Camden,
N. J.; M. V. DeForeest. W. C. DeForeest & Son,
Sharon, Pa.; Franklin Dunham, Aeolian Co., New
York: A. L. Walsh, Thomas A. Edison, Inc.. Orange,
N J.; C. D. Greenleaf. C. G. Conn, Ltd., Elkhart,
Ind.; P. O. Griffith, Griffith Piano Co., Newark, N. J.;
William J. Haussler, C. Bruno & Son, Inc.. New
York; H, E. Lawrence, Standard Pneumatic Action
Co., New York; H. Paul Mehlin, Paul G. Mehlin &
Sons, West New York, N. J.; Otto Miessner, Miess-
ner Piano Co., Milwaukee; Jerome F. Murphy, M.
Steinert & Sons, Boston; Sigmund Spaeth, American
Piano Co., New York; Shirley Walker, Sherman,
Clay & Co., San Francisco; Robert N. Watkin, Will
A. Watkin Co., Dallas, Tex.; Parham Werlein, Philip
Werlein, Ltd., New Orleans; Edward H. Uhl, South-
ern California Music Co., Los Angeles; H. H. Fleer,
Lyon & Healy, Inc., Chicago; R. 11. Roberts, Lyon
& Healy, Inc., Chicago.
Credit Committee: Fred P. Bassett, chairman, M.
Schulz Co., Chicago; James T. Bristol, James T.
Bristol Co., Chicago; Fred A. Holtz, Martin Band
Instrument Co., Elkhart, Ind.; W. C. Hepperla, Pre-
mier Grand Piano Corp., New York; W. W. Kerr,
Cable Co., Chicago; C. J. Mulvey, Story & Clark
Piano Co., Chicago; L. W. Peterson, Gulbransen Co,
Chicago; R. P. Alexander, Chicago Talking Machine
Co., Chicago.
Legislative Committee: Richard W. Lawrence,
chairman. Bankers Commercial Security Co., New
York: Carl H. Droop. E. F. Droop & Sons Co.,
Washington; Walter M. Gotsch, Walter M. Gotsch
Co, Chicago; William J. Haussler, C. Bruno & Son,
Inc.. New York; Farny R. Wurlitzer, Rudolph Wur-
litzer Co.. North Tonawanda, N. Y.; Henry C. Cox,
Columbia Phonograph Co., New York; C. C. Baxter,
Victor Talking Machine Co., Camden, N. J.
PUOF. RUSSELL, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY.
ciation. His courses are very popular at Princeton,
the lecture room being crowded to capacity on every
occasion of his addressing his classes on musical his-
tory.
"We wish to tell you," said Professor Russell, "of
the great usefulness of the Ampico in the Department
in Music at Princeton where we use the instrument
for our series of lectures on the History and Appre-
ciation of Music. This series has been unusually
successful this year and the Ampico proves an in-
valuable help. With the splendid additions you are
making to your library of recordings, we are more
and more able to extend the use of the instrument Piano Made by Weiser & Sons, Chicago, Stimulates
to cover the pre-classic and ultra-modern periods. You
Interest of Californian.
have our best wishes for continued success in this
"I
notice
the
writing of the 'Little Wonder Grand'
educational work."
school piano in your paper of June 25.
"I would like very much to know what it looks
AT AMPICO STUDIOS.
like and these facts. What kind of wood? What
The following artists called at the Ampico size? What price? And what it weighs?
"If you will send me these questions in an early
Studios,
New York, during last week: Josef Lhe-
August Said to Be Excellent Month for Sales and
vinne, L. Leslie Loth and Milton Suskind, to hear issue of your paper I will be much obliged.
Fall Expectations Are Promising.
"Yours truly,
and approve their recordings, and Roy Bargy called
"MRS. I R E N E McGREGGOR.
Retail music dealers at Evansville and other towns to record.
"Los Angeles, Calif."
in southern Indiana report that trade during the
The Stryker band, Stryker, Ohio, has been reor-
This instrument is manufactured by Weiser &
month of July was about all they had anticipated and
that they, in fact, had no complaint to make. Deal- ganized and is under the direction of Walter Buchrer. Sons, whose factory is located at Kedzie avenue and
ers say that conditions have improved some in the Weekly band concerts on the street will begin Sat- 21st street, Chicago, and to whom Presto-Times re-
rural communities and that their trade during the urday.
fers its correspondent.
CORRESPONDENT INQUIRES
ABOUT LITTLE WONDER GRAND
GOOD REPORTS FROM
SOUTHERN INDIANA TRADE
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